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Boeing aware of metal 'fragility' issues before aircraft part plunged into Shanghai factory PUBLISHED : Sunday, 19 July, 2015, 4:34am UPDATED : Sunday, 19 July, 2015, 10:01am Danny Lee [email protected] The aircraft part that smashed into the factory on Monday. Photo: SCMP Pictures...

Family questions circumstances of woman's Texas jail death By JAMIE STENGLE and JASON KEYSER Jul. 16, 2015 4:51 PM EDT This undated handout photo provided by the Waller County Sheriff’s Office shows Sandra Bland. The Texas Rangers are investigating the circumstances surrounding Bland's...

Heathrow cancels flights after protesters get on runway Twelve activists cut through fence, chain themselves together on runway PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 14 July, 2015, 2:55pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 14 July, 2015, 2:55pm Reuters in London Emergency services at Heathrow Airport talk to an activist...

Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan Thursday July 9, 2015 11:25 am PDT by Eric Slivka Just a day after releasing a new set of developer builds for iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, Apple today launched its public beta program for both upcoming operating systems. Apple had...

Greece vows pension and tax reforms from next week in return for three-year emergency loan Greek finance ministry promises pension and tax revamps from next week in exchange for a three-year cash lifeline to keep the country afloat PUBLISHED : Thursday, 09 July, 2015, 12:29am UPDATED ...

Chinese customs official exposed online by jilted mistress is charged with accepting bribes PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 07 July, 2015, 2:36pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 07 July, 2015, 2:36pm Zhuang Pinghui [email protected] The former deputy head of Shenzhen customs' inspection division has been...

Tens of thousands of Brazilians log on to Facegloria - the evangelical version of Facebook The squeaky clean version avoids swearing or pornography and aims to attract 10 million users PUBLISHED : Sunday, 05 July, 2015, 2:35am UPDATED : Sunday, 05 July, 2015, 2:35am Agence France-Presse in...

Greece seeks two-year debt deal as bailout talks go down to the wire Athens admits it won't make the repayment to the IMF by the deadline PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 01 July, 2015, 2:21am UPDATED : Wednesday, 01 July, 2015, 2:25am Reuters in Athens People read newspapers in central Athens on...

'Feminist drone' delivers abortion pills to Poland AFP June 28, 2015, 5:31 am Feminist drone delivers abortion pills to Poland Feminist activists are protesting the country's restrictive abortion laws. Source: AFP Feminist activists on Saturday sent a drone from Germany to Poland carrying...

Billions of China's lottery funds misused: report AFP June 26, 2015, 6:30 pm Beijing (AFP) - Nearly $3 billion generated from China's state lotteries -- a quarter of the funds they raised in recent years -- have been "misappropriated" through embezzlement and other abuses such as buying cars...

Ebola returns to Sierra Leone capital after 3-week gap Reuters June 23, 2015, 5:27 am A grave digger sleeps near the graves of Ebola victims at a cemetery in Freetown, in this December 17, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Baz Ratner FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of...

Bosnian 'with history of beating wife' accused of ploughing car into Austria crowd Alen Rizvanović, a father of two whose wife had just left him, is accused of killing a newlywed, a four-year-old boy and a cyclist, when he ploughed his car into a busy shopping street The SUV of a...

Austria questions 'psychotic' driver who killed three AFP June 22, 2015, 5:41 am Vienna (AFP) - A "mentally unbalanced" man who ploughed his 4x4 into a pedestrian street in the Austrian city of Graz, killing three people including a young boy, was questioned by authorities on Sunday...

Facebook's photo app will not be available in Europe 19 June 2015 From the section Technology Facebook's photo-sharing app Moments will not be made available in Europe due to concerns about its use of facial recognition, it has been revealed. The app, which allows users to share...

Chinese autistic girl ‘chained to a shack for five years’ Impoverished family from northern China fear she would run away if not restrained, according to newspaper report PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 June, 2015, 2:50pm UPDATED : Thursday, 18 June, 2015, 2:50pm Kathy Gao [email protected] The...

Assange 'was to be quizzed this week' Julian Drape, AAP London Correspondent June 18, 2015, 2:53 am WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Swedish prosecutors have "recklessly" cancelled a visit to London to quiz him over sexual assault allegations at the last minute. "This afternoon the...

Teen who murdered Australian Chris Lane sentenced to life without parole Yahoo and Agencies June 17, 2015, 5:21 am Chancey Luna, the teenager who shot Australian baseball player Chris Lane dead in Oklahoma, has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Luna was just 16 when he...

An undated photo shows firearms and spare parts confiscated by police from Xuzhou city, east China's Jiangsu province on June 10, 2015. [Photo: chinanews.com]

Police arrest man for allegedly online arms selling CRI, June 14, 2015 An undated photo shows firearms and spare parts confiscated by police from Xuzhou city, east China's Jiangsu province on June 10, 2015. [Photo: chinanews.com] Police in the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province have...

Man loses it after pouring fire ants down his pants Yahoo News June 12, 2015, 11:20 am A man in Thailand gave a whole new meaning to having ants in your pants when he decided to literally put fire ants down his underpants. The brave and silly man from Rayong, Thailand, stripped down to...