AP – A boy has died in a New Zealand hospital after being scalded head to foot when he fell into a geothermal pool which could have been as hot as 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius), a hospital spokeswoman said late Thursday.
AFP – Hundreds of people fled worsening floods in Australia’s rural northeast Thursday as officials warned the disaster may last for weeks, prompting fears over food shortages and disease outbreaks.
AFP – Japan on Tuesday postponed the creation of a greenhouse gas emission trading system by a year until after April 2014 in the face of strong resistance from the business lobby, news reports said.
AP – An Iraqi asylum seeker accused of plotting a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was freed Thursday due to an apparent lack of evidence.
AP – Queen Elizabeth was delighted with the birth of her first great-grandchild, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
AFP – North Korea called for better relations with South Korea on Saturday, amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula after the North’s deadly bombardment of a border island.
AP – The Baltic state of Estonia early Saturday became the 17th European Union member to adopt the joint European currency, the euro.
Reuters – The popular Internet telephone service Skype could be dealt a major setback in one of the world’s largest markets as the Chinese government cracks down on what it called illegal Internet telephone providers.
AFP – Britain’s Telecommunications regulator delivered to the government Friday its report into News Corporation’s takeover bid for pay television giant BSkyB.
AP – The Baltic state of Estonia has become the 17th European Union member to adopt the euro.