World News Digest
Fabled California restaurant drained of $50,000 in wine heist
A Christmas Day break-in at the fabled Napa Valley eatery The French Laundry drained it of a small fortune in very fine wines, its chef said Wednesday.
Suicide bomber injures Nigerian churchgoers hours after 7 die in bus bomb
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an evangelist church in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, injuring several people.
Hasbro to yank penis-shaped toy after parents blow tops
Hasbro, the world-famous toy company, is doing damage control over the extruder tool in its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy, which has been criticised for looking...
NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square
As tens of thousands of revelers gather in New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, authorities are bracing for renewed protests over the...
Ray of hope: Better weather aids AirAsia QZ8501 search efforts
Improving weather is aiding the search for victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, with officials trying to locate the fuselage of the plane that crashed in the...
Indonesian frog is one of a kind (and not because of its fangs)
Its fangs are not what makes the newly identified Indonesian frog species Limnonectes larvaepartus unique on Earth.
'Too cruel': Deadly Shanghai stampede possibly caused by rush for fake cash
A deadly stampede that killed 35 Shanghai New Year’s Eve revellers could have been caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building...
Gunman ID’d in Edmonton mass murder had ties to victims, criminal past
The suspect in the mass murder of six adults and two children in Edmonton was a maintenance man at the restaurant where he took his own life, The Canadian...
Fighting Taliban in Afghanistan, NW Pakistan, intensifies
At least 23 militants were killed on Wednesday when Pakistani fighter jets bombed their hideouts in the country’s troubled northwest bordering Afghanistan,...
Behind the scenes at Sony as hacking crisis unfolded
The day after Sony Pictures employees discovered that company email was unusable following a cyberattack, senior executives came up with an old-style communication...
AirAsia victim with life jacket raises new questions about plane’s last moments
A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions...
The force is strong: New ‘Star Wars’ tops 2015 most-anticipated movie list
The upcoming installment of the “Star Wars” franchise tops moviegoers’ lists of most anticipated films of 2015, ticket seller Fandango...
Ailing Saudi king, 91, admitted to hospital for checks
Saudi Arabia’s ailing King Abdullah, 91, has been admitted to hospital for “medical checks,” the royal court said.
Canadian police blame domestic violence for ‘senseless’ mass murder
An Edmonton man suspected of killing six adults and two young children before taking his own life was well-known to police and had a lengthy criminal record...
Italian coastguard saves 900 migrants after smugglers abandon ship
Italy’s Coast Guard said Wednesday it had narrowly averted a catastrophe after people smugglers set a cargo ship with 900 people on board on a collision...
World welcomes 2015 with beach parties, fireworks and prayer
After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance...
Bye-bye, bae: Annual list reveals words we should banish in 2015
The 40th annual List of Words to be Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and Uselessness includes “bae,” most commonly...
Inventor of hotpants and mini-skirt makes the cut on British Queen’s honour role
Mary Quant, the 1960s fashion pioneer who the mini-skirt and hotpants, has been made a dame in Britain’s New Year Honours List.
Beds are burning: Australia bans commercial sunbeds over cancer fears
Most Australian states and territories are set to ban commercial sunbeds from Thursday in a crackdown on artificial tanning.
Sydney spectacular to set off global New Year celebrations
Australia’s biggest city is preparing to lead the world in welcoming the New Year with spectacular fireworks over Sydney Harbour.
Thousands usher in New Year in Madrid – a day early
Thousands of horn-tooting, hat-wearing revellers jammed Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square on Tuesday, braving freezing temperatures to ring...
South Korean activist to airdrop 100,000 copies of ‘The Interview’ in North
A South Korean activist said Wednesday that he will launch balloons carrying DVDs of Sony’s “The Interview” toward North Korea to try...
Email and Internet remain top workplace tools, says Pew study
Americans see email and the Internet as the most important tools for productivity at work, and still prefer landlines over cellphones for the office, a...
AirAsia disaster: Victim with life jacket raises questions about last minutes
As rescue crews struggled with high winds and rough seas in their efforts to locate the passengers and crew aboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501, officials began...
Hong Kong culls chickens, suspends imports after H7 bird flu found
Hong Kong began culling 15,000 chickens on Wednesday and suspended imports of live poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the H7 bird flu strain...
Stowaways raise fears of more deaths in Adriatic ferry disaster
Two Albanian seamen were among 13 people confirmed killed in a ferry disaster in the Adriatic Sea, as officials warned the discovery of stowaways on board...
NYC mayor, police union leaders meet amid rift
Mayor Bill de Blasio met privately for more than two hours Tuesday with the leaders of the New York Police Department’s unions, aiming to mend a...
Divers set to search for AirAsia wreckage after debris, bodies found
Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all important black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found...
More than a pinch: Mounds of salt spill out of collapsed factory wall in Chicago
Peter Muller was one of a handful of people working at Chicago’s Wrigley Engineering and Technology Center Tuesday afternoon when a loud boom sent vibrations...
U.N. rejects Palestinian resolution to end Israel’s occupation
The U.N. Security Council has rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for peace with Israel within a year and an end to Israel’s occupation by...
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