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Tracking the Zika Virus Online: How Google Mapped the Start of an Outbreak
As the Zika virus outbreak has spread in Central and South America, online searchers for the formerly little-known virus have exploded across the globe since the start of the year. While the virus initially gained headlines late last fall when Brazil connected a Zika outbreak to an increased rate of infants born with the birth...
Australian rugby player Michael Quinn admits US child sex charge
Australian amateur rugby union player and scientist Michael Quinn has pleaded guilty to travelling to the US to have sexual conduct with a child. Quinn, 33 and a player with the Melbourne Chargers, arrived in the US on 19 May and believed he had made contact with child traffickers in LA. Instead he was arrested on 21 May after...
At Least 75 Dead, Missing in Recent China Flooding
At least 75 people in northern China have died or gone missing since Monday in some of the worst flooding in years, the government said Thursday. The figures released by the Civil Affairs Ministry come amid continuing heavy downpours that have caused havoc across usually dry regions, including the capital Beijing. Already, 576...
UK nuclear submarine collides with merchant vessel off Gibraltar
One of the UK's newest nuclear-powered submarines has docked in Gibraltar after a collision with a merchant vessel during a training exercise. The Royal Navy said it has launched an immediate investigation after HMS Ambush was involved in the "glancing collision" while submerged off the coast of the British...
Israeli parliament passes controversial impeachment law
Israel's parliament has passed a law that would allow it to impeach an MP who incites racism or supports armed struggle against the state, report world.korupciya. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the measure ended an "absurd situation" whereby someone who "supports terror" was allowed to...
Malaysia 1MDB investigation: US seeks to seize $1bn in assets
The US Justice Department is looking to seize more than $1bn (£761m) in assets as part of its investigation into Malaysia's state fund 1MDB. Lawsuits filed in Los Angeles by the Justice Department allege there was "an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated" from 1MDB. The fund was set up...
Top HSBC manager ‘arrested in New York’
A senior HSBC executive has reportedly been arrested in New York for his alleged role in a conspiracy to rig international currency markets. Mark Johnson, HSBC's global head of foreign exchange cash trading in London, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International airport on Tuesday, according to media reports. It comes more...
Brussels man surrounded in ‘bomb alert’
Police in Brussels have surrounded a man who was behaving suspiciously and wearing "a long coat with protruding wires", Belgian media report. A large police operation is underway near Place de la Monnaie in the centre of the Belgian capital. The bomb squad is present. Shops nearby have been evacuated and several...
‘I just couldn’t stop looking!’ Labour councillor spots dog with a ‘BORIS JOHNSON haircut’
A LABOUR councillor got a shock on his commute on a London tube this week when he spotted a dog with "BORIS JOHNSON haircut". Tom Miller, 30, a councillor in London's Brent borough, claims he could not resist capturing an image of the dog’s uncanny likeness for his political nemesis. After realising...
BREXIT SHOWDOWN: Theresa May ready for ‘frank’ EU talks with Angela Merkel
PRIME Minister Theresa May has called for "frank and open" talks as she sets off for meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Francois Hollande. Mrs May makes her first overseas visit as PM determined to maintain strong trade links with Europe once the UK leaves, and aims to deliver a...
German train stabbing: De Maiziere warns of lone attacks
Germans should be prepared for further attacks carried out by small groups and radicalised "lone wolves", Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has warned. Five people were wounded, two critically, by a 17-year-old who went on the rampage on a train in the southern state of Bavaria on Monday. The attacker, who arrived...
Turkey coup attempt: Charges laid against 99 generals and admirals
Turkey has formally charged 99 generals and admirals in connection with the weekend's thwarted coup attempt — a significant chunk of the country's military top brass. President Erdogan is meeting with loyal commanders and his cabinet in Ankara. Authorities have banned all academics from travelling abroad,...