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Floods and at least one death as storm Callum buffets Wales

10/13/2018, 10:30:20 PM
Police warn people to avoid swelling rivers as landslide in Cwmduad claims a life ✔ One person has been killed in a landslide after storm Callum battered Wales and the western parts of Britain ✔ Dyfed-Powys police said it was dealing with a landslip at Cwmduad between Carmarthen and Cardigan, where a person was confirmed dead at the scene ✔ Residents of 29 homes on Canal Side in Aberdulais, near Neath, have been advised to leave their homes because of high river levels



Storm Callum claims third victim: Another dies as UK hit by WORST flooding in 30 YEARS

10/13/2018, 8:19:52 PM
STORM Callum has claimed its third victim following a deadly landslide in Wales. ✔ Areas of Wales, which has bore the brunt of torrential rain and wind, are ready to be evacuated, police confirmed ✔ Motorists were also warned over tricky driving conditions brought by Callum, with several roads and highways in Cumbria impassable owing to floodwater ✔ Storm Callum was named by Met Eireann and is the third named storm of the season to hit the UK



Flash flood warnings issued for Maricopa, Pinal counties

10/13/2018, 11:43:48 PM
PHOENIX (AP) — The National Weather Service on Saturday issued flash flood warnings for Maricopa County in south-central Arizona and Pinal County in southeastern Arizona due to heavy rain falling in metro Phoenix and other desert communities. The warnings said radar and rain gauges indicated that up to 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) of rain had already fallen and that up to 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of additional rain was possible. Areas expected to experience flooding included Phoenix and numerous suburbs along with Casa Grande and other Pinal County and portions of Interstates 10 and 17.



BREAKING: Person killed in LANDSLIDE as Storm Callum batters Britain

10/13/2018, 8:04:14 PM
ONE person has been killed by Storm Callum in a landslide after Wales suffered the worst flooding in more than 30 years.



Waterfall is sent into 'reverse by powerful Storm Callum winds

10/13/2018, 8:32:24 PM
The striking footage was captured on the Isle of Skye ✔ Ines Donn said: Gives vivid impression of the power of the elements ✔ A key road in Scotland, the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll and Bute, was closed following tonnes of debris falling on to it after multiple landslips ✔ In Wales, the town of Crickhowell was left 'like an island' as water submerged the roads



Mum and baby have narrow escape after Storm Callum sends branch crashing on car

10/13/2018, 10:33:11 PM
Ellie Jaeger-Fozard was waiting for her husband James in Edgerton, Huddersfield, when the branch came crashing down ✔ Ellie called the police after she got out of the car (Image: Huddersfield Examiner/MEN) Read More Storm Callum turns town into ISLAND as residents wake up to find streets submerged Grandad Neil Harling was soon on the scene after hearing about what had happened to his daughter



Hurricane Leslie churns toward Portugal, Spain

10/13/2018, 8:08:56 PM
The Category 1 storm was 315 kilometers (195 miles) southwest of Lisbon on Saturday morning ✔ The weather service warned that gusting winds could potentially reach speeds of 190 kph (118 mph) along the Portuguese coast overnight and early Sunday ✔ Leslie is a bit of a weather outlier, since hurricanes that regularly batter the American side of the Atlantic rarely bring their destructive force across to Europe



27 dead in floods, landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island

10/13/2018, 11:10:34 PM
JAKARTA, Indonesia-- Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island ✔ Hundreds of other homes were flooded up to 2 meters (7 feet) high, while landslides occurred in eight areas of the region ✔ Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and floods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains



PM Update: Clear, cool and crisp tonight; mild with a mix of sun and clouds on Sunday.

10/13/2018, 9:20:10 PM
Fall has officially arrived in the DMV. ✔ And if you haven’t already, join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram ✔ And now for the storms final act, it’s about to make landfall along the coast of Portugal, the first time a hurricane has affected the region since the 1842 Spanish hurricane ✔ So, it’s pretty safe to say that this is an extremely rare occurrence ✔ Want our 5 a.m. forecast delivered to your email in-box



Dad dies after to 999 blunders as paramedics arrive with broken defibrillator

10/13/2018, 9:34:43 PM
Trevor Moncrieff’s stunned son Matt was forced to do CPR on his 66-year-old dad while ambulance workers tried to get the second-hand equipment to work ✔ A heart attack victim died after a string of 999 blunders ✔ Trevor’s loss was made even harder for them after a review of the case by Prof Stephen Brecker, a consultant cardiologist ✔ Son Michael, 31, said: I was hoping dad didn’t stand a chance ✔ And we can confirm the daily user test was conducted for this device before that day’s shift started



Facebook Doesn't Deserve Your Information

10/13/2018, 9:17:22 PM
“We have a responsibility to protect your information," Mark Zuckerberg said in March. "If we can’t, we don’t deserve it." ✔ A full-page newspaper ad placed by Zuckerberg in March 2018 ✔ Even more concerning is how it might be abused in the aggregate ✔ And what recourse do people have to reclaim that information ✔ As Slate's Will Oremus noted, unlike a password, location histories and search histories aren't things you can change



16 Unusual Photos the World Didn’t Expect to See

10/13/2018, 9:41:28 PM
Have you ever seen snow in Africa, a pumpkin that is so huge that you can live in it, or a horizontal rainbow? Some people have managed to see and even capture these unusual phenomena. Just have a look at photos below! ✔ 16 Unusual Photos the World Didn’t Expect to See Have you ever seen snow in Africa, a pumpkin that is so huge that you can live in it, or a horizontal rainbow ✔ © pokariso / Reddit   A purple potato tastes the same as a normal potato, but looks like the universe



Roma review, LFF: One of the best films of the year

10/13/2018, 10:08:22 PM
The Mexican filmmaker makes even the most banal moments seem lyrical in this brilliantly observed drama ✔ He will show Cleo at the cinema (incongruously watching British comedy star Terry-Thomas in a European war movie) and we will be able to see not just the incidents on the movie screen but all the hundreds of other spectators in perfect focus – with the maid a forlorn figure in the middle of the crowd



Opinion | O.C.D., My Exhausting Best Friend

10/13/2018, 11:18:02 PM
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a companion that constantly wants to protect me, never realizing the threats it sees aren’t legitimate. ✔ have no absolutely no implication about the character of a person, Dr. Phillipson said ✔ Death at the Crossroads: A Ragged Limo, an Anxious Driver and 17 Friends Opinion: My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot Opinion: It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God How Jared Kushner Avoided Paying Taxes



My country! Dorothea Mackellar's family property hemmed by mine

10/13/2018, 8:18:52 PM
A coal mine is to be built on the doorstep of Dorothea Mackellar's family property. ✔ Ultimately these impacts would be mitigated by tree plantings around the house, monitoring and would be ultimately reversible once the mine project ends and lands rehabilitated, it found ✔ The lack of heritage listing was a loophole that may be too late to close, Ms Riley said, but sent a message that local communities needed to be proactive to protect properties with strong historic literary connections



US faces up to Hurricane Michael's trail of destruction

10/13/2018, 10:08:20 PM
‘It’s still dangerous out there,’ says Florida governor ✔ But it left at least 17 people dead and thousands reported missing among the debris ✔ Expensive F-22 Raptors may be among those jets left behind and potentially damaged, according to reports ✔ At the time, Andrew was the costliest storm in American history



Chinese action debut and South Korean family drama win at Busan

10/13/2018, 9:28:38 PM
A thrill-a-minute actioner from China and a moving South Korean drama about a unique family reunion have taken the top prize at Asia's largest film festival, with judges lauding both for their "original" takes. "Savage", from first-time Chinese director Cui Si-wei, pits a forest ranger against gold thieves in a… ✔ Hong, looked at how Chinese farmers survived human experimentation by occupying Japanese forces during the Second World War, but have never really recovered from the horrors they were put through ✔ It was critical of the then government and both funding cuts and sackings followed its screening but the air has now cleared under the government of President Moon Jae-in



Wife whose husband sabotaged parachute in murder attempt jumps again

10/13/2018, 9:30:19 PM
Victoria Cilliers (pictured) had her parachute sabotaged in an attempt by her husband Emile to murder the mother-of-two. Refusing to play the victim, she boarded an aircraft in Oxfordshire last Sunday. ✔ Victoria Cilliers pictured with her husband Emile, who was jailed for life in May after sabotaging his wife's parachute during a skydive on Easter Sunday 2015 The only thing Victoria Cilliers remembers about falling 3,000ft to earth was not letting herself look down ✔ It was telling me what I might have to live through if something went wrong.’ ‘Putting the date of the jump in my diary made the memories of my fall come rushing back, far more vividly than before



The dashing prince with a ‘dark’ and bullying side

10/13/2018, 9:41:04 PM
The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi has thrown a spotlight on the authoritarian rule of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. ✔ There were also differences over aid to rebel forces in Syria and Obama’s efforts, despite Saudi objections, to forge a nuclear deal with Iran ✔ While Mohammed’s possible involvement flies in the face of all the effort that he’s put into improving relations with the West, he’s also very inexperienced



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