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1. Elon Musk wants to rate journalists. He'd call his site 'Pravda'. "Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication," Musk tweeted.
2. 'Whistleblower' taped to chair and gagged - A woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government agency claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.
3. FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet
4. North Korea calls US Vice-President Pence 'stupid'
5. A missile fired at flight MH17 in 2014, killing 298 people, belonged to a Russian brigade, investigators say
6. Pompeo Affirms, Reluctantly, That Russia Tried to Help Trump Win
7. Trump calls Canada 'very spoiled,' 'difficult to deal with' on NAFTA, but says "in the end we win, we will win and we’ll win big"
8. Sweden says rape is rape, regardless of force or threats
9. North Korea slams Pence, says it won’t ‘beg’ for summit
10. At least 11 people were killed and scores injured after Indian police shot into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against copper smelter pollution in southern India.
11. Tesla CEO Elon Musk blasts media, pitches site to rate journalists: 'No one believes you'
12. Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump
13. 'The Mediterranean diet is gone': region's children are fattest in Europe - For kids in Greece, Spain and Italy, the Mediterranean diet is dead, according to the World Health Org, which says that children in Sweden are more likely to eat fish, olive oil and tomatoes than those in southern Europe.
14. Robot submarine finds "holy grail of shipwrecks" with up to $17 billion in treasure
15. Britain has a legal right to retaliate against aggressive cyber attacks with missiles, the Attorney General has suggested. The most serious cyber attacks should be treated in the same way as armed attacks on Britain if they result in a high level of devastation, Jeremy Wright QC said.
16. The US, UK, Canada and Japan are to create a coalition aimed at promoting nuclear power as a carbon-free energy source around the world
17. Undercover footage reveals violent animal abuse on farm owned by one of Britain’s largest pig producers
18. British politicians: Don’t let Israel be its own judge and jury in Gaza
19. Investigators: Russian military missile downed Flight MH17.
20. Israeli Company Investigated by Robert Mueller’s Team Shuts Down, Computers in Israel Seized by FBI
21. Trump says China trade deal is 'too hard to get done'
22. Three Ebola patients escape Congo quarantine, medics race to control outbreak
23. U.S. warns citizens in China after 'abnormal' sound injures consulate worker
24. Obesity now linked to 12 different cancers - Earlier studies found links between excess body mass and seven different cancers, but new evidence has found five more
25. Hackers infect 500,000 consumer routers all over the world with malware
26. MH17 downed by Russian military missile system, say investigators
27. Investigators identify Russian military unit in MH17 downing
28. Ex-soldier says he watched barrels of Agent Orange being buried at Canadian military base
29. Bulgaria will not recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
30. Australia completes world's largest cat-proof fence to protect endangered marsupials - Feral cats kill a million native birds every night and have caused extinction of 20 native species
31. MH17 downed by Russian military missile system, say investigators
32. Kim Jong Un is reportedly worried that a military coup could take place while he's in Singapore
33. Staff from New Zealand’s oldest university have conducted a night-time raid to seize and destroy every copy of a student magazine, fearing that an illustration of a person menstruating on the cover would be “objectionable to many people.” Editor accuses university of ‘censorship’.
34. Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health: Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles
35. Germany's Merkel says China and Germany standing by Iran nuclear deal
36. Dutch investigators says the MH17 missile came from Russia's 53rd brigade, based in the city of Kursk.
37. Israel Refuses to Cooperate with UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza
38. 2 Ebola patients who escaped quarantine in Congo found dead.
39. North Korea warns of nuclear showdown, calls Mike Pence 'political dummy'
40. Japanese retailer Muji has been fined 200,000 yuan (23,445 pounds) in Shanghai for using packaging that lists Taiwan as a country, underscoring China’s growing sensitivity to how companies refer to the self-ruled island.
41. Rohingya Muslim terrorist massacred Hindus in Burma
42. Microsoft to extend new European GDPR privacy rights world wide
43. Prominent Egyptian journalist Wael Abbas has been removed blindfolded from his Cairo home. No reason has been stated by authorities. His presumed arrest follows recent detentions of two other bloggers.
44. Pentagon disinvites China from major U.S. military exercise
45. Brazil backs 'Guardians of the Amazon': In a rare move, Brazil is providing armed backup to Indians protecting the world's most threatened tribe from illegal loggers
46. In latest ranking, Japan takes the top spot with the country’s passport-holders being able to access 189 other nations without a visa
47. Iran Leader Says US Will Fail Like Cat in “Tom & Jerry”
48. North Korea Threatens to Call Off Summit, Calls Pence a ‘Political Dummy’
49. Ottawa blocks Chinese takeover of Aecon Group Inc for ‘national security’ reasons - National
50. Over 1,000 underage girls forced into sex slavery by migrant traffickers – Dutch report
51. Russians shot down MH-17, international investigation concludes
52. Isreal used its US-made F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet in Syria, making it the first country to ever to do so, its military confirmed on Tuesday.
53. Mueller moves to sentence Papadopoulos, signaling key step
54. Deutsche Bank is cutting more than 7,000 jobs
55. Jeremy Corbyn commits to abolishing UK House of Lords - His spokesman branded the upper chamber of parliament “absurd” and an “undemocratic anachronism”, as he vowed a Labour government would be committed to scrapping it.
56. Germany World War II bomb disposal fails, site cordoned off after explosion
57. Yulia Skripal: 'We are so lucky to have survived attempted assassination'
58. US takes aim at Russian hackers who infected over 500,000 routers
59. North Korea warns of nuclear showdown, calls Pence 'political dummy'
60. Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD
61. England at risk of water shortages due to overuse and leaks, report warns: Wasted water from leaking pipes and overuse in homes is causing damage to rivers and wildlife and putting increasing pressure on overstretched supplies, warns the Environment Agency.
62. A North Korean official describes Vice President Mike Pence as a 'political dummy' while also claiming that Pyongyang is ready for a 'nuclear showdown' if dialogue with the US fails.
63. Thailand arrests senior monks in temple raids to clean up Buddhism
64. Sexual assault of migrant workers in Taiwan up to 633 in 6 years
65. North Korea Issues New Threat on Trump Meeting, Calling Pence Remarks ‘Ignorant and Stupid’
66. Germany's second biggest city is starting to ban diesel cars
67. Facebook suggests no compensation for European users affected by data breach
68. MH17 missile owned by Russian brigade, investigators say
69. Fears puffins could die out on Farne Islands as numbers plummet - Puffin numbers at one of Britain’s most important habitats have fallen sharply, raising fears they could die out completely there within a century.
70. MH17 downed by Russian military BUK missile system
71. Scientists spot powerful radiation coming from deep in space
72. Special Counsel’s team has asked about flows of money into the Cyprus bank account of a company that specialized in social-media manipulation and whose founder reportedly met with Donald Trump Jr. in August 2016
73. Rising Seas Threaten Coastal Cities
74. Transgender brain scans promised as study shows structural differences in people with gender dysphoria
75. A couple have been found guilty of murdering their French au pair and burning her body in their garden
76. Russian military unit's missile downed MH17, investigators say
77. Britons dash to become German citizens before Brexit
78. Israeli military officers have no regrets over use of lethal force at Gaza protests
79. Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: Patients 'taken to church'
80. The missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine belonged to a Russian brigade, international investigators say.
81. Air pollution worse inside London classrooms than outside, study finds - Children in London schools are being exposed to higher levels of damaging air pollution inside the classroom than outside, putting them at risk of lifelong health problems, a new study has revealed.
82. The US has reportedly opened a criminal probe into market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
83. European lawmakers asked Mark Zuckerberg why they shouldn’t break up Facebook
84. Canada rejecting more refugee claims amid border-crossing increase under Trump - More than 27,000 asylum seekers have walked across the border since Trump took office, straining Canada’s assistance system
85. Yulia Skripal: Attempted assassination turned my world upside down
86. India has launched a complaint with WTO against the United States to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium. It has said it could target U.S. exports of soya oil, palmolein and cashew nuts in its retaliation.
87. Twitter is treating Bulgarians tweeting in Cyrillic like Russian bots
88. Canadian government blocks the sale of Aecon Group Inc. to Chinese interests
89. High levels of screen time linked to cancer and heart disease
90. Labour suspends male activist who stood as women's officer 'because he identifies as a woman on Wednesdays'
91. Researchers uncover 'VPNFilter,' botnet aimed at possible attack inside Ukraine - Over the last several days, at least 3 groups have been quietly notifying companies about what appears to be the early stages of a potentially expansive cyberattack against Ukraine.
92. A Tibetan tried to save his language. China handed him 5 years in prison.
93. UNHCR to investigate Israeli killing unarmed protesters in Gaza
94. China and Germany to stay in Iran nuclear deal as Khamenei lists demands
95. Emmanuel Macron Turns to Vladimir Putin in an Effort to Salvage the Iran Nuclear Deal
96. Flight MH17 shot down by Russian military-sourced missile, investigators conclude
97. Iran leader blasts U.S. for 'theatrical' pullout from nuclear deal
98. Taking antidepressants could be linked to weight gain, according to a new study — and some drugs heighten the risk more than others
99. At least four people were killed and 15 wounded in a suicide attack in Iraq's capital Baghdad
100. Mueller's investigators questioned Kushner about potential Russian collusion, obstruction