World News Digest
Electric car creators now want to power home and businesses with batteries
Electric car firm Tesla has confirmed plans to use its battery technology to power homes and businesses. The company, run by the billionaire technology...
Chinese builder puts up 57-storey skyscraper in 19 days
A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-storey skyscraper in 19 working days in central...
France’s Hollande vows no mercy to soldiers if African child abuse proven
President Francois Hollande vowed on Thursday to make an example of any French troops found guilty of child sex abuse in Central African Republic as an...
Indonesia sympathy over executions a good sign for ties: Australia
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday it would be best to restore Australia’s relationship with Indonesia “as quickly as possible”...
Britain’s ‘biggest drugs bust’ brings in cocaine haul valued at over £500m
A cocaine seizure off Britain’s coast last week yielded what is thought to be the country’s biggest-ever haul of hard drugs, potentially worth...
Nepal death toll rises to 6,200 as Red Cross warns of ‘total devastation’
Rescue efforts are continuing in Nepal with further aid arriving from Britain as authorities confirm the death toll from the disaster has risen to more...
Chinese builder puts up 57-story skyscraper in 19 days
A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.
Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires is world capital of bookstores
All across Argentina’s capital, lodged between the steakhouses, ice cream shops and pizzerias, is an abundance of something that is becoming scarce...
Britain’s biggest hard drugs seizure worth $750 million
A cocaine seizure off Britain’s coast last week yielded what is thought to be the country’s biggest-ever haul of hard drugs, potentially worth...
Chile’s Calbuco volcano shoots out new eruption of ash: 4,500 evacuated
The Calbuco volcano erupted again Thursday, sending dark bursts of ash and hot rock billowing 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) into the air and prompting Chilean...
Red Cross warns of ‘total devastation’ in quake-hit rural Nepal
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) meanwhile warned on Thursday they were “extremely concerned” about...
More women and children freed in Nigeria from extremists
Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria’s military said amid reports that...
Airbus to file criminal complaint in German spy scandal
Airbus Group is planning to make a complaint to the authorities in Germany following reports that German foreign intelligence agency BND was helping U.S.
Mentally ill Bali convict ‘did not know he was going to be executed’
A mentally ill Brazilian executed in Indonesia was unaware that he was being put to death in his final hours, say his lawyer and priest. Rodrigo Gularte,...
Long-delayed Nazi museum to open in ‘home of the movement’
The “Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism” examines how Munich, which prided itself on its culture of tolerance, thriving...
Jeff Bezos launched a rocket
Blue Origin, a startup space company owned by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, launched an experimental suborbital spaceship from Texas, the first in a series...
I can see right through you: Microsoft patents glasses that read emotions
Microsoft has patented internet-connected glasses which can detect and interpret the emotions of people in the wearer’s field of vision. The...
Bali Nine death row convict ‘did not know he was going to be executed’
A mentally ill Brazilian executed in Indonesia was unaware that he was being put to death in his final hours, say his lawyer and priest. Rodrigo Gularte,...
Sony forecasts huge profit thanks to iPhone camera
Sony lost $1.1bn in the last financial year after a turbulent few months which saw its movie studio attacked by suspected North Korean hackers. But...
Bali Nine death row convict asked: ‘Am I being executed?’, claims lawyer
A mentally ill Brazilian executed in Indonesia was unaware that he was being put to death in his final hours, say his lawyer and priest. Rodrigo Gularte,...
Malala shooting: 10 men handed 25-year jail sentences
A court in Pakistan has jailed 10 people over the attack on schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head in 2012. Taliban militants had claimed...
Miracle survivors: Baby and 15-year-old pulled from Kathmandu rubble
A 15-year-old boy has been pulled from the rubble of Nepal’s quake, five days after the disaster. Rescuers took several hours to free the teenager...
U.N. seeks $415M in aid as Nepalese quake death toll continues to rise
On an otherwise dreary day, this quake-hit nation got a rare bit of good news — a teenager was rescued after being buried under rubble for five days.
Nepal quake survivors clash with riot police as UN calls for £270m aid package
Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people have clashed with riot police in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, as the United...
McDonald’s supplier slapped with Beijing’s biggest pollution fine - $600,000
A McDonald’s joint venture in China supplying its outlets with French fries has been slapped with a record 3.9 million yuan ($630,000) fine for water...
270 arrested as marchers protest police violence in Baltimore, New York
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Baltimore and New York on Wednesday demanding justice and police reform as 3,000 troops stood by to enforce a curfew...
San Diego man recovering after sea lion yanked him overboard
A man in San Diego was dragged into the sea by a sea lion who wanted the fish he caught for lunch.
‘We are all Chinese!’ Mainland Chinese express anger over H.K. curbs
Living and working just a few hundred metres from Hong Kong, residents of neighbouring Chinese boomtown Shenzhen are infuriated by new restrictions on...
Nepalese quake death toll rises to 5,489, U.N. seeks $415M aid
The death toll in Nepal from a massive weekend earthquake has risen to nearly 5,500, according to a new tally by disaster management officials.
France investigating alleged sexual abuse by its troops in C.Africa
France is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic after a leaked UN report said victims...
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