World News Digest
Scotland the brave and free! Or not, as independence movement stalls
The campaign for Scotland to break away from the United Kingdom has stalled just over a month before Scots decide whether to go it alone in a referendum,...
Ukraine, Russia spar over football in annexed Crimea
Five months after the annexation of Crimea, Russia and Ukraine are now squabbling over football clubs in the region.
Nine ‘terror suspects’ killed in China’s increasingly restive Xinjiang
China said nine suspects were killed Friday and another captured in a police action in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang that follows a wave...
As epidemic worsens, 2 American aid workers with Ebola to return home
Two American aid workers, who were gravely ill after being infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia, are expected to be flown to the United States...
Simon Cowell to put on ‘unmissable’ World’s Got Talent special
Simon Cowell is planning a World’s Got Talent special series which will take place in India.
Amazon tribe making contact with outside world ‘were massacred’
A group of indigenous Amazon people who were filmed emerging from the Brazilian rainforest and making contact with the outside world may be facing violent...
Banksy ‘spy booth’ graffiti thrown into uncertainty after yobs deface artwork
Banksy fans were left distraught after waking up to discover the artist’s piece ‘Spy Booth’ has been vandalised overnight in Gloucestershire,...
$1 million prize: A bike race that could change your life—or end it
A grueling mountain bike race across the South African desert is being billed as “the toughest race on Earth” is expected to have hundreds...
Bill Clinton, hours before 9/11 attacks: ‘I could have killed bin Laden’
Just hours before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, former U.S. President Bill Clinton told an audience in Australia about his missed chance to kill terror mastermind...
Sharknado 2’s social media storm with half a million tweets during TV premiere
A sequel in which a tornado inexplicably whisks hundreds of sharks into the air and dumps them on New York has taken the U.S.
Ebola-hit doctor hailed a hero for giving only serum dose to fellow patient
A US doctor infected with ebola has insisted the only available dose of an experimental serum go to a fellow American patient in Liberia, as one of the...
Tropical Storm Bertha forms in the Atlantic, headed for the Caribbean
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands and other nearby islands as tropical storm Bertha approaches...
More governments request account info from Twitter
Twitter released a new transparency report on Thursday showing a steady rise in government requests for information from the globally popular one-to-many...
'Godfather of makeup' Dick Smith dies at 92
Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning maestro of makeup who aged Dustin Hoffman for Little Big Man, plumped up Marlon Brando for The Godfather and served as a...
12-year-old Florida boy arrested in homeless man’s killing
A 12-year-old Florida boy was arrested Thursday and accused of fatally shooting a homeless man in the head.
Dinosaurs evolved into birds by ‘shrinking’ over 50 million years
An international team of scientists on Thursday described an extraordinary evolutionary process that unfolded over a period of 50 million years in which...
Libya Islamic militias declare control of Benghazi as democratic dream fades
Libya is in more danger now than at any time since the 2011 uprising and war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Facebook-backed nonprofit brings free Web access to Internet-starved Zambia
Facebook’s Internet.org project is taking another step toward its goal of bringing the Internet to people who are not yet online, launching an app...
Mystery gas blast rips through street in Taiwan killing 25 and injuring 267
A series of underground gas blasts in Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung has killed 25 people and injured 267 others.
Israel says truce over after fresh violence sees soldier ‘captured’ in Gaza
Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over on Friday, saying Hamas militants breached the truce soon after it came in effect and apparently captured an Israeli...
Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729
Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing controls as the...
EU targets 5 Russian banks, adopting toughest sanctions yet over Ukraine crisis
The European Union has published a law that will curb arms sales to Russia and cut off financing for five major Russian banks over Moscow’s support...
China says imam at 600-year-old mosque murdered in Xinjiang
China said Thursday that a leading pro-government Muslim cleric in the volatile northwestern territory of Xinjiang was murdered, and police killed two...
Internet privacy service Tor admits hackers unmasked ‘anonymous’ users
Tor, the prominent system for protecting Internet privacy, today said many of its users trying to reach hidden sites might have been identified by government-funded...
Elephants have stronger sense of smell than dogs or rats, new study sniffs out
Bomb detection squads may switch from dogs to elephants going by a recent study by Japanese scientists proclaiming the pachyderm as the species with the...
Fight against deadly Ebola virus hampered as infected patients fear ‘witchcraft’
Many infected patients in Sierra Leone are refusing to seek treatment for the Ebola virus over fears the disease is the work of witchcraft, as the president...
Driver ‘shaken up’ as axe flies through car window on U.S. highway
A motorist and passenger escaped unscathed after an axe hurtled through their car’s windshield along a busy stretch of Massachusetts highway.
Samsung profit falls 20% as smartphone sales slow
Samsung reported a bigger-than-expected fall in second quarter profit today and said it was uncertain if earnings from its handset business would improve...
Blasts as international monitors reach MH17 crash site for first time in a week
International observers have reached the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine.
Israel PM vows to crush Gaza tunnels before truce as troops boosted
Thousands more Israeli troops are to join the fight in Gaza, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to destroy Hamas tunnels “with or without...
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