This Day in History | 1963 American Express comes to Britain

Holders of the cards will be able to use them at nearly 3,000 hotels, restaurants, shops and hire-car agencies in this country and at more than 83,000 establishments abroad. The

Offbeat | Chinese farmer pretended to be princess to commit fraud

A farmer who pretended to be a princess descended from the Qing dynasty to swindle people out of more than 2 million yuan (USD315,000) has been sentenced to 13 1/2

World Views | A nation of refugees opens its doors

“Europe’s biggest migration emergency since the Second World War” – that’s how most British newspapers described a massive influx of Syrian refugees last week. The accompanying stories criticized the callous

The Buzz | Charities to share in Champions League ticket sales

Europe’s top football clubs will give millions of dollars to charities supporting migrants trying to enter the continent. The European Club Association says its members agreed to give 1 euro (USD1.11)

US | Candidate Huckabee to join rally for clerk opposed to gay marriage

Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell over her refusal to issue

World Briefs

PAKISTAN-INDIA A senior Pakistani official expresses optimism that recent tensions with neighboring India over the bitterly disputed Kashmir region can be defused. AUSTRALIA A surfer says he was lucky not to

European migrant crisis | Germany prioritizes refugee funds as Hungary speeds up fence

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe is facing a defining moment tackling the largest influx of refugees since World War II as diverging paths for handling the crisis came into

Catholic church reform | Pope speeds up, simplifies process for marriage annulments

Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages yesterday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure. Francis

Cecil the lion | Minnesota dentist who killed beloved lion returns to work

The American dentist at the center of an international uproar over the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe returned to his clinic in suburban Minneapolis yesterday after weeks out

Offbeat | South Africa: Zulu Reed Dance disrupted by “evil spirits”

South Africa’s annual Zulu Reed Dance ceremony was disrupted by hallucinating girls who swarmed the country’s president, a Johannesburg newspaper reported on Monday. Teenage girls dancing in the annual cultural festival

The Buzz | Mother headed to jail in custody dispute 

A mother who fled with her daughter to Central America more than a decade ago amid a custody dispute is set to report to jail. Genevieve Kelley pleaded guilty in

Hadid plans new, less costly bid for Tokyo stadium 

Zaha Hadid Architects, the company whose stadium design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was chosen and later scrapped, says it is teaming up with major Japanese design and engineering company

World Briefs

NEW ZEALAND A retired French secret service agent has apologized for planting the bombs which sank a Greenpeace ship 30 years ago, killing a photographer and causing an international incident

European migrant crisis | Merkel demands EU partners share in burden of human tide

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on “a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us,” said yesterday that all EU countries could help to accommodate the human tide from the

Mexico | Independent group rejects gov’t case on 43 missing students

An independent report presented yesterday (Macau time) dismantles the Mexican government’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students, saying the prosecutor’s contention that they were incinerated in a

Briefs | Israel – Mother of Palestinian baby killed in arson attack dies

A relative says the mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a firebomb attack blamed on Jewish extremists has died of wounds suffered in the July attack. The baby’s uncle

This Day in History | 1943 – Italy’s surrender announced

General Eisenhower - the commander in chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean - said the Italian Government had agreed to end all hostilities with the United Nations. In a broadcast

The Buzz | NYC millionaire bequeaths USD100,000 to 32 cockatiels 

A New York City millionaire who died this summer has bequeathed a USD100,000 trust fund to care for her 32 pet cockatiels. The New York Post reported Saturday that Leslie

Study: Midlife obesity may spur risk for earlier Alzheimer’s 

One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but when. Obesity in

World Briefs

CAMBODIA  One of four refugees resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on the Pacific island nation

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