Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 8

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's award season kicked off here on Sunday at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards when Hollywood stars who walked the red carpet, dressed in black.

To protest sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and beyond, a majority of Hollywood stars wore black dresses to support the "Time's Up" movement.

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" took home four awards and "Lady Bird" won the Best Motion Picture in the comedy or musical category. (US-Golden Globes)

- - - -

TOKYO -- A U.S. military attack helicopter made an emergency landing in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture on Monday, local media reported, with the incident coming on the heels of an almost identical mishap just two days earlier.

The AH-1 attack helicopter belonging to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma made the emergency landing at a waste disposal site in the village of Yomitan in Japan's southernmost prefecture. (Japan-US-Emergency Landing)

- - - -

DAMASCUS -- At least 21 civilians were killed Monday by airstrikes on the rebel-held province of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a monitor group reported.

Half of the killed in the airstrikes that targeted the countryside of Idlib were children and women, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, accusing Russian and Syrian warplanes of carrying out the airstrikes. (Syria-Idlib)

- - - -

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court Monday said that it would reconsider its 2013 order which criminalized gay sex in this country by upholding a colonial-era law.

A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, said the apex court's 2013 judgment upholding the validity of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code, which considers sex between consenting adults of same gender a crime, appeared to hurt individual sexual preferences. (India-Gay-Sex) Enditem