Internet traffic hijack disrupts Google services

San Francisco: An Internet diversion that rerouted data traffic through Russia and China disrupted several Google services on Monday, including search and cloud-hosting services. Service interruptions lasted for nearly two hours, network service companies said. In addition to Russian and Chinese telecommunications companies, a Nigerian internet provider was also involved. Google confirmed Monday’s disruption on a network status page but said only that it believed the cause was “external to Google”. AP

Frigate nearly submerged after collision

A shipwrecked Norwegian navy frigate “KNM Helge Ingstad” is seen in Oygarden on Tuesday. The frigate that collided with an oil tanker last week was almost completely submerged despite efforts to salvage the sinking vessel. The Norwegian military has been working since Thursday to salvage the ship by tethering it with several cables to the shore. Reuters

Lion cub found inside Lamborghini in Paris

Paris: A lion cub was found in a flashy car on the Champs-Elysees on Monday evening, a police source said, the latest incidence of the fluffy-but-fierce animal apparently being kept as a pet. The baby lion was discovered inside a hired Lamborghini during a police search on the busy luxury shopping street. The driver was taken into custody and the cub was being looked after. Last month, a six-week-old lion cub was seized from an apartment in a Paris suburb and the owner sentenced to six months in prison. AFP

Former death-camp guard says he was never a Nazi

Munster: A 94-year-old German man accused of assisting in the murder of hundreds of people at a concentration camp during World War Two told a court on Tuesday he had never been a Nazi and he was not indifferent to the suffering of inmates. The accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was a guard in the SS paramilitary wing of Hitler's Nazis and could face a prison sentence of up to 10 years if convicted. “I want to say clearly that I am not a Nazi, never was and in the little time that I still have to live, will never be," the defendant said in a statement read to the court by his attorney, Andreas Tinkl. Prosecutors argue he facilitated killings between 1942 and 1944, when he served in the Stutthof camp, near what is now the Polish city of Gdansk. — Reuters