For your last blog response, challenge yourself and find the strangest, wackiest, most abnormal news event from the past week. I hope all will participate because Friday will be a fun day of sharing.
Monday, May 9, 2016
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NDTV News
ReplyDelete11 May 2016
“After Britain's Queen Calls Chinese Delegation 'Rude', China Bans BBC”
Queen Elizabet II was caught on camera while saying “very rude” to Chinese people in a diplomatic gaffe. The queen wa at a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday and she was making unguarded comments about Chinese state visit of last year. The police commander Lucy was introduced to queen who oversaw security for the visit of president Xi Jinping and his wife.The police commander agreed on queens comments, saying, "It was very rude and very undiplomatic I thought”. China state media mentioned British Relations:
President Xi Jinping's state visit to Britain last year was very successful. Both sides have high level recognition of that," foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Wednesday. After the comments. The BBc said BBC Worls broadcast was blanked out in Chiana.She said that in a collection of essays to be published at the summit, Ghani writes that Afghanistan is "one of the most corrupt countries on Earth".Buhari, for his part, writes that corruption became a "way of life" under "supposedly accountable democratic governments", the spokeswoman said.
The queen concluded: "Both leaders have been invited to the summit because they are driving the fight against corruption in their countries."
PBS News
ReplyDelete11.05.2016
NEW YORK — Shifting swiftly to the general election, Donald Trump says he’s narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six” people and doesn’t want to accept public money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
But in a break from recent major party nominees, Trump does not plan to invest heavily in a data-driven effort to target voters in the fall campaign. Despite pressure, the billionaire businessman also doesn’t expect to release his tax returns before November, citing an ongoing audit of his finances. He said he will release them after the audit ends.
“There’s nothing to learn from them,” Trump told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. He also has said he doesn’t believe voters are interested.
Trump’s comments came as he begins to prepare for a long, expensive general election campaign. His two remaining Republican rivals suddenly dropped out of the race last week, anointing him the party’s presumptive presidential nominee faster than even the confident candidate expected.
As part of his general election planning, Trump told the AP at his office in New York that he’s moving aggressively to identify a running mate with deep political experience. While he would not provide a full list of names, he did not rule out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the former rival whom he’s already tapped to head his transition planning.
Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is running the vice presidential vetting effort “with a group,” Trump said, that includes former competitor Ben Carson and himself. “Honestly, we’re all running it. It’s very much a group effort,” said Trump.
A first-time political candidate, the celebrity businessman said there’s no need for another business person on the Republican ticket and he wants a running mate who can help him pass legislation as president. By joining forces with a political veteran, Trump would also signal a willingness to work with the Republican establishment that he’s thoroughly bashed during his campaign.
BBC News
ReplyDeleteIS conflict: Dozens killed in Baghdad car bombings
There was a huge car explosion in Baghdad this evening. The explosion happened in a very croud and famous street in Baghdad. But the point is there were many many car explosions in Baghdad. At least 93 people have been killed in three car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police and medics say. The deadliest struck a market in the mainly Shia Muslim area of Sadr City during the morning rush hour, killing 64 people and wounding 87 others. And there is another one of the attacks in the afternoon, two suicide bombers targeted police checkpoints in the northern district of Kadhimiya and in Jamia, in the west, leaving 29 dead. As we can see these terrorists have no mercy. They just kill people like it is a regular thing. We can’t stand any more death and I know it is not enough to say something is bad but we need to find solutions
Gianluigi Buffon: Juventus keeper to stay until 2018
ReplyDeleteThe 38 year old goalkeeper of the Italian Champion Juventus; Gianluigi Buffon had signed a new contrat. The contract expires at 2018. Buffon has joined Juventus in 2001 and has been still playing. "I hope my fantastic story with this club will go on and bring even further success," said Buffon, whose new deal will take him to 17 seasons at Juve.Defender Andrea Barzagli, 35, has also signed a new deal until 2018, saying Juve is the "best place" to improve.
11 May 2016
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US states struck by deadly tornadoes
A state of emergency has been declared in parts of the US state of Oklahoma, where tornadoes, severe storms and flooding have damaged the houses and caused two deaths. Homes were destroyed and people forced to leave their home as more than 20 tornadoes struck six states. This does happen a lot in US and when it happens, it can cause some damage and also deaths because of the speed of the winds. It was so great that it manage to separate a house from ground. And it almost killed another person and an actual tree saved his live. When the owner of the house heard the tornado, he started to run to the downstairs but tornado struck early and he managed to hold onto a tree and saved his life.
11.05.2016
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Woman 'live-streamed her own suicide
An investigation into the death of a 19-year-old French woman who reportedly live-streamed herself taking her own life has opened in France.
The woman, who had been using the smartphone app Periscope, reportedly jumped under a train at a station about 25 miles (40 km) south of Paris on Tuesday.
The video is no longer available on Periscope, which is owned by Twitter.
During the filming, the young woman claimed to have been raped and named her attacker, according to the reports.
BBC News
ReplyDelete"emojis depicting professional women"
Emojis are icons that are increasingly being used in mobile and web messaging to help tell a story. The group named emoji feminists wanted new emojis to be designed, so Google engineers have designed a set of 13 emojis that they say better represent women in the world of work. The team said that they hoped the samples would "empower young women (the heaviest emoji users) and better reflect the roles women play in the world".
Research by Procter & Gamble suggested that 82% of girls aged 16-24 use emojis every day. The emojis include healthcare workers, scientists and businesswomen. Users can already select from different skin tones as well as the generic yellow on some devices.
Recently Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, proposed that you should also be able to choose the colour of hair and specify gender.
11 May 2016
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Dozens killed in Baghdad car bombings
At least 93 people were killed in a bomb attack on the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. There were three car bombs. The attack took place in the mainly Shia Muslim area of Sadr City during the morning. In the afternoon, two suicide bombers targeted some polices on the northern district of Kadhimiya and Jamia. This kind of events also happens in our country often and I think this has to be stopped.
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ReplyDeleteDying coral reefs 'dull fish senses'
ReplyDelete11 May 2016
From the section Science & Environment
My blog post is about an undersea research done by Australian and Sweden researchers.
Coral reefs are valuable for biodiversity.But there so many harmful effects threatens those colorful beautiful spots of the undersea. For example fishing, water pollution, climate change. Now it has shown that how damaged or dead the ability of the fish to sense predators by the mini-reef experiments. The fish among damaged coral is failed to learn sense of a new predator and just kept exploring , left itself vulnerable because they couldn’t learn their environment through coral bleaching. So the damage on coral reefs affects fish life and damages fish's survival. As final words we should stop water pollution and be more careful if we care those fishes otherwise with no balance in nature there will be no balance for humans too so care the environment that we are part of it.
CNN News
ReplyDelete“Selfie snapper who destroyed historic statue may face criminal charges”
In Lisbon a Portuguese man climbed on to a 126 year old historical statue to take a selfie but unfortunately the statue couldn't carry the man and get knocked to the ground breaking into dozen pieces. According to local police, the man's weight brought the statue tumbling when he tried to climb it with a camera in hand. This event makes me question myself that is taking selfie really is a crime? According to local police, the man's weight brought the statue tumbling when he tried to climb it with a camera in hand. Now People are trying to put the pieces back together but I don't think it will be the same like the original one. The statue held a huge importance for Portugal and now it's broken. The polices didn't reveal the man's name because I think they were kind of scared from Portuguese people who would try to rage at him.
A girl who was 5 years old, shot herself mistakely.
ReplyDeleteShe was playing with the gun when it was discharged. Her grandmother was cooking downstairs. After the shot voice her grandmother went upstairs and saw the dead body. First they arrested grandmother but then police released her. Other childs were unhurt.