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US couple abandons toddler to play Pokemon Go, held

los Angeles: A couple has been arrested in the US for abandoning their two-year-old son alone at home while they drove around playing the widely popular location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go. Brent Daley and Brianne Daley left their 2-year-old boy at San Tan Valley home in Arizona for 90 minutes in scorching heat without water while they played Pokemon Go in surrounding neighbourhoods.

iPhone 6 explodes, Australian injured

Sydney: A man in New South Wales received severe burns when his Apple iPhone 6 exploded while he was mountain biking. Gareth Clear from Bondi in Australia was riding around Manly Dam in New South Wales on Sunday when he fell off his bike, landing on his iPhone 6. Seconds later, he noticed smoke and heat, before hearing an explosion as the phone melted through his shorts and layers of skin on his upper right thigh.

Italy expels Pakistani ISIS ‘supporter’

Rome: Authorities have deported a Pakistani man accused of seeking to stage a terrorist attack in Italy for the ISIS group, Ansa news agency said. A warehouse worker in Italy, swore loyalty to the ISIS in a video posted to the Internet and “obsessively” viewed ISIS propaganda online.

FBI man pleads guilty of acting as china agent

New York: An FBI electronics technician with a security clearance pleaded guilty to funneling photographs of FBI documents and other sensitive information to China.

Name employees earning more than PM: BBC told

london: The BBC was told by a UK parliamentary committee to make public the names of its employees who are being paid more than the country’s PM. The panel said there was no reason not to publish details of those getting more than 1,43,000 pounds a year, the British PM’s official salary package.

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