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Guardian Angels return to New York’s Central Park –
With their bright red jackets and berets, the Guardian Angels were once a common sight in a city riddled with violent crime. And this week they made a pointed return to New York’s Central Park for the first time in more than two decades, citing a 26 per cent rise in crime there so far this year. “We realise things are much better than they were” in the crime peak of the 1980s and early 90s, said Curtis Sliwa, the group’s founder, but “we want it to stay that way.” After years of celebrating reductions in crime, the nation’s biggest city has seen murders rise by 9 per cent so far this year, although serious crime overall is down 5 per cent. [Daily Telegraph]
PGA Championship: Australia’s Jason Day breaks major drought with three-shot win over Jordan Spieth –
Australia’s Jason Day has ended a long wait for his first major, shooting a final round 67 to clinch victory in the PGA Championship by three shots. He led by three shots at the turn and held his nerve through the back nine to seal a memorable win over America’s Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth at the Whistling Straits course in Wisconsin. Day’s four-round total of 20-under was a record low score for a major championship. [ABC]
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2015 Douma market air strikes, Syrian Civil War
- More than 110 people have been killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (BBC) (IBT) (Reuters) (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- 2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes, Kashmir conflict
- Eight people have been killed in the past week as India and Pakistan trade gunfire over the border in the disputed area of Kashmir. (AP via Fox News)
- Turkey–PKK conflict
- A Turkish Army soldier and three PKK militants are killed in a clash in Turkey‘s Kars Province. (Daily Star via Reuters)
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- ISIL militants reportedly execute 15 women in Mosul. (Al-Manar)
- Former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki is among dozens of officials named in a parliamentary report on why Mosul fell to ISIL with so little resistance. (Washington Post)
- Disasters and accidents
- 2015 Tianjin explosions
- The death toll from the explosions rises to 112 with 95 people missing including 85 fire fighters. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- An Indonesian plane (Trigana Air Service Flight 257) with 54 people on board goes missing in Papua. There are later reports that the remains of the aircraft have been found in the Oksibil district. (BBC),(AFP via Yahoo!)
- Ecuador declares a state of emergency over increased activity at the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito. Its last major eruption was in 1877. (BBC) (Dalje.com) (Al Jazeera English Online)
- International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- South Korea establishes a surveillance center on its northernmost island of Baengnyeongdo to better deter North Korean threats. (Korea Times) (Yonhap)
- Politics and elections
- Crowds gather throughout Brazil to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff due to a bribery and corruption scandal involving senior members of the governing Workers’ Party. Recent polls show her approval ratings below 10%. (France 24)
- Sport
- 2015 Netball World Cup
- In netball, Australia defeats New Zealand 58–55 in the final of the Netball World Cup in Sydney. (Fox Sports Australia)
- 2015 PGA Championship
- In golf, Jason Day of Australia wins the PGA Championship on the Straits Course of the Whistling Straits complex in the American village of Kohler, Wisconsin. (ABC News Australia)
- Day’s 20-under-par is the lowest score in relation to par at a major championship, beating Tiger Woods‘ previous record of 19-under at the 2000 Open Championship. (ABC News Australia)
- Jordan Spieth of the United States finishes second and by doing so becomes the number one ranked golfer in the world ahead of Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. (ABC News Australia)
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