World News Digest
Bear expert proposes chocolate bait ban after four die from overdose
An American bear expert is proposing to ban chocolate being used as bait after four black bears were found dead at one trapping site in New Hampshire due...
Diabetes breakthrough hailed as boy given world’s first artificial pancreas
A four-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas.
13-year-old invents Braille printer with Lego and gets venture capital funds
A 13-year-old American boy is thought to be the youngest entrepreneur ever to receive venture capital after he invented a Braille printer using Lego.
LG flex their muscles by getting a curved smartphone on the market
LG Electronics will start selling a new curved smartphone next week in its latest effort to bring the curve to a mass market. The South Korean company...
ECB to pump $1.2tn into eurozone in bid to prevent economic meltdown
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed a €1.1tn ($1.26tn) quantitative easing (QE) programme on Thursday, aimed at halting the eurozone’s slide...
England cricket captain Eoin Morgan targeted in £35k blackmail plot
England one-day cricket captain Eoin Morgan has been targeted in a blackmail plot, it has been revealed. The blackmail attempt relates to a brief relationship...
Saudi Arabia ‘holds off flogging’ Raif Badawi for a second successive week
Saudi Arabia has postponed the flogging punishment of a blogger on health grounds for a second time, Amnesty International has said. The organisation...
Captured on film: Police shoot black man dead as he surrenders to them
Newly-released footage has revealed the moment a man was shot dead during a police traffic stop in New Jersey as he got out of a car with his hands raised. The...
Deadly shell attack in Ukraine kills 13 people at Donetsk bus stop
At least 13 people have been killed after a bus was hit by shelling in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk, say reports. Ukraine’s defence ministry...
German anti-Islam leader quits after posing as Hitler
The leader of Germany’s anti-Islam group PEGIDA has resigned after a picture appeared online of him posing with a Hitler-style moustache and haircut. Lutz...
Hope for millions as Australian boy gets world’s first artificial pancreas
A four-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas.
A new hope: Australian boy gets world’s first artificial pancreas
A 4-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas.
Epoxy boo-boo: Ancient King Tut mask damaged by cleaners, gets a clumsy fix
The blue-and-gold braided beard broke off from the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun during cleaning, then was hastily glued back on with epoxy,...
Hope for millions: Australian boy gets world’s first artificial pancreas
A four-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas.
'No To Page 3' Campaign: Fight Might Be Back On
The Sun has published a photo of a topless woman for the first time in almost a week after speculation the newspaper had scrapped its Page 3 feature.
Hostage crisis: Analysts say Japan is target for militants
Japan’s hostage crisis is a stark reminder that Tokyo’s deep pockets and alliance with the US make it a target for Islamist militants, analysts...
Owl’s about that? Tokyo cafe provides bird of prey with your hot drink
A cafe in Japan is offering customers an hour with an owl. Tokyo’s Fukuro no Mise (Shop of Owls) charges around £11 to queue for an hour to get...
Poroshenko requests fresh IMF bailout, says Russia has ‘9000 troops’ in Ukraine
Ukraine has asked the International Monetary Fund for a new and broader rescue package, and will seek to renegotiate its debt with bond holders, officials...
WhatsApp adds messaging from Web - but only for Android users
Popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for £14.5bn, has unveiled a new service for sending messages from a Web...
Tutankhamun’s beard ‘knocked off and stuck back on with resin’
The blue and gold braided beard on the 3,300-year-old mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with resin, causing massive to the relic after...
Fully-heated e-cigs ‘15 times more likely to cause cancer’ than tobacco
When heated to the max and inhaled deeply, e-cigarettes produce the toxic chemical formaldehyde, which could make them up to 15 times more cancerous than...
First it was cats and dogs - now Tokyo cafe lets you hang out with owls
In the U.S., hanging out in a cafe with animals is such an exotic concept that people can’t get enough of it.
Ukraine requests fresh IMF bailout as foreign ministers call for ceasefire
Ukraine has asked the International Monetary Fund for a new and broader rescue package, and will seek to renegotiate its debt with bond holders, officials...
WhatsApp adds messaging from Web - for Android users
The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for nearly $22 billion, unveiled a new service Wednesday for sending...
Beard of Egypt’s King Tut hastily glued back on with epoxy
The blue and gold braided beard on the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it became...
Formaldehyde in e-cigarettes may boost cancer risk
When heated to the max and inhaled deeply, e-cigarettes produce the toxic chemical formaldehyde, which could make the devices up to 15 times more cancerous...
Italy seizes more than 5,000 looted antiquities in record haul
The Italian government said police had seized more than 5,000 ancient artefacts in a record $52 million haul after dismantling a Swiss-Italian trafficking...
Germany’s PEGIDA leader steps down after ‘Hitler selfie’
The leader of the fast-growing German anti-Muslim movement PEGIDA resigned on Wednesday after a photo of him posing as Hitler, and reports that he called...
German FM: Russia, Ukraine agree withdrawal of heavy arms in Berlin talks
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a procedure for the withdrawal of heavy weapons in eastern...
Paris vows to sue Fox News for ‘attacking honor and image of city’
A plan by the city of Paris to sue Fox News after a report about ‘Muslim-only areas’ has been described by the TV network’s executive VP as “misplaced.”...
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