Offbeat | US: Best-seller Ta-Nehisi Coates writing comic book series

One of the USA’s top writers about race, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has signed up with Marvel Comics for a Black Panther series. Coates, whose open letter to his son “Between the World

The Buzz | Southern Spanish city hit by power outage for 4 hours

Spanish officials say a major power outage left some 100,000 people in the southwestern port city of Cadiz without electricity for up to four hours. A city spokesman said the outage

Apple withdraws some China apps after malware found

Apple Inc. has removed some applications from its App Store after developers in China were tricked into using software tools that added malicious code in an unusual security breach. Apple gave

World Briefs

US-CHINA When Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visit Washington later this week, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, face the daunting task of trying to throw a warm and

Greece | Tsipras: bailout rebel to bailout enforcer

Greeks have elected Alexis Tsipras prime minister for the second time this year but with a strikingly different mandate: Instead of the vehemently anti-austerity platform he espoused in January, he

Burkina Faso | Coup leader says awaiting regional decision

Burkina Faso’s coup leader said yesterday that negotiations are still ongoing even though a deadline given by the military for the junta to disarm has expired. Gen. Gilbert Diendere, the coup

Cuba | Pope ends trip with address to families, heads to US

Pope Francis ended his visit to Cuba yesterday with a Mass at the country’s most revered shrine and a pep talk with families before flying north to Washington for the

This Day in History | 1952 – Charlie Chaplin comes home

World famous film actor and director Charlie Chaplin has returned to England for the first time in 21 years. He arrived with his wife Oona - daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill

The Buzz | Top banker quits over missing USD1.5b 

Moldova’s central bank governor resigned yesterday, following weeks of street protests over $1.5 billion that disappeared from three Moldovan banks. Dorin Dragutanu, governor of the National Bank of Moldova stepped down

World Briefs

CHINA-NEW ZEALAND  As Chinese grew wealthier while their economy raced ahead, dairy farmers more than 6,000 miles away in verdant New Zealand felt like they’d won the lottery. Now, it’s

Greece | Left-wing Tsipras gets 2nd mandate, dominates politics 

Greek left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras was set to receive the formal mandate to govern for a second straight term yesterday, after his unexpectedly decisive victory in early national elections that

Cuba visit | Pope meets with Fidel, misses out on dissident greeting

Pope Francis was flying to eastern Cuba yesterday for the next leg of his pilgrimage after having met with both Raul and Fidel Castro but missing out on an encounter with

This Day in History | 1955 – New TV channel ends BBC monopoly

The new Independent Television Authority (ITA) began its broadcasts with live coverage of a ceremony at the Guildhall marking the start of Britain’s first-ever commercially-funded television station. Among the speakers was

Offbeat | Bee stings, research that makes you go ‘huh?’ win Ig Nobels

A Cornell University graduate student who allowed honeybees to sting him in 25 places and a group of scientists who concluded it’s possible for one man to father 888 children

The Buzz | Novelist who sold 500m books dies at 77

Jackie Collins, the novelist whose raunchy tales of glamor and fame sold more than 500 million books in a writing career spanning almost a half century, has died. She was

Greece | Syriza headed for victory in election, exit poll shows

Alexis Tsipras looked set to return to power in Greece as his Syriza party headed for an election victory for the second time in eight months, an exit poll showed. The 41-year-old former

World Briefs

CHINA More than 150 students fell ill in northwest China after breathing in smoke from a mock air defense evacuation drill, state media reported yesterday. Smoke was used to make

European migrant crisis | Joy as refugees flood into Austria; tears for those kept out 

Migrants  following    a well worn path into Western Europe used to know exactly where they wanted to go and how to get there. Not anymore. Their journey has morphed into an

Papal visit | Francis urges Cuba, US to fully develop their detente 

Pope Francis urged the Cuban and U.S. governments to push ahead on their newly forged path toward normal relations, saying they should “develop all its possibilities” as he arrived Saturday

This Day in History | 1998 Clinton’s Grand Jury testimony released

During the examination President Clinton was questioned by prosecutors about the exact nature of his affair with Monica Lewinsky - and whether he had previously lied under oath. The president’s defense

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