This Day in History | 1992 Duchess of York in photos row

The pictures, run by the Daily Mirror over 10 pages, show a topless Duchess of York and Mr Bryan embracing by a swimming pool in the south of France. Other photographs

Offbeat | Thieves uncap 1,200 beers in German store seeking prize

Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a store selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for

The Buzz | Teens’ e-cigarette use linked with later smoking

A study at 10 Los Angeles high schools links e-cigarettes with later tobacco use. University of Southern California researchers found that 14-year-olds who’d ever tried e-cigarettes were more likely than others

World briefs

SRI LANKA With election results still incomplete, Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declares victory over the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was seeking a political comeback eight months

Bible Museum to display artifacts from Holy Land under deal

The Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal with the Israel Antiquities Authority. An agreement

USA | Probe of Clinton’s server could find more than just emails

Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. Clinton last week handed

Russia | Ex-Kremlin Internet ‘troll’ wins suit against ex-employer

A Russian court on Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble (USD0.01) to a former “Kremlin troll” who sued her ex-employer and demanded closure of what she describes as a

Turkey | 6 migrants drown off coast trying to reach Greece

Six Syrian migrants, including an infant, drowned off the Turkish coast yesterday as they tried to reach a Greek island, a rescuer said, underscoring the deadly risks taken by migrants

This Day in History | 1991 – Hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev

Mr Gorbachev is reported to be under house arrest at his holiday home in the Crimea. News of the coup was broken in an announcement on state radio earlier on Monday. It

Offbeat | US: Group files complaint against judge over marriage sentence

A group that advocates the separation of church and state has filed a complaint about a Texas judge who ordered a man to marry his girlfriend as a condition of

The Buzz | Man charged in stabbing death of Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter

Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the fatal stabbing of actor Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter on a Manhattan street. Lamar Davenport, of New York City, was charged with second-degree

World briefs

THAILAND A bomb exploded at a popular shrine near a key political protest site in central Bangkok yesterday evening, the government said, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and

USA | Rape case points to sordid tradition at elite prep school

St. Paul’s School boasts a glittering roster of alumni that includes senators, congressmen, a Nobel laureate and the current secretary of state. The elite prep school also allegedly has a

Brazil | Anti-gov’t protesters take to the streets over Rousseff corruption scandal

Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country Sunday (yesterday, Macau time) for anti-government protests being watched as a barometer of discontent with the increasingly unpopular

This Day in History | 1989 – Man U sold in record takeover deal

The new owner is Isle of Man-based property tycoon and former footballer, Michael Knighton. Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards is to receive more than £10m for his majority share in the

Offbeat | Bent in Taiwan storm, 2 mailboxes become celebrities

Many Taiwanese think that the public mailboxes resemble faces, and this side-by-side pair — one green and one red — now looks especially cute because their poles are bent in

The Buzz | Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister makes bid to be Eurovision singer

Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister, Katia Aveiro, has launched a Twitter campaign asking fans to back her bid to represent Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest. The soccer star’s 38-year-old sibling began her

World Briefs

MALAYSIA’s prime minister has a problem: He can’t explain away a USD700 million bank account to a skeptical public. His response? A crackdown on critics and the press that has

Italy | At least 40 migrants dead at sea, 320 others rescued

At least 40 migrants died Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes, and some 320 others aboard were

Gov’t Surveillance | Snowden documents reveal details behind AT&T-NSA partnership

Under a decades-old program with the government, telecom giant AT&T in 2003 led the way on a new collection capability that the National Security Agency said amounted to a “’live’

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