Why does Venice flood, is it sinking, how often does it flood and what defences are there?
10/30/2018, 4:38:02 PMTHE WATERWAYS of Venice draw millions of visitors from around the world every year – but the Italian city has too much water this time. Here we explain why Venice has flooded, what defences t… ✔ AFP or licensors 5 The water has played havoc with the city's tourism industry Is Venice sinking ✔ Residents and businesses typically reinforce their doors with metal or wooden panels to prevent water from entering the bottom floors, but photos on social media showed shop owners using water pumps this time to try to protect their goods
5.7 magnitude earthquake hits off of Greek tourist island Zante
10/30/2018, 4:45:09 PMAnother earthquake has rocked the Greek tourist island of Zante. It struck at 4.12pm and measured 5.7 on the Richter scale. It comes after a 6.8 quake on Friday, ✔ Another earthquake has struck off the Greek tourist island of Zante ✔ Shaking was felt hundreds of miles away in southern Italy ✔ Images on social media showed a damaged outbuilding at a monastery on the island of Strofades, although it is unclear if other places have been affected
Hurricane Oscar to batter UK with 80mph gales and 2 INCHES rain this week
10/30/2018, 6:45:07 PMHURRICANE Oscar is due to batter Britain this weekend as 105mph winds rage across the Atlantic towards Britain on Friday. We are expecting upwards of 60mm of rain to fall in the Northwest of the UK… ✔ It is likely to lead to very windy conditions in northern and western parts of the UK this weekend with gusts of around 60mph possible ✔ It also looks like turning very wet in western regions on Saturday and the rain could clear southeastwards during Sunday ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368
Earthquake measuring 5.4 magnitude off coast of Zante
10/30/2018, 4:00:20 PMWe'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story ✔ A tremor measuring 5.4 magnitude has been measured off the coast of Greek holiday island Zante ✔ Several earthquakes have struck Greece in the same location as the mega tremors hit last week ✔ Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you
BREAKING: Earthquake ROCKS Zante – 5.7 magnitude quake hits Brit hotspot
10/30/2018, 4:51:57 PMZANTE has been rocked by a 5.7 magnitude earthquake, according to reports.
Typhoon triggers deadly landslides in Philippines, dozens trapped
10/30/2018, 4:03:26 PMLandslides killed four people and trapped at least 31 others on Tuesday in a mou... ✔ Footage from Yutu’s path captured by local television showed winds bending trees and signs, sheets of rain lashing down and loose materials flying through the air ✔ It tore off the roofs of buildings, flipped vehicles and damaged generators, water pipes and downed hundreds of electricity poles ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Irish passport applications SURGE ahead of ‘looming disaster of Brexit’, says Dublin
10/30/2018, 7:44:04 PMTHE number of Britons applying for Irish passports has surged since the Brexit referendum, according to an Irish official who branded the UK's withdrawal from the EU a “looming disaster”. ✔ The shocking claim comes as Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond shared numbers related to the passport applications issued by UK citizens in the last months at the Irish Embassy in London ✔ In 2017 they spiked to 82,274 and, up to the end of May 2018, 46,898 Northern Ireland’s residents had issued a request to London
Typhoon Yutu batters Philippines, killing at least 6 people
10/30/2018, 7:53:39 PMA strong typhoon blew across the northern Philippines on Tuesday, setting off landslides that left at least six people dead. ✔ Yutu’s sustained winds of 93 mph when it hit the Philippines was considerably less than the 180 mph registered earlier as it tore through the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, where it knocked out power, destroyed homes and delayed elections
Is NASA hiding evidence of aliens on Mars? Photo of ‘smoke plume’ sparks conspiracy FRENZY
10/30/2018, 4:51:17 PMNASA has been accused of hiding evidence of alien life on Mars after astronomers photographed what appears to be a giant plume of smoke on the Red Planet. ✔ It makes you wonder if NASA is already getting ahead of this and editing this plume out or is something weird happening here ✔ The elongated cloud formation was snapped hovering near the 12-mile-high (20km) Arsia Mons volcano near the planet’s equator ✔ The Martian cloud was snapped on October 10 by the Mars Express mission with the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC)
Trump hits Stormy Daniels with over $300,000 in legal fees
10/30/2018, 4:20:22 PMMichael Avenatti warns US president will owe his client more money as part of separate lawsuit ✔ She also dug a cave under her home AFP/Getty 50/50 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 BATTERED with remnants of Hurricane Oscar THIS weekend
10/30/2018, 6:27:23 PMWEATHER in parts of Britain is set to deteriorate towards the end of the week as the remnants of Hurricane Oscar unleash devastating winds and rainfall for much of northern parts of the nation. ✔ The Met Office forecaster added: By the end of Friday the winds will be picking up ✔ This week, actually, the weather is changing and we are finally going to get more of a westerly influence and it is actually going to turn quite a bit milder by the weekend
UK weather forecast: European SNOW CLOUD to chill UK with FREEZING winds
10/30/2018, 5:39:03 PMTHE UK is in the grips of a cold snap, and now a European snow cloud is poised to hit Britain with freezing winds. ✔ Things are going to turn more unsettled towards the end of the week, especially on Friday going into Saturday, she told The Sun Online ✔ Coral spokesman John Hill said: The bookmakers are set for a scary Halloween this year because if temperatures do continue to plummet, they could be set for a frightening pay-out on the coldest ever Halloween in this country
Mexican economy recovers in third quarter as trade worries fade
10/30/2018, 4:50:11 PMMexico's economy rebounded in the third quarter, official data showed on Tu... ✔ In late August, Mexican negotiators agreed to an updated North American trade deal with the United States, with Canada joining the accord a month later ✔ While the deal must still be ratified in all three countries, the accord helped calm investor uncertainty after months of often contentious talks ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Death toll rises to 11 as storms hammer Italy
10/30/2018, 6:55:09 PMViolent storms battered Italy for a third consecutive day on Tuesday, killing at... ✔ Italian media said it was the second time this century that the basilica had been flooded, and just the fifth time it had seen such high water within the body of the cathedral in its 1,000-year history ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
How five fires foretold Grenfell
10/30/2018, 5:10:17 PMON 14 June 2017, the nation watched in horror as Grenfell Tower burned, killing 72 people and injuring and displacing hundreds more from their homes. But for those who survived five similar fires i… ✔ PA:Press Association 16 Garnock Court had been covered in flammable cladding The fire was started by William Linton, an elderly man who lived on a flat on the fifth floor ✔ I thought 'if we are going to die, then we're going to die trying to escape', she says ✔ The Fires That Foretold Grenfell is on tonight, BBC Two at 9pm
These are not images of flight JT
10/30/2018, 5:51:10 PMFollow international news through our Observers' amateur images and eyewitness testimony. All the content is verified and explained by our journalists. ✔ Following most disasters these days, a number of hoaxes are shared online, often involving images sbowing past disasters of a similar nature ✔ Banyak postingan foto di media sosial bahwa ada bayi penumpang pesawat JT-610 yang selamat ✔ Foto bayi ini adalah bayi yang selamat dari tenggelamnya kapal KM Lestari Maju, di Perairan Selayar, pada Selasa 3/7/2018
'Who's in charge?' Next Mexico leader clashes with business over...
10/30/2018, 4:37:41 PMMexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's decision to cancel a ... ✔ Lopez Obrador, who takes office on Dec. 1, has said the energy opening could also be put to a vote ✔ Mexico’s peso currency and stocks suffered their biggest falls since Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president two years ago after a campaign laced with hostile rhetoric towards Mexico ✔ A spokesman for Slim did not immediately reply to a request for comment ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Prince Harry comforts boy, 6, whose mum killed herself
10/30/2018, 5:29:51 PMTHIS is the touching moment Prince Harry told a boy of six whose mother killed herself: “Life will always be all right.” The caring dad-to-be — who lost his own mother aged 12 — stopped… ✔ It came a day after Harry opened up on his struggle to cope with his inner turmoil after his mother Princess Diana died in 1997 ✔ He told mental health volunteers in Wellington: It took me about three or four years to start the journey and then after that you still have to find the right people to speak to ✔ If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the Samaritans (free) on 116 123
Bake Off finalists reveal their excitement ahead of tonight's showdown
10/30/2018, 5:55:05 PMTuesday night will see Ruby, Kim-Joy and Rahul go head to head in the final of the Great British Bake Off and the contestants have shared their excitement on social media. ✔ While it is unknown what the technical round will be the other two challenges have been revealed however: making donuts for the signature bake and spectacular landscape-themed creations in the final showstopper task ✔ Once in the UK, he discovered new flavours and cuisines that have inspired his East-meets-West style of baking Stand-out moments: Receiving many Hollywood handshakes during the series, he secured the Star Baker title during the Break and Cake Weeks
Venice recovers after 'perfect storm' left 3/4 of the city flooded
10/30/2018, 5:17:21 PMShopkeepers and cafe owners around the historic St Mark's Square began bailing out their businesses on Tuesday, a day after the entire square had to be closed due to near-historic flooding. ✔ Cleanup efforts got underway in Venice on Tuesday after a 'perfect storm' of high tides and strong winds left three quarters of the historic city underwater on Monday ✔ Among them was a £5.3million, 120ft yacht belonging to Silvio Berlusconi's son Pier, the Seguno, which was photographed over on its side and half submerged in the water
Demi Lovato struggles to sell $9m mansion where she overdosed
10/30/2018, 6:41:24 PMLast month Demi Lovato slashed $500,000 off the asking price of her Hollywood Hills home where she suffered an overdose in July. ✔ Instead, TMZ reports, the singer's renovations are putting off potential purchasers, with Demi turning the garages into a security base, glam room and wardrobe room, leaving the property without a covered car space ✔ She opened the door and saw a man on my balcony, and he ran ✔ That in itself encourages me about her future and about the future of our family.' Problems: A gate around the property includes some city land, according to a new report
Trump borrows from the old tricks of fascism | Timothy Snyder
10/30/2018, 4:28:56 PMThe idea that the powerful are victims who must be coddled arose in a setting that recalls the United States of today ✔ Since Jews are supposedly responsible for rights, they are blamed when people beyond the dominant group exercise rights ✔ Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University ✔ He is the author of several books of European history as well as, most recently, On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom
'Typical question journalist would ask!' Lord Digby Jones SHUTS DOWN BBC host
10/30/2018, 4:58:40 PMLORD Digby Jones was forced to intervene in a heated debate between Jo Corburn and Tory MP Kwasi Kwarteng as the BBC host insisted the UK deficit will increase between this year and 2020. ✔ Budget 2018: Lord Digby forced to intervene in heated debate between Jo Coburn and Kwasi Kwarteng (Image: BBC) Jo, that’s a typical question a journalist will ask to get the answers they want Lord Digby If you look at year on year comparator, you’re right
Analysis | A referendum on a new airport was a test for Mexico’s incoming president — and it ended badly
10/30/2018, 7:21:59 PMWhen is an airport more than airport? When it is a bellwether for a nation’s economic policy. ✔ The site of a new international airport in Texcoco, on the outskirts of Mexico City, on Monday ✔ He has criticized the privatization of the petroleum industry and proposed a wide range of social programs without coherently explaining how they would be funded
Horrifying new footage shows Leicester owner's helicopter plummeting to ground
10/30/2018, 5:10:12 PMTHIS is the moment the doomed helicopter carrying Leicester City’s billionaire owner takes off before spinning out of control and plummeting to the ground. Video of the shocking incident emerged to… ✔ The video cuts out as the men standing at the side of the pitch begin running towards the crash site in a desperate bid to help ✔ The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is investigating Saturday’s crash and appealed for anyone with information that might be helpful to contact the police ✔ RING The Sun on (0207) 782 4104, WHATSAPP (07423) 720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
Russia Is Meddling In The Midterms. The White House Just Isn't Talking About It.
10/30/2018, 4:17:51 PMRussia hasn't tried to hack voting machines in 2018, the government says, but its propaganda efforts are as active as ever. ✔ We haven’t seen any compromises, or any sort of access to election equipment, across the United States, at this point, Chris Krebs, a DHS official, assured reporters after the walkthrough, in the only on-the-record portion of the meeting, the first ever of its kind ✔ The trolls are trying a lot harder to cover their tracks, he said ✔ Trump himself accused China of election meddling in September, but has only mentioned the country taking out a large ad in an Iowa newspaper as proof
26 Problem-Solving Bathroom Products For $10 Or Less
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