World News Digest

Taiwan air crash: Plane survivor crawls out of fiery wreckage
A woman escaped from the fiery wreckage of the TransAsia Airways plane by clambering through a hole in the fuselage - and then phoned her father to come...
'Weird Al' Yankovic still in disbelief over No. 1 album
The past week for “Weird Al” Yankovic has been a little weird by the standards of the curly-haired, accordion-playing, oddball master of pop...
Chicken off McDonald’s Hong Kong menu after food scandal
McDonald’s has suspended sales of chicken nuggets and other items in Hong Kong after it said it had imported products from Shanghai Husi Food, the...
More bodies and plane wreckage found around MH17 crash site
Investigators have found a previously undiscovered part of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 along with more bodies more than a week after the Boeing 777 was...
Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk resigns after ruling coalition collapses
Arseniy Yatsenyuk (pictured above) resigned as Ukraine’s Prime Minister after the governing coalition collapsed on Thursday.
Coming soon: A smartphone app that can detect bipolar episodes
Researchers at the University of Michigan are testing a new smartphone app for Android, code-named PRIORI, that can help detect if someone is having a...
'No survivors': Black box of Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people found
No one survived the crash of an Air Algerie flight over Mali, French President Francois Hollande has confirmed, adding that the plane’s black box...
Wreckage of Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people found in Mali
Authorities said on Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly...
'The Leftover Monologues': China's love and dating scene laid out on stage
For many of today’s Chinese youth looking for a partner, love takes second place to parental pressure, moving up the social ladder and a heavy dose...
Airline fatalities have actually declined over the past few years: Expert
Starting with missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March and continuing with three separate crashes in the past week — Air Algerie Flight AH5017,...
Facebook soars as Zuckerberg’s cash machine kicks into gear
Two years ago, it wasn’t clear Facebook would ever make money on mobile ads.
Alec Baldwin scolded in court appearance, vows to stay out of trouble
Actor Alec Baldwin is not apologizing over an incident that led to a disorderly conduct arrest in May.
Norway on alert for feared terrorist attack by Syrian militants
Norway is stepping up security amid intelligence reports of a possible imminent “terrorist attack” by militants who have fought in Syria, the...
Clashes in Libya’s Benghazi kill at least nine; 50 dead in recent violence
At least nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in heavy clashes overnight in Benghazi as government forces tried to oust Islamist militants...
'Islamic State' leader in Iraq orders female genital mutilation of 2 million girls
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) has asked all families around Iraq’s northern city of Mosul to circumcise...
France’s president vows to find site of Air Algerie plane crash that killed 116
President Francois Hollande vowed Thursday to deploy all of France’s military means in Mali, where it has hundreds of troops, to track down a missing...
Snoop Dogg: ‘I smoked marijuana and got high in a White House bathroom’
Snoop Dogg has claimed that he smoked marijuana in a bathroom at the White House.
Israel on alert after West Bank protest casualties as death toll nears 800
Israeli security forces have been put on heightened alert after two Palestinians were killed during a massive protest in the West Bank.
That’s my master! Dogs can feel jealousy, researchers find
Man’s best friend does not like anything muscling in on that friendship. The first experimental test of jealousy in dogs shows that canines nip even...
Iraq crisis: Dawn attack on prisoner convoy kills 60 people
Gunmen have attacked a prisoner convoy north of Baghdad, setting off a gunbattle with troops in which 52 prisoners and eight soldiers were killed, officials...
T. rex and the gang: Tyrannosaurus prowled in packs, tracks show
It was the king of the carnivores that ruled the Earth 70 million years ago but maybe the Tyrannosaurus was friendlier than its reputation has allowed.
Teen pilot dies, father missing near the end of around-the-world flight
The single-engine plane flown by Haris Suleman, 17, of Plainfield, Indiana, went down in American Samoa.
Freedom at last? Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death
A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to recant her Christian faith arrived in Italy and met the Pope on Thursday en route...
Hamas demands an end to blockade before agreeing to ceasefire
Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as Hamas militants stuck to their demand for the lifting of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade...
Passenger plane carrying 116 ‘crashed’ after route change over West Africa
A passenger jet which vanished from radar over northern Mali in West Africa has crashed, says an Algerian aviation official.
Man United bury Galaxy 7-0 in Van Gaal’s first match as manager
Louis van Gaal opened his reign at Manchester United manager with a stunning 7-0 win over LA Galaxy as doubles from Wayne Rooney, Reece James and Ashley...
18 children killed when train smashes into their school bus at railway crossing
Eighteen children were killed when a train crashed into their school bus (pictured above) at an unmanned railway crossing in southern India, police said.
Israel flight ban lifted as Gaza death toll passes 700
The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted its ban on U.S. flights in and out of Israel, which the agency had imposed out of concern for the risk of...
World 3.0: How science and technology can help make you happier
You’ve heard of Fitbit and FuelBand—high-tech ways to get physically fit.
Arizona inmate takes nearly two hours to die in botched execution
An Arizona inmate took almost two hours to die by lethal injection on Wednesday in the latest botched execution to raise questions about the death penalty...

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