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WORLD'S NEWS ON AUGUST 30, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
'Illegal' mass protest across Malaysia calling for prime minister's resignation and fair elections after revelation he took $700million in state funds (theguardian.com)
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MIT invents 'breakthrough' 3D printer that can print 10 different materials simultaneously. Costs $7k and is an improvement on next closest multi-material printer at $250k. The next step for the researchers will be to 3D print objects that include embedded motors and actuators (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Ukraine just published detailed intelligence of Russian troop movements and equipment (uk.businessinsider.com)
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BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade - intends to convert all its vehicles to some configuration of plug-in hybrid. New range of cars could be driven by separate electric motors powering the front/rear wheels, with small gasoline engine to generate electricity to extend the range of the batteries (nasdaq.com)
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Picture of desperate man selling pens in Lebanon's streets with daughter inspired online fundraiser that has gone viral raising over $130,000 (aljazeera.com)
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A road accident in Swaziland has killed 38 girls and seriously injured 20 others who were on their way to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati III can choose a new wife, pro-democracy activists reported. (abc.net.au)
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Julian Assange 'told Edward Snowden not seek asylum in Latin America' because he could have been kidnapped and possibly killed there | WikiLeaks founder says he told the NSA whistleblower he could be kidnapped or killed, and that he was better off sheltering in Russia despite ‘negative PR’ (theguardian.com)
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Conservationists appalled at illegal killing of 25m birds a yr in Mediterranean | Glued, poisoned, trapped, shot – a shocking report reveals enforcement failure at a colossal scale as hunters across southern Europe & the Middle East kill birds with impunity (theguardian.com)
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Marine Le Pen calls for end to legal immigration to France - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called for an end to all immigration to France, legal and illegal (english.rfi.fr)
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Tens of thousands protest defense bills outside Japan's diet. "No to war legislation!" "Scrap the bills now!" and "Abe, quit!" they chanted during the demonstration in the government district in Tokyo, filling the street outside the front gate of the parliament (hosted.ap.org)
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The Netherlands is set to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees. Failed asylum seekers would be limited to "a few weeks" shelter after being turned down, if they do not agree to return home. (rte.ie)
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Neo-fascists from a Turkish terrorist group called Grey Wolves have emerged as key suspects in the Bangkok bombing after the arrest of a man, believed to be Turkish, in the Thai capital with bomb-making material. (smh.com.au)
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Canada government suspends scientist for folk song about prime minister - The song was written by Tony Turner, who worked at govt agency Environment Canada & is ‘a mainstay on the Ottawa folk music scene’ (theguardian.com)
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NASA begins year-long 'Mars isolation' experiment | A crew testing how a small group of humans might cope with a trip to Mars has started their 12-month mission. They will have to eat, communicate, and live exactly as they would on Mars - in a tiny dome in Hawaii. (dw.com)
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Mexican opium production has risen to meet heroin demand in U.S. Production is predominantly in the south-western Guerrero state, which its governor, Rogelio Ortega Martínez says is now on par with Afghanistan in terms of heroin production (independent.co.uk)
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Large Hadron Collider: Subatomic particles have been found that appear to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The scientists working at CERN have found evidence of leptons decaying at different rates, which could be evidence for non-standard physics (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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7-Eleven Australia has been found to be systematically paying its workers half the minimum wage at stores around the country. (abc.net.au)
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The oil and gas producer Nexen Energy, a Canadian subsidiary of China's CNOOC, was forced to suspend operations Saturday at 95 pipelines after a major leak last month(news.yahoo.com)
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Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association said on Saturday(reuters.com)
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Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison for broadcasting "false news" (mail.com)
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Sweden's far-right Sweden Democrats, which recently topped an opinion poll for the first time, want a referendum to be held on the country's generous immigration policy, its party leader said Saturday. (news.yahoo.com)
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