Showing posts with label 2017 at 09:45PM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 at 09:45PM. Show all posts

Monday, August 14, 2017

BREAKING: More than 200 bodies at Sierra Leone morgue after floods, mudslides, says coroner

UPDATE: BREAKING: More than 200 bodies at Sierra Leone morgue after floods, mudslides, says coroner official.

Others may be trapped in their homes after a big landslide near Freetown, Sierra Leone.

A hillside in the Regent area collapsed early on Monday following heavy rains, leaving many houses covered in mud.

A BBC reporter at the scene says many people may have been asleep when the mudslide occurred.

The number of casualties is not yet known but Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Victor Bockarie Foh said it was “likely that hundreds are lying dead”.

Mr Foh told Reuters news agency that the disaster was “so serious that I myself feel broken”, adding that the area was being cordoned off as people were being evacuated.

The AFP news agency is reporting that at least 180 people have been killed. Dozens of bodies have so far been retrieved.

Emergency services are at the scene trying to rescue people trapped in their homes after a section of a hill collapsed, the Sierra Leone Telegraph reports.

Images posted on Twitter show people wading through streets, waist-deep in muddy water following the downpour in and around Freetown.

Source: Sierra Leone mudslide buries houses with scores feared dead – BBC News


Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Tiger Woods says he has completed treatment over issues with pain medication

Tiger Woods says he’s checked out of the clinic where he went to get help dealing with pain medications, adding he will ‘continue to tackle this going forward’

“I recently completed an out of state private intensive program,” Woods tweeted. “I will continue to tackle this going forward with my doctors, family and friends. I am so very thankful for all of the support I’ve received.”

The treatment follows the golfer’s arrest in May on a DUI charge after he was found asleep at the wheel in Jupiter, Florida, around 2am. Woods told police he was taking various prescriptions. No alcohol was found in his system.

Woods said in a statement last month that he was receiving professional help to manage his medications and how he deals with pain and a sleep disorder. His agent confirmed that the 14-time major champion, who had back surgery in April, was seeking in-patient treatment.

Source: Tiger Woods says he has completed treatment over issues with pain medication | Sport | The Guardian


Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Better Call Saul s3 ep9 ‘Fall’ review and recap: Kim Wexler has reached her Skyler White moment

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Last week’s Better Call Saul saw a ‘Slip’ and this week it was a ‘Fall’, as Jimmy fully descended into some real nasty business and playing it straight took its toll on Kim.

*Season 3 episode 9 spoilers ahead – Netflix link to episode here*

I bemoaned a lack of screen time for the supporting characters in episode 8, slightly wishing by this point that the prequel was Better Page Gus or Better Meet Mike In A Dark Parking Lot, and episode 9 wasn’t much different, though it was, on the whole, a stronger instalment.

Mike got just a single scene this week, heading to the offices of Madrigal Electromotive (which you’ll remember from Breaking Bad) for a meeting with Lydia, who offered him a dummy role of ‘security consultant’ in order to launder his money.

Takeaway 1: she was matter of fact about it but clearly fearful of the scheme’s mastermind, “more than just a drug dealer” Gustavo Fring.

Takeaway 2: Mike resembles a boulder more and more each week, and his withering response to a Segway should be the internet’s new favourite reaction GIF…

MORE: Better Call Saul season 3 episode 9 ‘Fall’ review and recap: Kim Wexler has reached her Skyler White moment | The Independent


Saturday, March 18, 2017

Network of wealthy Russians has sunk $100m into Donald Trump’s luxury developments

gettyimages-653535260-0.jpgRussian buyers have spent nearly $100 million on Donald Trump’s luxury property developments, a new investigation has revealed. The US President has repeatedly insisted that he has no significant business interests in Russia, at a time when his ties to the country are under intense scrutiny.

He told a press conference last month: “I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia.”

However, Reuters has found that as many as 63 people with Russian passports or addresses bought $98.4 million-worth of property in seven Trump luxury towers across America.

The real number of Russian investors may be higher, as many of the properties were purchased through ‘limited liability companies’, which allow the owner to conceal their identity.

Nearly a third of the 2044 units within the seven Trump residential towers are owned by limited liability companies

Source: Network of wealthy Russians has sunk $100m into Donald Trump’s luxury developments | The Independent


Friday, March 10, 2017

ANOTHER  BREAKING: Dusseldorf machete attack on man hours after axe attack

The culprit is on the run and children in the local school are staying indoors. According to police, the man is injured but approachable. Last night, a man was arrested for an axe attack in Dusseldorf.

An 80-year-old man has been attacked in a car park in Dusseldorf with a machete just hours after a Kosovan went on an axe rampage in the city’s railway station.

According to police, the man’s injuries are not life threatening and the attack is not connected to last night’s attack on Dusseldorf station.

The victim suffered ‘blow-cut injuries’, according to police.

MORE: Dusseldorf machete attack on man hours after axe attack | Daily Mail Online