Canada earthquake: Is there a tsunami alert in Canada after three 6 magnitude tremors?
10/22/2018, 9:45:58 PMCANADA was hit by three strong earthquakes struck on Sunday night. But is there a tsunami alert in place? ✔ The earthquakes hit Canadian province British Columbia in less than an hour, according to the United States Geological Survey ✔ However, no casualties or any damage was reported ✔ At 10.39pm local time, the first 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit at a depth of 33 km ✔ The US National Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami is not expected
Costa Del Sol floods latest: Is it safe to travel to Malaga? Are the holiday resorts open?
10/22/2018, 8:12:33 PMCOSTA Del Sol in Spain has been declared a disaster zone after intense flooding left one man dead. So is it safe to travel to Malaga? ✔ Some areas received more than half the rain they normally get in a year in just a few hours, with local reports describing the deluge as historic ✔ He offered his condolences to the victims’ families and said the area can count on the government’s support in getting back to normal as soon as possible
Yemen: Death toll from tropical storm Luban rises to 12
10/22/2018, 10:11:43 PMHealth official warns of cholera and malaria outbreaks unless action is taken to address stagnant waters. ✔ The United Nations reported earlier this week that coastal areas of al-Mahrah had been the hardest hit, with around 2,000 families affected ✔ The war in Yemen has brought the country's already poor healthcare system to its knees with many hospitals unable to help patients due to a lack of appropriate medicine and damage to equipment caused by air attacks by a Saudi-UAE coalition battling the country's Houthi rebels
Hurricane Willa, now a Category 4 storm, threatens Mexico's Pacific coast
10/22/2018, 10:47:32 PMThe potentially catastrophic storm is expected to make landfall Tuesday afternoon or evening, the hurricane center says ✔ He said nearly 3,000 were affected but some residents would stay ✔ In Mazatlan, Mayor José Joel Bouciegues said officials were preparing shelters and monitoring low-lying areas, the AP reports ✔ The popular vacation town is home to a large number of American and Canadian expatriates ✔ Jeff Berardelli and Peter Martinez contributed to this report
'Extremely dangerous' Category 5 hurricane nears Mexico
10/22/2018, 11:09:14 PMForecasters predict 'life threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall' ✔ Willa had maximum sustained winds of 155mph in the early hours of Monday morning, which extended over 15 miles out of the storm's core ✔ Forecasters said the storm could produce an additional 7.5 to 15cm of rain across Mexico's Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco states
Canada earthquake: Aftershocks STILL felt in Canada- fears over HUGE tectonic plates shift
10/22/2018, 10:02:51 PMCANADA was struck by three powerful earthquakes in less than an hour on Sunday night. But are there fears over huge tectonic plates shift as aftershocks are still being felt in Canada? ✔ The plates, which are tens of kilometres thick each, move in different directions, due to currents of molten material below the earth’s crust ✔ This means the area is at risk from being hit by earthquakes ✔ It occurred just off the coast of Japan, around 21 miles out to sea
Gold pendant bought for Lil Wayne's birthday helps pay for art student's university fees
10/22/2018, 11:09:20 PMCommission pays for 'chunk' of Joy Bonfield-Colombara's £9,500-a-year course fees ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 44/50 9 September 2018 Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang
Woman filmed harassing family for speaking Spanish at a restaurant
10/22/2018, 8:54:43 PMThe woman has been banned from the establishment by the owners ✔ Two Reuters journalists were jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom AFP/Getty 1/50 22 October 2018 Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a national apology to child sex abuse victims in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018
He’s a Long-Shot Senate Candidate With a Message: ‘Capitalism Unchecked Is a Complete Disaster’
10/22/2018, 10:21:49 PMZak Ringelstein is running against Maine’s Senator Angus King, who is heavily favored to win in November. But for Mr. Ringelstein’s supporters, it’s the message that matters most. ✔ That would give them a platform to put pressure on the Democratic Party, not unlike some deeply conservative Republican candidates for the House and Senate who have a shot at winning this November as well ✔ But I stand with the people, not with any party or any corporation
Teenage suspect in fatal shooting of police officer shot and killed by cops
10/22/2018, 8:54:47 PMOfficer Antwan Toney died of his wounds after being shot over the weekend ✔ The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall on September 4, the country's weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings AFP/Getty 50/50 3 September 2018 Myanmar journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon
Florida governor debate heats up over climate change and race
10/22/2018, 8:54:39 PMThe Democrat is ahead in the polls with just weeks before election day ✔ Two Reuters journalists were jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom AFP/Getty 1/50 22 October 2018 Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a national apology to child sex abuse victims in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018
John Bolton visits Moscow amid fears of new US-Russia arms race
10/22/2018, 8:54:46 PMKremlin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov has accused the US of 'making the world a more dangerous place' by announcing withdrawal from nuclear treaty ✔ Paddy Dowling travelled with UK based charity Muslim Aid to the disaster areas of North Sulawesi to witness the scale of Indonesia’s earthquake & tsunami ✔ The president's rhetoric brought back memories of the destructive rush to arm that over half a century cost hundreds of billions of pounds, fed paranoia on both sides, and eventually bankrupted the Soviet Union ✔ But where the war can be won is in the economy, information and cyber-space
Analysis | Ryanair: Passenger’s racist tirade offers case study for airlines on how not to deal with a PR disaster
10/22/2018, 9:07:38 PMIt was bad enough that Ryanair's flight crew moved the victim of the man's verbal assault rather than remove him. But as outrage continues to grow, the company's silence is also puzzling. ✔ They’ve come across with zero compassion, no sense of confidence that they’re on top of the situation, and, clearly, the world is concluding they responded incompetently, Bernstein said ✔ Read more Tripping: TSA goes for guns and money Scooters return to San Francisco Manspreading, accident videos, guns: Here are some of the things people wanted Metro records on
7 things to look out for in the first election of Donald Trump’s presidency
10/22/2018, 11:09:08 PMVoting is set to take place on 6 November ✔ The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall on September 4, the country's weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings AFP/Getty 50/50 3 September 2018 Myanmar journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon
Lonely Planet's top 10 cities to visit in 2019
10/22/2018, 10:43:51 PMLonely Planet has selected its top 10 cities to visit in 2019. The No. 10 city is exotic Meknes, Morocco. Find out which nine cities rank even higher. ✔ It may be a practice run for 2021, when the city will celebrate the prestigious title of European Capital of Culture ✔ Lonely Planet has a warm historic attachment to Kathmandu, and Nepal, so I was really pleased to see us be able to talk about the city's continued recovery from the 2015 earthquake, Hall says
Opinion | Could Khashoggi’s death trigger reforms? A 1984 murder case offers lessons.
10/22/2018, 8:28:27 PMThe Henry Liu case provides some hope that the fallout from the murder of Jamal Khashoggi could be positive, if Americans and Saudis rise to the challenge. ✔ But Congress, reluctant to continue business as usual, intercedes ✔ Unlike President Trump’s bizarre comments on Khashoggi, Reagan never addressed Liu’s murder in public ✔ Lee had just been reelected by the rubber-stamp National Assembly ✔ Instead, he promised to hold the next election in 1996 by popular vote
Scientists discover plastic in faeces of every person who took part in Europe-wide study
10/22/2018, 11:09:10 PMUp to nine different types of microplastic found in samples from each participant ✔ The pilot study recruited eight participants from the UK, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Austria ✔ It is estimated up to 5 per cent of all plastics produced end up in the sea ✔ It's therefore inevitable that at least some of these things will get into our lungs and digestive systems
Melania Trump: Where is Melania Trump now? Official events of the first lady revealed
10/22/2018, 10:33:38 PMMELANIA Trump hit headlines earlier this month after she was forced to make an emergency aircraft landing on the way to a major event. Where is Melania Trump now and what is her official event itinerary? ✔ While on the way to the event in Philadelphia, her plane was grounded as smoke apparently billowed from inside the aircraft ✔ Her ‘Be Best’ initiative focuses on wellbeing programs and promoting organisations and people helping children overcome serious issues which come with growing up in the modern world, and sees Melania regularly attending associated events
Britain’s has WILDCATS about to be saved from the edge of extinction
10/22/2018, 10:11:46 PMWildcats are like a domestic cat with superpowers. Yesterday, the BBC broadcast footage of three wildcat kittens filmed by a hill walker in the Cairngorms. ✔ They have thicker coats than most domestic cats, and impressive black rings around a big, well-furred tail ✔ But these are not the hearth-rug snoozers of Britain, nor the half-tame bangers of cat-flaps, nor the feral cats domestic moggies that live and breed in the wild that haunt towns and suburbs and countryside
Perspective | The caravan is coming! And it’s high time to calm the rising media frenzy.
10/22/2018, 10:42:57 PMThe incessantly repeated language of “invasion” and “onslaught” serves Trump’s political purpose. ✔ On Monday, the New York Times and The Washington Post used dominant photos of the exodus above the front-page folds of their print editions; the accompanying articles were placed inside ✔ From the president’s viewpoint, the focus on the caravan serves multiple and certainly welcome purposes ✔ For more by Margaret Sullivan visit wapo.st/sullivan
Mena Suvari reveals she secretly wed Michael Hope: 'Third time's a charm'
10/22/2018, 10:39:43 PMMena Suvari let the cat out of the bag: She's married! The "American Woman" star, 39, revealed to Us Weekly Sunday that she secretly wed Michael Hope. ✔ Actress and reality TV star Kyle Richards delighted in delving into 1970s-era fashion and pop culture for American Woman, a new series she created starring Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Bartels and Mena Suvari ✔ After Lee claimed their 21-year-old son Brandon assaulted him in March, Anderson said that he had been trying to arrange an intervention about his father's alcoholism
Grave of Diana's stepmum is left without a headstone
10/22/2018, 10:11:49 PMHow improbable it seems that Princess Diana’s vivacious stepmother Raine, Countess Spencer, could ever be forgotten. But she lies in a south west London cemetery under a tiny wooden cross. ✔ But the salmon just wouldn’t cook so I sent everyone out to this really bad pub ✔ Does she mean Lucy Worsley, whose BBC programmes always seem to involve a raid on the dressing-up box ✔ ‘Lucy trying clothes on is rather different, I think,’ says the historian and broadcaster, generously
Halloween event branded 'shambles' by parents who say it's so bad it's hilarious
10/22/2018, 10:10:11 PMScreamania in Greater Manchester promised to be the biggest event of its kind but parents says it was like a failed challenge from The Apprentice ✔ Dan, who said the whole thing 'reminded me of a failed Apprentice task', said a number of people were asking for refunds, either at the front desk or on the phone to Skiddle ✔ Read More Halloween Costumes 2018 For kids and teens For men For women For couples
Hard Brexit ‘could cripple UK science’, warn Nobel laureates
10/22/2018, 11:09:13 PM'The overwhelming negativity of scientists towards a hard Brexit should be a wake-up call to the country and the government' ✔ World-leading scientists and mathematicians from across Europe have warned against a hard Brexit if the UK is to preserve its vital research ✔ - Britons dreading life outside Europe gathered from all corners of the UK to London on Saturday to try to stop their country's looming breakup with the EU
Trump dares TV reporter to look for MS-13 gangsters in migrant caravan
10/22/2018, 9:19:30 PMDemocrats see the migration 'caravan' as a sea of asylum seekers fleeing poverty and civil wars. To Republicans, they're opportunists and a potential Trojan Horse. ✔ But a new group of 1,000 Hondurans have begun the journey, vowing to following in the footsteps of the first ✔ With a homicide rate of 43 per 100,000 citizens, Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the world, according to a Honduran university study
Donald Trump gets sweet revenge on Ted Cruz today in Texas
10/22/2018, 8:36:27 PMOn Monday night in Houston, Donald Trump will dunk on Ted Cruz one last time. ✔ MUST WATCH (CNN)On Monday night in Houston, Donald Trump will dunk on Ted Cruz one last time ✔ THE POINT -- NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics ✔ Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the pledge!, tweeted Trump
Cape Town’s slave ship secret
10/22/2018, 8:39:58 PMFor more than 200 years, a shipwreck has lain offshore of Cape Town’s world-renowned Clifton Beaches. Now this harrowing chapter of the transatlantic slave trade is being revealed. ✔ A resident of Clifton, Justice Sachs sees the relics of a slave ship so close to an idyllic beach as a reminder of a dark history ✔ Some visitors might even recognise the origin of their own surnames ✔ (Text by Piet van Niekerk; video and photos – unless otherwise noted – by Werner Hoffmann)
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