Wednesday, October 7

Tag: Featured

M40 sounded like a bomb going off after lorry crashes and bursts into flames
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

M40 sounded like a bomb going off after lorry crashes and bursts into flames

    An enormous explosion on the M40 was so loud that nearby residents thought a bomb had gone off when their houses shook. Reports suggest a crane lorry was involved in the collision with locals reporting as many as five blasts. One witness tweeted: “4-5 massive explosions just gone off in Gerrards Cross - smoke coming from Howards Wood Drive. A chorus of police sirens, lots of confusion. “Now hearing it was a vehicle that exploded on the M25 - seems strange though given we heard 4-5 explosions, minutes apart." Another added: "5 massive explosions fire and black smoke very nearby. Shook house. Defo not good whatever it is. Buckinhamshire Fire and Rescue service said there were 35 firefighters and officers at the scene who used foam and hoses to tackle the blaze. Six fire engi...
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This Is What The Internet Looks Like In North Korea
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

This Is What The Internet Looks Like In North Korea

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). We were under no illusion that the people of North Korea spend their days scrolling through Reddit and Twitter. But now a major slip up has revealed the true extent of their internet access. On 19 September techies at GitHub noticed that North Korea’s top level nameservers had been accidentally configured to allow global DNS zone transfers, meaning the rest of us could finally see what internet in the secretive country is really like. The screenshots shown below have been retrieved using Google Translate (so they are displayed in English) through HN [Hacker News] and publicly posted to threads on Imgur and Reddit. 1. Air Koryo A flight ticket website for domes...
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Scam email and phone cons hitting record levels
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Scam email and phone cons hitting record levels

    PHONE and email scams are hitting record levels. In the last month 2.5 million UK homes received a scam call. That’s why it’s more important than ever to know what to look out for and be armed against the fraudsters. To help Sun readers be more scam savvy we’ve teamed up with TalkTalk to show you the five most common tactics scammers will use to get you to part with your cash and personal information. Facebook hack claims Cyber criminals could use this trick to 'crack into YOUR private messages' Dot conned Shocking statistics of cyber crime reveal 6million offences as we speak to devastated victims 1. Pretend to be from a well-known brand Mentioning the name of trusted organisations such as banks or utilities companies means you’re likely to believe the call is genuine. 2....
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Michelle Obama’s oh my god moment: eating french fries at Buckingham Palace
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Michelle Obama’s oh my god moment: eating french fries at Buckingham Palace

    Looking back on her time as first lady, one memory stands out for Michelle Obama: ordering french fries at Buckingham Palace. Mrs Obama was a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, and was asked if there had been any oh my god' moments over the last eight years . "I mean, a sleepover at Buckingham Palace?" she responded. Mrs Obama dismissed Colbert's question as to whether she and the Queen had "painted each others' toe nails", explaining that it was a far more formal affair. "When they hosted us for the state dinner - when you're the guest country, you stay at Buckingham Palace," she said. The visit was not all pomp and circumstance, however, there were also chips on offer. "I do remember ordering french fries at the palace. They were good - they were som...
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French mayor says Australian burkini wearer was indecent
21Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

French mayor says Australian burkini wearer was indecent

    The rightwing mayor of a French Riviera beach town where bathers asked a burkini-wearing Australian to leave has defended their complaints calling her behaviour "indecent". Sydney native Zeynab Alshelh "could have asked herself whether the people in the area weren't still reeling from the jihadist attack that killed 86 people" in nearby Nice in July, Lionnel Luca told AFP by telephone late Monday. She could not just innocently come to our beaches with religious garb that is the sign of the fundamentalism that killed us, he said, calling the 23-year-old's actions pretty indecent. Alshelh told Australian television the bathers threatened to call the police unless she left the beach at Villeneuve-Loubet, even though a ban on the controversial full-bodied swimsuit had recently...
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Nearly thousand immigrants mistakenly granted American citizenship
21Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Nearly thousand immigrants mistakenly granted American citizenship

    Politicians demand urgent action after it emerges several have found work in secure areas of airports or shipping facilities The American government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit. The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with US Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren't caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases. DHS said in an emailed statement that an initial review of these cases suggest that some of the individuals ma...
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The Police officer SECOND shocking altercation with young black man
21Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

The Police officer SECOND shocking altercation with young black man

    A police officer allegedly filmed smashing a driver's windscreen with a baton is accused of becoming involved in a second altercation with another black man after a new video surfaced. In the new video, an officer stops Kyle Adair-Whyte as he pushes a damaged moped along the road and accuses him of stealing it. The policeman handcuffs the 24-year-old man and tells him he suspects the moped has been used in "moped-enabled snatches" on the street. Kyle alleges that the officer who stopped him is the same one who screamed at Leon Fontana to "get out of the car" before smashing his windscreen in dramatic footage that has been viewed more than 25m times on the internet. The officer in that video is now subject to an IPCC inquiry and has been put on restricted duties after it em...
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UK will not turn inwards after Brexit vote: PM Theresa May tells UN
21Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Nation

UK will not turn inwards after Brexit vote: PM Theresa May tells UN

    British Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed that controlling Britain’s borders and reducing the flow of immigrants will dominate her government as the UK seeks a new place in the world after voting to leave the EU. But in her first address to the UN General Assembly, the British Prime Minister said the UK would not turn away from the world and would remain at the heart of international affairs. She also pledged hundreds of million of pounds in aid spending to tackle terrorism and to stop hundreds of thousands of migrants travelling to Europe. To underline her message, she called for global network of crime-fighting agencies to tackle international modern slavery and emphasised the UK's spending on international aid and defence. Theresa May's first speech to the UN General...
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Teacher Shelley Jo Duncan Accused for illegal relation to 14 year ols student: 5 Fast Facts
21Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Teacher Shelley Jo Duncan Accused for illegal relation to 14 year ols student: 5 Fast Facts

    A teacher and cheer coach who is married to an Oklahoma school superintendent is accused of indecent behavior with a 14-year-old boy. Shelley Jo Duncan, 48, of Tishomingo, Oklahoma was arrested on September 16. We believe there was an inappropriate sexual relationship between this women and a young male student, Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation told KFOR-TV, calling it an alleged affair. Police gave her name as Shelly Duncan, but the school website lists her as Shelley, as do some news reports. Here’s what you need to know: 1. Duncan Is a Head Cheer Coach Who Used to Be a Probation & Parole Officer KFOR said Duncan previously worked as a juvenile justice specialist at the Office of Juvenile Affairs and as a probation and parole office...
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The penny will be scrapped as Mark Carney says
20Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

The penny will be scrapped as Mark Carney says

    Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, has told a group of children that he expects the penny to be scrapped shortly. He was being filmed for a BBC TV show, and was asked about the future of the penny by one of the children. He responded that he thought its days were numbered, because it wasn't worth very much. So what will this mean for you? On one level, it's not a major issue. If the penny was scrapped, anything priced at 1p would see the price increase, but very few things actually cost 1p nowadays - even penny sweets now cost around 5p. A study back in 2012 found that 50% of people would be perfectly happy to do away with coppers altogether, and round up or down to the nearest 5p. The same study found that one in ten people admitted they regularly threw cop...
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