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| Suicide car bomb hits Iran envoy's residence in Yemen, three dead | |  By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador's residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, security officials said, killing three people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which occurred while Iran's envoy was away. But it mirrored past bombings carried out by al Qaeda's Yemen branch, Sunni Muslim jihadists who often targets state institutions and regard Shi'ite Muslims as heretics. ...
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| Modi under pressure over minister's tirade against non-Hindus | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under growing pressure to sack a minister over a tirade she made against religious minorities, as his outraged opponents disrupted parliament for a second day on Wednesday. Niranjan Jyoti, the junior minister for food processing industries, asked whether the country should be governed by "the children of Ram or the children of bastards" at an election rally. The comment was widely believed to have been an attack on the legitimacy of the country's Muslim and Christian minorities. ...
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| Chinese bank worker shoots colleagues, kills two - Xinhua | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - An employee of China's central bank shot and killed two colleagues on Wednesday at the branch he was working at in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Incidents of gun violence are rare in China as firearms are tightly controlled and private gun ownership is restricted. Xinhua said the gunman, armed with a hunting rifle, also wounded two people, who were in stable condition. The incident occurred on Wednesday at the branch of the People's Bank of China in Dashiqiao city, the news agency said. ... |
| In Egypt, Mubarak verdict signals return of old order | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Gaber Sayyed lost the use of his legs when an armoured police vehicle crushed them during the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and ignited hopes for a new era of freedom and accountability. Almost four years on, he says a court's decision to drop charges against Mubarak over the killing of hundreds of demonstrators during the Tahrir Square revolt has extinguished any hope that his sacrifice would have a purpose. "Our hope is only in God. Justice here is lost, justice is broken," he said. ...
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| Hong Kong "Occupy" leaders surrender as pro-democracy protests appear to wither | |  By Clare Jim and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Leaders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement surrendered to police on Wednesday for their role in democracy protests that the government has deemed illegal, the latest sign that the civil disobedience campaign may be running out of steam. Three founders turned themselves in a day after calling on students to retreat from protest sites in the Asia financial centre amid fears of further violence, just hours after student leader Joshua Wong had called on supporters to regroup. ...
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| The most and least corrupt countries in the world | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International published its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2014 on Wednesday. The index is based on expert opinions of public sector corruption and ranks countries on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). The following table lists the ten most corrupt countries in the world, according to the anti-graft group. ... |
| At least three Somalis killed in attack on U.N. convoy in capital - police | | | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb struck a United Nations convoy in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least three Somalis who were not U.N. staff members, police and a U.N. spokesman said. "The U.N. convoy was passing outside the airport. Three people died including a policeman and two Somalis who were bodyguards of the U.N.," Ahmed Nur, a senior police officer told Reuters. He said 10 people were injured. (Reporting by Feisal Omar; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by James macharia) |
| Former Cake drummer gets prison for child molestation | | | (Reuters) - A former drummer in U.S. alternative rock band Cake has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for molesting a three-year-old girl in 2009, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Peter Ivan McNeal was found guilty in March 2013 of one count of sexually molesting a child 10 years old or younger, the Attorney's Office said on Tuesday. McNeal molested the girl on Thanksgiving in 2009 at a home where he was a guest in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, the statement said. ... |
| Japanese woman arrested again over genitals art work | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested a Japanese artist for displaying figurines modelled on her vagina and distributing digital data used to build a yellow kayak based on her genitals. The owner of an adult goods store where Megumi Igarashi, 42, who works under the alias Rokudenashiko, displayed her works, was also arrested on obscenity charges, police said. "They showed obscene figurines in a glass case so that people coming to the shop could see it," said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department who declined to give his full name. "This is a new factor," he said. ... |
| China and Turkey fall behind in global corruption index | |  By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey and China's rating on perceived corruption has fallen steeply, according to Transparency International (TI), and the global watchdog called for closer international cooperation to root out graft and abuses of power. Transparency International issues an annual report measuring perceptions of graft rather than actual levels given the secrecy surrounding most corrupt dealings. It uses a scale where 100 stands for the most clean and 0 for the most corrupt. ...
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