World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

US Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States wants to be "good neighbours" to Cuba, but has cautioned the road to full relations remains "long and complex."

MIAMI - The planet has set another monthly climate record, with scientists in the US recording the hottest June in 135 years.

LONDON - A British study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home.

NEW YORK - It seems Harper Lee's latest novel is a bestseller, despite it being dismissed by critics as a rough draft for her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

MONROVIA - Liberia has discharged its last four Ebola patients, leaving the west African nation with no known cases of the deadly tropical fever.

BERLIN - A former Nazi SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has appealed against the four-year jail sentence handed to him last week.

LONDON - Physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with a Russian billionaire to launch a new quest to discover life on other planets.

WASHINGTON - The US National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.


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