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| Italy police rumble airport art thieves | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:25 AM | |
| | Italian police have uncovered a complex network of thieves who stole valuable paintings at Rome's main airport, and charged two of the hub's staff with stealing the art works. Cleaners and customer service staff duped people bringing works of art through the oversized baggage areas, national police said in a statement. "Using the uniforms they normally wore to work in the airport, they easily convinced people that they were providing a genuine service and managed to swindle them," the police said. |
| Clinton: Islamic State persecution of Christians, Yazidis, a genocide | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:15 AM | |
|  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide. "I think I was asked this a couple months ago, and I said that term carries with it legal import, it is a very important concept and label for behavior that deserves that name," Clinton said at a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, when asked about the Islamic State's killing of Christians, Yazidis, Kurdish Muslims and other religious minorities in the region. "I am now sure we have enough evidence, what is happening is genocide deliberately aimed at destroying lives and wiping out the existence of Christians and other religious minorities," Clinton said.
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| ESPN in TV debate invite to FIFA election five | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:09 AM | |
|  By Simon Evans MIAMI, (Reuters) - U.S. sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in FIFA's presidential election to participate in a debate on the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football. "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate," a network spokesman told Reuters via email on Tuesday. "Our goal is to provide a forum for an open, transparent discussion about the future governance of the sport in advance of the election that will determine who occupies the most powerful position in global football." The candidates are Frenchman Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Swiss Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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| Facebook must face shareholder class actions over IPO | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:51 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company's May 2012 initial public offering. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said retail and institutional investors who claimed to lose money from buying Facebook shares at inflated prices in connection with the $16 billion IPO may pursue their respective claims as groups. Other Facebook defendants include Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and other officials.
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| China's Xi tells top leaders to watch families amid graft fight | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:40 AM | |
|  Senior Chinese leaders need to "strictly educate and supervise" their children and family members and not rest of their laurels amid an on-going fight against corruption, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of an elite Communist Party body. Dozens of top officials have been taken down, including the powerful former domestic chief Zhou Yongkang, two retired senior military officers, Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, a one-time aide to retired president Hu Jintao called Ling Jihua, and Bo Xilai, who was party boss in the metropolis of Chongqing. Speaking to the Politburo, a 25-member body one rung below the Standing Committee, where real power lies, Xi said its members had to avoid a "sense of superiority regarding their power or status".
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| Banned Platini could face further trouble over Dubai event | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:39 AM | |
|  By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - Banned UEFA president Michel Platini could face further investigation from FIFA's Ethics Committee after attending an awards ceremony and conference in Dubai despite being barred from "all football activity". Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA, was handed an eight year ban from the game by FIFA's Ethics Committee on December 21, along with banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter. The ban relates to a payment of two million Swiss francs made by Blatter's FIFA to Platini in 2011, nine years after he finished working as a consultant to Blatter.
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| 'Glee' star arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:37 AM | |
|  Actor Mark Salling, star of the hit television show "Glee," was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Salling, 33, who played brash high school football player Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox network series about an unlikely school choir, was taken into custody in the Sunland neighbourhood north of Los Angeles, LAPD spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said. Salling was arrested by officers serving search warrants for Internet possession of child pornography, according to the spokeswoman.
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| Twitter clarifies rules on banned content, abusive behaviour | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:31 AM | |
|  Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behaviour that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning "hateful conduct" that promotes violence against specific groups. The social media company disclosed the changes on Tuesday in a blog post, following rising criticism it was not doing enough to thwart Islamic State's use of the site for propaganda and recruitment. "As always, we embrace and encourage diverse opinions and beliefs, but we will continue to take action on accounts that cross the line into abuse," Megan Cristina, director of Trust and Safety, said in the blog.
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| Singer sues Spotify for copyright infringement in latest salvo over streaming | | Wednesday, December 30, 2015 12:04 AM | |
| | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter and musician's rights advocate David Lowery has sued Spotify, claiming in a proposed class action lawsuit that the streaming giant often uses lesser-known artists' material without paying them royalties. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, marks the latest salvo against Spotify by a musician, a battle which began in earnest when Taylor Swift yanked her entire catalogue from the online streaming platform in late 2014 following the release of her album "1989." But unlike Swift, pop music's reigning queen who believes that such streaming services under-value her music, Lowery claims in his lawsuit that Spotify has often failed to obtain permission to distribute the work of lesser-known artists or compensate song writers. |
| Texas 'affluenza' teen captured in Mexico to be returned to U.S | |  By Marice Richter and David Alire Garcia FORT WORTH, Texas/PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - A rich Texas teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time for violating his probation in a drunken-driving crash that left four people dead planned the flight and even held a farewell party, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, became known as the "affluenza" teen during his trial in juvenile court over the 2013 crash. During Couch's trial, a psychologist sparked outrage by saying in his defence that Couch was so wealthy and spoiled he could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
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