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| Community Health says data stolen in cyber attack from China | | | Department of Health and Human Services website started tracking such breaches in 2009. The previous record, an attack on a Montana Department of Public Health server, was disclosed in June and affected about 1 million people. The attackers appear to be from a sophisticated hacking group in China that has breached other major U.S. |
| Sultan of Brunei denies report of bid for New York, London hotels | |  (Reuters) - A spokesman for the Sultan of Brunei dismissed a report by the Wall Street Journal online that he had made a bid for New York's Plaza Hotel, Dream Hotel and London's Grosvenor House hotel. The Journal's website edition reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation, that an investment firm affiliated with Brunei had offered to pay $2 billion for the three hotels, which are currently owned by India's Sahara conglomerate.
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| Saudi prince's convoy robbed of 250,000 euros in Paris - police | | | Armed gunmen ambushed a Saudi prince's convoy on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday evening, making off with a large amount of cash and some private documents in what police said looked like a raid by well-informed attackers. The Saudi convoy of about a dozen cars had been heading for the small Le Bourget airport north of the city along the major A1 highway with the prince, whose name was not revealed. According to a police official about eight masked attackers with guns, driving in two BMW cars, forced one of the cars in the convoy to stop near the Porte de la Chapelle exit junction on the northern edge of the capital at around 2100 (1900 GMT). "The assailants ... stopped the car, took the wheel and fled taking the driver, an aid and a bodyguard," one police official said. |
| Autopsy shows Ferguson police shot unarmed black teen 6 times | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Missouri (Reuters) - An unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer has set off a week of protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, was struck by at least six bullets, a lawyer for the deceased's family said on Monday. The path of one bullet indicates 18-year-old Michael Brown may have been lowering his head in surrender when the fatal shot hit, said Daryl Parks, the family's lawyer. Parks said the autopsy results clearly showed that the police officer who killed Brown should be arrested. "Given those kind of facts, this officer should have been arrested." The Brown family and protesters from around the United States have called for the officer's arrest for days.
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| Fugitive Iraqi VP urges role for Saddam loyalists, criticises U.S. action | |  By Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party must play a role if a political solution is to be found in Iraq, fugitive vice president Tarek al-Hashemi said on Monday, warning that U.S. air strikes would do nothing to end the violence. The Iraqi army has been trying to push back Sunni Muslim insurgents from Islamic State and other groups opposed to the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad since they launched a lightning advance two months ago. The United States this month began its first air strikes on Iraq since pulling out all troops in 2011, to support Kurdish fighters also trying to reverse gains by the insurgents, who have overrun much of Iraq's north. "My country is on the brink of civil war and partition," Hashemi, a Sunni sentenced to death in 2012 after an Iraqi court convicted him of running death squads, told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul.
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| Pakistan's third largest party to quit parliament to force PM resignation | |  By Faisal Mahmood ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Pakistan's third largest party will resign from parliament to try to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down, a party official said on Monday. Led by former cricketer Imran Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf controls 34 of the National Assembly's 342 seats. The party will also withdraw from three out of four provincial assemblies in Pakistan, senior party official Shah Mehmood Qureshi told local television channels. The fourth province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is under PTI control and officials there will not resign, he said.
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