In a discovery that could offer some clues in a decades-old mystery, human bone fragments have been found in a Vatican-owned property in Rome. The development has raised speculations about possible links with the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, who went missing in 1983 when she was 15 years old. Orlandi was the daughter of a Vatican employee, and her disappearance remains one of the most high-profile cases that has so far eluded any answers.

Eight people were killed in shootings at two locations in the German city of Hanau late on Wednesday. Police said that authorities were searching for the perpetrators, and that it was not immediately clear what the reason for the shootings may have been. According to locla media reports, the shootings targeted shisha bars in the town of Hanau, located about 20 kilometres from Frankfurt. An unknown number of attackers were still at large, added police, who have launched a major manhunt.

China reported a dramatic drop in new cases in the province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday. Central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, down from 1,693 a day earlier and lowest since January 25. The death toll rose by 108, down from 132 the previous day, bringing to total in China to over 2,100 deaths and 74,000 cases. Scientists, however, have reported the new virus may spread even more easily than previously believed.

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival's campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday. Assange's lawyer said in a document that Trump relayed the offer through a former US Congressman, the UK's domestic Press Association news agency reported. The White House quickly issued a denial that Trump had dangled a pardon in exchange for help in the Russia controversy, which has cast a shadow over his first term in office.

The Internet is impressed after a video of an elderly man fighting off a robber who tried to steal his wallet outside an ATM in Cardiff, UK surfaced on social media. The video shows the 77-year-old man stepping out from his car to withdraw money from an ATM. When he turns around to get back into his car, a man carrying a black rucksack is seen confronting him. The man is seen holding his mugger in a shoulder lock before fending him off with some punches.

One more Indian aboard a quarantined cruise ship off Japan on Wednesday tested positive for the novel coronavirus and has been shifted to a hospital. This takes the number of Indian nationals infected with the virus on the vessel to seven, according to the Indian Embassy. As of Wednesday among the 3,711 passengers and crew, 621 people are infected with coronavirus. The mission said that infected Indians were responding well to the treatment.&nbsp;Meanwhile, passengers began leaving the ship on Wednesday after the end of a two-week quarantine period that failed to stop the spread of the virus among passengers and crew. Meanwhile, crew members which include many Indians are expected to stay on the ship.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday repeated a debunked sexually charged allegation about one of the country's more prominent journalists, drawing fire from press freedom advocates and even some recent allies. Under attack is&nbsp;Patricia Campos Mello, a reporter who last year won the International Press Freedom Award for her coverage of Bolsnaro's presidential campaign that triggered an investigation of Bolsonaro's campaign by Brazil's top electoral court. A witness in a congressional hearing has testified she had insinuated an offer of sex in exchange for help with a story. The allegation has not been proven&nbsp;still&nbsp;Bolsonaro echoed the insinuation as he spoke in Brasilia. "She wanted a scoop, she wanted to give a scoop, at any price, against me", Bolsonaro&nbsp;added with a smile, using a Portuguese word for "scoop" that can have sexual connotations. The comment drew laughs from his supporters. He then added that journalists "acting like that, deserve this", before making an obscene gesture with his arm and driving away

After being deported from India, UK MP Debbie Abrahams has now reached Pakistan and will meet Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, say reports. The British parliamentarian, who has been critical about the Modi government's move on Jammu and Kashmir, was deported from the Delhi airport on Monday when she arrived to visit her friends and family. Abrahams is the Chair of the British Parliament's All-Party Parliamentary Kashmir Group and is expected to address a press briefing with Pakistan foreign minister and her colleagues from the British Parliament on Wednesday.

The use of the word 'Royal' by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, for their new venture is under review, according to reports. Discussions are still underway but reports say, the likely direction is that the term will not be a part of the Sussex's branding. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex last month announced plans to step back from their duties in the British royal family. At the same time, the couple had submitted an application for a UK trademark for the term "Sussex Royal," covering hundreds of items like merchandise, clothing, charitable fundraising, education and social care services. Prince Harry and Meghan have already agreed to stop using the titles His and Her Royal Highness, and return the Sovereign Grant funds they spent to renovate their official residence.

UK on Wednesday announced the launch of its new points-based visa system, aimed at attracting the "brightest and the best" from the world, including from India.&nbsp;The new system will come into force from January 1, 2021. The new post-Brexit system, which will apply equally to the EU and non-EU countries like India, is based on assigning points for specific skills, qualifications, salaries and professions, with visas only awarded to those who gain enough points. The UK Home Office has said the new system is a direct response to the 2016 referendum in favour of Brexit, which was seen as a vote to end the country's reliance on cheap migrant labour and reduce overall levels of migration with tighter security. Skilled workers will need to meet a number of relevant criteria, including specific skills and the ability to speak English, to be able to work in the UK. All applicants will be required to have a job offer with a minimum salary threshold will be set at 25,600 pounds - lower than the previous 30,000 pounds level for Tier 2 work visas. Those looking to live and work in the UK will need to be qualified up to A-level or equivalent, rather than degree-level under the current system.

US President Donald Trump has gone on a clemency blitz, commuting the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and pardoning former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik.&nbsp;Blagojevich was convicted of political corruption just months after he appeared on Trump&rsquo;s reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice." He had been found guilty of crimes that included seeking to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children's hospital.&nbsp;Kerik served just over three years for tax fraud and lying to the White House while being interviewed to be Homeland Security secretary.&nbsp;Trump also granted clemency to financier Michael Milken, who pleaded guilty for violating US securities laws.

Passengers finally began leaving the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan on Wednesday after the end of a much-criticised, two-week quarantine that failed to stop the spread of a new virus among passengers and crew. The evacuation of about 2,500 people who'd been kept aboard the ship in Yokohama was expected to take several days under close observation, after one passenger who disembarked earlier in Hong Kong was found to have the virus. Officials still were continuing tests for the coronavirus that infected more than 540 on the ship.

According to multiple reports, the anti-terror money laundering agency - the&nbsp;Financial Action Task Force has recommended that Pakistan will continue on the 'Grey List' for failure&nbsp;to check terror funding. News agency&nbsp;PTI&nbsp;quoting sources said that a&nbsp;sub-group of FATF&nbsp;has recommended continuation of Pakistan in the 'Grey List' and that the final decision will be announced on Friday. By continuing on the 'Grey List', it will be difficult for Pakistan to get financial aid from the IMF, World Bank, ADB and the European Union, thus further enhancing problems for the nation which is in a precarious financial situation.&nbsp;Pakistan was placed on the 'Grey List' by the FATF in June 2018 and was given a plan of action to complete by October 2019 or face the risk of being placed on the 'Black List' along with Iran and North Korea.

Death toll from deadly coronavirus has crossed 2000. China&rsquo;s National Health Commission said there was a total of 74,185 confirmed cases as of Tuesday and 2,004 people have died so far. Hubei province reported an additional 132 deaths and 1,693 newly confirmed cases related to the pneumonia-like coronavirus as of the end of Tuesday.&nbsp;Most of the fatalities in Hubei occurred in the city of Wuhan, where the disease was first detected in late December.

Gun violence struck in a Thai shopping mall for the third time in six weeks on Tuesday when a man fatally shot a 28-year-old woman working at a beauty clinic in a Bangkok mall and wounded another. The motive for the shooting was believed to be jealousy, and the shooter escaped and remained at large several hours later. The shooting came just over a week after a disgruntled soldier fatally shot 29 people in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima before being killed by security forces in the mall where he was holed up for about 16 hours.&nbsp;

Afghanistan&rsquo;s independent election commission says President Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president.&nbsp;The commission announced that Ghani garnered 50.64% of votes in the election that took place last year in September. His challenger and chief executive Abdullah&nbsp;Abdullah&nbsp;received 39.52% of votes. Election results were repeatedly delayed amid accusations of misconduct and technical problems with counting ballots. The election commission had earlier said that 1.8 million Afghan citizens voted in the election out of some 9.6 million eligible.&nbsp;

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a jibe at Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after the world's second richest man declared he has bought his first EV, a Porsche&nbsp;Taycan. Gates told a noted YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee in an interview that he purchased his first-ever EV Porsche&nbsp;Taycan, calling the vehicle &lsquo;very, very cool&rsquo;. My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming to be honest, Musk tweeted to a user. The initial EV Porsche&nbsp;Taycan&nbsp;Turbo S model starts at $185,000 while the entry-level Tesla Model 3 starts from $35,000.

The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy in what it said was an effort to safeguard compensation payouts for sexual abuse victims.&nbsp;The organisation has been accused of covering up generations of abuse inflicted on thousands of its young members and failing to do enough to root out paedophiles.&nbsp;Bankruptcy proceedings will help the Boy Scouts to "equitably compensate" victims and allow the organisation to continue at a local level. More than 12,000 members of the Boy Scouts had been sexually abused since in the organization since 1944. Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has around 2.2 million members between the ages of five and 21.

An additional 88 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a quarantined cruise ship off the Japan coast.&nbsp;This takes the total number of positive cases on the Diamond Princess to 542. There is no confirmation so far if this includes any Indian. A total of 138 Indians, including 132 crew and 6 passengers, are among the 3,711 people on board the ship that arrived at the Japanese coast earlier this month.&nbsp;The ship was quarantined after a passenger who de-boarded last month in Hong Kong was found to be the carrier of coronavirus&nbsp;on the ship.
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A hospital director of the Wuchang&nbsp;Hospital in the epicentre of China's virus epidemic died on Tuesday.&nbsp;Liu Zhiming, the director of the hospital in Wuhan, died after "all-out rescue efforts failed," state broadcaster CCTV reported.&nbsp;China said last week that six medical workers had died from the virus, while 1,716 have been infected. People took to social media to mourn Liu, with many users drawing critical comparisons between Liu's&nbsp;and ophthalmologist Li Wenliang's death. In both cases their deaths were initially reported in state media posts -- later deleted -- and their deaths denied, before being finally confirmed again.

The killing of a seven-year-old girl on the southern outskirts of Mexico City has stoked anger over the brutal slayings of women in Mexico. Investigators found the body of&nbsp;the schoolgirl&nbsp;name Fatima wrapped in a bag and abandoned in a rural area on Saturday and was identified by genetic testing. The investigation is focused on identifying a woman seen walking away from Fatima's school with the girl.&nbsp;The abduction and killing of the child came just two days after Ingrid Escamilla, a young Mexico City resident, was allegedly murdered by a boyfriend.&nbsp;

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