World News Digest

Bodies of French Olympians recovered in Argentina air crash
Argentine Investigators plucked cellphones, bits of paper and other mostly charred and unrecognizable items on Tuesday from the ruins of two helicopters...
Argentine helicopter crash is deadliest incident in reality TV history
The worst accident in the history of reality television claimed 10 lives when two helicopters collided in the rugged mountains of La Rioja province, Argentina,...
The curious case of Schindler’s suitcase: Legal battle over WWII hero’s bag
Erika Rosenberg, an Argentinian woman, is suing Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum for ownership of a suitcase containing thousands of Oskar...
New watch proves Apple ‘understands fashion’
The much anticipated Apple Watch unveiled in San Francisco yesterday is already earning points with reviewers who praise not only its tech abilities, but...
Anna Wintour ‘in hysterics’ after Zoolander characters storm Valentino show
It’s not every day that Vogue editor Anna Wintour is spotted “laughing hysterically” at a fashion show.
Seven held in Tanzania over latest albino attack
Police in Tanzania said Tuesday they have arrested seven suspects over a vicious weekend assault in which a six-year-old albino boy’s hand was hacked...
Argentine crash is deadliest incident in reality TV history
The worst accident in the history of reality television claimed 10 lives when two helicopters collided in the rugged mountains of La Rioja province, Argentina,...
London rail work unearths 3,000 plague-era skeletons from Bedlam
A team of 60 researchers will work in shifts six days a week over the next month to remove 3,000 skeletons from a burial ground that will become a new...
Iron Lion Zion: Ethiopia’s majestic black-maned cat under threat
Ethiopia’s black-maned lions once represented a former emperor, “Lion of Judah” Haile Selassie, and were immortalised in song by reggae...
Ultraconservative to head Iran’s top clerical body
Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country’s supreme leader, have picked an ultraconservative as their...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', says IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
When in Rome, don’t do this: U.S. tourists vandalize Colosseum for selfie
Two female tourists from California have been cited by police in Rome for carving their initials into a wall at the city’s ancient Colosseum and...
French Olympic sports stars among 10 killed in Argentine helicopter crash
French sports stars participating in a reality TV show were among 10 people killed when their helicopters collided in midair while filming the survival...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', says IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
French Olympic sports stars among 10 killed in Argentine helicopter crash
French sports stars participating in a reality TV show were among 10 people killed when their helicopters collided in midair while filming the survival...
Doubts over Chinese ban on prisoner organ harvesting
China has banned the harvesting of transplant organs from executed prisoners, a senior official said, but international medical practitioners warn inmates’...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', claims IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
Could a package found on an Australian beach hold clues in MH370 case?
A Malaysia Airlines moist towelette that washed up on a Western Australian beach four months after MH370 vanished is unlikely to be linked to the missing...
Bunga bunga back in court as Berlusconi sex saga resumes
Italy’s top court on Tuesday reviews former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s acquittal on charges of paying for sex with an under-age exotic dancer...
New Zealand police probe threat to poison baby formula
New Zealand authorities said Tuesday they had received a “criminal threat” to poison baby formula and were taking it seriously, warning parents...
Netherlands justice minister resigns over deal with drug trafficker
The Dutch justice minister resigned Monday in an ongoing scandal over a deal worth millions of guilders (euros) struck by prosecutors with a famous drug...
Package found on Australian beach could hold clues in MH370 disappearance
Investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been sent an unwrapped towelette package found on the shores of a beach in Western...
U.S tourists vandalized Rome’s Colosseum, took selfie: Italian media
Two female tourists from California have been cited by police in Rome for carving their initials into a wall at the city’s ancient Colosseum and...
U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials
The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the...
French Olympian sports stars among 10 killed in Argentine crash
A group of French sports stars participating in a reality TV show were among 10 people killed when their helicopters collided in mid-air while filming...
Three in four Chinese at risk of heart disease, nationwide ‘epidemic’
Unhealthy eating, smoking and obesity are threatening a heart disease epidemic in China, where three out of four people are in poor cardiovascular shape,...
'Michelangelo of buttocks injections' convicted of murder
A former madam who bragged of doing black-market “body sculpting” on thousands of women was convicted of murder in the death of a dancer whose...
Iran’s Zarif, Obama dismiss Republicans’ nuclear deal warning letter
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday dismissed as of “no legal value” a letter from 47 US senators warning that any...
U.S. sends heavy armour to Baltic states after Putin reveals Crimea plot
The United States has begun to deploy 3,000 troops on a three-month exercise to reassure Russia’s nervous neighbors in the Baltic, military officials...
Russia stand-off: U.S. sends heavy armour to Baltic states
The United States has begun to deploy 3,000 troops on a three-month exercise to reassure Russia’s nervous neighbors in the Baltic, military officials...

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