Indonesia's Karakatau volcano creates its own lightning during magnificent eruption (VIDEO)
10/29/2018, 9:26:38 PMMother Nature produced a light show made of lava when Indonesia's Krakatau volcano erupted, scattering fiery specks and volcanic lightning into the night sky. The entire display was caught on video. ✔ The Krakatau volcano, situated in the Sunda Straight between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, has seen increased activity since June ✔ It sits on the chain of active volcanoes along the Pacific rim that is often called the 'Ring of Fire.' Like this story
Storm Oscar path: Post-Hurricane to SMASH UK this week - when will it hit?
10/29/2018, 9:28:32 PMBRITAIN is bracing for severe weather as Storm Oscar is on its way, but when will the hurricane hit the UK? ✔ Met Office meteorologist, Steven Keates said: Some manifestation of Hurricane Oscar will be heading our way on Friday and Saturday, although it is unlikely to still be a hurricane by the time it reaches us ✔ And Thursday before the big storm hits our shores rain will persist in the south-east and East Anglia, with most other parts being mostly dry but cold, highs of 12C
UK weather forecast: Met Office warn of BIG CHANGES to weather as storm threatens Britain
10/29/2018, 10:32:43 PMWEATHER in Britain is set to face some “big changes” this week as a storm making its way across Europe threatens to unleash havoc on parts of the country, while a “vicious” area of low pressure causes a shakeup in the weather towards the end of the week, according to the Met Office. ✔ UK weather forecast: Met Office warns of heavy rainfall on Friday (Image: Met Office•WXCHARTS) There’s weather fronts pushing in from the north-west but also still pushing in towards the south-east as well ✔ It’ll be cloudy and windy near that lot and on the whole, there will be more cloud today but we should see it breaking up a little bit – drizzly showers tending to fade away
UK weather latest: NOAA path update shows Storm Oscar in DIRECT HIT with UK
10/29/2018, 11:09:27 PMHURRICANE Oscar is barrelling towards the UK and is forecast to reach British shores this week following on from one of the coldest Autumn nights in a decade. ✔ The poor forecast follows on from one of the coldest nights of the autumn so far, as Brits woke up to frost and icy temperatures ✔ This system out towards the west is what will be called hurricane Oscar and could bring some wet and windy weather towards the end of the week ✔ The Atlantic hurricane season ends on November 30 and usually peaks on September 10 or 11
Anak Krakatau volcano explodes like fireworks with lava and lightning
10/29/2018, 8:42:35 PMIt's one of the most-watched volcanoes in the world because of its incredible eruptions. ✔ In thunderstorms, ice crystals are the particles that electrified ✔ Researchers have determined ice can play a role in very large eruptions, but the charge created by ash alone is enough to trigger a strike ✔ It rose up from the ocean in 1927 and has been active since then
Iranian immigrant raises more than $650,000 on GoFundMe for Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims
10/29/2018, 10:19:48 PMThe new fundraising goal for the GoFundMe campaign is $1m ✔ The 29-year-old initially thought about making a small donation ✔ Pictured here are the smashed windows of an office tower in Hong Kong ✔ Mr Khatiri believes small steps could cross that bridge of racial tension seen in this country and across different communities
If Bitcoin continues to take so much energy 'it will kill the planet'
10/29/2018, 10:19:43 PMIt could increase global temperatures by two degrees Celsius by 2033 ✔ Fearing government forces and their allies military advance to retake Idlib province, the mother of three learnt from YouTube videos how to make gas masks from charcoal, wood, paper cups, cotton, nylon plastic bags and tapes ✔ Mr Truby said: If we continue like this – yeah, it will kill the planet
Republican party headquarters in Florida vandalised with gunshots
10/29/2018, 10:19:49 PMNo one was injured or killed. ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 1/50 29 October 2018 Rescue team members collecting the remains of the crashed plane at Tanjung Priok Harbour, Indonesia
What is HIAS and why was the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect obsessed with it?
10/29/2018, 10:19:40 PMThe Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is a non-profit organisation providing relief and support to refugees around the world ✔ Catalonia's national day, the 'Diada' commemorates the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the region's subsequent loss of institutions and freedoms AFP/Getty 50/50 10 September 2018 An Indian man makes his way through floodwaters from the overflowing Panchanai River in Siliguri
Woman suicide bomber blows herself up in Tunisia city centre
10/29/2018, 8:28:31 PMPolice cordon off area after explosion on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue ✔ She also dug a cave under her home AFP/Getty 49/50 11 September 2018 People waving pro-independence Catalan flags 'Esteladas' while holding letters reading independence during a pro-independence demonstration in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia, the Diada
UK weather forecast: Britain to be hit by European 'snow cloud' after 'coldest October weekend in 10 YEARS' - here's where it will hit
10/29/2018, 9:15:10 PMBRITAIN is set to feel the effects of a ‘European snow cloud’ following the coldest October weekend the country has seen in the last decade. Temperatures across most of the country plun… ✔ BRITAIN is set to feel the effects of a 'European snow cloud' following the coldest October weekend the country has seen in the last decade ✔ This low pressure spinning about on the Continent across the North Sea bringing some wet weather to eastern areas
Your Halloween forecast: Spooky storms from Texas to Ohio, scary good in East, Southwest
10/29/2018, 8:23:57 PMHeaded out for trick-or-treating Halloween? For some of you, better get those ponchos ready: Stormy skies are possible from the South to the Great Lakes. ✔ If you're still looking for that perfect Halloween costume (and you want to be unique), don't choose one of these 10 ideas, ranked as the most popular 10Best Editors, USA TODAY 10Best Bumblebee Ivy Thompson slips on a piece of melting snow on Oct. 29, 2011, in Staunton, Virginia, following an unusual October snowstorm.This year, the worst weather for Halloween will stretch from Texas to Ohio.(Photo: Mike Tripp, AP) Headed out for trick-or-treating Wednesday night ✔ In this region, the stormy weather on Halloween evening can be blamed on a cold front that's forecast to stretch from the eastern Great Lakes all the way to the south-central states, according to the Weather Channel
Hurricane Oscar threatens UK after Britain was blasted by SNOW
10/29/2018, 10:26:22 PMHURRICANE Oscar is forecast to bring wet and windy weather to the UK later this week, days after Britain faced freezing conditions with parts of the country blasted by snow at the weekend as British Summer Time ended. ✔ Hurricane Oscar is forecast to bring wet and windy weather to the UK later this week (Image: NOAA) Parts of Scotland and north-east England were covered in snow on Saturday morning (Image: PA) And tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 70 miles from the centre
Indonesia plane crash search finds remains, debris at sea
10/29/2018, 11:54:11 PMJAKARTA--Rescuers in inflatable boats retrieved human remains, pieces of aircraft and personal belon ✔ Lion Air said there were two foreigners on the plane: one of the pilots, Indian national Bhavye Suneja, and an Italian citizen ✔ In a record transaction, Lion Air signed a deal to buy 230 Boeing jets for $21.7 billion during a visit by then-President Barack Obama in November 2011
Perspective | Swastikas at Jewish community center replaced with messages of love, support
10/29/2018, 9:34:29 PMIn Northern Virginia, the 19 swastikas were removed. Then people arrived with colored chalk to combat the hatred so evident there and now in Pittsburgh. ✔ The rocks have been turned over, and the creeps are coming out ✔ Robert Berman said the swastikas are an important reminder of the way Jews have been targeted throughout history ✔ A National Park Service move that’s completely un-American and unconstitutional
Investigation underway in Indonesia after 189 people killed as plane plunges into sea
10/29/2018, 10:19:47 PMMovements of new aircraft were erratic after take-off - just as on earlier flight ✔ About 300 people including police officers, divers and soldiers spent the day working against strong currents in waters up to 35m deep, using underwater robots to search for survivors, officials said ✔ A Lion Air aircraft crashed in 2004 during landing, killing 25 of the 163 people on board
Mexican president-elect pulls plug on new airport, peso sinks
10/29/2018, 8:57:46 PMMexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his governmen... ✔ The decision is to obey the will of the people, Lopez Obrador told reporters at a news conference ✔ He said it was a rational decision and that the government would save around 100 billion pesos ($5 billion) ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Italian cyclist Andrea Manfredi, 26, among 189 dead in Indonesia crash
10/29/2018, 10:42:08 PMThe Italian rider, 26, was on board Lion Air's flight JT-610, which was heading to Pangkal Pinang, an island north of the capital, Jakarta, when it lost contact with air control about 6.33am. ✔ Military families - In June 2015 an Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff, also coming down in a residential area in Medan, killing around 122 people on board, many of them servicemen and women and their families ✔ Three years prior, in August of 2015, 54 people were killed after a Trigana aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions
What does the end of the world look like?
10/29/2018, 10:39:24 PMIs everything getting better or is it really getting worse? Can it be both? Andy Martin talks to Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, about the shape of the future: what will it look like – and will there even be one? ✔ TS Eliot’s bleak prediction of the way the world will end ✔ Bovine emissions now outstrip cars, ships, trains and planes combined ✔ All doors would slide open noiselessly at the touch of a button ✔ Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me
Opinion | Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies
10/29/2018, 9:02:19 PMLet’s instead remember that the people in our daily lives are hurting too. ✔ By Patti Davis October 28 at 9:02 PM Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel The Earth Breaks in Colors and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan ✔ I answered him that we’re all responsible now for tending to one another’s wounds, and if you stay blind to what those wounds are, you can’t help
Japan and India pledge cooperation on AI and 5G
10/29/2018, 10:24:56 PMAbe's diplomatic maneuvering seeks to keep China in check ✔ The two countries will also collaborate on infrastructure, such as port and road projects in third countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh ✔ I want to continue to walk firmly hand in hand with Prime Minister Modi, aiming at bringing about a free and open Indo-Pacific
Lion Air plane crash off Indonesia: Hope fades for survivors after jet plunges into sea
10/29/2018, 8:49:17 PMSearch continues for 189 victims off West Java; Lion Air says Boeing jet delivered in August had previous issue that was rectified ✔ So far, they said 24 body bags have been received by the forensics unit at a hospital in Jakarta ✔ The crew had attempted to return two minutes after takeoff ✔ 10 Photos Plane crashes into sea in Bali 45 hurt when Lion Air jet overshoots runway at Indonesian resort island, lands in water Selvanaban Mariappen contributed to this report
Why 'Have you been?' isn't the only toilet-related question we should be asking
10/29/2018, 10:39:26 PMContinuing her series tackling socially unacceptable questions, Christine Manby says when so many are still struggling to access public facilities, it’s a conversation we should all be privy to ✔ You can get at least three perms’ worth of conversation out of this single simple topic ✔ However, the card won’t solve the problem for everyone ✔ There is already a changing places loo in Westminster ✔ Christine Manby has written numerous novels including ‘The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club’
How far to the right could Brazil’s new leader take the country?
10/29/2018, 10:23:25 PMJailing liberals and weakening environmental laws are among Jair Bolsonaro’s pledges. ✔ But the Bolsonaro administration, experts say, could grant new licenses and interpret current laws in ways that could allow more economic activity in the Amazon including mining ✔ This is a promise not of a party, not the empty words of a man, it’s an oath before God
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