Offbeat | German mechanic wins pay for changing, but not for showers

A German court says a municipal bus mechanic can have hundreds of euros (dollars) in back pay for time spent changing into his work clothes — but not for time

The Buzz | Israel: Thousands of rare Hebrew texts soon available online

The National Library of Israel will soon make one of the world’s oldest surviving Hebrew bibles, dating back more than 1,000 years, available online. Aviad Stollman, the library’s chief of collections,

Walt Disney experts rebut dogged anti-Semitic allegations

Walt Disney was a complex figure, both celebrated and condemned, but allegations that he was a rabid anti-Semite are unproven, Disney experts said. Talking to TV critics over the weekend about

World Briefs

PAKISTAN The death toll from flash floods triggered by seasonal monsoon rains in various parts of Pakistan has risen to 118 and floodwater has inundated vast areas, leaving tens of

Syria | Gov’t warplane crashes killing at least 17 people

Government air raids in a northwestern town in Syria and a subsequent crash by a Syrian warplane that slammed into a residential area there killed at least 17 people yesterday,

France | Saudi king leaves Riviera after controversial beach closure

The Saudi king’s visit to his family’s French Riviera mansion is over after weeks of controversy surrounding the closure of a public beach during his stay, the top state official

Qatar | Kerry pushes Iran nuke deal with wary Arabs

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brought the Obama administration’s case for the Iran nuclear deal to wary Arab officials in Qatar yesterday. Kerry was meeting with the foreign ministers of

This Day in History | 1964 – Three civil rights activists found dead

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the three young men - two white and one black man - about six miles from the town in a wooded area

Offbeat | Hitchhiking robot’s cross-country trip in US ends in Philly

The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment told The Associated Press that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair early Saturday, ending its first American tour

The Buzz | 2nd American involved in illegal lion hunt

A second American killed a lion in an illegal hunt with a bow and arrow in Zimbabwe several months ago, amid an international outcry over a U.S. hunter accused of

Student protesters sit-in at Taiwan Education Ministry

Dozens of students launched a sit-in Friday at Taiwan’s Education Ministry demanding that officials take responsibility for a student leader who killed himself in an apparent protest over curriculum changes

World Briefs

CHINA A semi-trailer truck rear-ended two sedans on a road in northwest China’s Qinghai Province yesterday, leaving seven people dead and five injured. The truck rear-ended a sedan and pushed

Israel | PM vows ‘zero tolerance’ for Jewish extremists after baby burned to death

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government will have “zero tolerance” for Jewish extremists. At his weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday, Netanyahu said Israel was united against “the criminals among our

Turkey | 2 soldiers dead, 24 wounded in PKK suicide attack

Kurdish rebels yesterday detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 24 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of

Egypt | Court postpones Al-Jazeera verdict again

An Egyptian court yesterday again postponed announcing a verdict in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists, extending the long-running trial criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights

Offbeat | Australian seated beside overweight passenger sues Etihad

Etihad Airways said Friday that it will continue to fight a lawsuit by a passenger who says he was left with back pain because he was seated beside an overweight

Nature | Obama to require steeper emissions cuts from US power plants

President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said yesterday, in what the president called the

Filthy Rio water a threat at 2016 Olympics

The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America’s first games are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for

The Buzz | Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open FIFA exhibit

The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal. The permanent display entitled “The ‘Beautiful Game’ Turns Ugly” will open at the National

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HONG KONG  Passengers on a Cathay Pacific flight to Los Angeles have spoken of their terror as the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at a military airport

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