Global News

Spanish police arrested 25 people in several cities, busting up a human trafficking ring that brought women from Nigeria to work as prostitutes.  The gang was also on the ground floor of one of the oldest email scams on the Internet.

The people who do the heavy lifting are bailing out of one ungrateful country – Police investigate a sinister attack on the most vulnerable kids – and thousands of Pakistani school kids will not be taught about the bravest of them.

As many as 10,000 people are dead in just one area of the Philippines devastated by the super typhoon. The Philippine government has so far only confirmed the death of several hundred people after the storm struck, but Tacloban City is said to be a scene of complete devastation.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the central Philippines are homeless, upwards of a thousand people are known to be dead and that figure will get worse.  The most powerful storm ever recorded is now expected to head towards Vietnam.

The Philippines assesses the damage after the Super Typhoon – Embarrassment for a storied US news program after admitting it took the word of a flimsy, inaccurate source – 40 years of rumors swirling around a notorious death may have been settled.

A “super typhoon” of historic power is battering the Philippines with sustained winds of 235 kilometers per hour.  Meteorologists say it could be the most powerful storm ever to make landfall, certainly the most powerful to hit the planet this year.

The Pakistani Taliban’s new leader gives no thought to peace – LGBT people from Africa might find safe havens in Europe – Russia is adding to charges against the Greenpeace Arctic 30.

At what point does Toronto DO something about this?  After admitting that he’s been lying to everyone in Canada’s largest city for months about his use of crack cocaine, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is now refusing to resign for yet another embarrassment – A startling, F-bomb-laden rant in which he threatens to murder someone.

Greek riot police have stormed the headquarters of shuttered public broadcaster ERT, which former employees had been occupying and keeping on the air despite government orders to shut it down back in June as part of penny pinching “austerity”.

Google has until Saturday to answer Brazil’s demand to explain about any private wi-fi data allegedly collected while photographing for its Street View maps.  Any delay means a court will fine the big, giant company more than A$46,000 a day.

Britain’s Parliament questioned the chiefs of the three main intelligence agencies GCHQ, MI5, and MI6, who told the MPs that the West’s “adversaries were rubbing their hands with glee” in the wake of the revelations from the cache of intelligence documents smuggled out of the US by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt won't lead Australia's delegation to next week's UN climate summit in Warsaw.  Neither will Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.  In fact, for the first time since 1997, there will be no government minister at the main United Nations climate negotiations.  And this comes as concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high last year.

Six major world powers and Iran are due to hold a second round of talks on Tehran's nuclear ambitions.  The two days of meetings in Geneva follow last month’s discussion hailed by participants as “substantive and forward-looking.”

Britain’s spy chiefs are called to explain the Snowden leaks – A power Typhoon is bearing down on the Philippines – A murderous dictator escapes justice for at least another year – Baby Animals Galore! – Justin Bieber is a (expletive deleted) – And Jetman does Fuj

Swiss forensic tests on samples taken from the late Palestinian leaders Yasser Arafat's remains have shown unexpectedly high levels of radioactive polonium-210.  The findings support the theory that Arafat was murdered, poisoned with the rare and lethal substance.  His widow Suha Arafat calls it, “The crime of the century.”

A European satellite that mapped Earth’s gravitational field in exquisite detail will be sent careening down to earth in a ball of flaming metal by the very forces it helped scientists study.  Also, no one knows when or where it’s going to hit. 

The M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ending its insurgency.  We know this because the leader of this African insurgency announced his intention to pursue the group’s aims by political means on its Facebook page.  Don’t you just love living in 2013?

At least one person has been killed in a series of blasts outside a ruling Communist Party office complex in northern China.  It comes a week after ethnic Uighurs from the Muslim northwest plowed through a crowd in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and set the vehicle ablaze, resulting in five deaths.

David Hicks and his US-based lawyers are filing an appeal against his conviction for providing material support for terrorism.  The one-time Muslim convert is renouncing his confession as he renounced his former religion.

On opposite sides of the world, Gay Marriage made significant advances.  US President Barack Obama’s adopted home state is almost sure to make it law following some legal technicalities.  And the Emerald Island’s PM placed his country on a path to step further away from its staunch Roman Catholic past.