Buy 'funny fruit' to help feed the world

MAKE a shopping list and buy "funny fruit" to cut food waste and help the world "shape a sustainable future," two UN agencies have urged. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and partners on Tuesday...

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Mozilla unveils preview smartphones

THE Mozilla Foundation has unveiled two preview smartphones as it invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system challenging Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The announcement on Tuesday marked a major step forward for...

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French stench reaches England

FRANCE insists a major gas leak - whose stench hit millions, reached the shores of England and caused a major soccer match to be cancelled - is entirely harmless. Headaches and nausea were among the complaints in calls made to emergency lines...

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Remains of last king returned to Serbia

THE remains of Yugoslavia's last king - Peter II Karadjordjevic, who died in the US in 1970 - have been flown back to Serbia in a solemn ceremony despite protests by Serb royalists in America. The former king fled the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia...

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Assange protesters to push on

THE organiser of a peaceful protest against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will push ahead with rally plans despite widespread criticism and alleged authoritarian links. British university student Simone Webb is the driving force behind a gathering...

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US begins transporting French troops

THE US military has started airlifting French troops and equipment into Mali to assist their operation against Al-Qaeda-linked rebels, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) says. "At the request of the French government, we have begun flying equipment...

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Indonesia sentences UK drug gran to death

A 56-YEAR-OLD British grandmother was sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali, in a shock verdict after prosecutors recommended 15 years imprisonment. Lindsay Sandiford sobbed on Tuesday as the court in Bali's...

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