World News Digest
A peek inside remote Bhutan via Google’s Street View launch
Google provided a sneak peek into Bhutan Thursday by unveiling a Street View project for the remote Himalayan kingdom, featuring panoramic views of its...
Mali becomes sixth West African nation hit with Ebola
Mali’s health minister says the West African country has confirmed its first case of Ebola.
Islamic State raking in millions on oil sales, now world’s richest terror group
Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S.
Holy smoke! Camel cigarette maker snuffs out workplace puffing
Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc has banned smoking from its offices and buildings.
Schumacher ‘making progress but needs years to recover’, doctor says
A French doctor treating stricken former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher said Thursday that the German ace was making progress, but will need years...
Pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk end ceasefire with Ukraine ahead of elections
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk have announced the end of a ceasefire, ending a period of relative calm as the country...
I weep for the victims not my son, says mother of Canada shooting suspect
The mother of the man identified as the Ottawa gunman has said she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.
'It's why I became an actor': Bradley Cooper to play Elephant Man on Broadway
Bradley Cooper is heading to Broadway to play the Elephant Man, a man he says he has thought about every day since he was 12.
North Korea shuts borders to tourist groups over rising Ebola fears
North Korea is planning to stop foreign tourist groups from entering the country because of concerns over Ebola.
Four more detained in Moscow after death of Total oil company boss
Russian officials investigating the plane crash that killed the Total oil company boss and three others have detained four more members of staff at Moscow’s...
Mint condition 1976 Apple computer fetches $905,000 in New York auction
One of Apple’s first pre-assembled computers - the Apple-1 - has been sold for a record $905,000 at an auction in New York.
The motherboard is one...
Lords of the dance: Hoofing priests become Internet sensation
A video of two duelling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia...
Month of U.S.-led air strikes ‘has killed 521 IS fighters and 32 civilians’ in Syria
Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks...
Mexico says mayor linked to deadly attack on students
Officials said Wednesday that a drug gang implicated in the disappearance of 43 students essentially ran the town, paying Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca...
Hong Kong protesters and celebs draw attacks, threats from China
China’s media is ratcheting up the rhetoric against Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, saying protesters risk becoming foreign puppets, even...
China ‘executed 2,400’ last year: rights group
The world’s top executioner China put 2,400 people to death last year, a US-based rights group said Tuesday, shedding rare light on a statistic Beijing...
Out with a bang: Man’s ashes to be scattered in firework display
A Missouri funeral director is sending his father out with a bang, literally. Greenlawn Funeral Homes will hold its first Firework Memorial program on...
Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown
A 23-year-old Maryland man was in custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and attempted to run towards the building.
Oldest DNA ever found sheds new light on where humans came from
Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans’ colonisation...
To infinity and beyond: China to launch next moon mission this week
China is set to launch a robotic moon mission this week, a “trial by fire” test of re-entry technology for the country’s future lunar...
Nazi WW II U-boat and ship it sank found off U.S. coast
Lodged beneath sand and silt, scientists have uncovered two vessels off the coast of North Carolina that provide new insight into the events of World War...
Parliament Hill shooting: Soldier killed, gunman dead as violence grips Ottawa
A Canadian honour guard who witnesses said was shot twice “point blank” by a gunman at the National War Memorial in Ottawa has died, while...
4 former Blackwater guards convicted in 2007 shooting of more than 30 Iraqis
Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American...
Ottawa shooting will not intimidate Canada, PM declares
The prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, vowed a tough and uncompromising response to a brazen gun attack on the national parliament on Wednesday...
Ex-Blackwater guards convicted in 2007 shooting of more than 30 Iraqis
Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American...
Car plows into train station in tense east Jerusalem; baby girl killed
A Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a 3-month-old...
Two dead in Sierra Leone Ebola riot as WHO starts vaccine trials
Tensions surrounding the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa sparked a deadly riot in Sierra Leone as the World Health Organization prepared Wednesday...
Renée Zellweger ‘glad’ about talk of her appearance
Renée Zellweger knows that the Internet was abuzz over her appearance on Tuesday.
Iraqi Kurds approve sending troops to fight Islamic State in embattled Kobane
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobane to relieve fellow Kurds under attack by Islamic State...
Canada shooting suspects on the loose as Parliament gunman is shot dead
A gunman has been shot dead inside Canada’s parliament after dozens of shots were fired inside the building, according to media and eyewitnesses.
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