Obituary | Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77

Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the world, died yesterday. He

Turkey | Military helicopter crashes in Istanbul; four soldiers killed

Four Turkish soldiers died while another was fighting for life after their helicopter crashed yesterday into a residential area of Istanbul. Even though the helicopter

Iran | Number of injured in 6.3 magnitude quake rises to 716

Iranian authorities said yesterday that the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. No fatalities were

Offbeat | Vermont couple looking for family peacock among the turkeys

A Vermont woman whose family peacock ran off with a flock of turkeys says she’s hopeful to get close enough to catch it with a net.

This Day in History  | 1967 – De Gaulle says ‘non’ to Britain – again

The French President, Charles de Gaulle, has for a second time said he will veto Britain’s application to join the Common Market. He warned France’s five

Koreas win UNESCO recognition of traditional wrestling

Divided for seven decades, North and South Korea together won their first international recognition of Korean traditional wrestling yesterday. The Koreas had earlier pushed

Football – EPL | First loss of season exposes Chelsea’s frailties under Sarri

It took one dreadful 90-minute performance to expose the growing list of shortcomings in the Chelsea team that its coach had forewarned for much of the

World briefs

CAMBODIA Police yesterday arrested more than 200 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China over the internet. JAPAN Police said yesterday they found six bodies

The Buzz | Belt & Road: Three Chinese charged in Kenya with bribing investigators

Three Chinese nationals will be charged by the country’s anticorruption authority for paying a bribe to influence the outcome of fraud investigations, Kenya’s director of public prosecutions said

Dictionary.com chooses ‘misinformation’ as word of the year

Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen yesterday as Dictionary.com’s word of the year on the tattered coattails of “toxic,” picked earlier this month for the

World Views | Asia’s liquidity squeeze is the worst since 2008

Liquidity is getting tight in Asia. Leave aside Japan, where the printing presses are still pumping out yen. In rest of the region, central banks’ supply of currency

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – edition no. 3179

* Flörsch discharged from hospital, vows to return to Macau GP * Student charged with multiple house robberies * ‘Mild power leakage’ kills dog at St. Augustine Square * Bernardo Bertolucci dies at

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