Offbeat | Man with 1st name ‘God’ settles with credit rating agency

A Russian-born man whose first name is God has settled a lawsuit with a credit reporting agency that had refused to recognize his name as legitimate. Under the agreement reached in

The Buzz | EA Sports adding women’s game to FIFA 2016

Women’s teams have joined EA Sports’ popular soccer video game, making their debut this September in FIFA 2016. Twelve women’s national teams, including the United States, will be included in

World Briefs

CHINA Poor construction and lax safety checks are being blamed for China nursing home fire that killed 38. CHINA-USA Chinese and American authors gathered Wednesday to protest a major U.S. book

Corruption | Blatter calls crisis meeting, skips 3rd public appearance

FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies yesterday while staying out of public view himself. Blatter called together leaders of FIFA’s six regions as world soccer is rocked by

USA | Nebraska abolishes death penalty in landmark override vote

Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday (early yesterday, Macau time) in a landmark veto-­override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment. Senators in the one-­house Legislature voted 30-19

This Day in History | 1968 Manchester Utd win European Cup

Ten years after the Munich air crash, which killed eight of Matt Busby’s young team, Manchester United have reached the pinnacle of European football. Celtic became the first Scottish and British

Offbeat | USA: Aerosmith’s Tyler not really doing a strawberry farm show

NJ.com reports (bit.ly/1AymvkV) the rock star and “American Idol” judge was listed on concert websites ReverbNation and Eventful as performing a Saturday morning show at Windsor Farm & Market. Farm owner

World briefs

CHINA-TAIWAN Mainland authorities have ruled out the possibility of its citizens being allowed to gamble in Taiwan, as casinos are mooted on one of a number of Taiwanese islands which

Gaza | Amnesty: Hamas tortured, killed Palestinians in 2014 war

A leading international watchdog yesterday accused the militant Hamas group of abducting, torturing and killing Palestinians during the war in the Gaza Strip last year, saying some of the actions amount to

Iraq | Multiple IS suicide attacks in Anbar kill 17 troops

Islamic State extremists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops in a major blow to government efforts to

UK | Re-elected Cameron outlines plans in Queen’s Speech

Britain’s first all-Conservative government in two decades unveiled its plans for power yesterday, including laws to hold a referendum on European Union membership, give Scotland more autonomy and toughen immigration

Corruption | FIFA officials arrested in Zurich; World Cup votes probed

Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and 14

This Day in History | 1967 Sir Francis Chichester sails home

Sir Francis is the first man to race around the world solo with only one port of call, Sydney. About 250,000 well-wishers cheered and sang, welcoming home the 65-year-old adventurer

Offbeat | Air France jet in near miss with giant volcano in Cameroon

Flight 953 took off from Malabo in Equatorial Guinea on May 2 and was cruising toward Douala, Cameroon’s largest city, when the pilot rerouted the Boeing 777 to avoid a

The Buzz | Murder trial opens for French farmer who shot truffle thief

A French farmer is on trial for killing a suspected truffle thief with two blasts from a pump-action shotgun. Laurent Rambaud, 37, told police he was guarding his truffle patch around

World briefs

CHINA The International Monetary Fund no longer believes China’s tightly controlled currency is undervalued, an IMF official says, a stance that might help Beijing in its wrangling with Washington over

Tuk-tuk taxi maker aims to make inroads in US

They’re ubiquitous in Asia, swarming the bustling streets of Bangkok, New Delhi and Beijing. Now, a company that manufactures tuk-tuks — the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that have moved the masses

Iraq | Gov’t launches operation to drive IS from Anbar 

Iraq yesterday announced the launch of a military operation to drive the Islamic State group out of the western Anbar province, where the extremists captured the provincial capital, Ramadi, earlier this

USA | 12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home

Recovery teams are set to resume looking for the 12 members of two families who authorities say are missing after a rain-swollen river in Central Texas carried a vacation home

Iran | Trial of detained Washington Post reporter begins

An Iranian security court yesterday held the first hearing in the closed trial of an American-Iranian reporter for The Washington Post who has been detained for more than 10 months,

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