World News Digest
Magnificent McIlroy joins elite club as he clinches fourth major at 25
Pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy recovered from a stumbling start to clinch his fourth major title by a shot at the PGA Championship on Sunday.
Pushing 80, but Donald Sutherland still a hit at Teen Choice Awards
Say it ain’t Snow! Donald Sutherland is 79, but still won big at the Teen Choice Awards.
Australian PM condemns ‘barbaric’ photo of child holding decapitated head
The photograph of an Australian terrorist’s son holding aloft the severed head of a Syrian soldier has outraged the country’s leader Tony Abbott,...
China’s Baidu told to clean up content after porn found on Cloud
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has been ordered to clean up its content after pornographic files were found on its online storage service, Xinhua news...
Gammy’s parents claim they were forced to leave Down syndrome son
The biological father accused of abandoning a baby because he was born with Down syndrome has said he would have terminated the surrogate pregnancy had...
Dozens of criminals escape after mutiny, jailbreak in Haitian prison
Dozens of hardened criminals are on the loose after jailbreak at a high-security prison in Haiti.
Iraqi Prime Minister to sue new president for ‘constitutional violation’
Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he will file a legal complaint against the new president, Fouad Massoum, for committing “clear...
British people trust Wikipedia more than mainstream media
British people trust Wikipedia more than the mainstream media, the information site’s founder Jimmy Wales said Sunday.
Call me Kellie: Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney ‘now a woman’
Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney, the man behind Britain’s former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis’s march to the top, is undergoing...
Cycling across Canada: Two Canucks, two causes, two types of cycles
Two Canadian men are each cycling across the country this summer on separate missions to raise awareness around causes to which they want to call attention.
China rebuffs U.S. efforts on South China Sea tensions
China appeared to rebuff pressure from the United States to rein in its assertive actions in the South China Sea on Sunday as Southeast Asian nations declined...
Israel accepts new 72-hour, Egypt-brokered Gaza cease-fire
Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza, officials from the warring sides said.
Hollywood hard man Steven Seagal plays Crimea gig for pro-Russia separatists
Hollywood tough guy and musician Steven Seagal has played a weekend concert in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, appearing on a stage adorned with the...
Turkey’s Erdogan wins presidential vote, unofficial count shows
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the country’s first direct presidential election in the first round Sunday, an unofficial...
Spoiler alert: Russian cosmonaut releases first pictures of ‘supermoon’
As stargazers around the world prepare to enjoy the second and biggest of three giant full moons on Sunday night, a dramatic image of the “supermoon”...
Latest Ebola outbreak may have begun with 2-year-old boy in December
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests patient zero for the latest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa may have been a 2-year-old...
Japan cancels 200 flights as Tropical Storm Halong batters islands
Tropical Storm Halong has put a dampener on traditional Japanese holiday plans after more than 200 flights were cancelled and trains were delayed ahead...
Erdogan vows ‘strong new Turkey’ in final election rally
Voting is underway across Turkey for the country’s first-ever presidential election by popular vote.
Bigger than a prison cell: Hong Kong opens housing market with micro-flats
Real estate developers in Hong Kong, already home to one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, are coming up with a new way to encourage...
UK politician tells party’s youth wing to ‘copy Hitler’
A senior UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician has defended reports he urged young party members to “copy Hitler”.
Tunisia’s fishermen save rising tide of migrants
Chamseddine Bourassine, a Tunisian fisherman in his 50s, says he and his colleagues are on the front lines of a growing humanitarian disaster as waves...
Former World Champion boxing promoter reveals sex change
Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney, 61, has revealed she has changed her name to Kellie and is undergoing a sex change.
Reports: Kurdish forces rescue 5,000 Yazidi from Sinjar Mountain
Iraqi Kurdish security forces have opened a road to Sinjar Mountain in northwestern Iraq, rescuing more than 5,000 Yazidis trapped there, Al Jazeera reports.
Israel and Hamas leave the Cairo negotiation table as rocket fire resumes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would stay away from Egyptian-mediated truce talks with Hamas as long as Palestinian rocket...
NASCAR racing star strikes and kills another driver at New York track
Kevin Ward Jr, a 20-year-old sprint car driver, died on Saturday night when he got out of his vehicle following a in-race crash, and was hit by three-time...
Passenger plane crashes after takeoff in Iran, killing at least 39
A regional passenger plane assembled in Iran crashed Sunday while taking off from the country’s capital, Tehran, killing 39 and injuring another...
Not pinching pennies: This is how Bill Gates holidays
When one of the world’s richest men goes on holiday, he does it like no one else.
One dead, over a million evacuated as Typhoon Halong slams into Japan
A weakened typhoon slammed into Japan early Sunday, leaving one person dead, more than 30 injured and prompting evacuation alerts for some 1.1 million...
Hamas gives Israel ultimatum: Cairo talks by Sunday or we’re off
Palestinian negotiators will leave Cairo on Sunday unless Israel agrees to return to Egyptian-mediated negotiations to end the war in Gaza.
Party time: Uganda gay community celebrates after brutal law overturned
Dancing and waving rainbow-coloured flags, Ugandan activists held their first gay pride rally Saturday since the overturning of a tough anti-homosexuality...
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