World News Digest
One-percenters: China’s richest control a third of nation’s wealth
The top one percent of households in Communist-ruled China control more than one third of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 25 percent control...
World averts gaze as South Sudan famine threatens a million children
South Sudan’s food crisis is now the worst in the world, the UN Security Council said Friday as it called for urgent funding to step up deliveries...
Death toll tops 1,000 as Palestinians use 12-hour pause to search rubble
Gaza residents used a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire on Saturday to stock up on supplies and survey the devastation from nearly three weeks of fighting,...
McDonald’s to face legal grilling in Russia over calorie-laden burgers
Nearly a quarter-century after McDonald’s arrived in Russia, the company is now facing a suit that could ban it from selling some of its signature...
As holy month of Ramadan draws to an end, retailers enjoy the profit
Intended to be a month of spiritual reflection and cleansing, Ramadan — which is likely to end this weekend — is an exercise in self-restraint that...
New ‘Game of Thrones’ actors revealed at Comic-Con
Cast members of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” at Friday’s Comic-Con panel remained tight-lipped on spoilers.
Cameroon jails 14 Boko Haram members
A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of between 10 and 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members, the country’s state broadcaster...
Human remains still at MH17 crash site, Australia to send more troops
More that a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, human remains are still at the crash site, Australian Prime...
MH17: Dutch, Australians ready troops to secure crash site
Dutch and Australian authorities put their troops on standby for deployment to secure the rebel-held crash site of Malaysian flight MH17 in east Ukraine,...
U.N. rights inquiry says more Syrians joining Islamic State
More and more Syrian rebels are defecting to join the ultra-hardline Islamic State insurgency, said U.N.
Ebola outbreak spreads to fourth West African country
An Ebola outbreak that has left more than 660 people dead across West Africa has spread to the continent’s most populous nation after a Liberian...
iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data without user’s knowledge
iPhone users be warned: Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from your device through techniques that do not...
Giant anteaters kill two hunters in Brazil
Giant anteaters in Brazil have killed two hunters in separate incidents, raising concerns about the animals’ loss of habitat and the growing risk...
Bad weather seen as probable cause of fatal Air Algérie crash
Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African country of Mali that killed all 118 people on board, French...
Breaking: U.S. brokers 12-hour Gaza truce with Israel and Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel will begin a 12-hour pause in Gaza hostilities starting...
Alan ‘Ace’ Greenberg, Bear Stearns leader during rise, peak and fall, dies
Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former CEO of Bear Stearns, has died at age 86 of complications from cancer, his family said.
Syria becomes home to two competing Islamic states, Iraqi power shifts
A new power struggle has emerged within the Syrian rebellion after al-Qaeda announced it aims to create an Islamic “emirate” to compete with...
FIFA committed to 2018 World Cup in Russia
FIFA remains committed to the 2018 World Cup in Russia and says a boycott would not be an effective way of reducing tensions in the region, soccer’s...
Pentagon: Bigger Russian artillery moving into Ukraine
The movement of Russian heavy caliber artillery systems across the border into Ukraine is “imminent”, the Pentagon said Friday, saying Russia...
Former U.S. FBI director warns that Gaza violence will fuel al-Qaida threat
The comments from Former FBI director Robert Mueller came as U.S. counterterrorism officials express new alarms about a mounting flow of foreign fighters,...
Son of South Korean sunken ferry owner detained
South Korean police have detained the eldest son of the sunken ferry owner after two months on the run, three days after his billionaire father was confirmed...
Crunch time for Gaza ceasefire talks as more die on ‘day of rage’
Attempts to nail down a Gaza ceasefire intensified on Friday as five more Palestinians were reportedly killed in the West Bank - four shot by Israeli troops...
California cops crack case of creepy porcelain dolls left at little girls’ houses
Police in California say they have solved the case of porcelain dolls being left anonymously outside young girls’ houses.
Just 8.2% of human DNA ‘does something important’, study finds
Less than 10% of human DNA is “functional” and likely to be doing something important, according to Oxford University researchers.
Bring on the weirdness: Comic-Con kicks off four-day extravaganza
Like Batman responding to a beaming Bat signal in the sky, fans are streaming to San Diego for the 45th annual Comic-Con pop culture extravaganza.
Ukraine military claims Russians fired cross-border artillery at them
The Ukrainian army has claimed that its soldiers came under artillery fire from the Russian side of the border overnight and were attacked by rebels in...
Why Brazil star Neymar doesn’t even need to think while he’s playing
If it seems that Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar is a natural at the sport, you may be right.
Amazon shares tumble on deeper-than-expected $126m loss
Amazon’s strategy of putting investment ahead of profits prompted a further share sell-off in after-hours trading Thursday night, when it emerged...
Earth survived near-miss from 2012 solar storm: NASA
Back in 2012, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar storm that just missed the Earth but was big enough to knock modern civilisation back to the 18th century.
Social media users feel ‘ugly and inadequate’: Survey
Social media sites make almost two thirds of people feel inadequate about their own life achievements and jealous of others, according to a new survey.
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