World News Digest
Jury selection starting in Boston Marathon trial
Jury selection for the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in the Boston Marathon attacks, begins Monday.
Stop me if you’ve heard this: Nude dude breaks into house, uses hot tub
Police near Salem, Oregon, say they arrested a naked man after he broke into two homes, drank booze and used a hot tub at one of them.
Families will be compensated despite cloud over #QZ8501 flight: lawyers
Families or next of kin of victims on board Flight QZ8501 will be compensated regardless of whether investigations reveal the flight was not permitted.
8 missing after cargo ship capsizes off Scotland
British rescue teams searched Sunday for eight missing crew members from a cargo ship that capsized north of Scotland.
Israel threatens more punitive steps against Palestinians
Israeli leaders on Sunday threatened to take tougher action against the Palestinians over their decision to join the International Criminal Court, a day...
Australian firemen race to douse blaze before weather worsens
Firefighters were battling Monday to contain a major blaze ahead of the forecast return of strong winds and a heatwave following the loss of a dozen homes...
Weather frustrates AirAsia search divers, no ‘pings’ detected
Bad weather forced divers trying to identify sunken wreckage from a crashed AirAsia passenger jet to abort their mission on Sunday and Indonesian officials...
'Rebel Hearts': Madonna hits back over Mandela and King 'bondage' images
Pop diva Madonna has hit back at criticism of images posted on her Facebook page showing iconic figures such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King in...
Notorious Greek ‘terrorist’ arrested on bicycle
A notorious Greek fugitive who absconded while serving a life sentence for acting as a hitman for an extreme left group was caught Saturday as he rode...
Boko Haram seizes Nigerian army base
Boko Haram extremists have killed scores of soldiers in a bold attack on a multinational military base in northeast Nigeria.
Pope names new cardinals to reflect diversity in Catholic Church
Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals from around the world to the elite group at the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, including 15 who can...
'Turkey's Liberace': gay icon celebrated at hugely popular Istanbul show
Touted as the “Turkish Liberace,” late singer Zeki Muren adored women’s clothes, outrageous makeup and was held up as a gay icon –...
Egypt says Amal Clooney was never threatened with arrest
Egypt has disputed a claim by British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney that she had been warned she risked arrest last year if she released a report in...
Indian police arrest five over ‘month-long imprisonment and rape’ of tourist
Five men have been arrested over the alleged gang-rape and extortion of a Japanese tourist held as a sex slave for nearly a month in a basement near a...
North Korea blasts U.S. over fresh sanctions for Sony Hack
North Korea on Sunday lashed out at fresh sanctions imposed by the United States in retaliation for its alleged cyber attack on Sony Pictures, criticising...
Scientists puzzling over unexplained die-off of Pacific Coast sea bird
Scientists are trying to figure out what’s behind the deaths of seabirds that have been found by the hundreds along the Pacific Coast since October.
French furor over claims mayor refused burial of Roma baby
French officials voiced disgust today after the mayor of a Paris suburb reportedly refused to allow a dead Roma baby to be buried in the municipal cemetery...
Famous Southern California white cobra gets name: Adhira
A white monocled cobra that briefly became a national celebrity after it roamed a Southern California neighborhood for several days in September now has...
More AirAsia wreckage found, but weather frustrates divers
A multinational team searching for the wreckage of the crashed Airbus A320 found another large underwater object believed to be part of the plane, but...
Michael Schumacher ‘cries when he hears voices of family’
Schumacher is continuing his recovery from a serious head injury sustained in a skiing accident in December 2013 and is being treated in a specially-built...
Heat, smoke delay search of Greek ferry for bodies
For a second day, fierce heat from a slow-burning blaze kept firefighters and other investigators on Saturday from searching the hold and vehicle decks...
Italy ‘ghost ship’ migrants paid up to $8,000 each to traffickers
Italian authorities disembarked 360 cold and hungry migrants Saturday from a ship left adrift by its crew off the country’s coast, with some having...
Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya
Islamist militants have abducted 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya in recent days, a source close to the government said Saturday. The Ansar al-Sharia militia...
Greek polls frontrunner says win will start leftist change in Europe
The Greek left-wing leader ahead in polls before upcoming elections said Saturday his party’s victory would start “necessary change”...
Israel freezes funds, weighs lawsuits against Palestinians
Israel will withhold critical tax revenue and seek ways to bring war crimes prosecutions against Palestinian leaders in retaliation for Palestinian moves...
British nurse with Ebola in critical condition
A British nurse being treated for Ebola in London is in critical condition after deteriorating over the last two days, her hospital said on Saturday. The...
‘You have not been helpful’: Monk loses temper dealing with United Airlines
Another airline passenger lost his cool while talking to customer service — only this time it was a monk. Brother Noah of the Monastery of Christ in...
For parallel to AirAsia crash, look at Air France, not Malaysia Airlines
Air France Flight 447, which crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009, may offer the best insight on what happened to AirAsia Flight...
NASA explores inflatable spacecraft technology
Devising a way to one day land astronauts on Mars is a complex problem and NASA scientists think something as simple as a child’s toy design may...
Refugee rules tighten as IS reportedly seeks control of Lebanon villages
Lebanon is to impose visa restrictions on Syrians for the first time after being overwhelmed by an influx of more than 1.1 million refugees, according...
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