World News Digest
Xiaomi rattles China’s smartphone race, outshines Samsung and moves to top spot
Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co.
Grim reality sets in for China quake survivors
Rescuers searched in the rubble of a quake-struck Chinese village Tuesday, with relatives facing the stark probability that only the remains of their loved...
Death toll rises in Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
Azerbaijan and Armenia on Monday both reported more losses in a sharp escalation of fighting over the South Caucasus region Nagorno-Karabakh, with 18 soldiers...
Google: Except for child pornography, we don’t snoop your email looking for crimes
Google isn’t searching your emails for other crimes, the company told Business Insider, even though a registered sex offender was recently arrested...
LinkedIn to pay $6 million in unpaid wages and damages
LinkedIn Corp agreed to pay about $6 million in back overtime and damages to 359 current and former employees after a U.S.
U.S. government had a role in Ebola drug given to aid workers
Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified...
You can now legitimately use the word ‘selfie’ in Scrabble
To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. You can now legitimately put down the letters S-E-L-F-I-E or B-R-O-M-A-N-C-E on a scrabble...
An upcoming iPhone feature will completely transform how you use apps
Apple’s new operating system for mobile phones and tablets, iOS 8, is slated to release in the fall, and one of its features will transform how you...
Big Bucks Theory: Big Bang trio inks new $90 million deal
Warner Bros. has shown Big Bang Theory stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco the money.
Israel pulls all troops out of Gaza as 72-hour ceasefire begins
Israel said it withdrew the last of its ground forces from Gaza today as it and Hamas began a temporary ceasefire.
Free shipping may soon become the new normal in Canada
When Walmart Canada introduced free shipping on all online purchases last year, it was a clear message to its rivals that it was gearing up for a fight.
Nigeria confirms second Ebola case as doctor who treated first case
Nigerian authorities on Monday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa’s most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region...
Japan to launch military space force to monitor debris in ‘fourth battlefield’
Japan is planning to launch a military space force by 2019 that would initially be tasked with protecting satellites from dangerous debris orbiting the...
Africa’s ‘youth bulge’ could transform the continent
One result in a new survey called the “Global Youth Wellbeing Index” hardly fits a common perception of Africa.
Australian couple deny ‘abandoning’ sick baby boy from Thai surrogate mum
The Australian couple accused of abandoning their sick surrogate baby because he was born with Down syndrome have denied the allegations.
Nigeria confirms second Ebola victim as doctor who treated virus-hit patient
Nigerian authorities today said that a doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan...
Google alerts police after ‘spotting child porn’ in sex offender’s Gmail account
Google has used its automatic email scanning technology to tip off police about a 41-year-old man in Texas who was allegedly distributing explicit images...
Tensions high: U.S. jet flew over Sweden to avoid Russian fighters last month
A U.S. reconnaissance plane was close to being intercepted over the Baltic Sea by Russian fighters before diverting over Sweden last month, The New York...
'Runaway' giant tortoise captured by police after low-speed chase
A giant tortoise found ambling down a street in suburban Los Angeles has been reunited with its owners.
Death toll from 6.3-magnitude Chinese earthquake set to top 400
The death toll from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit southwestern China on Sunday climbed to 398 people, state media reported on Monday.
Half a million without safe water in Ohio due to contaminated supply
Hundreds of thousands of people in Toledo, Ohio, have effectively had their running water supply cut off for a third day after high levels of toxins were...
Bangladesh ferry disaster: Two bodies recovered and more feared dead
A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people has capsized in a river in Bangladesh, officials said.
AIDS conference delegates seek asylum in Australia
Some 25 delegates to an international AIDS conference held in Melbourne last month fear returning home and will seek asylum in Australia, refugee and welfare...
Dear parents, video games are good for your kids (a little bit)
Children who play video games for up to an hour a day are happier, more sociable and less hyperactive than those who don’t play at all, research has...
Stronger Bertha unlikely to make landfall in U.S.
A strengthened Tropical Storm Bertha swirled northward across open sea early Monday after brushing the Turks & Caicos Islands and southeastern Bahamas,...
'Now we are friends': World leaders mark WWI centenary
Government leaders and royalty gathered in the Belgian city of Liege on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a small Balkans...
Portugal intervenes with $6.6 billion to salvage crisis-hit BES bank
Portugal will spend $6.58 billion to rescue its largest listed bank, testing the euro zone’s resilience to another banking crisis just months after...
McIlroy back to his best as he returns to world number one
Winning the British Open wasn’t enough to make Rory McIlroy want to take the rest of the year off to celebrate.
Thousands of Filipinos refuse to leave Libya jobs
Only a fraction of about 13,000 Filipinos have expressed a desire to leave Libya because they’re afraid of losing their jobs despite frantic Philippine...
Marvel’s ‘Guardians’ rockets to $94 million domestic debut
"Guardians of the Galaxy," Walt Disney Co’s offbeat space adventure featuring extraterrestrial misfits and a talking raccoon, took $94 million in...
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