World News Digest
Las Vegas betting on chance of rare New Year’s Eve snowfall
If Sin City’s sports books took bets on the weather, snow in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve would normally have terrible odds.
'We shall do all we can to help': Thatcher's fight for Cold War spy revealed
Cold War documents released today show how Margaret Thatcher risked a diplomatic feud with Russia in an attempt to save the marriage of one of Britain’s...
Taylor Swift crowned most charitable star of the year
Taylor Swift can add another award to her name - as the year’s most charitable celebrity.
UK nurse diagnosed with Ebola transferred to London hospital
A health worker who was the first person diagnosed in Britain with Ebola arrived at a London hospital from Scotland early on Tuesday for treatment after...
Two sailors killed trying to recover stricken ferry after fatal fire
Two Albanian seamen have died after a cable they were using to connect their tugboat to the fire-stricken Greek ferry Norman Atlantic broke.
'They wanted to overthrow regime': Soldiers block off center of Gambian capital
An attempted coup by disaffected soldiers in The Gambia was foiled on Tuesday, military and diplomatic sources said.
AirAsia QZ8501: Officials confirm debris found is from missing plane
AirAsia has confirmed that the debris found in the sea is from its missing Airbus A320 aircraft.
Chinese paper blames Google over Gmail blocking
Internet giant Google’s unwillingness to obey Chinese law is to blame for the shutdown of its hugely popular email service, state-run media said...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny given suspended sentence, brother jailed
A Russian court ruled on Tuesday to give Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a...
Japan’s New Year’s card sheep completes knitting scarf
When millions of Japanese get their customary New Year’s greeting cards Thursday, the sheep that’s on the postage stamps will have finished...
Arabs endorse Palestinian U.N. draft urging end of Israel occupation
Arab UN delegations on Monday endorsed a Palestinian proposal to forge a peace deal with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian...
AirAsia wreckage found, rescuers start retrieving bodies from water
Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television...
U.S. suspects North Korea had help attacking Sony Pictures: source
U.S. investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month’s massive cyberattack against Sony...
Secret files shed light on first Thatcher-Gorbachev talks
Classified documents made public Tuesday shed light on the political courtship between Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev - whom she...
Right noises? ‘Jurassic World’ guesses on dinosaur sounds, experts say
The new “Jurassic World” movie trailer features growling, grunting and shrieking dinosaurs.
Great white hunt: Australia searches for killer shark with spear in throat
A teenager who escaped a shark attack that killed his friend in western Australia has described how he fired his spear gun into the suspected great white...
AirAsia: Missing flight is second example, but different case
While it is still not known what happened to AirAsia Flight 8501, there appear to be no reasons its presumed crash is anything other than a regular - if...
'Game of Thrones' tops list of 2014's most pirated TV shows
Once again, “Game of Thrones” finds itself on TorrentFreak’s list of the most widely pirated TV shows of the year.
Analysis: The Middle East is gone as we know it
The Middle East has drastically changed in the past few years and 2014 alone has etched these changes even deeper into the fabric of the region.
China ‘deletes’ Gmail, shuts Google out of mainland
Gmail is currently unavailable in China. The outage is widely believed to be a result of the Chinese government attempting to curb the company’s growing...
Turkey’s Erdogan to chair cabinet in unprecedented move
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced he would chair a cabinet meeting in January, a move unprecedented for a Turkish head of state in recent...
Ebola case being treated in Glasgow hospital
A health-care worker has been diagnosed with Ebola and is receiving treatment in Glasgow, according to the Scottish government.
U.S. air strike targets al-Shabab leader
The United States has launched an air strike targeting a senior leader of Somalia’s al-Shabab group, the Pentagon has said.
Cameroon bombs Boko Haram positions in Nigeria
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation...
Sir Paul McCartney slams ‘ridiculous’ Beatles university course
Sir Paul McCartney says it is “ridiculous” that The Beatles are now the subject of a university course as he doesn’t think becoming a pop star is...
Hadron Collider to renew search for more ‘God particles’ in 2015
In 2015, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will restart.
Virgin 747 makes emergency landing at Gatwick due to ‘technical fault’
A Virgin Atlantic plane made an emergency landing on the ground after a “non standard landing” at Gatwick Airport.
Liberia reports dozens of new Ebola cases on border with Sierra Leone
Dozens of new Ebola cases have erupted in Liberia, near the border with Sierra Leone, Liberian health officials warned Monday, marking a setback amid recent...
Oceans of carbon dioxide could have shaped the surface of Venus
Venus may have once possessed strange oceans of carbon dioxide fluid that helped shape the planet’s surface, researchers revealed on Monday.
Terror attack fears force iconic London palace guards behind metal fences
The soldiers who stand guard outside Britain’s royal palaces have been moved behind metal fences because of fears of a terror attack.
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