World News Digest
Hit TV show ‘Twin Peaks’ set to return for new series in 2016
Cult TV series “Twin Peaks” is to return for a new series in 2016—25 years after the dark saga first aired in 1990.
Lightning kills 11 tribe members during ritual in Colombia
Eleven members of a remote indigenous tribe along Colombia’s Caribbean coast have been killed when a lightning bolt struck a thatch-roofed hut where...
Nobel Prize for physics goes to inventors of low-energy LED light
Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, and American Shuji Nakamura have won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing a new energy-efficient...
Cut the chatter: Talking to your car can be dangerous, studies say
Just because you can talk to your car doesn’t mean you should. Two new studies have found that voice-activated smartphones and dashboard infotainment...
From Chicago to Japan, flow of Islamic State volunteers continues
Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State.
Mexico disarms police in missing students city as president vows justice
Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city’s entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of colluding with...
Koreas’ navies exchange fire as analysts pooh-pooh Kim rumours
North and South Korean naval patrol boats briefly exchanged fire on Tuesday near their disputed Yellow Sea border which has been the site of numerous clashes...
So, who gets ringside seats for this Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse?
The moon will pass through Earth’s shadow early Wednesday morning (Oct. 8) and no enthusiastic skywatcher should ever miss a total eclipse of the...
Samsung expects lowest profit in three years due to weak smartphone sales
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday flagged a near 60 percent year-on-year plunge in its third quarter operating profit, as its key smartphone sector continued...
Arab, European jets carry out 10 per cent of IS strikes, says United States
Arab and other allied countries have carried out about 10 per cent of the nearly 2,000 air raids against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria since...
Why are people on eBay bidding $100,000 for an iPhone 6?
If you thought $299 was too much to pay for your new 64 GB iPhone 6, you might want to look away.
Sexting is new normal for teens, not linked to risky behavior over time
More than one-quarter of teens in the U.S. engage in sexting and those who send explicit photos of themselves are more likely to become sexually active...
Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s ‘inner GPS’
British-American John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s...
Michael Bloomberg is a knight, but not a sir
Queen Elizabeth II has made former New York City mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg an “honorary” knight of the British realm,...
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps suspended after DUI arrest
USA Swimming has suspended Michael Phelps for six months, following Phelps’ arrest last week in Baltimore for a DUI.
World-famous Waldorf Astoria New York sold to Chinese
The storied hotel is being sold to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group Co., but Hilton International will continue to manage the property...
Ukraine gets drones to help monitor shaky truce
Ukraine’s prime minister says two drones have been delivered to the country so international observers can monitor the rocky cease-fire between government...
Global Ebola fear grows as Spain nurse contracts deadly illness
U.S. President Barack Obama says his government is considering more careful screening of airline passengers arriving from West Africa amid heightened Ebola...
Battle for Kobane: Islamic State escalates border town siege
Islamic State jihadists penetrated the key Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border, sparking street-to-street fighting with its Kurdish defenders Monday...
Haiti shipwreck not Colombus’ Santa Maria: UNESCO
A report from the UN cultural agency released Monday concludes that a shipwreck found off northern Haiti could not be the Santa Maria, the lost flagship...
Hilton sells iconic NYC Waldorf-Astoria hotel to Chinese insurer
Hilton Worldwide is selling the Waldorf Astoria New York to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group Co.
Surprising Brazilian presidential election zigzags to runoff
It’s the presidential election that just keeps surprising. A year after a spasm of huge anti-government protests across Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff...
In Liberia, Ebola outbreak may be under control, but not fear and suffering
Liberia’s few Ebola treatment centres are overwhelmed with the sick and dying—with patients sharing beds and the dead laying near the desperately...
Hewlett-Packard to split into cloud and 3D printing divisions
Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it will split itself into two companies, one focused on cloud computing services and the other focusing on 3D printing and...
30 U.S. states to allow gay marriage after Supreme Court rejects opponents
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals against gay marriage in five states on Monday, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry where...
Shia LaBoeuf cut his face, had a tooth out and did not wash while filming Fury
Shia LaBeouf reportedly cut his face with a knife to make his war wounds real for new film Fury.
Islamic State militants raise their flags in Kobane to advance closer to Turkey
Islamic State militants (IS) have reportedly captured part of a town close to the Syrian border with Turkey after days of fierce fighting.
GPS in your head: Brain cell researchers win 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine
American-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discoveries...
Friend of Boston bombing suspect faces 16 years in jail if convicted of lying
A college friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, charged with lying about a visit to his dormitory room three days after the deadly blasts, goes...
'Bisexual' Dewani pleads not guilty to plotting his wife's murder in Cape Town
A British millionaire accused of murdering his wife on their honeymoon in South Africa has told a judge he is bisexual.
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