Offbeat | Kenya: Uber car burned as tension rises with taxi operators

A Kenyan police official says an Uber car was ambushed and burned highlighting an escalation of tension between conventional taxi operators and drivers of the ride-sharing app. Nairobi police chief Japhet

The Buzz | Haryanto becames Indonesia’s first Formula 1 driver

The 23-year-old Haryanto will become the first Indonesian to compete in F1 and joins Germany’s Pascal Wehrlein in an all-rookie lineup for the season that begins March 20 in Melbourne,

USA | Seven die in ‘random’ Michigan shootings; suspect held

A gunman drove in and around a western Michigan city randomly shooting people in the parking lots of an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant and killing at

World Briefs

CHINA’s top securities regulator Xiao Gang will step down following months of turmoil in Chinese stock markets that battered faith in Beijing’s economic management.The departure of Xiao, a legal expert

Syria | Kerry: ‘Provisional agreement’ reached on ceasefire

  Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that a “provisional agreement” has been reached on a cease-fire that could begin in the next few days in Syria’s five-year civil war. Kerry said he spoke

USA | Trump wins South Carolina primary as Bush drops out of race

Donald Trump, the brash New York billionaire who has upended all the rules of modern campaigning, won Saturday’s South Carolina primary in a decisive fashion that shrinks the prospects of

This Day in History | 1974 Hearst ‘ransom’ provokes violence

The USD2 million (£870,000) food handout has been called the most bizarre ransom ever paid, and was in response to demands from Miss Hearst’s kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Distribution

Offbeat | Selfies taken with stolen Kindle show up in cloud

Los Angeles police say a photo they circulated of two people taken with a stolen Kindle has led to its return. Police released the photo last week that had uploaded automatically

Nature | New tarantula species named after singer Johnny Cash

  A tarantula named after singer Johnny Cash is among 14 new species identified by scientists who spent a decade collecting the hairy spiders and studying nearly 3,000 of them. The spider

Doctors: Upsurge in paralysis condition accompanies Zika

  The doctor taps Zulay Balza’s knees with a hammer and she doesn’t feel a thing. She can’t squeeze his outstretched fingers or shut her eyelids. Her face is partially paralyzed. “The

The Buzz | Brazil human rights official sacked over gay cure claim

A Brazilian governor has fired his official human rights secretary because the man expressed a belief in curing homosexuality. Ezequiel Teixeira told the O Globo newspaper that he believed in a

Cardinal says he can meet Australian sex abuse victims in Rome

Pope Francis’ finance minister said yesterday that he is prepared to meet in Rome with Australian victims of clergy sex abuse who are angry the cardinal won’t travel to Australia

World Briefs

JAPAN A corporate whistleblower’s eight-year courtroom battle against Japanese medical device maker Olympus Corp. has ended with a financial settlement and a promise from the company to end its harassment

Obama plans historic trip to Cuba to further ties

President Barack Obama will pay a historic visit to Cuba in the coming weeks, senior Obama administration officials said, becoming the first president to set foot on the island in

Brexit | From two-speed Europe to emergency brake, EU lingo decoded

The European Union can be a bewildering place, full of mystifying acronyms and impenetrable jargon. With EU leaders meeting going on to thrash out a deal that aims to keep

Offbeat | US: Jenner regrets not telling father about gender identity

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Jenner says she also was unsure how her mother would react to her transition from a man to a woman (bit.ly/1Luvm7y). But she says her

This Day in History | 1997 China’s reformist Deng Xiaoping dies

He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen in public three years ago. The country’s official news agency said his death was the result of

The Buzz | Foreign holdings of US Treasury debt rose to record

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in December to a record high despite cutbacks by China and Japan. Foreign ownership of Treasury securities increased 0.7 percent in December to a

Extradition to US for Spanish dealer in big art fraud case

Spain’s National Court ruled that a businessman accused of being part of a group that commissioned and sold USD33 million in high- priced fake art passed off as famed expressionist works

World Briefs

Philippines Four people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Philippines by suspected Muslim insurgents who wanted to attack military reinforcements, police said yesterday.

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