World News Digest
The mystery of the missing brains: solved
It was a real head-scratcher, but the mystery has been solved. Dozens of human brains that seemed to have gone missing from a research lab at the University...
SoftBank to invest $250 million in southeast Asian taxi app firm GrabTaxi
Japanese telecoms firm SoftBank Corp has pumped in $250 million to become the top investor in Southeast Asian mobile taxi-booking application GrabTaxi...
2014 on track for hottest year on record: U.N weather agency
With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the U.N.
Protesters stage ‘die-in’; U.S. justice sets civil rights probe into NY choking death
Thousands of protesters shouted at police and clogged the streets of Manhattan on Wednesday, angered by a New York City grand jury’s decision not...
Microsoft shareholders approve $84 million CEO pay
Microsoft shareholders have approved an $84 million pay package for new CEO Satya Nadella, despite concerns raised by an investor advisory group.
Google kills CAPTCHA with new AI system
Google is now offering websites a tool that will let them deep-six the traditional CAPTCHA method and replace it with a box that just asks the user to...
Five million children out of school in West Africa due to Ebola
Some five million children are out of school in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because of the deadly Ebola outbreak, according to a report by the Global...
Iran said to up Iraqi support with targeted airstrikes on Islamic State
Iranian jets have carried out airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State militants in recent days, U.S.
Tight budgets put pressure on Orion’s giant leap toward Mars
NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charlie Bolden says there’s a lot riding on Thursday morning’s $370 million test flight of the new...
Child landmine victims rise, Afghanistan and Colombia rank worst
Afghanistan has the world’s highest number of children killed or wounded by landmines and other explosive remnants of war, followed by Colombia,...
Jihadist ‘caliphate’ has peaked - but Kerry warns IS fight will take ‘years’
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned today it will take years for a U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State group, as Washington said arch-foe...
Was Mona Lisa Chinese? Italian’s theory raises eyebrows
An Italian historian’s theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci’s mother - making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese...
Sherlock nemesis Andrew Scott ‘in line’ to be next Bond villain
Andrew Scott is rumoured to be going from Sherlock nemesis to Bond villain. The Sherlock star, who plays the detective’s nemesis Moriarty in the BBC...
Antarctic glacier loss triples in just a decade, NASA research shows
The melt rate of glaciers in the fastest-melting part of Antarctica has tripled over the past decade, scientists said.
Student cheerleader found dead in restaurant ‘after dumbwaiter accident’
Police in Wisconsin are investigating the death of a college cheerleader whose body was found in a dumbwaiter at a restaurant.
Costa Concordia’s Captain Coward did not stumble into liferaft, video shows
Video has emerged of the captain of the doomed cruiseliner Costa Concordia preparing to leave the stricken ship, having previously claimed he had tripped...
Assad: U.S.-led airstrikes having little impact on Islamic State
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Wednesday that U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Islamic State group militants in his country are neither...
Thousands mourn ‘hero’ teen who intervened to help harassed girls
Thousands of mourners paid their last respects today to a young woman hailed as a hero, who suffered fatal injuries after intervening to help two teenage...
Twitter unveils improved anti-troll tools to report harassment
Twitter has announced improvements to simplify the way users report abuse and harassment on the social media platform.
Mediterranean diet keeps you genetically young and ‘helps you live longer’
Sticking to a Mediterranean diet could be the key to a longer life, according to a major new study.
30 years on, India protests as Bhopal victims live in misery
Indians marked the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy Wednesday with protests demanding harsher punishments for those responsible and more...
HK protest founders prepare to ‘surrender’ amid student leaders’ hunger strike
The original founders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy movement prepared to surrender to police Wednesday in a move they said was to show their...
Brain drain: About 100 brains missing from University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains — about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in...
There can be only Un: North Korea bans people’s use of leader’s name
In North Korea, there can be only one Kim Jong Un. A South Korean official said Wednesday that Pyongyang forbids its people from using the same name as...
Japanese probe headed to asteroid to collect microscopic grains of dust
Japan on Wednesday launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft’s historic landing...
Woman sues Bill Cosby, claims underage abuse
Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by a Southern California woman who claims the comedian molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she...
U.S. joins desperate search for missing South Korean ship crew
US rescue teams have joined an increasingly desperate search for 52 people missing from a South Korean trawler that sank in freezing waters off Russia’s...
Giving birth at home ‘safer’ for mums than in hospital
Women are better off giving birth at home or in midwife centres than in hospital, where doctors are more likely to perform interventions such as caesareans,...
Four Pearl Harbor survivors gather for reunion as 73rd anniversary nears
Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack have gathered days before its 73rd anniversary, promising that it will not...
Australia bids farewell to cricketer Phillip Hughes in his home town
The funeral of Australian test cricketer Phillip Hughes began to the strains of a song entitled ‘Forever Young’ in his home town on Wednesday...
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