Vatican Backs Military Campaign Against ISIS – The Catholic Church says the use of force may be necessary to prevent “genocide” [time]
Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu Devastation ‘Apocalyptic’ – Officials fear the number of dead may rise as the first flights carrying aid reach Vanuatu where thousands are homeless. [sky]
McBride Accused Of Stealing Memory Stick From Hawks – Robert McBride is now the subject of a criminal investigation – over an allegation that he stole a memory stick containing evidence that could implicate himself as well as Hawks bosses Anwa Dramat and Shadrack Sibiya in unspecified “wrongdoing”. [cp]
Putin Says He Weighed Nuclear Alert Over Crimea – After the revolution in Ukraine last year, President Vladimir V. Putin sent military forces to secure Crimea and even weighed putting Russia’s nuclear arsenal on alert because of his concerns about both anarchy and Western intervention, the Russian leader said in a documentary broadcast Sunday. [nyt]
Apple’s ResearchKit Is A Big Hit At SXSW – Medical researchers have lots of hopes for Apple’s new healthcare data platform, but they also have three big questions. [fortune]
Drug Dealer In China Says He Only Did It To Buy An Apple Watch – The high price tag of the Apple Watch (the regular one, not the gold one) has apparently prompted one young man in China to turn to drug dealing in order to afford the soon-to-be-released gadget, a Chinese media report said Wednesday. [mw]
Big Protests In Brazil Demand President Rousseff’s Impeachment – More than a million Brazilians have joined demonstrations against President Dilma Rousseff, with many asking for her impeachment. [bbc]
Nun (70+) Gang-Raped In India – A septuagenarian nun in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal has been gang raped by a group of men after she tried to stop them from robbing a missionary school. [npr]
Kosher Supermarket Reopens Two Months After Paris Attacks – The Paris kosher supermarket where four hostages were killed in January by an Islamist gunman reopened on Sunday morning to “show that life is stronger than barbarity,” supermarket officials and France’s interior minister said. [reuters]
World Champion Lewis Hamilton Dominates Season-Opener In Australia – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton made the perfect start to his world title defense by winning the opening race of the F1 season in Australia Sunday to lead a Mercedes one-two in Melbourne. [cnn]
U.K. Teens Allegedly Recruited For ISIS Deported From Turkey – Three male teens from Britain who reached Turkey before being deported to the U.K. and arrested are believed to be the latest examples of a worrying trend — the rising number of young Britons seeking to travel to Syria to join extremists there. [cbc]
Liam Gallagher Tweet Signals End To Oasis Feud – The two brothers have been at war since Liam walked out on Oasis in 2009, just before they were due to perform in Paris. [sky]
This Startup Wants To Take On Uber And Lyft With Self-Flying Cars – Imagine a world in which you call up a plane on your smartphone as easily as you can summon cars from Uber and Lyft. Then take it to the next level: The plane has no pilot, completely controlled by automatic algorithms. [mash]
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