Hurricane Matthew: East coast of US braces as deadly storm lashes Florida
Florida: Matthew, the first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years, has lashed Florida with heavy rain and winds after killing at least 339 people in Haiti on its destructive march north through the Caribbean.Winds gusts of up to 100km/h and heavy downpours from Hurricane Matthew were reported in several coastal communities in Florida as the eye of the Category 4 hurricane tracked along the east coast of the state. More News Videos Prev..>> view originalUN slams Australia's regional processing centres in Nauru
The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia's failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and self-harm.It also slammed the island nation's "limited capacity" to investigate allegations of sexual assault of children and its failure to follow up complaints, and severely criticised the harsh living conditions inside Australian's regional processing centres. More System Videos Previous slide Nex..>> view originalArmy sends additional troops to help restoration work after typhoon
South Korea's military has dispatched additional troops and equipment to the country's southern region hit by Typhoon Chaba, the Army said Friday.It has sent some 7,000 soldiers and 24 heavy machinery vehicles, such as excavators and dump trucks, to such cities as Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongju that have been affected by the typhoon, to help clean up the damage, it said in a statement.A day earlier, some 5,500 soldiers were mobilized in the same restoration efforts. They mainly helped typhoon victims..>> view originalEarly Book Praising Hitler May Have Been Written by Hitler
In the early fall of 1923, when Adolf Hitler was still mostly known for his frenzied speeches at Munich beer halls, a slim biography was published that lauded him as the savior of the German nation and even compared him to Jesus.The book, “Adolf Hitler: His Life and His Speeches,” was credited to Baron Adolf Victor von Koerber, a German aristocrat and war hero. Scholars have said that Hitler sought Mr. von Koerber out for the biography because he needed a conservative figure without links to th..>> view originalAircraft part found in Mauritius from MH370: Australian air crash investigators
Australian air crash investigators have confirmed an aircraft part found washed ashore on the island of Mauritius came from missing flight MH370.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the item found in May was a trailing edge splice strap from a Boeing 777 left outboard flap. A holidaying couple found potential MH370 debris in Mauritius this year. Photo: Twitter/@davidmolkoCNN A work order number on the part confirmed it was from the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared in Mar..>> view originalFirst-graders' reactions to Donald Trump are priceless
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Donald Trump visited a classroom of first-graders at a Christian school in Nevada on Wednesday, where the pupils proved once again, kids say the darnedest things. Trump was touring the International Christian Academy in Las Vegas. When he entered the classroom, the children offered him a loud greeting, though not everyone was quite so thrilled. One little girl can be heard on the video footage of the visit saying over and over "I'm nervous, I'm nervous." Another child..>> view originalColombian president Juan Manuel Santos wins nobel peace prize - live
Before the announcement of the peace prize last year, the Guardian did an analysis of all the winners since its inception in 1901. We found the following; If you want to win, it helps if you’re male Apparently it was a woman, Bertha von Suttner, who inspired Alfred Nobel to include peace as a category for the awards he was thinking of creating. Including Von Suttner, who won the award in 1905, only 16 individual women have won the prize compared with 87 men. More organisations (22) have won the..>> view original18 pictures of Prince William and Prince George being adorable
There’s no doubt Prince William shares a special bond with his children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Despite being second in line to the throne the 34-year-old royal is a hands on father, and this was all too evident with the way he cooed and cuddled his son, Prince George on the Cambridges’ most recent tour of Canada. It’s no secret William’s role as a family man is his number one priority. "I'm concentrating very much on my role as a father," William told the BBC earlier this year of..>> view originalAnalysis: A path for dispute resolution in the South China Sea
Located in the heart of Southeast Asia, the South China Sea is a semi-enclosed sea surrounded by China and several small and militarily weaker Southeast Asian powers such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. Since the mid-1970s, these states have been involved in a chronic competition as each one seeks to extend its sovereignty and jurisdictional claims over more than a hundred islets, reefs, and rocks and their surrounding waters. Despite this competition, the South China Sea dispu..>> view originalAntonio Guterres accepts nomination as UN chief
New York: Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has accepted his unanimous nomination by the United Nations Security Council to become the UN's next Secretary-General.The United Nations Security Council on Thursday put Mr Guterres forward, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for five years from January 1, 2017. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Portugal's Guterres accepts nomination to be UN chief Trump: 'I don't ..>> view original
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