World News Digest
West hikes warnings over Ukraine truce as new flashpoint ignites
The West sounded more forceful warnings over Ukraine’s battered truce Sunday as fighting raged around the port city of Mariupol and the warring sides...
Death toll rises in Bangladesh ferry tragedy
At least 48 people, including a baby, have been killed after a ferry carrying about 140 passengers capsized in Bangladesh. A rescue operation is under...
Death toll climbs to 48 as Bangladesh ferry carrying more than 100 sinks
At least 48 people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are still searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship...
Death toll climbs to 48 as Bangladesh ferry carrying more than 100 sinks
At least 48 people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are still searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship...
Girl suicide bomber kills five, wounds dozens in northeast Nigeria
A young girl with explosives strapped to her killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a market in the northeast Nigerian...
Fernando Alonso ‘OK and conscious’ after heavy F1 crash in Barcelona
McLaren’s Fernando Alonso is “OK and conscious” after being involved in a heavy crash on the final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona...
Death toll climbs to 48 as Bangladesh ferry sinks with more than 100 aboard
At least 48 people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are still searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship...
Turks infiltrate IS territory to rescue 40 troops guarding Suleyman’s tomb
Almost 600 Turkish soldiers crossed the border deep inside Syria overnight in a successful operation to rescue troops guarding a Turkish enclave surrounded...
Two-year sentence for Kuwait opposition leader who ‘insulted ruler’
Kuwait’s appeals court sentenced prominent opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak to two years in jail on Sunday on charges of insulting the Gulf...
Blast ‘kills three’ during pro-government march in eastern Ukraine
An explosion killed at least three people and wounded more than 10 on Sunday in Ukraine’s government-controlled eastern city of Kharkiv, officials...
At least 16 dead as Bangladesh ferry carrying over 100 sinks
Sixteen people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are still searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship and...
Hidden sketches by French painter Cezanne found during restoration work
Unfinished sketches by the famed French artist Paul Cezanne have been found hidden on the backs of two of his watercolours, a Pennsylvania-based art foundation...
Dutch honeymooner is ‘first ever’ to survive fall from World’s End
Sri Lankan troops have rescued a Dutch honeymooner who became the first person to survive a fall from the World’s End, a 1,200-metre cliff that is...
Fresh nuclear leak detected at Fukushima plant
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced Sunday,...
Five bodies recovered as Bangladesh ferry carrying over 100 sinks
Five people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship and sank Sunday...
Lights! Camera! Oscars! Final prep wraps for Hollywood’s big night
With under 24 hours to go, it was jeans-and-sneakers day at the Dolby Theater on Saturday night when stars like Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Aniston, Liam Neeson,...
Warren Buffett’s £8,000 Cadillac charity auctioned for £80,000
A car owned by Warren Buffett has been auctioned for about 10 times the estimated worth, as the billionaire and philanthropist offered to again help out...
Families of London girls en route to Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State have begged their daughters to return...
Major prisoner exchange on Ukraine frontline bolsters shaky truce
Ukrainian forces and rebel separatists have traded dozens of prisoners in a frontline eastern town, the first clear sign of progress for an otherwise shaky...
As ruble weakens, Central Asian migrants head back home
Almost half of St Petersburg’s migrant workers who do the city’s manual labour have returned home in a mass exodus that is leaving streets...
Eat-your-own placenta? U.S. mothers swear by health benefits
Health trends come and go, but one post-birth fad is gaining a foothold in the United States among some new mothers who extol the benefits of eating their...
Cable guys: Spacewalking astronauts lay 300 feet of wire around space station
Spacewalking astronauts have routed more than 300 feet of cable outside the International Space Station, tricky and tiring advance work for the arrival...
No major intelligence failure in Sydney Lindt cafe siege: inquiry
The first official government review into the incident released Sunday said that there had been no major intelligence failure on the part of security forces.
Singapore’s founding Prime Minister hospitalized with pneumonia
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has been hospitalized for severe pneumonia, the country’s Prime Minister’s Office said.
Major prisoner exchange on Ukraine frontline bolsters shaky truce
Ukrainian forces and rebel separatists have traded dozens of prisoners in a frontline eastern town, the first clear sign of progress for an otherwise shaky...
Eat-your-own placenta? US moms swear by health benefits
Health trends come and go, but one post-birth fad is gaining a foothold in the United States among some new mothers who extol the benefits of eating their...
Buffett’s 2006 Cadillac worth $12,000 auctioned for $122,500
A car owned by Warren Buffett has been auctioned for more than $122,000, about 10 times the estimated worth, as the billionaire and philanthropist offered...
Suicide bomber kills 4 in Assad clan’s hometown
A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed four people on Sunday in an unprecedented attack on a hospital that took Syria’s civil war to the ruling...
1,000 join Muslim ‘ring of peace’ outside Oslo synagogue
More than 1,000 people formed a “ring of peace” Saturday outside Oslo’s main synagogue at the initiative of a group of young Muslims.
Families of London girls bound for Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State are asking their daughters to return home.
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