Oscar-winning British film director Richard Attenborough died on Sunday at the age of 90.
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Press Tour of Pacman and Chris Algieri Fight to start today
WBO Welterweight champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Chris Algieri will start their Press Tour today. The Fight will be held on November in Venetian Macau Resorts in China.
Disaster Cafe
There’s an extraordinary cafe in Spain that is called “Disaster Cafe”. While inside it, customers can experience a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Besides of the delectable dishes it serves, the cafe is very famous for its “Alien” theme and its spaceship design. Watch the video for more exciting info.
China rejects U.S. criticism over jet encounter
(Reuters) – China on Saturday called US criticism of an approach by one of its jets to a US Navy patrol plane off the Chinese coast earlier this week “completely groundless” and said its pilot had maintained a safe distance from the US aircraft. The strongly-worded statement attributed to Ministry of National Defense spokesman Yang Yujun was a response to a diplomatic complaint the Pentagon filed with Beijing on Friday. The complaint concerned an August 19 encounter about […]
6.0 magnitude quake hits San Francisco Bay area, no major damage reported
(Reuters) – An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude shook the San Francisco Bay Area early on Sunday, waking residents but not causing major damage, according to initial reports. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was eight km (five miles) northwest of the town of American Canyon, on the northern edge of San Francisco Bay. Police dispatchers in San Francisco and Oakland said there were no reports of reports of major damage. Several people on […]
Netanyahu warns Gaza civilians after Israel destroys 13-storey building
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian civilians on Sunday to leave immediately any site where militants are operating, one day after Israel took the Gaza war to a new level by flattening a 13-storey apartment tower. Israeli aircraft first fired a non-explosive rocket at the building, a sign to residents to get out, before attacking it on Saturday. Seventeen people were wounded in the strike on the structure, which Israel said had housed […]
U.S. protests intercept of Navy jet by Chinese warplane
(Reuters) – The United States charged on Friday that a Chinese fighter pilot conducted a “dangerous intercept” of a Navy patrol plane in international air space this week, flying a few yards (meters) from the U.S. jet and performing acrobatic maneuvers around it. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the United States lodged a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing over the incident, which took place on Tuesday 135 miles (215 km) east […]
U.S. undercover investigators among those exposed in data breach
(Reuters) – A cyber attack at a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees compromised data of at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, agency officials said on Friday. The breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) exposed highly personal information of workers at the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters as well as its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
First bodies of Malaysian victims of the MH17 plane crash arrive home
(Reuters) — The first 20 bodies of the Malaysian victims on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived back on home soil on Friday (August 22), more than a month after the airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine. In a sombre ceremony, coffins draped in the Malaysian national flag were brought out of a specially chartered Malaysia Airlines flight by members of the armed forces. They were then driven away for private funerals. Officials have declared Friday a national day […]
Islamic State threat ‘beyond anything we’ve seen’: Pentagon
(Reuters) – The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda, U.S. military leaders said on Thursday. “They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon. Hagel’s assessment of Islamic State, which gained strength during Syria’s civil war and swept into northern Iraq earlier […]
Over 90 feared dead in Hiroshima landslides
(Reuters) — Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday (August 22) for more than 50 people believed buried under a deadly landslide on the edge of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Rescue workers feared the continuing rain could set off further landslides in the area after a month’s rain fell in one night on Wednesday (August 20), loosening slopes already saturated by heavy rain over the past few weeks. The death toll currently stands at 39. […]
Japan Landslides Death Toll likely to Rise
In Hiroshima, Japan, the continuing rain is feared to double the death toll caused by landslide to 80.
