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1 4.5 Clinton makes bid for Ariz., Trump tries to keep focus Clinton reveled in reliably red Arizona, seeking to pluck a Republican state away from (14.99/15) Trump 2016-11-03 06:36 5KB rssfeeds.detroitnews.com

2 3.8 Vladimir Putin grants American action star Steven Seagal Russian citizenship (7.99/15) Russians President Vladimir Putin signed off on a degree on Thursday, granting Russian citizenship to American actor Steven Seagal. 2016-11-03 10:31 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

3 3.8 Poll: Donald Trump Edges Ahead in New Hampshire; Ayotte Opens Lead A New Hampshire poll shows Donald Trump one point ahead of Hillary Clinton, and (7.99/15) Sen. Kelly Ayotte leading Maggie Hassan. 2016-11-03 08:58 2KB feedproxy.google.com

4 4.4 Bill Murray's Cub magic Is there anyone happier today than Bill Murray? The Cubs super fan is floating on cloud (4.79/15) nine. 2016-11-03 08:11 1KB rss.cnn.com

5 1.3 Egypt Free Floats Its Currency, Devaluing It Against the Dollar

(4.17/15) Egypt’s central bank said it would freely float the local currency, a move aimed at eliminating a flourishing black market for U. S. dollars and securing a much-needed IMF loan, but devaluing the pound by almost half. 2016-11-03 07:30 1KB www.wsj.com

6 0.0 American Axle to buy Metaldyne Performance for $1.6 bln

(3.12/15) Nov 3 (Reuters) - U. S. auto-parts maker American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc said it would buy Metaldyne Performance Group Inc for about $1.6 billion i... 2016-11-03 07:49 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

7 1.0 Not the best analogy, Boris! Foreign Sec says UK ‘will make Titanic success of Brexit’ — RT UK (3.08/15) Gaffe-prone Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a London awards ceremony on Wednesday night that the UK would make “a Titanic success” of Brexit. Hecklers in the audience helpfully reminded BoJo of the ship’s tragic fate. 2016-11-03 08:41 2KB www.rt.com 8 2.9 Kylie Jenner upstages the birthday girl as she flashes her bra at Kendall's 21st bash (2.14/15) The whole Kardashian klan and their squad headed to LA hotspot Delilah on Wednesday night to celebrate in style. 2016-11-03 06:04 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

9 5.6 Beyoncé made country magic with the Dixie Chicks on 'Daddy Lessons'

Bey's surprise appearance at the CMA Awards didn't disappoint. 2016-11-03 10:25 1KB rssfeeds.usatoday.com (2.12/15)

10 1.1 EU commissioner Oettinger apologises for China insults (2.11/15) German politician, who called Chinese people ‘slit eyes’ and mocked gay marriage, says it was not his intention to hurt people 2016-11-03 07:37 3KB www.theguardian.com

11 1.9 Turkey slams Germany, accuses it of supporting terrorism Turkey's president has harshly criticized Germany, accusing it of supporting terrorism (2.09/15) and slamming comments suggesting Berlin may not extradite suspects wanted by Turkey if it considers the case is politically motivated. ... 2016-11-03 10:18 861Bytes article.wn.com

12 3.4 POLL: Where South African travellers will be heading this Summer Most South Africans will be having a staycation this upcoming holiday season, while many others will continue to work through the festive period. 2016-11-03 07:24 3KB (2.08/15) traveller24.news24.com

13 0.0 Ryan Reynolds confirms baby No.2 is a girl, makes out with Conan O'Brien

(2.06/15) In the clip from fake film 'The Notebook 2,' Ryan Reynolds and Conan O'Brien acted out the classic kiss-in-the-rain scene and actually made out. 2016-11-03 10:27 2KB www.aol.com

14 1.4 'Bigs in Blue' will try to bridge gap by pairing cops, youth

(2.06/15) One of the country's oldest mentoring organizations is launching a program pairing officers with youth in an effort to address the fraught relationship between police and the communities they serve. 2016-11-03 08:32 4KB www.wral.com

15 3.7 Big night for Garth Brooks at 50th annual Country Music Awards In this July 8, 2016, file photo, Garth Brooks sings "Ain't Going Down" during a concert (2.06/15) at Yankee Stadium... 2016-11-03 07:47 1KB www.wxyz.com 16 1.0 Officials Hopeful ISIS Leader's New Audio and Sightings Mean He's Cornered Video

(2.04/15) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is suspected to be in Mosul, Iraq. 2016-11-03 18:22 1KB abcnews.go.com

17 0.0 Clinton Camp: BLM, Transgender Violence Are Women's Issues

(1.17/15) Hillary Clinton's campaign scrambled to frame two unrelated policy points as "women's issues" ahead of a September 2015 volunteer organizing event in Ohio, the latest emails from WikiLeaks show. 2016-11-03 16:52 1KB dailycaller.com

18 0.0 US jobless claims rise at October's end First-time claims for US unemployment benefits rose in the final week of October but

(1.11/15) the extended trend of low levels persisted, the Labor Department reporte... 2016-11-03 09:21 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

19 0.3 In America's 'Rust Belt,' more voters trust Clinton on trade: Reuters/Ipsos poll WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's promise (1.06/15) to restore American jobs by renegotiating international trade deals appears to be failing him in states most affected by outsourcing, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. 2016-11-03 07:14 967Bytes article.wn.com

20 3.9 Remaining Calais minors removed from camp Authorities move over 1,600 unaccompanied children to sites across France, days after the Jungle camp was destroyed. 2016-11-03 10:41 2KB mwcnews.net

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21 6.0 Wahaca: Hundreds ill due to ‘norovirus outbreak’ Image copyright Alamy Image caption 2016-11-03 00:00 4KB headlinenewstoday.net

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22 0.5 OUCH! Hillary Has Dropped 60 Electoral Votes In The Last Week Alone (1.05/15) If the current trend holds, the Clinton campaign will see an Election Day collapse of historic proportion If the current trend holds, the Clinton campaign will see an Election Day collapse of historic proportion. 2016-11-03 08:33 1KB www.infowars.com

23 2.6 Inside Wells Fargo, workers say the mood is grim Wells Fargo workers tell CNNMoney they are angry at the bank for shifting blame on (1.04/15) them and remain scared of being retaliated against for speaking up about bad behavior. 2016-11-03 09:20 6KB rss.cnn.com 24 3.2 Forget turkey: Oprah's elves unveil her 101 Favorite Things (1.03/15) Thanksgiving? Meh. Who needs turkey when one can advance directly to Oprah's Favorite Things for the gift-giving holidays. 2016-11-03 10:41 4KB abc7news.com

25 0.8 'White supremacist Trump backers plot disrupting black voters' White supremacist groups backing Donald Trump are planning to "watch polls" in areas (1.03/15) populated by blacks by installing hidden cameras at polling locations and distribute liquor and drugs to keep away those likely to vote for Hillary Clinton, according to a media report. The National Socialist... 2016-11-03 10:18 905Bytes article.wn.com

26 4.2 Salesforce Unveils Lightning Partner Community-A New Way For Companies to Empower Their Partners to SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the (1.03/15) Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM... 2016-11-03 08:00 3KB www.prnewswire.com

27 0.5 Facebook skids on growth worries after blowout quarter (1.02/15) Facebook shares tumbled Thursday after the huge social network delivered a blockbuster earnings report but warned that its stunning growth pace was set to sl... 2016-11-03 10:51 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

28 2.0 Furry Farewell: Panda Twins Leave Atlanta for China Twin giant pandas born three years ago at Atlanta's zoo are en route to China. The zoo says Mei Lun and Mei Huan left Atlanta early Thursday bound for a panda research (1.02/15) center in Chengdu. Two Zoo Atlanta staff members are accompanying the furry pair. They... 2016-11-03 10:43 1KB abcnews.go.com

29 1.5 The Latest: Trump son promotes Johnson in Wisconsin Eric Trump says Wisconsin's Republican Sen. Ron Johnson can help execute his (1.02/15) father's vision as president, working from the inside in Washington while Donald Trump brings an outsider's perspective... 2016-11-03 10:24 718Bytes article.wn.com

30 2.0 The New York Times' Paul Volpe to Join Politico The deputy politics editor and deputy Washington bureau chief for digital of The New York Times is joining Politico as executive editor. Paul Volpe joined the Times in 2011 (1.02/15) and has been guiding coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. Before joining the Times, he helped launch local news... 2016-11-03 10:12 1KB abcnews.go.com 31 2.8 Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and Dolly Parton read mean tweets on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'

(1.02/15) In honor of the CMA Awards, "Jimmy Kimmel Live! " presented a special edition of Mean Tweets featuring Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Dolly Parton and more. 2016-11-03 10:03 2KB www.upi.com

32 1.9 'Scandal' season 6 premiere date, trailer unveiled (Watch)

(1.02/15) TGIT is on its way back — and yes, that means 'Scandal' is finally returning! 2016-11-03 10:00 1KB www.aol.com

33 1.7 National Geographic’s ‘Afghan Girl’ hospitalized Sharbat Gulla, whose striking image appeared on the magazine's cover in 1984, has

(1.02/15) been in custody in Pakistan. 2016-11-03 09:26 1KB www.pressherald.com

34 2.6 Lebanese president asks ex-PM Hariri to form new government

(1.02/15) Lebanon's prime minister designate vowed on Thursday to work swiftly to put together a "national unity government that overcomes political divisions" that have plagued the Mideast nation for years. 2016-11-03 09:19 3KB www.heraldonline.com

35 0.6 Brad Paisley’s jokes about Donald Trump made some country music fans unhappy

(1.02/15) Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the Country Music Awards for the ninth time Wednesday night, and they had a little political commentary for the audience. 2016-11-03 08:45 3KB www.charlotteobserver.com

36 6.7 Have a Greek Yogurt, Hire a Syrian Refugee Chobani deserves applause, not threats, for offering jobs to American newcomers. 2016-11-03 08:30 1KB www.bloomberg.com (1.02/15)

37 3.8 Zuma in Zim avoids mention of #StateCaptureReport President Jacob Zuma has made a speech at the opening of a Bi-National Commission in Harare, where he avoided mentioning the #StateCaptureReport. 2016-11-03 08:28 2KB www.news24.com (1.02/15)

38 2.1 Heritage College closes 10 vocational sites, citing finances (1.02/15) A vocational college with 10 campuses across several states has closed abruptly, citing financial problems and decreased demand for services from for-profit schools. 2016-11-03 08:23 1KB www.thenewstribune.com 39 0.0 Persistent and Dell Boomi Form Alliance to Bring Speed to Digital Transformation SANTA CLARA, California and PUNE, India, November 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- (1.01/15) Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE:... 2016-11-03 10:15 1KB www.prnewswire.com

40 1.7 Maimane to announce state capture report plan on Parliament steps

(0.04/15) Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane will take to the steps of Parliament on Thursday to say what his party is going to do “in order to give full effect to the public protector’s explosive report on state capture”. 2016-11-03 07:35 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

41 2.6 His lady in leather! Prince Harry's new girlfriend Megan Markle showcases her INCREDIBLE figure as she (0.01/15) shows off her new fashion range The 35-year-old Suits actress looks incredible as she showcases her new incredibly honed figure modelling her new fashion range for Canadian retailer, Reitmans. 2016-11-03 10:43 20KB www.dailymail.co.uk

42 3.4 Norwegian police to release Hexagon CEO Rollen from custody (0.01/15) OSLO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Norwegian police will release Swedish measurement technology firm Hexagon's Chief Executive Ola Rollen from custody no later than Sat... 2016-11-03 10:21 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

43 0.0 Watch video of first lady Hillary Clinton speaking in Ann Arbor in 1996 The archived footage shows Clinton, 20 years ago, speaking inside the Michigan (0.01/15) Theater. 2016-11-03 10:17 2KB www.mlive.com

44 4.0 Watch Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire & more pay tribute to Dolly Parton at the 2016 CMA Awards

(0.01/15) Dolly Parton won the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 CMA Awards. 2016-11-03 09:49 1KB www.aol.com

45 0.6 Australia dominate South Africa on opening day of the first Test in Perth (0.01/15) Australia ripped through South Africa's top order in the first hour, dismissed the tourists for 242 by tea and reached 105 without loss at close on the opening day of the first test on Thursday. 2016-11-03 07:28 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

46 1.0 Iraqi Shi'ite forces to cut off west Mosul today - commander

(0.01/15) BAGHDAD, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Shi'ite forces aim to cut the western supply route out of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul on Thur... 2016-11-03 06:02 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 47 3.5 Pwoar! Boity flaunts that booty in a bikini Boity has just set social media alight with her explosive bikini snaps. 2016-11-03 11:56 779Bytes www.timeslive.co.za

48 0.0 Ntsiki steps out of formation: Beyoncé is fake! Please don't try to sign Ntsiki up for membership to the Beyhive because we have a feeling she's not interested. 2016-11-03 11:39 1KB www.timeslive.co.za

49 2.7 Man saves £200 a year by analysing dozens of energy tariffs with his own spreadsheet Former civil engineer Peter Nadin, 57, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, claims he has saved more than £2,000 after using his own unique spreadsheet to compare the best energy tariffs on offer. 2016-11-03 10:54 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

50 1.5 TOWIE's Pete Wicks and Megan McKenna finally confirm their relationship status Making a joint appearance on Thursday evening's episode of Celebrity Juice, the reality TV personalities reveal they are still not together - almost a month after Pete's sexting scandal surfaced. 2016-11-03 10:53 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

51 0.0 Ana Navarro demonstrates her 'listening woman' face CNN commentator Ana Navarro practiced her "listening woman" face Thursday, right after she said that if Donald Trump were female, people wouldn't tolerate him. 2016-11-03 10:50 2KB rss.cnn.com

52 3.5 Phillip Schofield questions why no one asked Cheryl about pregnancy TV presenter Phillip Schofield couldn't believe Cheryl wasn't quizzed about those pregnancy rumours while on The One Show on Wednesday night. 2016-11-03 10:40 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

53 1.5 Mixed signals for economic switch on climate change Beyond the broad political consensus behind the Paris Agreement, there are mixed signals on how fast the world is pivoting towards the low-carbon economy needed to beat back the threat of global warming. 2016-11-03 10:40 5KB www.digitaljournal.com

54 0.7 Heroic Chinese pilot who saved 439 lives in near- miss drama by steering his plane out of danger is awarded £360k... as video shows just how close the collision was A Chinese airline has handed one of its pilots £360,00 for preventing a collision between two planes at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport on October 11. The pilot saved 439 lives. 2016-11-03 10:39 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 55 1.4 Pope Francis urges countries not to take in more migrants than they can 'assimilate' Pope Francis spoke out on a flight back to Rome from Sweden that even though countries shouldn't 'close their hearts' to refugees, they do have the right to assess their capacity to effectively integrate them. 2016-11-03 10:33 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

56 0.6 ‘Apostle’: Dan Stevens to Star in Gareth Evans Thriller (EXCLUSIVE) “Beauty and the Beast” actor Dan Stevens is in negotiations to star in Gareth Evans’ new period revenge thriller “Apostle.” Evans is writing and directing the film. XY… 2016-11-03 10:33 1KB variety.com

57 0.0 Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi make it a date night at Kanye West concert Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi headed to Kanye West's Saint Pablo show in LA on Wednesday. 2016-11-03 10:28 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

58 4.3 National Sandwich Day: Where to get free food, deals on Thursday November 3 is National Sandwich Day. Several popular delis and sandwich chains are offering free food or special deals. 2016-11-03 10:26 3KB www.wxyz.com

59 2.2 'I’ve never had so many low points!': Laura Whitmore reveals she's always in tears rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing Laura Whitmore, 31, shed light on her experience to date on the ballroom floor during an appearance on Thursday's Loose Women. 2016-11-03 10:24 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

60 1.4 Post-communist countries close 'happiness' gap; inequalities remain LONDON (Reuters) - Post-communist countries in Europe have made significant headway since transition, but inequality poses a growing threat to long-term development, a report from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Thursday. 2016-11-03 10:24 844Bytes article.wn.com

61 6.7 Parker Remick Expands to Portland SEATTLE, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Parker Remick, a leading technology- focused executive search firm,... 2016-11-03 10:22 3KB www.prnewswire.com

62 1.9 The digital divide in early childhood development just went to school A cognitive study conducted at Blair Athol School in Kromdraai, Johannesburg by Debbie de Jong â a learning specialist â found technology has the potential to have a positive impact on second language English learners at primary school. 2016-11-03 10:20 9KB www.news24.com 63 0.0 ANC the Parable of Inauthentic Leadership The world is in short of leaders who can stand up for something deeper, leaders with alignment in words and actions, leaders who can speak up even if it's uncomfortable and unpopular to do so. The current move by ANC members to dissociate themselves from Zuma... 2016-11-03 10:15 4KB www.news24.com

64 0.8 There are more LGBTQ characters on TV than ever before, GLAAD survey says Broadcast television networks are doing a better job than ever at bringing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer characters into the storytelling fold, according to a new report from GLAAD. 2016-11-03 10:11 3KB rss.cnn.com

65 0.5 17 healthy holiday side dishes under 250 calories It's easy to go the classic route with buttery mashed potatoes and creamy green bean casseroles, but these dishes are extremely decadent. 2016-11-03 10:10 1KB www.aol.com

66 0.8 'There were unrealistic business ambitions': Twice bankrupt Kerry Katona suffers another blow to her finances as nutrition range folds A spokesperson for the star says: 'There were unrealistic business ambitions and the company behind Kfit ran out of funds. All items on the website are now showing as 'out of stock'. 2016-11-03 10:10 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

67 3.4 Samuel L. Jackson to Star in Sci-Fi Film ‘Inversion’ (EXCLUSIVE) Samuel L. Jackson is in final negotiations to star in Facing East’s $130 million science- fiction movie “Inversion,” Variety has learned exclusively. “Inversion,” directed by… 2016-11-03 10:07 2KB variety.com

68 3.4 China launches first heavy-lift rocket China launched its most powerful rocket ever on Thursday, state media said, as the country presses on with a program which has seen it become a major space p... 2016-11-03 10:06 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 69 2.6 Chinese Cartoon ‘Where’s The Dragon’ set for U. S. Release Crimson Forest Films and Hannover House are to give a North American release to Chinese 3D animated film “Where’s the Dragon?” The release is planned for Jan. 27, 2017, in time for next year’s Chin… 2016-11-03 10:06 2KB variety.com

70 5.3 Strong Hermes sales confirm China-fuelled luxury revival By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Hermes confirmed stronger-than- expected global demand for luxury goods on Thursday, joining luxury goods industr... 2016-11-03 10:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

71 0.7 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dances in salsa show Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's embattled President, took a new tack as he tried to negotiate his way out of a mounting political crisis this week. He danced. 2016-11-03 10:01 2KB rss.cnn.com

72 1.1 Are scientists on the brink of creating a non- combustible battery? Researchers at the University of Maryland are trying to develop a safer alternative to the combustible components of today's lithium-ion batteries, and is showing promising results 2016-11-03 09:53 4KB www.cbsnews.com

73 0.0 Scramble for best TV content For the next few days Johannesburg will become the buying and selling playground for television content. 2016-11-03 09:49 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

74 0.0 Schools in debt as funding gap bites More than 100 academy trusts and almost 1,000 local authority schools in England have budget deficits. 2016-11-03 16:51 3KB www.bbc.co.uk

75 2.3 North Korea imports record volume of grain products North Korea may tout self-reliance in agriculture and industry, but a study suggests imports from China soared in September. 2016-11-03 09:35 2KB www.upi.com

76 1.1 New twist on a classic tunic Love a tunic but bored of the sweater and jeans combo? Try it with a skirt for unexpected layering -- warm and chic! 2016-11-03 09:33 2KB www.aol.com

77 0.0 Huawei Mate 9 phones unveiled after Note 7 meltdown Huawei unveils new large-screened Android phones a month after Samsung pulled the Note 7 from sale. 2016-11-03 16:49 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 78 4.8 Should we get rid of Daylight Saving Time? Some say Daylight Saving Time has positive effects. Others say it's inconvenient. 2016-11-03 09:30 1KB www.mlive.com

79 0.0 Maps can’t accurately depict the earth’s curved surface. But this one comes close It can be easy to forget, when looking at maps of the world, that the earth looks completely different. In flattening the curved surface of the earth, cartographers often sacrifice scale for size: Antarctica doesn’t stretch endlessly across the 2016-11-03 09:24 858Bytes article.wn.com

80 0.6 Kyrgyz leader's party forges new parliamentary coalition Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic party formed a new governing coalition, it said Thursday, comprising lawmakers who a day earlier voted for constitutional reforms that opponents say are aimed at extending President Almazbek Atambayev's rule... 2016-11-03 09:21 800Bytes article.wn.com

81 3.1 Taylor Swift named Forbes' highest paid woman in music for 2016 Taylor Swift has taken the number one spot atop the Forbes annual highest paid women in music list, ahead of Adele and Madonna. 2016-11-03 09:18 2KB www.upi.com

82 2.1 Nasa's plan to save Earth: Space agency reveals mock-up of a robot that will lasso an asteroid in 2021 and place it in orbit around the moon At the space agency's Robotic Operations Center in Maryland, the mock-up helps engineers understand the intricate operations required to collect a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid's surface. 2016-11-03 09:18 8KB www.dailymail.co.uk

83 1.5 Tulsa World Editorial: John Waldron is the best choice for Senate District 39 Voters in Senate District 39 face a tough choice Nov. 8. There are two intelligent, inspired candidates who both have a close relationship with Tulsa and their district. Both are good men — John Waldron and Dave Rader. On balance, however, we believe that Waldron is the right choice. ... 2016-11-03 09:18 965Bytes article.wn.com

84 1.3 Pro-Trump trolls launch social media campaign trying to convince Hillary supporters they can vote by TEXT Supporters of Donald Trump have been accused of trying to trick supporters of Hillary Clinton into believing they can vote by text message by spreading bogus adverts on social media (pictured). 2016-11-03 09:16 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 85 2.1 Oaks Day 2016: Natalie Bassingthwaighte cuts a stylish figure in frilled dress and understated headpiece for Oaks Day Natalie Bassingthwaighte cut a stylish figure in a white By Johnny dress at Oaks Day on Thursday in Melbourne, ensuring all eyes were on the frilly frock by keeping the rest of her ensemble simple. 2016-11-03 09:11 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

86 1.9 Inside the eerie Mississippi hoarder's house These are the eerie images of a house in Utica, Mississippi, which was built just two years after the end of the American Civil War by a prominent farmer and businessman. 2016-11-03 09:10 11KB www.dailymail.co.uk

87 0.8 Inquiry will give public a chance to ‘hear what our version is’: Guptas The Gupta family said they have their own version of the claims made in the state capture report and will present these once a commission of inquiry‚ as recommended by the former public protector‚ has been established. 2016-11-03 09:08 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

88 2.0 Hilarious image that shows how the Sydney Opera House looks like a stack of washing up has the internet in a lather The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous buildings on the planet with revered architecture. But an image of dishes in a rack Photoshopped onto the spot occupied by the building has gone viral. 2016-11-03 09:06 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

89 4.2 EATS BEAT: Sip 99-cent martinis at Dante, Keith McNally opens new French bistro Augustine in FiDi

It’s the happiest — and the cheapest — hour in the West Village. 2016-11-03 09:05 2KB feeds.nydailynews.com

90 0.2 Simplest Ways to Bypass iCloud Activation Lock Today every phone comes with security features that help in protecting the device against threats like theft, breakdown, lost and many other incidents to mention here. Though these features are very helpful in protecting your virtual identity but sometimes these features create problem for the owner if... 2016-11-03 08:52 3KB article.wn.com

91 0.0 AMC Networks Misses on Earnings in Q3 2016 AMC Networks failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations for its third quarter results, sending the stock down almost 3% just before trading opened Thursday morning. The media company pulled i… 2016-11-03 08:51 2KB variety.com 92 4.6 Another earthquake strikes central Italy, this time a 4.8-magnitude A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy as the region still reels from destruction of persistent quakes and aftershocks since August. 2016-11-03 08:50 1KB www.upi.com

93 0.0 Titan Markram is laying down the markers At some point South Africa's young franchise cream had to rise to the top after last season's disappointment. 2016-11-03 08:50 2KB www.timeslive.co.za

94 1.7 Why is there a huge yellow porch swing on the Charlotte Rail Trail? In case you missed the porch-warming party on the Charlotte Rail Trail, Edna's Porch is officially open at 220 E. Carson Blvd. 2016-11-03 08:45 3KB www.charlottefive.com

95 5.3 What is 'Sharenting' and should we be doing it? How much of your children's lives do you share on social media? 2016-11-03 16:51 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

96 10.7 Famous Soviet-era clown Oleg Popov dies at 86 Russians mourn Oleg Popov, a Soviet-era clown and cultural icon who has died at 86. 2016-11-03 16:49 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

97 2.4 Asylum Centre Worker Allegedly Filmed Sex Acts with Underage Migrants A female asylum centre worker in Denmark is alleged to have engaged sexually with underage male migrants and filmed the acts. 2016-11-03 08:42 2KB feedproxy.google.com

98 2.9 Simone Toone reveals lavish London lifestyle funded by sugar daddies Simone Toon, 25, from Northamptonshire, rises at noon and spends her days working out and shopping for designer clothes. Her lavish, £4,000-a-month lifestyle is funded entirely by sugar daddies. 2016-11-03 08:34 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

99 12.1 Possible human remains found on Sonoma State University campus A landscaper found what could be a partially buried body Wednesday in a wooded, undeveloped area of the campus in Rohnert Park. 2016-11-03 08:34 2KB abc7news.com

100 2.9 Ewan McGregor chooses life again in trailer for Trainspotting sequel The trailer for the long-awaited Trainspotting sequel has been released, 20 years after the original film was in cinemas. The preview of T2 Trainspotting, wh... 2016-11-03 08:31 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles

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1 /100 4.5 Clinton makes bid for Ariz., Trump tries to keep focus

(14.99/15) Tempe, Ariz. — Hillary Clinton reveled in reliably red Arizona, seeking to pluck a Republican state away from Donald Trump in the closing days of the caustic race for the White House. Trump, meanwhile, campaigned with rare discipline as he tries to close his gap with Clinton before next week’s election.

“’Stay on point, Donald, stay on point,’” Trump, campaigning Wednesday in Florida, teasingly quoted his staff as saying. “No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy. Nice and easy.’”

Trump can’t win the election without carrying Florida, underscoring how narrow his path to the White House is. Despite tightening polls, Clinton still has more options, which was underscored by her decision to make a late stop in Arizona, which has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate only once since 1952.

“This state is in play for the first time in years,” Clinton exclaimed during a nighttime rally on the campus of Arizona State University. She was greeted by a boisterous crowd of 15,000, one of her largest of the campaign.

Clinton, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, was buoyed, as well, by the Cubs dramatic victory over the Cleveland Indians in the clinching game of the World Series, giving the city its first Cubs championship since 1908. Clinton watched a portion of the game on an aides electronic device after concluding her appearance in Tempe, Ariz., and then helped hold aloft a banner with “W’’ on its face.

Clinton’s campaign has been eyeing Arizona for weeks, given Trump’s unpopularity with Hispanic voters. As part of her pitch to voters in the state, Clinton painted a grim view of life for Hispanics under a Trump administration. She also waded into a local sheriff’s race getting national attention, backing Democrat Paul Penzone in the race for Maricopa County sheriff, a post held by immigration hardliner Joe Arpaio.

“I think it’s time you had a new sheriff in town, don’t you?” she said.

And in a nod to Republicans, she called out Trump for his criticism in the GOP primary of Carly Fiorina, the only woman to seek her party’s nomination. Clinton called Fiorina “a distinguished woman with a tremendous record of accomplishment.” There was late action Wednesday in Michigan, too, as well as in North Carolina, where President Barack Obama tried to energize black support for Clinton.

Former President Bill Clinton was making an unannounced appearance in Detroit Wednesday night to meet privately with black ministers, the city’s mayor and other local leaders. Clinton planned to travel to the Detroit area as well on Friday.

A pro-Clinton super PAC was spending more than $1 million on Michigan airwaves along with at least $1 million more in Colorado, another state where Clinton has enjoyed a significant polling advantage for much of the fall.

Early voting numbers in some states suggest that her challenge stems, at least in part, from underwhelming support from African-American voters. Weak minority support could complicate her path in other states, too, including North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Early voting in North Carolina shows a 5 percentage point drop in ballots from black voters from 2012.

Obama, the nation’s first black president, offered an urgent message to North Carolina voters on Wednesday: “The fate of the Republic rests on your shoulders.”

He also criticized Trump’s history of sexist comments and his initial reluctance to disavow white supremacists. They continue to rally behind the Republican nominee, though he rejects that support.

“If you accept the support of Klan sympathizers,” Obama said, “then you’ll tolerate that support when you’re in office.”

At the same time, Clinton allies are speaking directly to black voters in a new advertising campaign running in Ohio, North Carolina and Florida. The ad from the pro-Clinton Priorities USA shows white Trump supporters screaming at and pushing black protesters, along with Obama warning that voters would lose “everything” if Trump wins.

As the final-days scramble for votes intensifies, Florida remains perhaps the nation’s most critical swing state.

The Trump campaign knows there is no realistic path to the White House without Florida, where polls give Clinton a narrow lead. The New York businessman campaigned in three Florida cities Wednesday — Miami, Orlando and Pensacola — and will follow up with a stop in Jacksonville on Thursday.

“We don’t want to blow this,” he told rowdy supporters in Miami. “We gotta win. We gotta win big.”

While Trump has devoted perhaps his most valuable resource — his time — to Florida, Clinton has built a powerful ground game, backed by a dominant media presence, that dwarfs her opponent’s. The Democratic nominee has more than doubled Trump’s investment in Florida television ads. Overall, the state has been deluged with $125 million in general election advertising — by far the most of any state. Candid Conversations: Trump tries to focus in the Trump supporter changes Helping you decide: Where Clinton vs. Trump final stretch road sign to 'Crooked Hillary' Trump and Clinton stand on aol.com article.wn.com heraldonline.com health care mlive.com

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2 /100 3.8 Vladimir Putin grants American action star Steven Seagal Russian citizenship (7.99/15) President Vladimir Putin signed off Thursday on a decree granting Russian citizenship to American action hero actor Steven Seagal, the latest high-profile passport handout to a Western celebrity. Hollywood star Seagal and judo-loving Kremlin tough guy Putin have struck up a bromance in recent years, with Seagal visiting Russia repeatedly and defending Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. 'He was asking quite insistently and over a lengthy period to be granted citizenship,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. 'He is well known for his warm feelings towards our country and has never hidden them.' Seagal is the latest in a string of high- profile Westerners to be granted Russian citizenship after buddying up with Putin. Veteran French actor Gerard Depardieu was given a Russian passport in 2013 after the star became a tax exile in ire over rate hikes in his native country. Putin has also handed out citizenship to American boxer Roy Jones Jr after sipping tea with him in Crimea and to American mixed martial artist Jeff Monson. Seagal's fame peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s with films such as 'Under Siege' and 'Above the Law', but he remains hugely popular in eastern Europe and was granted Serbian citizenship in January. Like Depardieu, he has previously hung out with Putin, a fellow martial arts fan, and other strongmen leaders from the former Soviet Union. After Russia's annexation of Crimea, Seagal called Putin 'one of the great living world leaders' and even performed with his blues band in the annexed Black Sea peninsula. In August, veteran Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko made Seagal eat one of his homegrown carrots in an awkward encounter that drew mockery online.

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3 /100 3.8 Poll: Donald Trump Edges Ahead in New Hampshire; Ayotte Opens Lead (7.99/15) Trump has the support of 40% of likely voters in the Granite State, followed by 39% for Clinton. Fully 10% say they will vote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein picks up 3%.

The poll also shows Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R- NH) six points ahead of her Democratic challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan. In the race for governor, Republican Chris Sununu — son of Bush operative, Romney surrogate, and Trump supporter John Sununu — leads Democrat Colin Van Ostern by five points.

Trump is scheduled to visit New Hampshire at least twice in the four days remaining before Election Day, hoping to carry forward his momentum. Clinton has also scheduled two visits there. Coincidentally, they are both planning to be in the state on the same days, Friday and Monday.

WBUR’s Anthony Brooks elaborates:

The poll was conducted from Saturday through Tuesday, meaning it was held after voters heard the news that the FBI was re-opening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s rogue email server.

Trump announced the news to an audience of 2,500 cheering supporters at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday afternoon.

New Hampshire has four Electoral College votes. Although it is historically a conservative state, it has cast been won by the Democratic candidate since 2000.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle , is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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4 /100 (4.79/15) 4.4 Bill Murray's Cub magic Probably not.

You can't talk World Series victory and not mention the actor and major Chicago Cubs fan.

A quick peek at social media shows Murray appearing to be everywhere celebrating with a grin so big you would think a curse had been lifted or something.

Who needed a ticket to the game when we had Bill Murray there representing us? And his face when they won? Twitter said it best: "We are all Bill Murray tonight. "

Not to take away from the incredible performance of the team, but we are going to say that Murray's good vibes contributed.

He's always been a wonderful everyman, but lately he's been going the extra mile.

His Holiness, the Bill Murray

From bar tending a shift at a Brooklyn bar to giving his extra World Series ticket to a fan from Indiana so she too could enjoy a little bit of history, the dude couldn't be cooler.

And we are betting that today he is walking on cloud nine and hoping for a "Groundhog Day" repeat next season.

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5 /100 1.3 Egypt Free Floats Its Currency, Devaluing It Against the Dollar (4.17/15) CAIRO—Egypt’s central bank said Thursday it would freely float the local currency, a move aimed at eliminating a flourishing black market for U. S. dollars and securing a much-needed IMF loan, but one that devalued the pound by almost half.

The Central Bank of Egypt, which also raised interest rates by 3 percentage points, said the decision to “liberate exchange rates” was intended to return the buying and selling of foreign currency... Egypt devalues currency to Egypt devalues currency by Why Egypt just let its Egypt devalues, floats its spur economy and meet 48% to meet IMF demands currency crash by 48% currency, meeting key IMF IMF loan demand — RT for $12bn loan rss.cnn.com demand Business theguardian.com newsinfo.inquirer.net rt.com

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6 /100 0.0 American Axle to buy Metaldyne Performance for $1.6 bln (3.12/15) Nov 3 (Reuters) - U. S. auto-parts maker American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc said it would buy Metaldyne Performance Group Inc for about $1.6 billion in a cash-and-stock deal to bolster its powertrain and drivetrain product lines. American Axle's cash and stock offer of $21.81 per share, represents a premium of 52.5 percent to Metaldyne's Wednesday close. Shareholders of Metaldyne will get $13.50 per share in cash and 0.5 share of American Axle stock. Metaldyne and American Axle make complementary products including components for use in powertrain and drivetrain applications for vehicles. The deal will additionally include the assumption of $1.7 billion of Metaldyne's debt, the companies said. The combined company will have annual sales of nearly $7 billion, on a pro forma basis, with over $1.2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and free cash flow of $400 million. The deal would result in cost synergies estimated to be between $100 million and $120 million by 2018. Greenhill & Co LLC and J. P. Morgan advised American Axle on the deal, while BofA Merrill Lynch advised Metaldyne. (Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Martina D'Couto)

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7 /100 1.0 Not the best analogy, Boris! Foreign Sec says UK ‘will make Titanic success of Brexit’ — RT UK (3.08/15) Prime Minister Theresa May, who was in the audience, reportedly hung her head in her hands at the remark.

The gaffe was made at the Spectator magazine’s annual Parliamentarian of the Year awards, which saw Johnson win Comeback of the Year and May win Politician of the Year.

Johnson, who was better known for his flamboyant persona than his politics prior to the EU referendum, quickly corrected himself.

“ Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a Titanic, er Titanic success of it ,” Boris said, at which point audience members reminded him about what happened to the ill-fated cruise liner in 1912.

“We are going to make a colossal, a colossal success of Brexit, ” he added, quickly.

The speech was recorded by Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, who introduced Johnson as a man who came “ back from the political dead .”

Boris, who campaigned for Brexit, threw his hat into the ring for prime minister after former PM David Cameron resigned.

However, London’s ex-mayor was betrayed at the last minute by former justice secretary Michael Gove, who told the press he would also run for PM because “ Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead .”

The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards, which is sometimes compared to the US’ White House Correspondent’s Dinner, also saw Theresa May poke fun at former chancellor George Osborne.

The PM accepted her award for Politician of the Year dressed as a builder in a high-viz jacket and hard hat, an outfit often worn by Osborne while visiting industrial sites to talk up his Northern Powerhouse economic plan.

Even his Twitter page features a photo of him wearing glaring orange high-viz jacket and hard hat.

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8 /100 2.9 Kylie Jenner upstages the birthday girl as she flashes her bra at Kendall's 21st bash (2.14/15) It was her big sister's night to shine as she finally turned of drinking age in the US. But Kylie Jenner coulnd't help but steal the show from Kendall as they hit the town to celebrate the supermodel's 21st birthday. The whole Kardashian klan and their squad headed to LA hotspot Delilah on Wednesday night to celebrate in style. Scroll down for video While birthday girl Kendall shone in a very revealing silver mesh dress, it was 19-year-old Kylie who seriously turned heads as she emerged from her car with boyfriend Tyga. The reality starlet poured her famous figure into a seriously risque ensemble, flashing her amble assets in just a bra worn underneath a mesh top. She upped the ante with a pair of curve-hugging leather trousers featuring criss-cross ties up the legs. The hair-piece aficionado swapped her natural raven locks for a long platinum wig, which added an extra edge to her bombshell look. Alongside the Jenner sisters, the Kardashian girls were also out in force - apart from, of course, Kim, who has retreated from the spotlight after she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris earlier this month. Kourtney and Khloe stunned in figure- flashing black while they were joined by momager Kris Jenner. Other stars to attend the bash included Kendall's father, Caitlyn Jenner, her model pal Hailey Baldwin, and family friend Cindy Crawford and her kids Kaia and Presley. Kendall Jenner drops $52K Kendall Jenner celebrates Kendall Jenner has first Kourtney and Khloe on a couch 21st birthday in Los Angeles alcoholic drink at 21st Kardashian wear co- pagesix.com upi.com birthday ordinating dresses for dailymail.co.uk Kendall Jenner's 21st birthday dailymail.co.uk

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9 /100 5.6 Beyoncé made country magic with the Dixie Chicks on 'Daddy Lessons' (2.12/15) Embed

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Hours before the show, rumors spread that the singer would be performing before CMAs' co-host Brad Paisley later confirmed Beyoncé's appearance in a Twitter post.

Frequently, country crosses over. But every now & then a major pop superstar wants to be a part of this too. Welcome, Beyoncé. #cmaawards50

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10 /100 1.1 EU commissioner Oettinger apologises for China insults (2.11/15) Germany’s EU commissioner, Günther Oettinger, has issued an apology after a storm of criticism over a speech in which he called Chinese people “slit eyes”, mocked gay marriage and criticised a Belgian region.

The politician, a senior member of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right party, has faced an outpouring of anger over a speech he made last Friday to an audience of business leaders, when he described a delegation of Chinese officials he had met as having “their hair brushed from left to right with black shoe polish”.

Oettinger, who previously insisted he had nothing to apologise for, was criticised by a Chinese government spokesperson, who said his remarks revealed “a baffling sense of superiority entrenched in some western politicians”.

But the German politician performed an about turn on Thursday, saying he had had time to reflect. “I can now see that the words I used have created bad feelings and may even have hurt people. This was not my intention and I would like to apologise for any remark that was not as respectful as it should have been,” he said.

He said his speech had been intended as a wake-up call to a domestic audience, arguing that attempts to reduce the retirement age and increase pensions would lead to Germany losing competitiveness.

Oettinger also claimed he had been misquoted in his remarks on the Belgian region of Wallonia. Belgian politicians made a formal complaint to the head of the commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, after it was reported that Oettinger had described Wallonia as a “micro-region run by Communists that blocks Europe”. He was referring to the socialist-led Walloon parliament’s role in slowing an EU trade deal with Canada.

In his apology, Oettinger described Wallonia as “not only historically an important European region, but [one that] actively contributes to the cultural and political diversity of Europe”.

He did not return to his remarks on chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal social policy, where he joked about “compulsory gay marriage”.

The row comes at an awkward time for the commissioner, who will take over running the EU budget from Kristalina Georgieva, who is stepping down to manage the World Bank. Brussels insiders have suggested his habit of making off-colour remarks may cost him the title of vice- president that Georgieva enjoys. He is also expected to face a tough time from the European parliament, which will test his suitability for the new role at a hearing expected before the end of the year.

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11 /100 1.9 Turkey slams Germany, accuses it of supporting terrorism (2.09/15) Turkey's president has harshly criticized Germany, accusing it of supporting terrorism and slamming comments suggesting Berlin may not extradite suspects wanted by Turkey if it considers the case is politically motivated. ...

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12 /100 3.4 POLL: Where South African travellers will be heading this Summer (2.08/15) Cape Town - Most South Africans will be having a staycation this upcoming holiday season, while many others will continue to work through the festive period.

This is according to a poll on News24, in which more than 31 000 people participated to share their upcoming plans for the summer holidays.

According to the figures, the majority of 42% of voters indicated that they'll be staying home for the holidays. A total of 33% said they won't be taking time off and will continue to work through the festive season.

Only 5% of voters say they will be visiting family abroad, as opposed to 21% who say they're gearing up for a road trip to the coast for summer.

But the travel plans might still change...

This is according to SA travel agents Flight Centre, South Africans are leaving it to the last minute to finalise their festive season travel – even as lead times to book continue to decrease.

"Ticket sales show that South Africans are waiting for November and December to finalise their travel for the festive season," Flight Centre says.

In previous years, South African travellers showed a lead time of between three to nine months for international journeys, and six to 12 weeks for domestic journeys.

This year, it seems, booking behaviour has changed.

“The trend that emerged last year is continuing this year and it shows that while South Africans used to finalise their travel plans in August to October, that is no longer the case,” says Carlos Luis, Land Product Leader for Flight Centre says. “Our data is showing that they are now waiting until November and December to book their flights and accommodation, especially for local travel.

Economic and job uncertainty, industry competition and travel discounts are behind this change in behaviour.

“Affordability is definitely behind the shift. People are waiting to see if they will be getting a bonus or whether they will have a job before finalising their travel plans. Intense competition among airlines and fantastic deals are also causing people to wait before committing.”

Luis warns, however, that bookings might spike soon, making availability scarcer.

“While there is availability, we expect prices to start rising sharply as travellers finalise their plans. So if you want to go away for the festive season, you need to finalise your arrangements as soon as possible to get a better deal,” he says.

If you're after the best insider deals and guides around SA's hottest holiday destinations, sign up for the Traveller24 Newsletter. Leading up to the festive season, we'll be giving you the inside scoop on having a blast in all SA's major hotspots - and you won't blow the budget doing so.

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- Table Mountain Cableway opens half-price Sunset Special for summer

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13 /100 0.0 Ryan Reynolds confirms baby No.2 is a girl, makes out with Conan O'Brien (2.06/15) Ryan Reynolds is destined to be surrounded by women! After accidentally revealing the gender of his second child with wife, Blake Lively , on Twitter, the Deadpool star, 40, confirmed that the couple recently welcomed a second baby girl.

WATCH: Ryan Reynolds Might Have Just Revealed the Sex of Second Child With Blake Lively

"Two under two is tough! " he admitted to Conan O'Brien on Wednesday night. "Lot of estrogen. It feels like an American Girl Doll just took a s**t on my life. I'll pour some cereal in the morning and there's like a tiny shoe in there. That's a choking hazard for me! "

The proud dad also quipped about not favoring one child over the other, saying, "It's pretty remarkable, you know? I used to say to my wife all the time, 'I can't actually imagine ever loving a second child as much as I love the first.' Then, that baby comes popping out and I acted like I was totally wrong. "

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The actor veered away from his personal life to play a game with the audience, in which they had to guess what he was there to promote. After a few ridiculous suggestions – a line of ham underwear and Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil – he brought up his new film The Notebook 2 starring Ryan Reynolds and Conan McAdams.

"Remember that vacation we took in Tijuana a few years ago? " Reynolds asked the host. "We split that bottle of absinthe? Well, we fell in love, and I filmed it. "

WATCH: Blake Lively Sends the Cutest 40th Birthday Message to Ryan Reynolds -- See Her Sweet Post!

In the clip from the fake film, Reynolds and O'Brien acted out the classic rain scene that was previously done by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in the 2004 romance. When it came time for the two jokesters to kiss, they really went all-out, grabbing each other's faces and making out for quite a while. Watch the clip above to see the steamy moment!

For more about Reynolds and Lively's second child, watch the video below!

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14 /100 1.4 'Bigs in Blue' will try to bridge gap by pairing cops, youth (2.06/15) Posted 38 minutes ago Updated 11 minutes ago

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — One of the country's oldest mentoring organizations is launching a program pairing officers with youth in an effort to address the fraught relationship between police and the communities they serve.

Already operating in several of their affiliate branches, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America's 'Bigs in Blue' program is set to begin in January. Officers will volunteer to serve as a 'Big' for a child, interacting weekly for 30 minutes to an hour at the child's school, though longer visits outside of a school setting may happen depending on the relationship. Child participants will be elementary or middle school age.

Big Brothers Big Sisters President Pam Iorio said expanding the program nationally makes sense in the current national climate around community policing. "Right now, there is an identifiable problem with poor relations between police and communities," said Iorio. "This helps the police officer connect to the families they serve. They're not going into a neighborhood to make an arrest. They're going into a neighborhood to form a bond. It helps that young person see the police officers as a friend. "

The shootings of unarmed black people by police in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Cleveland, North Charleston, Cincinnati and New York in recent years have brought attention to the issue of disparate treatment in some communities, particularly ones of color, by law enforcement — creating a sense of distrust and skepticism between officers and residents. Much of the response to this climate has been protesting for police reforms and even rioting in some areas.

The tensions have also divided communities, in some cases, along racial lines. One-on-one interactions could make a difference and help to change the conversation, said Iorio, a former mayor of Tampa, Florida, who had police chiefs who served in the Big Brother Big Sister program.

"This is one relationship at a time," said Iorio. "That's how we're going to solve problems in this country. "

Big Brothers Big Sisters is raising money to support the initiative and has a goal of $5 million, which would fund the program for a third of the organization's 300 local affiliates, including the Philadelphia chapter.

For Marcus Allen, CEO of the Independence Region that includes Philadelphia, Bigs in Blue is personal. As a 10-year-old growing up near Augusta, Georgia, Allen's first mentor was a police officer who took an interest in him and encouraged him to pursue his education.

"I know from experience that there are some really good police officers out there who are doing a really great job and have a really difficult job to do, which is totally separate from some of the stuff that we're seeing where unarmed black men are getting shot," Allen said.

Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner Richard Ross will serve as national spokesman for the program. He said he expects tremendous interest from officers, many of whom already volunteer their time to work with young people in the city.

Ross said he is encouraged that the program could help improve relations with police and communities.

"We've got to fight against a powerful narrative that is potentially in jeopardy of making young people believe a certain thing about all police officers," Ross said. "This is an extension of what we do and... an opportunity to show people who we are. "

Ross, who has mentored young men in Philadelphia himself, said the program could also help educate and boost morale among his officers.

"It's easy if you're in a uniform to feel like it's always 'them against us,'" he said. "You want them to know they do have more support. Having regular conversations about things other than policing, you can't help but see beyond the uniform. "

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Errin Haines Whack covers urban affairs for The Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/emarvelous.

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15 /100 3.7 Big night for Garth Brooks at 50th annual Country Music Awards (2.06/15) In this July 8, 2016, file photo, Garth Brooks sings "Ain't Going Down" during a concert at Yankee Stadium in New York. A week after launching its new paid streaming music service, Amazon announced a deal with one of the streaming music’s biggest holdouts: country superstar Brooks. Brooks, who is the best-selling solo artist in U. S. history, has kept his music off streaming services for his entire career until Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, when select albums and songs will be available on Amazon Music Unlimited. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

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16 /100 1.0 Officials Hopeful ISIS Leader's New Audio and Sightings Mean He's Cornered Video (2.04/15) Transcript for Officials Hopeful ISIS Leader's New Audio and Sightings Mean He's Cornered

They leader vices has a new message to militants who were fighting US backed forces in Iraq. Fight to the death in an audio recording released overnight Abu Bakar. My daddy told his followers not to retreat this coalition forces close in on Mosul. Any calls for suicide attacks in other countries the battle to retake the city. On one million people is now in its third week some residents are starting to emerge from hiding.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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17 /100 0.0 Clinton Camp: BLM, Transgender Violence Are Women's Issues (1.17/15) Hillary Clinton’s campaign scrambled to frame two unrelated policy points as “women’s issues” ahead of a September 2015 volunteer organizing event in Ohio, the latest emails from WikiLeaks show.

On September 9, 2015 , Lauren Peterson, a speechwriter for the campaign, sent around talking points for the event to key members of the policy and communications team.

Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at UA Local 525 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union hall on November 2, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Getty Images)

“I also wanted to flag this line, which she has not said before,” Peterson. “Standing up and saying loudly and clearly that yes, black lives matter [sic] – that’s a women’s issue, too. And demanding an end to the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color in this country is a women’s issue.”

“Which one hasn’t she said?” asked communications director Jennifer Palmieri.

“She hasn’t said these words,” Peterson responded. “Demanding an end to the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color in this country is a women’s issue.”

Palmieri wrote back that “if policy is okay, I am.”

Top foreign policy advisor Jake Sullivan added that the line “seems indisputable to me.”

“Agree! [sic]” chimed in senior policy advisor Ann O’Leary.

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18 /100 (1.11/15) 0.0 US jobless claims rise at October's end First-time claims for US unemployment benefits rose in the final week of October but the extended trend of low levels persisted, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Initial claims rose 7,000 to 265,000 seasonally adjusted in the week ending October 29, its highest point in three months. The result was above the consensus among analysts for 256,000. Even with the increase, the result marked an 87-week streak of initial claims for unemployment insurance below 300,000, which the Labor Department said was the longest run since 1970. The four- week moving average for first-time claims rose slightly with the latest increase, to 257,750, up 4,750 from the previous week. The Labor Department is due to release the monthly employment report Friday which will be the last look at job creation and the unemployment rate before Tuesday's bitterly-contested presidential election, in which the economy has been a major issue. Jobs markets have seen steady growth in recent months. However, US monetary policymakers Wednesday refrained from raising rates, saying they prefer to wait for additional evidence of improving economic conditions. US jobless claims rise to near three-month high aol.com

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19 /100 0.3 In America's 'Rust Belt,' more voters trust Clinton on trade: Reuters/Ipsos poll (1.06/15) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's promise to restore American jobs by renegotiating international trade deals appears to be failing him in states most affected by outsourcing, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

In America’s ‘Rust Belt,’ more voters trust Clinton on trade: poll article.wn.com

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20 /100 (1.05/15) 3.9 Remaining Calais minors removed from camp | Print | E-mail

Thursday, 03 November 2016 06:41 Authorities move over 1,600 unaccompanied children to sites across France, days after the "Jungle" camp was destroyed.

France has moved more than 1,600 unaccompanied child refugees from the demolished "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais, as a feud with Britain dragged on over who takes care of the youths.

According to local officials, 1,616 children, mainly teenagers who had been living in shipping containers after the camp was razed late last month, had been transferred to processing centres across France on Wednesday.

More than 5,000 refugees had been transferred from Calais last week, but the fate of the children had remained unclear until Wednesday.

Authorites said that many of the youths were being taken to at least 60 processing centres scattered across the country.

The operation rekindled tensions and fears among some youths that it meant the end of their dream of reaching Britain.

"They are saying: 'You are young, we can help you'. But they are not helping me," Carlos Osma, a 16-year-old from Sudan told the AFP news agency, before boarding a bus.

President Francois Hollande has pushed Britain to take in more minors, but the UK's recent vote to leave the European Union has highlighted the public's unease with immigration.

Britain's government says it has taken in more than 300 refugee children from Calais, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Parliament last week that several hundred more would be brought in soon. But details remain unclear.

"We are absolutely committed to safeguarding and protecting children in Calais and have been working very closely with the French to ensure the camp is cleared as safely as possible," Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said in a statement Wednesday.

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2016-11-03 10:41 Agencies mwcnews.net

21 /100 21 /100 6.0 Wahaca: Hundreds ill due to ‘norovirus outbreak’

(1.05/15) More than 300 people have depressed ill following a suspected conflict of norovirus during a Wahaca grill chain, Public Health England (PHE) has said.

The Mexican grill sequence had close 9 branches given of a infection, and 4 sojourn closed.

PHE has begun an exploration after hundreds of staff and business fell ill.

A mouthpiece for Wahaca apologised to those that had been unwell, observant it was an “unprecedented incident”.

Wahaca was founded by 2005 MasterChef leader Thomasina Miers.

She pronounced in matter with co-founder Mark Selby: “Last week a series of a staff and business were struck down by what is suspected to be a winter queasiness bug, norovirus.

“We assessed any box and when it became transparent they were not removed incidents, we got in hold with applicable officials during PHE and Environmental Health Officers.”

Deborah Turbitt, London emissary executive for health insurance for PHE, pronounced a source of a conflict was nonetheless to be determined.

She said: “We have so distant been done wakeful of 205 staff and 160 members of a open stating illness, however these are unconfirmed cases.” You competence also like:

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Soho, Oxford Circus and Covent Garden sojourn closed. The Canary Wharf bend is close though hopes to re-open on Thursday.

The grill sequence willingly sealed a influenced restaurants and ensured staff members who had reported illness remained off site until their symptons had ceased for during slightest 48 hours, a matter said.

“We are impossibly contemptible that people have been unwell,” it read.

“In a 9 years given we initial non-stop Wahaca we have never had such an rare incident, and we are doing all we can to get to a bottom of how this might have happened.” “I was unequivocally cold and openly sweating”

Simon Twinn ate during Wahaca in Soho, executive London, on Saturday night with his partner and some friends.

Speaking to BBC London Radio, he said: “We were excellent on Sunday. On Monday we started wanting a toilet utterly badly to contend a slightest and afterwards queasiness started a few hours after that.

“I was unequivocally cold and openly sweating.

“We didn’t consider it was anything to do with a food until after that night my partner started throwing adult and removing stomach cramps.

“I contacted my friends and they were going by accurately a same thing.”

“I started removing a unequivocally bad stomach ache”

Alex Gammage, 24, told BBC London she had eaten lunch with 3 friends during Wahaca during One New Change nearby St Paul’s on 27 October.

“On Friday night we started removing a unequivocally bad stomach ache, like a tangle in my stomach, and afterwards about 30 mins after we started to get ill and had diarrhoea. And that lasted a whole weekend.

“It was literally each 30 minutes. we couldn’t even keep H2O down though being sick.

“It wasn’t until Monday that we could eat anything and that was soup and a usually been in a final day or so that we have started to get my ardour back.”

She combined that one of her friends had brought her baby along to a restaurant.

“The baby is usually 7 months aged so if she had held it, that would have been unequivocally scary.” Norovirus and a symptoms

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22 /100 0.5 OUCH! Hillary Has Dropped 60 Electoral Votes In The Last Week Alone (1.05/15) Pollster Frank Luntz just indicated Team Hillary is down 60 electoral votes when compared to where the campaign was just a week ago.

If the current trend holds, the Clinton campaign will see an Election Day collapse of historic proportion.

Hillary Clinton has lost 60 electoral votes in one week on the @RealClearNews projection.

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— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 2, 2016

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23 /100 2.6 Inside Wells Fargo, workers say the mood is grim

(1.04/15) That's how more than a dozen current employees interviewed by CNNMoney describe the mood inside Wells Fargo ( WFC ) in the aftermath of the fake account scandal that has shaken the bank to its core. "The culture is toxic," said John, a Wells Fargo home mortgage consultant. CNNMoney is not identifying any of the workers by their real names because each of them insisted on anonymity for fear of getting fired.

The post-scandal atmosphere has taken a huge toll, John said, because customers now assume "Wells is scamming them. " Things have gotten so bad that John said he is taking Xanax to control his panic attacks.

"It's beyond embarrassing to admit I am a current employee these days. My family and friends think I'm a fraud for working at Wells," John said.

It's been just over seven weeks since Wells Fargo admitted to creating as many as 2 million unauthorized accounts and firing 5,300 workers since 2011. The scandal led to the abrupt retirement of longtime CEO John Stumpf.

New CEO Tim Sloan has vowed to make things right at Wells Fargo, but recent conversations with current employees suggest he has a long road ahead in fixing how workers in the trenches feel about top executives.

"They don't care about us. All they care about is money in their pocket," said Jane, a Wells Fargo collections worker, who said she is being treated for depression and anxiety due to the high- stress environment.

"Wells says they are there for us. I have not seen it," she said.

Related: Wells Fargo workers describe mental health nightmares

The anger at Wells Fargo leadership stems from attempts by the top brass in the immediate aftermath after the scandal broke to shift blame onto lower-level employees.

"We have been dragged through the mud. We have been outright blamed by our CEO," said Sandra, who works at a Wells Fargo call center.

The problem, according to Wells Fargo employees, is they have been criticized for trying to hit unrealistic sales goals set by executives far above their pay grades.

"I'm horrified by the blame being placed on retail staff," said Eve, a Wells Fargo private banker from Wisconsin.

Even Sloan, Wells Fargo's new CEO, acknowledged in a recent speech that the bank bungled the initial response to the scandal. "Many felt we blamed our team members. That one still hurts, and I am committed to rectifying it," he said. Wells Fargo scrapped the controversial sales goals on October 1 , and Sloan said Wells Fargo plans to introduce a new performance plan for retail bankers based on "customer service, growth and risk management. "

These efforts and the company's removal of the tough sales goals may be starting to make a difference.

One Wells Fargo fraud investigator, Sarah, who is a big critic of the bank, said things have started looking better for some of her colleagues. For instance, she said coworkers in the online customer service unit were less stressed due to the removal of sales goals. "They can just concentrate on assisting the customer instead of having to sell something every call," Sarah said.

Related: I called the Wells Fargo ethics line and was fired

CEO Sloan has also been more forthcoming than his predecessor about the problems at Wells Fargo. He admitted the culture has "weaknesses" that have caused a morale problem. He told analysts it would be an "understatement" to say Wells Fargo employees have been "put through the wringer" as a result of the scandal.

Hoping to make amends, Sloan has apologized to employees for the "pain you have experienced as team members as a result of our company's failures. "

He added, "We are not in denial about our reality. "

But if he wants to right this ship, Sloan may want to make sure his message is being heard by all managers, especially given the size of the bank.

Rebecca, a Wells Fargo employee who works in a California call center, said things have actually gotten worse recently. She said her group was recently told not to use the restroom outside of scheduled breaks without a doctor's note.

"The new CEO has no impact here in the trenches. People here are angry...feeling very dehumanized," Rebecca said. "Wells Fargo can give $120 million to a crooked CEO -- but won't allow us to pee. "

Stumpf, the former CEO, left with an estimated $130 million in shares and other compensation based on his more than three decades at the company. (Wells Fargo clawed back $41 million of Stumpf's pay and more clawbacks are possible pending an investigation by the bank's independent directors.)

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The issue of workers being denied bathroom breaks is a troubling one that came up often during CNNMoney's conversations with employees. It's unclear how widespread the problem is now, but former and current employees say it's resulted in stomach-related ailments in the past.

Nathan Todd Davis, a former banker, publicly described the problem to a Wells Fargo executive at a recent California State Assembly meeting.

A Wells Fargo spokeswoman said the bank complies with all applicable state and local laws. She said Wells Fargo is "investigating" the new claim from the employee about being denied bathroom breaks. "If we find it to be true, it is completely unacceptable and we will take immediate action," she said.

Another problem: fear of retaliation. As CNNMoney previously reported, almost half a dozen Wells Fargo workers say they were fired prior to the settlement after calling the confidential ethics hotline.

Sloan has sought to address this problem, calling it "disturbing to hear claims of retaliation against our team members. " He said Wells Fargo is doing a "thorough review" of its ethics line process.

But letting his rank and file employees feel comfortable about using that hotline will not come easily, given the alarming allegations. Several current Wells Fargo workers say they are still scared there will be negative repercussions if they blow the whistle.

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"If and when we do speak up, it's disregarded," said Barbara, a Wells Fargo employee who works on auto loans. "They will twist what you say to make it seem like you're crazy. "

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24 /100 3.2 Forget turkey: Oprah's elves unveil her 101 Favorite Things (1.03/15) Thanksgiving? Meh. Who needs turkey when one can advance directly to Oprah's Favorite Things for the gift- giving holidays. Yes, it's that time of year, when "O, The Oprah Magazine" unveils the queen's curated gift suggestions , to be included with discounts in the December issue. For 2016, there are exactly 101, a majority available on Amazon for the second year. Oprah elves Gayle King, the magazine's editor-at-large, and Adam Glassman, the creative director, presented highlights of the haul Tuesday after schlepping to food and trade shows in search of products for the boss lady to consider in June, when their Christmas begins. "It was summer and the air conditioner broke so she was sitting there sweating like a brahma bull, but you know she's always very pleasant," King told The Associated Press in an interview with Glassman, of Oprah's hands-on process this year. "And she was wearing this cute little one- piece onesie," Glassman said, "and I kept saying, 'Don't you want a T-shirt?' and she kept saying, 'No, I want my onesie!'""With the tennis shoes and the vest," King chimed in. The outfit they spoke of has Oprah looking Christmas fly in red stripes, Santa cap and bright red high-tops on the December cover, to hit newsstands soon. The list includes a range of price points for a range of gift recipients. Some highlights with suggested retail pricing:___Oprah's Poinsettia Flower Pot Cake: On the outside, it looks like the actual holiday plant. On the inside is chocolate cake goodness with vanilla mousse. Very sweet. From MadeinHeavenCakes.com . $165. "Food, Health and Happiness," by Oprah herself: Part memoir, part cookbook, a little bit of self-help. Weight Watchers points are included. It's for fans willing to wait until the book comes out in January. Meantime, it can be pre-ordered. $35. Yonanas Elite: Speaking of points, fruit equals zero. This sorbet maker turns frozen fruit into soft-serve with no added sugar. Yonanas.com . $130.___Travel Cord Rolls: Who hasn't wasted way too much time untangling cords? Oprah has, and she's had it. This is a compact, roll-up case with slots to keep your ear buds and charging cords in order. In colored leather, including blue, pink, green and aqua. $20. Beats by Dr. Dre, Powerbeats3: They're wireless, light weight and offer a quick five-minute charge for one hour of playback. Apple.com . $200. Tiny Tunes: They're little-creature speakers that pack a powerful sound via Bluetooth, and they're one of Gayle's favorites this year. Oddly enough, you can enable a selfie feature and snap a pic. MyAudioPet.com . $25.___Supersonic Dyson Hair Dryer: Oprah promises that it's super-fast, and it has the signature Dyson hole in the middle. It promises a quiet motor, three magnetic attachments and, did we mention, speed. $400. Organic sachets: They're filled with dried rose petals and lavender florets to scent lingerie. In a gifty little green box topped by a big splashy flower. Bloembox.com . $20. Peoni cleansers and toners: New line of products from Oprah's facialist, Jennifer Brodeur. Free of toxins, artificial fragrances and gluten. Jbskinguru.com . $60 for toners, $195 for creams.___Jellycats: Unusual, inviting critters with fluffy feather appeal. The hug potential is great. In medium and large sizes, including an ostrich, swan and chicken. Jellycat.com . $23 to $50. Children's slippers: Washable terry cloth with non-slip bottoms. Choose cushy white bunnies, brown pups, yellow ducks and more. Yikestwins.com . $24. Family onesies: Just like Oprah's. Let baby and bigger kid in on family pajama bonding in horizontal holiday red-and-white stripes. In cozy organic cotton. Burtsbeesbaby.com . $13 to $40.___Glyph: It looks like headphones but in true "Star Trek" manner it plugs into any HDMI-supported device, goes across the eyes and can be used for everything from checking email to watching movies in digital HD. Avegant.com . $549. Serif TV: Owe somebody a big-box gift that's functional and looks like a piece of modern art? This elegant smart TV can be placed on a counter or on its own minimalist stand. It has apps, a full web browser, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Samsung.com . $1,500. The Cocoon: Yes, gifting someone a mattress may feel strange, but this memory-foam baby's got buzz. It ships in a remarkably hassle-free box, Oprah promises. From Sealy. Cocoonbysealy.com . $399 to $849.

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25 /100 0.8 'White supremacist Trump backers plot disrupting black voters' (1.03/15) White supremacist groups backing Donald Trump are planning to "watch polls" in areas populated by blacks by installing hidden cameras at polling locations and distribute liquor and drugs to keep away those likely to vote for Hillary

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26 /100 4.2 Salesforce Unveils Lightning Partner Community-A New Way For Companies to Empower Their Partners to

(1.03/15) SAN FRANCISCO , Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM ), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced Lightning Partner Community—a fast and intelligent solution for companies looking to accelerate sales from their partner ecosystem. With Lightning Partner Community, companies can arm resellers, franchisees, channel teams and more with the same tools that make their own direct sales force successful.

Partner ecosystems are imperative to helping companies scale and drive growth. In fact, according to Accenture, an average of 70 percent of high-tech sales come from channel partners[1]. However, many partners are hampered by the solutions that connect them with vendors today—archaic systems that are difficult to navigate, fragmented and impossible to access from a mobile device—limiting the potential of what their sales could be.

Introducing Lightning Partner Community: Supercharging your Partner Ecosystem The new Lightning Partner Community enables companies to turn partners into an extension of their own direct sales team by giving them a single place to identify opportunities, track progress and close deals. The new Lightning Partner Community includes:

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Salesforce Community Cloud enables companies of all sizes to integrate business data and processes with their communities, creating a seamless customer, partner and employee experience. Built on the Salesforce Platform, Community Cloud is part of Salesforce CRM, and easily connects to third-party systems and data sources, so companies can access the tools and information they need to be successful. With Community Cloud, companies have experienced a 46% increase in partner engagement and a 43% increase in sales[2].

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27 /100 0.5 Facebook skids on growth worries after blowout quarter (1.02/15) Facebook shares tumbled Thursday after the huge social network delivered a blockbuster earnings report but warned that its stunning growth pace was set to slow. In early Wall Street trade, Facebook shares slid 5.2 percent to $120.54. Although the California group reported a 166 percent surge in profits to $2.4 billion and revenue growth of more than 50 percent to $7 billion, it also said it was unlikely to sustain that kind of growth in the near future. The main reason for the concern was comments from Facebook that it can no longer keep boosting the number of ads delivered without harming the user experience. Facebook also said it planned to invest heavily in engineers and data centers for long-term goals. While Facebook has become a dominant player in online advertising and especially strong in mobile, it remains unclear if the group can keep momentum as it shifts into new areas such as virtual reality. "If there's a weak spot at Facebook, it's making money from anything that's not ads. Other than that, everything else going gangbusters," Jan Dawson at Jackdaw Research said in a tweet. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a long-term vision for the company that includes virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and even providing internet service to remote areas using self-flying drones. But advertising accounted for more than 97 percent of Facebook revenues in the quarter. Mobile accounted for about 84 percent of the ad money. Still, many analysts remained upbeat on Facebook, saying it is still showing robust growth as it invests in new segments. Mark Mahaney at RBC Capital Markets said the selloff appeared "overdone. " "We believe Facebook still has several new large revenue growth drivers," he said in a research note, citing its Instagram photo-sharing network and monetization of new services on its Messenger application. Michael Graham at Canaccord Genuity said meanwhile that Facebook has "several consumer and ad innovations that should keep advertiser demand high. " "We believe Facebook's operating momentum, high growth, and reasonable valuation continue to suggest it should be a core tech holding," Graham said in a note.

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2016-11-03 10:51 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

28 /100 2.0 Furry Farewell: Panda Twins Leave Atlanta for China

(1.02/15) Twin giant pandas born three years ago at Atlanta's zoo are en route to China.

The zoo says Mei Lun and Mei Huan left Atlanta early Thursday bound for a panda research center in Chengdu.

Two Zoo Atlanta staff members are accompanying the furry pair. They've also brought 375 pounds of bamboo, eight gallons of water and 25 pounds of treats, including sugarcane, bananas and biscuits.

Mei Lun and Mei Huan are the first surviving pair of giant panda twins born in the U. S. Their mother, Lun Lun, gave birth to another set in September.

Like the other three U. S. zoos with giant pandas, the bears are on loan from China. As part of the loan agreement, all adult offspring are sent to China when they're of age.

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2016-11-03 10:43 By abcnews.go.com

29 /100 1.5 The Latest: Trump son promotes Johnson in Wisconsin (1.02/15) Eric Trump says Wisconsin's Republican Sen. Ron Johnson can help execute his father's vision as president, working from the inside in Washington while Donald Trump brings an outsider's perspective...

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30 /100 2.0 The New York Times' Paul Volpe to Join Politico

(1.02/15) The deputy politics editor and deputy Washington bureau chief for digital of The New York Times is joining Politico as executive editor.

Paul Volpe joined the Times in 2011 and has been guiding coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. Before joining the Times, he helped launch local news startup TBD in the Washington area and served as deputy political editor at The Washington Post. Politico made the announcement Thursday.

Volpe will join Politico next month.

He succeeds Peter Canellos, who will become editor-at-large.

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2016-11-03 10:12 By abcnews.go.com

31 /100 2.8 Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and Dolly Parton read mean tweets on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (1.02/15) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- In honor of the CMA Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Live! presented a special country-infused edition of Mean Tweets featuring Miranda Lambert , Little Big Town, Dolly Parton and more.

"In case of a national emergency, all traffic will be redirected to Miranda Lambert's forehead," one fan wrote to a disapproving Lambert.

"Why does the blonde in Little Big Town have hair like a Zoolander villain," Little Big Town read aloud as they took the joke aimed at member Kimberly Schlapman in stride after taking home the CMA award for Vocal Group of the Year.

Parton, who was honored with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award during the CMA's, also joined in the fun reading one fan's disparaging comment about her concerts. "It's not a hooker convention, it's a Dolly Parton concert," she said before replying to the Twitter user, "I guess I should feel hurt but I don't because I pattern my look after a hooker. "

Other country stars including Trace Adkins , Bonnie Raitt , Randy Houser, Cassadee Pope, Dan + Shay, Cole Swindell, Jana Kramer, Granger Smith, Florida Georgia Line, Jake Owen, Brett Eldredge, Hunter Hayes and Nelson were also featured.

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32 /100 1.9 'Scandal' season 6 premiere date, trailer unveiled (Watch) (1.02/15) TGIT is on its way back — and yes, that means " Scandal " is finally returning.

ABC announced that January 19 is the premiere date for "Scandal" Season 6, plus the back part of "Grey's Anatomy" and " How To Get Away With Murder 's" current seasons.

Both "Grey's Anatomy" and "How To Get Away With Murder" have their midseason fall finales on November 17, and then go on a two-month hiatus, then returning with Shondaland 's TGIT block on Jan. 19.

See photos of "Scandal" star Kerry Washington through the years:

"Scandal" has been on break since Season 5 ended this past May , as its sixth season was atypically pushed to midseason , due to star Kerry Washington's pregnancy.

In the first Season 6 trailer for "Scandal," the presidential election results are in. In case you forgot all the way back to last season, the two candidates are Mellie (Bellamy Young) and Frankie Vargas (Ricardo Chavira), who are running with their veeps Jake Ballard (Scott Foley) and Cyrus (Jeff Perry).

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33 /100 1.7 National Geographic’s ‘Afghan Girl’ hospitalized

(1.02/15) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s foreign ministry says an Afghan woman who gained fame in 1984 after a photograph of her as a refugee girl was published on the cover of National Geographic has been hospitalized after falling ill while in custody.

Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said Thursday that Sharbat Gulla is being treated at a hospital in Peshawar.

He didn’t provide details but authorities say the famed green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ was arrested for holding a fake Pakistani identity card.

She has denied the charges but a Pakistani court on Wednesday dismissed a bail plea for Gulla.

War photographer Steve McCurry, whose photograph made Gulla famous, found her again in Afghanistan in 2002. She surfaced again in 2014 in Pakistan but went into hiding after authorities accused her of buying a fake ID card.

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34 /100 2.6 Lebanese president asks ex-PM Hariri to form new government (1.02/15) Lebanon's prime minister designate vowed on Thursday to work swiftly to put together a "national unity government that overcomes political divisions" that have plagued the Mideast nation for years.

The pledge by Saad Hariri, who already served as prime minister for 14 months until early 2011, came shortly after the country's newly elected president, Michel Aoun, asked him to form a new Cabinet.

That process can go on for weeks or even months, and usually involves much bargaining among Lebanon's notoriously fragmented politicians. The government must then win parliament's approval.

Aoun's office made the announcement about Hariri after two days of talks with lawmakers over their choice of prime minister. The statement didn't say how many lawmakers supported the 46- year-old Hariri for the post.

A Christian leader and strong ally of the Shiite Hezbollah group, Aoun was elected by parliament as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum in Lebanon. His election was made possible after Hariri endorsed him for president, based on an understanding that Aoun would then appoint him as prime minister.

"It is a new era," a beaming Hariri told journalists gathered at the Baabda presidential palace, repeating the phrase three times.

"I have great hope -in this positive moment that ends the suffering of the country and its citizens that lasted for two and a half years of vacancy and paralysis," he said.

According to Lebanon's sectarian-based power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Muslim Sunni and the parliament speaker a Shiite Muslim.

The Aoun-Hariri deal is an unlikely partnership between rivals: Aoun, a longtime Syria foe now allied with pro-Syrian forces, and Hariri, a vocal opponent of President Bashar Assad and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

Many Lebanese are skeptical Aoun's election would make a difference or that the country's perpetually divided politicians and dysfunctional politics would change.

Still, most have breathed a sigh of relief that the country's top post has been filled following a two-year vacuum that brought state institutions dangerously close to collapse. That the country was able to execute a peaceful election in a region wracked by violence and conflict, however, was seen as a small victory for Lebanon.

"We owe it to the Lebanese to start working as soon as possible to protect our country from the flames burning around it, to reinforce its immunity in the face of terrorism, to help it deal with the difficulty of the refugees' issue," Hariri said.

Hariri is the son of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a billionaire businessman and influential politician who was assassinated in a massive seaside bombing in 2005 in Beirut. Several Hezbollah members are being tried in absentia for the killing by a Netherlands-based U. N.- backed tribunal.

Hariri, who holds a Georgetown University degree in international business, was a political novice thrown into politics when he took over his father's political mantle after the senior Hariri was killed.

He headed a 14-month national unity government from late 2009 until early 2011, which collapsed after Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the Cabinet in a dispute over upcoming indictments in Rafik Hariri's assassination.

Lebanon's Hariri to form government, but path tough dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-03 09:19 By ZEINA www.heraldonline.com

35 /100 0.6 Brad Paisley’s jokes about Donald Trump made some country music fans unhappy (1.02/15) Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood said political jokes were off limits before they took the stage to host the Country Music Awards for the ninth time Wednesday night, according to the Tennessean.

Either that was a lie, or the country music stars decided to ignore the rules. The started off by singing they were sick of politics and the election , saying, “this election is taking forever,” and “make it end!”

As Underwood then started naming Entertainer of the Year nominees in the crowd, Paisley stood behind her and interrupted multiple times with phrases such as, “Crooked Carrie,” “liar,” and “wrong,” a reference to Donald Trump’s approach to the presidential debates.

“I love all you guys,” Paisley said. “But #ImWithCarrie and this show is rigged ... bigly!”

“I’m with Carrie” is a reference to Hillary Clinton’s support slogan, “I’m with her,” and Trump has repeatedly said the election is rigged, only promising to accept the results of the election if he wins.

Paisley took a similar tactic. When Underwood asked if Paisley would accept the night’s results, he responded, “Yes. If I win.”

When Underwood told him he wasn’t even nominated, Paisley called her a “nasty woman,” another reference to something Trump said at a debate.

The two also brought out a “basket of deplorables,” a reference to what Clinton once called Trump supporters, and Underwood cautioned Paisley not to drink too fast or he’d have to take a “wiki-leak.”

More Republicans listen to country music than Democrats , and some Trump supporters clearly weren’t sure how to react to the comedic act.

But most took it as a dig against the Republican nominee.

It isn’t the first time the duo referenced Trump or Clinton at the CMAs. Last year, when the primaries were still going on, Paisley performed a riff summing up 2015.

“Bruce Jenner’s a babe now, and Trump’s leading in the polls,” Paisley sang.

“Well, actually Brad, he’s slipping,” Underwood said.

Later in the show, the two talked about contacting the candidates.

“We emailed Hillary Clinton, but all we got was an auto-reply from the Justice Department,” Underwood said. “I don’t know what that was about.”

Goes to show not too much has changed in a year. Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood take aim at politics during CMAs upi.com

2016-11-03 08:45 By Kate www.charlotteobserver.com

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37 /100 3.8 Zuma in Zim avoids mention of #StateCaptureReport

(1.02/15) Harare – President Jacob Zuma has made a speech at the opening of a Bi-National Commission in Harare.

Fresh from the #StateCaptureReport (which he studiously avoided any mention of) Zuma bravely affirmed: "Not all is gloom and doom. "

Here are some key points from a fairly-lacklustre speech:

Drought has hit southern Africa hard

"Our region has been hard-hit by El Nino," Zuma said.

He said the drought had "eroded decades of hard-won developmental gains, putting great strain on the fiscus of most governments. " No word on how corruption might have also imposed a strain.

We're pleased about the appointment of a new UN secretary general

And the fact that the new BRICS development bank is establishing its Africa regional centre in Johannesburg. Old news.

Mugabe's time as chair of the AU in 2015 was very positive

Said Zuma: "Your contribution as chair of the post... has put the region and the continent on a different platform of economic and political stability. " Excuse me?

Zuma went even further, saying Zimbabwe had been

"instrumental towards realising the dream of a prosperous African continent. "

We need to focus on economic co-operation

If so, why didn't a business forum bringing together representatives from Zimbabwe and South Africa manage to make it today? Zuma did not mention this but Mugabe was clearly disappointed.

Business communities "stand ready to play their part" in deepening co-operation between South Africa and Zimbabwe

This is where the speech gets interesting. Zuma said the business communities would play their part if the governments "create conducive environments for ease of doing business". OK, so he didn't mention bond notes, the SI 64 of 2016 ban on many SA imports and indigenisation. In fact

Zuma went straight on to point to the need for a one-stop border post at

Beitbridge, a recurring topic in these talks. But he said the need for conducive environments was "not limited" to that. He also made a fleeting reference to "policy certainty". Was this a friendly bit of brother-to-brother advice in the light of Zimbabwe's looming economic meltdown?

Zuma arrives in Zim after state capture report is released timeslive.co.za

2016-11-03 08:28 www.news24.com

38 /100 2.1 Heritage College closes 10 vocational sites, citing finances (1.02/15) A vocational college with 10 campuses across several states has closed abruptly, citing financial problems and decreased demand for services from for-profit schools.

A statement on Heritage College's website says its campuses are permanently closed. The campus locations included suburban Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Fort Myers and Jacksonville, Florida; Little Rock, Arkansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Oklahoma City; and Wichita, Kansas.

Students at the Columbus campus found a note taped to the door announcing it had closed Tuesday. Student Kimi Boyce tells WBNS-TV she'd anticipated graduating on Nov. 18 and that after spending $12,000, she's not sure if she'll even receive a diploma.

The closure comes as some of the largest for- profit colleges have faced steep enrollment declines, growing competition and new regulation. Some of those schools have closed recently.

Heritage College Closes 10 Vocational Sites, Citing Finances abcnews.go.com

2016-11-03 08:23 The Associated www.thenewstribune.com

39 /100 0.0 Persistent and Dell Boomi Form Alliance to Bring Speed to Digital Transformation (1.01/15) Oct 13, 2016, 09:45 ET

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40 /100 1.7 Maimane to announce state capture report plan on Parliament steps (0.04/15) This came as speculation mounted that President Jacob Zuma would postpone Thursday’s planned trip to Harare for the inaugural session of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Bi-National Commission.

Zuma had‚ a day earlier‚ withdrawn his high court application to interdict the report‚ which sought to probe alleged relationships between the Gupta family and him‚ his Cabinet members and state-owned entities.

The report recommended Zuma institute a commission of inquiry into the allegations of state capture‚ and for it to be headed by a judge selected by the head of the Constitutional Court.

The Presidency said on Wednesday that Zuma “will give consideration to the contents of the report in order to ascertain whether it should be a subject of a court challenge”.

He has 14 days to reply.

Also giving it consideration is his party‚ the African National Congress‚ which said in a terse statement that it “has noted the release of the public protector's report into allegations of state capture”.

The ruling party has been split over the report‚ with some stalwarts publically slamming Zuma and the party for weak leadership.

“The ANC will study the report and issue comment on it tomorrow‚ 3rd November 2016‚” spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said.

Maimane‚ whose DA was one of four opposition parties which had opposed Zuma’s interdict bid‚ said: “The state capture saga has intensified the need to use all democratic‚ political and legal avenues to ensure that South Africa’s Constitution remains the highest law in the republic and is respected by those entrusted with it.”

Zuma arrives in Zim after Who and what gets state capture report is mentioned most in released Madonsela’s state capture timeslive.co.za report timeslive.co.za

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41 /100 2.6 His lady in leather! Prince Harry's new girlfriend Megan Markle showcases her INCREDIBLE figure as she shows off her new fashion range (0.01/15) If you needed any more proof of what Prince Harry sees in new girlfriend, just cast your eyes over her latest fashion shoot. Megan Markle, the 35- year-old Suits actress, looks incredible as she showcases her incredibly honed figure modelling her new fashion range for Canadian retailer, Reitmans. The Canadian, who is thought to have met the royal in Toronto, displays her pert posterior and honed figure as she models a sexy short leather skirt, polo neck and high heels. In another shot, the star wears skin-tight leather trousers and an unbuttoned shirt as she leans forward seductively on a stool. Other shots see the actress showcasing her modelling prowess in a range of cosy knits, flowing shirts and tight trousers. The range, which goes on sale in the US today, comprises five autumn/winter staples in muted hues, which can be worn from desk to dancefloor. The collection, which is full of black, white and charcoal grey pieces, is surprisingly affordable, with everything costing under $100 (£80). The unveiling of her new shoot comes after Megan said she is 'the luckiest girl in the world' - but admitted she is worried by the 'sexiness factor' of her Suits character. Miss Markle, 35, also admitted she is a 'brash American' with strong opinions in her first interview since her affair with Harry emerged. The actress has become concerned about the number of Suits sex scenes she has starred in and says she avoids skimpy clothes because her mother warned her to 'never give the milk away for free'. Meghan has posted a series of romantic images on Instagram since it emerged she had been dating Harry. But in her first interview since then she told the Toronto Sun: 'My cup runneth over and I’m the luckiest girl in the world'. On her Suits outfits she said: 'Yes, those pencil skirts on the show are fit within an exhale, but I fight to get that paired with a men's oversized shirt for balance.' She added: 'I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition. 'I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say'. She posted a romantic picture of two bananas 'spooning' after news of their relationship broke. Markle also shared an image of a cup of tea in a cup and saucer all next to an elephant-shaped teapot. : 'They are the real deal. He definitely pursued her and besieged her with texts until she agreed to a date.' 'He is very full-on but she was going through quite a tough time with her previous boyfriend and she was very flattered. 'He's head over heels and she feels the same.' The Telegraph reports Meghan and her chef boyfriend broke up in May - the same month she met the young Prince at a charity event, where is understood to have asked for her number. The source told The Sun the pair went to London's Soho House in early July with a group of friends and then had two more dates by themselves where the young royal 'swept her off her feet.' Last night, shortly after news of their blossoming romance broke, Meghan posted a picture of two loved-up bananas 'spooning' on Instagram, with the caption 'Sleep tight.' The cryptic post sparked instant speculation that Meghan was referring to the Prince. One of her followers wrote: 'Goodnight Harry. Good night Megan' while another said: 'Is that message for your red haired prince?' Meanwhile, it was reported that Harry scrapped a secret trip to to meet with Meghan after details of their alleged six-month relationship emerged. Harry was booked on to a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Toronto at 11.30am and due to land in the Canadian city at 3.30pm on Sunday but was a 'no show', a source said. Hours before he was due to leave the country claims they had been seeing each other for nearly six months broke in Britain. And it appears that concerns photographers would be waiting for him in London and Toronto may have scuppered their transatlantic tryst. A source told the Evening Standard: 'The flight was booked last week but he was a no-show. The crew for the British Airways flight knew the Prince was booked to travel with them. It appears he pulled out at the last minute and decided not to travel.' One royal source suggested the pair are in a relationship but it is still considered 'very early days', and yesterday afternoon, at around the time Harry would have landed, Meghan wished people a 'happy Sunday' as she went for a drive with her two dogs. The 35-year-old actress, who is best known for her role as Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, is believed to have charmed the royal when he visited Toronto in May. As claims the pair were 'besotted' with each other emerged, keen observers spotted pictures of them wearing matching bracelets and it's possible he gave a similar to trinket to Meghan as a gift. Toronto-based actress Meghan, 35, shared a snap of herself wearing the jewellery on a recent trip to Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, and its blue, white and black colours mean 'friendship, fearlessness and independence'. But she has also been linked with Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy and Canadian star chef Cory Vitiello, who she was apparently romantically linked to when she met Harry. In March Mr Vitiello was boasting on Twitter that he was 'so proud of my lady' after she was named a global ambassador for the children's charity World Vision. The prince, 32, also follows the actress on the picture sharing website Instagram using a pseudonym, the Mail can reveal. Intriguingly, Harry, who publicly professes to hate social media, is one of her million followers and she also follows him. The revelation is telling because the prince has a private account and only 'follows' a few close friends and charities, suggesting the pair know each other fairly well. The Prince is said to be besotted with Meghan after meeting in Toronto during the summer as Harry promoted his Invictus Games. A source close to the prince, who is fifth-in-line to the throne, told The Express that he is 'besotted' with the star,who plays Rachel Zane in the hit legal drama Suits. 'He's happier than he's been for many years,' they said. 'He's in a very relaxed period of his life and Meghan has come along at the right time. 'They are taking each week as it comes and just enjoying each other's company but it's fair to say that they love seeing each other and there's a definite chemistry between them.' According to reports, she has dined with Harry when in London and has met his friends. She stayed with him at Kensington Palace and met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, according to the Express. 'William and Kate really liked her and she fitted in straight away,' the source added. 'Meghan is a very confident and intelligent woman and she's not overawed mixing with royalty.' Meghan is an equalities campaigner whose white father was a lighting director in a TV studio when he met her African American travel agent mother. In an article when she was asked to write about her background she said: 'While I could say Pennsylvania and Ohio, and continue this proverbial two-step, I instead give them what they're after: 'My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American'. She says she was a 'light-skinned' baby so when people saw her black mother pushing her in the pram 'they assumed she was the nanny', she said. Meghan was also made to feel uncomfortable about her heritage at school and so her father told her to create her own ethnicity 'tick box' on forms and even made her a set of dolls with a black mother and white father. Meghan says the fact she was mixed race presented some difficulties. 'I wasn't black enough for the black roles and I wasn't white enough for the white roles,' she wrote. Harry and his rumoured girlfriend are believed to have met in Toronto in May this year where LA-born Meghan is based and Suits is filmed. Harry was in the city to promote his Invictus Games for wounded servicemen, and according to the source she's been to London to visit him on several occasions since. Indeed, Meghan has shared two snaps of the capital - one taken nine weeks ago, and another 16 weeks ago. In late June and early July she was seen enjoying the tennis from the royal box at Wimbledon. She reportedly stayed at Kensington Palace during her time in London and has been introduced to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As well as the pressure of dating a royal, Meghan may be eager to take things slow as she's already been married. She wed her long-term boyfriend film producer Trevor Engelson in Jamaica in 2011, but the couple split three years later. The same year she was also linked to golfer Rory McIlroy. Miss Markle marks a change in Harry's taste in women, as he tends to go for society blondes. She's also no shrinking violet. Her Suits character – a legal assistant – is filmed in one scene in her bra as she consummates her relationship with junior partner Mike Ross in the office store room. Harry's first – and most serious relationship – was with Zimbabwean designer Chelsy Davy, with whom he had a tempestuous seven-year relationship. Dancer and actress Cressida Bonas was his most recent long-term girlfriend but the couple split after two years in 2014. Miss Markle is older than him – an attractive quality as the prince has often spoken of his desire to commit and start a family like his brother. Meghan caught the acting bug early and spent a great deal of her childhood on the set of Married With Children where her father was director of photography. Her first gig was a role in the daytime soap General Hospital and roles in the sci-fi drama Fringe, 90210 and CSI: NY followed, before she got her big break with suits. She's played the role of paralegal Rachel Zane since 2011. Outside of acting, she's known for her philanthropic work, which is surely a big draw for Harry - especially given her interest in Africa. She is a Global Ambassador for World Vision Canada, and has travelled to Rwanda on behalf of the charity's Clean Water Campaign. She has also travelled to Afghanistan to support US forces and their families. Both she and Harry reportedly like yoga and the Prince is increasingly keen to establish his humanitarian credentials. Meghan is also involved with the United Nations and is an advocate for UN Women alongside the likes of Emma Watson and Angelina Jolie. She was scouted for the role after writing a piece on personal independence on the fourth of July for her lifestyle website TIG, where she blogs about her love of food, fashion, travel and beauty. A Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of UN Women got in touch and Meghan offered to fly to New York for work experience. 'I wanted to see what they were doing at ground level. It was important not just attach my name to an organisation, even if it was the UN,' she told The Aesthete. 'I called and said, 'I have a week off from filming, can I come work in the office for a week?' They replied that no one had ever asked that.' Meghan spent a week shadowing meetings dressed in work attire borrowed from the set of Suits. The multi-talented actress has collaborated with Canadian fashion brand Reitmans on a clothing line, which goes on sale in the coming weeks. She also spent time on film sets as a child. Her father Thomas was a cinematographer, and worked on the hit US sitcom Married With Children. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied theatre and international relations, and worked for the US embassy in Buenos Aires. The actress initially worked as a freelance calligrapher, once writing invitations to singer Robin Thicke's wedding, before getting the role in Suits which has made her a household name in the US. Kensington Palace refused to comment on the reports yesterday, but sources said the claims had a 'ring of truth'. Kruger Cowne, representatives of the actress, said the romance was still 'unofficial'. A spokesman added: 'However, should this be confirmed by the Palace, all of us at Kruger Cowne are delighted for them and wish them well.' Harry's saucy divorcee: How Prince's rumoured new lover is a rosé-loving yoga aficionado who has starred in some VERY fruity TV scenes and has battled prejudice over her mixed-race heritage Actress, self-styled humanitarian, writer, world traveller and most recently, fashion designer. Should Prince Harry's new love interest, Meghan Markle, be invited to sit down for tea at Buckingham Palace, she certainly won't be short of conversation. Stunningly beautiful — and not in the society blonde style of previous girlfriends — it's not difficult to see why Harry might have been drawn to the 35-year-old Los Angeles-born actress, who stars in hit US TV drama Suits. Unlike many of his other conquests, Meghan is remarkably open with her private life — she's posted more than 2,000 times on social media site Instagram, where she has a million followers and has her own blogging website The Tig, named after her favourite Italian wine, Tignanello. On Instagram, she's fond of posting shots of herself beaming in glamorous locations — holidays in the past year include Italy's Amalfi coast, Ibiza and Tulum in Mexico — and rather twee lifestyle mantras, such as 'she was afraid of heights, but she was more afraid of never flying'. There are endless pictures, too, of her giggling with big groups of female friends over coffee or wine — she has an enormous network of friends all over the world. Celebrity contacts include tennis star Serena Williams and Made In Chelsea heiress Millie Mackintosh. On her blog, subjects range from how to balance acting and humanitarian work to tips on New York boutiques and recipes for spelt biscuits. She's also not afraid of expressing political opinions: she is clearly anti-Brexit, posting pictures of Remain placards during her last visit to London. Like her Suits character, Rachel Zane, Meghan is of mixed race. Her mother is an African-American former travel agent turned-yoga instructor (complete with dreadlocks and a nose stud), while her father is a white retired director of photography who worked on hit U. S. sitcom Married With Children. Her great-great-great grandfather was a slave, who took the name Wisdom when slavery was abolished in America. Meghan writes movingly of her childhood and her mum and dad's mixed-race marriage on her website: 'I like to think he was drawn to her sweet eyes and her Afro, plus their shared love of antiques,' she writes. 'Whatever it was, they married and had me. 'They moved into a house in The Valley in LA to a neighbourhood that was leafy and affordable. What it was not, however, was diverse. And there was my mom, caramel in complexion with her light-skinned baby in tow, being asked where my mother was since they assumed she was the nanny.' From her writing, it's clear that her heritage is a subject with which Meghan is deeply preoccupied. She writes that she once deliberately left a mandatory ethnicity box on a school census form blank. Her teacher told her to tick Caucasian, 'because that's how you look'. But Meghan said she put her pen down because she couldn't bear to picture 'the pit-in-her belly sadness my mother would feel if she were to find out'. She also describes hankering after a boxed set of Barbie dolls, a family that either came in black or white versions, and her delight on Christmas morning when she discovered her gift-wrapped family, customised by her father to include a black mum, a white dad and a child in each colour. She undoubtedly enjoyed a privileged upbringing — she went to a private Roman Catholic school in LA. Interviews with the star are also littered with references to her global travels with her mother — though never 'conventional' family trips to Disney World. It was Hawaii and Mexico where she was encouraged to get an 'authentic cultural experience'. Even as a little girl she was highly political. Aged 11, she saw a TV advert for a washing liquid, with the tagline 'women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans'. Incensed by the perceived sexism, she wrote to the manufacturer and then First Lady Hillary Clinton in protest. Within a few months, the advert was duly changed to 'people all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans'. Ten years of accompanying her father on the set of Married With Children fuelled a passion for acting. On leaving school, she went to Northwestern University, Illinois, where she started out taking theatre studies, before deciding she didn't want to be a 'cliche', so ended up completing a double major in theatre and international relations. During her second year she applied for an internship at a U. S. embassy, ended up working in Buenos Aires and decided on a career in politics. However, she returned to college to pursue acting when a friend introduced her to an agent, who saw a student film she starred in and told her she would 'make money' acting. Meghan says the fact she was mixed race presented some difficulties. 'I wasn't black enough for the black roles and I wasn't white enough for the white roles,' she wrote. There was a short-lived stint as a model — holding one of the prize money briefcases on the U. S. version of Deal Or No Deal — and parts in a string of shows from General Hospital and 90210 to CSI and the 2011 film Horrible Bosses. But it was her role in Suits as a feisty paralegal (an American legal assistant) — with mixed-race parentage much like her own — that catapulted her to stardom. To date, Meghan's romantic life has been low profile, but not without drama. She is understood to have begun dating her first husband, Trevor Engelson, now 40, who has a production company and bears more than a passing resemblance to Prince Harry, in 2004. In 2011, the pair married, exchanging vows in a barefoot ceremony in front of 102 guests in Jamaica. But they went their separate ways in 2013, for reasons unknown. Speaking of which, Meghan appears to have chosen the Angelina Jolie/Emma Watson approach to fame and is a vocal advocate on behalf of the United Nations. She was so keen to get on board that she volunteered to be an intern at the UN buildings in New York for a week before becoming a 'women's advocate for political participation'. Certainly it's easy to see what happy-go-lucky Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have in common. What's less clear is how they will find time to meet, or what some female members of the Royal Family will make of a fiercely independent young woman whose Twitter missives include: 'I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches — I've always wanted to be a woman who works.' But Meghan does have time for some leisure activities. She loves yoga and dotes on her two rescue dogs, Bogart and Guy, loves to cook and drink 'copious amounts of rosé' — a fact that will surely relieve the party-loving Prince Harry. She also loves fine wine, as well as a spicy tequila cocktails, negroni cocktail or a good Scotch, served neat. Asked if she could host a dinner party with any five people who would be there, she listed American chefs Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali, film star Gwyneth Paltrow, Britain's Jamie Oliver and her best friend. Should Prince Harry be wondering what is the way to this lady's heart, she says her favourite food is French fries, but adopts a mostly vegan lifestyle during the week. She loves a man in a linen shirt, she says, especially barefoot on a beach, and claims that her idea of a perfect date is refreshingly simple. 'It doesn't matter if it's fancy or not, it's all about the company and embracing every little second of it,' she said in one interview. 'I've had dates at the nicest restaurants, but when you leave you're starving and the best part of the date is having a slice of pizza and a couple of drinks on the way home. I think it's important to be able to roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it. If he makes you laugh, that helps.' Should it come to gifts, she says lingerie is 'always nice'. She also loves how British men call women 'darling' and is a 'sucker for a compliment'. And the best way to get her attention? 'Kindness.' And just in case Prince Harry is already contemplating introducing her to The Firm, when asked where she wants to travel to next, she replied: 'Scotland.' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'met through his school friend's fashion designer wife' dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-03 10:43 Bianca London www.dailymail.co.uk

42 /100 3.4 Norwegian police to release Hexagon CEO Rollen from custody (0.01/15) OSLO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Norwegian police will release Swedish measurement technology firm Hexagon's Chief Executive Ola Rollen from custody no later than Saturday, Senior Public Prosecutor Marianne Bender said in a statement on Thursday. Rollen was detained in Sweden on Oct. 26 on suspicion of insider trading and was transferred to Norway at the request of authorities. He is currently in police custody. Despite the release, the case against him remains as strong as before, Bender told Reuters. Rollen denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, writing by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Susan Fenton)

Norway court rejects Hexagon CEO's appeal over police custody dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-03 10:21 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

43 /100 0.0 Watch video of first lady Hillary Clinton speaking in Ann Arbor in 1996 (0.01/15) ANN ARBOR, MI – Hillary Clinton hasn't made a campaign stop in Ann Arbor during her 2016 presidential run. But when she was first lady in the 1990s, she visited twice, and at least one of those times was captured on video.

The archived footage from January 1996 — pulled from an old VHS tape, digitized and uploaded to YouTube by MLive — is a little grainy, but it shows Clinton, 20 years ago, giving a speech inside the Michigan Theater downtown.

Her speech begins at about the six-minute mark here:

The cheering fans in the crowd are members of the Ann Arbor chapter of her fan club, which started in 1994 and grew to become the largest chapter among dozens of other chapters around the world.

Chapter coordinator Janine Easter was instrumental in getting Clinton to swing through Ann Arbor on her national book tour. Clinton visited with the fan club inside the Michigan Theater lobby after giving out signed copies of her book to a long line of people at the now-closed Borders bookstore across the street.

In the video above, Easter introduces the first lady, saying, "She cares about people. That's it. That's why we love her. "

Watch the video to hear the first lady express her appreciation for the fan club and share her thoughts on civility and respect, her reasons for writing a book, and what she heard from the 2,000-plus fans she met at Borders that day.

World's largest Hillary Clinton fan club chapter began in Ann Arbor 22 years ago A look back at when first lady Hillary Clinton visited Ann Arbor

The full video, which is 27 minutes long, includes an introduction from Easter, a look at the scene outside Borders that day, interviews with fan club members, and a speech by former state Sen. Lana Pollack.

Easter provided the VHS copy of the video, which was made to promote the fan club and Clinton. It aired on Community Television Network in 1996.

A look back at when first lady Hillary Clinton visited Ann Arbor mlive.com

2016-11-03 10:17 Ryan Stanton www.mlive.com

44 /100 44 /100 4.0 Watch Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire & more pay tribute to Dolly Parton at the 2016 CMA Awards (0.01/15) Dolly Parton won the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 CMA Awards, and to celebrate, the association put together an all-star tribute featuring some of country music's most beloved women, from Jennifer Nettles to Carrie Underwood.

Kicking off with an a capella rendition of "Jolene" courtesy of Nettles and Pentatonix, the medley continued with "9 to 5" from Reba -- who flubbed the opening lyrics, charmingly: "I saw Dolly and I got messed up! " she said before completing the classic working woman's anthem. Kacey Musgraves performed Dolly's 1977 hit "Here You Come Again," and the medley wrapped with (of course) "I Will Always Love You": first with Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride, then with the complete cast of singers. Dolly was crying, as was, probably, most of the audience. "Gosh dangit Dolly, we love you to pieces," concluded Reba.

See photos from inside the show:

Watch the touching tribute below:

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45 /100 0.6 Australia dominate South Africa on opening day of the first Test in Perth (0.01/15) Australia ripped through South Africa's top order in the first hour, dismissed the tourists for 242 by tea and reached 105 without loss at close on the opening day of the first test on Thursday. Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma scored battling half centuries for South Africa after they were reduced to 32-4 but there was no doubt the standout performers on the first day of the Australian cricketing summer were wearing baggy green caps. Left-arm quick Mitchell Starc, playing with an open wound on his leg after a nasty training accident that disrupted his preparations, struck in the first over and ended up with figures of 4-71. Fellow pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood pitched in with 3-70 and the Marsh brothers, Mitchell and Shaun, both took spectacular catches on their home ground. Warner, who provided some of the few highlights of Australia's recent one-day international series humiliation at the hands of the South Africans, then took the fight to the tourists with the bat. After a reprieve when he was lbw off a Vernon Philander no- ball, the pugnacious opener smashed the South African bowlers around the WACA, the ground where he announced his arrival as a test batsman with a brilliant 180 against India in 2012. The 30-year-old lefthander brought up his 21st test half century when he slashed the ball through extra cover for his 10th four off the 39th delivery he had faced and will resume on 73 alongside Shaun Marsh, unbeaten on 29. South Africa had arrived for the three-test series full of confidence after their limited-overs triumph and having emerged victorious on their last two visits to Australia with both trips featuring big wins at the WACA. After winning the toss and choosing to bat, they were soon reeling as Starc, Hazlewood and later Peter Siddle illustrated the WACA pitch was going to offer the traditional pace and bounce noticeably absent last year when West Indies visited. Opener Stephen Cook and Hashim Amla both departed without a run on the board, while Dean Elgar eked out 12 runs and JP Duminy 11 before they were sent packing. Faf du Plessis scored 37 in a partnership of 49 with Bavuma, who then put together another of 71 with De Kock after his captain had been dismissed in the second over after lunch. The diminutive Bavuma hit seven fours before he was dismissed by spinner Nathan Lyon for 51 two deliveries after reaching his third test half century, a diving Shaun Marsh diving low to scoop up the bat-pad catch. De Kock continued his impressive one-man rearguard action and hit 11 fours and one huge six in his 84 but once he departed with a mistimed slap to Shaun Marsh at midwicket off Hazlewood, the end of the South Africa innings was in sight.

Australia catch South Africa cold to take charge of first Test dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-03 07:28 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

46 /100 1.0 Iraqi Shi'ite forces to cut off west Mosul today - commander (0.01/15) BAGHDAD, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Shi'ite forces aim to cut the western supply route out of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul on Thursday, the leader of the largest militia told Iraqi television. "Today, God willing, is the completion of the first stage of the Hashid (Popular Mobilisation) operations - that is cutting the supply route of the enemy between Tal Afar and the Muhalabiya district, reaching to Mosul," Hadi al-Amiri, the leader of the Badr Organisation said. Tal Afar lies about 55 km (35 miles) west of Mosul, on the way to Islamic State-controlled regions of neighbouring Syria. Cutting off the western side of the city will leave Islamic State enclosed on four axes. The army, security forces and Kurdish peshmerga forces have been advancing from the south, east and north of Mosul since launching an offensive to recapture the city on Oct. 17 . (Reporting by Saif Hameed; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Iraqi Shi'ite forces to cut western supply route from Mosul dailymail.co.uk

2016-11-03 06:02 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

47 /100 3.5 Pwoar! Boity flaunts that booty in a bikini Mini has lifted the lid on its second- generation Countryman. As well as being the largest model in the brand's history, it's above all the first Mini that's available in a plug-in hybrid version.

2016-11-03 11:56 TshisaLIVE www.timeslive.co.za

48 /100 0.0 Ntsiki steps out of formation: Beyoncé is fake! Only hours after criticising local talk show host Anele Mdoda, Ntsiki Mazwai directed her shade overseas to one of the world's biggest artists: Beyoncé.

It seems that Ntsiki is just not a fan of Beyoncé and accused the US pop star of being "fake" and "stereotypical", in an explosive Twitter rant on Thursday.

Responding to one fan's criticism that differing from someone's opinion did not make Ntsiki a "deep thinker", the outspoken musician unexpectedly launched a scathing attack on media darling Beyoncé and her fans.

Sweety Beyonce is not deep or conscious...... sorry that hurts but she is fake. Sorry for u and the stans https://t.co/v0RkoG7efC — Daughter Of The Soil (@ntsikimazwai) November 3, 2016

Despite Beyoncé speaking out on a number of social and political issues in America, Ntsiki claimed that Bey was not a political woman, and said that she does not reach the depth of other stars, such as Lauryn Hill.

We'll just wait on a response from Beyoncé, then.

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2016-11-03 11:39 TshisaLIVE www.timeslive.co.za

49 /100 2.7 Man saves £200 a year by analysing dozens of energy tariffs with his own spreadsheet A former civil engineer has saved more than £2,000 after using his own unique spreadsheet to compare the best energy tariffs on offer. Peter Nadin, 57, spends hours analysing and researching different rates in a bid to save himself hundreds of pounds each year. He started the exercise to save his elderly mother money has developed into a bizarre hobby. Mr Nadin has even covered the walls of his house in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in colour-coded spreadsheets stretching back ten years to work out his energy use. He then rings every single energy company to ask their tariffs directly, and then adds up which supplier can give him the best deal. To make the exercise as cost effective as possible, he even delves into the depths of company websites to find their freephone numbers. Mr Nadin, who lives on his own, claims he saves himself a minimum of £200 every year, and regularly gets paid bonuses for switching energy companies. This means that since he started the exercise just before Christmas 2006 he has saved himself at least £2,000. He is currently paying just £43 a month for gas and electricity after switching to GB Energy Supply Ltd. Mr Nadin said: 'I started doing this 10 years ago, on December 21, 2006. I can tell that exactly from my spreadsheets. 'Keeping track of gas and electricity companies was becoming so complex and I wanted to know what I was paying for. 'I decided to deal with the companies myself, and find out their prices directly. Setting it all up was the most difficult part. It was very time consuming. 'But now the spreadsheet can do most of the work, it doesn't take much time at all. I think it takes about half an hour to do all the maths. 'To find out the best deals you just have to dig. You find out all the companies you can, ring around all of them and ask them for their tariffs. 'My spreadsheet tells me how much I am using as I gather it per month. Not everyone has the time to calculate all this. 'I save £200 every year plus I get £30 for switching with money supermarket. 'Currently I pay £43 per month for gas and electricity, and I get £76 back for overpaying early on. 'I was paying £48 when I should have been paying £46. I only did that with meter readings.' But even that process is not always straightforward. As well as finding out all the prices, Mr Nadin often has to haggle with the companies. He claims some companies have tried to change his tariff, disagree with his meter readings and calculate his energy usage from the middle of winter, all of which would end up costing him more money. He spends hours on the phone proving them wrong. Mr Nadin added: 'I always argue that with 10 years of data, I know how much I am using. 'So when companies come in the middle of winter and say they will have to put your direct debit up because you have used more energy, you say "well hang on, that was always going to happen". 'I can then use my data to show exactly what my usage is going to be, and they normally agree with me. 'I get put on other tariffs sometimes. It's often when companies put the wrong values into their computer, but I still have argue with them to get them changed back. 'Then you have companies who threaten you with termination fees even though their policies state they don't have any. 'You sometimes have to go through several people in the call centre before they realise they have got it wrong. 'It's amazing how many companies do not produce a final bill. The final bill is always wrong. They pocket the different tariff on the final bill. Then they agree they should not have done that. 'We are all being ripped off. It can all be very time consuming, but I don't like to be ripped off. 'I'm sure when I ring some places it flashes "Nadin" and they don't want to pick it up. 'But they cannot argue with facts. I don't get emotional, and I just challenge them.' Mr Nadin started trying to find the best energy deals for himself and his mother shortly after his father died. His father had always looked after the money and his mother found it difficult to cope after she passed away. He used his skills he had learned as a civil engineer to create the spreadsheets and his love of maths to do the sums. Mr Nain measures his gas and electricity usage seasonally and colour coordinates his charts accordingly, with yellow for summer, brown for autumn, blue for winter and green for spring. He maintains that the calculations are not that complicated, but it is the amount of time it can take that is the hardest part. He added: 'I was looking after accounts and energy when my mother was alive because she could not cope when my dad died. I did that for 14 years. 'It brought on stress and illness. That was why I started the spreadsheets. I'm so glad I did. 'I used to use spreadsheets in my job. But I learned the rest myself. The basic maths is not complicated. 'The problem can be time. I can sit for hours on the phone, but other people just can't afford to do that. 'But I'd still advise people to switch. People are losing three or four hundred pounds a year by not switching. No one is treated fairly.' With his savings, he treats himself to nice holidays or experiences. He said: 'Sometimes when you complain or switch you get goodwill gestures - I made £2,500 once, so it's always worth keeping your finger on the pulse.'

2016-11-03 10:54 Abe Hawken www.dailymail.co.uk

50 /100 1.5 TOWIE's Pete Wicks and Megan McKenna finally confirm their relationship status ent text messages I shouldn’t have sent to someone.' 'I decided to give him another chance and then some girl/s**g decided to sell a story and sell all the gory details basically of the text messages,' she said. 'But Pete didn’t really tell me the full extent of the messages did you?' The brunette revealed her stunned reaction after being informed of Pete's fecklessness by pal Danielle Armstrong was completely unscripted. 'It all come out and I was actually genuinely in Marbella filming a lovely scene with the girls,' she explained. 'It wasn’t scripted.. and then it all come out on camera and I had to read it there and then. She added: 'That was real - believe it or not. I know you don’t believe it All the stuff between me and Pete has been real but we’ve been trying to get through it. It has been taking us time.' Despite their spate of fiery encounters the pair appear to be in high spirits while taking part in series of skits - including a game of Mr & Mrs. The pair will be joined by comedian Jimmy Carr, celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo and X Factor judge Louis Walsh. Celebrity Juice airs on November 3, ITV2 at 10:00pm.

2016-11-03 10:53 Jason Chester www.dailymail.co.uk

51 /100 0.0 Ana Navarro demonstrates her 'listening woman' face "If Donald Trump was a woman, the first people that would be saying to him, 'girlfriend, you're crazy,' would be women. I don't think we would let her out there if Donald Trump was a woman," she told "New Day's" Alisyn Camerota.

"By the way, forget bleaching emails, I'd like to bleach my mind right now from that image," she added.

Navarro also discussed Hillary Clinton's recent interview with People Magazine in which the Democratic presidential nominee said that before the recent presidential debates she had practiced her "listening woman" face.

"If there's one person who needs a 'listening woman' face it's Donald Trump. Because he does not have a poker face during the debates at all," said Camerota, adding, "But what even is that, Ana? What's a listening woman face? "

Navarro -- a Republican who says she's not voting for either major party candidate -- then demonstrated by smiling sweetly into the camera, head tilted, as Camerota laughed.

"I think a 'listening woman' face means that we think that we're supposed to be a little bit more docile and sort of understanding in that way that you're doing with the head turn," Camerota said.

"Look, whatever she (Clinton) did, I think she did brilliantly," replied Navarro.

"What she did was sit there, with a smile on her face, not a smirk, a smile. Listening as Donald Trump came completely unraveled with those debate questions. He went on and on and on with the answers. We were seeing like a ball of yarn just come apart in front of our eyes," Navarro said.

2016-11-03 10:50 Alexandra King rss.cnn.com

52 /100 3.5 Phillip Schofield questions why no one asked Cheryl about pregnancy 'It feels like a fresh start for you,' presenter Matt Baker said to Cheryl referring to her divorce from second husband Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini two weeks ago. 'Just Cheryl. I am, I'm great, really well,' she said, as she appeared on the screen wearing a loose-fitting black jumpsuit. Cheryl's short-lived marriage to restaurateur Jean- Bernard Fernandez-Versini began when they married in July 2014. She confirmed her romance with boyband member Liam - who she first met on The X Factor when he was 14 - in February after reports of her separation from the French restaurateur surfaced earlier this year. Sources told MailOnline at the time: 'She’s relieved she can finally move on with her life. She’s the happiest she’s been in a long time.

2016-11-03 10:40 Rebecca Davison www.dailymail.co.uk

53 /100 1.5 Mixed signals for economic switch on climate change Beyond the broad political consensus behind the Paris Agreement, there are mixed signals on how fast the world is pivoting towards the low-carbon economy needed to beat back the threat of global warming.

Here is an overview of positive and negative signs:

POSITIVE

- Energy emissions -

Emissions by the energy sector, which comprise two-thirds of global greenhouse-gas output, showed no increase for a second straight year in 2015. This was despite the world economy expanding three percent -- a contrast which confirms that growth and energy, once intertwined, are no longer necessarily linked.

- Renewable record -

With $286 billion (258 billion euros) invested and 153 new gigawatts worth of capacity installed, 2015 was a record year for renewable energy, notably in emerging economies.

Renewables now represent 15 percent of energy production and 23 percent of electricity output.

- Cheaper solar -

Between 2009 and 2015 the cost of solar power fell by 80 percent, making it competitive against gas and coal in some countries including Chile, the United Arab Emirates and India.

A plant in Abu Dhabi holds the record for the cheapest average solar megawatt-hour, about $23. - Efficiency up -

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), energy intensity -- the energy consumed for every unit of GDP -- is falling year on year (-1.8 percent in 2015), a consequence of the 221 billion euros invested in energy efficiency last year.

- Obama cans Keystone -

The Keystone XL pipeline between Canada and United States was blocked last year by US President Barack Obama's administration on grounds it would hinder the fight against climate change.

- Ending HFCs -

The world community agreed in mid-October to progressively eliminate so-called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), gases widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

HFCs stoke climate change, as they are super-efficient at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

- Carbon tax -

Carbon taxation and pricing schemes, already in use in Europe and California among other places, are spreading.

Canada has announced a minimum price of Can$10 (US$7.63) per tonne of carbon pollution in 2018 and China, after provincial experiments, is set to launch a national market next year.

According to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), 29 percent of the world's biggest listed companies use internal carbon prices to evaluate their investments. - 100% renewable -

A growing number of cities are launching plans to become 100 percent renewable energy reliant.

Barcelona focuses on solar power and heating while Frankfurt has a vast energy efficiency programme. San Francisco, San Diego, Fukushima, Copenhagen and Munich are among countries moving in a similar direction.

Companies like Apple or Ikea have made commitments, while Google has invested more than a billion euros in wind, solar and biomass (plant and animal waste) energy.

- Green funding -

Green bonds to finance environmental projects are exploding: from $42 billion last year to an estimated $80 billion in 2016, according to the Moody's ratings agency.

But it still represents less than 0.5 percent of the global debt market. France will launch the first green sovereign bond next year.

NEGATIVE

- Too much coal -

Coal plants with a capacity to produce 350 gigawatts of electricity are under construction worldwide, with a further 930 gigawatts in the pipeline, according to the CoalSwarm research group.

Such new fossil fuel build is incompatible with the aim of limiting global warming to under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.

- Subsidies -

Annual subsidies to the fossil energy industry are flourishing, exceeding $500 billion in 2010, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and IEA.

- Arctic threat -

While some companies have stopped prospecting for oil in the Arctic due to the collapse in crude prices, Norway gave out licences to 13 companies in May.

- Trudeau backs gas -

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given the green light for a Can$1.3 billion expansion of natural gas pipelines in Alberta province, the second such project approved since he took office.

- Aircraft emissions -

An international agreement struck in October aims to cap air transport emissions, but starting only in 2021 and by measures to compensate for emissions rather than actively cutting them.

- Steel, shipping lag - The steel sector, which produces seven percent of global emissions, has not cut its greenhouse gas output in 10 years and the shipping industry, which produces 2.8 percent, has no plans to do so.

2016-11-03 10:40 www.digitaljournal.com

54 /100 0.7 Heroic Chinese pilot who saved 439 lives in near-miss drama by steering his plane out of danger is awarded £360k... as video shows just how close the collision was A Chinese airline rewarded one of its pilots with three million yuan (£360,000) today for preventing a collision between two planes that could have killed 439 people. The pilot's Airbus A320 was about to take off from an airport in Shanghai last month when it encountered an Airbus A330 in its path along the runway, reports the People's Daily Online. The pilot, named He Chao, chose to accelerate and fly over the other aircraft avoiding a head-on crash by just 19 metres (62 feet). The terrifying incident took place on runway 36L at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 12:04pm on October 11. The flight MU-5643, an Airbus A320-200, was about to take off when the flight MU 5106, an Airbus A330-300, had just landed and was taxiing nearby. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) released a simulation of the incident during their investigation last month. The video shows the A320 was speeding up on the runway when Mr He spotted the A330 entering its runway just feet away. At the time, the Airbus A320 was already travelling at approximately 240kmh (149mph), according to a statement on China Eastern Airlines ' website. Mr He decided to accelerated and made a sharp climb. His aircraft narrowly missed the other plane. The near-miss incident has shocked the Chinese media. Many have compared it to the Tenerife airport disaster, a fatal runway crash between two Boeing 747s that killed 583 people in 1977. China Eastern Airlines rewarded the quick-thinking pilot He Chao with the cash bonus during a ceremony earlier today. The cabin crew were also given 600,000 yuan (£71,000). According to an earlier article from People's Daily , there were 413 passengers and 26 crew in total on the two flights. Both aircraft involved in the near collision belong to China Eastern Airlines. The Airbus A330 had flown from Beijing to Shanghai, carrying 266 passengers, while the Airbus A320 was taking off from Shanghai for Tianjin, carrying 147 passengers. An investigation launched by China's aviation authority, CAAC, found that air traffic control were at fault for the incident. CAAC suggested that the control centre and the crew members of the A330 failed to maintain proper communication with the controller. The authority has revoked the licenses of two air traffic controllers responsible for the incident and punished 13 air traffic control officials from The Eastern China Air Control Bureau.

2016-11-03 10:39 Sophie Williams www.dailymail.co.uk

55 /100 1.4 Pope Francis urges countries not to take in more migrants than they can 'assimilate' Pope Francis has urged countries not to take in more migrants than they can 'assimilate' saying it could lead to ghettoization. The Pontiff had been had been on a visit to Sweden, which has welcomed 245,000 refugees in 2015, to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. But on the flight back to Rome, he held an impromptu press conference where he was asked about the European migrant crisis. And he said that even though countries shouldn't 'close their hearts' to refugees, they do have the right to assess their capacity to effectively integrate them into society. He told reporters: 'Governments must be open to receive them, but also do the calculations regarding their reception (capabilities), because one must not only receive a refugee but also integrate them. 'Because so many are arriving That there is no time to make provision for them and that they can find schools, homes, employment, and learn the language. Prudence has to make this calculation.' Later Francis also warned of the dangers of migrants not integrating saying it could pose a 'dangerous' situation. He added: 'What is the danger when a refugee or migrant is not integrated? He is ghettoized, that is, he enters a ghetto. And a culture that does not develop in relation with another culture, that is dangerous.' However, despite the comments, he also added there was political gains to welcoming refugees saying humans shouldn't close their doors. The Pope's comments come as Europe saw an influx of more than one million asylum seekers last year in the worst such crisis since World War II. However, it is not the first time he has spoken out about the crisis, saying solving it is a priority of his pontifficate. His first trip outside Rome as Pope was to the island of Lampedusa, destination for migrants smuggled from Libya. He also prayed at the U. S.-Mexico border and said anyone who wants to build a wall there isn't Christian. And most recently, he brought a dozen Syrian refugees home with him when he visited the hard-hit Greek island of Lesbos to show solidarity with new arrivals. Meanwhile Francis has also assumed direct responsibility for migrant issues in a new Vatican department that merges four offices into one handling peace, the environment and human trafficking. The reorganisation is part of Francis' overall reform of the Vatican bureaucracy to make it more streamlined and responsive to the needs of dioceses.

2016-11-03 10:33 Jennifer Newton www.dailymail.co.uk

56 /100 0.6 ‘Apostle’: Dan Stevens to Star in Gareth Evans Thriller (EXCLUSIVE) “Beauty and the Beast” actor Dan Stevens is in negotiations to star in Gareth Evans’ new period revenge thriller “ Apostle .” Evans is writing and directing the film. XYZ Films, Severn Screen and Evans’ One More One Productions are producing. XYZ will handle international sales at this week’s AFM market in Santa Monica.

The story follows a man who travels to a remote island and attempts to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a religious cult. The group demands a ransom for the sister’s return, undermining the man’s resolve to rescue her.

‘The Raid’ Director Gareth Evans to Take on Period Thriller ‘Apostle’

The film is aiming to start production in March 2017.

Stevens is heading into 2017 on-board two highly anticipated TV and film projects. He is set to star in FX’s drama “Legion,” which is based on the Marvel comic book and exec produced by “Fargo” creator Noah Hawley. He will also lead Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast” where he will the titular Beast character aka Prince Adam opposite Emma Watson’s Belle. He was most recently seen in the Toronto Film Festival film “Colossal.”

Stevens is repped by WME and Julian Belfrage Associates.

2016-11-03 10:33 Justin Kroll variety.com

57 /100 0.0 Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi make it a date night at Kanye West concert Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi headed to Kanye West's Saint Pablo show in LA on Wednesday. The couple, who wed in 2008, looked content and held hands as they arrived at The Forum in Inglewood. Ellen, 58, wore casual jeans and trainers but dressed up her look with a black embroidered bomber jacket. Opting for a little more colour, Portia, 43, sported a green satin bomber jacket over a patterned blouse. She flattered her slender legs with black skinny jeans. Other stars descending on the rapper's Los Angeles tour stop on Wednesday included Kate Hudson and pal Jennifer Meyer who recently split from actor husband Tobey Maguire. Meanwhile, Ellen has opened up about how coming out as a lesbian in her 1997 Time magazine cover story affected her life. 'I was the punch line of lots of jokes,' the talk show host admitted in the annual Out 100 issue. 'I laughed at some, but I realized there's somebody on the other side of them. It's cruel. I've never liked mean comedy, but that became even more important to me after I was the brunt of it.' Ellen also discussed how her career stalled for a time before she eventually landed her daytime talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The comedian confessed: 'Before this show, I had a lot of insecurity, 'I wasn't sure if I was going to work again, and although I was out, I was still trying to alter myself - not dressing the way I wanted to dress or wearing my hair the way I wanted to. I slowly gained the confidence to be authentic.'

2016-11-03 10:28 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk

58 /100 4.3 National Sandwich Day: Where to get free food, deals on Thursday If there ever was a time that America needed free sandwiches, it's now.

Thursday is National Sandwich Day — a completely fabricated holiday allegedly inspired by the birthday of the man who invented the sandwich — and in a time of historic division across the country, we can all celebrate meats surrounded by breads.

Several restaurant chains are offering free sandwiches or special deals in honor of National Sandwich Day. See some of them listed below.

Arby's — While the chain isn't offering a deal specific to National Sandwich Day, if you sign up for email coupons at its website , you'll get a free Roast Beef Classic sandwich with the purchase of a drink.

Jersey Mike's — Email club members and social media followers get a $2-off coupon to be used on any regular sub sandwich on Thursday.

Lenny's Subs — Customers get 25 percent off every sandwich on Thursday.

McAlister's Deli — All club sandwiches are $4 on Thursday.

Penn Station — Customers who buy one sandwich get another free , of equal or lesser value. The chain announced the offer with the tagline: "Stupid holiday. Stupendous deal. "

Quiznos — Get a free 4-inch sub when you download the Quiznos loyalty app. The company also said it's announcing National Sandwich Day giveaways throughout the day Thursday on its Twitter page.

Schlotzsky's — Customers who buy a medium sandwich will get another one free at the chain's locations nationwide. The offer includes specialty sandwiches.

Smiling Moose Rocky Mountain Deli — Buy one sandwich, get another free of equal or lesser value. The chain has locations in Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin and a handful of other states.

Subway — The nation's most popular deli restaurant is offering a buy-one-get-one deal on Thursday. If you buy a sandwich and a drink, you'll get a free sandwich of equal or lesser value. No sub is off limits. Also, Subway will donate a meal to charity for every sandwich purchase.

Bonus Deal:

Lance Cracker Sandwiches — The makers of popular ToastChee and peanut butter-filled cracker sandwiches is getting in on National Sandwich Day. Go online to Lance.com and download a "This is How We Sandwich" coupon on Thursday for a free box of Lance sandwich crackers.

Clint Davis covers entertainment and trending news topics for the Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @MrClintDavis.

2016-11-03 10:26 Clint Davis www.wxyz.com

59 /100 2.2 'I’ve never had so many low points!': Laura Whitmore reveals she's always in tears rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing Her time on Strictly Come Dancing has certainly been eventful, with her surviving the dance-off, missing a week with injury and most recently topping the leaderboard. And Laura Whitmore, 31, shed light on her experience to date on the ballroom floor during an appearance on Thursday's Loose Women. The TV presenter told the panel: 'I’ve never had so many low points. I cry all the time. So, we help each other through, and well we have this WhatsApp group.' Scroll down for video The Irish beauty, who is paired with Italian hunk Giovanni Pernice, 26, also clarified a flirty text message she received from former MP Ed Balls, 49. Fan favourite Ed sent Laura a playful message saying: 'I’m available to rub your ankle anytime you want, Laura' Nadia Sawalha joked Ed's wife Yvette Cooper, 47, might bring a law against Laura, but putting the message into context, the beauty laughed: 'We have this WhatsApp group we had from day one. We are all so close. 'I saw one magazine had him in a column of lust, and I said, "Ed, why aren’t you number one? " And that’s when he messaged back with the ankle rub.' At first, Laura kept her injury secret and tried to battle through the pain. 'I didn’t tell him (Giovanni),' said Laura. 'I just want to be my best. He’s been great, he keeps asking me if I need rest and he brings me chocolate. 'Giovanni is one of the most incredible dancers I’ve ever seen but he does sweat, he puts everything into it.' Laura humbly downplayed the effect the injury had on her, explaining how all the contestants were battling aches and pains. She explained: 'We’re all injured. We’re all working thorough them. This is unlike anything I’ve ever done, I’d rather be talking and showing. 'I’m going to physio, and I’m all strapped up, but we're working through it. It's part of it, so if I didn't love it, I wouldn’t be here. 'I didn’t realise how much you actually do. I think what happened with me was I was dancing for two days for like seven hours without knowing I had an injury.' The stunner is being monitored by bosses and was only allowed to dance for 12 hours last week. Describing the extent of the injury, she said: 'It didn’t snap. It's repetitive strain. It hurts, but it’s not life-changing. The pain helps me with my tango face.'

2016-11-03 10:24 Dan Cain www.dailymail.co.uk

60 /100 1.4 Post-communist countries close 'happiness' gap; inequalities remain LONDON (Reuters) - Post-communist countries in Europe have made significant headway since transition, but inequality poses a growing threat to long-term development, a report from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Thursday.

2016-11-03 10:24 system article.wn.com

61 /100 6.7 Parker Remick Expands to Portland SEATTLE , Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Parker Remick, a leading technology-focused executive search firm, [ http://www.parkerremick.com ] is announcing the addition of two new Directors, Kelley Pecis and Jeff Markham. The pair are establishing the firm's newest office in Portland, Oregon , a rising hub for global entrepreneurship and technology.

"Parker Remick's Portland office strengthens our Pacific Northwest roots. Kelley and Jeff's depth of experience with senior executive searches, as well as tech industry knowledge, make them natural additions to our regional and global practices," said Steve Jackson , managing partner, Parker Remick.

Before joining Parker Remick, Pecis served as managing director at Herd Freed Hartz, where she opened and ran the firm's Portland business. Earlier, she spent 10 years guiding clients through major technology changes within enterprise resource planning software for financial applications including procurement, accounts payable, general ledger, assets, accounts receivable and project accounting at Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Oracle and AT&T Wireless.

"Parker Remick is the go-to firm for today's most innovative brands," said Kelley Pecis , director, Parker Remick. "This is an exciting next step for me: Parker Remick's consultants closely partner with clients and one another. The research team is more robust and tightly integrated into each search than at other firms. "

Jeff Markham brings more than 18 years of experience to Parker Remick, partnering with CEOs and board search committees on matters of executive talent acquisition, succession planning and executive leadership development. Jeff previously held leadership roles with Herd Freed Hartz and Nosal Partners. He also managed the talent acquisition teams for ACME Business Consulting and Tripwire.

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62 /100 1.9 The digital divide in early childhood development just went to school A cognitive study conducted at Blair Athol School in Kromdraai, Johannesburg by Debbie de Jong – a learning specialist – found technology has the potential to have a positive impact on second language English learners at primary school.

The study, which analysed visual perceptual development, visual motor integration, basic concepts, expressive vocabulary, comprehension, conceptual thinking, shapes and colours, numbers and counting, noted that “drastic improvements were achieved by the children with regards to stabilisation, pencil grip and control as well as postural endurance on task behaviour” after learners were exposed to an ICT environment.

Two groups of learners from impoverished backgrounds participated in the six month-long study. The first group were taught by a teacher who had access to a SMART board, a software solution and a facilitator to help the teacher use the information technology. The other group had no access to the above-mentioned technology.

While all the learners struggled to comprehend basic instructions such as “sit down” and “turn the page”, and could not answer the question “what is your name?” at the beginning of the study, the group that had access to the technology solution at hand displayed “mature behaviour and responded well to tasks and questions” and became more inclined to participate in tasks and help each other out.

The study observed “drastic improvements” in stabilisation, pencil grip and control as well as postural endurance on task behaviours and a markedly reduced need for translations: “The learners needed no translation at all when instructed to perform a certain task whereas the children in the control group classroom constantly needed their teacher to translate and intervene for them with their tasks”.

What is the significance of this study? The best performing schools in the matric examinations in 2015 were in Gauteng and the Western Cape while the worst-performing schools were mostly rural schools in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo.

And, while rural schools face many challenges like poor basic infrastructure, few material resources and no electricity in places, the lack of access to information and communication technology is widening the divide between the haves and have-nots in basic education, which makes it difficult to bridge the gap between rural learners and urban learners; which in turn, is making it more difficult to address poverty and social immobility in rural areas.

Both pupils and teachers in rural areas lack access to the Internet at school and hardware like tablets and PCs. Pupils in the rural areas also lack access to qualified and experienced teachers as most good teachers opt to teach in urban centres.

In 2012, Equal Education filed an application in the Eastern Cape’s Bhisho High Court against Motshekga, and 12 other respondents including nine provincial ministers of education, the minister of finance, the Eastern Cape government and the national government in a bid to ensure minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure are set.

Of the roughly 25 000 schools in South Africa, 3,544 have no electricity, 401 have no water supply at all, 913 have no toilets and 2,703 have no fencing. The vast majority of schools – over 21,000 in both cases – lack libraries and science laboratories, while 19,037 schools do not have a computer centre.

In 2013, the Eastern Cape High Court ordered Minister Angie Motshekga to publish norms and standards for school infrastructure.

In 2015, Gauteng embarked on a R17 billion digital classroom campaign to provide pupils with information and communication technology.

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi spelled out his department’s plans to the media a day before the official launch of the project at Boitumelong Secondary School in Tembisa, Johannesburg on Tuesday, 13 January 2015.

“Tomorrow morning in this school, we are officially burying the chalk board, we are officially burying the duster, we are officially burying the chalk. “Gone are the days when they have to write in exercise books and hand in the assignment.”

“We are making this investment so that we can compete with the best countries. We were influenced by the thinking of South Korea, which is the best in terms of children who can read, write and calculate. I want to radicalise education in the township so that they can compete with any other learner,” he added.

In addition to tablets, pupils received 4G dongles to keep them connected at home.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa stressed that education is the strongest weapon in the fight against poverty. He quoted the late Nelson Mandela at the official launch of the project at Boitumelong Secondary School in Tembisa.

“It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation,” he said.

"Ultimately, it is you, the learners, who need to be responsible for your future by taking seriously the opportunities that now exist. Your commitment to learning today will determine your success tomorrow," he added.

However, this is of little comfort to learners who live in rural areas around South Africa. Daniel Linde of Equal Education believes that access to technology should not be the sole focus of the government. “It’s not necessarily the best direction of funds,’ he says. ‘If conditions for learning and teaching were better, if there were flushing toilets across the province, if schools had reliable electricity and sources of water, all of those things could lead to learners wanting to come to school more and a more conducive learning and teaching environment.”

In a policy brief released by UNESCO titled ICTs in Early Childhood Care and Development, which was published in December 2012, the organisation says it supports the introduction of ICTs in early childhood learning.

“Innovative early childhood care and education (ECCE) teachers, researchers and educational authorities are often reporting creative ideas and examples of the potential value of ICT in terms of children’s play and learning. Based on their growing experience, they assume that exploiting new digital technologies in ECCE can help children develop their competencies and personalities in effective, authentic and attractive ways.”

But UNESCO calls for caution and advises stakeholders to carefully manage the transformation of learning environments and systems.

“Research literature and also our own experience from various national and international activities proves that the process of integrating ICT into ECCE should be supported, supplemented, and monitored by a simultaneous evaluative research. This holds both if the process is conducted in a top-down style, e.g. as a national or regional developmental project, or as a bottom-up initiative of one or a few innovative ECCE centres in a country or a region.”

UNESCO further says a variety of factors may affect the introduction of ICT in early education. These include a lack of professional development for teachers, who may receive basic training in using computers, but not much training in complex digital literacy and new pedagogies.

Teachers, parents and education authorities may lack confidence in the potential of ICT to enrich the process of learning and fail to oversee a successful integration of technology into early learning processes. Teachers might also find themselves lacking technical and other support systems.

Additionally, both students and teachers might lack vital study material and learning resources as computers and access to the internet are just a small part of the learning process. UNESCO is keen to highlight that the digital learning environment must be all-encompassing in principle: learners should have access to ICT in a universal manner; that is, learners must have access to lCT tools from an early age right through to college or university.

Education authorities are advised to adopt a clear ICT vision and policy for early childhood education and provide instruments to support and implement ICT education.

“ICT standards for ECCE teachers, curricular supplements, assessment framework, learning resources, collections of good practices and other supportive frameworks. Stimulating initiatives, national and regional projects, professional development programmes for educators and various forms of the permanent support of their work must be conducted continuously.”

Authorities should facilitate the professional development of teachers and monitor any safety concerns and gender issues that may arise as well in the implementation of ICTs, says UNESCO.

Reaping the benefits of the introduction of ICT in early childhood learning and indeed in all learning environments will take much more than Internet connectivity and the introduction of tablets and computers in schools as the entire education system will have to be thoroughly re- evaluated and enhanced to meet the needs of what will essentially become a new 21 st century model of early childhood development and education.

2016-11-03 10:20 www.news24.com

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ANC the Parable of Inauthentic Leadership 03 November 2016, 16:15

I still remember when Frank Chikane started speaking against the ANC, the birth of things that could not be said ensued. I was equally trapped in bitterness and curiosity. Bitterness because I felt he failed to stand up for what he believed within the movement and curiosity because the book he wrote seemed to carry lots of insights. I since bought the book, meaning I paid Frank for lack of authenticity. It has been years since Frank Chikane’s story but one thing remains, authenticity is still lacking within the ANC as a movement and with its leaders. The current move by ANC members to dissociate themselves from Zuma has not warmed my heart in any way. Although I believe everything starts and end with leadership, I also know that no leader can single handedly drive the vision without necessary support in thought and execution. Zuma's fit for leadership was questionable under many instances but Gwede Mantashe and many ANC leaders defended him. They defended him because it served them right to have a man of such weakness and that allowed the weakness and fickleness in themselves. They all collectively lined their pockets, misused our tax money and disrespected us in how they responded to a mThe world is in short of leaders who can stand up for something deeper, leaders with alignment in words and actions, leaders who can speak up even if it's uncomfortable and unpopular to do so.yriad of questionable decisions they took. They have now collectively collapsed the country's economy, invited thugs to rule our country and need a different strategy. However as character is no longer part of the DNA of the ANC no one is taking accountability for the state of affairs. People would rather defer responsibility and assign all the wrongness to Jacob Zuma. I say Zuma was never alone in this, we need the entire corrupt leadership of the ANC to step down. If ANC was serious about good governance they would all step down but before they do, they would come out and own up to what they did wrong. The campaign to assign everything to Zuma is part of ANC way to salvage its power base; to give the ever believing South Africans false hope that things will be better if Zuma is no longer there but what would fundamentally change if Zuma is not president. Who will be a better leader, Cyril, who left the miners of Marikana dead? Or have South Africans forgotten about it already? Authenticity in leadership is a trait required so severely. Leaders who are willing to risk to losing for the wins of collective and for the greater good. We need this leadership in government, private sector and in our household. We all need to be authentic leaders in our spheres of influence only then will we see a positive shift in our country

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64 /100 0.8 There are more LGBTQ characters on TV than ever before, GLAAD survey says Of 895 regular characters anticipated to get screentime on a broadcast series in the period surveyed (June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017), 43 (or 4.8%) identified as LGBTQ, according to the organization's annual "Where We Are on TV" report. There were also 28 recurring characters who identified as LGBTQ.

That's the highest percentage of LGBTQ series regulars noted since GLAAD began tracking it 12 years ago.

GLAAD also found record-high percentages of black series regulars (20%) and characters with disabilities (1.7%). There was also more LGBTQ characters on streaming series (up to 65 from 59). Cable's total was even with the previous year (142).

"While it is heartening to see progress being made in LGBTQ representation on television, it's important to remember that numbers are only part of the story, and we must continue the push for more diverse and intricate portrayals of the LGBTQ community," said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO.

ABC -- home to "Modern Family" and "How to Get Away With Murder" -- leads the pack, with 7.3% of all its regular characters identifying as LBGTQ.

FOX came in second, with 6.4%. It was also noted by GLAAD as the broadcast network that came most close to "accurately reflecting our population's gender balance," with women accounting for nearly half of its series regulars.

The news wasn't all good.

GLAAD notes that 25 queer female characters across all platforms (broadcast, cable and streaming) have died since the start of 2016.

"Most of these deaths served no other purpose than to further the narrative of a more central (and often straight, cisgender) character," Ellis noted. "When there are so few lesbian and bisexual women on television, the decision to kill these characters in droves sends a toxic message about the worth of queer female stories. "

These deaths have included lesbian and bi-sexual female characters from NBC's "Chicago Fire," CW's "Supernatural," AMC's "The Walking Dead," Netflix's "Orange is the New Black," Syfy's "The Magicians" and CW's "The 100. "

The latter particularly caused an uproar among the show's fans, as producers had built in a romantic storyline between the deceased character -- Lexa, played by Alycia Debnam-Carey -- and lead protagonist Clarke (Eliza Taylor).

The uproar caused some fans to boycott the program and begin using #LGBTfansdeservebetter on social media.

It also brought attention to the increasing number of LGBTQ character deaths on television, often referred to as the "Bury Your Gays" TV trope.

2016-11-03 10:11 Sandra Gonzalez rss.cnn.com

65 /100 0.5 17 healthy holiday side dishes under 250 calories So you want to the host the holidays? That's great! With a little planning, and a lot of simple and tasty recipe ideas, you can knock the whole thing out in no time. We recommend first planning your main, and if you want to go the classic route (for example, a roast chicken or turkey), we've got just the guide to help you bake a bird.

After you've nailed down the centerpiece, it's time to start organizing your side dishes. It's easy to go the classic route with buttery mashed potatoes and creamy green bean casseroles, but these dishes are extremely decadent. And if you'd rather keep it light, it may feel like you're gonna be stuck eating salads and cranberry sauce all night. That's totally not true—these 17 recipes spin all your favorite holiday side dishes in a healthier way, so you can totally indulge without accidentally overindulging.

More from SELF: 15 Classic Dishes That Every Adult Should Know How To Make 8 Sneaky Ways To Debloat In Just One Day The Genius Trick for Perfect Scrambled Eggs Here's How Many Calories You Should Be Eating For Weight Loss

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66 /100 66 /100 0.8 'There were unrealistic business ambitions': Twice bankrupt Kerry Katona suffers another blow to her finances as nutrition range folds Kerry Katona has been dealt another financial blow after her nutrition brand reportedly folded. The star launched her own line of shakes and snacks to aid weightloss on Boxing Day last year. However, the firm is believed to have run into difficulty and is no longer operational. Scroll down for video A spokesperson for the star tells The Sun says: 'There were unrealistic business ambitions and the company behind Kfit ran out of funds.' All items on the website are now showing as 'out of stock'. The latest issue with Kerry finances comes after two bankruptcies. Kerry was forced to deny that she had filed for bankruptcy for a third time in February 2014 when she was pregnant with her fifth child. It was claimed at the time that Kerry was considering taking out a pay day loan to cover her rent on a six-bedroom Oxfordshire home that she shared with now-estranged third husband George Kay. The singer was declared bankrupt in 2008 due to £86,000 unpaid tax bill and for a second time in July 2013. Speaking to The Telegraph in January 2013, Kerry said that she was glad she was made bankrupt the first time. 'Money's an issue for me,' she said. 'I'm really weird around money. I feel like I have to pay and bought my husband whatever he wanted: he had a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, an Aston Martin, a Porsche. He kept changing them but we always had a few cars at one time.' Last month, Kerry was slammed after revealing she had attempted to help her mother commit suicide. She admitted to helping her mother's potential bid to end her life in new show, In Therapy, and Kerry Katona admits she's had a negative reaction to the revelation. In an interview with Holly Willoughby and Ben Shephard on This Morning on Thursday, she said some viewers believe she is a criminal. The 36-year-old mother-of-five said: 'I've been having people saying I should be arrested on Twitter. I was 15 years old at the time and I was in a foster home.' 'The love of my mother's life had just died when it happened. The way I gave her the pills, was more like, "Go on then, if you're doing it, take them. You're selfish. " 'Then I phoned the ambulance. Then the next day I took my GCSE's and failed them. But that was the last time I saw mum do it. But it's all been taken out of context.' Kerry said she didn't do the show to be negative, but says she believes the way both she and her mother have turned their lives around is a great thing. Defending herself, she said: 'I am not troubled, nor am I car crash. I want this to be a success story. So many people have been through the same issues as us.' Kerry admitted that her mother has struggled with her recent revelations on the show, but Kerry says it shows how far she has come. She said: 'Mum is not a bad person. She is sensitive about this. She had mental health issues which she has overcome, but it's still a huge stigma.' Kerry said she would never do the same thing as her mother. She famously has her daughter's names tattooed on her wrists, so that she would never consider self-harming. Holly also asked Kerry about reuniting with her husband George Kay, who she originally split up after he allegedly armed himself with a Taser-style gun and a hunting knife. He was cleared of assaulting the Atomic Kitten singer after she withdrew her statement against him. Embarrassingly, Kerry slams him in the programme, saying 'I get nothing from him' and 'I'm happier on my own,' and Holly asks her if it will be difficult to watch. She said: 'It was filmed a year ago when I was single. We won't be watching it. It's easy to say things like that when you're apart but I'm giving my marriage a go and I'm happy.' Going back to the show, which airs Thursday November 3rd at 10pm on Channel 5, Kerry says it was empowering to do. 'I'm not troubled, I'm a bit crazy, loud and brassy. I've just had some ups and downs in life and they've been magnified. I'm just like yourself, doing the school run.' Kerry broke down in tears when she recalled how she assisted her drug-addict mother, Sue, in the suicide attempt when she was just 15-years-old. She told Channel 5's In Therapy how she encouraged her mother to take all the pills and tablets in the house when she was at her lowest ebb. 'When I was 15, my mum had lost her boyfriend and she wanted to die,' the Atomic Kitten singer told the show. 'It got to the point where I went into her bathroom and I got all her medicines out and said, 'Go on, take them, you're selfish'. 'I made her take all the pills, then I rang for an ambulance and told her I'd pick her up after school, after I'd done my GCSEs.' Kerry, whose own battle with depression and addiction is well documented, also apologised to her five children for everything she has put them through. The reality TV star spoke about how she had her children's names tattooed on her arms to stop her ever slitting her wrists. 'If it's hereditary I'd have to be one selfish person to cut through my kids' names, so that's why they're there,' she said. 'I'm so proud of how my kids have turned out and that's down to me.' Kerry has five children by three fathers, with the oldest two, Molly, 15, and Lily-Sue, 13, from her marriage to former Westlife star Brian McFadden. She shares eight-year-old Heidi and seven- year-old Max with her ex-husband Mark Croft and has a two-year-old, Dylan-Jorge, with her third husband George. In a previous interview with the Daily Star , she spoke about how she was almost driven to suicide during her second marriage. Kerry has previously opened up about how she used to take drugs with her mother to help them 'bond'. In 2012, she told the Jeremy Kyle Christmas Special that she first tried speed with Sue when she was 14. She said: 'It was what we used to do, it was our thing.' Kerry also admitted how she used to take cocaine while her children were in the house at the height of her addiction. But she went to great lengths to shield the youngsters from it.

2016-11-03 10:10 Marc Jackson www.dailymail.co.uk

67 /100 3.4 Samuel L. Jackson to Star in Sci-Fi Film ‘Inversion’ (EXCLUSIVE) Samuel L. Jackson is in final negotiations to star in Facing East’s $130 million science-fiction movie “ Inversion ,” Variety has learned exclusively.

“Inversion,” directed by Peter Segal, is set to begin principal photography on Feb. 27 at Babelsberg Studios in Berlin, and will continue in Shanghai and Chicago.

The talks with Jackson were disclosed Wednesday at the American Film Market , where Foresight Unlimited is handling international markets. Jackson will portray a senior Homeland Security investigator. Chinese actress Liu Yifei (“Once Upon a Time,” The Forbidden Kingdom”) has also joined the cast.

Travis Fimmel (“Warcraft”) has been attached since May to portray a street-wise American con man who teams with a young Chinese physicist (Liu) as they race against the clock to save the earth from a terrifying loss of gravity. Jackson’s character, believing the two are the cause of the inversions of gravity, chases them across two continents trying to stop further destruction.

Segal will direct from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, David Arata, and Bragi Schut.

Producers are Facing East’s Philip Lee and Markus Barmettler, alongside Michael Nozik. Executive producers are Michael Ewing (Segal’s longtime producing partner), Jim Skotchdopole (“The Revenant”), and Foresight Unlimited’s Mark Damon.

Martin Laing (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) is on board as production designer. Sheena Duggal (“Doctor Strange”) is the visual effects supervisor and Jack Geist (“300: Rise of an Empire”) is the VFX producer.

Jackson recently wrapped production on “Kong: Skull Island” for Warner Bros. and “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” for Lionsgate. He can currently be seen in “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.”

The project was first introduced at Cannes in 2014.

Jackson is represented by ICM Partners and Anonymous Content. Liu is repped by Chen Jinfei of Hong Xing Wu Entertainment & Media. Fimmel is repped by Paradigm and Chris Huvane of Management 360.

2016-11-03 10:07 Dave McNary variety.com

68 /100 3.4 China launches first heavy-lift rocket China launched its most powerful rocket ever on Thursday, state media said, as the country presses on with a program which has seen it become a major space power. The Long March 5 rocket can carry up to 25 tons -- around the same weight as 16 cars -- into low earth orbit (LEO), state-run China Radio International said. By contrast the US's Saturn V, which delivered astronauts to the moon in 1969, was designed to deliver some 154 tons of payload to LEO. The Chinese rocket launched from the recently built Wenchang launch center on the tropical island province of Hainan at 8:43 pm, according to the official Xinhua news service. Its components were transported to the island by ship, as they were too heavy to be moved by rail, reports said. The rocket's design will be used in future years to propel the core module of China's permanent space station as well as lunar and Mars missions. The project has suffered from years of delays. Test firings of the rocket in a secret facility near Beijing saw several failures, the South China Morning Post newspaper cited official sources as saying. Beijing sees its military-run space programme as symbolising the country's progress and as a marker of its rising global stature. The nation's first lunar rover was launched in late 2013, and while it was beset by mechanical troubles it far outlived its expected lifespan, finally shutting down only last month. But for the most part China has so far replicated activities that the US and Soviet Union pioneered decades ago. As well as building a Chinese space station, it intends to eventually put one of its citizens on the surface of the moon. It announced in April it aims to send a spacecraft "around 2020" to orbit Mars, land and deploy a rover to explore the surface. China launched its second space lab, the 8.6 tonne Tiangong-2, last month.

2016-11-03 10:06 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

69 /100 2.6 Chinese Cartoon ‘Where’s The Dragon’ set for U. S. Release Crimson Forest Films and Hannover House are to give a North American release to Chinese 3D animated film “Where’s the Dragon?” The release is planned for Jan. 27, 2017, in time for next year’s Chinese New Year.

The release follows a rights deal with Hong Kong-based sales agency Distribution Workshop. Production was through the DeTao Group and Treasure Tree Studios.

Written and directed by VFX veteran Sing Choong Foo (“Spider-Man,” “Beowulf”), the film follows the journey of a young girl who must join forces with the animals of the Chinese zodiac to find a dragon who has gone missing.

“The animation quality is comparable with the best of the major studios, and we are confident that American audiences will respond strongly to this film,” said Eric Parkinson, CEO of Hannover House.

The original film, which counted Zhang Ziyi and Wang Leehom among the voice cast, was released in China in November year. The U. S. version will be voiced in both Los Angeles and in Fayetteville, Arkansas, under a production partnership with Crisp Recording and Filmworks.

“The story of the Chinese zodiac is both educational and entertaining and is the perfect way to celebrate Chinese New Year with the family this year,” said Jonathan Lim of Crimson Forest. The company, which has offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, operates as a theatrical and digital distributor as well as an aggregator for digital media, TV, subscription, and cable VoD.

2016-11-03 10:06 Patrick Frater variety.com

70 /100 5.3 Strong Hermes sales confirm China-fuelled luxury revival By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Hermes confirmed stronger-than-expected global demand for luxury goods on Thursday, joining luxury goods industry leader LVMH and Gucci owner Kering in outshining third quarter results forecasts. A sales rebound in mainland China, improvements in Hong Kong, a British surge thanks to a weaker pound and relative U. S. resilience despite the stronger dollar have all lifted luxury stocks including LVMH, Kering, Hermes, Richemont, Burberry and Hugo Boss in the past month. Chinese customers, the biggest buyers of luxury goods who make up more than a third of global demand, have been re-opening their wallets, luxury groups said, spurred in part by government policies encouraging local consumption. "The driving trend is that the Chinese customer is slowly coming back," Makiko Zuercher, who manages the 22-million euro Dynapartners Luxury Brands Fund, said. These positives now outweigh concerns about lower tourist traffic in Europe, due to the attacks on Paris, and the drop in purchasing power among Russian, Middle East and Brazilian consumers after the depreciation of their currencies. "Many of the psychological catalysts which dampened luxury demand - starting with the renminbi deterioration in August 2015 and including attacks in Paris in November 2015 - have now been shrugged off," HSBC said in a note. "Every market, with the possible exception of Japan, is doing better or in line with previous trends. " The broker said luxury stocks had been sold "short" by hedge funds, a trade showing they expect the price to fall, and largely ignored by "long-only" institutions for many months. The one luxury stock for which there is still shorting interest is Cartier owner Richemont, which makes half of its sales from watches, the luxury sector's most depressed segment. Data from Astec Analytics shows Richemont has the highest "short" interest. It is also one of the few luxury stocks still down for the year to date and analysts are not expecting any upbeat comments when it publishes its trading update on Friday. Kering is easily the best performer this year, and short-sellers have very low positions in the stock. Fund managers and buy-side analysts said investors needed to be remain selective as some brands such as Prada and Tod's could continue to suffer in the near term from competition from more innovative rivals. Recent trading updates showed that sales growth in the sector could only be achieved through market share gains as the past levers to boost revenues such as opening new shops and lifting prices were no longer available. Hermes beat market expectations with a 8.8 percent rise in third-quarter sales at constant currencies, above analysts' 7 percent forecast, helped partly by China's rebound. Last month industry leader LVMH, regarded as a proxy for the sector, and later Kering, saw their shares soar after their respective Louis Vuitton and Gucci brands published much stronger than expected sales. "Who would have expected two years ago Gucci's recovery would be so strong," said Scilla Huang, manager of the Julius Baer Luxury Brands Fund, with 200 million euros under management. "They made courageous efforts and people were hungry for that kind of newness. " (Additional reporting by Vikram Subhedar; Editing by Alexander Smith)

2016-11-03 10:02 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

71 /100 0.7 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dances in salsa show Read this story in Spanish at CNNEspanol.com Now Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is taking a new tack as he tries to negotiate his way out of a mounting political crisis this week.

He's dancing.

Maduro, who's been in office since 2013 and faces calls for a recall referendum to end his presidency, launched a new radio show Tuesday. Dubbed "La Hora de la Salsa" (Salsa Hour), the program will air daily on weekdays and touch on musical, cultural and political themes, officials said.

As the first episode aired, government officials posted videos and photos on social media, showing Maduro salsa dancing with his wife in the radio studio.

Tareck El Aissami, governor of Venezuela's Aragua state and a staunch ally of Maduro, said on Twitter that the image sends a clear message: "We are HAPPINESS and REVOLUTION!! "

But the move drew swift criticism from opponents, who flooded social media with their own posts, accusing Maduro of being a dictator who dances while his country crumbles.

"Rich! Maduro dancing salsa, losing time on a radio program and people die without medicines, families search for their daily food in the trash," one Caracas resident wrote.

Tensions have been mounting in Venezuela, which is edging closer to a breaking point as it faces a recession, soaring food prices and broken hospitals. Opponents have pushed for a recall referendum to remove Maduro from power, but courts shot down the effort last month, alleging voter identity fraud.

Maduro met with opposition leaders for the first time in two years on Sunday in talks facilitated by the Vatican and several other parties. But some members of the opposition have refused to participate in the talks, accusing the government of using them to diffuse protests.

Talks are scheduled to resume next week. Meanwhile, Maduro has pinned a post about the salsa show to the top of his Twitter feed.

"I rang in November with joy and dancing a little bit... Nobody will take away our right of happiness," he wrote. "We are winning. "

2016-11-03 10:01 Catherine E rss.cnn.com

72 /100 1.1 Are scientists on the brink of creating a non- combustible battery? Samsung faces the first class action lawsuit targeting several of its smartphones, beyond the recalled Note 7.

The complaint filed Wednesday in California claims Samsung Note 5, S6 and S7 phones “all pose a risk of overheating, fire and explosion.”

In a statement to “CBS This Morning,” Samsung said: “We don’t comment on pending litigation, but would like to underscore that the issues with the Galaxy Note 7 are isolated to only that model.”

Potentially flammable lithium-ion batteries are in many electronics, including Samsung phones. The Department of Energy is now spending tens of millions of dollars on creating a safer alternative, and one research project is showing promising results, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.

At a research lab at the University of Maryland, small, lithium-infused ceramic discs are replacing the combustible components of today’s lithium-ion batteries. Research scientists are showed us how they plan to build a better battery – one that can’t catch fire.

The disc on the left is coated with a naturally combustible carbon-based solution, typically used in all of the lithium-ion batteries powering today’s smartphones. On the right is a lithium- conducting ceramic disc designed at the University of Maryland.

The disc on the left is coated with a naturally combustible carbon-based solution, typical of what’s used in all of the lithium-ion batteries powering today’s smartphones. It is then exposed to an open flame. On the right is a lithium-conducting ceramic disc designed in a campus lab. “It can handle thousands of degrees without any issues,” a researcher explained.

“Because it’s ceramic, it’s absolutely inflammable. You cannot burn the ceramic,” said Eric Wachsman, engineering professor at the University of Maryland. Wachsman is also the director of the university’s Energy Research Center, where nearly 20 projects are being funded by the Department of Energy to find alternatives to store energy.

“It’s just been a push to get more energy out of the battery. You want it to last longer. You want the electronics to do more,” Wachsman said. “You know this is not a typical phone, for example the Samsung. I mean it’s basically a mini-computer. You’re putting all of that information, all of that processing power in a very, very small device and you want the battery to also be small.” After Samsung’s new smartphone started catching fire, Professor Wachsman’s nearly three-year endeavor to create a non-combustible battery started getting a lot more attention. “We’ve been contacted by numerous companies all over the world, both by email and phone,” Wachsman said. “Where are we now in terms of development?” Crawford asked.

“So this size is fine for little batteries, the little coin cells you might see in a hearing aids or whatever -- small little round ones. But to get to the larger size, it’s just a matter of scaling up the size,” Wachsman said. “I hear stories about new battery advancements all the time. It’s always just a question of whether that something that will really pan out,” said Eric Limer, deputy editor at PopularMechanics.com. We asked him to watch the burn demonstration seen earlier.

“It’s one thing to make a development on a battery in a lab and actually create a battery that can work and can hold electricity well. It’s a completely other thing to build the factories that can build that battery,” Limer said. But Professor Eric Wachsman said a safer battery can and will be mass produced. “We have manufacturing partners and we expect to have a product in the next few years,” Waschman said. “So right now you couldn’t just say to Samsung ‘Well, we’ve got it. Just start using these.’ Could we say you’re close?” Crawford asked.

“Well, we’d like to say that we have a company and if they would like to invest, we’d be happy to talk to them,” Waschman said.

“Because you think it’s doable?”

“I know it’s doable,” Waschman said.

It is also the goal of researchers here to keep the manufacturing of these batteries in the United States. The overwhelming majority of today’s lithium-ion batteries -- more than 85 percent -- are made in Asia.

2016-11-03 09:53 CBS News www.cbsnews.com

73 /100 0.0 Scramble for best TV content More than 2000 buyers, sellers and content producers are in the city for Discop, Africa's biggest television content market. The objective of the event is to create a platform for growth, continued development and the sustainability of filmed content on the continent.

Monde Twala of Viacom International Media Networks Africa, which is the stable for channels such as Comedy Central and MTV Base, said their approach regarding content centred around the audience need for localised content.

Twala said: "Young people are looking for content that is authentic, aspirational, edgy and that personifies the new cool. This means we have to be flexible in our approach. "

Heidi Uys, head of programming at Ebony Life, which is based in Nigeria, said she was pleasantly surprised at the "fresh and interesting" content coming out of parts of Africa.

Exhibitors from the US, UK and other parts of the continent are all in Johannesburg to strengthen relations with content providers. Simon Tchokonte of TV France, the world's largest provider of non-dialogue family content, said trade shows were often a space for networking. At last year's Discop, the distributor sold two of its most popular formats, Hidden Camera and Magic & Circus to Ghana.

Tchokonte said: "We have no limitations on who we sell to. We came to Africa because we know we have content that Africans across the continent are interested in. "

Uys and Chinese buyer and seller Max Zhao said they were drawn to high-quality drama series. Zhao from StarTimes said he was specifically looking to buy local content that could be distributed in South Africa and the rest of Africa.

Zhao said the most popular Chinese content in some parts of East Africa wasaspirational television series with a female lead character.

"For us it's the quality that is the most important, then we consider price. We firstly want to give our viewers a good life with great quality content," Zhao said.

The Chinese television company also distributes documentaries and feature films to Uganda, Kenya and South Africa.

In addition to drama series, Uys said there was a huge appetite for reality series that an African audience could relate to.

"We take from what is available in the world and bring our own unique flavour. But now there's more possibility of exporting African content into the world. That's where we're heading," he said.

2016-11-03 09:49 LEONIE WAGNER www.timeslive.co.za

74 /100 0.0 Schools in debt as funding gap bites Almost 1,000 local authority schools and more than 100 academy trusts in England are now in debt, ministers have revealed in an answer to a parliamentary question.

Heads and teachers have been complaining about deepening problems with funding shortages - with warnings they might have to cut school hours.

The ministerial response shows 5% of council schools have budget deficits.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said funding gaps had become a "national scandal".

"Over 1,000 schools are in the red. This should be worrying to every parent," said Mr Farron.

His party had asked ministers how many schools and academy trusts, which run chains of schools, were in debt. There have been growing warnings from schools about problems with funding.

The heads of every state school in West Sussex recently sent a letter to Downing Street, warning that they would have to consider cutting school hours or making teachers redundant if they did not receive emergency funding.

They warned that schools faced a "dire financial position".

In a debate this week on school funding in West Sussex, MPs backed their concerns.

Sir Nicholas Soames, Conservative MP for Mid-Sussex, said funding arrangements were "unsatisfactory and unfair" and budget shortages would have a "damaging effect" on schools.

Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing, said there was "nothing left in the tank" for many schools and that head teachers were telling him that school finances were at "breaking point".

Head teachers say that budgets have not kept up with rising costs.

There are also particular regional shortfalls, with the government postponing plans to introduce a national funding formula aimed at addressing local anomalies in funding levels.

Education Minister Nick Gibb's reply to the question on schools in debt showed that in 2014-15 there were 113 academy trusts with a revenue deficit, representing 4% of trusts.

There were 944 local authority schools in deficit, representing 5.3% of such schools.

The National Association of Head Teachers said problems with school funding were "very serious".

A spokesman said a survey showed that two-thirds of schools were "dipping into reserves to stave off deficits" - and there were fears that rising costs would make this worse.

"I worry that in order for schools to bring their budgets in line to repay their debt, they will have to look at cutting staff, which makes up for 80% of the school expenditure," said Mr Farron.

"There will be less extracurricular activities, IT equipment or even books as cash is funnelled into clearing the debt. "

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, called on the government to provide "immediate additional funding".

"School budgets are being cut to the bone, and many more could find themselves in debt as the funding crisis worsens.

"We estimate that 92% of schools in England could face real terms budget cuts over the next four years. "

2016-11-03 16:51 By Sean www.bbc.co.uk

75 /100 2.3 North Korea imports record volume of grain products SEOUL, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- North Korea may tout self-reliance in agriculture and industry, but a study suggests imports from China soared in September.

It could be a sign Pyongyang has no choice but to look outside for food that is relatively scarce in the country.

The volume of Chinese grains North Korea imported in September is the largest on record since Kim Jong Un fully assumed power in 2012, according to Kwon Tae-jin of GS & J Institute in South Korea.

Kwon's analysis of Chinese customs data shows North Korea imported 18,477 tons of Chinese grains in September, or $1.84 million worth of food, Voice of America reported Thursday.

That amount is more than all grain imports from January to August 2016 combined, according to the analysis.

The figure is also a year-on-year sixfold increase: In September 2015, North Korea imported 3,158 tons of grain.

In October, North Korea returned to lower levels of imports, purchasing 6,954 tons of grain, mostly rice, for distribution.

Rice constituted 14,000 tons of imports from January to August, but accounted for 16,000 tons of imported food. The value of the imported rice is about $990,000, Kwon said.

Flour imports increased 15-fold in September, compared to August, while starch imports doubled.

Bean and bean products are rarely imported from China, but in September North Korea imported 412 tons, the report stated.

Kwon said September's surge in grain imports indicates inventory had reached an all-time low in North Korea immediately before the harvest season.

2016-11-03 09:35 Elizabeth Shim www.upi.com

76 /100 1.1 New twist on a classic tunic Fall layers anyone? J. Crew has been on its game lately and I love it. I've just about spent every weekend there shopping for new items and falling in love. Today I'm mixing a classic with two new pieces for fall.

J. Crew: Tunic Sweater / J. Crew: Regent Blazer / J. Crew: Wool Mini Skirt / Lipton: Over the Knee Boots ( similar ) / Celine:Nano Luggage ( similar ) I'll be the first to admit that I've been pretty uninspired lately from clothes and outfits for the blog. I mean how many times can you post about a sweater and jeans (more looks like that coming next week)? Fall, while amazing, can become very repetitive and can get a little stale.

So with todays look this is me trying to mix things up. I didn't want to go the traditional long tunic jeans route and I knew I wanted to wear this skirt again... So I paired them together. I thought I was super original until I was linking up this sweater and saw the model wearing a skirt with it too. Humph.

Either way, I really like this look for fall because it's something different. I like the layering, I like the mismatched lines, the way it brings a pop of color to the place... It just works.

And surprisingly I was not expecting to like this sweater as much as I do. Usually really long sweaters (with my bum) don't lay well over the hump and it causes me to just look a lot wider. But not this sweater! It's heavy and has a really nice split on the side so it lays perfectly. It runs very big so I snagged it in a size small!

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2016-11-03 09:33 AOL Staff www.aol.com

77 /100 0.0 Huawei Mate 9 phones unveiled after Note 7 meltdown Huawei has launched new large- screened smartphones in the wake of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 disaster.

The Mate 9 handsets are among the first to be powered by Android 7 and come in two designs: a model with a 1080p "full HD" display, and a Porsche- branded edition with double the resolution.

The Chinese company says it has also tackled smartphones' tendency to slow down over time.

But one expert said Western consumers were still uncertain about its brand. "Huawei has never been a company to miss an opportunity, and it seems as though it has moved mountains to get the Mate 9 to market as quickly as possible," said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.

"But the phone is not a like-for-like comparison with the Note 7 - for one, it doesn't have a stylus.

"Huawei's brand also doesn't have the status of Samsung as yet.

"That's why it seems to be blending its brand with others.

"So, for the camera, it has partnered with Leica, and for the limited edition model, it has worked with Porsche.

"But Blackberry also partnered with Porsche in the past, and although that generated interest and created a halo-effect for other products, they didn't sell massive volumes. "

Samsung scrapped its Note 7 phablets last month after dozens of the devices caught fire.

The South Korean company initially thought a battery fault was to blame, and switched its own component for a third-party power cell.

But the problems continued, and after failing to identify the cause, Samsung halted production and said it was scrapping the 4.3 million handsets it had already manufactured.

Like the Note 7, Huawei's new phones also feature a "supercharging" battery technology that promises to deliver a day's worth of power within 30 minutes and a full two-day charge in 90 minutes.

The company's senior product manager, Michael Seitz, told the BBC that the system had been through a nine-month development and testing process and had been checked by an independent research lab.

"It keeps really cool in your hand even while recharging," he said.

Several analysts have suggested Huawei is best placed to benefit from Samsung's setback.

Apple underestimated demand for its largest model, the iPhone 7 Plus, leading to a backlog in orders.

And Google has acknowledged having a similar problem with its Pixel XL phone.

It has also locked itself into exclusive deals with single operators in the US, UK and Australia - struck before the Note 7 fiasco - which will limit sales.

Mr Seitz said that Huawei had enough production capabilities to meet high demand for the Mate 9 and intended to be the bestselling brand by 2020.

The Mate 9 phones are slightly smaller than last year's models.

The standard edition has a 5.9in (15cm) screen and starts at €699 ($774; £622).

The Porsche Design has a 2K curved display measuring 5.5in (14.0cm) and costs €1,395 ($1,545; £1,240). They are both powered by a new chip - the Kirin 960, which was designed by Huawei itself.

It says it is the fastest smartphone processor to date.

Moreover, Huawei says it has developed proprietary technology to address the fact that smartphones tend to run slower once they have been used for several months.

"Our phones will on average be 80% faster than another device after one year," a spokesman said.

The Mate 9 phones lack an artificial intelligence interface, like the Google Assistant or Apple's Siri.

But unlike those handsets, they can be fitted with a microSD card, offering up to two terabytes of extra storage.

In addition, they offer an unusual audio facility thanks to four in-built microphones.

After a recording has been made, an app allows the user to remove one sound source to better hear another.

This can be used to hear what one person was saying at a meeting, for example, if others were talking over them, or to improve recordings from a concert.

In addition, the technology provides a noise-cancelling facility during phone calls, making it easier to have a conversation at a busy location.

But Mr Wood suggested the most significant change was an overhaul of the phones' software, which is designed to reduce the number of taps needed to reach its features.

"Huawei has recognised that its previous Chinese-flavoured user interface design didn't translate well to all markets of the world, and has gone for a softer, cleaner interface this time round," he said.

"It strikes me that it has really looked at the competitive landscape, recognised the things that do well on the iPhone and Samsung devices, and evolved its own product in that direction. "

2016-11-03 16:49 By Leo www.bbc.co.uk

78 /100 4.8 Should we get rid of Daylight Saving Time? Daylight Saving Time is ending and soon people will be mildly inconvenienced when they have to move their clocks back by one hour. This is inconvenient enough to make some people think we should get rid of the thing altogether. Others say Daylight Saving Time has positive effects. What do you think? Vote now.

PERSPECTIVES

The National Post has nine reasons why we should dump Daylight Saving Time. Here are the top three. This is why people want to get rid of it.

The bottom line with Daylight Saving Time is you get more sunlight .

Some people think Daylight Saving Time is a good idea.

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2016-11-03 09:30 The Tylt www.mlive.com

79 /100 0.0 Maps can’t accurately depict the earth’s curved surface. But this one comes close It can be easy to forget, when looking at maps of the world, that the earth looks completely different. In flattening the curved surface of the earth, cartographers often sacrifice scale for size: Antarctica doesn’t stretch endlessly across

2016-11-03 09:24 system article.wn.com

80 /100 0.6 Kyrgyz leader's party forges new parliamentary coalition Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic party formed a new governing coalition, it said Thursday, comprising lawmakers who a day earlier voted for constitutional reforms that opponents say are aimed at extending President Almazbek Atambayev's rule...

2016-11-03 09:21 system article.wn.com

81 /100 81 /100 3.1 Taylor Swift named Forbes' highest paid woman in music for 2016 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Taylor Swift has taken the number one spot atop the Forbes annual highest paid women in music list, ahead of Adele and Madonna .

The list , released Wednesday, has the "Shake It Off" singer earning $170 million over the past year thanks in part to her lucrative 1989 tour and her various endorsement deals with Keds, Diet Coke and Apple.

Coming in second place is Adele, who earned $80.5 million in 2016 due in large part to sales from her best-selling album 25 .

Rounding out the rest of the top five is Madonna, close behind Adele with $76.5 million; Rihanna , who took in $75 million and Beyonce , who earned $54 million.

Forbes notes that they expect Beyonce to come in higher for next year's list due to her high- grossing Formation world tour which could not be factored into this year's earnings. The highest- paid women in music list measures income earned from June 1, 2015 to June 1, 2016 before taxes and management fees.

Last year Swift came in second with $80 million behind Katy Perry who had earned $135 million. Now Perry has dropped down into the number six spot with $41 million.

Swift was last seen during Wednesday's CMA Awards show in Nashville where she presented Garth Brooks with the Entertainer of the Year award.

2016-11-03 09:18 Wade Sheridan www.upi.com

82 /100 2.1 Nasa's plan to save Earth: Space agency reveals mock- up of a robot that will lasso an asteroid in 2021 and place it in orbit around the moon Nasa is planning an ambitious mission that will see a robotic spaceship visit an asteroid to create an orbiting base for astronauts. The robot shipwill pluck a large boulder off the space rock and sling it aroundthe moon, becoming a destination to prepare for futurehuman missions to Mars. Nasa also plans to study the asteroid and test deflection techniques that one day may be necessary to save Earth from a potentially catastrophic collision. Now the space agency has created a mock-up of its robot arm and tested it using a mock asteroid boulder. Scroll down for video At the space agency's Robotic Operations Center in the Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, the mock-up helps engineers understand the intricate operations required to collect a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid's surface. The hardware involved here includes three space frame legs with foot pads, two seven degrees of freedom arms that have with microspine gripper 'hands' to grasp onto the boulder. The so-called Asteroid Redirect Mission is estimated to costabout $1.4 billion (£1.12 billion) not including launch costs and is targetedfor lift-off in December 2021. Following a key program review, Nasa approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in August, to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission's robotic segment. ARM is a two-part mission that will integrate robotic and crewed spacecraft operations in the proving ground of deep space to demonstrate key capabilities needed for Nasa's journey to Mars. The crewed segment, targeted for launch in 2026, remains in an early mission concept phase, or pre- formulation. 'This is an exciting milestone for the Asteroid Redirect Mission,' said NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot. 'Not only is ARM leveraging agency-wide capabilities, it will test a number of new technologies already in development.' The robotic component of the ARM will demonstrate the world's most advanced and most efficient solar electric propulsion system as it travels to a near-Earth asteroid (NEA). NEAs are asteroids that are fewer than 121 million miles (1.3 AU) from the sun at the closest point in their orbit. Although the target asteroid is not expected to be officially selected until 2020, NASA is using 2008 EV5 as the reference asteroid while the search continues for potential alternates. Before beginning its trip to lunar orbit, the ARM spacecraft will demonstrate a widely supported asteroid deflection technique called a gravity tractor. The spacecraft plus the mass of the captured boulder will create a small gravitational attraction to alter the orbit of the large asteroid. After collecting a boulder from the asteroid, the robotic spacecraft will slowly redirect the boulder to an orbit around the moon, using the moon's gravity for an assist, where Nasa plans to conduct a series of proving ground missions in the 2020s. There, astronauts will be able to select, extract, collect, and return samples from the multi-ton asteroid mass, and conduct other human-robotic and spacecraft operations in the proving ground that will validate concepts for Nasa's journey to Mars. Nasa also considered bagging a smaller asteroid andrelocating the entire body into a high orbit around the moon. After extensive studies, Nasa opted to collect and move aboulder, a mission that will cost about $100 million (£80 million) more, butwhich better prepares the agency for the ultimate goal oflanding astronauts on Mars. 'They're the kind of things that we know we're going to needwhen we go to another planetary body,' Nasa AssociateAdministrator Robert Lightfoot told reporters on a conferencecall in August. An asteroid orcomet smashed into the planet about 65 million years ago,leading to climate changes that killed off dinosaurs and mostother life on Earth then. So far, Nasa has three candidate asteroids, but does notexpect to make a decision about where to fly before 2019. The mission involves flying a robotic spacecraft, powered bysolar electric propulsion, to an asteroid for an extensivesurvey. Once a target boulder was selected, the probe wouldhover down toward the surface and deploy a pair of robot arms tograb hold of a 6.5- to 13-foot (2- to 4 metre) wide boulder. 'I'm going to have multiple targets ... We can assess whichone we want to go after and I then have three- to five tries toget it, or I can move on to a different one,' Lightfoot said. The captured boulder, which would remain attached to theprobe, would then be nudged into an orbit circling high aroundthe moon, a maneuver expected to take about six years. The probe would include a docking ring so a NASA Orionspaceship, carrying two astronauts, could reach the asteroid, amission targeted for around 2025. Nasa's ultimate goal is to send humans to Mars, and they say the Asteroid Redirect Mission (Arm) will be an important stepping stone towards getting there. A number of new spaceflight capabilities will be tested in the 2020s as part of the mission, which will involve redirecting an asteroid to orbit the moon and sending humans to explore it. Nasa plans to launch an Arm robotic spacecraft to rendezvous with, capture and redirect an asteroid by the end of this decade. The spacecraft will redirect it to a stable orbit around the moon called a 'Distant Retrograde Orbit' - one that orbits the moon very widely, coming quite close before extending out much further away. Astronauts aboard Nasa's Orion spacecraft, launched from the upcoming Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, will then explore the asteroid in the mid-2020s at the furthest point in its controlled orbit around the moon. Within the papers, authors explain the current work taking place across the country to examine options for these robotic and crewed missions. This includes advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) - one of the critical technologies needed to send larger payloads into deep space and to the Mars system. SEP - or ion propulsion - creates thrust powered by solar arrays, which transforms sunlight into electromagnetic fields that accelerate and expel charged atoms (ions). This is a very efficient way to power a spacecraft and significantly cuts down on the amount of fuel a spacecraft needs to carry, which can be heavy and expensive to launch from Earth. Current studies at Nasa detailed in the papers are examining ways SEP will be used to power the Arm robotic mission. Nasa was also working on a mission concept that would fully enclose a large asteroid using an inflatable system and the other would capture a smaller boulder from of a much larger asteroid using robotic arms. The Arm crewed mission, in which astronauts will explore the redirected asteroid around the moon, provides unique opportunities to test human spaceflight capabilities as well. The papers detail current work underway at Nasa to upgrade spacesuits in preparation for the first spacewalks in deep space since the 1960s and farther from Earth than ever before. Concepts for new hardware to dock the crewed and uncrewed spacecraft together are also in development. This will allow the crew aboard Orion to attach to the Arm robotic spacecraft and study the asteroid. This could be later used to connect Orion with a deep space habitat or 'stepping stone' on its way to Mars, or even station cargo and fuel depots in strategic places such as lunar orbit. Astronauts returning home with samples from Mars will hold a treasure trove of research scientists will study to unlock new knowledge about Mars and the solar system's history. As well as this, returning asteroid samples will help Nasa develop tools and techniques for future space exploration. This early experience with raw materials could also help advance our ability to make use of natural resources in space. Rocky bodies like asteroids and our moon could hold enough oxygen and hydrogen to create breathable air, drinkable water or even components for rocket fuel. There also is growing interest in the commercial space industry to potentially mine asteroids for resources in the future. With this in mind some of the papers outline ways in which Arm might benefit future commercial activities at asteroids - namely collecting resources for use back on Earth or in space.

2016-11-03 09:18 Abigail Beall www.dailymail.co.uk

83 /100 83 /100 1.5 Tulsa World Editorial: John Waldron is the best choice for Senate District 39 Voters in Senate District 39 face a tough choice Nov. 8. There are two intelligent, inspired candidates who both have a close relationship with Tulsa and their district. Both are good men — John Waldron and Dave Rader. On balance, however, we believe that Waldron is the right choice. ...

2016-11-03 09:18 system article.wn.com

84 /100 1.3 Pro-Trump trolls launch social media campaign trying to convince Hillary supporters they can vote by TEXT Supporters of Donald Trump have been accused of trying to trick supporters of Hillary Clinton into believing they can vote by text message. Several pro-Trump trolls have been accused of trying to reduce the number of people turning out at polling stations to vote for the Democratic candidate by fooling them into thinking they have already voted on their phones. heoretical physicist, said he had spotted several fake adverts on Twitter, including at least one in Spanish, which had been posted from accounts known for posting sexist or homophobic tweets. One ad, complete with Clinton's campaign logo, says: 'Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text Hillary to 59925.' Several pro-Trump trolls have been sharing the ads on Twitter. Mr McNees said he reported it to Twitter but said: 'They informed me that attempting to disenfranchise voters is not a violation of their Terms of Service.' But a few hours later Twitter suspended one of the accounts, @TheRickyVaughn - otherwise known as Publius Gaius, a reference to a senator in the ancient Roman Empire who was known for being a fearless historian. Another Trump supporter, @Western_Triumph, tweeted last night: 'The gestapo at Twitter has suspended @TheRickyVaughn yet again! It WON'T stop the Trump Train or the Trumpenreich!' Voting by text message or online has been recommended by some psephologists as a way to boost election turnout. But it has not been introduced in any of the 50 states and some Democrats are worried some voters may have been fooled. 2016-11-03 09:16 Chris Summers www.dailymail.co.uk

85 /100 2.1 Oaks Day 2016: Natalie Bassingthwaighte cuts a stylish figure in frilled dress and understated headpiece for Oaks Day She headed to Melbourne's Flemington racecourse on Oaks Day with a bevy of other celebrities all dressed up for the occasion. And Natalie Bassingthwaighte certainly held her own, cutting a stylish figure in a white strapless dress. The 41-year-old wore a By Johnny frock that featured frill detailing along the bodice and down one side, paired with an understated headpiece by Mimco, to keep all eyes on the flirty dress. Scroll down for video The dress finished just below Natalie's knees, offering a glimpse of the mother-of-two's toned calves. The Rogue Traders star teamed the look with nude strappy heels and a nude bag. Showing off a golden tan, Natalie wore her blonde locks out in loose tousled curls held in place by the two floral headpieces. Her make-up was kept soft and included a nude lip and a smokey eye, with a pastel pink slick across her lips. On the day, she was accompanied by a female friend and enjoyed time in the Myer Marquee. It comes after she also stunned at the Melbourne Cup earlier this week. The actress wore a black and white Manning Cartell jumpsuit with a black headpiece. Natalie appeared just weeks ago in the two- part television biopic Brock, playing the late Peter Brock's mistress and last partner, Julie Bamford. The former Neighbours star told Mamamia her children were shocked to see her kissing another man on screen. Natalie says while she wasn't going to allow her children to watch the adult-themed series on racing legend Peter Brock, she couldn't keep them away from the promos. The actress says it was her eagle-eyed daughter Harper, six, who quickly recognised her mother on-screen passionately smooching someone that wasn't her dad. She laughed while telling the publication: 'One of the ads came up where I was kissing Matt [Le Nevez] and Harper was like, "Oh! "' 'I said, "I’m just acting, it’s just pretend". She said, "I know mum! " But I don’t know if she really comprehended…' Natalie feared.

2016-11-03 09:11 Chloe-lee www.dailymail.co.uk

86 /100 1.9 Inside the eerie Mississippi hoarder's house Stuck in time: Inside an eerie abandoned home

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Darren Boyle for MailOnline

Published: 12:14 GMT, 3 November 2016

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13:10 GMT, 3 November 2016

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The house in Utica, Mississippi has lain abandoned since the 1980s and was built just two years after the American Civil War

The 5,000 sq ft house is in Utica, Mississippi The house was built two years after the American Civil War The Gothic property was sold after the Wall Street Crash In the 1960s the ground floor became a boarding house

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The 5,000 square foot property cost $4,000 when it was built just two years after the end of the American Civil War

Eerie images have revealed abandoned home left untouched like a time capsule since its owner left in the eighties.

Unsettling pictures show a house with a fully stocked kitchen and rooms that look ready for someone to move back in were it not for the dust and plaster coating the surfaces inside.

Other shots show some of the unique items left behind including a Guild acoustic guitar, a vintage television and an old Royal typewriter.

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The house looks like the set of a horror movie as nature has begun to take over the building which is decaying slowly

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A Guild acoustic guitar, which has seen better days, is among the many vintage items left behind by the previous owner

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com The house was built in 1876 but despite its age it has not been placed on the National Register to protect it from destruction

The photographs were taken in Utica, Mississippi by American photographer Leland Kent (32) from Birmingham, Alabama.

He said: 'Locals refer to the home as the ‘Hoarder House’ due to the vast number of dolls, furniture, and other belongings left behind.

'Nature has been rough on the home over the years. The roof has large exposed holes with mould and falling plaster everywhere.

'Although the area is in a historic district, there are no plans to add this house to the National Register.'

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

Inside this bedroom, mould has taken hold on the wall, while the plaster has cracked and the curtains rotted away

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

Among the features is a wraparound porch - although the overgrown back yard somewhat diminishes the view

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

The house was sold following the Wall Street Crash and was foreclosed in 1937 during the Great Depression

This Gothic Revival-style home was built in 1876. The original owner was a prominent merchant and farmer in the area from 1869 to the early 20th century.

After purchasing half a city block, the merchant contracted a local construction company and paid them $4,000 to build his 5,000 square foot residence on one of the lots.

The elegant home featured a wraparound front porch, etched transom windows and fine architectural details.

In 1911, the merchant sold the home to his wife for $5,300. He died six years later and the widow never remarried. She sold the home for $6,500 in 1929 following the crash of the stock market.

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

The property retains all of its vintage fittings and fixtures and looks if the owner simply popped out to the shops

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

Inside the house, the paint is peeling off the walls and plaster is falling from the ceiling leaving it looking derelict © Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

The house is owned by a popular lounge singer whose brother wrote several graphic crime novels in the 1960s

In 1937, in the depths of the Depression, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) foreclosed on the new owner. HOLC sold the property in 1943 and it has remained in the same family ever since. Enter text

'During the 1950s, the downstairs rooms were used as a boarding house,' said Leland.

'The homeowner had a home beauty parlour on the right-side downstairs which was her main source of income. Over the years, the home was passed through family members but ultimately became abandoned in the late 1980s.

'The current homeowner was a well-known lounge singer in the area during the 1960s and 1970s. She had four siblings, including one brother who began writing graphic crime novels while living in the home with her.

'In 1965, after 21 crime novels and several short stories under his belt, he decided to quit and move to Atlanta to open a printing business and start a family.

'To his credit, one of his novels became the influence for an Academy-Award winning movie.'

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

Despite the property dating from just two years after the end of the civil war it was never placed on the National Register

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

For a time, the ground floor area of the 5,000 square foot property acted as a boarding house, but now it is abandoned

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

For a period, the homeowner, as well as running a boarding house also had a beauty salon operating from the historic property

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

The property retains many of its historic features but it is at risk because of the increasing damage caused by ongoing neglect

© Leland Kent / mediadrumworld.com

The house was built in the aftermath of the American Civil War by a prominent merchant and farmer in the area

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Stuck in time: Inside an eerie abandoned home

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Darren Boyle for MailOnline Published:

12:14 GMT, 3 November 2016

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13:10 GMT, 3 November 2016

The 5,000 sq ft house is in Utica, Mississippi The house was built two years after the American Civil War The Gothic property was sold after the Wall Street Crash In the 1960s the ground floor became a boarding house

Eerie images have revealed abandoned home left untouched like a time capsule since its owner left in the eighties.

Unsettling pictures show a house with a fully stocked kitchen and rooms that look ready for someone to move back in were it not for the dust and plaster coating the surfaces inside.

Other shots show some of the unique items left behind including a Guild acoustic guitar, a vintage television and an old Royal typewriter.

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The photographs were taken in Utica, Mississippi by American photographer Leland Kent (32) from Birmingham, Alabama.

He said: 'Locals refer to the home as the ‘Hoarder House’ due to the vast number of dolls, furniture, and other belongings left behind.

'Nature has been rough on the home over the years. The roof has large exposed holes with mould and falling plaster everywhere.

'Although the area is in a historic district, there are no plans to add this house to the National Register.'

This Gothic Revival-style home was built in 1876. The original owner was a prominent merchant and farmer in the area from 1869 to the early 20th century.

After purchasing half a city block, the merchant contracted a local construction company and paid them $4,000 to build his 5,000 square foot residence on one of the lots.

The elegant home featured a wraparound front porch, etched transom windows and fine architectural details.

In 1911, the merchant sold the home to his wife for $5,300. He died six years later and the widow never remarried. She sold the home for $6,500 in 1929 following the crash of the stock market. In 1937, in the depths of the Depression, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) foreclosed on the new owner. HOLC sold the property in 1943 and it has remained in the same family ever since. Enter text

'During the 1950s, the downstairs rooms were used as a boarding house,' said Leland.

'The homeowner had a home beauty parlour on the right-side downstairs which was her main source of income. Over the years, the home was passed through family members but ultimately became abandoned in the late 1980s.

'The current homeowner was a well-known lounge singer in the area during the 1960s and 1970s. She had four siblings, including one brother who began writing graphic crime novels while living in the home with her.

'In 1965, after 21 crime novels and several short stories under his belt, he decided to quit and move to Atlanta to open a printing business and start a family.

'To his credit, one of his novels became the influence for an Academy-Award winning movie.'

2016-11-03 09:10 Darren Boyle www.dailymail.co.uk

87 /100 0.8 Inquiry will give public a chance to ‘hear what our version is’: Guptas Speaking to TMG Digital on Thursday‚ Gert van der Merwe‚ the lawyer representing the Guptas‚ said they welcomed the report.

“I have read the whole report and in my humble view‚ it boils down to the recommendations made by Thuli Madonsela that a judge be appointed and investigate‚” he said.

“We are happy [with the recommendation]. We have always wanted an opportunity to present our version on the allegations. There is nothing in this report that is a surprise.

“We are obviously implicated. It’s always been our case that we have a version. Hear what our version is and‚ if we are wrong‚ punish us.”

The state capture report was report was released on Wednesday following a Pretoria High Court order which directed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to release it before 5pm.

The judgment came after President Jacob Zuma decided withdraw his application to interdict the release of the report. Van der Merwe had earlier told eNCA that “if you look at report‚ you will find 200 pages of 350 consist of evidence collated by public protector without the participation of the family or Gupta- owned entity‚ and now we have opportunity to collate our bundle and present our facts to a judge”.

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng is to appoint a judge to head the commission of inquiry.

The report implicated a number of senior government officials and their relationship with the influential Gupta family. Among them were Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen‚ Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane‚ Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and President Jacob Zuma’s son‚ Duduzane.

2016-11-03 09:08 Nomahlubi Jordaan www.timeslive.co.za

88 /100 2.0 Hilarious image that shows how the Sydney Opera House looks like a stack of washing up has the internet in a lather The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous – and loved – buildings on the planet. It was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon and opened in 1973 and ever since its architecture has been revered. But some think it just looks like a stack of washing up, apparently, because a photo of dishes in a rack Photoshopped onto the spot occupied by the building has gone viral. Uploaded to Imgur by user MellowHippy , the picture carries the caption: ‘Sorry, Australia. We love you, but this is funny.’ It seems that many agree because the picture has been viewed over 70,000 times. In addition, dozens have left comments concluding that the picture makes a good point. Harambeshotfirst wrote: ‘Not the first time as an Australian, that this has come to mind. It really looks like it.’ And TheOtherBagdad said: ‘No worries, mate, we think it's funny as s*** too.’ Another summed up the image’s merits by saying ‘well played, mate’. One user, however, was moved only to comment on the arrangement of the dishes. TeddyRuxpinLives wrote: ‘What kind of a savage arranges their dishes in the washer like that?’ The image follows early designs for the Sydney Opera House's largest-ever $200 million renovations being revealed. Its famous entrance will be transformed and its concert hall acoustics will get a much-needed upgrade as part of a $202 million overhaul - but the world-famous exterior will remain exactly the same. The huge revamp is being carried out to 'ensure it meets the needs and expectations of audiences, artists and the 8.2 million people who visit each year'. Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron said the upgrade would also include a new function room, an enhanced box office, foyer and a space dedicated to children. As well, the work will upgrade the acoustics, accessibility, efficiency and flexibility of the concert hall, remove the existing intrusive marquee from the northern broadwalk, and construct a function centre within the building. 2016-11-03 09:06 Ted Thornhill www.dailymail.co.uk

89 /100 4.2 EATS BEAT: Sip 99-cent martinis at Dante, Keith McNally opens new French bistro Augustine in FiDi * It’s the happiest — and the cheapest — hour in the West Village. Dante (79-81 MacDougal St.) is slinging 99-cent (tax included!) martinis on weekdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Beverage director Naren Young (Saxon + Parole) is shaking up the evening with the guest’s choice of a stirred Plymouth Gin or Absolut Vodka martini garnished with caperberries or a lemon twist.

* The Financial District has a new French brasserie. Keith McNally, the bistro bigwig behind Parisian-inspired institution Balthazar, opened Augustine (5 Beekman St.), inside the Beekman Hotel. The menu features classics with a twist — like steak tartare with the Japanese seasoning yuzu kosho; salt-baked oysters with Pernod butter; and a souffle au fromage oozing with Gruyere and Parmesan. The warm setting is affixed with vintage mirrors, glowing globe lighting and mosaic-tiled floors.

* Bistro culture takes on a more American twist at Yves, now open in Tribeca (385 Greenwich St.). Former Locanda Verde chef Daniel Berg churns out unfussy delights like gnocchi with Manila clams; and wild king salmon with spinach dill puree, mustard sabayon and crispy skin. It’s served in a dining room inspired by 1950’s Europe with exposed white brick, marble floors and a concrete tile bar.

* It’s a food hybrid worth the hype. The Cretzel — available at the Breads Bakery kiosk at the Holiday Shops at Bryant Park — is the latest limited-time craze. Not to be confused with City Bakery’s beloved pretzel croissant, the Cretzel is less bready and it’s shaped like a jumbo pretzel. It comes in flavors like standard sesame ($6.50), or savory options like Za’atar. A standout is the pumpkin ($8).

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* Pepsi’s cool new drinks are shaking up cocktails. The soda giant launched 1893 — an homage to the brand’s founding year — in Original and Ginger Cola flavors. Both are made with shockingly few ingredients: kola nut extract, real sugar and sparkling water. Ginger beer fans will enjoy the Ginger Cola in a standard Moscow Mule with vodka, lime and bitters. Pair the Original with cinnamon whiskey. ($1.79 each).

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91 /100 0.0 AMC Networks Misses on Earnings in Q3 2016 AMC Networks failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations for its third quarter results, sending the stock down almost 3% just before trading opened Thursday morning.

The media company pulled in $635 million in revenue, below consensus analyst estimates of $660.58 million. Earnings per share were $0.91, well under the estimate of $1.02.

The national networks — AMC, BBC America, Sundance TV, WE tv, and IFC — brought in $526 million in revenue, a slight increase over the same period last year thanks to increased licensing revenue and higher affiliate fees. But operating income fell 19%, to $139 million. The company is attributing this decrease to higher programming expenses, including a $19 million write-down on currently unnamed programming assets. Last year in the same period, AMC had a $12 million write-down.

There was also a 9.9% decrease in ad revenue for the quarter compared to 2015, attributable to lower ratings for AMC series like “ Fear the Walking Dead .” For the three months ending in September, AMC Networks made $189 million at its five U. S. networks.

In AMC Networks’ international and other segment, including IFC Films, operating losses increased to $16.67 million for the quarter, an increase of more than 50% on the same period last year, which posted an operating loss of $11.09 million. The company attributed this increased loss to a decrease in revenue at IFC Films and restructuring costs related to this summer’s buyouts. Those costs also affected the national networks.

2016-11-03 08:51 Oriana Schwindt variety.com

92 /100 4.6 Another earthquake strikes central Italy, this time a 4.8-magnitude PIEVE TORINA, Italy, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy on Thursday as the region still reels from destruction of persistent quakes and aftershocks since August.

The U. S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the earthquake, which struck at a depth of about 6 miles, was nearly 2 miles west-southwest of Italy's Pieve Torina town. There are no reports of deaths or substantial damage. The earthquake was felt strongly in Italy's Marche region. Dozens of aftershocks followed the earthquake, including at least two 3.2-magnitude quakes.

Central Italy has faced dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks since the Aug. 24 quake near Amatrice that killed nearly 300 people and injured more than 350. A 4.9-magnitude tremor was measured on Tuesday about 5 miles east southeast of Pieve Torina. On Sunday, a 6.6-magnitude quake destroyed dozens of historic buildings .

More than 15,000 people have been housed in shelters by authorities due to tremors since the recent increase in tectonic activity.

2016-11-03 08:50 Andrew V www.upi.com

93 /100 0.0 Titan Markram is laying down the markers Titans' opener Aiden Markram, who has the ability to go big when he passes a three-figure score, has been at the heart of that team's rejuvenated defence of the Sunfoil Series.

When they lost their opening matches to the Knights by four wickets and the Warriors, also by four wickets, the Titans missed Markram in their consecutive second-innings failures.

In the same manner in which he shouldered the South African Under- 19 side when they won their maiden World Cup title two years ago, the 22-year-old Pretoria Boys High old boy took up the batting cudgels and led the way for the defending champions.

Scores of 162 and 139 against the Dolphins and the Cape Cobras powered Mark Boucher's side to handsome innings wins and also reinstated the Titans' credentials as the team to beat.

The Titans may be only 2.3 points ahead of the unbeaten Knights, but the fact that they have been able to accrue that lead is down to Markram's exploits with the bat.

With the Titans facing the rapidly improving Highveld Lions in Potchefstroom in the tournament's last round before the limited-overs leg of the domestic season, Markram's contribution may yet prove to be the crucial one. The resourceful Knights have a trip to Port Elizabeth to face the inconsistent Warriors, who made all the running against the Lions before a last-day meltdown consigned them to a 148-run defeat.

It was a damaging loss since a draw would have put them in earshot of the fourth-placed Dolphins, who were frustrated by the stubborn Knights and the rain at Kingsmead last week.

If the weather holds in Paarl, Grant Morgan's Dolphins are outright favourites to collect maximum points against the sorry lot that are the Cobras.

Paul Adams' beleaguered charges have lost three of their four matches by heavy margins and have not shown any signs of improvement.

2016-11-03 08:50 KHANYISO TSHWAKU www.timeslive.co.za

94 /100 1.7 Why is there a huge yellow porch swing on the Charlotte Rail Trail? In case you missed yesterday’s porch- warming party on the Charlotte Rail Trail, Edna’s Porch is officially open. Situated at 220 E. Carson Blvd. and overlooking the intersection of the LYNX Blue Line tracks and East Carson Boulevard, Edna’s Porch is a bright, buttercup-yellow structure carrying three double porch swings.

“The double porch swing is just kind of a wonderful thing,” said local architect and founder of Centro CityWorks David Furman. He and his company designed and completed this project in partnership with Charlotte Area Transit System and Charlotte Center City Partners on an unused, grassy space between the Blue Line power substation and the Rail Trail.

Furman’s concept was inspired by, and named for, his grandmother and her front porch that once overlooked Independence Boulevard. Her home once sat upon Lamar Avenue, which was severed by Independence, and Furman and his brothers used to sit on her porch swing, watching the cars go by. They’d play a game, identifying the car brands as they passed.

When the house was torn down, Furman reinstalled the porch swing at his office on East Boulevard at the time. It stayed there for 20 years before age wore it down.

“I would use that swing every day,” he said. “I’d open the mail on the swing and sometimes I’d meet clients out there.”

Now, Rail Trail pedestrians can plop down on the structural re-imagining of the swing.

“The yellow is bright, it’s distinctive, it’s happy,” Furman said. “It works with nature, it works with greenery, with fall colors, sort of the natural landscape, yet it stands out. It says, look at this, this might be something special you want to come touch.”

He previously took that color approach with what he refers to as one of his “guerrilla activities” on the Rail Trail, when he dropped six large yellow, steel chairs right by Futo Buta and the Bland Street Station.

“I wanted them to be big enough that you could kind of wallow in them, or put your coffee cup on them or your laptop on them,” he said.

His vision is taking leftover scrap pieces of property and turning them into engaging community places.

He admitted the ergonomics of the swing here on Edna’s Porch were challenging. “It’s not as comfortable as it ought to be,” he said.

But when you do take a moment to rock back and forth in one of the swings, notice how it tilts toward uptown.

“It sort of gestures toward our center city — that you could sit on the porch and watch the skyline,” Furman said. “It begs you to go up and sit on it and swing in it.”

Notice the porch-like vibe of the wooden deck, the wooden bleachers built into the sloping topography for performances or relaxation, and the concrete sculpture that was originally meant to be a fountain but is now good climbing material.

The porch is just one of the many scrap pieces of property Furman expects to see transformed into what he calls “chapters” along the story line of the Rail Trail. As you walk along the trail and discover artistic additions along the way, he said, “You create community.”

According to Cheryl Myers, Senior Vice President and Chief Planning & Development Officer at Charlotte Center City Partners, the Rail Trail will ultimately combine more than 70 individual spaces into a linear park over time.

“I want to engage the community and let them pause and enjoy that particular moment,” Furman said about his additions.

Photo: Katie Toussaint

2016-11-03 08:45 Katie Toussaint www.charlottefive.com

95 /100 5.3 What is 'Sharenting' and should we be doing it? How much of your children's lives do you share on social media? How much of your friends' or family's children's lives do you want to see on social media?

"Sharenting" - using social media to document the gap-toothed smiles, first words and adorable antics of your cherubic children - has been added to the Collins English Dictionary, the publisher has announced.

And we've all seen the photos. Sharenting allows people to proudly show off their children to friends and family across the world. But no previous generation of children has had so public a childhood and not all of them are happy about it when they're older.

So, to sharent or not to sharent? You've been answering the question - and it's caused a bit of a stir. The range of views we saw on Facebook fell broadly into three categories.

These guys love their children dearly and would dearly love their Facebook friends to know about it.

Savannah Morrison, from Glasgow, loves to share pictures of her son with family and friends.

"I love posting photos of my wee one on Facebook/Instagram. I love my friends and family commenting or liking them," she wrote on the BBC News Facebook page.

"I love commenting and liking photos of my friends' and family's kids too, and I think it's amazing that I can still feel part of their lives although we are miles apart.

"In my opinion, as long as the photos are not indecent and you can justify their presence to your child (if asked when they are all grown up), then crack on. "

No less proud of their children, some parents are more cautious about sharing their pictures online.

Rosie McDonald, from Bangor, believes that her son's right to privacy is paramount.

"I make a big point of not putting my son's picture on Facebook," she said.

"He is a human being and has the same right to privacy as anyone else.

"However, at such a young age his capacity to understand privacy on that level isn't the same as an adult.

"It is my job as his parent to make sure he is afforded his rights and respected. "

Some people have got over-sharing fatigue. Their Facebook timelines are filled with other people's children, and they've had enough of it.

Shaun Bacon doesn't want to see it.

"I hate it when [parents] post things such as birthday messages when [their kids] aren't old enough for Facebook, so won't even see it," he wrote.

"Don't tell me it's their birthday or how proud of them you are, just tell them yourselves as they're in the same house as you. "

"I don't need to see it. " Join the debate at the BBC's new Family & Education News Facebook page.

2016-11-03 16:51 www.bbc.co.uk

96 /100 10.7 Famous Soviet-era clown Oleg Popov dies at 86 Russians are paying tribute to Oleg Popov, a Soviet-era clown who became a cultural icon.

Popov died suddenly on Wednesday from a heart attack while on tour in Rostov-on-Don in south-west Russia, the local circus director said.

He rose to fame touring Europe in the 1950s with the state circus. He also toured Asia and North America and starred in several films.

In 1969 he was given the title of "The People's Artist of the Soviet Union".

Popov graduated from Moscow Circus School in 1949 aged 19 and was subsequently signed up by the Great Moscow State Circus, a government-run circus organisation.

His big break came in 1954 when he stepped in for the head clown who had broken his arm while performing. Popov took over as head clown two years later.

The celebrated performer was an early part of the Soviet Union's attempt to strengthen its international image under Nikita Khrushchev, when his circus embarked on a Kremlin- organised tour of Western Europe in 1956.

It was the first foreign performance by a Soviet circus group.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky offered his condolences in a statement, saying that Popov's performances "brought joy and goodness to many generations of our compatriots".

"He managed to create a unique image of an eccentric clown who radiated light just by making an appearance, and turned every performance into a festivity," he added.

The Moscow State Circus joined the tributes by offering to host a farewell celebration to the star, praising his "generosity, multi-faceted talent and dedication".

He is survived by wife Gabriela Lehmann, a German circus performer, and a daughter from his first marriage, Olga Popova, a violinist who also lives in Germany.

Following any tribute in Moscow it is likely that Mr Popov will be buried in Germany, his home since the 1990s.

2016-11-03 16:49 www.bbc.co.uk

97 /100 2.4 Asylum Centre Worker Allegedly Filmed Sex Acts with Underage Migrants According to authorities, an unnamed asylum centre worker is accused of engaging in sexual relations with several male underage migrants at the Børnecenter Tullebølle asylum home in the Langeland municipality, reports Danish radio station Radio 24syv.

In at least one case the worker was filmed giving oral sex to one of the migrants, and in another video is said to show the worker engaging in full blown intercourse with a different migrant. All residents of the home are males under 18 years old.

The municipality fired Sisi Eibye, head of its asylum programme, on Monday after evidence obtained by Radio 24syv showed that three members of staff at the asylum home had known since June that the boys at the home were being sexually abused by employees.

A police report showed that some municipal officials had suspicions that at least three of the boys were in a sexual relationship with one of the staff at the centre. In addition, it has been reported that another female staff may have also had sexual relationships with the underage migrants. Authorities have shut down the centre while police investigate the matter.

Spokesman for the municipality, Sten Skovgaard Larsen, said: “It is clear that we are taking this case very seriously. When one’s role is to protect vulnerable children, this is a very serious allegation.” Police have so far refused to comment on the details of the case to the Danish press. Mayor of Langeland, Bjarne Nielsen, claims that he, like the public, was only made aware of the case last week when the news broke in the media. Police reports show that three municipal leaders knew about the case back in June, and the mayor has said he will demand answers.

The migrants in the home have been in the media spotlight before when earlier this year several of them were accused of sexually assaulting girls at a music festival.

Asylum workers and pro-migrant activists engaging in sexual relationships with migrants has also occurred elsewhere in Europe. In the Calais Jungle migrant camp, it was reported that many of the volunteers had become sexually involved with the residents of the camp. One open borders activist was accused of sex tourism and taking advantage of the migrants.

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98 /100 2.9 Simone Toone reveals lavish London lifestyle funded by sugar daddies Sugar baby Simone Toon claims to be a professional 'lady of leisure' - and refuses to give it up. The 25-year-old, originally from Northamptonshire, is invited to glamorous parties, given thousands of pounds to splash on designer bags and shoes and is whisked away on exotic holidays by older, wealthy men. Simone's lavish lifestyle - which she estimates costs £4,000 a month - is funded by sugar daddies, aged up to 62, who pay for her serviced London apartments, gym membership, holidays, designer clothes – and even her two boob jobs. Scroll down for video She said: 'A sugar baby is somebody who lives a nice lifestyle, living in luxury. You can live in a nice apartment, funded by your sugar daddy. You are just taken care of by an older man. 'I could never ever imagine being with someone who wouldn't treat me and wouldn't pay for my lifestyle. I tried and it just didn't work. 'My lifestyle on average probably costs about £4,000 a month - just to maintain everything.' 'I wouldn't date somebody who isn't rich – I don't find it appealing to date an unsuccessful guy.' Simone rarely gets up before midday, jets all over the world and never cooks a meal for herself, eating out at Knightsbridge and Mayfair's top restaurants instead. Simone, who admits her older men look after her 'like a daughter', said: 'I wake up around midday - I don't like mornings! I go to the gym, work out for about two to three hours, maybe go and have a sunbed or get my nails done. My best friend and I have lunch around 4 or 5pm. 'And then in the evening I get dressed up and go out to a nice place. 'I go to Harvey Nichols and Harrods usually once a day. 'And I probably buy something every couple of days. Once every week I buy a new handbag.' From a brand new Rolex to Chanel handbags and even a car, Simone has received extravagant gifts from her benefactors. She said: 'The most lavish gift I'm given is probably a car. That was really nice. It was a brand new Range Evoque, worth £25,000, which was perfect for me. 'I went to Dubai last week, for five days with my current sugar daddy. It was amazing. 'He just said "here's £8,000, go shop, go enjoy yourself". Although she enjoyed a comfortable and stable family life growing up, Simone's jet setter status is a far cry from her suburban upbringing in Northamptonshire. She said: 'Back in my hometown, there was nothing there really - no opportunities. So for someone to come into my life and say, look, there's a flat, I'm gonna give you this, this and this…' Far from wanting their daughter to get a regular job, Simone says her parents support her way of life and have even become friends with a previous sugar daddy Simone dated. She said: 'My family were really supportive, they were really like if this is what you want, then fine, go ahead.' Simone also has friends who are sugar babies. 'I have two friends of mine who've qualified as a doctor and lawyer thanks to their sugar daddies – and they still are sugar babies.' Aged 18 Simone signed up to a modelling agency and worked as a model for two years. Not even aware what a sugar baby was until she inadvertently became one age 20, Simone was attracted to the sugar daddies' charisma and high status - as well as their wealth. Since then, the pampered beauty has also used the website seekingarrangement.com to connect with potential sugar daddies. She said: 'I was introduced to an older guy, who was very successful and it happened naturally. I found him really attractive and I liked where he lived, I liked the lifestyle and that's how I became a sugar baby.' And Simone is open about her sex life with her sugar daddies. She said: 'People assume being a sugar baby is just going out with some fat old man - having sex with him when he wants to, doing what he says and it's not, it's nothing like that. It really is a genuine relationship. 'An escort is seeing people every hour. I'm not. I'm seeing the same person exclusively.' Simone has been in six long-term relationships with sugar daddies - and even dated a 62-year-old, though admitted the 38-year age gap was too big. She said: 'I normally like someone who is 15 years older than me – age 40-45 - it's a nice age gap, they know how to take care of you better. 'They look at you like, a daughter or something. I know I might sound quite sick, but what I mean by that is they take care of you.' On meeting prospective future sugar daddies, Simone has a strict no sex on the first date policy. Simone said: 'If I'm going to date this person, I'll go to dinner with them six to seven times and then after that I'll stay with him. I don't want it to become a payment. 'You fall in love, you are heartbroken. Just because they are older and richer, it doesn't necessarily mean you can't get hurt.' Simone in particular recalls the end of her first sugar daddy relationship three years ago. She said: 'I think it took me a little while to overcome the fact I'm on my own now, I have to depend on myself I have to find a job, I have to kind of pay rent and stuff, that was the difficult part. 'I have been in situations where I'm not happy with the person I am with and I haven't broken it off just because of the financial situation.' In spite of criticism about her unorthodox source of income, Simone is happy with her lifestyle. She said: 'People out there judge. Sometimes it's quite negative. People say 'how can you rely on a guy to fund a lifestyle?' but at the same time, I don't really mind. I don't care what they say. It works for me so, that's it.'

2016-11-03 08:34 Kerry Mcdermott www.dailymail.co.uk

99 /100 12.1 Possible human remains found on Sonoma State University campus Investigators are at Sonoma State University after a disturbing discovery. A landscaper found what appears to be a partially buried body Wednesday in a wooded, undeveloped area of the campus in Rohnert Park. It was found near a parking lot not far from the music center. Officers have been on the scene all night. "Well, you know we have to keep everything in mind because it is a rare event. You got to keep in mind that this could be a prank, played by college kids. So, we're going to keep everything in mind, but we're going to treat it as serious until deemed otherwise," Sgt. Spencer Crum said. They didn't start removing it Wednesday night because it was almost dark outside. Crime scene investigators will start trying to remove the body Thursday morning so they can get more information. Students are very concerned. "I didn't believe it at first. But then I was like, why would someone say that? And it took a minute to settle in then I'm like oh my gosh, there's actually someone dead on campus. So, it's just weird to comprehend that actually happened. You hear it on the news all the time, but you don't really hear it 200 feet away from us," student Matthew Parkinson said. This was in an isolated area, in what they call the M parking lot. Officials are asking that students stay away from the area. Police say it looks like it happened recently -- the body doesn't seem too decomposed yet. They will get more details about the case as soon as their investigation picks back up Thursday morning. 2016-11-03 08:34 (Copyright abc7news.com

100 /100 2.9 Ewan McGregor chooses life again in trailer for Trainspotting sequel The trailer for the long-awaited Trainspotting sequel has been released, 20 years after the original film was in cinemas. The preview of T2 Trainspotting, which reunites director Danny Boyle with stars Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Ewen Bremner, opens with McGregor's Mark Renton returning to Edinburgh to see his friends again. Over the strains of Underworld's hit Born Slippy, which featured prominently in the 1996 film, Renton revives his bitter "choose life" motto but with modern references - "Choose Facebook, choose Twitter, choose Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere, cares". He also refers to choosing reality TV, slut-shaming, revenge porn and zero-hour contracts, before saying: "Choose to smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug. " The first film, which followed a group of heroin addicts and explored urban poverty, was based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, while the sequel is based on his book Porno. In the trailer for the sequel, Renton tells his former love interest Diane Coulston, played by Kelly Macdonald, that he does not take heroin any more, but there are multiple scenes of drug use in the trailer, as well as fighting and dancing. Renton's narration ends with: " You're an addict so be addicted, just be addicted to something else. Choose the ones you love, choose your future, choose life. " T2 Trainspotting will be released in UK cinemas on January 27.

2016-11-03 08:31 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

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