World News Digest
Family finds 300-year-old sunken treasure off Florida’s east coast
A Florida family scavenging for sunken treasure on a shipwreck has found the missing piece of a 300-year-old gold filigree necklace sacred to Spanish priests,...
Has North Korea developed a missile capable of reaching the U.S.?
Fresh satellite images suggest North Korea might be wrapping up engine trials on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), fuelling speculation of...
Deadly Israeli shelling hits UN school, kills 20 as Hamas mulls truce
Israeli shelling on a UN school in Gaza killed 20 people early Wednesday, just as Palestinian factions head to Cairo to discuss a temporary humanitarian...
Connected devices have huge security holes
The surge of Web-connected devices—TVs, refrigerators, thermostats, door locks and more—has opened up huge opportunities for cyberattacks because of...
Millions of gallons of water wasted as broken pipe floods UCLA campus
A major water main ruptured underneath a street near the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, unleashing a 20-foot-tall geyser that flooded...
No safe haven in China’s corruption crackdown, says ruling Communist party
China will not allow exceptions in its corruption crackdown, its main official newspaper said on Wednesday, a day after news of a probe into former domestic...
Rats! Famous Paris gardens swamped by tourists … and rodents
On a summer’s day in central Paris, hundreds of tourists are enjoying a picnic in the city’s Tuileries garden.
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor dies from virus
A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died Tuesday from the disease in Sierra Leone.
Zhou Yongkang: oil man whose well of power finally ran dry
Embattled former top Communist Zhou Yongkang is a central figure in what some analysts have termed the “oil faction” within the Communist Party,...
Feds end fight to reclaim mummy mask from St. Louis museum for Egypt
A 3,200-year-old mummy mask at the center of a yearslong custody fight will stay at the St.
World 3.0: Edward Norton’s on a mission to help you donate to good causes
Edward Norton is a Hollywood A-lister with memorable roles in “Primal Fear,” “Fight Club” and “American History X.”...
Putin may have passed point of no-return over Ukraine
The U.S. and the European Union saw the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 as a chance for Russian President Vladimir Putin to distance himself...
Gaza families mourn deaths of 100 as power plant strike leaves cities in the dark
Israel on Tuesday unleashed its heaviest bombardment in a 3-week-old war against Hamas, striking symbols of the militant group’s control in Gaza...
Chinese police shoot dead dozens after attack in Xinjiang
Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the western region of Xinjiang,...
'That's how websites work': OkCupid defends experimentation on users
In a blog post titled, “We Experiment on Human Beings,” OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder explained that testing customers helped the company...
Gaza’s day of destruction: 100 more dead as talk of possible truce emerges
A possible truce may be in the works between Palestinian leadership and Israel, after at least 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and tank...
Tour de Kazakhstan? With team’s success, Asian country wants TdF stages
Kazakhstan is some 4,800 kilometres away from the Champs Elysees and the other remarkable streets and roads of France, but the landlocked Asian nation’s...
Russia’s oil industry targeted as EU nations agree on tough new sanctions
European governments have agreed on new sanctions against Russia, targeting its oil industry, defence sector and dual-use goods.
Not funny: Turkish deputy PM says women ‘shouldn’t laugh in public’
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, a minister in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conservative government, has outraged Turkey’s secular...
China investigates former top security chief over ‘corruption’ probe
China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation, authorities said Tuesday, in a move targeting one of the ruling Communist Party’s...
Top airline chiefs meet to discuss risk of planes over warzones after MH17
The U.N. civil aviation agency will hold a broad international meeting to discuss airline safety in the industry’s most coordinated response to the...
Gamers ‘hear explosions, screams and music’ long after they stop playing
Video-gamers can still hear the sounds from their computer games, such as explosions, screams or music, long after they have finished playing, research...
Surgeons ‘cut off man’s penis’ in botched circumcision operation
Doctors at a US hospital have been accused of amputating a man’s penis during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision.
Japan heat wave kills 15, more than 8,000 rushed to hospital
Sweltering summer heat in Japan has left at least 15 people dead over the past week, while more than 8,000 others were rushed to hospital with heatstroke...
U.S. says Russia violated 1987 arms treaty by testing cruise missile
The United States has found that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, a senior U.S.
Civilians killed in eastern Ukraine amid fierce fighting
Intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine killed at least 19 civilians, local officials said on Tuesday, as Kiev...
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity breaks off-world driving record
The U.S. space agency’s Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA said.
Doomed South Korean ferry boss’s driver turns himself in
The driver of the South Korean businessman wanted over the sinking of a ferry that killed more than 300 people in April turned himself in on Tuesday, potentially...
Pilots of Air Algerie jet asked to turn back
France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back.
Eye in the sky: Rocket blasts off with U.S. ‘neighbourhood watch’ spy satellites
An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday with a pair of U.S.
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