The Buzz | 2,000 households lose power on Monday night

More than 2,000 households in the Three Lamps District were affected by an abrupt power outage on Monday. The blackout occurred at around half past seven in the evening as

Storm kills 1, causes severe flooding in Portugal, Spain

Authorities say a heavy storm has killed one person and caused severe flooding in Portugal’s Algarve region. Authorities were cleaning up and counting the cost of the damage in the seaside

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NEPAL A bus packed with passengers riding inside and on its roof veers off a mountain road in northwest Nepal, killing 30 people and injuring 35 others. UK Banking group Standard

Egypt | El-Sisi dismisses Islamic State claim to Russian plane crash

Egypt’s president dismissed Islamic State’s claim that it brought down a Russian airliner on Egyptian soil over the weekend, as investigators tried to piece together clues to what caused the

South Africa | Prosecutor seeks murder conviction as Pistorius case goes to appeal

A prosecutor yesterday sought a murder conviction against Oscar Pistorius before South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, saying a lower court erred in acquitting the double-amputee athlete of that charge

This Day in History | 1956 – Soviet troops overrun Hungary

At least 1,000 Soviet tanks are reported to have entered Budapest and troops deployed throughout the country are battling with Hungarian forces for strategic positions. The Soviet invasion is a response

Offbeat | Israel minister proposes street cats leave the country

A Cabinet minister has drawn outrage and mockery after suggesting transferring the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country. The Yediot daily published what it

The Buzz | France’s Mont-Saint-Michel recovers its island status 

French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalizing 10 years of construction. The former causeway that used

OBITUARY | East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86

Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died yesterday

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CHINA A cult leader in southern China accused of selling toxic food, swindling followers and seducing dozens of women with promises of supernatural powers has been convicted of rape and

Egypt | Official says crashed Russian plane was in good shape

An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said yesterday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to

Turkey | Public votes again as ruling party seeks to claw back a majority

Turks headed to the polls yesterday for the second time in five months in a crucial election that will determine whether the ruling party can restore the parliamentary majority it

Somalia | Islamic extremists attack hotel in capital, kill 9 

Somalia’s Islamic extremists attacked a hotel at dawn yesterday in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and injuring 10, a police official said. Security forces ended the siege by

This Day in History | 1951 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt

Hastings and Valetta aircraft brought in most of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards from Tripoli in Libya, in an effort to try to quell anti-British disturbances in the region. Over the

Offbeat | Breakfast with skulls: Halloween night in Paris Catacombs 

This Halloween, two brave souls got the dubious honor of waking up among 6 million dead bodies in Paris’ creepy Catacombs. Brazilian Pedro Arruda, 27, said he wasn’t sure if he

Nature | Sumatran Rhino begins US-Asia trip to ancestral home

The 8-year-old male, Harapan, will make an air, land and sea trip of more than 10,000 miles. Including stops, the journey’s expected to take some 50 hours before the rhino

Analysis | Education – When college students are afraid to speak up

Maybe I’m a mite over concerned about the findings of the just-released survey by McLaughlin & Associates about the attitudes of college students toward free speech. The survey, conducted during

The Buzz | British foreign minister discusses climate change in Gulf

Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain’s foreign secretary called yesterday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable

Chocolate meth? US customs agents have seen it all

Something about the dozens of individually wrapped chocolate bars in the luggage of a man flying from California to Japan struck a federal Customs and Border Protection officer as odd.

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CHINA’s leaders yesterday affirmed plans to double the size of the country’s economy by 2020 from 2010 levels, a goal that sets up a potential clash with efforts to nurture

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