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New technology scans and bags shopping automatically | There's no doubt automated checkouts can save time - but all it takes is one unexpected item in your bagging area to completely ruin your shopping trip.
So say hello to Reji Robo, the new system being rolled out across Japan that scans and bags all of your items for you, with no fuss or delays.
The checkout, made by Panasonic, uses tiny radio-frequency ID tags attached to each item to tally up what's in your basket at the end of your shop.
This is Rejo Robo - a new checkout system made by Panasonic that scans and bags all of your shopping automatically, meaning all you have to do is pay
After placing a specially-designed basket into the bagging area, the bottom drops away and all of the items slide into a carrier bag, before being handed back to the shopper
The bottom of your basket then drops away as all the items are fed into a carrier bag and then passed back to you.
A screen displays each item in the basket, and give you your total for the shop.
All that's left to do is tap how you'd like to pay, insert cash into the machine, and you're free to head off.
The system is currently being rolled out at stores across Japan, with 7 Eleven being the latest company to sign up, Japanese website Nikkei Asian Review reports.
Tiny radio-frequency ID tags attached to all of the items are used to tally up the contents of the basket, meaning no more unexpected items in your bagging area
Shoppers use a simple touch screen to pay, and then walk straight out. The system will be introduced in Japan next year
Reji Robo will appear in major stores of four Japanese chains over the next year, with the aim being to have it in all stores by the end of 2025.
The concept is similar to one proposed by Amazon at one of its new grocery stores in Seattle, which will be open to the public this year, according to CNBC.
Bosses say facial recognition software along with an Amazon Go app will allow shoppers to simply walk out of the store with their groceries, with a bill sent directly to their Amazon account with no need to scan. |
Post Falls Police searching for 16-year-old runaway | The Post Falls Police Department is asking for the public's help to locate 16-year-old runaway Jonna Michelle Houck. Jonna is 5'7, 130lbs with brown hair and brown eyes.
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Records: Man to plead guilty to aiding San Bernardino attack | A man who prosecutors say purchased the guns used by the San Bernardino attackers has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and lying when he bought the weapons used in the deadly attack, according to court documents released Tuesday. Enrique Marquez Jr., 25, of Riverside, admitted in a plea agreement that he bought the assault rifles used by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the Dec. 2, 2015, attack at a public health agency gathering that left 14 people dead and injured nearly two dozen others.
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Bruce Langhorne, 'Mr. Tambourine Man' inspiration, has died | Read more: The Hastings Tribune
Bruce Langhorne, an influential session guitarist who often collaborated with Bob Dylan and inspired his song "Mr. Tambourine Man," has died.
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Video shifts initial view of fatal Nashville police shooting | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Newly obtained surveillance video has caused Nashville police to revise their account of a traffic stop on Friday that ended with a white officer shooting and killing an armed African-American man.
Police say footage first made available Tuesday shows there was no initial physical confrontation between Jocques Scott Clemmons and Nashville Officer Josh Lippert right after Clemmons ran a stop sign and they both exited their cars.
Based on a different video, police first believed Clemmons "abruptly charged at Officer Lippert, making full contact with his body."
A memorial is seen set up in a neighborhood where near where Nashville Officer Josh Lippert on Friday shot Jocques Scott Clemmons in a Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. Clemmons died at the hospital Friday. Newly obtained surveillance video has caused Nashville police to revise their account of a traffic stop on Friday that ended with the white officer shooting and killing an armed African-American man. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)
Instead, the latest video angle shows Clemmons ran toward Lippert to get around him, stopped short of the officer, and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction, police said.
In a follow pursuit by the officer, Clemmons, 31, refused orders to drop the loaded pistol before Lippert fired at him, police said.
The new video comes amid outcry from Clemmons' family and supporters questioning the police's claims and the officer's actions. On Tuesday evening, protesters marched behind Black Lives Matter banners from nearby the public housing development where the shooting occurred to downtown Nashville, chanting "Justice for Jocques."
"As part of the full and accountable investigation into this matter, it is important that the community know of this new development," Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said in a news release. "The investigation is active and progressing. We are engaging with the FBI. Citizens have my assurance that the investigation will be fair, objective and complete."
Police were initially depending on a surveillance tape from Friday that was filmed further away and from a different angle. That video "created the impression of contact" between the two men, police said.
One of the videos released by police appears to show that, after a scuffle, Clemmons was moving away with his back turned to Officer Lippert then Clemmons was shot. Clemmons appeared to be trying to get in between two parked cars. He was shot in the back and died at the hospital Friday.
Officer Lippert has been suspended 20 days over his five years as a Nashville officer. Some of those were in incidents where he used force, according to his personnel file.
Lippert used physical force to take a person out of a car during an October 2015 traffic stop, earning him an eight-day suspension, records show. Lippert's decision to use force "unnecessarily escalated the encounter when the motorist had indicated he was willing to voluntarily step from the car if a supervisor was present," a disciplinary report states.
In June 2013 outside a Nashville bar, Lippert punched in the face and pepper sprayed a drunk man who had begun fighting with him after Lippert decided to switch out the handcuffs on the man.
Lippert's "actions created the necessity to use force against an intoxicated subject," according to a disciplinary report that suspended him for three vacation days.
The shooting death of Clemmons has heightened calls from the NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union for quick action on implementing city plans to equip Nashville police with body cameras. Mayor Megan Barry plans to ask for $12 million for the cameras in the 2017-18 budget.
Additionally, ACLU of Tennessee is asking for the formation of "an independent civilian review board, with robust power to investigate and hold law enforcement accountable."
U.S. Attorney David Rivera has said his office will work with the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in monitoring the case.
Police are also looking to identify and interview another person who was in the passenger seat of the pulled-over car, but left during the incident. |
U.S. blockchain company in tie-up on medical artificial intelligence | FILE PHOTO: Bitcoin (virtual currency) coins are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. technology company The Bitfury Group has formed a partnership with Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based medical artificial intelligence (AI) firm, to create new applications for the healthcare industry using blockchain, Bitfury's chief executive officer said on Friday.
Blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions that gained prominence as the software underpinning the digital currency bitcoin. The technology, being developed in the public and private sectors, has gained attention globally for its ability to permanently record and track assets or transactions across all industries.
The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding last month for collaboration to study and develop blockchain and AI solutions for sharing, managing, tracking and validating healthcare data, said Bitfury founder and CEO Valery Vavilov in an email to Reuters. The collaboration is in an early stage and there were no details available about potential projects or specific uses.
Artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector uses algorithms and software to mimic human ability in analyzing complex medical data. Vast amounts of healthcare data are pushing the development of AI applications.
Vavilov said both companies will use Bitfury's Exonum blockchain platform to store and secure health data in a system compatible with artificial intelligence.
"AI has not reached its full potential for the healthcare industry yet because it requires a large and diverse range of data to learn from in order to ensure accuracy and provide actionable results," said the Bitfury chief executive.
Healthcare AI is expanding by an annual rate of 40 percent, research firm Frost & Sullivan said in a recent study. It said global revenue generated by artificial intelligence systems will soar to $6.7 billion by 2021 from $811 million in 2015.
"A blockchain-based medical records system could safeguard patient data and allow for improved interoperability between doctors and hospitals, while also giving patients more ownership over their own records," Vavilov said. |
Director of football Steve Round sacked by Aston Villa | The black hole in Aston Villa’s hierarchy has become larger after director of football Steve Round was unexpectedly sacked by owner Tony Xia.
Round was dismissed as Xia no longer sees the position as essential but it means Steve Bruce will need to burden more of the responsibility over transfers.
The move inevitably increases the question mark over Bruce’s role, although sources stress Xia does not wish to dispense with his manager too. Bruce is ready to take the team into the new season and will not walk away.
Director of football Steve Round has left Aston Villa after nearly two years, the club confirmed
Owner Tony Xia unexpectedly sacked Round as he no longer sees the position as essential
Manager Steve Bruce is expected to stay but he faces a tricky task with transfers and savings
But Round’s departure following on from the dismissal of chief executive Keith Wyness removes another individual with extensive football knowledge from senior management, and Bruce has a difficult task ahead of him to make the £40million savings required while fielding a strong side capable of threatening promotion.
Xia’s minimal involvement with the daily running of club has left staff frustrated, with commercial officer Luke Organ informing Round of the decision rather than the Chinese businessman.
Organ has taken on a bigger role in recent weeks but his background is not in football. Rongtian He represents another high-level executive without a background in the game, having risen to prominence after acting as translator for Xia.
Numerous parties are interested in buying Villa but Xia has so far rejected offers from the US and Europe.
There is a belief Xia wants to soldier on at the club even though he has been battling cash flow issues for months, which earlier this summer saw Villa late on a tax bill and threatened with a winding up order.
Round becomes the latest high-profile figure to depart the cash-strapped Villains this summer |
Sometimes the face of depression is in your mirror | "I can't remember the last time I was happy. I have never been happy for 24 hours straight, ever in my life."
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Rubio gets more security due to alleged Venezuelan plot | The United States government fears that a powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued an order to kill Florida Senator Marco Rubio (above)
The United States government fears that a powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued an order to kill Florida Senator Marco Rubio, it was reported on Sunday.
Rubio has been assigned a beefed-up security detail in recent weeks after US intelligence reportedly learned that a former Venezuelan military chief, Diosdado Cabello, put out a hit on the Republican senator, according to the Miami Herald.
The Herald emphasizes that the US government has yet to gather information indicating the existence of a concrete plot to assassinate the former presidential candidate.
Nonetheless, the Department of Homeland Security took the precautionary step of bolstering Rubio's security details in both Washington, DC, and his native Miami.
The DHS issued a memo in which it noted that intelligence indicated 'an order to have Senator Rubio assassinated' while cautioning that 'no specific information regarding an assassination plot against Senator Rubio has been garnered thus far.'
The memo goes on to speculate that Cabello may have contacted 'unspecified Mexican nationals' as part of a plan to harm Rubio, though no specific evidence is cited.
Rubio has been assigned a beefed-up security detail in recent weeks after US intelligence reportedly learned that a former Venezuelan military chief, Diosdado Cabello (above), put out a hit on the Republican senator
The government's heightened state of alert was prompted by a back-and-forth Twitter war between Rubio and Cabello.
Rubio has derisively referred to Cabello as 'the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela' due to longstanding suspicions that the Venezuelan lawmaker has engaged in drug trafficking.
Cabello, who is thought by the Americans to maintain control of Venezuela's security forces, fired back at Rubio, calling him 'Narco Rubio'.
He has denied American allegations of drug trafficking.
In recent weeks, observers on Capitol Hill have been struck by the unusually large security presence surrounding Rubio.
Rubio is a vociferous critic of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the socialist leader of the South American country.
Maduro has tightened his grip on power despite being deeply unpopular due to a failing economy, food and medicinal shortages, and an election of a new legislative body designed to circumvent the opposition-led parliament.
President Donald Trump startled observers last week when he said that the US was not ruling out 'a military option' in dealing with Venezuela.
Rubio is thought to have influence on Trump as it relates to US policy toward Caracas.
Washington has denounced Maduro and expressed a clear preference for the opposition.
Like his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, Maduro has long warned of an American plot to invade Venezuela and steal the country's oil.
Cabello was a confidant of Chavez, with both men having participated in a failed coup attempt in 1992.
Rubio is a vociferous critic of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (above), the socialist leader of the South American country who has tightened his grip on power despite being deeply unpopular due to a failing economy, food and medicinal shortages
He is currently a powerful political operative who exerts considerable influence over the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
'We're not surprised by threats from the empire, from its chief Trump,' Cabello wrote Saturday on Twitter.
'In the face of such deranged imperial threats, each person should man their trench. Mine will be next to the people defending the fatherland!'
Washington imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials on Wednesday for their role in creating an all-powerful legislative body loyal to Maduro, but stopped short of action against the OPEC nation's vital oil industry.
More than 125 people have died in violence since the opposition began a sustained wave of protests in April.
Earlier this month, Venezuela inaugurated a new legislative superbody that is expected to rewrite the constitution and give vast powers to Maduro's ruling Socialist Party, defying protests and worldwide condemnation that it undermines democratic freedom.
The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that Venezuelan security forces have systematically wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killings dozens, and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody. |
BRIEF-Aspocomp Q4 EBIT turns to profit of EUR 0.8 million | Feb 14 Aspocomp Group Oyj:
* Q4 net sales 6.6 million euros ($7.00 million) versus 4.8 million euros year ago
* Q4 EBIT 0.8 million euros versus loss 0.3 million euros year ago
* Says profitability improved clearly during Q4 as deliveries focused on more technologically demanding products
* 2017 net sales are expected to grow about 10 percent
* Expects 2017 operating result to be better than in 2016
* No dividend to be paid for 2016 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.9423 euros) (Gdynia Newsroom) |
R.I.P., William (Bill) Potts - Denver Sculptor of the People | Potts, a trailblazing Denver sculptor who used salvaged wood, house paint and sometimes crude tools to create vivid figures and tableaux prized by celebrities and schoolkids alike, died last week at the age of eighty. He leaves behind a vast array of work commemorating athletes, jazz musicians, street scenes, historic events, dinosaurs and ordinary people, carved in his garage over decades.
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Crime 1 hour ago 8:27 p.m.Police make arrest in murder of woman, newborn baby... | Beaumont Police have a woman in custody for several Aggravated Robberies that are linked to the murder of Kera Teel and her unborn daughter, Kyndal. Beaumont Police, US Marshall Service, Alcohol, Tabaco and Firearms, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Lake Charles Police Department and Calcasieu Parrish Sheriff's Office are working together to help solve the Capital Murder case.
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Tuareg tribe in Libya is helping hunt for vanished American pilot | Investigators searching for missing American pilot Jerry Krause have made contact with local tribal leaders in Libya seeking help to track him down, DailyMail.com has learned.
Leaders of the Tuareg tribe, who run the remote airport near Ghat where Krause was last pinpointed, have assisted the American team in finding the pilot who vanished without trace in West Africa five years ago.
Krause, originally from Waseca, Minnesota, was at the controls of a routine flight from South Africa to Mali where he was working as a missionary on April 7, 2013 when he disappeared.
The last message from his Beechcraft 17 1900C 17-seat passenger plane was to a control tower on the tiny island of São Tomé, saying he was nine miles from its shore. Then he vanished - apparently without trace.
But Krause's family first told DailyMail.com in November last year how they had received an email from one of his friends - who they say is a former U.S. intelligence officer with high-level contacts in the government - saying that he is still alive.
Vanished without a trace: Jerry Krause, from Waseca, Minnesota, disappeared during a routine flight from South Africa to Mali while working as a missionary in April 2013. Above he is pictured with his wife Gina
The last message from his Beechcraft 17 1900C 17-seat passenger plane was to a control tower on the tiny island of São Tomé, saying he was nine miles from its shore
This is the flyer that his family issued in São Tomé and Príncipe after Krause went missing. They have searched the area around the tiny island country off the coast of Gabon, but found no wreckage
The friend said they feared he is being held hostage by a criminal gang and used to smuggle high value goods against his will.
Then earlier this month DailyMail.com exclusively revealed investigators working for the family claimed intelligence 'assets' they have on the ground in Africa had reported seeing the pilot at an airport in Ghat, Libya.
The assets have since clarified their position to state that, in fact, it was radio chatter between known local gangs which had placed Krause in Ghat rather than a sighting, although proof of life has been reported.
Nevertheless, the information is believed to be strong enough that the hunt for the missing father-of-three is now solely focused on Ghat.
Special investigator Stephen Komorek, who is working with the Krause family, says his team has been assisted by the Tuareg tribe in their hunt.
He told DailyMail.com: 'We received reports with information concerning Jerry coming out of Ghat in the southwestern part of Libya at an old airport used by Colonel Gaddafi.
'As a result we made contact with the Tuareg tribe which handles the security and well being of the town and airport in Ghat.
'Tribal leaders told our assets on the ground that they have a zero tolerance for human trafficking, so that has helped us rule out any human trafficking gangs from having take Jerry hostage.
Krause was allegedly last seen in Ghat Airport in Libya. The airport is under the control of local Tuareg tribes after the collapse of Libya's government and plunge into civil war. It is now seen as a human trafficking hotspot
In the aftermath of the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the area has come under the control of local Tuareg tribesmen and is largely lawless
'It does not, however, rule out gangs who smuggle guns or drugs. The Tribal leaders are still assisting us to help locate Mr Krause.'
He added: 'What's important is that we have active operational resources in the country and throughout the continent activity searching and reporting on new information; which leads us closer to Krause. As of last December it has lead us to Ghat.
'And one of the many sources assisting in this investigation has reported proof of life, this was a turning point in the investigation.'
Komorek, a former intelligence operator, says Ghat has a direct smuggling link with Angola, which is where Krause's cell phone pinged a tower hours after he vanished mysteriously in 2013.
The airport is just outside the town of Ghat, an oasis close to both the Algeriana and Nigerian borders.
In the aftermath of the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the area has come under the control of local Tuareg tribesmen and is largely lawless.
Tuareg is an Arabic term meaning abandoned by God. Tribesmen call themselves Imohag, translated as free men.
Family: Gina Krause, 58, is said to be 'up and down' with her emotions and the family have launched a Facebook page called Help Find Jerry
Family: Jerry's family remains hopeful that they will see their father again but say 'there's no way he will come back the same person, there's no way.'
The tribe numbers nearly one million and inhabits the sub-Saharan regions of North Africa including parts of Libya and Niger.
Komorek, based in Ohio, says the assets his team has on the ground in Libya are trying to get a better handle on Krause's whereabouts through communication with Tuareg leaders, only then can they consider a rescue mission.
Kormorek also revealed his assets on the ground had confirmed with international kidnap and recovery teams working out of North Africa that no proof of life videos released by known kidnappers had featured Krause in recent years.
Kormorek is working closely with respected California based private investigator Logan Clarke to help find the pilot.
The two men, both members of the World Association of Detectives, are carrying out the work pro bono in a bid to help the family. |
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Politics | Moore: Time to Enact Paid Sick Leave | Yet for roughly 40 percent of the workforce in Rhode Island, the decision isn't that simple. That's because these private sector workers don't have the benefit of paid sick time.
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January 2017 Stock Considerations | The start of the new year is finally at hand. With a very wild financial 2016 in the rear view mirror it is time once again to look forward to my potential stock picks for new month.
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Serie A heading towards another anti-climax | MILAN With Juventus charging towards yet another title and the relegation battle virtually decided, Serie A appears to be approaching yet another anti-climax.
A 2-0 win at Pescara last Saturday left the Turin side eight points clear of AS Roma and 10 ahead of Napoli with just six games to play in what appears to be an uncanny repeat of the last few seasons.
The Turin side have won five Serie A titles in a row, the last four of which have seen either Roma or Napoli trailing in second anything from nine to 17 points behind.
Roma and Napoli have again been the only challenges this season, doing their best to make a fight of it.
Roma won nine out of 10 games before they were held 1-1 by Atalanta last week while there is little doubt that Napoli, the league's top scorers with 75 goals, have been the most entertaining team to watch.
Yet neither have matched Juve's relentless consistency and knack for grinding out results.
Since their last defeat at Fiorentina in January, Juventus have chalked up 11 wins and two draws, scoring two goals in eight of those games, one goal in another four and keeping nine clean sheets.
"You win titles with games like these, by picking up difficult points on your travels," said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri after a 1-1 draw at Napoli earlier this month.
Incredibly, Juventus have won their last 32 home league games and there is little reason to suspect that run will end on Sunday when they host a Genoa side who have won only once this year.
Roma should also win at bottom club Pescara on Monday while three points are well within Napoli's capabilities when they visit Sassuolo, who have had an indifferent season.
With Lazio a further nine points behind in fourth, the main question is now whether Napoli can pip Roma for second place which would guarantee a place in the Champions League group stage rather than the playoff round which has become a graveyard for Serie A teams.
At the other end of the table, relegation also seems a foregone conclusion with Empoli (26 points) enjoying a five-point cushion over the three relegation places which are occupied by Crotone (21), Palermo (16) and Pescara (14).
Crotone threatened to stage a great escape with two successive wins but Empoli's shock 2-1 win at Fiorentina last week coupled with Crotone's 1-1 draw at Torino has left the team from Calabria with an almost hopeless task.
(Writing by Brian Homewood) |
Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces pre-trial testimony in murder case | Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces pre-trial testimony in murder case
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Wealthy real estate scion Robert Durst faced the first prosecution testimony of the murder case against him in Los Angeles on Tuesday, from a retired dean of the New York medical school his wife attended before she vanished three decades ago.
The testimony of Dr Albert Kuperman focused on a telephone call he recounted receiving from a woman identifying herself as Kathleen Durst in 1982, a day after she was last seen alive, saying she would have to miss an appointment due to illness.
Prosecutors have raised the possibility that the call in question was actually placed by another woman posing as Durst's wife, and that the fourth-year medical student may have already been dead by then.
Durst has been questioned about his wife's disappearance and presumed slaying but has never been prosecuted in that probe.
Instead, the 73-year-old heir is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Susan Berman, a writer and long-time confidante, at her Los Angeles home in December 2000.
Prosecutors say she was killed execution-style because of what she knew about the unsolved death of Durst's spouse two decades earlier.
His ties to both those cases, and his 2003 acquittal in the killing and dismemberment of a Texas neighbor, were chronicled in the popular HBO documentary series "The Jinx" last year.
Durst has pleaded not guilty in the Berman case and has said he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his wife, whose body has never been found.
Kuperman, 85, was permitted because of his advanced age to take the witness stand months ahead of the actual trial to give videotaped testimony that could be preserved should he die or be otherwise unable to appear in person during a prolonged trial.
Under questioning from prosecutors and defense lawyers, Kuperman, former dean of education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, said he had long assumed the woman who telephoned his office 35 years ago to call in sick was Kathleen Durst, as she had identified herself.
However, he acknowledged that, after being interviewed by Los Angeles investigators in 2015, he grew uncertain about the caller's true identity. "It didn't occur to me that it was someone else," until then, he said.
Kuperman said he realized Kathleen Durst's voice was not familiar enough to him to have recognized it in that one call. The two had only spoken briefly in person twice before, he said. |
'Star Trek' Science: Why Vulcans (and Other Aliens) Look Like Humans | Spock, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original "Star Trek" series and films, was half human and half Vulcan. An evolutionary biologist suggests that such interbreeding could happen only if humans were related to Vulcans by a recent ancestor.
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Welcome to the humble: Guns 'N Roses sorry over Aus mix-up | Concert-goers in Melbourne booed rock legends Guns N' Roses after being greeted by a hello 'Sydney'
Rock legends Guns N' Roses apologised Wednesday after confusing the southern city of Melbourne with Sydney on their Australian tour.
Concert-goers booed the US rockers when guitar technician McBob said hello to "Sydney" at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday night as he introduced the group on stage.
"Sydney, you wanted the best but they're stuck in traffic, so here's what you get," he said.
The group later tweeted from their official account that they were "truly sorry".
"Melbourne! Accidentally after 30 years McBob made an error, we're truly sorry. Thank you for coming out tonight!"
Lead guitarist Slash apologised on Twitter for the "Spinal Tap intro" while bassist Duff McKagan added: "Don't b2 hard on McBob 4saying 'Sydney' in the intro...his wife and fam r fom here. Hell catch it plenty!"
There has been a long-time rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities.
While Sydney is the nation's financial centre and boasts of its iconic harbour-front that features the Opera House and bridge, Melbourne prides itself as Australia's cultural and sporting capital.
The veteran band last performed in Melbourne in 2013. |
German airlines scrap post-Germanwings two-person cockpit rule | BERLIN, April 28 German airlines will scrap by June 1 a rule that two people must be in the cockpit of a plane at all times, introduced after the Germanwings crash of March 2015, the BDL airline association said on Friday.
Investigators believe Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit after he left to use the bathroom and deliberately flew the A320 jet into a mountainside in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
After the crash, Europe's aviation safety authority EASA imposed a rule that two crew members should be in the cockpit at all times, meaning that if one of the pilots needed to step out, a member of the cabin crew should step in.
EASA relaxed the requirement last year, saying it was up to airlines to carry out their own risk assessment.
The BDL said German airlines had independently come to the same conclusion - that the two-person cockpit rule did not increase safety but could rather create other risks, for example due to the door being open for longer to let crew in and out.
It highlighted figures showing there was a greater risk of airliners being hijacked than deliberately crashed, with more than 1,000 cases to date, compared with four suicides.
The change came after new Europe-wide rules were introduced regarding mental health screening and monitoring of pilots, designed to reduce the risk of an event similar to the Germanwings crash occurring.
Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa confirmed it would lift the two-person cockpit rule across all of its subsidiaries, including Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings by June 1.
A spokesman for UK-listed tour operator Thomas Cook Group , which owns German airline Condor, said the new policy would apply to all four airlines within its group, including those in the UK, Belgium and Scandinavia, by May 15.
Ryanair said its two-person cockpit rule remained in place. EasyJet, the first airline to introduce the rule after the crash, had no immediate comment.
British Airways said it would not comment on its policy for reasons of security. (Reporting by Victoria Bryan; editing by Mark Heinrich) |
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BRIEF-San Miguel Brewery Hong Kong says Fumiaki Ozawa has been appointed as non-executive director | UPDATE 3-Nestle takes food price rises in its stride
ZURICH, Aug 9 Nestle expects pressure from the rising price of ingredients for its products such as chocolate bars, coffee and soup to ease, helping it meet its target for increasing sales despite tough markets. |
Cronulla Sharks chairman Damian Keogh arrested for cocaine | Footage of the moment former Cronulla Sharks chairman Damian Keogh (pictured) is arrested for cocaine possession will air on television on Tuesday night
Footage of the moment Australian basketball champion and former Cronulla Sharks chairman Damian Keogh is arrested for cocaine possession has been released.
Keogh was arrested at a licensed premises in Wooloomooloo in early May this year with two bags of cocaine in his possession after he was sniffed out by drug dogs.
Police commentary of the situation and a tense conversation between officers and the former sports star will be aired on ABC's Keeping Australia Safe on Tuesday night.
A camera crew for the show was following the NSW Police Detection Dog Unit around Wooloomooloo on the night Keogh was arrested.
In the episode, which will air on Tuesday night, the moments that led to the downfall of the high-profile businessman and sports star are revealed for the first time.
Keogh was caught after he went to the bathroom at the Bells Hotel in Wooloomooloo after he spotted a drug dog enter the premises in May this year. Officers followed him in and found two bags of cocaine in his possession (pictured right)
A police officer is seen explaining to the camera that Keogh tried to get away from the situation the moment he saw the drug dog enter the pub which aroused suspicion.
'There's a male over there, who, as we walked in with the police dog, he's made a run for the toilets,' the officer explained.
'So we've chased him in there, and he's been found to have two bags of cocaine.'
Keogh had enjoyed a long lunch with acquaintances at Kingsleys Australian Steakhouse - a hotspot for Sydney's rich and famous - on the day he came undone.
He then decided to continue drinking into the evening at nearby Tilbury Hotel, and later the Bells Hotel, where he was ultimately arrested.
The 55-year-old was then arrested (left), but appeared agitated by the presence of cameras. An officer moved to speak with the ABC camera crew, who revealed Keogh's high profile
In the clip, Keogh appeared distressed by the presence of the cameras after his arrest, and was seen trying to move away as a police officer attempted to calm him.
The officer taking charge of the arrest was seemingly unaware of his high profile until he walked away to speak with the camera crew.
The crew explained the man police were about to take into custody was a former Australian Olympic basketballer and held board positions at the Cronulla Sharks NRL team and Hoyts cinemas.
Keogh pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine in Downing Centre Local Court, tarnishing his reputation permanently.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Jane Mottley decided not to record a conviction, and it is understood the man retained his high-level position at Hoyts, but the Sydney man stood down from his role at the Sharks in shame.
As a result of his arrest and guilty plea, Keogh, a father-of-four, was forced to stand down from his position as Chairman of the Cronulla Sharks NRL team (pictured with Treasurer and local MP Scott Morrison (left) and Sharks ground announced Glenn Wheeler (centre) at Shark Park)
Soon after his arrest, Keogh fronted cameras to clarify his arrest was the result of a foolish choice, not an enduring problem with illicit substances.
No I don't have a drug problem, people who know me know this isn't me. It's not what I'm about,' he told Channel Nine.
'I'm very fortunate to have great family who are very supportive. They know who I am and what I stand for. We'll work our way through this.
'It's obviously been a very distressing time personally for my family. I've just been bunkering down and trying to register things.'
Keeping Australia Safe will air on Tuesday December 12 at 8.30pm on ABC and ABC iView. |
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Nicole Kidman discusses the 'massive grief' of her two miscarriages | She tragically suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy while she was married to Tom Cruise.
And Nicole Kidman has revealed that her grief feels just as raw two decades on, as she discussed the 'huge, aching yearning' she felt after the ordeal.
The acclaimed actress, 50, said the 'enormous amount of pain' she and Tom Cruise endured drove them to adopt their now-grown children Isabella and Connor.
'There's a huge, aching yearning': Nicole Kidman, 50, has discussed the 'massive grief' of suffering a miscarriage while she was married to Tom Cruise (pictured together in 1992)
'I know the yearning. That yearning. It's a huge, aching yearning. And the loss! The loss of a miscarriage is not talked about enough,' she told Tatler magazine.
'That's massive grief to certain women.'
Nicole was 23 when she lost her first child by Cruise shortly after their wedding in 1990 because of an ectopic pregnancy - a condition in which an embryo starts to develop in a fallopian tube instead of in the womb.
She finally managed to get pregnant again but suffered a miscarriage around the time Tom filed for divorce in 2001 after 11 years together.
Ordeal: 'The loss of a miscarriage is not talked about enough,' she told Tatler magazine. 'That's massive grief to certain women'
Devastating: Nicole was 23 when she lost her first child by Cruise shortly after their wedding in 1990 because of an ectopic pregnancy - a condition in which an embryo starts to develop in a fallopian tube instead of in the womb (seen in 1994)
After her first marriage the pair decided to adopt Isabella and Connor followed two years ago.
'There's an enormous amount of pain and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it,' Nicole said as she described the feeling of becoming a mother.
'The flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of "Ahhhh!" when you have the child.'
Nicole previously revealed that she'd been keen to become a mother from the very start of her marriage to Tom.
Traumatic: She finally managed to get pregnant again but suffered a miscarriage around the time Tom filed for divorce in 2001 (pictured that year)
Proud parent: She and Tom adopted Isabella (L) soon after her ectopic pregnany and Connor (R) two years later
'From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies,' she told Marie Claire magazine in 2007.
'And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that's when it came that we would adopt Bella.'
She added: 'My mother has an adopted sister, so it's been part of our family and I knew it would probably play out somewhere in mine. I didn't think it would happen so early but it did.'
Four years after her divorce from Tom, Nicole married country singer Keith Urban and the pair went on to have two daughters naturally - Sunday Rose, nine, and seven-year-old Faith. |
Air France expands Asia links with Singapore Airlines tie-up | The tail of an Air France airplane is seen as it taxies past a control tower at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy during an air traffic controller strike, near Paris, France, March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) has signed a code share deal with Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI) to boost its network to Asia, following a similar move by rival Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) with Cathay Pacific (0293.HK) as European airlines battle back against rival Gulf carriers.
Both Air France and Lufthansa have been vocal critics of the Gulf airlines, saying their expansion has led them to terminate services to destinations in the Middle East, Asia and in particular India over recent years.
But with carriers such as Emirates and Etihad suffering from signs of weaker demand caused partly by currency fluctuations, European carriers are fighting back.
Air France said on Thursday that it would add its AF code to Singapore Airlines flights from Singapore to Melbourne and Sydney, and on three routes to Malaysia and Thailand operated by regional subsidiary Silkair.
In exchange, Singapore Airlines will add its SQ code to 10 Air France flights from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.
The Air France-Singapore Airlines agreement is also similar to that signed by Lufthansa last month in that it sees airlines from rival alliances working together. Air France is in the Skyteam alliance, while Singapore is in Star Alliance.
"This kind of partnership is part of our aim to expand our market position and increase our range of destinations for our customers all around the world," said Patrick Roux, Senior Vice-President Alliances at Air France-KLM, in a statement.
The two carriers will also consider expanding the code share to other airlines within their groups, Air France-KLM said in a statement.
(Reporting by Victoria Bryan in Berlin; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta) |
Vanguard Group says it 'prioritized climate risk' in talks with companies | BOSTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Top mutual fund manager Vanguard Group said on Monday it has "prioritized climate risk" in its talks with companies, and that it has discussed the topic with more companies over the past year than ever before.
Vanguard also said in an emailed statement that activist Walden Asset Management withdrew a shareholder proposal that had requested a review of Vanguard's proxy voting. |
Trump to ramp up trade pressure on China with call for probe on Monday | WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday will order his top trade adviser to determine whether to investigate Chinese trade practices that force U.S. firms operating in China to turn over intellectual property, senior administration officials said on Saturday.
The move, which could eventually lead to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, comes at a time when Trump has asked China to do more to crack down on North Korea's nuclear missile program as he threatens possible military action against Pyongyang.
Trump has said he would be more amenable to going easy on Beijing if it were more aggressive in reining in North Korea.
An administration official, however, insisted diplomacy over North Korea and the potential trade probe were "totally unrelated," saying the trade action was not a pressure tactic.
"These are two different things," the official said, speaking to reporters on a conference call.
Trump will direct U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine if an investigation is warranted of "any of China's laws, policies, practices or actions that may be unreasonable or discriminatory, and that may be harming American intellectual property, innovation and technology," the official said.
"China's unfair trade practices and industrial policies, including forced technology transfer and intellectual property theft, harm the U.S. economy and workers," a second official told reporters. "The action being taken on Monday is a reflection of the president's firm commitment to addressing this problem in a firm way."
Any investigation that may be launched could take as long as a year to conclude, a third official said. He said it would be premature to speculate on actions that could eventually be taken against China, and added that the issue could be resolved through "negotiated agreement."
Trump, who will interrupt a 17-day working vacation to make a day trip to Washington for the trade announcement, had been expected to seek a so-called Section 301 investigation earlier this month, but an announcement was postponed as the White House pressed for China's cooperation on North Korea.
While China joined in a unanimous U.N. Security Council decision to tighten economic sanctions on Pyongyang, Trump has kept up pressure on Beijing to do more.
"We lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade with China. They know how I feel," he told reporters on Thursday. "If China helps us, I feel a lot different toward trade."
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Friday and reiterated their mutual commitment to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, the White House said in a statement. It was unclear whether the issue of trade came up.
Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, a popular trade tool in the 1980s that has been rarely used in the past decade, allows the president to unilaterally impose tariffs or other trade restrictions to protect U.S. industries from "unfair trade practices" of foreign countries.
The process can bypass World Trade Organization procedures for adjudicating grievances. Though widely used worldwide, the WTO process is viewed unfavorably by the Trump administration.
"We're at the beginning of this process and no firm decisions have been made as to how that is going to work in terms of whether we would pursue WTO action or action outside the WTO," the first administration official said.
In addition to the United States, the European Union, Japan, Germany and Canada have all expressed concern about Chinese theft of intellectual property. The technology sector has been especially hard-hit in intellectual property disputes. (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Sandra Maler) |
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Bangkok bans its street food leaving foodies fed up, vendors in a pickle | People queue to buy their lunch at a street food shop in Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
A vendor prepares his deserts at his street food shop in Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
People queue to buy their lunch at a street food shop in Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK Authorities in Thailand's capital are banishing its world-famous street-food vendors as part of a clean-up drive by the military government, outraging foodies and threatening the livelihoods of the road-side cooks.
Thailand's street-food hawkers whip up tasty delights, from noodles and fried rice to oyster omelettes, in the blink of an eye, often with little more than a gas-cannister kitchen on a cart.
Bangkok is often voted the world's best destination for street food in travel polls. Residents and visitors throng to the makeshift restaurants, often with plastic stools and tiny tables strung out on pavements in almost every neighbourhood.
But that's soon all going to change under an edict aimed at bringing order to the bustling city of some 12 million people.
"We would like the consumers, tourists or even the Thai patrons to be entitled to sanitary food, so far I don't think we have achieved that," Wallop Suwandee, chief adviser to Bangkok's governor, told Reuters.
"We have to check the food preparation," he said. "They shouldn't clean and throw away dirty water into the drainage system."
He said food stalls would be moved off the pavements and some could be relocated to new sites.
The edict has left roadside dessert vendor Chaluay Thongku, 56, wondering how he can re-build a business.
"I disagree with this because I'll have to start all over again," he said.
Food writer Korakot Punlopruksa said vendors were being unfairly treated.
"This is disgraceful and not fair to people ... This is how the city value people? This is how the authorities solve the problem? I don't think so," she wrote in a Facebook post.
The clean-up is part of a wider effort by the military government, which came to power after a 2014 coup, to impose order.
The junta has cracked down on various issues ranging from taxi gangs at airports to prostitution, which is illegal in Thailand, with mostly mixed results.
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Jutarat Skulpichetrat; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Robert Birsel) |
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Samsung Group says it never paid bribes to S.Korea president | SEOUL Feb 14 South Korea's Samsung Group said on Tuesday it never paid bribes to South Korean President Park Geun-hye or sought illicit favours from her, as a special prosecutor's office seeks to arrest the conglomerate's leader.
The prosecutor's office said earlier on Tuesday it filed a second request to arrest Jay Y. Lee, the third-generation leader of the country's top conglomerate, on charges including bribery, as part of a wider investigation into a graft scandal that led to Park's impeachment by parliament in December.
The prosecution accuses Lee of paying bribes to Park's confidant, Choi Soon-sil, to win support for a 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates.
Lee and the Samsung Group have denied wrongdoing. (Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Robert Birsel) |
BRIEF-Mastek March-qtr consol profit more than doubles | April 20 Mastek Ltd
* March quarter consol net profit 144.5 million rupees
* March quarter consol total revenue 1.82 billion rupees
* Consol net profit in March quarter last year was 58.6 million rupees; consol total revenue was 1.28 billion rupees
* Says recommended final dividend of INR 2.5 per share
* Says proposed reappointmentr of Sudhakar Ram as vice chairman and MD
* Says 12-month order backlog at 3.33 billion rupees
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Delta Hotels by Marriot to Double Growth in Two Years | With 20 signed hotels in the pipeline, Marriott International is poised to grow Delta's hospitality globally to major gateway cities including Dallas, Shanghai and Seattle. Delta Hotels will open the Shanghai property later this year, while the four-star brand opened its first U.S. property last year , and this year has added Delta Hotels Baltimore Hunt Valley, Delta Hotels Baltimore Inner Harbor, Delta Hotels Chesapeake, Delta Hotels Chicago North Shore, and Delta Hotels Fargo.
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Birmingham, Alabama joins opioid lawsuit wave by suing wholesalers | The city of Birmingham, Alabama on Monday became the latest local or state government to file a lawsuit over prescription opioids, accusing three drug wholesale distributors of failing to halt suspicious orders of the addictive drugs.
Birmingham filed the lawsuit in federal court claiming Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson Corp dumped millions of dollars' worth of opioids into the city while refusing to fulfill their duties to report suspicious shipments.
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Soccer-Swiss championship results and standings | Dec 10 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Swiss championship matches on Sunday Sunday, December 10 Young Boys 1 Grasshoppers Zurich 1 FC Lugano 1 FC Lausanne-Sport 2 FC Zurich 1 Luzern 2 Saturday, December 9 FC Basel 3 St Gallen 0 Sion 2 FC Thun 3 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Young Boys 18 11 4 3 39 18 37 2 FC Basel 18 10 5 3 37 16 35 ------------------------- 3 FC Zurich 18 7 7 4 23 16 28 4 Grasshoppers Zurich 18 6 6 6 26 25 24 ------------------------- 5 St Gallen 18 7 3 8 23 35 24 ------------------------- 6 FC Lausanne-Sport 18 6 4 8 28 35 22 7 FC Thun 18 6 3 9 30 33 21 8 Luzern 18 5 5 8 23 30 20 9 FC Lugano 18 5 4 9 18 28 19 ------------------------- 10 Sion 18 4 5 9 21 32 17 1-2: Champions League preliminary round 3-4: Europa League preliminary round 5: Europa League depending on domestic cup 10: Relegation |
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Cycling has been drowning in hubris since before 2012 | There was such haste to remove all hint of a bullying culture from the pages of the second and final draft of the independent review into the culture at British Cycling that they couldn't even spell the word correctly.
We were told about 'bulling' instead — and even that error was a misuse of someone else's investigation into the state of the sport.
The diluted report bore no resemblance to the first draft, revealed by Sportsmail in March. Gone was the description of 'fear and bullying from leadership figures' towards 'emotional' cyclists who had become the medal machine's collateral damage. The cleaned-up version reported only 'fear'.
UK Sport have released their much-delayed final report into the culture of British Cycling
The long-awaited independent review was watered down and exactly what cycling didn't need
It was precisely what elite British sport did not need, in a week of new concerns about athlete welfare, in the sports of swimming and toboganning.
'It's not a crisis. Ours is a winning mentality, not a win-at-all-costs mentality,' declared UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl, when it was put to her that the British people are falling out of love with sports in which competitors are being damaged for the sake of some Olympics cheer every four years.
But even she could not disguise the fact that cycling has been drowning in hubris and complacency since before the 2012 London Olympics.
Also published on Wednesday, to far less fanfare, was the 15-page report that Peter King produced after the London Games, when Shane Sutton's return to a senior role at British Cycling had sent a shock of electricity through the sport.
King coolly related in his own findings how several athletes had anonymously reported to him 'a culture of fear, intimidation and bullying'. He reported the disturbing swagger the elite sport was beginning to display, even then. 'Athletes, coaches and support staff behaving in a manner which could be interpreted as arrogance during competitions,' King wrote.
UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl (left), British Rowing chairman Annamarie Phelps CBE (centre) and British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning release the report at a briefing
His report also suggests that 'luck' played the biggest part in our cyclists' much vaunted Olympic success in London. Here, in black and white, was the document which could and should have alerted the British Cycling triumvirate of Sir Dave Brailsford, Ian Drake and Brian Cookson that a malign culture was beginning to take hold, long before Jess Varnish made the same complaints.
Scandalously, chief executive Drake saw to it that only a fragment of the final report was made public. He distributed it only to Brailsford and Cookson and played Nicholl for a fool. According to her own testimony on Wednesday, Drake sent her a long email which alluded to the report but hid the sting of it.
And scandalously, Nicholl did not ask too many questions. 'There was nothing [serious] in the summary from the CEO,' Nicholl said on Wednesday, claiming she had been deliberately 'unsighted'.
Nicholl didn't ask too many questions about the report, a decision which damages her
Her failure to be 'more inquisitive', as she put it, damages her. And the failure of Brailsford, Drake and Cookson to seize on the report, rather than obscure it, is a savage indictment of all three men. It hasn't stopped UK Sport financing Cookson's current bid for re-election to the presidency of cycling's world body, the UCI.
Nicholl's air of contrition included a battery of management-speak about how the duty of care will be paid to athletes from now on. She spoke of a 'cultural health check being created by an independent panel of experts', an 'athletes' annual insight survey' and an 'athlete alumni network'.
Yet when it came down to the question of why the British Cycling board had ignored a grievance officer's conclusion that Varnish had been a victim of more than one instance of bullying and discrimination, there was yet more fog from the governing body.
Jess Varnish made nine grievances against Shane Sutton, but only one of them was upheld
One of its board members, the current chairman Jonathan Browning, was asked by what majority had the board reached the hugely significant conclusion to overrule the grievance officer. 'It was a collective decision,' Browning said. How many had voted against Varnish's claims? 'We came collectively to that decision.' Had there been a vote at all? 'I've said all I'm going to say.'
The independent review's draft report didn't mince its words on this issue, in March. 'Considerably more [complaints] were found proven by the grievance officer,' it concluded. 'Not only did the board not accept the findings of its grievance officer, it reversed them.'
That observation, like so much else, did not make the cut for the authorised version. |
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PARIS/NEW YORK, June 15 Blockchain-based payments startup Circle Internet Financial on Thursday launched an international online money transfer service that allows people in the United States and Europe to send money to each other instantly and at no cost as it seeks to tear down borders in the payments world. |
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Bucks steal game 1 | The Milwaukee Bucks were led by their star but everyone contributed in an impressive 97-83 victory over the Raptors in Toronto to steal game one of their NBA Eastern Conference first round series. Trailing by five at the half, the Bucks dominated to the finish line as Giannis Antetokounmpo delivered 28 points on 13 of 18 shooting to go along with eight assists.
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Wanaka: Spending time in a scenic town | Through the crosshairs of a .300 Magnum, he traced the outline of his neighbour, who sunned himself on a lounger in his backyard. He could see the finest details of the man's flabby gut and the thin blue veins of his arms.
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US Marine, 20, is charged with assaulting a 60-year-old woman at a Brisbane army barracks | A US marine has been charged after the alleged assault of a 60-year-old woman.
The 20-year-old male attacked the Australian Defence Force (ADF) employee, who works at Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane's north-west, at 3.15pm on Tuesday, police claim.
The woman was in her car at the Enoggera barracks car park when she was allegedly assaulted, according to the ABC.
A 60-year-old Australian Defence Force employee was allegedly assaulted at Enoggera barracks car park (pictured) in Brisbane's north-west on Tuesday
An officer who tried to intervene was also assaulted, police claim.
The 60-year-old woman was transported to hospital and later released with non-life-threatening injuries.
'For privacy reasons, Defence will not provide further information on the condition of the staff member,' ADF said in a statement.
However, ADF acknowledged that they are providing support to the injured woman.
It has not been revealed why the American marine was at the Gallipoli Barracks.
He was charged with serious assault of a person over 60, assaulting a police officer and willful damage. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 18. |
China stocks barely move on worries policy tightening will hit economic growth | SHANGHAI, June 15 (Reuters) - China stocks were little changed on Thursday on persistent fears that policy tightening measures will soon start to weigh on the country's economic growth, despite largely resilient data reported the previous day.
The blue-chip CSI300 index fell 0.2 percent, to 3,528.79 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1 percent to 3,132.49 points.
The Shanghai SE 50 Index, an index tracking the 50 most representative blue-chips in Shanghai, lost 0.6 percent after slumping the most in six months the previous session.
On the other hand, the tech-heavy start-up board index ChiNext rose 1.4 percent to a one-month high.
Data on Wednesday showed solid industrial output and retail sales growth in May, though investment is starting to cool as credit conditions tighten in the world's second-largest economy.
China's central bank left interest rates for open market operations unchanged on Thursday, shrugging off an overnight increase in the U.S. Federal Reserve's key policy rate.
Though China didn't follow the Fed in raising rates, as it did with short-term rates in March, analysts pointed out that borrowing costs in the country's interbank market have already risen sharply this year, as money supply in May grew at the slowest annual rate in over 20 years.
"We're seeing more equity supplies but less liquidity, so China's stock market will likely remain sluggish," said Wei Jianfei, analyst at Lianchu Securities.
Traders say the market is also worried that profit growth at listed Chinese firms could stagnate, as producer price inflation may have peaked.
Data this week showed that China's economy generally remained on solid footing in May, but tighter monetary policy, a cooling housing market and slowing investment reinforced views that it will gradually lose momentum in coming months.
Most sectors fell for the day, led by banking and consumer stocks which traded near their record highs.
However, small-caps, in particular newly-listed stocks and other shares that had tumbled more than 40 percent or more in the past months, far outperformed, as investors started to hunt for bargains amid a correction in leading blue-chips. (Reporting by Luoyan Liu and John Ruwitch; Editing by Kim Coghill) |
The Wall Street Journal: CSX seeks shareholder vote over activist investor's ... | CSX Corp. turned the tables on an activist investor that threatened a fight for control of the railroad operator's board, revealing the investor's demands and calling for its shareholder to vote on the matter. The company said it made a written offer last week to hire railroad veteran Hunter Harrison as chief executive and to allow activist investor Paul Hilal to nominate five directors.
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NFL losing core audience, only 51% of men follow closely | After seeing its television ratings drop for the second consecutive season, the NFL received more bad news on Friday as a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that the league's core audience is rapidly losing interest.
Among adults, the number of those who followed the sport closely dropped nine percent since 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal. What's worse, only 51 percent of men between 18 and 49 say they follow the NFL closely, which is down from 75 percent only four years ago.
'If I'm the NFL I'm freaking out about that a little bit,' Republican pollster Micah Roberts told the Journal. 'They are the very core of the football-viewing audience. If they're retreating, then who's left?'
Miami Dolphins players kneel during the national anthem before their game against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium on November 13, 2017
Fans wave a hand painted sign encouraging players to stand for the national anthem during the game between the Buffalo Bills and the New Orleans Saints at New Era Field in November
Houston Texans quarterback Tom Savage was left shaking on the field after taking a devastating hit to the head during the 2017 season. The league's growing dilemma with head injuries is one of several factors that are likely the cause of the NFL's ratings downtick
The pollsters did not inquire as to why the 900 fans' interest levels have changed, but the league certainly faced its share of controversy in 2017, which may explain why television ratings dropped 9.7 percent after an eight-percent downtick the previous season.
In addition to concussion issues, the controversial player protests during the national anthem, and a host of injuries to key players, some fans have also accused the league of simply being lazy.
'You watch the guys playing college ball, and I feel like they are trying a lot harder and you get a better game,' 29-year-old Tim Muzzy told the Journal. 'I don't hear the talk about [pro] football as much as I used to.'
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the league's ratings and earlier this month.
'We always want ratings to go up, but we're 37 of the top 50 shows, which is higher than ever,' Goodell told reporters before the Jacksonville Jaguars' playoff game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. 'We're likely to be the No. 1 show on Fox -- excuse me, on all of television, the Fox Sunday afternoon game. Sunday night, prime time is for the seventh year in a row the No. 1 show. Thursday Night Football is No. 2.
'I think dominance of the NFL in television is still very clear.'
NFL games remain among the most watched programming on television, but ratings took another significant dip during the 2017 regular season amidst controversial player protests and criticism over the league's handling of concussions.
Colin Kaepernick (No. 7) and his then-49ers teammates take a knee during the national anthem during the 2016 season. Many blame the peaceful protests for the league's ratings decline
Samaje Perine (No. 32) and Chris Carter (No. 55) of the Washington Redskins hold hands as they stand and kneel in unison during the national anthem before playing against Oakland
The average audience was 14.9 million viewers per game, down 9.7 percent from 16.5 million viewers in the 2016 regular season, according to Nielsen. The 2016 viewership was down eight percent from the previous year.
Beginning with now-former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 NFL preseason, many players generated nationwide controversy peacefully protesting inequality and police violence against minorities by refusing to stand during the national anthem.
The NFL has also faced negative press over the ongoing issue with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – the long-term degenerative condition linked to head injuries that afflicted a number of deceased football stars. In August, a Boston University study diagnosed CTE in 110 out of 111 deceased former NFL players as part of the biggest ever case series on the disease.
The danger of the sport has certainly affected mothers, 53 percent of whom would persuade their children to play another sport, up from 40 percent in 2014, according to the Journal.
But despite the drop in viewership, 20 of the 30 highest-rated shows and 37 of 50 on television in 2017 were pro football games, and both NBC and ESPN had the most-watched shows every week of the season in terms of total audience and in all key male demographics.
The NFL's Red Zone cable channel, which takes viewers to different games whenever there is a scoring opportunity, drew an estimated 1 million weekly viewers, although some have suggested that it hurt the league's ratings overall by siphoning viewers away from the NFL's network partners like CBS and Fox.
NBC's 'NFL Sunday Night Football' was the most-watched program in prime time, with 18.2 million viewers this past season. That figure is down from 20.3 million viewers in 2016 and 22.5 million in 2015.
A fan holds a sign protesting the kneeling by players during the national anthem before the game between the Buffalo Bills and the Arizona Cardinals on September 25, 2016
NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN pay more than $1 billion a year apiece for NFL TV rights, with ESPN spending the most - $1.9 billion for 'Monday Night Football.'
Changing viewing habits are frequently cited as a reason for the falling ratings. Others have pointed to a string of injuries to high-profile players such as Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and the anemic performances of large-market teams such as the New York Giants, who finished the year with a 3-13 record.
Of course, President Donald Trump has continued to point to the ongoing peaceful player protests as an explanation for the league's diminished ratings.
President Donald Trump has been extremely critical of protesting NFL players
Trump has also criticized Goodell, who has stated that its the league's position that 'everyone' should stand for the anthem, but has not implemented any new rule requiring players to do so.
In November it was reported that the NFL would consider leaving players in the locker room until after the anthem, which was the league's routine prior to 2009.
Trump did not like the idea.
'The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season,' he tweeted on November 22. 'That's almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....'
Prior to that in October, Vice President and former Indiana Governor Mike Pence left a Colts game after several members of the visiting 49ers took a knee and locked arms during the anthem.
Trump later claimed that Pence's exit, which cost Indianapolis Police $14k, had been 'long planned.'
Despite the falling ratings, 21st Century Fox bought the broadcast rights to 'Thursday Night Football' at a reportedly higher price than the $45 million a game NBC and CBS paid in 2017.
In total, Fox will pay $660 million a year, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The five-year deal includes the rights to 11 games a year between Week 4 and Week 15, but excluding Thanksgiving Day. NFL Network will continue to show all TNF games as well, although their broadcasts will be produced by Fox.
In 2017, CBS and NBC combined to pay $450 million to air 10 TNF games last season.
The Murdoch family, which runs the media empire, is hoping to prove to the market that Fox is still committed to sports after the planned sale of strategic assets – including 22 regional sports networks – to Disney for $52.4 billion, according to Bloomberg.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (left) appears to have succeeded in spite of the league's declining ratings as 21st Century Fox and CEO James Murdoch (right) reportedly agreed to pay over $45 million a game for five years of broadcast rights to Thursday Night Football |
Deadly tornado hits northern China, killing five | BEIJING (Reuters) - A tornado struck northern China, lashing it with rain, killing five people, injuring more than 50 and destroying homes in a major city in Inner Mongolia, state media said on Saturday.
The tornado hit Chifeng, a city about 650 miles (1,046 km) east of Hohhot, the capital of the autonomous region, on Friday afternoon, the People's Daily newspaper and news agency Xinhua said.
State media showed pictures of collapsed houses and buildings flattened by the storm, which destroyed at least 30 houses in three villages and affected 270 people, the People's Daily said.
The injured were being treated in hospital and authorities have launched relief efforts, Xinhua added.
Inner Mongolia is China's top coal producing region. |
Hundreds of stranded tourists freed as roads reopen in... | By Alison Bevege
SYDNEY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Hundreds of tourists trapped in a remote New Zealand town for 48 hours after a strong storm damaged roads were freed on Saturday after authorities cleared a highway.
About 600 tourists are now able to leave the remote town of Haast, 426 km (265 miles) northwest of Dunedin on the west coast of the South Island, a world heritage area famous for rugged scenery, after the road was cleared.
State Highway Six reopened at 11 a.m., the NZ Transport Agency told Reuters in an email.
"All stranded motorists have now been able to leave," it said.
The road was hit by landslips as wild weather from former tropical cyclone Fehi wreaked havoc across the west coast, uprooting trees, felling power lines, collapsing a bridge and blocking roads.
A further 117 motorists stranded at Fox Glacier were also able to move on Saturday after roads were repaired, West Coast Civil Defence officials said by telephone.
The storm flooded the southern city of Dunedin and the west coast town of Buller, forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency and ask people not to travel by road.
Health authorities warned people to avoid contact with flood waters that could be contaminated by sewage, Radio NZ said.
Weather forecaster Metservice said storm-damaged areas on the west coast of the South Island would get a reprieve on Saturday with sheltered, sunny weather before more rain arrives, while heavy rains were forecast for the North Island around Auckland. (Reporting by Alison Bevege; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) |
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Carmaker Jaguar says 'bad Brexit' would mean it could not stay in UK | EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday a so-called “hard Brexit” would cost it 1.2 billion pounds a year, curtailing its future operations in the United Kingdom.
The logo of Jaguar is seen during the 88th International Motor Show at Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland, March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
“We urgently need greater certainty to continue to invest heavily in the UK and safeguard our suppliers, customers and 40,000 British-based employees,” JLR’s Chief Executive Ralf Speth said in a statement.
A worker walks between rows of Jaguar and Land Rover cars as they wait to be shipped from Peel Ports container terminal in Liverpool, Britain December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Speth’s comments come ahead of a meeting this Friday between Prime Minister Theresa May and her cabinet ministers to decide on strategy for Britain to negotiate its way out of the European Union, ending a 40-year trading relationship.
Because of uncertainty about what Britain actually wants from the EU after it leaves, the outcome of the cabinet meeting is seen as critical to progress in talks with the EU on the issue.
Recent weeks have seen criticism of the government by some of the biggest companies operating in Britain.
Airbus (AIR.PA) and Siemens (SIEM.NS) last week went public with their fears about what leaving the EU customs union and single market would mean for their business. [L8N1TN6U6]
JLR has joined the fray, saying the group needed “free and frictionless trade with the EU and unrestricted access to the single market.”
“A bad Brexit deal would cost Jaguar Land Rover more than 1.2 billion pounds in profit each year. As a result, we would have to drastically adjust our spending profile; we have spent around 50 billion pounds in the UK in the past five years - with plans for a further 80 billion pounds more in the next five,” Speth said in a statement.
“This would be in jeopardy should we be faced with the wrong outcome.” |
UC Riverside student who stole MAGA hat could be charged | A college student who stole a classmate's 'Make America Great Again' hat and demanded its wearer be punished could face felony charges in the incident.
University of California, Riverside student Edith Macias grabbed the hat off of Matthew Vitale's head on September 27, documenting the incident in a profanity-laced video.
Initially, Vitale said he hadn't planned to press charges against Macias, but that changed when a campus police officer told him her own bizarre video could be evidence of a felony, since it shows her taking the hat directly off of his person.
'Honestly, this isn't me trying to get revenge on her,' Vitale said in an interview with Fox News, revealing his intent to press charges.
'This is me just trying to say: "Look, behavior like this is not tolerated in this country",' he continued.
University of California, Riverside student Edith Macias is seen in stills from a video after snatching a Make America Great Again hat from the head of
Vitale, a member of the campus Republicans, says he plans to press charges. 'I very strongly believe that if she had been wearing a Malcom X cap or a pro-abortion cap, and I had snatched it off her head... I would be sitting in jail right now,' Vitale said in a new interview
California law defines second-degree felony robbery as 'taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear.' Penalties range from probation to five years in prison.
'I very strongly believe that if she had been wearing a Malcom X cap or a pro-abortion cap, and I had snatched it off her head and ran down to student life and turned her in and demanded that she be kept from wearing that hat, I very firmly believe that I would be sitting in jail right now,' Vitale said in another interview, with the Larry Elder Show.
Following the incident, comrades of Macias posted a petition demanding that the university pay Macias' rent, grant her amnesty from legal or disciplinary action, cover her legal fees, condemn 'white supremacist violence', and support a 'sanctuary campus'.
University officials have been vague in their public statements about the incident, speaking of a need to balance respect with free speech.
'The university stands very strongly for free speech and its protections, and for a congenial dialogue on campus,' university spokesman John Warren told Fox. 'The students on our campus have used this episode to affirm their support for free expression, and a productive exchange of ideas.'
Two videos of the hat-snatching incident and one Vitale's subsequent conversation with campus police were viewed by millions before they were removed by Facebook for reasons that are unclear.
Vitale was stunned when his fellow student snatched the hat and accused him of genocide
The staff manages to convince Macias to turn over the hat and it is returned to Vitale, but not before Macias is caught on video protesting their actions (left and right). She says: '[The education system] geared to benefit white people, white people, not me'
In the one, Macias is seen snatching the hat off of Vitale's head during a meeting of student organizations at the University of California, Riverside.
Vitale then films Macias arguing with him as they make their way to the school's student life office.
Stunned staff members look on as Vitale demands his hat be given back and Macias demands the school prohibit him from wearing it.
'This is mine. You do not get to take other people's property that is legally theirs in this county,' Vitale, a member of the school's College Republicans club, tells Macias.
'Man, f**k- your laws,' she replies.
Later in the video, Vitale says: 'I have a freedom of speech to wear this hat.'
'Your f**king freedom of speech is genocide, homeboy! Is that what you are trying to represent?' she asks.
Vitale is seen after retrieving the hat. Two videos of the incident garnered millions of views, but were quietly removed from Facebook for reasons that are unclear
In a video posted after the incident, Vitale said he was attending an annual school-organized meeting where leaders of student groups listen to presentations about combating hazing and sexual harassment.
This is where Macias grabbed the hat and sprinted off.
The staff manages to convince Macias to turn over the hat and it is returned to Vitale, but not before Macias is caught on video protesting their actions.
'Oh my God, you're going to keep letting him wear it? That just shows how the f**k UCR is and the education system,' Macias says as staff hands the hat back to Vitale.
'It's geared to benefit white people, white people, not me.'
Macias then turns to leave as she's met at the door by campus police officers, saying: 'I don't want to talk to none of y'all.' |
Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation Department adjusts practices in summer heat | It's hard not to get hot and sweaty after an hour of tennis practice in the afternoon heat, so the Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation Department want to make sure kids stay safe and don't overheat on days. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory that ended at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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UK's Petrofac hires Bain & Co to explore options for North Sea business -Times | Dec 11 (Reuters) - British oilfield services company Petrofac Ltd has hired consultancy Bain & Co to explore options for the its North Sea operations, including a sale, the Times reported on Sunday.
Petrofac, which is being investigated by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for its dealings with Monaco-based Unaoil, has been struggling to reduce its $1 billion debt pile.
Petrofac and Bain were not immediately available for comment.
The Telegraph reported last month that U.S. oilfield services companies Schlumberger and Halliburton as well as a Middle Eastern company were among the firms circling Petrofac, with market talk of a bid of around 600 pence per share. (bit.ly/2C27SsY)
Petrofac has lost about half its value since May, when the SFO had commenced an investigation into the company and its units, and has a current market capitalisation of 1.45 billion pounds ($1.94 billion).
Shares of the company were up 1.6 percent at 423.3 pence in early trading. ($1 = 0.7472 pounds) (Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru, editing by David Evans) |
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U.S. scraps rule requiring states to measure tailpipe gases | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department is repealing a rule, finalized in the closing days of the Obama administration as part of the fight against global warming, requiring states to track greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles on the nation’s highways.
Cars travel north towards Los Angeles on Interstate highway 5 in San Diego, California February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake
In a notice posted Wednesday in the Federal Register, the Federal Highway Administration, which is part of the Transportation Department, said it was repealing the rule. The repeal becomes effective at the end of June.
A coalition of states in 2017, including California, Massachusetts, Iowa and Washington, had sued to force the Trump administration to continue to enforce the rule, which they agreed to do, pending a formal process to rescind it.
The administration said it was reversing the Obama rule because it “imposed costs with no predictable level of benefits.”
The Natural Resources Defense Council had said the rule was a “common-sense tool to curb carbon pollution from transportation.” The group said the administration should work with “planners nationwide to clean up the air, protect our health and provide smarter transportation options for Americans such as more public transit, bikeways and pedestrian walkways.”
Under the Obama rule, roughly 400 state transportation departments and metropolitan planning organizations were required to track the annual number of tons of carbon dioxide emitted from on-road vehicles traveling on the national highway system and assess traffic congestion — with initial reports due by October 2018.
A car drives on an empty highway in downtown Miami before the arrival of Hurricane Irma to south Florida, in Miami, Florida, U.S., September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The move was aimed at states considering greenhouse gas emissions as it used federal funds for highway improvements.
States were also directed to set two or four-year emissions-reduction targets, although no binding emissions targets were set under the rule.
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association on Wednesday praised the decision. The group had raised concerns about the system and “what exactly it will measure and how it will measure it.”
The transportation sector accounted for just over a third of all U.S. carbon emissions in 2016. The Trump administration plans to recommend in the coming weeks freezing vehicle greenhouse gas emission requirements at 2020 levels through 2026, a proposal that has drawn outrage from Democrats and environmental groups. [nL1N1S41Z2]
President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, in June 2017 said the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming. |
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Man, woman identified in Lower Valley shooting | El Paso police officials have identified a woman who killed herself after chasing and shooting a man and carjacking a neighbor in the Lower Valley. Man, woman identified in Lower Valley shooting El Paso police officials have identified a woman who killed herself after chasing and shooting a man and carjacking a neighbor in the Lower Valley.
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Man busted for drugs at home owned by Bengals cornerback | Ohio police seized 55 pounds of marijuana from a 'tenant' at a home owned by Cincinnati Bengals star Dre Kirkpatrick.
Jarrod Blair, 36, who had been living at 7336 Tarragon Court, has been charged with marijuana trafficking after police executed a search warrant to search the residence on April 10.
Authorities said the search on the residence stemmed from a traffic stop by Illinois State Police earlier in the day.
Ohio police seized 55 pounds of marijuana from a 'tenant' by the name of Jarrod Blair (left), 36, at a home owned by Cincinnati Bengals star Dre Kirkpatrick (right)
Blair, 36, who had been living at 7336 Tarragon Court (pictured), has been charged with marijuana trafficking after police executed a search warrant to search the residence on April 10
During the traffic stop, officers noticed a strong marijuana odor and 'during a subsequent probable cause search, approximately 55 pounds of marijuana was recovered from the trunk,' according to a search warrant obtained by WLWT.
A woman in the vehicle told police that she was a paid drug courier and was 'paid $4,000 to deliver the drugs and will be given another $4,000 upon her return to California'.
She told that she was heading to 7336 Tarragon Court, a property purchased by Kirkpatrick two weeks before the drug bust at the residence.
Police said the woman agreed to work with police and make the delivery.
Upon searching the home that night, West Chester police found that Blair 'did possess approximately 55 pounds of marijuana located in his kitchen' in suitcases.
According to the station, authorities also found eight cellphones and other electronic devices in the home.
Blair was pulled over in February after he left the house and began taking 'evasive driving actions when observing a marked police cruiser to avoid being stopped'.
Since February, police have been keeping a close eye on the home after marijuana residue was found in the car along with $1,000.
Kirkpatrick's agent said Blair was a tenant at the rental property Kirkpatrick owns. The agent said Kirkpatrick isn't a target of the investigation and is assisting West Chester police
Kirkpatrick was a Bengals first round pick in 2012 shortly after a marijuana possession charge was dropped against him
During that particular traffic stop, Blair was allegedly speaking to Kirkpatrick via Facetime.
Kirkpatrick's agent said Blair was a tenant at the rental property Kirkpatrick owns.
The agent said Kirkpatrick isn't a target of the investigation and is assisting West Chester police.
Blair has been charged with drug trafficking and drug possession.
Kirkpatrick, who signed a $52.5million contract extension with the Bengals in March 2017, purchased a home in Cincinnati's Indian Hill neighborhood for $1.9million in June 2017.
He was a Bengals' first round pick in 2012 shortly after a marijuana possession charge was dropped against him, according to MSN.
The former Alabama Crimson Tide cornerback, who was arrested in January 2012, was a passenger in a rental car driven by former Tide defensive back Chris Rogers.
Kirkpatrick admitted to being present when Rogers purchased drugs, but said he didn't know drugs had been bought. |
Robotics startup ZMP partners with Tokyo taxi firm for 2020 self-driving car plans | TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) - Japanese robotics maker ZMP Inc has partnered with a taxi operator in Tokyo, as part of its plans to launch a self-driving taxi in the city in time for the 2020 Olympics, CEO Hisashi Taniguchi said on Thursday.
Japan's taxi industry, faced with a labour crunch due to an ageing population, has been looking at new technologies to drive growth. The sector may also have to deal with more competition in the future if the government allows ride-sharing services such as Uber to operate across the country.
"Autonomous taxis and the taxi industry can grow and prosper together," Taniguchi told reporters, after announcing ZMP's partnership with Hinomaru Kotsu.
Hinomaru said it had 607 cars and that it was one of the top ten Tokyo taxi firms by fleet size.
"We have been trying to improve diversity by hiring more new graduates, women and foreigners, but this will not be enough to ease labour shortages," Hinomaru President Kazutaka Tomita said.
"We will have to compensate for the lack of supply by using autonomous driving technology."
ZMP is developing automated driving hardware and software based on laser and stereo cameras, which it hopes to sell to transportation companies and automakers.
In a country famous as much for its auto industry as its fascination with robots, ZMP is one of a few start-ups developing self-driving cars to compete with foreign firms including U.S.' nuTonomy and China's Future Mobility.
ZMP has been testing self-driving vehicles that also have someone in the driving seat on Tokyo roads since 2016, and is planning to set up a fleet of such taxis to ferry athletes and guests around the city for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
It hopes to test autonomous cars without a driver this year.
Taniguchi declined to comment on ZMP's IPO plans.
He had said in February that ZMP hoped to list in Tokyo in the coming months, after a delay last year due to client information being leaked on to the internet.
The company recently raised 1.5 billion yen ($13.68 million) through a third-party allocation of shares to seven companies.
ZMP will need more funds, Taniguchi said.
ZMP's self-driving taxi plans hit a bump earlier this year when it lost its partnership with gaming software developer DeNA Co, which paired up instead with Nissan Motor to develop services for autonomous driving cars.
A handful of taxi operators have partnered with Toyota Motor Corp to share data on traffic and driving logs as the automaker considers developing self-driving taxi services. ($1 = 109.6200 yen) (Reporting by Sam Nussey, Naomi Tajitsu; Editing by Himani Sarkar) |
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Exclusive: Shire, Takeda reach breakthrough in deal talks - sources | LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - London-listed drugmaker Shire Plc and Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd plan to announce a preliminary merger deal as early as Wednesday, after the latter sweetened its $62 billion acquisition offer, three people familiar with the matter said.
FILE PHOTO: Vitamins made by Shire are displayed at a chemist's in northwest London, Britain, July 11, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/File Photo
The tentative agreement would represent a victory for Takeda following a pursuit that started on March 28, when the company said it was considering a bid for Shire. Since then, it has made five offers, the latest earlier on Tuesday.
Shire is expected to agree to an extension of a Wednesday regulatory deadline that would allow Takeda to carry out more due diligence and firm up its bid, the sources said on Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential negotiations.
Takeda and Shire did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Buying Shire would be the largest ever overseas acquisition by a Japanese company and propel Takeda, led by Frenchman Christophe Weber, into the top ranks of global drugmakers.
It would be Weber’s boldest move by far, significantly boosting Takeda’s position in rare diseases, including a blockbuster hemophilia franchise, gastrointestinal disorders and neuroscience - areas in which Shire is a leader in hyperactivity drugs.
But the transaction would be a huge financial stretch, since Shire is worth considerably more than the Japanese group. Ambitious cost cutting will be required to make the deal pay.Dealmaking has surged in the drug industry this year as large players look for promising assets to improve their pipelines. A Takeda-Shire transaction would be by far the biggest. Shire has long been seen as a likely takeover target and was nearly bought by U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc in 2014, until U.S. tax rule changes caused the deal to fall apart. Shire also has a track record of acquisitions, but its biggest ever deal - the $32 billion purchase of Baxalta in 2016 - was widely criticized by shareholders.
Dublin-based Shire, a member of Britain’s benchmark FTSE 100 stock index, disclosed it had received a fifth takeover proposal from Takeda on Tuesday, but provided no details.
This came after Takeda’s fourth bid for Shire on Friday, of 47 pounds per share, including 26 pounds in Takeda stock and 21 pounds in cash. That valued Shire, which is led by Chief Executive Flemming Ornskov, at 44.3 billion pounds ($61.8 billion).
Under British takeover rules, Takeda had until 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Wednesday to make a firm offer or walk away from Shire.
However, that deadline can be moved back at the request of the FTSE 100 drugmaker and Takeda had said on Friday it hoped negotiations with Shire would lead to an extension.
FILE PHOTO: Takeda Pharmaceutical's signboard is seen on its headquarters building in Tokyo, Japan January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
The deal developments came just as Shire held its annual shareholder meeting in Dublin on Tuesday.
“As of now we can only say that discussions between the advisers of Shire and Takeda are ongoing,” Susan Kilsby, the drugmaker’s chairwoman, told investors at the meeting which lasted less than 15 minutes.
Shire focuses on treatments for rare diseases and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a takeover would catapult Takeda into the top ranks of global drugmakers.
ALLERGAN BOWED OUT
Allergan Plc, the U.S. maker of Botox, had been considering a rival bid for Shire but ruled itself out of making an offer last week.
Shire also announced last week it was selling its oncology business to unlisted French drugmaker Servier for $2.4 billion.
Takeda’s shares closed down 1.5 percent on Tuesday, giving it a market value of 3.86 trillion yen ($35.5 billion), according to Thomson Reuters data. That is much smaller than the value of the fourth bid for Shire that Takeda disclosed last week.
Takeda investors have been skeptical about the merits of a Shire deal, given the size of the potential purchase and the likely need for a large share issue, which could be highly dilutive.
Weber was promoted to CEO in 2015, becoming the drugmaker’s first non-Japanese boss.
The Japanese firm said last month that buying Shire would bolster its position in the United States, in gastrointestinal diseases and neuroscience.
Shire traces its roots back to 1986, when it began as a seller of calcium supplements to treat osteoporosis, operating from an office above a shop in Hampshire. Since then it has grown rapidly through acquisitions to generate revenues of about $15.2 billion last year. |
Music streaming overtakes physical sales for the first time: industry body | LONDON (Reuters) - Online streaming services such Spotify and Apple Music have become the music industry’s single biggest revenue source, overtaking physical sales and digital downloads for the first time, a global industry body said on Tuesday.
A trader is reflected in a computer screen displaying the Spotify brand before the company begins selling as a direct listing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., April 3, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
The rapid growth in streaming music services in recent years has led to a recovery in the fortunes of the global recorded music industry, which enjoyed its third year of positive revenue growth, according to a report by industry trade group IFPI.
By 2014, music sales had fallen by 40 percent to $14.3 billion in the 15 years since 1999, when the rise of music file-sharing service Napster ravaged sales of CDs and the development of download services like Apple iTunes failed to offset declines.
Last year, subscription-based streaming revenue accounted for 38 percent of all recorded music, up from 29 percent the year before, IFPI said.
Figures released in IFPI’s Global Music Report 2018 show total revenues for 2017 were $17.3 billion, with an increase of 8.1 percent from the previous year.
Industry leaders say that the rise of music streaming is enabling the market to reach new regions of the world, while helping weaning a generation of music fans away from free or pirated music.
“We estimate that only half the world’s population lives in a thriving music environment and we want to bring the streaming revolution to all of it,” Stu Bergen, from Warner Music Group, told reporters in London.
Latin America and China saw the biggest market growth, with a rise in overall music revenue of 17.7 percent and 35.3 percent respectively.
Despite the healthy figures, revenues for 2017 are still only 68.4 percent of the market’s peak in 1999.
IFPI - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - says governments should do more to tackle the “value gap” between the value created by some digital platforms such as Google’s YouTube for their use of music and what they pay those creating and investing in it.
“Things are looking good but there’s a structural fault in the system. Until we fix it, it will always be a struggle,” said IFPI Chief Executive Frances Moore. |
LPC-Details emerge on Stada’s €3.175bn jumbo buyout financing | LONDON May 2 Details of a €3.175bn debt financing backing the buyout of German drugmaker Stada have emerged, according to documents.
Private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven won an auction for Stada last month after substantially increasing a previous bid to about €5.3bn. Stada said that the buyers would fund about half of the deal with €2.6bn in equity and the rest with debt.
It is the largest leveraged financing so far this year and gives investors the new buyout deal they have been calling for amid a relentless round of repricing and refinancing.
The financing is expected to comprise a €1.95bn seven-year senior secure term loan B facility; €485m of seven-year senior secured fixed rate bonds; €340m of eight-year senior unsecured fixed rate notes; and a €400m seven-year revolving credit facility.
The split could alter depending on demand as Stada has decided to tap the three different pools of euro liquidity to secure the most attractive terms, banking sources said.
Barclays, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Nomura, Societe Generale and UBS have underwritten the financing and a further one or two banks are expected to join the deal, which is set to launch for syndication to investors in June, the banking sources said.
Barclays, Nomura and UBS are leading the TLB financing, Citi is leading the secured bond and JP Morgan is leading the unsecured bond, the sources added.
Bain and Cinven had been vying with a rival consortium consisting of Advent and Permira for control of Stada. Both suitors previously bid €4.7bn including debt. (Editing by Christopher Mangham) |
Donors to Iowa governor's 2015 inaugural fund remain secret | Donors to Iowa governor's 2015 inaugural fund remain secret
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A charity controlled by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad missed a legal deadline for disclosing the names of donors who paid for his 2015 inaugural celebration, keeping them secret even as he prepares to become the U.S. ambassador to China.
Tax experts say the lack of disclosure could subject the charity to IRS penalties of $100 per day retroactive to Nov. 15, when the information was due. It also means that weeks after President-elect Donald Trump named Branstad to the important diplomatic post, the public doesn't know the identities of individuals and corporations who wrote checks totaling roughly $1 million to fund the Republican governor's inauguration and namesake college scholarships.
The Branstad-Reynolds Scholarship Fund was founded after Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds won election in 2010 to raise private money to pay for their 2011 inauguration. Branstad pledged that the leftover money would be used to award $30,000 annually in scholarships for Iowa college students, although it has fallen short of that goal. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate as ambassador to China, Branstad plans to resign as governor and be replaced by Reynolds.
FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2015, file photo, Iowa governor Terry Branstad speaks during the Iowa Governor's Inaugural Ball in Des Moines, Iowa. A charity controlled by Branstad missed a deadline for disclosing the names of donors who paid for his 2015 inaugural celebration, keeping them secret even as he prepares to become the U.S. ambassador to China. (Charlie Litchfield/The Des Moines Register via AP, File)
After winning re-election in 2014, the administration again used the group for inaugural fundraising, bringing in $1.5 million. About $500,000 went to pay for an inaugural ball in Des Moines and other events in January 2015 that celebrated Branstad's unprecedented election to a sixth term as governor. The rest will go toward an endowment fund for college scholarships.
Because the group is a private foundation, the IRS requires it to annually disclose the names of anyone who gave $5,000 or more. Contributors who donated in 2014 were disclosed in that year's tax return, filed in November 2015. But those who contributed in 2015 — when $1.1 million rolled in — have been kept secret amid delays in disclosure.
The charity's 2015 return was due May 15, but it received an automatic three-month extension. The group applied for a second three-month extension through Nov. 15 — the only additional time allowed — saying it was "waiting for additional information needed from a third party." It finally filed its return Nov. 15 listing amounts raised and spent but disclosing only one contributor: Des Moines-based Principal Financial Group, which gave $25,000.
Branstad spokesman Ben Hammes said the group's accountant, Robert Buckley, is still gathering information about the other donors and plans to file an amended return. He said getting donor information has been a challenge because the inaugural committee has disbanded. He says the group isn't trying to hide anything.
Branstad and Reynolds serve as the group's president and vice president and receive no compensation.
The IRS could subject the foundation to penalties of $100 per day, up to $50,000, because it brought in more than $1 million in 2015. Des Moines accountant Joe Kristan said the IRS generally considers tax returns that are missing information as incomplete and subject to late penalties, which could be waived if the group shows "reasonable cause" for failing to file on time.
"The fund has some significant issues," added Marcus Owens, former director of the IRS division that oversees nonprofit groups.
The 2014 donor list includes companies with major state business, philanthropists and Branstad supporters.
At the top was Iowa's largest electric company, MidAmerican Energy, which donated $100,000. Months later, the company's CEO complained directly to Branstad about a ruling from the Iowa Utilities Board that made its wind energy projects less profitable. Branstad soon ordered a shake-up on the board, which one ousted regulator said was done to placate MidAmerican.
UnitedHealthcare gave $10,000 months before it won a major contract following Branstad's decision to privatize Iowa's Medicaid program. Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, which has lobbied Branstad's administration to reject a Cedar Rapids casino that could drain its business, gave $25,000.
Hammes said the administration was proud to have private donors support the fund, which has awarded $137,500 to college students since 2011.
Asked whether that might create a perception that donors are giving in hopes of some sort of payback, Hammes responded: "There is no way the appearance that they are getting some favor for anything. This is a wonderful scholarship fund that has been set up to provide money for students."
The Associated Press first asked Branstad's office to release an inaugural donor list in September 2015. Hammes said then that the governor's office didn't have those records but that he'd try to track them down. He was unsuccessful. After AP asked for the group's 2015 tax return last month, he released the incomplete document.
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METALS-Copper slips as U.S.-China trade row feeds risk aversion | * LME/ShFE arb: bit.ly/2wZSAEz
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By Jan Harvey
LONDON, May 30 (Reuters) - Copper fell to a three-week low on Wednesday as jitters over the U.S.-China trade stand-off kept up pressure on cyclical assets like industrial metals, already hurt this week by worries over political turmoil in Italy.
The metal clawed back some lost ground as easing concerns over Italy’s political crisis led stock markets higher, but remained in negative territory.
China warned on Wednesday it was ready to fight back if Washington was looking for a trade war. That came after the United States, in a change of tone, said it still held the threat of imposing tariffs on $50 billion of imports from China.
Given those pressures, copper is sliding towards the bottom of its recent range, Saxo Bank’s head of commodity strategy Ole Hansen said.
“The U.S.-China trade spat seems to be hotting up again after yesterday’s announcement from the White House,” Hansen said. “The global growth and demand outlook does not need a new political/financial crisis in Europe and a potential trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.”
* COPPER PRICES: Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange ended the day down 0.3 percent at $6,839 a tonne, having earlier touched its weakest since May 8 at $6,727.
* COPPER INVENTORIES: On-warrant copper stocks in London Metal Exchange warehouses MCUSTX-TOTAL - representing metal not earmarked for delivery - eased to 191,200 tonnes, data showed on Wednesday. That was the lowest since January.
* INDIA SMELTER: Vedanta Resources is working on a legal challenge to an Indian state’s closure of one of its copper smelters but will not proceed until tensions have eased over the deaths of 13 people during protests last week.
* U.S. GROWTH: U.S. economic growth slowed slightly more than initially thought in the first quarter, but a robust labour market and income tax cuts are likely to boost activity this year.
* ZINC STOCKS: On-warrant zinc stocks in LME warehouses eased to 195,225 tonnes, their lowest in a month. The proportion of cancelled warrants - metal earmarked for delivery and therefore not available to the market - rose to nearly 15 percent from 6 percent last week.
* ZINC PRICES: LME zinc closed up 1.3 percent at $3,130 a tonne, off an earlier one-month high of $3,139.50.
* ALUMINIUM PRICES: LME aluminium finished 0.2 percent lower at $2,270 a tonne.
* OTHER METALS: LME lead ended 0.4 percent lower at $2,435 a tonne, while tin finished up 0.7 percent at $20,575. Nickel closed at $15,135 a tonne, up 1.5 percent. |
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MARKET REPORT: Aluminium sell-off talk boosts Rio Tinto | Mining titan Rio Tinto sparked traders’ interest with rumours it was mulling the sale of Europe’s biggest aluminium smelter.
The metal – used in drinks cans and aeroplanes – has jumped 28 per cent in price this year, helped by an impending crackdown on illegal Chinese production.
Rio’s Dunkerque smelter in northern France can churn out 270,000 tons of aluminium each year, and is reportedly catching the eye of private equity firms.
The miner is also said to be plotting a sale of its Iceland smelter, and doubling down on efforts to ditch its Pacific Aluminium business.
It is part of a wider push to make the company less complicated which has seen Rio axe £5.4billion of assets since 2013. The stock closed up 0.9 per cent, or 34p, at 3710p.
For sale: Rio's Dunkerque smelter in northern France can churn out 270,000 tons of aluminium each year, and is reportedly catching the eye of private equity firms
In other mining news, platinum producer Lonmin saw shares rocket yesterday when a new deal with bankers calmed nerves over its finances.
The miner has been fighting its way through a turnaround plan forced on it by the commodity’s low price, falling production and a shake-up of employment law in South Africa.
It was feared Lonmin could breach rules set by the lender, denying it the ability to borrow more cash.
But the business has negotiated a new deal allowing its access to credit to continue. It also said that sales would be slightly ahead of expectations this year.
Shareholders greeted the announcement with a collective sigh of relief, sending the stock up 15.2 per cent, or 11.25p, to 85.25p.
Other prospectors on the move include Thor Mining, which said testing of tungsten deposits in the US state of Nevada was going well.
Shares remained flat at 0.82p. Fellow digger Solgold revealed strong potential to expand its gold and copper mine in Ecuador but dropped 6.3 per cent, or 2.5p, to 37p.
STOCK WATCH - CHEMRING Weapons maker Chemring has been handed a cash advance on a £23million deal to supply 40mm shells to an unnamed international customer. Bosses said their expectations for full-year performance were unchanged. In June, Chemring reported a loss of £6.8million for the half-year to April 30. However, improved revenues gave bosses enough wriggle room to reinstate a dividend of 1p per share. The Hampshire-based business employs 2,700 staff. Shares rose 4 per cent, or 7p, to 178.5p.
And Vast Resources, which said it was discussing options to fund an expansion of its copper, lead and zinc mine in northern Romania, was handed a 6.25 per cent, or 0.02p, boost to 0.34p.
Away from small-cap land, the FTSE 100 index gained 0.20 per cent, or 14.88 points, to close at 7522.87 on a generally lacklustre day.
The biggest riser was Middle Eastern hospital operator NMC Health, a firm previously tipped for overseas expansion, gaining 4.3 per cent, or 116p, to 2838p.
Mediclinic International, another overseas hospital operator, came in the top five. It was up 3.3 per cent, or 22p, to 686p, following an upgrade by brokers at Goldman Sachs.
Both businesses earn their cash abroad and may have been boosted by a weaker pound as currency dealers digested the events of a tumultuous Conservative Party conference.
At the other end of the blue-chip index, EasyJet was down 1.6 per cent, or 21p, at 1263p, because a record summer for passenger numbers had failed to impress the market.
Marks & Spencer fell 1.5 per cent, or 5.4p, to 348.7p, while investors contemplated the future of the High Street amid the rise of the internet and a squeeze on living standards.
This consumer disquiet also dealt a blow to AIM-listed LXB Retail Properties, a Jersey-based investor in out-of-town shopping centres. It said that net asset values would take an unexpected hit from ‘softening in both the lettings and investment market’.
Shares in the business, which operates 11 sites across the country, dropped 20pc, or 5.88p, to 22.5p.
But there was a better mood at car dealership chain Motorpoint as it shrugged off falling car sales to unveil an 18 per cent rise in revenue for the six months to September 30.
Bosses expect profits to be around £10.5million. The stock climbed 4.8 per cent, or 6.5p, to 142p. |
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How you can help your relative or a friend | If you don't know where to start, just answer a few questions to find information best suited to your needs.
Most people who are lonely want to increase the quality or quantity of their contact with other people. There are things you can do to help your relative or a friend if they are experiencing loneliness.
This might mean more frequent contact with family and friends, meeting new people or simply getting out of the house more often. There are lots of ways that you can help your relative to overcome their feelings of loneliness.
There are many ways you can help your relative overcome loneliness, and you can find suggestions here on this page, including:
1. Strengthening family ties
2. Changing living arrangements
3. Spending time outside of the home
4. Finding transport solutions
5. Getting online
Strengthening family ties
If your relative is feeling lonely, they will appreciate knowing that someone is thinking about them, even if it is a short letter or email, or a quick call to say hello.
Try to visit more often and encourage other family members to do the same. Arrange family get-togethers when possible, so that they can see grandchildren and other members of the family that might not live close by.
Think of things that an older relative and their children or grandchildren can do together, like plotting the family history, finding photos for a family album or making a scrapbook.
Changing living arrangements
If your relative's health is sufficiently good and, of course, she or he thinks it's a good idea, a move to sheltered housing, a retirement village or to live with a family member or friend, might bring a whole new set of opportunities for getting to know people of a similar age.
You can find out about the alternative living arrangements in our dedicated section on Housing options.
Spending time outside of the home
Joseph Rowntree Foundation The JRF sets out to inspire social change, campaigning for lasting change for people and places now and for future generations. Among their work is research into loneliness, which you can find on this page.
If your relative has limited mobility and spends a lot of time at home they might appreciate any opportunity for a change of scenery – even if it’s a trip to the shops, a drive to the coast or into the countryside. Include your relative in family events and outings where possible. People who are disabled may be able to get help with mobility.
Finding transport solutions
Your relative might feel isolated if they no longer have a car, or can’t drive due to health problems. If they are still mobile and active, don’t forget that a bus pass for free travel might be available.
In England, this is available when your relative reaches the female state pension age (65 at the minimum), whether they are a man or a woman.
this is available when your relative reaches the female state pension age (65 at the minimum), whether they are a man or a woman. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a bus pass for free travel is available at the age of 60 years.
a bus pass for free travel is available at the age of 60 years. If your relative lives in London, he or she can travel for free on buses, tubes and other transport when they are 60 years old - but only within London.
Anyone over the age of 60 can also get a senior rail card that gives a third off rail fares if they travel off peak.
If your relative has limited mobility, it may be a good idea to look into community transport schemes, such as dial-a-ride. These are door-to-door transport services for people with mobility problems. They might be run by local authorities or local charities. Use our Care services directory to find out what services your relative's local authority runs for older people.
Getting online
Computers can open up a whole new world of social interaction. For example, your relative could Skype with friends and family that live far away, though they'll need a webcam if they don't have one already. These are simple to purchase and are also relatively cheap.
Your relative might also be able to meet up with old friends on Facebook or other social networking sites. They may enjoy playing online games, either as a solitary activity or with other people.
The internet is also a good way of researching local groups and clubs that might be of interest, as this will allow them to become more social offline as well as online.
If your relative is not confident with computers it might be worth them doing a course. Lots of libraries and local authorities run courses for adults, or specifically for ‘silver surfers’. The Silversurfer’s Guide is a useful website offering advice to older people about getting online. |
Authorities visit Credit Suisse's London, Paris, Amsterdam offices | ZURICH Swiss bank Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) said on Friday its offices in London, Paris and Amsterdam were contacted by local authorities concerning client tax matters.
"We are cooperating with the authorities," the Zurich-based bank said in a statement.
Earlier, Dutch prosecutors said they had launched an international hunt for people seeking to hide assets and evade taxes after receiving a tip-off about undisclosed accounts at a Swiss bank.
(Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Editing by Michael Shields) |
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Pompeo to face tough questions on N.Korea, Iran - senator | By Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The Republican who heads the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, will face tough questions on North Korea and Iran if he is to be confirmed in the role.
"There are going to be some tough issues he's going to have to navigate, like Iran, like North Korea, numbers of things, and I'm planning to talk with him privately about those," Senator Bob Corker said ahead of a meeting with Pompeo, the current CIA director.
Corker said the meeting was his "beginning assessment" of Trump loyalist Pompeo, who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives before moving to the CIA.
Corker said he could not predict whether the 21-member panel would back Pompeo at his nomination hearing in April. One of the committee's 11 Republicans, Senator Rand Paul, has already announced his opposition over issues including his concern that Pompeo would support war with Iran.
Although Pompeo was backed by two-thirds of the Senate early last year when Trump nominated him to lead the CIA, his confirmation this time could be more complicated.
Even if he is approved by the committee - or if Senate leaders bring his nomination up for a vote without its approval - Republicans hold only a 51-49 Senate majority in the 100-member chamber.
Democrats have said it is too early to predict how they will vote on Pompeo before they meet with him or hold his hearing.
Earlier on Monday, Pompeo met with outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department.
It was the first meeting between Pompeo and Tillerson since Trump's decision to fire the former Exxon Mobil CEO last week following a series of rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, a U.S. official said. (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle Editing by David Gregorio and Alistair Bell) |
Italy - Factors to watch on April 20 | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Thursday.
Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*).
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ECONOMY
Market regulator Consob President Giuseppe Vegas speaks before Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee (0630 GMT).
DEBT
Treasury announces sale of six-month BOT bills, with relative amounts to be auctioned on April 26.
Italy's Treasury said on Wednesday it would offer 5- and 15-year linkers at an auction on Monday.
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Bourse After Hours market closed.
MEDIASET
The Italian private broadcaster would have broken even last year had it not been for the failed sale of its pay-TV unit Premium to France's Vivendi, the group's CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday.
Mediaset said the failed sale of its pay-TV unit Premium to France's Vivendi hit the group's 2016 accounts by 341.3 million euros ($365 million).
The company sees 2017 pay-TV unit revenues at between 630-640 million euros, its CFO said.
(*) Vivendi could decide to freeze part of its Mediaset stake by transferring a 18.8 percent holding to a trust, MF reported citing industrial and advisory sources.
TELECOM ITALIA
Telecom Italia shareholders should not support board candidates proposed by Vivendi, two advisory firms said, potentially dealing a fresh blow to Vivendi chairman Vincent Bollore's attempts to build a southern European media empire.
BANCO BPM
Italy's third-largest bank has short-listed Blackstone , Cerberus, Bain Capital Credit and Algebris for the sale of a 700-800 million-euro portfolio of bad loans backed by real estate assets including some hotels, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
UNICREDIT
Italy's biggest bank said on Thursday Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was stepping down from his role as deputy chairman ahead of Thursday's annual general meeting. The move brings forward a planned governance change by cutting the number of deputy chairmen to one.
ATLANTIA
Chinese conglomerate HNA approached Spain's Abertis in recent months with a proposal alternative to the one put forward by Italy's Atlantia, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
A potential tender offer by Atlantia on Abertis shares could be launched at a price of 16 euros, Corriere della Sera reported citing the Spanish press.
BANKS
Italy's FITD deposit guarantee fund approved on Wednesday a 420 million-euro capital injection into Carim and San Miniato which will pave the way for a takeover of the two ailing banks, as well as of rival lender CariCesena, by Credit Agricole's Italian unit Cariparma, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
(*) Carim Chairman Sido Bonfatti told MF in an interview that an exclusive due diligence phase granted to private equity firm JC Flowers would last until mid-May. Bonfatti said an offer by a rival banking group such as Cariparma was better than a private equity investment but added that San Miniato had yet to pick its preferred bidder.
(*) CREDITO VALTELLINESE
The Italian bank has asked advisers Equita and KPMG to look for a insurance partner and Cattolica Assicurazioni would be interested, MF reported.
ITALMOBILIARE
CEO Carlo Pesenti said on Wednesday his family's holding company was looking for a "big acquisition" but would not invest in infrastructure or in the publishing and financial sectors given excessively high multiples, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
(*) Italmobiliare is interested in the energy sector and around six months ago briefly considered a possible investment in Edison, Pesenti was quoted as saying in Corriere della Sera.
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
Annual general meeting (0800 GMT)
MONCLER
Annual general meeting (0900 GMT)
SAIPEM
Board meeting on Q1 results, press release on April 21.
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO
The luxury good group said on Wednesday deputy general manager Massimo Barzaghi would leave the company as of July 31, 2017.
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Annual general meeting (0730 GMT).
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Annual general meeting (0800 GMT).
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Annual and extraordinary shareholders' meetings (0830 GMT).
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News conference to present Unipol's initiative in support of earthquake victims in central Italy, with Chairman Pierluigi Stefanini, CEO Carlo Cimbri (1000 GMT).
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White House: Mideast peace may not be 2-state solution | The Trump administration suggested Tuesday that peace between the Israelis and Palestinians may not come in the form of a two-state solution - a position that could represent a dramatic shift from former President Barack Obama, who said he saw no alternative. Speaking to reporters ahead of President Donald Trump's meeting Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior White House official said Trump is eager to begin facilitating a peace deal between the two sides and hoping to bring them together soon.
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India successfully test fires nuclear-capable missile Agni-IV | India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of 4000 km as part of a user trial from a test range off Odisha coast. Supported by a mobile launcher, the surface-to-surface missile was flight tested from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range at Dr Abdul Kalam Island, formerly known as Wheeler Island, at about 11.55 hours, Defence Research and Development Organisation sources said.
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New Cuba leader praises Maduro in 'solidarity' visit to Venezuela | CARACAS (Reuters) - Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel flew into in Caracas on Wednesday for his first foreign visit as head of state, a show of solidarity for Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro whose controversial re-election this month drew fire in the West.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during the opening of the 37th session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Havana, Cuba, May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
“Venezuela now needs our solidarity,” Diaz-Canel told Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly, a pro-government legislative superbody set up last year.
“The aggression against Venezuela harms all of America.”
The United States, the European Union and major Latin American nations have condemned Maduro’s May 20 re-election, saying it did not meet democratic standards. Two of his rivals were barred from standing and the election board is run by loyalists. The U.S. government imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oil-producing country.
But China and Russia have warned against meddling in the socialist-run nation, and fellow leftist governments in the region from Cuba to Bolivia have offered warm support.
“Your words express the best of the Cuban people, and we are forever grateful for the support you have given us,” said Delcy Rodriguez, a senior Maduro ally who heads the assembly, which has been criticized by foes for undermining the opposition-controlled National Assembly legislature.
Maduro was the first foreign leader to meet with Diaz-Canel last month after he succeeded Raul Castro to become president of the communist-run island.
Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest oil reserves, exchanges crude for Cuban medical and other technical services, though deliveries have dropped over the past few years during an economic implosion in the OPEC member of 30 million people.
“We felt (Maduro’s) victory as our own,” Diaz-Canel said. “Venezuela has supported Cuba in many ways throughout its history. We have a debt of gratitude.”
Diaz-Canel flew to Venezuela with his wife Liz Cuesta as first lady, in a break with custom during the nearly 60 years’ rule by the Castro brothers Fidel and Raul who generally traveled without their wives.
He was later expected to meet with Maduro at the Miraflores presidential palace.
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Kyle Edmund could yet help struggling Great Britain in... | Australian Open semi-finalist Kyle Edmund will have the final say over his participation in the Davis Cup tie with Spain as Great Britain face a daunting task to avoid defeat in Marbella.
Cameron Norrie’s heroics in Friday’s second singles rubber had levelled the World Group first round tie at 1-1 and given the visitors a chance to pull off a shock result and claim a place in the quarter-finals.
However, Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot never threatened to maintain the momentum at Club de Tenis Puente Romano as the untested Spanish pair of Pablo Carreno-Busta and Feliciano Lopez ran out 6-4 6-4 7-6 (7/4) winners in two hours and 28 minutes.
Kyle Edmund could feature on day 3 in Marbella (Steven Paston/PA)
In Sunday’s reverse singles Norrie is scheduled to take on Albert Ramos Vinolas and Liam Broady due to face Roberto Bautista-Agut, although both sides are allowed to make changes.
Edmund, who has been struggling with a hip injury, could be drafted into the British line-up and was put through his paces on court after Saturday’s doubles rubber.
GB captain Leon Smith said he would have a “good conversation” with Edmund following his practice session and told BBC Sport: “First and foremost, it’s got to be his decision because he’s coming back from an injury. Then the medical team will have their say and if he’s ready to go then of course he should go out and give it a go.”
One break of serve in each of the first two sets was enough to give Carreno-Busta and Lopez a commanding lead, with the British pair unable to convert the sole break point they were able to create.
Murray and Inglot dug deep to save two break points in the 11th game of the third set, but quickly fell 5-1 down in the tie-break and their opponents duly closed out the match.
"Quite simply the Spanish team played an awful lot better"@LeonSmith chats about a tough day for the Brits at the #DavisCup and looks ahead to singles Sunday. pic.twitter.com/L9njzcPZUI — British Tennis (@BritishTennis) February 3, 2018
“The Spanish guys played an awful lot better than ours, it’s as simple as that,” Smith added.
“The court definitely favoured them but they also played well. We would have needed to make an awful lot more returns to try and make some inroads into their service games, but they were holding so quickly and we never really got any momentum.”
Lopez, who served superbly throughout the contest, told the Davis Cup website: “We are very happy. We played a great match overall, very consistent. We played quite solid, we served well and we made them play all the time. It was really working today.”
Carreno-Busta added: “Feli has more experience than me and it was great to play with him. We were serving really good. It was amazing and very exciting to play at home in Davis Cup. Yesterday I couldn’t play the singles but today the feeling with the crowd was very good.” |
Research sheds light on life of local hero | A detective story that started with a few sentences in a church history ended in a tribute to the tragic life of a local hero. A history of Grace United Methodist Church in Franklin mentioned that the church's Civil War era minister, the Rev.
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Body of abducted journalist found in Mexico | MEXICO CITY (AP) - The body of a journalist was found Friday in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi one day after armed men wearing uniforms abducted him from his home, authorities said.
Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro, a freelance photographer, had reported threats and intimidation by detectives from the state prosecutor's office in July. It was that same body that the state human rights commission had asked to protect him.
State prosecutor's office spokesman Ivan Ojeda said Esqueda's body was found near a San Luis Potosi airport.
On Thursday, the prosecutor's office denied that its detectives had taken Esqueda from his home, though it said the armed men had claimed to be from its force.
"We have various lines of investigation in the case," Ojeda said Friday. "We're not ruling out anything."
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said that Esqueda covered crime and society news, contributing to local news sites Metropoli San Luis and Vox Populi.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, a journalist advocacy group, said in a statement that Esqueda's wife said that early Thursday morning the armed men identifying themselves as state prosecutor's detectives "grabbed Edgar by the neck and threw him to the ground while pointing a gun at me." He had been asleep when they broke into the home.
According to the federal government's program that protects journalists and human rights workers, San Luis Potosi state's human rights commission had notified it in late July that Esqueda had been threatened by detectives while photographing a crime scene.
"He was approached by five detectives who threatened to take his camera and beat him up if he continued taking photographs," the state body wrote. "They made him erase the material and ran him off."
One week later, Esqueda was again confronted by detectives while covering another event. They asked for and took pictures of his identification and suggested they would be watching him and his home. They said that maybe he was passing information to criminals through his work.
The federal protection program said in a statement that it had called Esqueda, who confirmed those accounts. He told the program that there had not been any more threats or confrontations, but that he had filed a criminal complaint.
The federal program said the state human rights office reported it had turned the case over to police from the state prosecutor's office and that its commander had agreed on July 24 to take care of it. The state human rights commission did not return a call for comment Friday.
Following his abduction, the federal program offered protection to Esqueda's wife. Esqueda had not enrolled in the federal protection program.
The federal program said that it lamented Esqueda's death and called on authorities to immediately investigate and find those responsible.
At least nine journalists have now been killed this year in Mexico.
The most prominent was Javier Valdez, co-founder of the Riodoce magazine and author of many books about the intersection of drug trafficking and society, who was killed in May blocks from his office in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
After his murder President Enrique Pena Nieto promised more resources to protect journalists and called together the country's governors to emphasize that more needed to be done.
On Friday in San Luis Potosi, about 100 people, mostly journalists, demonstrated in protest.
Leopoldo Pachecho, who has worked 25 years as a journalist, was among them and said the killing shows that the work toward prevention had failed, with no one punished for any crimes against journalists.
"The profession today is really mad, but above all feels powerless and a deep sadness for what is happening to us," he said.
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Associated Press journalist Christian Palma in San Luis Potosi contributed to this report. |
Milpitas: Hospitalized hit-and-run victim dies | Police say this white 2011 Dodge Avenger is believed to be the vehicle used in a June 5 hit-and-run on South Main Street that fatally injured a 64-year-old woman who was visiting from India. Courtesy of Milpitas Police Department A 64-year-old woman who was hit by a car while crossing South Main Street last week succumbed to her fatal injuries a few days later, Milpitas police say.
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