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BBC News 20 January, 2016 Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university
Here we go!! Another terrorist attack. This attack was in Bacha Khan University campus in Charsadda. There was a gun attack in a university at north-west Parkistan. Terrorist group killed 19 people and there is 50 injıred people. Aftee there hours when the attack started military came and they said they stopped firing. Military said that they killed four terrorist but not all of them. I think a lot of people are going to start an argument about that countries safety
The Biannual Lumiere Festival brings together light artists from around the world in London. From Thursday to Sunday, the city will have its own.The installations will be shown in London’s most popular parts.The exhibits will include floating fish above Piccadilly, a big elephant clomping down, noen dogs and 40 light panels. “It’s like unpicking the city and putting it back together in a different way,” Helen Marriage who is the director of Artichoke. For the exhibits 30 to 40 permissions needed in order to secured from building owners Ms. Marriage who created and directed art festivals. In 2006 as a company,her company, dedicated to putting art into public spaces .“I can’t tell you how hard it was to make it happen,” Ms. Marriage said. Ms. Marriage said Lumiere, the festival she directs, was inspired by similar events in Europe. People and artists think this is an interesting way to present art. Festival is not only a exhibit it is a combination of festival, party, nighttime and art. For the festival “people can download an app, pick a color on their cellphone screen, and that interacts with the light projection and keeps it changing constantly. It’s a metaphor for our relationships as individuals with the planet.” says Ms. Echelman.
BBC News (Great Britain) Jibo the home robot nears release A company designed a robot called Jibo which is for famillys, elderly peoples... And the final result was a helpfull product which can make our lives easier A robot called Jibo is meant for to be make our lives easier but it doesnt released yet. But so far this robot, Jibo, can dance, can take photographs and it can do limited things. But when it is released, it is going to do a lot of stuff, now there is only the demo version of it and it is expected to be under 1000 dolars.
BBC News 20 January 2016 Ettora Scola: Italian Film Director Dies Aged 84 The double Oscar nominated Italian director and writer Ettora Scola had died at age 84. Many Italian medias report this sad news. Scola directed 41 films and wrote 90 screenplays, according the today's Internet Movie Database. 1974 year was very important for him because he wrote and directed a film called "A Special Day", which recieved Best Foreign and Best Actor Nominations for star Marcello Mastroianni. Also he won best director at the Cannes film festival in 1976. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that Scola was a screen "master" and tweeted "His death left a 'huge void in Italian culture."
CNN News Pakistani university under attack ,at least 20 dead 20th January 2016
There was an attack on wednesday in Bacha Khan University. The university is in Charssada which is in the northwest side of Pakistan and by the way the incident occured by armed militants and it happened in the morning. Lots of people heard gunfires and explosives sounds. Unfortunattely at least, 20 students were killed. What did the spoksman of CNN say? He told that there are still dead inside and the operation is ongoing.
BBC News Pakistan Charsadda:Deadly assault on university.
An attack by suspected Taliban militants on a university in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 19 people and injured 50.Nearly three hours after the attack began an army officials said firing had stopped but troops were searching Bacha Khan University campus in Chasardda
A 10 year old muslim boy mistakenly wrote he lived in a terrorist house in an English lesson at school has been investigating by police. The pupil who attend to shcool in Lancashire meant that he want say "terraced house" and it is a spelling error. Police investigsted boys house next day and examined familys laptop. Family said they got schoked and they want school and police to apologize. A cousin said that he was only a child and of course he got very scared. Police and school should believe that it was an only spelling mistake.
The New York Times Attack At Bacha Khan University In Pakistan Leaves At Least 22 Dead
Wednesday, there was a attack to Bacha Khan University in Pakistan and there is 22 dead students . The leader of Pakistani Taliban said the group owned the responsability for it. There is another school that is twenty five miles away from the university . Two years ago there were killed one hundred and five people mostly children including Pakistani Taliban. The police think that this attack (suicide bombing) was done from the Pakistani Taliban's group.
Pakistan attack: Gunmen kill 19 at Bacha Khan University BBC News 20 January 2016
In Khan University, north-west Pakistan 19 people got killed and 17 people got injured because of the bomb attack and guns in the morning.Also 4 attackers died in the three hour lasted battle.The attackers went there by climbing up from the back door in winter fog.When the sound of explosions and gun were heard ,security guards began fighting with the attackers.This made all of the students hide to hall ways and toilets.According to news some chemistry lecturer got killed because he wanted to made gunmen let students go.The people who died are male students mostly and one security guard died at least in this horrible event.This attack is not the first one.The attackers had attacked many schools like this before and this time dead people amount is lesser than the previous one but still they must stopped. Prime minister of Pakistan said:”We are determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from our homeland.”Maybe they will stop terrorism and this kind of attacks before it is too late (in the/for the) FUTURE.
A suicide bomber has killed seven people on a bus in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul. In the attack, more than 20 including passengers were wounded. For many people, Taliban(An İslamic group in Afghanistan) is the main suspect in this explosion. Also the militants have launched numerous attacks in the city.
3D printing has become more common in recent years. Companies started designing 3D printed clothes and glasses and it started being popular lately. They had a new idea, they thought that they can design 3D printed shoes as well. They did it and they were succesful. They agreed with New Balance for the shoes. The shoes are due to go on sale this April but the price has not yet been released. I think it will be a huge brand new thing for people.
BBC News Four players made more than $1.73m in 2015. As the popularity of “eSports” has grown, so too has the prize and sponsorship money plus the job opportunities. According to E-Sports Earnings, four players made more than $1.73m in 2015, while many others earned more than $100,000 in income. While eSports still has a long way to go before it becomes as mainstream as basketball or football, SuperData Research, a New York-based company that tracks the sector, said that the global eSports market will grow from from $748m today to $1.9bn by the end of 2018. In 2015 some 188 million people watched games being played online and on TV, up from 71.5 million in 2013.
"Tiger attacks keeper at 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin's zoo"
A tiger at an Australian zoo founded by the late conservationist Steve Irwin has attacked one of its keepers.The widow said that tiget got hot and bothered so that it scratched the keepers forehead and hands.They took him to the hospital quickly.They tweeted that keeper is okay.
CNN News 21 January 2016 Microsoft is bringing minecraft into the classrooms
Microsoft think that they can use Minecraft as a learning tool because its entertaining for the childrens and its easy to show somethings in minecraft than real life like human eye so Microsoft will launch a new version of Minecraft this summer. As part of this plans Microsoft will also want to get existing version of the software (MinecraftEdu) from another developer.
CNN News 11-year-old Afghan boy, hailed as hero for fighting Taliban, killed by militants An 11-year-old Afghan boy who had been praised for his bravery in leading security forces in battle against the Taliban was killed by the militants this week, Afghan authorities said. Wasil Ahmad had commanded a police unit for 43 days as it fought to repel a deadly 71-day Taliban siege last year, according to his uncle Mullah Samad, an Afghan Local Police commander in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province.Gunmen on motorbikes shot the boy in the head Monday at a market in Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province, said Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokesman for the province's governor.Wasil was taken to a local hospital, then transferred to a better-equipped hospital in Kandahar, where he died of his injuries, Nayab said.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing on its website Monday. Wasil had only recently returned to civilian life, enrolling in school in Tarin Kowt last year after surviving the brutal Taliban siege in Khas Uruzgan, Nayab said.
BBC News
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Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university
Here we go!! Another terrorist attack. This attack was in Bacha Khan University campus in Charsadda. There was a gun attack in a university at north-west Parkistan. Terrorist group killed 19 people and there is 50 injıred people. Aftee there hours when the attack started military came and they said they stopped firing. Military said that they killed four terrorist but not all of them. I think a lot of people are going to start an argument about that countries safety
New York Times
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“A Festival to Light Up London”
The Biannual Lumiere Festival brings together light artists from around the world in London. From Thursday to Sunday, the city will have its own.The installations will be shown in London’s most popular parts.The exhibits will include floating fish above Piccadilly, a big elephant clomping down, noen dogs and 40 light panels. “It’s like unpicking the city and putting it back together in a different way,” Helen Marriage who is the director of Artichoke. For the exhibits 30 to 40 permissions needed in order to secured from building owners Ms. Marriage who created and directed art festivals. In 2006 as a company,her company, dedicated to putting art into public spaces .“I can’t tell you how hard it was to make it happen,” Ms. Marriage said. Ms. Marriage said Lumiere, the festival she directs, was inspired by similar events in Europe. People and artists think this is an interesting way to present art. Festival is not only a exhibit it is a combination of festival, party, nighttime and art. For the festival “people can download an app, pick a color on their cellphone screen, and that interacts with the light projection and keeps it changing constantly. It’s a metaphor for our relationships as individuals with the planet.” says Ms. Echelman.
BBC News (Great Britain)
ReplyDeleteJibo the home robot nears release
A company designed a robot called Jibo which is for famillys, elderly peoples... And the final result was a helpfull product which can make our lives easier
A robot called Jibo is meant for to be make our lives easier but it doesnt released yet. But so far this robot, Jibo, can dance, can take photographs and it can do limited things. But when it is released, it is going to do a lot of stuff, now there is only the demo version of it and it is expected to be under 1000 dolars.
BBC News
ReplyDelete20 January 2016
Ettora Scola: Italian Film Director Dies Aged 84
The double Oscar nominated Italian director and writer Ettora Scola had died at age 84. Many Italian medias report this sad news. Scola directed 41 films and wrote 90 screenplays, according the today's Internet Movie Database. 1974 year was very important for him because he wrote and directed a film called "A Special Day", which recieved Best Foreign and Best Actor Nominations for star Marcello Mastroianni. Also he won best director at the Cannes film festival in 1976. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that Scola was a screen "master" and tweeted "His death left a 'huge void in Italian culture."
CNN News
ReplyDeletePakistani university under attack ,at least 20 dead
20th January 2016
There was an attack on wednesday in Bacha Khan University. The university is in Charssada which is in the northwest side of Pakistan and by the way the incident
occured by armed militants and it happened in the morning. Lots of people heard gunfires and explosives sounds. Unfortunattely at least, 20 students were killed. What did the spoksman of CNN say? He told that there are still dead inside and the operation is ongoing.
BBC News
ReplyDeletePakistan Charsadda:Deadly assault on university.
An attack by suspected Taliban militants on a university in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 19 people and injured 50.Nearly three hours after the attack began an army officials said firing had stopped but troops were searching Bacha Khan University campus in Chasardda
BBC News
ReplyDeleteA 10 year old muslim boy mistakenly wrote he lived in a terrorist house in an English lesson at school has been investigating by police. The pupil who attend to shcool in Lancashire meant that he want say "terraced house" and it is a spelling error. Police investigsted boys house next day and examined familys laptop. Family said they got schoked and they want school and police to apologize. A cousin said that he was only a child and of course he got very scared. Police and school should believe that it was an only spelling mistake.
The New York Times
ReplyDeleteAttack At Bacha Khan University In Pakistan Leaves At Least 22 Dead
Wednesday, there was a attack to Bacha Khan University in Pakistan and there is 22 dead students . The leader of Pakistani Taliban said the group owned the responsability for it. There is another school that is twenty five miles away from the university . Two years ago there were killed one hundred and five people mostly children including Pakistani Taliban. The police think that this attack (suicide bombing) was done from the Pakistani Taliban's group.
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20 January 2016
In Khan University, north-west Pakistan 19 people got killed and 17 people got injured because of the bomb attack and guns in the morning.Also 4 attackers died in the three hour lasted battle.The attackers went there by climbing up from the back door in winter fog.When the sound of explosions and gun were heard ,security guards began fighting with the attackers.This made all of the students hide to hall ways and toilets.According to news some chemistry lecturer got killed because he wanted to made gunmen let students go.The people who died are male students mostly and one security guard died at least in this horrible event.This attack is not the first one.The attackers had attacked many schools like this before and this time dead people amount is lesser than the previous one but still they must stopped. Prime minister of Pakistan said:”We are determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from our homeland.”Maybe they will stop terrorism and this kind of attacks before it is too late (in the/for the) FUTURE.
BBC News
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Suicide Bomber kills seven media personnel
A suicide bomber has killed seven people on a bus in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul. In the attack, more than 20 including passengers were wounded. For many people, Taliban(An İslamic group in Afghanistan) is the main suspect in this explosion. Also the militants have launched numerous attacks in the city.
BBC News
ReplyDelete20 January 2016
"Will 3D-printed running shoes take off?"
3D printing has become more common in recent years. Companies started designing 3D printed clothes and glasses and it started being popular lately. They had a new idea, they thought that they can design 3D printed shoes as well. They did it and they were succesful. They agreed with New Balance for the shoes. The shoes are due to go on sale this April but the price has not yet been released. I think it will be a huge brand new thing for people.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteFour players made more than $1.73m in 2015.
As the popularity of “eSports” has grown, so too has the prize and sponsorship money plus the job opportunities. According to E-Sports Earnings, four players made more than $1.73m in 2015, while many others earned more than $100,000 in income.
While eSports still has a long way to go before it becomes as mainstream as basketball or football, SuperData Research, a New York-based company that tracks the sector, said that the global eSports market will grow from from $748m today to $1.9bn by the end of 2018. In 2015 some 188 million people watched games being played online and on TV, up from 71.5 million in 2013.
BBC News
ReplyDelete"Tiger attacks keeper at 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin's zoo"
A tiger at an Australian zoo founded by the late conservationist Steve Irwin has attacked one of its keepers.The widow said that tiget got hot and bothered so that it scratched the keepers forehead and hands.They took him to the hospital quickly.They tweeted that keeper is okay.
CNN News
ReplyDelete21 January 2016
Microsoft is bringing minecraft into the classrooms
Microsoft think that they can use Minecraft as a learning tool because its entertaining for the childrens and its easy to show somethings in minecraft than real life like human eye so Microsoft will launch a new version of Minecraft this summer. As part of this plans Microsoft will also want to get existing version of the software (MinecraftEdu) from another developer.
CNN News
ReplyDelete11-year-old Afghan boy, hailed as hero for fighting Taliban, killed by militants
An 11-year-old Afghan boy who had been praised for his bravery in leading security forces in battle against the Taliban was killed by the militants this week, Afghan authorities said. Wasil Ahmad had commanded a police unit for 43 days as it fought to repel a deadly 71-day Taliban siege last year, according to his uncle Mullah Samad, an Afghan Local Police commander in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province.Gunmen on motorbikes shot the boy in the head Monday at a market in Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province, said Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokesman for the province's governor.Wasil was taken to a local hospital, then transferred to a better-equipped hospital in Kandahar, where he died of his injuries, Nayab said.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing on its website Monday. Wasil had only recently returned to civilian life, enrolling in school in Tarin Kowt last year after surviving the brutal Taliban siege in Khas Uruzgan, Nayab said.
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