Italy weather: Four dies as storm RAVAGES Italy leaving towns ISOLATED and wood DESTROYED
11/2/2018, 9:47:37 PMTHE death toll keeps rising in Italy as four more people were killed by the devastating weather condition as rains, lightning and strong gusts keep battering the Mediterranean country, destroying centuries-old forests and disrupting viability. ✔ And more misery piled up for people living in the iconic Riviera in Liguria, Genoa’s region, where the airport had to be shut down after rocks and flooded debris crowded its runways ✔ If electricity and heating are lacking, it is better that families with children and the elderly do not come
Watch Taylor Swift Rip Off Her False Lashes 'Like a Boss' Mid-Performance During Reputation Tour
11/2/2018, 8:21:28 PMThe pop star teared off her falsies as she performed on stage in the pouring rain in Sydney, Australia ✔ RELATED PHOTOS: The 20 Best Gifts for the Beauty-Obsessed People on Your List The star’s been so busy, she ultimately was forced to miss close friend Karlie Kloss’ upstate New York wedding on Oct. 18 ✔ Early voting goes til Thursday and Election Day is November 6
Fearless girl statue dressed in bulletproof vest on Wall Street: #FearfulGirl
11/2/2018, 8:49:26 PMGroup behind demonstration founded by parents of victim in Parkland school shooting ✔ The group tweeted the photo Friday morning along with the caption, She can’t be fearless if she’s afraid to go to school ✔ Pictured here are the smashed windows of an office tower in Hong Kong ✔ Change the Ref did not immediately respond to requests for comment
Trump accuses reporter of 'creating violence' with question
11/2/2018, 8:37:41 PMPresident was asked about his divisive rhetoric ✔ Dozens of activists have been living in treehouses, but are now being forced out after tensions rose between them and energy company RWE, which plans to expand its coal mine further into the remaining woodland AFP/Getty 50/50 14 September 2018 Speaking in Malmo today, the Dalai Lama stated I think Europe belongs to Europeans and suggested that refugees should focus on returning home and developing their home countries Reuters 1/50 2 November 2018 A Salvadorean migrant with a girl walks next to Guatemalan policemen as they approach the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Tecun Uman
Another suspicious package addressed to Tom Steyer recovered, FBI confirms
11/2/2018, 8:49:35 PMThis is the second suspicious package sent to the billionaire who is calling for Donald Trump's impeachment ✔ LA will be the biggest city in the US to ban the sale of fur, as it follows San Francisco, Berkley and others AP 46/50 18 September 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wave during a car parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, Reuters 47/50 17 September 2018 Australia has launched a nationwide investigation into needles being hidden in strawberries
Hondurans in migrant caravan sue Trump administration
11/2/2018, 10:06:29 PMThe class-action lawsuit claims the Trump administration is violating the Fifth Amendment ✔ Speaking at a news conference today, councillor Bob Blumenfield said this is something that is not just a good legislative win, it’s a moral win ✔ When they throw rocks like what they did to the Mexican military and police I say consider it a rifle ✔ The caravan is about weeks away from reaching the US southern border
Eels 'could disappear' from French rivers due to black market trade
11/2/2018, 8:11:35 PMEels are at risk of disappearing from France’s rivers because of an illegal trade spurred on by spiralling prices in Asia. ✔ The 600,000 eels, hidden in a consignment of frozen fish bound for Hong Kong, had arrived from Spain, which has become a hub for transporting glass eels caught in France, according to Ms Nithart ✔ This trade has led to a big decline in numbers, compounded by legal fishing and pollution of rivers with PCBs [polychlorinated biphenyls, formerly used in electrical equipment], Ms Nithart said
UK weather forecast: SHOCK chart shows Britain set to face BRUTAL freeze next week
11/2/2018, 8:54:44 PMBRITAIN is set to face another savage winter freeze next week as temperatures drop to bitterly cold levels once again, according to a shock weather forecast. ✔ Rain easing off in Northern Ireland, perhaps the north-west of Scotland to a certain extent ✔ Still dry towards the south-east of the UK, windy everywhere but gales are more likely through the Irish sea and into the western side of Scotland ✔ Durning the final part of autumn we could see more widespread snowfall which will fall to lower levels, we consider this now to be a high confidence scenario
Shiga facility to offer healing, second careers for racehorses
11/2/2018, 11:28:15 PMRITTO, Shiga Prefecture--A facility will open here in winter to save retired and injured racehorses ✔ It will cost 150 million yen ($1.33 million) to build, and organizers plan to seek donations for its operations and welfare projects so that elderly people and children with disabilities can spend time with the animals ✔ Four of the 10 stalls planned at the TCC Park Ritto will be used as shelters, while ponies and retired racers can undergo training for horse therapy programs there ✔ I want to create a prosperous society, working with horses
Seed banks will not save over third of critically endangered plants, new study finds
11/2/2018, 8:49:40 PMScientists call for investment in alternative technologies to protect species from climate change and disease ✔ Mahtuf Ikhsan 1/10 A group of emperor penguins face a crack in the sea ice, near McMurdo Station, Antarctica Kira Morris 2/10 Amid a flood in Islampur, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, a woman on a raft searches for somewhere dry to take shelter ✔ Past efforts to get cryopreservation off the ground have failed, but the team at Kew said beyond 2020 there must be a renewed effort to save unbankable species
Joe Manchin’s vote for Kavanaugh doesn’t spare him wrath of Trump
11/2/2018, 9:46:26 PMPresident Trump on Friday warned supporters in West Virginia not to be fooled by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. ✔ President Trump on Friday warned supporters in West Virginia not to be fooled by Democrat Sen ✔ Joe said, ‘I’ll think about it,’ Mr. Trump recounted ✔ The confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, who weathered a series of 11th-hour sexual misconduct allegations that nearly derailed his nomination, energized Republican voters in the midterms
Abe says he won't force sales tax hike if economic conditions worsen
11/2/2018, 10:20:34 PMJapan's prime minister on Friday warned against forcing through a proposed sales tax hike next year if economic conditions worsened, a sign he was open to postponing the increase for a third time if circumstances required it. Shinzo Abe has already pushed back an increase in the domestic consumption tax… ✔ However, the premier has more recently affirmed that he intends to stick with the current timeframe to raise the tax rate in October 2019 ✔ But it's wrong to be too rigid about this and raise the tax rate no matter what, he told parliament ✔ A Lehman crisis-scale shock would be something like a global economic crisis or a huge earthquake, Abe added
Pregnant Meghan Markle has done a swell job with Prince Harry on Royal Tour
11/2/2018, 11:22:14 PMHARRY and Meghan arrived home yesterday and I would imagine they are now in front of a roaring fire, glued to Netflix boxsets and eating beans on toast. After all, there are only so many banquets, … ✔ J-Lo's flawless I KNOW it’s her job to look spectacular but Jennifer Lopez is just astonishingly beautiful and alluring in her latest set of photos for a glossy magazine ✔ Keep them indoors, build them a little shelter and stick on this evening’s Classic FM programme, which has been designed to play music that will soothe cats, dogs, bunny rabbits and gerbils – and probably your iguanas and goldfish as well
Opinion | The University of Maryland’s self-inflicted fiasco
11/2/2018, 11:57:31 PMHow did the Board of Regents react so sloppily to a student’s death? ✔ Among them is what happens now with Mr. Loh: Will he, as many are urging, reconsider his decision to retire ✔ Letters to the Editor: A win-at-all-costs mentality is dangerous and goes against Maryland’s values Letters to the Editor: If Maryland wants to retain any dignity, it needs to fire Durkin and Loh George F
Paul Gambaccini wins hefty damages from CPS in botched sex abuse probe
11/2/2018, 10:16:58 PMThe BBC radio veteran spent a year on bail over false allegations that he molested two young men in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The CPS wrongly suggested his accusers were underage. ✔ Sources with knowledge of the police investigation said there were other ‘howling factual errors’ in the accounts of the two fantasists who made ‘easy to disprove’ allegations against the music presenter ✔ Asked to comment on the settlement with Mr Gambaccini, a CPS spokesman would only say: ‘We have reached an agreement without admission of liability.’ Sources said the CPS was unable to provide further details due to confidentiality clauses within the agreement with the DJ
Nasty Illinois governor's race could be most expensive in U.S. history
11/2/2018, 9:43:09 PMMore than $284 million has been raised for the Illinois governor’s race, more than the nearly $280 million spent in the record-setting 2010 California gubernatorial race. ✔ The money on both sides have allowed the candidates to fund a vicious war for voters’ support over the airwaves and Internet ✔ Toilets and sick veterans Rauner has aired attack ads pointing out Pritzker’s family disconnected toilets from one of their Chicago mansions so it could be deemed uninhabitable while it was under renovation ✔ Gatenby plans to vote for Pritizker because she sees him as the lesser of two bad choices
In land of sushi, squid moves out of reach
11/2/2018, 10:35:41 PMTakashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve. He smiled a little sadly at the image from long ago, back when he was a baby boy. In the photo, he sits on his uncle's lap as his family poses at a nearby… ✔ Takashi Odajima picked up a cracked and faded photograph and dusted it off with his sleeve ✔ Now 60, Saito has steered dozens of ships all over Japan ✔ Folded copies of Tokyo's subway map peeked out of his large duffel bag ✔ Outside, leaning against the mall's glass façade, Odajima was happy – for the moment, at least
DJ Paul Gambaccini reveals how the BBC threw him overboard
11/2/2018, 11:48:23 PMFive years ago this week, veteran BBC radio presenter Paul Gambaccini was woken in his luxury London apartment by a team of eight officers from the Metropolitan Police. ✔ But nothing could stop the boiling rages not plate-smashing explosions, but internal eruptions where he felt his neck clench and his blood vessels bulge ✔ ‘The complainants have been informed and we will be writing to them to more fully explain our decision and offer a meeting should they wish to discuss the matter in more detail.’
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