Italy airport closed: Milan Airport to shut for three MONTHS affecting millions travelling
10/14/2018, 2:40:31 PMITALY’s popular airport in Milan will be closed for three months in 2019 during the busiest season of the year due to renovation works, affecting millions of passengers. ✔ Italy Airport: Passengers will travel to Milan Malpensa Airport instead - larger but further away (Image: Getty) The increase in passengers, approximately two million who would travel during the three months of closure, could also put pressure on the airport This comes with a downside - the distance to the city centre
Vietnam passes the taste test
10/14/2018, 2:40:28 PMDEBORAH STONE takes a fresh look at the country where cooking and eating are national obsessions Fresh food adventures always on the menu ✔ Junks at Ha Long Bay (Image: Matthew King/Getty Images) THERE'S a knack to crossing the road in Vietnam ✔ The cars and hundreds of mopeds with riders carrying anything from shopping to livestock, chairs and even trees, simply drive around you ✔ But at the centre of Hué, as in all Vietnamese towns, is the market
Harper Yeats will have traveled to all 50 states this week. She's only 5 months old
10/14/2018, 6:20:55 PMHarper Yeats dipped her toes in the ocean for the first time in South Carolina. She tasted her first solid food -- rice cereal -- in Alaska. And on Thursday, in Vermont, the 5-month-old will mark another milestone: Her 50th state. ✔ In some of the photos, usually with a little bow on her head, the miniature savvy traveler is napping and seemingly unaware of her epic journey through landscapes and timezones ✔ At some point, she'll fly to the other side of the world -- to Canberra, Australia, where her parents are originally from
Bracing swims and fire-pit picnics on a lovely Irish lake
10/14/2018, 5:29:25 PMThe Finn Lough resort in Northern Ireland is built around a beautiful lake, Lower Lough Erne. So embrace the Nordic spa experience by combining a soak in a hot tub with a chilly, but invigorating, dip. ✔ Another day we climb Mount Cuilcagh (2,180ft), where a wooden staircase has been installed to protect the bog land and your feet ✔ Gorgeous and, at Dunfanaghy beach, there's time for one last, brisk dip ✔ TRAVEL FACTS Stay at Finn Lough from £295 a night including breakfast, finnlough.com
Russian Submarines Are Equipped With Deadly Supercavitating Torpedoes the US Navy Can Not Match
10/14/2018, 12:32:54 PMImagine the sudden revelation of a weapon that can suddenly go six times faster than its predecessors. The shock of such a breakthrough system would turn an entire field of warfare on its head, as potential adversaries scrambled to deploy countermeasures to a new weapon they are defenseless against. While a lull in great power competition delayed the impact of this new technology, the so-called “supercavitating torpedo” may be about to take the world by storm. ✔ While a lull in great power competition delayed the impact of this new technology, the so-called supercavitating torpedo may be about to take the world by storm ✔ Shkval was originally designed in the 1960s as a means of quickly attacking NATO nuclear missile submarines, delivering a nuclear warhead at previously unheard-of speeds ✔ Undersea warfare is about to get a whole lot louderand deadlier
Air Canada's close call in San Francisco could've been 'worst aviation accident in history'
10/14/2018, 7:41:32 PM“Only a few feet of separation" saved Air Canada from "the worst aviation accident in history,” the National Transportation Safety Board reports. ✔ This time-lapsed video shows a NOAA airplane passing through Hurricane Florence near Bermuda ✔ Weener noted that other pilots were alert enough to turn on lights to warn the off-course Air Canada jet ✔ Yet once the danger passed, he said, they took no action to prompt an intervention and evaluation of the Air Canada crew
WATCH: Motorbike thief gets instant karma after victim REFUSES to be attacked
10/14/2018, 12:13:11 PMA VIRAL VIDEO captured a pair of motorbike thieves suffer instant karma when targeting a young couple in Brazil, after the victims fought them off with very unusual techniques. ✔ Viral video: Two motorbike thieves suffered from instant karma after an attempted robbery (Image: LiveLeak) Viral video: The victim used his umbrella to fight the thieves off (Image: LiveLeak) There is no reason for two dudes on a bike to stop you anywhere in the world aside from robbery Imgur user The video has since gone viral, with nearly 70,000 people watching it in just one day
Plenty of pumpkins for a SoCal weekend - Los Angeles Times
10/14/2018, 2:48:47 PMLiven up your SoCal weekend with Japanese food and culture, a Halloween costume contest for dogs and pumpkins aplenty. ✔ Liven up your SoCal weekend with Japanese food and culture, a Halloween costume contest for dogs and pumpkins aplenty ✔ Wash down your meal with sake tastings, tea ceremonies, calligraphy demonstrations and Japanese drumming ✔ When : 7 a.m. Oct. 20 Cost, info: Free
Snapchat now lets you put filters on your cat
10/14/2018, 4:54:06 PMFilters previously only worked on humans and dogs ✔ 11/12 Snap Map Snap Map caused a huge amount of controversy when it launched, with people afraid that the feature could expose children to danger ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds And considering a survey conducted by Mars Petcare found that the average cat owner ‘likes’ 398 cat-related posts and looks at 725 cat pictures and videos in a year, it seems likely that the new cat filters will be the app’s most popular feature yet
Beautiful Boy inspired by tragic real-life story of family torn apart by drugs
10/14/2018, 6:59:20 PMThe new film follows a fther trying to cope with his son, a teenage drug addict, as he tries to help his son get clean ✔ David is a journalist who wrote for The New York Times and Rolling Stone, before penning his 2008 memoir from a short article published in the New York Times Magazine, named My Addicted Son ✔ Nic kept journals about his addictions, chronicling how difficult he found it to be without drugs, and so ended up in rehab before attending university ✔ Beautiful Boy comes to cinemas in January after its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival
Why Is Everyone Mad About Ryan Gosling’s New Space Movie?
10/14/2018, 7:53:37 PMFirst Man doesn’t romanticize Neil Armstrong, or NASA’s hard-won moon landing. Instead, it tries to show great achievements without needing to deify those responsible for them. ✔ There is something tremendously 2018 about an astronaut movie managing to piss off a bunch of people including a sitting US senator before it ever hits theaters ✔ He is alone inside himself even when he’s with family members who love him or colleagues in the same boat
Analysis | Scooters set to return to San Francisco
10/14/2018, 12:58:43 PMSan Francisco banned scooters while city officials came up with a plan to regulate them. The step came amid thousands of complaints from pedestrians and others worried about safety and clutter. ✔ He said public health officials also reported an increase in injuries, including some from pedestrians who tripped over abandoned scooters left on sidewalks ✔ Read more Tripping: Manspreading, missing guns, accident videos here are some of the public documents people sought from Metro in 2017 Sprint becomes latest airline to impose stricter rules on emotional support animals Metro’s pensions aren’t the problem
10 stomachs, 32 brains and 18 testicles – a day inside the UK's only leech farm
10/14/2018, 1:10:01 PMThey were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery. But how are they farmed? ✔ The leeches ate it more readily, and one cow held the blood volume of 10 sheep ✔ In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Hirudo medicinalis an unclassified status as a marketable medical device ✔ This includes the alcohol required, various pots and, with misplaced kindness, leech-friendly forceps ✔ Free UK p&p on orders of more than £10, online only
Alexandra Burke leads the glamour at Fall Ball charity gala
10/14/2018, 7:34:32 PMAlexandra Burke was enjoying a rare night off on Sunday, hosting The Fall Ball at London's Cafe de Paris alongside PR guru Nick Ede, aiming at raising awareness for strokes. ✔ Stylish as ever: She also put on a stylish display ahead of arriving at the charity gala, looking chic in a leather miniskirt Looking good: Alexandra paired her fashionable skirt with a black velvet top and an on-trend checked coat Important issue: Alexandra was profoundly affected by her mother's Melissa Bell's death, which occurred before her appearance on Strictly Come Dancing last year She accessorised with hoop earrings and wore her hair pulled back in a loose ponytail
16 Badass Women That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History Class
10/14/2018, 7:39:46 PMPrepare to be blown away. ✔ Fanny Eaton, who was a Jamaican born pre-Raphaelite muse ✔ Dorothy Dandridge, who was considered to be one of the most talented and successful black actresses in history ✔ Born in New Jersey in 1945, Marsha was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, and a central figure in the 1969 Stonewall Riots ✔ Mae went on to be a college professor, writer, and all-round inspiration
Iron Fist will appear in other Marvel TV shows despite cancellation
10/14/2018, 4:54:07 PMFans expressed their disappointment over the news on Twitter ✔ Netflix 1/25 Bojack Horseman A cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development… on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams must watch ✔ Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Fans expressed their disappointment over the cancellation of Iron Fist on Twitter with many agreeing that its second season was a vast improvement on the first
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