Reporter of the year wrote fiction, China hackers hit Canada

Faces, faces as German ace reporter Claas Relotius (left) won’t showing his in public any time soon. He was fired this week from Der Spiegel (the Mirror) for fabricating dozens of stories. Names, places, plots — you name it. With an imagination this fertile Relotius became CNN’s 2016 Reporter of the Year. Then, US authorities have accused two Chinese government hackers, Zhu Hua (centre) and Zhang Shilong (right) of concerted cyber-attacks on US and Canadian firms to steal their secrets. That’s how we do things in president-for-life Xi Jinping’s paradise.