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Hurricane Norman and Miriam: Norman becomes 'MAJOR hurricane' - will it hit Hawaii?

8/30/2018, 12:35:14 PM
NORMAN has intensified into a “major hurricane” as it hurtles westward in the Pacific Ocean behind another newly-named hurricane, Miriam - but will either one hit Hawaii? ✔ The hurricane is spinning through the Pacific Ocean at 7mph and additional strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours ✔ Meteorologist Ryan Maue tweeted Norman could edge to Hawaii by the middle of next week ✔ Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean lasts until the end of November, according to the National Weather Service



Hawaii volcano eruption: STUNNING new time-lapse shows ENORMOUS expansion of Kilauea

8/30/2018, 2:05:48 PM
HAWAII volcano Kilauea changed the shape of the Big Island with its uninterrupted stream of lava flowing out of its crater for more than two months. A stunning time-lapse video captured the changes the volcano went through during the active eruption and its aftermath. ✔ Despite the volcanic activity reducing, the Hawaii Civil Defense announced it will continue to monitor Kilauea as a new eruption could occur at any moment ✔ Molten rock flowing into Kapoho Bay has cooled and solidified as it reaches the sea, creating the new land



Hawaii damage latest: Are holiday hotspots damaged by Hurricane Lane?

8/30/2018, 3:40:31 PM
HAWAII is slowly assessing the damage caused to its communities following historic levels of rainfall and widespread flash flooding caused by Hurricane Lane - but are holiday hotspots Oahu and Big Island still flooded? ✔ In addition, high winds from the storm spread and expanded wildfires in the County of Maui and the City and County of Honolulu ✔ Record rainfalls have fallen across the islands of Kauai and Oahu and officials are helping to clean the streets of debris and water ✔ Officials are carrying out a range of cleaning programmes along major freeways and highways



Duke of Cambridge speaks about the Grenfell Tower disaster

8/30/2018, 3:06:05 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Prince William, 36, was in Kensington to help with the fit-out of a new boxing club as part of a DIY SOS special, and worked alongside presenter Nick Knowles and survivors. ✔ Working in steel a first for the show  The Duke met the programme's presenter Nick Knowles and the crew of workers, and joined one of the volunteer teams as they begin the first day of the building's fit-out A few months before the tragic fire which claimed 72 lives, the club moved into a newly refurbished space as part of the fateful fit out of the building



The mud volcano capital of the world

8/30/2018, 12:58:04 PM
Azerbaijan has more than 400 mud volcanoes, more than anywhere else on Earth. They form when gas builds up underground, with the eruption sending mud slurry into the air ✔ Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks, like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock ✔ Depending on the quality, it costs from 50 cents to 3 manats ($1.77) per stone ✔ But the real mysteries, the churning, living wonders, are in the many shifting layers beneath our feet



In Pictures: TOWIE’s Georgia Kousoulou parades her lady lumps in jaw-dropping ensemble

8/30/2018, 12:52:05 PM
GEORGIA Kousoulou ramps up the sex appeal with her hourglass figure. ✔ The Only Way Is Essex cast have excited us about the new up and coming series, starting this Sunday on ITVBe ✔ From Shelby Tribble, to Yazmin Oukhellou and Amber Turner, all the gals have been hitting the streets of Essex in the sleekest of ensembles ✔ Georgia teamed her sexy get-up with a pair of bold blue mules and a simple gold bangle



Crane tips over and crashes into a home

8/30/2018, 2:54:47 PM
The motion pool/hot tub was hauled above the Minnesota home ready to be placed in a hole dug by its owner. But disaster struck when the next hole was in home owner's roof. ✔ The homeowner screams 'Goddammit' repeatedly in the background and cries out at the wreckage of his house ✔ 'I was filming with my phone and I heard the crane operator scream and I took off running toward the front of the house as soon as he started to yell I knew something went wrong



Barry Manilow – all his greatest songs ranked!

8/30/2018, 1:25:43 PM
As the bouffanted Brooklynite tours the UK, possibly for the last time, we cast an eye over his musical achievements ✔ Rain (1979) Proof that every artist has a moment that might reasonably be described as Balearic: Rain features a slinky, sampler-friendly rhythm track, some glittering synth arpeggios, a hint of smooth soul about the dampened guitars and a sound that falls somewhere between quiet storm R&B and yacht rock ✔ Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images 7



A baseball dream 30 years in the making washed away

8/30/2018, 3:39:02 PM
Brian Mazone spent nine years pitching in the minors, waiting for a crack at the big leagues. The day it finally came, it rained. ✔ George, Utah, to Joliet, Ill., to Adelanto, Calif., to Norwich, Conn., to Fresno, Calif., to Reading, Pa., to Scranton, Pa., to Magallanes, Venezuela, to Ottawa to Daegu, South Korea, to Allentown, Pa., to Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, to Albuquerque to Mexicali, Mexico



His family died in the Carr fire. He pretends they're just on vacation: 'It’s the only way I can stay alive'

8/30/2018, 12:11:10 PM
Ed Bledsoe's family was killed by the Carr fire on July 26. On Aug. 4, Bledsoe stood on the edge of a dirt path leading to his land, talking to police officers, firefighters and a reporter about the day his family died. ✔ For one thing, no one thought it would move so far so fast ✔ On July 26, the flames jumped that barrier and headed toward Redding ✔ I just talked to him until I heard the angels come right out of him ✔ When you’ve had the best, you don’t need the rest, you know ✔ He’s also found ways to temporarily cope with the loss



Explore Ventura's beaches, shops and family-friendly restaurants on a weekend escape

8/30/2018, 1:58:46 PM
A last-minute summer getaway ticks all the boxes for an active family. Just make sure you leave enough time to try surfing. ✔ Looking for a weekend escape before summer escapes ✔ We had pad Thai with tofu and fresh spring rolls at Lucky Thai Cuisine ($54), and pizza, pasta and tiramisu from Spasso Cucina Italiana ($48) ✔ Next door, Kay’s Coffee Shop served one of the best spicy chai lattes I’ve had



Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over Rohingya crisis, says UN human rights chief

8/30/2018, 1:35:04 PM
The United Nations’ outgoing human rights chief has said Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s civilian leader, should have resigned over the military’s violent crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority. ✔ She could have said look, you know, I am prepared to be the nominal leader of the country but not under these conditions ✔ And the rules regulating the Nobel Prizes do not allow for a prize to be withdrawn, he added ✔ The prize winners themselves have to safeguard their own reputations



Mobile phone footage of vicious attack on girl, 14, shared by victim's mum

8/30/2018, 12:59:06 PM
A clip appears to show two girls kicking, punching and pulling the hair of alleged victim Chloe De-Mar, 14, in Bristol ✔ And Kim, who is 22 months pregnant, said her daughter has already been offered a free lifetime gym membership and a free makeover ✔ A spokesperson for the force said: We were called at 10.10pm yesterday (August 28) to reports of an incident in the Lyde Green area of South Gloucestershire, at around 7.45pm, in which a teenage girl was assaulted



19 Cooking Fails That'll Make You Say, "How In The Hell?..."

8/30/2018, 3:52:55 PM
Welp there goes my appetite. ✔ This is the most innovative struggle turkey you'll ever see in your lifetime ✔ And were these pulled out of the oven or out of a coal mine ✔ Finally, somebody should make a recipe for disaster book to ensure something like this never happens again ✔ More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews



Perspective | Inside the Swedish military presence on Gotland, the most strategic island for defense against Russian aggression

8/30/2018, 12:03:43 PM
Swedish photographer Loulou d'Aki takes us inside Sweden's military ✔ It’s a balance between history and current events based on individuals’ thoughts, theories and fears in society today ✔ More on In Sight: Confronting depression with photos, this artist’s works are ‘keen emotional witnesses to this broken world of ours’ Stunning aerial photos of the worst drought in Australia’s living memory What it was like in the nightclubs of Chicago’s South Side in the 1970s



How Labor wants to win over Coalition business voters

8/30/2018, 2:03:49 PM
By wooing disgruntled small business owners with tax disputes. ✔ The Internal Revenue Service in the US has already adopted a similar structure ✔ Mr Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg have named reducing power prices, small business enterprise and drought relief as their top priorities in the post-Malcolm Turnbull Coalition government



Thursday Morning Briefing

8/30/2018, 1:02:38 PM
Venezuela's new cryptocurrency is nowhere to be found, an online army of sense an opportunity to renew pressure on Tesla's Elon Musk and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un revives a decades-old railway dream. ✔ World A view of Alqueva reservoir, the largest artificial lake in the EU, near Alqueva, Portugal, August 2, 2018 ✔ Reuters’ Jonathan Barrett reports from South Australia ✔ Grain trains bring relief to Australian farmers Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Michael Caine: 'Crime comes from poverty, and those suffering are darker people'

8/30/2018, 2:49:01 PM
He no longer wants to take lead roles but the Oscar-winner’s new film, King of Thieves, sees him do just that. He talks about Brexit, Putin’s good side and lunch with Trump ✔ It is a wet and blustery August morning: perfect Michael Caine weather ✔ I wince slightly, and he leans in as if to reassure me: I don’t say that with prejudice ✔ The annexation of Crimea, and Putin’s virulently anti-LGBT laws, would suggest otherwise – and that’s just for starters ✔ Somewhere there’s a good side and we haven’t found it



AP Explains: The looming, final battle for Syria's rebels

8/30/2018, 12:15:22 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — In a corner of northwestern Syria packed with nearly 3 million people, the government and its opponents are preparing for a final, bloody showdown. The ✔ BEIRUT (AP) In a corner of northwestern Syria packed with nearly 3 million people, the government and its opponents are preparing for a final, bloody showdown ✔ As government forces advanced, they offered residents and one-time opponents the choice either to reconcile with Assad's rule or board buses for Idlib, where al-Qaida-linked groups have eclipsed the moderate opposition



Britain's May in Kenya to boost economic ties amid Brexit

8/30/2018, 12:15:21 PM
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday became the first UK leader to visit Kenya in 30 years, bringing security and development funding to East Afric ✔ NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday became the first UK leader to visit Kenya in 30 years, bringing security and development funding to East Africa's commercial hub and neighboring Somalia as Britain seeks to boost economic ties ahead of a bumpy exit from the European Union in March ✔ (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at a joint press briefing with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018



What you need to know before visiting Petra, Jordan’s Lost City

8/30/2018, 12:12:43 PM
Visiting Petra, one of the most complex and awe-inspiring wonders of the world, is no small feat. Here’s what to know before you go. ✔ But, the pirate-looking men can be a uniquely menacing travel scam to avoid when visiting Petra ✔ Referred to as such by the locals, Jack Sparrows are young men who, in addition to wearing traditional glare-reducing eye liner called kohl, seem to play off the Pirates of the Caribbean character by invoking his clothes and swagger ✔ This story originally appeared on SmarterTravel.com



UN Syria envoy floats idea of evacuating Idlib civilians

8/30/2018, 3:39:59 PM
GENEVA (AP) — Fearing a military offensive, the U.N. envoy for Syria proposed Thursday that civilians holed up in the rebel-held region of Idlib could evacuate to government areas ✔ GENEVA (AP) Fearing a military offensive, the U.N ✔ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned of the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe, and called for restraint ✔ The drills were announced after NATO reported a Russian naval buildup in the Mediterranean



The world's biggest ski areas and where to stay

8/30/2018, 1:34:59 PM
The best resorts to visit if you want to explore the biggest and best ski areas ✔ Essential guide | How to find the perfect ski resort Best for intermediate exploration Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria The two villages of Saalbach and Hinterglemm are at the centre of a ring of 2,000m peaks, with links to Leogang in the east



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