The Buzz | Europe losing reputation as a renewable energy leader

Europe is losing its status as a global leader in clean energy, with investment in the region plummeting 21 percent last year, while spending in the rest of the world

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CHINA A leisure boat capsized on a large lake in southwestern China during strong winds, killing one child and leaving another 14 people missing, local authorities said. HONG KONG The government decided

Prince | Autopsy report hints at painkiller mystery

The report from the medical examiner who conducted Prince’s autopsy is tantalizing for what it doesn’t say. The single-page document lists a fentanyl overdose as the cause of death, but it offers few

European Union | Brexit debate: Blair, Brown lead Labour leaders in backing UK ‘Remain’ campaign

Six former U.K. Labour Party leaders including former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on Saturday urged the British to vote in favor of remaining in the European Union

Spain’s ex-PM meets with jailed Venezuelan opposition leader

Spain’s former prime minister met with jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Saturday, the first meeting of its kind in more than two years. The prison visit was part

This Day in History | 1944 D-Day marks start of Europe invasion

Thousands of Allied troops have begun landing on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans. Thousands of paratroops and glider-borne troops

Offbeat | Gravediggers compete in race judged on speed and style

Digging their way to the top, 18 two-man teams of Hungarian gravediggers displayed their skills Friday for a place in a regional championship to be held in Slovakia later this

Tigers may be gone, but many creatures dwell at Thai temples

The scandal surrounding Thailand’s Tiger Temple, where wildlife officers seized 137 big cats this past week, has cast religious sanctuaries for animals in a bad light. Many conservationists and animal rights activists

Islamic State kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies

In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle

The Buzz | Man who got 1st US penis transplant released from hospital

A man who received the first penis transplant calls the operation a success and is going home. Thomas Manning left Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday , three weeks after the grueling 15-hour

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CHINA As a teenager, Wang Keming felt nothing but contempt for the older peasant his village singled out for collective persecution in 1970. Stirred by Mao Zedong’s radical ideology and

Panda born in Belgium’s Pairi Daiza zoo

A baby panda was born in Belgium’s Pairi Daiza zoo yesterday just three months after Chinese experts artificially inseminated its mother Hao Hao. Screaming seemingly well beyond the power of his

USA | Washington adopts near total ban on African elephant ivory sales

The federal government will enact a near total ban on the domestic sale of African elephant ivory under federal regulations issued yesterday. It’s been illegal for decades to import African elephant

This Day in History | 1982 Israeli ambassador shot in London

The Israeli ambassador to Britain is critically ill in hospital after being shot on a London street. Shlomo Argov, 52, was leaving a diplomatic function at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair

Offbeat | Forbes: Former richest self-made US woman now worth nothing

Forbes has revised the net worth of the woman it crowned America’s richest self-­made woman last year from USD4.5 billion to nothing. Forbes says its estimate of Elizabeth Holmes’ wealth is based entirely

The Buzz | Pacific military exercises to include 27 nations, a record

The U.S. Navy says 27 nations will participate in the world’s largest maritime exercises in coming weeks. This is an all-time high for the Rim of the Pacific exercises, which date

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CHINA Mothers of some of those killed in the bloody crackdown on China’s 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement say they have lived through 27 years of state-led “terror and suffocation” and

Swiss inaugurate USD12 billion rail tunnel, world’s longest

It’s taken 17 years and cost 12.2 billion Swiss francs (about USD12 billion) but Switzerland is finally ready to inaugurate the world’s largest railway tunnel. The ceremony yesterday to celebrate the

Brexit | What UK can learn from Norway as it weighs life outside EU

Ahead of a June 23 referendum on whether to quit the European Union, Britons are looking across the North Sea to Norway for clues on what life could be like

BFF | North Korea media praise Trump talk about US troops

Donald Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea. The presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee has been getting good press this week in the North’s carefully controlled media, first

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