World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

A gunman who killed several people at a community college in the US state of Oregon, is now dead, a local official says.

HARARE - A radio station in Zimbabwe was temporarily forced off the air after a group of baboons raided a transmission tower and chewed through cables.

LONDON - A British teenager known to his schoolmates as "the terrorist" incited a Melbourne man to behead police officers on Anzac Day in the name of the Islamic State terror group, a Manchester court has heard.

LOS ANGELES - Miami prosecutors say they dropped charges against Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic because they concluded they couldn't prove his guilt in court.

PARIS - Earth is on track for average warming of 2.7C by 2100, higher than the UN target, according to an analysis of country pledges for curbing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.

DUBAI - Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for a week after a hajj stampede killed hundreds more, with national tallies of the dead far exceeding figures provided by Saudi Arabia.

LONDON - A news editor at British tabloid The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, has told jurors he is still answering questions about cash-for-stories allegations while his old boss, Rebekah Brooks, is "back in her job".


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Published 2 October 2015 7:37am
Updated 2 October 2015 7:40am
Source: AAP


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