World News Update, what you need to kno

World News Update, what you need to kno

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial have asked a series of questions of the judge as they continue deliberating in the complex child sex abuse case.

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LONDON - Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused vulnerable patients in scores of British hospitals over decades and claimed to have performed sex acts on dead bodies, investigators say.

KIEV - The United States has warned Russia it has only "hours" to prove it is helping disarm Ukrainian insurgents, whose tenuous truce with Kiev is due to expire by the weekend.

GENEVA - The World Health Organisation has called for "drastic action" to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, as it announced an 11-nation meeting to address the growing crisis.

KHARTOUM - A Sudanese Christian woman detained when she tried to travel to the United States after her release from death row, has sought refuge at the US embassy after being freed, her lawyer said.

LONDON - News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch visited the headquarters of his British newspaper division in London after his protege Rebekah Brooks was cleared of phone hacking in a high-profile trial; Brooks says she feels vindicated.

NEW DELHI - An Indian court has summoned Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, leaders of the defeated Congress party, over allegations that they misused funds of a newspaper once run by the family.


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