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Moment 'car-sized' lava bombs plummet towards boat as volcano erupts

10/18/2018, 4:45:22 PM
Thrill seeker Matthew Davison, 34, filmed the volcanic eruption from Anak Krakatau near Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. He said lava bombs were dropping into the water around the boat. ✔ 'Huge lava bombs were dropping around us and, if hit, would have easily destroyed the small boat we were on ✔ While Mother Nature is sometimes a very destructive and fearsome force, she puts on an amazing show.' The island of Krakatoa erupted in 1883, killing thousands in one of the worst geologic disasters of modern times ✔ A new island, Anak Krakatau, emerged from the caldera and is the current location of the eruption



Jennifer Metcalfe, Stephanie Davis and Chelsee Healey glam up for big Hollyoaks launch ahead of soap's Storm Week

10/18/2018, 4:10:04 PM
JENNIFER Metcalfe, Stephanie Davis and Chelsee Healey turned up the glamour as they attended the launch of Hollyoaks’ big Storm Week in London today. The actresses made sure all eyes were on them a… ✔ JENNIFER Metcalfe, Stephanie Davis and Chelsee Healey turned up the glamour as they attended the launch of Hollyoaks’ big Storm Week in London today ✔ Sinead will return in a cab and, as rain lashes down, she says to the driver: Can you get me to Hollyoaks please



Trump attempts to exploit Kavanaugh divisions in attack on Montana's Democrat senator

10/18/2018, 5:43:50 PM
President attempts to link Jon Tester to bitter fight over Supreme Court judge ✔ The fire was extinguished within eight minutes AP 49/50 31 August 2018 Mourners attend Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit AFP/Getty 50/50 30 August 2018 Firefighters watch on as flames leap from a giant factory fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of West Footscray - More than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire, with 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances on the scene which is sending large plumes of smoke across the city



'Don't listen to the Brexit gloom' Michael Caine mocks pessimism over EU exit

10/18/2018, 5:42:54 PM
MOVIE legend Sir Michael Caine told of how he remains a convinced Brexiteer - and ignores the doom-mongers predicting disaster. ✔ BREXITEER: Michael Caine (Image: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images) Describing his reasons for generally being an optimist, the 85-year-old British star likened the great minds warning about Brexit and other events to those who forecast that 24-hour news would never take off



Hollyoaks Brian Kirkwood reveals HUGE Christmas spoilers with disaster for new Dog In The Pond landlady Mercedes McQueen and 'shocks' for Prince and Lily

10/18/2018, 5:55:16 PM
HOLLYOAKS boss Bryan Kirkwood has revealed some exciting Christmas spoilers. and it sounds as though it’s going to be a dramatic festive season. Bryan teased that Mercedes McQueen will suffer… ✔ iCelebTV 4 The entire McQueen family will be present this festive season It'll focus on all factions of the family ✔ Stephanie's Hollyoaks' return is a part of the much-anticipated 'Storm Week', and it has been teased that it will involve a huge stunt



A Powerful Storm, and a Conversation With a Nobel Laureate

10/18/2018, 7:03:03 PM
In this week's climate newsletter, we've got some news about beer and a tip about taking the bus. ✔ I think, since he is at the University of East Anglia, he may have meant soccer ✔ Monica Jorge for The New York Times After Nobel in Economics, William Nordhaus Talks About Who’s Getting His Pollution-Tax Ideas Right Brook Mitchell/Getty Images Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal Trending Opinion: Eight Stories of Men’s Regret Aide to Saudi Crown Prince, Suspect in Khashoggi Case, Is Shown Walking into Consulate Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing Opinion: I Didn’t Hate the English Until Now Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) Mnuchin Withdraws From Saudi Investment Conference Amid Khashoggi Inquiry How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern



Hollyoaks trailer reveals Stephanie Davis' return and Piers and Susanna's cameo

10/18/2018, 7:50:56 PM
Steph will return on Friday night three years after she was fired, while the Good Morning Britain host's are appearing for the first time ✔ And the actress revealed all her castmates was delighted to see her back on set ✔ Get in touch with us at webtv@trinitymirror.com or call us direct 0207 29 33033 Read More Showbiz editor's picks Jenna reacts to Channing's new gir David says marriage to Victoria is hard I'm A Celeb line-up Amy's first ever date



North Dakota Senator Heitkamp on the back foot before debate

10/18/2018, 7:08:37 PM
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota is set to debate Republican challeng... ✔ She was targeted by ads and money from outside group supporting Kavanaugh, but declined to cross party lines to vote for him after California professor Christine Blasey Ford said he sexually assaulted her when they were high school students in 1982 ✔ For all Reuters election coverage, click: here Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Photos of the week | Pictures | Reuters

10/18/2018, 7:43:05 PM
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier during clashes over an Israeli order to shut down a Palestinian school near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman ✔ Darmi was in her kitchen cooking,...more Reuters / Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Darmi, 48, and her brother Rusli, 43, stand outside her destroyed house hit by an earthquake as they look for clothes and other belongings in the rubble, in Balaroa neighborhood, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia



Persistent Alaska warmth this fall has brought back ‘the blob.' If it lasts, it could mean a wild winter in the Lower 48.

10/18/2018, 7:09:19 PM
Scientists are unsure whether the blob will remain a fixture or fade away. ✔ At this point, it looks like things are evolving to a pattern with less high pressure offshore, so the BLOB should weaken ✔ Waiting for summer to finally end, and waiting to see what winter might bring ✔ It won’t only have implications for Alaska, but for all of us



World War 3: Trump will NOT let THIS Saudi Arabia threat go unanswered, warns senator

10/18/2018, 6:43:24 PM
WORLD WAR 3 fears were sparked this week when US ally Saudi Arabia threatened retaliation on America if it imposes sanctions over the unexplained disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. ✔ War fears were sparked as tensions between Saudi Arabia and the US escalated last weekend when Riyadh threatened to use oil as a weapon if Trump imposed sanctions on the state ✔ The Saudis have strongly denied the allegations and Mr Trump has speculated, without providing evidence, that rogue killers could have be responsible for the attack



Inside vile Princess Diana Facebook group where trolls post sick memes about tragic royal

10/18/2018, 5:28:21 PM
A SECRET Facebook group is encouraging users to make sick jokes and memes about Princess Diana’s death. The late royal touched the hearts of millions and left the country and the world in sho… ✔ An inquest held in London concluded in 2008 that the Princess had been unlawfully killed, blaming the crash on grossly negligent driving by Paul and the pursuing paparazzi ✔ Princess Diana is buried on an island in the Althorp Estate, which has been the Spencer family home for centuries ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368



Florida Governor Hopeful Andrew Gillum on His Viral Tree-Chopping Moment after Hurricane Michael

10/18/2018, 6:34:21 PM
"I grabbed my equipment out of the trunk and we started helping," Gillum tells PEOPLE ✔ When people hear that you can be sued because you stand up to the NRA, I think it causes a lot of people’s blood to boil, says Gillum, who at age 23 became the youngest person ever elected to the Tallahassee City Commission ✔ This is the moment, this is the time for young people to stand unapologetically to say, ‘We matter.’



Gotham Awards nominations recognize 'The Favourite,' 'First Reformed,' 'If Beale Street Could Talk' and more - Los Angeles Times

10/18/2018, 4:51:18 PM
"The Favourite" and "First Reformed" are among the films garnering multiple nominations in one of the first significant awards announcements of the season. ✔ The Favourite, written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, and Schrader's First Reformed screenplay will contend against Private Life, written by Tamara Jenkins, Support the Girls, written by Andrew Bujalski, and Thoroughbreds, written by Cory Finley



Ivanka Trump Was Just 9 Years Old When Reporters Asked Her if Her Father Was Good in Bed

10/18/2018, 7:12:02 PM
"The third grader had no place to hide," Nina Burleigh writes in her new book ✔ Kanye West Meets with President Trump in the Oval Office In her recent memoir, Raising Trump , Ivanka’s mother, Ivana, cast blame on Maples ✔ The outer shell of the marvelous construction that is Ivanka encloses a woman who has sublimated a childhood of trauma as the daughter of a megalomaniac, she writes, whose very public antics exposed his family to humiliation in the greatest sex scandal of the late twentieth century



Will Trump Make New York Democrats the New Lords of Capitol Hill?

10/18/2018, 5:03:57 PM
If the president’s unpopularity leads to Democrats taking back the House, New York stands to play a larger role in Washington than it has in decades. ✔ Further, Ms. Lowey, with the power of the purse strings, could work with the state’s delegation to help shore up that Gateway Project for the Northeast corridor, or the tortured Pennsylvania Station remodel, among other things ✔ Trending Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says Opinion: Eight Stories of Men’s Regret Aide to Saudi Crown Prince, Suspect in Khashoggi Case, Is Shown Walking into Consulate Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations Opinion: I Didn’t Hate the English Until Now Trump’s Focus on a Washington Building Project Draws Scrutiny Opinion: The Horseface Chronicles Mnuchin Withdraws From Saudi Investment Conference Amid Khashoggi Inquiry Opinion: Hillary Clinton’s Master Class in Distraction



Was the royal tour schedule designed with pregnant Meghan in mind?

10/18/2018, 7:39:06 PM
The itinerary for her the Duchess of Sussex's royal tour of Australian, New Zealand and the South Pacific does include some built-in features to make the hectic pace a little bit kinder. ✔ Flying to the other side of the world to complete 76 engagements in 16 days, taking in four countries is no mean feat for anyone let alone a mother-to-be in the early stages of pregnancy ✔ They will also will see first-hand the hardships local drought affected farmers are facing by visiting a local property



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