Friday, October 16

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London Parsons Green station Attacker caught on CCTV
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

London Parsons Green station Attacker caught on CCTV

    Grainy footage has emerged of a man holding a Lidl bag close to a house in Surrey raided in the aftermath of the Parsons Green attack. ITV has obtained images from CCTV showing a man in Sunbury-on-Thames around an hour and a half before the attack on Friday morning. Pictures of the man with the bag, reminiscent of what is thought to be a homemade bomb found at Parson’s Green, emerged as police continued to search the home linked to a couple highly respected for their work looking after foster children. Police believe they have identified the main suspect, an 18-year-old man arrested at the Port of Dover. He is in custody, along with a 21-year-old man who was arrested in Hounslow on Saturday. Officers are searching the house of an elderly couple known for fostering hundreds...
Wayne Rooney 100 hours unpaid work and banned from road for 2 year after drink driving
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Wayne Rooney 100 hours unpaid work and banned from road for 2 year after drink driving

    Wayne Rooney ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and banned from road after pleading guilty to drink driving charge Former England captain Wayne Rooney has been banned from the road for two years after admitting a drink driving rap which has plunged his nine-year marriage into crisis. The Everton and ex-Manchester United striker was also ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month community order at Stockport magistrates' court. The 31-year-old stared straight ahead as he pleaded guilty to being almost three times over the drink drive limit when he was stopped by police at around 2am on September 1 while drunkenly driving a woman home. Rooney's pregnant wife Coleen was on holiday in Mallorca with their three children at the time of his arrest. Coleen ...
Frustrated EU fears Britain is heading for the Brexit rocks
ENGLISH, Europe

Frustrated EU fears Britain is heading for the Brexit rocks

    British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. David Davis and EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier address the media after the third round of Brexit talks. On Wednesday afternoon, with Jean Claude Juncker’s state of the union speech calling for swifter, deeper integration still ringing in their ears, a gaggle of political leaders in the European parliament met in a room opposite the chamber in Strasbourg. In the appositely named Salle de Margaret Thatcher, Guy Verhofstadt, the colourful former Belgian prime minister who is coordinating MEPs’ response to Brexit, discussed with colleagues from the pro-European political parties on the parliament’s Brexit steering group how they should respond to the seeming stalemate in the Brexit negotiations. The latest d...
Boris Johnson ought to be fired
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Boris Johnson ought to be fired

    Senior Conservatives have denounced Theresa May as too weak to unite her cabinet and run an effective government after she refused to sack her foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for breaking ranks over Brexit. Johnson infuriated Tory MPs on both sides of the European debate when he spelt out his own personal vision of a hard Brexit in a newspaper article, only days before May is expected to outline possible areas for compromise with Brussels in a speech in Florence. Downing Street insisted that May still had full confidence in Johnson, although he had not informed her of the content of his article. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Johnson insisted that the UK must not pay any money to the EU for access to its markets after Brexit and made no mention of a transition period af...
Eyewitnesses describe horror M5 lorry crash
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Eyewitnesses describe horror M5 lorry crash

    Eyewitness have revealed the full horror after a lorry smashed through a central barrier on the M5, leaving at least four dead and a woman and two children fighting for their lives. The truck was travelling along the southbound carriageway when it suddenly smashed through the barrier and ploughed into several vehicles, witnesses said. Dozens of motorists leapt from their vehicles to help victims and pulled screaming children and their parents from burning cars. A hero cardiologist, who was among those that rushed to the aid of one of victims, said one car was absolutely destroyed and another had flipped over. Another motorist said they could see one car had been left completely flat, leaving them fearing the people inside wouldn't have stood a chance. Horror pictures show ...
London Parsons Green Tube attack: Second man arrested in connection with terrorist attack
ENGLISH, London

London Parsons Green Tube attack: Second man arrested in connection with terrorist attack

    A second man has been arrested by detectives investigating the terrorist attack at Parsons Green station, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 21-year-old man was arrested in Hounslow around 11.50pm on Saturday under the Terrorism Act. He was taken to a south London police station and remains in custody. An 18-year-old man was arrested in the departure area of the port of Dover in connection with the attack on Saturday morning. He was arrested by Kent Police under the Terrorism Act and remains in custody at a London police station. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu described the arrest as very significant. A search was also carried out at a house in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, at the home of foster care couple Penelope and Ronald Jones, who previously received MBEs f...
Awkward Moment: Donald Trump formally shakes his wife Melania’s hand then ushers her off stage
America, ENGLISH

Awkward Moment: Donald Trump formally shakes his wife Melania’s hand then ushers her off stage

    The US First Lady was introducing her husband to the stage at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland when the cringe worthy encounter took place. After Melania says her husband's name, he walks towards her and shakes her hand in a business like way before firmly pushing her off the stage as bemused service men and women look on. This is not the first time Melania has looked uncomfortable on stage with her husband. Back in February, footage of the First Lady accompanying her husband at a campaign rally in Florida appeared to show her shuddering after he touched her arm mid speech. President Trump used his speech at Joint Base Andrews on September 15 to condemn North Korea 's missile tests and continue his aggressive rhetoric against leader Kim Jong-un. He said: America and our ...
Koala survives 10 mile ride clinging to four wheel drive axle
Australia, ENGLISH

Koala survives 10 mile ride clinging to four wheel drive axle

    A koala in Australia survived a lengthy trip while clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive vehicle. The driver was unaware of the koala clinging to his wheel throughout the 10 mile journey through Adelaide until he stopped his car after being flagged down by other motorists, reports UPI. He then heard the animal’s cries coming from underneath the vehicle and called the Koala Rescue Hotline, which sent rescuer Jane Brister to the scene. Brister then contacted Metropolitan Fire Service to help remove the vehicles wheel to free the koala. I could smell her burnt fur, Brister told The Guardian. It would have been hot in there. Don Bigham, from Fauna Rescue of South Australia’s Koala Hotline, said the female koala was relatively unharmed. The koala was taken into ...
The power of mothers
Asia, ENGLISH

The power of mothers

    Capturing and posting the funny, sweet and memorable moments of children on social media is common for many proud parents around the world. But, if this leads your loved ones to unwanted situation, you have reasons to be worried. However, courage and bravery are your powers. When a group of Indonesian mothers sharing pictures of their children stumbled upon news of an online paedophile group earlier this year, they decided to infiltrate it to expose those behind it. BBC recently published a report on the issue. Risrona Simorangkir, an Indonesian mother, has been uploading photos of her seven-year-old daughter and toddler son on Facebook ever since they were born. But one day in March she stumbled across a blog about a group that shares child abuse pictures. This [Facebook]...
Intervention in Myanmar may aggravate situation: Russian Foreign Ministry
ENGLISH, Europe

Intervention in Myanmar may aggravate situation: Russian Foreign Ministry

    Attempts at intervening in Myanmar’s internal affairs may have only one net effect - still deeper interreligious discord, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. It is essential to remember that the wish to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign state may merely bring about further inter-religious discord, she said, reports Russian news agency TASS. Moscow supports efforts for promoting the inter-religious dialogue in Myanmar among the spiritual leaders of all confessions. In that connection we took note of the collective statement by the leading organizations representing Myanmar’s multi-ethnic Muslim community who condemned armed actions by radical elements in that region (Rakhine), Zakharova said. We express support for the governm...