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Ring makes doorbells that stream videos of people approaching or ringing the front door to phones. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2CNYfxf

Israel shelves tax plans that prompted Church leaders to close doors of Christianity's holiest site. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2ovc27v

International development charity BBC Media Action reveals six people were dismissed over 10 years. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2GPTkyi

Donald Trump's plans receive a boost from a judge he once berated for being of "Mexican heritage". from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2oCdJzj

The government says the population needs controlling but animal activists say it's a cruel approach. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2EXA3yr

Two female singers are sentenced to prison: one for inciting debauchery, and one for a joke. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2HRzaFu

After Oxfam's handling of a sex scandal in Haiti, the foreign aid sector faces tough questions. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2HTj12q

Emily Moser was beaten up in an attempted rape. Now she teaches women self-defence. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2Coq8QH

Puskas, an eight-year-old police dog, needed jaw surgery after tackling the fugitive. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2FbZrjc

One in five students in Los Angeles face housing insecurity - so where are they living? from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2GNXC9s

Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong considers his mixed-race heritage - and how it has shaped him. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2HQNHRZ

How one hit E4 show of the 2000's has produced the Oscar nominees of today. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2GOPAwX

Hibo Wadere was a victim of female genital mutilation and talks about her experience. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2HRGnWb

Blind people who use sound to navigate their environment adjust their clicks very similarly to bats, research reveals. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2GQzt21

The 1932 vehicle once belonged to the pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2EZgge5

A small window for diplomacy emerged during the "peace Olympics" in Pyeongchang, but it's closing fast. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2ou8WR8

A new strategy aims to tackle the influence of violent Islamist groups - but will it stop attacks? from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2CqJvsr

What you need to know about the five movies competing for the best foreign language film Oscar. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2GORxcL

Media outlets in Pakistan said parliament had declared it to be one, but that's not quite what happened. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2EY1EeR

The Briton and Australian murdered a teenager after plotting to become serial killers, a jury heard. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2CpOcCH

India's news media face backlash over graphics showing Sridevi in bathrooms to illustrate how she died from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2F6KQpb

The former school resource officer who resigned after failing to confront a gunman earlier this month at the Florida high school where he was assigned is defending his response to the deadly mass shooting. Scot Peterson said he was following training he had received as a Broward County sheriff’s deputy when he decided to remain outside, despite being armed, during the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to a statement released Monday by his attorney. “The allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue,” Joseph A. DiRuzzo III, Peterson’s attorney, wrote in the statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2sUnONs

Rachel Maddow reports on the apparently victory of Democrat Linda Belcher in a Kentucky state special election, at least the 37th flip by Democrats of a district that went heavily for Donald Trump in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FCS961

The parents of missing doctor Timothy Cunningham shared the last text message they received from their son before his disappearance two weeks ago. Cunningham, a highly regarded epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, went missing after he left work mid-day on Feb. 12, complaining of feeling ill. After Cunningham, 35, failed to report to work or contact his family over the next two days, his parents, Terrell and Tia-Juana Cunningham, drove down to Georgia from their house in Maryland to check on their son. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2t1wYrv

Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), a combat veteran and gun-carrying National Rifle Association member, is supporting a ban on “assault-style weapons” in the wake of a deadly mass shooting earlier this month.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2os8fIo

The justices will decide whether state government workers who choose not to join a union must still pay a share of union dues to cover the cost of negotiating contracts. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F8Kxu8

All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded, according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day, Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff, John Kelly, to decide what access Kushner should have. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oBRjhM

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Johnnie Walker is rolling out a female version of its iconic logo, an attempt to draw more women to the world’s best-selling scotch from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EXDroV

Two men thought to have been stowaways on a US-bound flight from Ecuador have died after they fell from the aircraft, it has been reported. The Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil was closed for an hour and a half as their bodies were removed from the runway. Employees at the airport noticed three objects falling from the plane and officials believe the pair either fainted or were ejected. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2ouB5rE

A 16-year-old Florida boy who allegedly threatened to kill other students at his school had weapons in his possession when he was arrested on Monday night, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. An anonymous person tipped off the Boca Raton Police Department, who notified Broward County authorities after they found that the teen lived in Pompano Beach, Florida. Deputies with the sheriff's office bomb squad, along with representatives of Homeland Security and the FBI, went to the teen's residence on Monday night and discovered a homemade pipe bomb along with other weapons in his possession, officials said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CLd3wI

Rachel Maddow looks at the relationships that bring today's charges by Robert Mueller against lawyer Alex van der Zwaan right into Vladimir Putin's inner circle. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oBvPBB

A new gun-control campaign aims to show President Donald Trump the scale of gun violence via Twitter. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HP6ZH6

The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent more than $31,000 on a new dining set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office last year, according to procurement documents obtained by The New York Times. It was purchased by a staffer in Carson’s office shortly after another HUD employee expressed concerns over a costly redecoration request that would’ve exceeded federal limits. Tuesday’s report also comes as HUD is facing a $6.8 billion cut to its fiscal budget that would affect elderly and poor Americans. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BSbuQR

Citibank is promising to refund nearly 2 million credit card holders an average of nearly $190 dollars, admitting the bank failed to reduce some annual interest rate charges for cardholders in good standing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F9E0zu

President Donald Trump said on Monday he would have personally run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the mass shooting earlier this month, even if he was unarmed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2sUizgY

A fight broke out in the maximum security section of the Cook County Jail in Illinois. Two inmates were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Sixteen inmates were charged with 'mob action.' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2otC7no

Central U.S. through Appalachia experienced gale force winds and heavy rains over the weekend. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EXyRLC

Convicted murderer Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, who has spent more than half his life on death row, was returned to his cell after more than two hours of effort by the execution team. Bernard Harcourt, who has represented Hamm for 28 years, claimed the “botched” execution attempt led to at least 12 puncture wounds from failed needle placements. “It was a gory, botched execution," he said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F5PFPR

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices seemed troubled Tuesday by the arrest of a Florida man during a city council meeting in Florida, an arrest he says was retaliation for being an outspoken critic of the city. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2t2l3tv

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has created a new initiative aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EXlyqm

A fire broke out in the overhead storage of a Chinese passenger jet moments before it was scheduled to take off. Flight attendants and a passenger threw water and juice over a bag in the luggage compartment as it was engulfed in heavy smoke and flames. The fire was thought to have been triggered by a power bank that was being carried in the bag, reports said. The owner was taken away by police for questioning. All the passengers were forced to disembark the Boeing 777 following the fire, which happened while the plane was parked on the tarmac at Guangzhou Airport in southern China. It was scheduled to fly to Shanghai. The passengers and crew were taken to a different aircraft which took off just after 3pm, three hours after the original flight was scheduled to depart. Fire caused by portable charger on China Southern flight in Guangzhou was put out promptly, while passengers were relocated to another plane pic.twitter.com/HYwShVN1t3— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) February 25, 2018 The po

Most voters think the National Rifle Association supports policies that are bad for the country, new polling finds, as an increasing share favor stricter gun laws. In a Quinnipiac University National Poll conducted after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, 51 percent of voters said the NRA supports policies that are bad for the U.S. That’s an uptick from October, when the poll found that 47 percent of respondents thought the NRA supported bad policies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HPObHO

By Charlotte Greenfield and Sonali Paul WELLINGTON/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - At least one company began evacuating non-essential personnel after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea's energy-rich interior on Monday, causing landslides, damaging buildings and closing oil and gas operations. The tremor hit in the rugged, heavily forested Southern Highlands about 560 km (350 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at around 3.45 a.m. local time (1545 GMT Sunday), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). A spokesman at Papua New Guinea's National Disaster Centre said by telephone the affected area was very remote and the agency could not properly assess damage until communication was re-established. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fwq6VQ

A top national security official told lawmakers on Tuesday he had not been directed by Donald Trump to disrupt Russian efforts to meddle in US elections, and that Vladimir Putin had come to the conclusion there was “little price to pay” for such actions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FaBzwg

Now, after nearly two weeks of opprobrium, the sheriff's deputy accused of failing to take action during the Florida high school shooting is fighting back. Scot Peterson, 54, broke his silence on Monday and defended his conduct during the shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 14 students and three adult staff members dead. "Let there be no mistake, Mr. Peterson wishes that he could have prevented the untimely passing of the 17 victims on that day, and his heart goes out to the families of the victims," his attorney, Joseph DiRuzzo III, said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CLpDMy

By all accounts, the most recent episode of “Walking Dead” was tragic (RIP Carl). In the Season 8 midseason premiere on Sunday, Carl enjoyed a touching moment with his sister Judith (Chloe and Sophia Garcia-Frizzi), saying goodbye before his inevitable death from a zombie bite. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EYbphm

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on those paying respects to the Rev. Billy Graham in Charlotte (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EUL9Ep

Escalating California’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement, Oakland’s mayor has warned residents that she believes an operation was imminent. “I am sharing this information publicly not to panic our residents but to protect them,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press release, citing her “moral obligation” and directing people to immigration law resources. “I know that Oakland is a city of law-abiding immigrants and families who deserve to live free from the constant threat of arrest and deportation,” she added, saying immigration authorities have “used activity rumors in the past as a tactic to create fear”. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Conyu3

On Thursday, 19-year-old Breana Harmon of Pottsboro pleaded guilty to four felony charges of tampering with physical evidence and government documents in relation to false reports of kidnapping and sexual assault. “She’s very remorseful for what she did and what she said, and that’s why she decided to plead guilty,” Harmon’s attorney Bob Jarvis told the Sherman Herald Democrat. On March 8, 2017, Harmon was reported missing to the Denison Police Department after witnesses noticed the door to her vehicle was open with personal items, including a phone and keys, scattered on the ground. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2t0lmoC

Anne Monoky is still in a neck brace after the incident six months ago. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FbFI3q

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