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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Atlantic City’s mayor said workers won’t be paid and non-essential services will be shut down for about a month beginning April 8 as the distressed gaming hub pushes for New
Starwood is taking a revised buyout bid from Marriott, three days after the hotel called off their deal in favor of an offer from a group of investors led by
The Obama administration has given San Francisco-based online lodging service Airbnb a special license allowing travelers from around the world to book stays in private homes in Cuba. Airbnb was the
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is far from ordinary, and late-night television humorists are pushing boundaries in order to keep up. The most memorable Trump-inspired comedy of the past few months has
Denmark’s TV2 broadcaster says it has opened an office in Damascus, claiming to be the only western media to do so. Mikkel Hertz, news director of the channel based in Odense,
A Chinese company said yesterday it will resume construction of a USD1.5 billion port city project in Sri Lanka, about a year after it was suspended because of questions about its
China’s state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as “China’s last leader”, an apparent copyediting error, BBC reported yesterday. Xinhua later amended
Polls suggest that if Spain were to hold new elections no party would obtain a majority and negotiations for a coalition government would continue as now except anti-austerity Podemos party
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