World News Digest
One million Canadian smokers win $12bn in compensation
Smokers in Quebec have been awarded more than £12.2bn in damages after the biggest class action lawsuit in Canadian history was brought against tobacco...
FIFA denies top official linked to $10M bank transfer
FIFA denied on Tuesday that the top lieutenant of its President, Sepp Blatter, or any other member its senior management made $10 million in bank transactions...
Who needs a mate? Sawfish are cheating extinction with ‘virgin births’
Scientists say a series of “virgin births”, reproduction without mating, in a critically endangered Florida sawfish species marks the first...
Eurozone back in inflation for first time this year as oil prices rise
For the first time this year, consumer prices across the 19-country eurozone are rising. Official figures Tuesday from the European Union’s...
Iran’s Rouhani vows to back embattled Syria ‘until the end of the road’
Iran will back Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad until the end, Iranian news agencies quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Tuesday signalling...
Myanmar navy escorting 727 stranded migrants to a ‘safe but secret place’
Myanmar’s navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 stranded migrants to a “safe” location where officials will verify their identities...
TSA fallout: Major changes coming after report finds lapses
The TSA’s acting administrator, Melvin Carraway, is being reassigned to a different job in the Department of Homeland Security — one of a number...
Ramadi operation: U.S. and international coalition to reexamine IS strategy
Iraq’s plan to recapture the western city of Ramadi from Islamic State jihadists will dominate a meeting Tuesday in Paris of foreign ministers from...
China tragedy: Divers search for survivors of overturned cruise ship
Divers racing to find survivors rescued a 65-year-old woman on Tuesday after the Chinese ship known in English as the Eastern Star sank with more than...
‘Cries for help’ heard from passengers trapped on capsized Chinese ferry
Rescuers say they have heard cries for help coming from within the hull of a ship that capsized on China’s Yangtze River with 458 people on board. The...
Some still alive inside capsised ship on China’s Yangtze River
Some passengers are still alive inside the hull of a passenger ship carrying 458 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, that capsised on the Yangtze...
Indonesia rescues 65 ‘after Australian navy towed away’ asylum boat
Indonesian authorities have rescued 65 asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia after their boat ran aground on a reef, Indonesian police said on Tuesday.
FIFA probe: Top official linked to $10m bank transfer
FIFA’s secretary general has been linked to $10m in bank transactions in a bribery investigation, according to reports. Jerome Valcke is described...
Chinese passenger ship capsizes in Yangtze river with 458 onboard
A major rescue effort is under way after a boat carrying 458 passengers capsized on China’s Yangtze River. The Eastern Star ship is reported...
El Celler de Can Roca returns to top as World’s Best Restaurant
Spain’s “El Celler de Can Roca” was crowned the world’s best restaurant on Monday, winning praise for the “collective genius”...
Child abuse costs E Asia, Pacific $209 billion a year: U.N. report
Child abuse and neglect are costing countries in East Asia and the Pacific an estimated $209 billion a year, equivalent to 2 per cent of the region’s...
Migrant boat still being held off Myanmar coast
More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea are still being held offshore by Myanmar’s navy, more than three...
Brazil students make art out of trash plucked off Rio shore
Forget pricey imported oil paints and exorbitant blocks of marble. Art students at a Brazilian university have taken advantage of one material they have...
Ebola threat to Guinea Bissau rises as border zone heats up
Violent protests against Ebola controls in a north Guinea town have prompted the Red Cross to withdraw workers, undermining efforts to stop the spread...
U.S. tightens airport security after screeners fail undercover tests
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he has ordered improved security at U.S.
Google still struggling to diversify beyond white, Asian men
Google isn’t making much headway diversifying its workforce beyond white and Asian men, even though the Internet company hired women to fill one...
Chinese passenger ship with 458 aboard sinks in Yangtze river
A passenger ship carrying 458 people sank in the Hubei province section of China’s Yangtze River on Monday night, Xinhua news agency said, citing...
Iraqi PM to outline plan for retaking Ramadi after IS gains
Iraq’s plan to recapture the western city of Ramadi from Islamic State jihadists will dominate a meeting Tuesday in Paris of foreign ministers from...
Top FIFA aide linked to money transfer key to indictment - NYT
U.S. authorities believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation...
Developing: Boat with more than 400 people sinks in China’s Yangtze
passenger ship carrying more than 400 people sank on Monday night in China’s Yangtze River. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star,...
On a Paris bridge, the end of a love too heavy to bear
Workmen in Paris started clipping off hundreds of thousands of padlocks attached by lovers to the Pont des Arts bridge on Monday, afraid the sheer weight...
Windows 10 release date set for July as Microsoft step up battle with Apple
Microsoft has confirmed a launch date of July 29 for Windows 10, the technology giant’s major update to its PC operating system. The update...
41 face death penalty after being charged over Bangladesh factory collapse
Murder charges have been filed against 41 people over the 2013 collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people. Those...
Tall tail: Lightning strikes World Trade Center during violent thunderstorm
Residents of New York were treated to a spectacular light show when lightning struck the top of One World Trade Center during a thunderstorm.
Tail tail: Lightning strikes World Trade Center during violent thunderstorm
Residents of New York were treated to a spectacular light show when lightning struck the top of One World Trade Center during a thunderstorm.
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