UK weather forecast: Britain faces TWO-WEEK storm hell - charts show TROPICAL CYCLONE hit
10/31/2018, 6:53:06 PMBRITAIN is facing a FORTNIGHT of storms as the nation braces for a weekend of 70mph gales and torrential downpours. Guy Fawkes revellers face bonfire night hell with the remains of a tropical cyclone set to rip through the country from Friday night. ✔ Lashing rain and powerful winds unleashed by Hurricane Oscar’s death throes will be strong enough to damage trees and buildings, as well as sparking travel chaos ✔ Up to three inches of rain driven by severe gales will drench parts of Britain with the deluge likely to persist into next week
BBC Weather: Britain to be STRUCK with heavy rain and 65mph winds as Storm Oscar HITS
10/31/2018, 4:36:56 PMWEATHER in Britain is set to “take a turn downhill” on Friday as ex-hurricane Oscar unleashes strong winds and heavy rain in parts of the UK over the weekend, BBC Weather has warned. ✔ In other words, a typical area of low pressure with weather fronts, wind and rain and so on ✔ A fine day for most of us but we will notice the winds picking up and the cloud building and then on Saturday there is ex-Oscar to the northeast of Britain bringing strong winds to northwestern parts of the country and bringing outbreaks of rain to northern areas
Opinion | Big Oil is sloshing a crude tsunami across the country
10/31/2018, 6:46:28 PMDon’t fall for Big Oil’s positioning at the national level. At the local level, it hasn’t changed. ✔ By Bill McKibben October 30 at 6:27 PM Bill McKibben is a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College and a founder of the group 350.org ✔ In this case, though, it’s being spent in a state with a fifth of the population ✔ In San Luis Obispo, Calif., a countywide anti-fracking referendum is drawing the same kind of lopsided cash
Brit tourists stage revolt after TUI dump them 1.5 miles from hotel in the rain
10/31/2018, 4:22:12 PMThe group of 90 holidaymakers had their flight delayed and were dropped at the wrong emergency hotel in Agadir, Morocco ✔ The clip then cuts to tourists arriving at the hotel at about 4.30am, tired, soaking and struggling to pull their luggage up the steps ✔ Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online Dad 'drinks himself to death' Straitjacket halloween flier slammed Man has penis filler 'as surprise gift' Thief breaks into ambulance
Secret CIA documents claim evidence for Martian race – wiped out by environment disaster
10/31/2018, 4:04:18 PMSECRET CIA documents show how decades of experiments on ‘real life superheroes’ believed to be able to use Extra Sensory Perception revealed an ALIEN RACE lived on Mars millions of years ago until they were wiped out by an environmental catastrophe. ✔ Findings on Mars have long triggered the interest of both scientist and the conspiracy theory community ✔ Mars-scape: Can you spot the Martian in this landscape ✔ Frederick Holmes Skip Atwater, an aide and psychic headhunter to Maj ✔ Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute
Pictures of the month: October | Pictures | Reuters
10/31/2018, 6:53:09 PMA 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, October 15. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman ✔ 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, October 15 ✔ The fish are so popular here, fisheries managers estimate that the Portuguese collectively eat 13 sardines every second during a typical June about 34 million fish for the month
Taliban appoint five former Guantanamo inmates to Qatar office to take part in Afghanistan peace talks
10/31/2018, 5:15:05 PMThe 'Taliban Five' were released in 2014 as part of exchange freeing Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl ✔ Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza strip in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused damage in a southern city, the Israeli army said AFP/Getty 16/50 16 October 2018 Ecuador has issued a list of rules to Julian Assange, the famous resident of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
UK Weather: Shocking map shows snow risk to ROCKET in first week of November
10/31/2018, 7:35:58 PMUK Weather is on track to take another freezing turn, with a shocking weather chart showing the risk of snow significantly increasing over the first week of November. ✔ UK Weather: Latest charts show the risk of snow significantly jump at the start of November (Image: WXCHARTS) Stormy conditions are expected to hold out through the first half of November and possibly into winter ✔ But actually with a ridge of high pressure, things will be fairly settled for many areas of the UK on Friday
‘At risk of collision’: Two Ryanair planes could have crashed in Spanish airspace – investigators
10/31/2018, 4:19:04 PMTwo Ryanair aircraft, full of passengers, were forced to take evasive action in order to avoid a tragic mid-air collision over Spanish airspace, a preliminary investigation into the incident has found. ✔ The serious near-miss took place on October 2, when a Ryanair plane, traveling south from Santiago de Compostela to Palma de Mallorca, came close to colliding with a similar aircraft, heading north en route from Seville to Toulouse, Spanish aviation authorities said
Chunky chips falling off the menu after summer weather produces small potato crop
10/31/2018, 5:24:34 PMChunky chips are off the menu at bars, restaurants and traditional fish and chip shops after the hot summer caused a small potato crop. ✔ He told The Telegraph: In the last few months, [sweet potato chips are] appearing on a lot more menus ✔ We all suffered this year with the sun but imagine if we all said no to the potato farmer because his spuds are too small, who will be suffering then...
Study: Freak summer weather and wild jet stream patterns are on the rise due to global warming
10/31/2018, 6:44:49 PMThe study projects increasingly erratic summer jet stream behavior in the future, leading to more severe heat waves, droughts, fires and floods. ✔ (VentuSky.com) By Jason Samenow Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather and climate Email Bio Follow October 31 at 2:16 PM In many ways, the summer of 2018 marked a turning point, when the effects of climate change perhaps previously on the periphery of public consciousness suddenly took center stage ✔ Looking at a large number of different computer models, we found interesting differences, said Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research, a co-author of the study, in a news release
India just unveiled the world's tallest statue. Who is he? - Los Angeles Times
10/31/2018, 6:46:23 PMIndia has unveiled the tallest statue in the world – a 597-foot bronze likeness of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, an independence leader who became the country’s first deputy prime minister. ✔ Hindu nationalist Modi and his allies accuse the Congress party of ignoring Patel’s contribution to the nation while favoring the Nehru dynasty, which included two subsequent prime ministers, Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi and grandson Rajiv Gandhi ✔ They said it flew in the face of one of Modi’s pet programs, dubbed Make in India, which aims to encourage entrepreneurship and manufacturing
U.S. and Britain Seek Yemen Cease-Fire as Relations With Saudis Cool
10/31/2018, 6:13:21 PMPressure from Saudi Arabia’s biggest arms suppliers intensified to halt a conflict that has created what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. ✔ Diplomatic pressure from the United States and Britain, Saudi Arabia’s biggest arms suppliers, abruptly intensified on Wednesday for a cease-fire in the Yemen war, the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster ✔ Critics of Saudi Arabia in Britain have been pressing Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to do the same
U.S. Plans Sanctions to Target Venezuela’s Gold Exports
10/31/2018, 6:29:46 PMWashington is preparing sanctions to impede Venezuela’s gold exports and clamp down on what U.S. officials say is an effort by President Nicolás Maduro to loot the embattled nation’s riches and offset a U.S. campaign to squeeze the authoritarian government’s finances, according to people familiar with the matter. ✔ meeting that Venezuelan officials have turned to another valuable resource to plunder, amid Venezuela’s falling oil production ✔ Through bilateral deals, Turkish companies have secured food supply agreements with Venezuela, helping Caracas fill bare supermarket shelves with Turkish products
Couple furious after checking into AirBnB that looked like 'a bombsite'
10/31/2018, 5:39:08 PMA COUPLE who saved for five years for their dream trip claim Airbnb refused to refund their £700, despite the city centre holiday let looking like a ‘bombsite’ strewn with other people&… ✔ She said: There was clutter shoved in the cupboard with the boiler which is a fire hazard ✔ I'm still out of pocket by £720 and the host was allowed to advertise the room again and get somebody else in ✔ There have been over 400 million guest arrivals on Airbnb and negative experiences are extremely rare
Demise of Germany’s Political Mainstream Has a Surprise Winner: a Pro-Migrant Party
10/31/2018, 4:46:30 PMIn Germany, it isn’t just right-wing populists that are getting a boost from disenchantment with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government. There is another winner: the Greens. ✔ In Bavaria, the Greens scored their strongest result ever in the state by wooing some 170,000 voters from the Christian Social Union, the CDU’s sister party, according to polling group Infratest Dimap ✔ We also carry a lot of responsibility on our shoulders as very different people have totally different expectations of us, said Mr. Klose
Nuclear war: Hypothetical scenario & Russia's strike options
10/31/2018, 4:48:09 PMMany believe that the US withdrawal from the INF treaty could heighten the nuclear standoff risks between Russia and America. Some even claim war is inevitable. What are some possible thermonuclear warfare scenarios? ✔ In case of a launch on warning, the Integrated Space System (EKS) and the Early Warning System detect a massive launch of ICBMs from US territories and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and calculate target locations inside Russia and their flight time
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The TV reboot of Heathers was doomed from the start
10/31/2018, 7:14:19 PMYet another aborted attempt to air the show backfired this week ✔ The most dramatic change the show made, however, is the decision to radically alter the lineup of the Heathers themselves ✔ Unfortunately, the now-missing climax backtracked this reading substantially ✔ Bringing it into such a radically changed world was even worse
At death's door: The attraction of living in homes with ghastly pasts
10/31/2018, 5:03:04 PMTelevision sets inexplicably turn on and off. Visitors who enter his room complain of sudden migraines. Rapping sounds keep him awake at night, and psychic ✔ Visitors who enter his room complain of sudden migraines ✔ In Tanishi Matsubara’s tales of living in apartments with grim histories of murder, suicide and lonely deaths, morbid humor often gives way to outright terror ✔ He says in many cases, they find out through Oshimaland, an unusual real estate website run by Teru Oshima
How Jamal Khashoggi got caught in the crossfire between two rival nations
10/31/2018, 6:15:07 PMNews of Jamal Khashoggi’s death has reverberated around the world. But, as Borzou Daragahi explains, at the heart of his murder is the intertwined story of a prince and a populist ✔ Jamal Khashoggi felt safe in Turkey, comfortable enough to buy an apartment in the Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul and make plans to partially settle down there ✔ *** Khashoggi had a strong affinity for the brand of Islamist-rooted populist politics practised by Erdogan and his allies, at least much more so than for the absolute monarchical rule of his own and other Arabian peninsula autocracies
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