Companies also mentioned were Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, EBay, Glencore, Uber, Nike, Walmart, Allianz, Siemens, McDonald's and Yahoo.
Sutherland Springs church shooting
On November 5, 2017, a mass shooting took place at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
An armed, male gunman reportedly entered the church around 11:30 am CST and started firing. The shooter was killed after a chase with local law enforcement. At least 27 people were killed including the man who did the shooting. One of the victims was the pastor's 14-year-old daughter. At least 30 people were injured in the shooting.
The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting at a church in U.S. history. More people died than in the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in 2015.
President Donald Trump was in Japan at the time of the attack. He tweeted, "May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan."
A few hours after the shooting, it was learned that the shooter was 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009 to 2013 before being told to leave. For a short time he was an unpaid helper at a Vacation Bible School in Kingsville, Texas.
Offshore investment
Offshore investment is when a person invests money in a different country than the country of residence. This is many done to pay less taxes. Differences in legislation may also be a driving force. Very often money laundering is also done in these countries.
Paul Manafort
Paul John Manafort Jr. (born April 1, 1949) is an American lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer and convicted felon. He joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and served as campaign manager from June to August 2016. He was an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole.
On August 22, 2018, Manafort was convicted of bank and tax fraud.
In 1980, Manafort co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with principals Charles R. Black Jr., and Roger Stone.
Manafort is under investigation by multiple federal agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly had an active criminal investigation on him since 2014 regarding business dealings in Ukraine. He is also a person of interest in the FBI counterintelligence probe looking into the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections led by Robert Mueller.
On October 30, 2017, Manafort surrendered to the FBI after news broke that a federal grand jury had indicted him. They charged Manafort with conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, being an unregistered agent of foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and false statements.
On June 15, 2018, Manafort's bail was revoked and he was sent to jail due to charges of obstruction of justice and witness tampering that is alleged to have occurred while he was under house arrest. He pled not guilty to these additional charges and as of June 2018 is currently awaiting trial.
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018, Manafort was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to report foreign bank accounts. In total, the jury convicted Manafort on 8 of the 18 counts against him and said it was deadlocked on the other 10 counts (U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis III declared a mistrial on those charges).
Dudley Simpson
Dudley Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was born in Melbourne. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years. He was best known for his work as a composer on British television. He worked on the BBC science-fiction series "Doctor Who".
Among his early television work was the music for "Moonstrike" (1963). Simpson also created the theme music for "The Brothers" (1972), "The Tomorrow People" (1973), "Moonbase 3" (1973), "The Ascent of Man" (1973) and "Blake's 7" (1978). He also composed music for many plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Simpson died on 4 November 2017 at the age of 95.
Dionatan Teixeira
Dionatan do Nascimento Teixeira (24 July 1992 – 5 November 2017) was a professional footballer. He played as a centre-back. He was best known for playing for Stoke City F.C. from 2014 to 2017.
On 5 November 2017 Teixeira suffered a fatal heart attack in Londrina, Brazil at the age of 25.
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Mansour bin Muqrin
Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1973 – November 5, 2017) was a Saudi businessman, member of the House of Saud, and Advisor at the Court of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. In April 2015, he was appointed Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques with the rank of minister. He was the son of Prince Muqrin al-Saud, former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
He was a partner in Ethan Allen's Saudi franchise.
bin Muqrin died in a helicopter crash near Abha on November 5, 2017 at the age of 43 or 44.
Royapuram
Royapuram is a locality (territory or neighbourhood) present in the northern part of Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu. This area is best known for the Royapuram Railway Station. This is the first railway station of South India. It was opened in 1856. At present it is the oldest surviving railway station of the Indian subcontinent The St. Peter's Church, Royapuram is one of the most important and oldest church in the region. Royapuram fishing harbour is one of the largest fishing harbour in the Coromandel Coast or Eastern coast of India.
Eser Tümen
Eser Tümen (born 17 March 1945, Istanbul - died on 27 January 2010, Maldives) was a Turkish businessman and capital project engineer for construction of the FSM Bridge. He also was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of STFA Group Construction.
He died of heart attack in Maldives.
Adyar, Chennai
Adyar is a large neighbourhood (locality) in the southern part of Chennai Metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu. This neighbourhood is on the southern banks of Adyar River. Adyar is one of the most expensive areas in Chennai. The land property in Adyar costs four times as much as similar land properties in the northern part of Chennai.
The Adyar River forms an estuary near the coast of Adyar (locality). This has been home to more than one hundred species of birds. But this estuary has been affected by industrial wastes.
Adyar is home to Adyar Cancer Institute and Central Leather Research Institute. Central Leather Research Institute is the world's largest leather research institute.
IIT Madras, Anna University, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Asian College of Journalism and the Technical Teachers Training Institute are all located in this neighbourhood.
Besant Nagar
Besant Nagar is one of the neighbourhood (locality) of Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu. This area is named after famous women's right activist Annie Besant.
This area is known famously for the following landmarks:
Adambakkam
Adambakkam is a neighbourhood (locality) present in the Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu. This area is a thickly populated area. This is situated near the St. Thomas Mount Railway Station.
Before October 2011, a part of Adambakkam was under Chennai Corporation and the other part under Alandur municipality.But after that was joined totally with Chennai Corporation. The Adambakkam is having its new railway station under construction.
This area has many temples like famous Pazhandi Amman Temple.
Velachery
Velachery is a residential area as well as a locality in Southen part of Chennai metropolitan area, Tamil Nadu. This locality is the important and effective centre in Chennai. The Velachery Lake was historically containing an area of 250 acres. The ancient Selliamman and Narasimhar temples were located on its Southern corner(banks).