The Buzz | Leibovitz images mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday

grandchildren in 90th birthday portraits by photographer Annie Leibovitz. One of the images, released yesterday by Buckingham Palace, shows the queen with two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The queen cradles Prince William’s

The Buzz | Museum gets only known film of Louis Armstrong in studio

The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the jazz great in a recording studio after it was discovered in a storage facility. The 33-minute film captures

The Buzz | Taiwan protests ejection from OECD steel talks

Taiwan says its delegation was ejected from a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s steel committee after China complained, part of an apparent hardening of Beijing’s attitude toward

The Buzz | Brazil: Rousseff loses lower house impeachment vote

Parliament in Brazil yesterday has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts. The “yes” camp comfortably won the required two-thirds majority in the

The Buzz | Kenya shocks Fiji to win Singapore Sevens

Kenya shocked Fiji 30-7 in the final of the Singapore Rugby Sevens yesterday to claim its first World Series title. Collins Injera scored two of six tries as Kenya won the

The Buzz | China pulls license of prominent rights lawyer

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been disbarred, a further step in what rights groups call a relentless crackdown by Beijing on efforts to establish an independent rule

The Buzz | US troops, Philippine police in bar brawl face sanctions

American troops involved in a bar brawl with Filipino policemen face possible disciplinary sanctions in an incident earlier this month that the Philippine military says has no bearing on ongoing

The Buzz | Turtle smuggler from Canada faces sentence in US court

Prosecutors in Michigan are seeking a five-year prison sentence for a Canadian man who says he smuggled more than 1,000 turtles to China to help pay for his college education. Kai Xu is

The Buzz | Harry Potter: GCHQ ‘intervened over ‘Half-Blood Prince’ leak’

GCHQ, the UK’s surveillance agency, intervened to help prevent the sixth Harry Potter installment leaking online, the book’s publisher has said. Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after

The Buzz | Hong Kong teen democracy activist forms new political party

Wong and several other young activists who led pro-democracy protests that gripped Hong Kong for 79 days in late 2014 said their new party is called Demosisto. The teenager was the

The Buzz | Chinese writer Cao wins international children’s book prize

Chinese author Cao Wenxuan and German illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner have been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for children’s literature. The biennial awards were announced this week during the Bologna

The Buzz | Panama Papers: Leak firm Mossack Fonseca files hacking complaint

A partner at Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the heart of a huge leak of confidential financial data, says it was the victim of a hack. Ramon Fonseca, co-founder

The Buzz | Thailand seizes 87 African ivory tusks worth USD800,000

Officials in Thailand say they seized 315 kilograms of African elephant tusks worth an estimated USD800,000 at Bangkok’s international airport. Thai Customs said that the haul of 87 ivory tusks

The Buzz | ATM not crazy: April’s fooling around

As our readers might know by now, the news we published on the back page of our Friday edition (April 1, “ATM gone crazy, people pocket thousands”) follows a long-lasting

The Buzz | ATM gone crazy, people pocket thousands

A street ATM machine downtown started to spit out HKD1,000 bills last night after a customer used it to withdraw three thousand Hong Kong dollars. Bystanders, including many tourists, eventually turned

The Buzz | Rockets, Pelicans to play two preseason games in China

The Houston Rockets will return to China next fall to play two preseason games against the New Orleans Pelicans. The teams will play Oct. 9 in Shanghai, followed by a game

The Buzz | Archaeologists digging at Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston

Archeologists in Boston are digging at a boyhood home of Malcolm X in an effort to uncover more about the slain black rights activist’s early life. The two-week archaeological dig begins

The Buzz | Gongbei Customs auctions off smuggled gold

Gongbei Customs will hold an auction for 30 kg of smuggled gold today. There will be 30 gold items up for bidding. Two years ago, Gongbei Customs seized the gold from

The Buzz | USD2.8 billion bank rescue hurts Portuguese budget deficit

Rescuing a bank has proved costly for Portugal’s efforts to balance its books, with the National Statistics Institute estimating the country’s 2015 budget deficit at 4.4 percent — way above

The Buzz | US elections: Cruz tries to entice Kasich to drop out of race

Ted Cruz is suggesting he’d find a place for Republican rival John Kasich in his future administration if Kasich agrees to drop out of the presidential race and supports him. Cruz

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