World News Digest
Demonstrators in Brazil want impeachment of president
An estimated 2,500 people took to Sao Paulo’s streets Saturday to push for the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff, with some charging that she should...
British man, 29, held after two women’s bodies found in Hong Kong apartment
A British man has been arrested over a double murder in Hong Kong. Police in the former UK colony said a 29-year-old man was held after the bodies of two...
Egypt jails eight men for three years over ‘gay marriage’
An Egyptian court jailed eight men for three years on Saturday over a video prosecutors claimed was of a gay wedding, which went viral.
Despite gov’t claims, Boko Haram dashes hopes of Chibok girls’ return
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said more than 200 girls kidnapped by the group six months ago had been “married off”...
Studies – and some politicians – cast doubt on Daylight Saving Time’s value
The extra hour of sleep that comes for many with the switch to standard time may be welcome.
All Blacks visit marks a milestone moment for U.S. Rugby
The All Blacks’ first visit to the United States in 34 years is set to shatter the rugby attendance record in America and, hopefully, pique interest...
A majority of Scots would vote for independence now: poll
A majority of Scots would back independence if another referendum were held today, according to a poll published on Saturday, just six weeks after Scotland...
6.0-magnitude quake jolts southeastern Pacific, 4.3 rattles Costa Rican capital
A strong earthquake jolted the southeastern Pacific on Saturday, about 544 kilometres south-southeast of Chile’s Easter Island, the US Geological...
South Africa’s last farewell to slain football captain
South Africans turned out in huge numbers in Durban on Saturday for the funeral of national football captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, who was murdered...
Kurdish peshmerga arrive with weapons in Syria’s Kobani
Iraqi Kurdish forces arrived in the Syrian town of Kobani with heavy weapons to help Syrian Kurds fend off attempts by Islamic State (IS) insurgents to...
Branson heads to spacecraft crash site with pledge to persevere as probe starts
British tycoon Richard Branson was poised to rally his grieving Virgin Galactic staff in California on Saturday as investigators began probing the spacecraft...
Bitcoin prices fall for fourth straight month
Bitcoin prices declined for the fourth straight month in October, as investors’ concerns about the digital currency continue to grow amid a number...
Italy ends sea rescue mission that saved more than 100,000 migrant lives
An Italian sea rescue mission that has saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East has been shuttered – a move rights...
Nokia shuts India plant, cutting 8,000 jobs
Finnish telecom giant Nokia has shut down its mobile manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, leaving thousands of people jobless.
'Plastic' Halloween skulls found in Connecticut are human remains
A pair of Connecticut junk haulers was stunned to learn on Friday that two skulls picked up at the cluttered home of a deceased man on the day before Halloween...
Bangladesh blackout as transmission line bringing electricity from India fails
Bangladesh was hit by a nationwide blackout on Saturday after a transmission line bringing electricity from neighbouring India failed, an official from...
Boko Haram says Chibok’s kidnapped schoolgirls have been ‘married off’
Boko Haram has claimed the 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped in Nigeria earlier this year have converted to Islam and been married off, according to a new video...
Too much, too late: Medicare paid for meds after patients were dead
Call it drugs for the departed: A quirky bureaucratic rule led the United States Medicare’s prescription drug program to pay for costly medications...
During Halloween, millions across Philippines honour their dead
Millions across the Philippines packed into cemeteries on Saturday to pay respects to their dead, in an annual tradition that combines Catholic religious...
New York City worker suspended for using ‘robotic voice’
If some workplace problems happen because employees are only human, one New York City government worker got in trouble for virtually the opposite.
Peshmerga warriors march in to bolster defence of Kobani
Kurdish peshmerga forces streamed across the Syrian border from Turkey Friday to bolster defenders in the key border town of Kobani which is under assault...
Second claimant steps into Burkina Faso vacuum after president bolts
The second-in-command of Burkina Faso’s presidential guard, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida (pic above), said on Saturday he had taken power after...
Denmark sentences Pirate Bay co-founder to jail for hacking
A co-founder of the Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years in prison, in what the prosecutor called...
No bite: Apple Pay fails to unify fragmented mobile payment market
Apple Pay, meant to inject momentum into a fragmented market for the emerging mobile payments sector, has instead highlighted the squabbles between retailers...
Boxing legend Mike Tyson says he was sexually abused as a child
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was sexually abused when he was seven years old by a stranger on the street, he told US radio.
Sky’s the limit: China completes first mission to moon and back
China completed its first return mission to the moon early Saturday with the successful re-entry and landing of an unmanned probe, in the latest step forward...
Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel
A rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel on Friday, the Israeli army said, although there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Tough week for private flight: 1 dead, 1 injured in Virgin Galactic crash
A spacecraft for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Ltd. crashed on a test flight in California, killing one pilot, injuring another and denting the...
How ‘Hunger Games’ wrapped without Hoffman
The tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman in February stunned and saddened the world.
Halloween festivities back on in US town that lived with massive manhunt
Trick-or-treating was back on Friday in a northeastern Pennsylvania town that spent the last seven weeks under siege as hundreds of law enforcement officers...
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