UN 'alarmed' by reports of China's mass detention of Uighurs
The UN says credible reports suggest that up to a million Muslim Uighurs are held in detention camps. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PUJJf9
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Gérard Depardieu: French actor accused of rape
French actor Gérard Depardieu is accused of rape and sexual assault - accusations he denies. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wsF4c5
John McCain: Sarah Palin 'excluded from his funeral'
A "stay-away message" was reportedly conveyed to Sarah Palin via McCain family intermediaries. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PSPrhA
Bobi Wine: Uganda's pop star MP 're-arrested at airport'
A young MP facing treason charges is allegedly detained while attempting to board a plane. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wuUg8p
Argentina raises rates as peso plummets
Central bank raises benchmark interest rate in an effort to stabilise the country's financial crisis. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LAbd6h
Florida sheriff backs Uber driver who killed 'goofball'
"This is a justifiable homicide all day long," says a Florida sheriff about the shooting. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2C0VU6Z
Hayabusa-2: Japan sets date for spacecraft's asteroid touchdown
Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PhwP9M
Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes
The French president causes an outcry as he pokes fun at attitudes to his economic reforms. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2N27JOt
Stéphane Pauwels arrest: Football presenter charged over armed robbery
One of Belgium's top football TV presenters is charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NytToH
McCain and Biden's long friendship
The Arizona senator and the former vice-president shared a decades-long friendship. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2opOXms
The power of 'pink money' in India
Some businesses in India have found that catering to the LGBT community makes financial sense. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PkzZJE
Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'
Susan Greene was arrested as she used her phone to record police detaining an African American. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Pkjaii
The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest
JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NC2pyG
Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above
A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PPH2LJ
Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'
A Canadian university has developed a tablet with a flexible screen that can rolled up. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NyuA1l
Coffee war brews in the land of tea
Luckin Coffee, a new chain in China where customers must pay by app, is taking on traditional cafes. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2MYjA06
How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain
Cameroon's Norbert Owona, homeless for two years, thanks Samuel Eto'o for promising him a new house. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PRs5bR
Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question
The rap star also apologises for saying slavery "sounds like a choice". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wt5evr
Uzbekistan tax officials to wear family ID badges
The new identity cards are designed to remind the wearer of their responsibilities. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2BUkPt3
Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?
One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Pm5AL3
Why Australia is talking about a French au pair
A minister's decision to personally intervene in a visa case is attracting national attention. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2or6hqZ
Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full
Chinese government investigators say certain investment companies are faking box office results. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wv3oKd
Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'
Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LHKRPL
Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm
The issue has heated up online and people are staging protest rallies against the arrests. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LDapxu
Climate change killed off Neanderthals, study says
Homo sapiens' closest relatives, the Neanderthals, died off approximately 40,000 years ago, but the exact cause is still up for debate. Now, a new study suggests that climate change was a bigger part in their extinction than previously believed. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2olHPaC
International Space Station leak may have been caused by micrometeorite strike
NASA and its Russian counterparts identified a tiny pressure leak on the International Space Station Wednesday, which may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2PmByqS
VIRGIN BIRTH! Stingray gives birth to 'Darth Vader' after cloning herself in scientific phenomenon
In a shocking scientific development, an eleven-year old stingray has given birth to a healthy offspring, despite having had no male contact in over nine years. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2PlM9SK
This ancient 'monster' galaxy should have destroyed itself
There's a monster out there. It's far away, buried deep in the past. But scientists can see it. And thanks to a new international imaging project, they've begun to understand it, too. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2MZUJsR
Black bear hit by arrow mauls hunter before dying, reports say
A black bear struck by an arrow recently mauled a Southern California hunter who approached the wounded animal to get a closer look, a report said. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2PRcsl0
North Carolina UPS driver's 3-word failed delivery note becomes viral hit
A North Carolina woman was expecting to find a package on her doorstep last week — instead, she found an unusual note from a UPS driver in her mailbox. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2PjGpc9
More than 300 vulnerable sea turtles found dead in sea off Mexico
More than 300 vulnerable turtles have been found dead, entangled in illegal fishing nets off the Mexican coast. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2PeK6zV
NASA is using underwater robots to explore the deep-sea off the Hawaiian coast
NASA is launching a new project to help it better understand the deepest parts of space, without ever leaving Earth. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2wsyXDO
Catholic bishops in Australia reject compulsory abuse reporting, defying new laws
The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2MCG5bE
Portugal seduces parched investors with water: plenty of it
As wildfires scorched California yet again this summer, Jose Dariush Leal da Costa, a Bay Area native with Portuguese roots, was harvesting his first almonds in a sun-drenched, watery oasis in southern Portugal. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtck2W
Taiwan's last African ally holds out despite overtures by China
While China meets African leaders at a major summit in Beijing next week, the king of eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last remaining ally on the continent, will be hosting thousands of people at a traditional Reed Dance ceremony. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2osJ085
Kremlin says Putin, Trump could hold talks three times this year: Izvestiya
Kremlin said on Friday it did not rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at three summits due to take place in 2018, including those in Singapore, France and Argentina. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wBTN4H
Cambodian court jails Australian filmmaker for six years for espionage
A Cambodian court jailed an Australian filmmaker for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of espionage for flying a drone over an opposition party rally. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQwMCR
Japan's military seeks record spending to reinforce North Korea missile defenses
Japan's military wants record spending next year to help pay for major upgrades to defenses designed to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles that Tokyo sees as a continued threat despite Pyongyang's promise to abandon nuclear weapons. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtqctN
New Zealand PM Ardern has two ministers step aside
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since her return from maternity leave. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQSu9V
Duterte says Philippines better off run by dictator if he were not around
President Rodrigo Duterte has said graft and illicit drugs were so entrenched in the Philippines that if he were not around, it would be better off run by a dictator such as late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2N1Tl96
Thrill-seeking runners take sport - and spending - to rural China
At dawn, high on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, a Buddhist monk in saffron robes chants blessings over limber athletes preparing to run 100 kilometers across sand dunes, rivers and ravines. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PTk1HR
Trump tweets are 'messages from some alternative universe': China Daily
Twitter comments by U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of hacking former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email server are an attempt to cast China as a "scapegoat", the official China Daily said in an editorial Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PR9yMU
Australian police charge Sri Lankan with terror plotting
Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding "symbolic locations within Sydney" listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NyUDFL