The Buzz | Airlines downgrade 2019 forecast amid trade spats, fuel hike

The International Air Transport Association is lowering its forecast for the airline industry this year to USD28 billion from $35.5 billion amid rising fuel prices and weakening world

Hong Kong singer Anthony Wong scores hit with Tiananmen song

Thirty years after it was crushed by China’s army, the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement is being commemorated in art, literature, public rallies and even synth pop.

USA | Computer algorithm helps reopen dozens of Chicago cold cases

The bodies turned up in some of Chicago’s most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers. The victims were mostly black women who had

European Central Bank sends Italy a warning over debt

The European Central Bank says that challenges to financial stability in the eurozone have risen amid global trade tensions, and warns that indebted countries such as

Offbeat | Man bitten by rabid bat hiding between iPad and case

A New Hampshire man got a big surprise as he went to close up his iPad. A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its

This Day in History | 1957 – Arthur Miller guilty of contempt

US playwright Arthur Miller has been convicted of contempt of Congress. The conviction relates to an investigation last year by the House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities

World briefs

CHINA-US Facing new trade sanctions and a U.S. clampdown on its top telecommunications company, China issued a pointed reminder yesterday that it has yet to unleash all its

The Buzz | Relics of Fatima child saints stolen from Italian church

The relics of two Fatima child saints have been stolen from a church in Verona while they were traveling on a pilgrimage tour in Italy. The Rev.

Chinese, US TV hosts go head-to-head on trade after twitter spat

A  Fox Business Network host and a broadcaster for Chinese state television sparred over key trade issues on a live debate broadcast by the U.S. network,

New Israeli government or election: Netanyahu faces deadline

Israel’s raucous political world was on edge yesterday, counting down the hours to a midnight deadline to see whether a new government will be formed or

EU divided over top jobs after polls redraw political map

European Union leaders stood divided Tuesday over who to name to the bloc’s top jobs, after elections shredded comfortable old political alliances and raised troubling

Offbeat | Court confirms man’s custody of dog, denies ex-girlfriend

Maine’s supreme court has upheld a ruling granting a man sole custody of his dog, denying his ex-girlfriend’s bid to take the pet. The Supreme Judicial Court

This Day in History | 2001 – French ex-minister jailed over sleaze

Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has been jailed for six months in the country’s biggest sleaze scandal in recent history. The 78-year-old judge and close

World briefs

CHINA Fighting to maintain its access to major markets for next-generation communications, Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging the constitutionality of a U.S. law that limits its

The Buzz | Boris Johnson to face court questions about Brexit claims

A British judge ruled yesterday that former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will be summoned to court over allegations that he lied and misled the public during the Brexit

Louvre reopens after one-day closure due to overcrowding

The Louvre museum in Paris reopened to the public after being shut down for a day when workers complained about overcrowding and walked out Monday. Union

Iran | Guard talks tough, says it has no fear of war with US

Iran’s influential Revolutionary Guard said yesterday it doesn’t fear a possible war with the United States and claimed that America hasn’t grown in power in recent

Serbia | Troops placed on alert after Kosovo police arrests

Serbia put its troops on full alert yesterday after heavily armed police in northern Kosovo entered Serb-populated Mitrovica, firing tear gas and arresting nearly two dozen

EU elections | Salvini vows to unite EU populists, lacks willing partners

Italy’s victorious right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, says the European elections have created “a new geography” of anti-elite sentiment in the EU. But it is far

Offbeat | Britney Spears family seeks renewed order barring ex-friend

A Los Angeles judge will consider whether to extend a temporary restraining order today that keeps a former associate of Britney Spears away from her and

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