World News Digest
The ‘holy grail’: Bob Dylan song lyrics could fetch $2 million at music auction
Bob Dylan’s lyrics for “Like a Rolling Stone” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” are expected to be the highlights of...
U.S. ‘lost more than 400 drones in crashes’ since 9/11
The U.S. has lost more than 400 military drones in major crashes worldwide since 2001, The Washington Post said in a report questioning the safety and...
Last sex-abuse lawsuit against Elmo actor tossed
A judge in Pennsylvania dismissed the last of five sex-abuse lawsuits filed against the Emmy-winning puppeteer who voiced the “Sesame Street”...
Pakistani woman raped, killed and hanged from tree: Police
A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan.
Indonesia fears terror return as fighters head to Syria, Iraq
Indonesians are joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq, sparking fears they will revive sophisticated militant networks when they return.
Great white shark numbers are surging, study says
A report that scientists are calling one of the most comprehensive studies of great white sharks finds their numbers are surging in the ocean off the Eastern...
Torrential rains in Bulgaria leave 12 dead, more feared missing in floods
At least 12 people are known to have died, including two children, and an unknown number of others are missing after heavy rain and flooding hit parts...
Calls mount for UN help in Afghan election crisis
A proposal for the U.N. to mediate a crisis over allegations of election fraud gained momentum Friday as President Hamid Karzai backed the idea and the...
Ukraine president goes to east, calls cease-fire; Russian forces swell
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered his forces to cease fire Friday and halt military operations for a week against pro-Russia separatists in...
Under FIFA fire, Mexico’s coach says fans’ World Cup chants ‘not serious’
Mexico coach Miguel Herrera has defended World Cup fans chanting a gay slur that sport’s international governing body believes is objectionable enough...
Costa Rica beat Italy to send England packing, France crush Switzerland
Another European heavyweight fell to Latin American opposition on Friday as Costa Rica shocked Italy 1-0, putting them top of Group D and eliminated England.
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric: We need new leaders to oust Sunni insurgents
Iraq’s senior Shia religious authority has called for a new government for the country as it struggles to stop Sunni militants seizing controls of...
It’s an offal lot of meat! Haggis the size of a small car smashes World Record
The world record for the biggest haggis has been smashed. The beast, unveiled at Scotland’s Royal Highland Show, has stormed into the Guinness Book...
Google and Microsoft to follow Apple and Samsung with ‘kill switch’ on phones
Google and Microsoft have agreed to add remote kill switches to their smartphone operating systems - following in the footsteps of Samsung and Apple.
Search for missing MH370 moves south across Indian Ocean towards Perth coast
The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is believed to be moving south to a location about 1,100 miles off the coast of Perth, south-west...
Loco-motion and Natural Woman songwriter Gerry Goffin dies at 75
Gerry Goffin, the prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote hits such as Will You Love Me Tomorrow,...
Over 200,000 vote as Hong Kong democracy ‘referendum’ kicks off
More than 200,000 people voted for full democracy in Hong Kong within the first few hours of an unofficial online referendum on Friday in a civil campaign...
Game on! University offers scholarships to top PC gamers
A U.S. university is offering scholarships worth up to $19,000 (£11,000) for players of online computer game League of Legends.
More than 50million driven from homes by war, crisis: U.N.
The number of people driven from their homes by conflict and crisis has topped 50million for the first time since World War II, with Syria hardest hit,...
'One good looking mug shot': Picture of 'handsome criminal' goes viral
People have flooded the Facebook page of a U.S. city’s police department with lust-fuelled comments about the mugshot of a criminal who looks distinctly...
Archaeologists discover first evidence of parasite which still affects 200m
In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, scientists have found the earliest known evidence of infection with a parasitic worm that now afflicts more than...
Facebook lost $500k in half-hour of ‘silence’
Facebook’s 30-minute outage yesterday cost the social network half a million dollars.
Heavy rains, floods hit Bulgaria; 10 people killed
Torrential rains and floods hit Bulgaria on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, cutting off electricity, blocking roads and sparking evacuations, officials...
Taiwan’s Quanta to start mass production of Apple’s smartwatch in July: Source
Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc’s first smartwatch in July, a source familiar with the matter said.
U.S. says 75 government scientists possibly exposed to anthrax
As many as 75 scientists working in U.S. federal government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria and are being offered...
CIA toyed with idea of Osama Bin Laden action figure to terrify kids
The CIA recently admitted to embarking on a secret mission, code named “Devil Eyes”, to create a toy action figure.
Mandela’s ex-PA hits out at icon’s funeral ‘chaos’
Nelson Mandela’s long-serving personal assistant has hit out at the “chaos” around his funeral and bickering over his legacy in a hard-hitting...
J.D. Salinger of comedy? Dave Chappelle is back (for now)
Dave Chappelle’s hesitant, slow-motion comeback reached a big-tent crescendo when the comic performed a nearly two-hour set at Radio City Music Hall...
Five children rescued, at least 150 charged in Canadian child porn bust
Five children under the age of 10 were rescued by police following a national child pornography investigation that targeted alleged sex offenders and resulted...
World Cup: Suarez sinks England, Colombia power through
Uruguay’s Luiz Suarez, who spent much of the last Premier League season terrifying defenders in England, struck twice to condemn England to their...
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