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German court jails rail worker over Bad Aibling disa...
A court in Bavaria, Germany today jailed rail worker Michael Paul for causing a train collision near Bad Aibling in Feb...

Oakland, California record release party catches fire
A fire broke out at a record release party in Oakland, California late on Friday night. Nine were confirmed dead the fo...

Interpol HQ, in France. (Image: Massimiliano Mariani.)

Interpol arrest Karachi fire suspect in Bangkok
Interpol on Friday evening arrested Abdul 'Bhola' Rehman in Bangkok, Thailand. Rehman, 46, is accused of starting a 2012 garment factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan that killed over 250. Initially thought to be accidental, the fire is now believed to have been set deliberately by an extortion group targeting the factory's owners. Rehman is accused of receiving ...

A plate of the famous dish. (Image: Evan Joshua Swigart.)

Chinese chef Peng Chang-kuei's death announced
Peng Chang-kuei, a Chinese-born chef credited with creating the internationally popular dish General Tso's chicken, was yesterday announced to have died by his son. Chuck Peng told The Associated Press his father died of pneumonia in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday. The chef fled China to Taiwan in 1949 and invented the dish shortly thereafter. In the 1970s Peng ...

File photo of a Polish M-28 Skytruck. (Image: Krammielec.)

Indonesian police plane crashes near Batam, fifteen ...
The domestic flight from Pangkal Pinang on Bangka to Batam lost contact with Singaporean air traffic control at 10:22 Batam local time; Singapore has controlled some Indonesian airspace since the 1940s. Fisherman have located wreckage and body parts off the coast of Kabupaten Lingga in the Riau Islands which also include Batam. The Civil Aviation Authority of...

Port's mugshot. (Image: Metropolitan Police.)

Judge jails 'monstrous' London serial killer Stephen...
More than a year after he was first charged, a judge on Friday sentenced London serial killer Stephen Port to life imprisonment without parole for four murders and a host of poisoning and sexual offences, calling him "wicked and monstrous". Port was convicted of the murders on Wednesday. Chef Port, 41, was first charged on October 18 last year and made his fi...

Sign damaged on Monday at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound in Redmond, Washington. The slab has multiple cracks at the upper left corner, with the top plate in that area missing. (Image: Dennis Bratland.)

Mosque vandalized near Seattle, Washington
A mosque in Redmond, Washington, US, was vandalized in the early hours of Monday morning. A granite sign in front of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) was apparently smashed with a sledgehammer, breaking away portions of the top of the sign, causing significant cracks in a corner of the approximately five foot tall, six foot wide carved stone placa...

Donald Trump elected US president
On Tuesday, Republican Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election. Republicans also kept control of both houses of Congress. Trump is to take the presidential oath in January. Image: Gage. Trump won at least 290 electoral votes, while Clinton won 228, according to AP (Associated Press) — 270 were required vote to win the election — t...

Tim Kaine and Mike Pence embrace before the vice presidential debate with moderator Elaine Quijano looking on. (Image: NBC News.)

On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2016
The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: the Free & Equal Foundation holds a presidential debate with three little-known c...

File photo of HarbourFront station, 2006. (Image: Sengkang.)

Signalling issues and stalled train disrupt service ...
SMRT issued another tweet at 8:09 am, alerting commuters to another signalling fault affecting the CCL, on the stretch between Botanic Gardens and HarbourFront stations. Initially informing commuters that the issue would add 10 minutes of travel time along the affected stretch, the company later revised this to 20, and finally, in subsequent tweets, attributi...

José Eduardo dos Santos, from file. (Image: Agência Brasil.)

Angolan Supreme Court summons President dos Santos o...
The Supreme Court of Angola yesterday summoned President José Eduardo dos Santos to explain his decision to appoint his daughter head of the national state-owned oil firm, Sonangol. The pair face claims of nepotism and breach of probity legislation. José Eduardo dos Santos, from file. Image: Agência Brasil. Isabel dos Santos, Africa's richest woman acco...

Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down webs...
On Friday, a network of diverse Internet-connected devices targeted the Dyn domain registration service provider. It took down Dyn clients, including several popular websites such as Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, New York Times, and Wired. The attack involved targeting Dyn's domain name system servers with a large volume of requests, rendering it incapab...

The scene of the attempted bombing. (Image: Kristan Tarr.)

Failed UK suicide bomber Mohamed Saeed-Alim aka Nick...
Mohammed Rashid Saeed-Alim, a failed English suicide bomber better known by his birth name Nicky Reilly, has died while serving a life sentence. He was 30. The scene of the attempted bombing. Image: Kristan Tarr. Originally from Plymouth, Alim attempted to bomb the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter in 2008 when he was 22. He used glass bottles filled with na...

File photo of Wells Fargo's corporate headquarters in San Francisco, 2007. (Image: Laimerpramer.)

California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo b...
The warrant said property to be seized at the bank's San Francisco headquarters was related to the unauthorized creation of accounts by Wells Fargo employees including the names of individuals for the accounts; account information and fees; the names of employees and their managers who created accounts without the consent of the Wells Fargo customers in questi...

Screenshot from Donald Trump Jr.'s Instagram account, parodying The Expendables as "The Deplorables."

On September 2, the FBI released a report on Clinton's use of a private server for official e-mails. Among the revelations was that Clinton could not r

On the campaign trail in the USA, September 2016
The following is the fifth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. In this month's edition on the campaign trail: an arrest warrant is issued for the Green Party presidential and vice presidential nominees...

File photo of Jim Prentice, 2014. (Image: Manning Center (flickr).)

Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice killed in plane ...
The plane, a Cessna Citation, departed Kelowna at 9:32 p.m. before quickly disappearing from radar sight, according to a Transportation Safety Board official, Bill Yearwood. The National Post reported RCMP detachments in Kelowna and Lake Country were alerted to the loss of contact at 10:07 p.m. by Surrey Air Traffic Control Centre. According to tracking site ...

File photo of Parliament House, Islamabad, Pakistan. (Image: Usman.pg.)

Pakistan frames law against 'honour killing'
On Thursday, Pakistan's parliament announced a bill has been passed against the practice of honour killing. Per the legislation, those convicted of honour killing would be imprisoned for 25 years to life. In the practice of honour killing, men had the right to kill a female relative deemed to have brought dishonour to the family. Thus, murderers could avoid d...

File photo of Underwater World Singapore, 2006. (Image: Sengkang.)

Stingray kills head diver of Underwater World Singapore
Phillip Chan, 62, the head diver of the defunct facility, was moving stingrays in preparation for transfer to another aquarium when one of them stung him in the chest. Singapore newspaper The New Paper reported no prior such stingray incident was known to have occurred in Singapore. Australian conservationist Steve Irwin died in a similar manner in 2006. Foll...

Indonesian authorities investigate after pornographi...
ss="published">Monday, October 3, 2016 Indonesia Related articles 3 October 2016: Indonesian authorities investigate after pornographic film screened on billboard in Jakarta 2 December 2015: Investigators blame pilot error for AirAsia crash into Java Sea 22 October 2015: Former Miss Austria Ena Kadic dies after mountain fall 4 July 2015: C-130 Hercules cr...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May plans to trigger artic...
When triggered, Article 50 gives the country two years to agree to the the specifics of the exit; if this process is not finished within the deadline and member states do not vote unanimously to extend it, then the UK would be forced to leave the EU — leading to hesitancy in triggering it. Her decision is consistent with what some have asked for. Ian Duncan S...

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