UN gets reports of massacres by Islamic State around Mosul
GENEVA – Islamic State fighters have reportedly massacred scores of people around its Iraq stronghold of Mosul in the past week, UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on Tuesday,…
Shinzo Abe proves he’s a Meryl Streep fan at Tokyo Film Festival
TOKYO – Oscar winner Meryl Streep joined the star-struck Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe on the red carpet on Tuesday as the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival got under way.…
Four killed on ride at Australia’s biggest theme park
Four people have been killed on a river rapids ride at Australia’s biggest theme park, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at Dreamworld, in the Gold Coast tourist district…
IBM apologises for Australian e-census bungle, setting off blame game
SYDNEY – International Business Machines Corp says it plans to compensate the Australian government for a “malicious” cyber-attack that shut down a national census, but blamed two domestic internet providers for…
Vietnamese newspaper apologises for fish sauce scare
A Vietnamese newspaper has apologised to its readers for a series of articles now proven to have spread false public concern on the safety of fish sauce. Thanh Nien newspaper…
Vietnamese police hunt for 230 drug addicts after mass breakout
More than 200 drug addicts are on the run after a mass escape from a rehabilitation centre in Vietnam’s south east region ion Sunday night. Ho Van Loc, deputy director…
Kim Kardashian drops lawsuit over claims she faked Paris robbery
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has dropped a US defamation lawsuit against a website for claiming she had staged an armed robbery in Paris. Kardashian withdrew the lawsuit filed this…
Australia’s richest woman defends bid for cattle empire
Australia‘s richest woman Gina Rinehart has defended her joint bid with China’s Shanghai CRED Real Estate for the nation’s biggest cattle empire, after it was trumped by a rival all-Australian syndicate.…
Vietnam seizes 66 turtles smuggled from Cambodia
Officials in south-western Vietnam say they have seized 66 wild turtles and tortoises from a passenger bus travelling from Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City. Forest…
Prominent anti-Vietnam War activist Tom Hayden dead at 76 – reports
Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist and one of the era’s most prominent, counter-culture radicals who went on to serve in the California state assembly and senate, has died aged…
