Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Google News compiled for the BBC's Biodun Iginla--11/24/15--in New York

Top Stories

Putin Accuses Turkey Of Backing ISIS After It Downs Russian Warplane In Syria

Huffington Post - ‎30 minutes ago‎
<span class='image-component__caption' itemprop="caption">Haberturk Associated Press. Haberturk TV broadcast footage of the warplane on fire before crashing on a hill.

Chicago Officials Release Video in Shooting of Black Teenager

New York Times - ‎56 minutes ago‎
CHICAGO - Chicago officials released on Tuesday a chilling dashcam video of the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old, just hours after a white police officer was charged with first-degree murder in the encounter.

Obama Honoring Spielberg, Streisand and More With Medal of Freedom

NBCNews.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, composer Stephen Sondheim, violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman and baseball great Willie Mays were among a number of notables presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

State Department terror warning casts shadow over Thanksgiving travel

USA TODAY - ‎3 hours ago‎
DENVER - Americans taking to the air and roads for Thanksgiving will battle both the crush of fellow travelers and security hassles brought on by a State Department global travel warning.

Newborn Is Left in Nativity Scene at a Queens Church

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
For a few moments, the sight could have been confused for a miraculous arrival ahead of the Christmas season: A newborn baby, hours old and full term, appeared within a nativity scene at a Queens church on Monday.

Obama urges steps to avoid 'escalation' after Russian jet is downed by Turkey

Washington Post - ‎4 hours ago‎
President Obama urged Russia and NATO allies Tuesday to “discourage any escalation” after a Russian warplane was downed along Turkey's border with Syria.

Putin Has Misjudged Turkey's Erdogan

Bloomberg View - ‎11 hours ago‎
The details of how and why a Russian jet was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border remain unclear, but one thing can already be said: Russian President Vladimir Putin has misjudged his Turkish counterpart and former friend, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Interested in Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan?  YesNo

Netanyahu to Kerry: Green light for Palestinian building projects dependent on ...

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Israel will not allow Palestinian projects in Area C, the West Bank territory under its control, unless it is given a green light to build in the settlement blocs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday ...
Interested in Benjamin Netanyahu?  YesNo

Since 2001 the Hillary and Bill Clinton collected $35M from financial businesses

Daily Mail - ‎9 hours ago‎
With Hillary Clinton serving as secretary of state for most of that period, her husband brought in the bulk of the money, nearly $17 million.
Interested in Bill Clinton?  YesNo

US issues global travel warning on Boko Haram, ISIS

The Nation Newspaper - ‎1 hour ago‎
The travel alert, which is in effect until February 24, said current information suggested that militants with ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other militant groups continued to plan attacks in several regions around the world. The release did not ...
Interested in Boko Haram?  YesNo

International bomb plotter jailed for 40 years in US

BBC News - ‎6 hours ago‎
A Pakistani man extradited from the UK to the US has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks in several countries.

TalkTalk hack: Llanelli man becomes fifth person arrested

BBC News - ‎3 hours ago‎
An 18-year-old from Llanelli has become the fifth person to be arrested in connection with an alleged data theft from TalkTalk, the Met Police has said.

Record complaints for Sun UK Muslim 'jihadi sympathy' story

BBC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
The new press regulator has received a record number of complaints about a Sun story which claimed nearly one in five UK Muslims has "sympathy for jihadis".

Roubaix hostage situation in northern France ends

BBC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
A hostage situation in the northern French town of Roubaix has ended, with the hostages now safe, local officials say. Up to three armed men took hostages in the town near the border with Belgium, reports said.

COP21: Malawi's battle to hold on to forests

BBC News - ‎11 hours ago‎
You'd be pushed to find a more uplifting display of the transformative power of renewable energy. In a one-room house in rural Malawi, the little face of six-year-old Rachel is framed in a soft white halo.

Tunisia blast: Explosion hits bus carrying presidential guards

BBC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
An explosion has hit a bus carrying presidential guards in Tunisia's capital, Tunis, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

New Zealand helicopter crash: Post-mortem tests on four people

BBC News - ‎8 hours ago‎
Post-mortem examinations have been carried out on three women and a man who died in a helicopter crash on a glacier in New Zealand.

Singapore opens £250m National Gallery

BBC News - ‎12 hours ago‎
Singapore has opened its state-of-the-art National Gallery, home to the world's largest public collection of modern art from South East Asia.

Latest In Paris Attacks: Prosecutor Said More Violence Was In The Works

NPR - ‎1 hour ago‎
The Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Tuesday that the man believed to have orchestrated the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, had planned more attacks before he was killed by police on Nov. 18.

Canada to resettle 25000 Syrian refugees by end of February

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
TORONTO - Canada's new Liberal government said Tuesday that it will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year and an additional 15,000 by the end of February.

Want to end violence against women? This is how

NEWS.com.au - ‎54 minutes ago‎
IT'S TIME for the age-old cycle of violence to end. Because two dead women a week is too much. And because we - all of us - are better than that.

How Pope Francis' Trip Retraces the First Papal Visit to Africa

TIME - ‎1 hour ago‎
The crowd at the Entebbe airport had been waiting for hours, but spirits were high - drummers, singers and dancers milled about while the Police Band prepared to perform the Ugandan National Anthem.

Hong Kong pro-democracy movement sees mixed results in first polls since protests

Reuters - ‎Nov 22, 2015‎
HONG KONG Two democracy veterans lost their seats but at least six candidates who took part in crippling protests last year won office at district elections in Hong Kong on Sunday, the first real test of the city's pro-democracy movement since the ...

Ahmed Mohamed Happy In Qatar

CBS Local - ‎1 hour ago‎
DALLAS (CBS11) - Days after demanding millions the Irving teen known as “Clock Boy” is talking only to CBS 11. 15-year-old Ahmed Mohamed has been in the Middle East for about a month now, where most people see him as a regular kid and not as the ...

Argentine president-elect picks UN insider as his top diplomat

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
BUENOS AIRES/UNITED NATIONS Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri named U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's chief adviser as his future foreign minister, signaling a sharp break from the diplomacy of outgoing leader Cristina Fernandez.

Minneapolis police arrest two people after shooting injures five near protests ...

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
MINNEAPOLIS - Authorities on Tuesday arrested two men suspected of opening fire on people near a “Black Lives Matter” rally against a recent police killing of an unarmed black man, a day after five people were wounded in a shooting not far from a ...

Why this governor just restored voting rights to most felons

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Convicted felons had been permanently barred from voting in Kentucky. Until today. Gov. Steve Beshear (D) signed an executive order Tuesday that will automatically restore the right to vote and hold public office for the majority of the state's ...

Is racism on the rise? More Americans say it's a 'big problem'

WESH Orlando - ‎1 hour ago‎
They are three Americans from three different demographic groups living in three different states. And they believe the same thing: Racism is a big problem.

Trooper shot on I-676

Philly.com - ‎9 hours ago‎
The highway was shut down between the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Broad Street as a result of the incident, the details of which are still unfolding.

Man killed in liquor store robbery was going to retire that night

Norwalk Reflector - ‎1 hour ago‎
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A man shot and killed in a Boynton Beach liquor store Sunday was planning to retire that very day at the end of his shift, police say.

Juror Rebels at NY Assembly Speaker's Trial

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
NEW YORK - Deliberations in the corruption trial of ex-New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver began with drama Tuesday when a juror claimed that other jurors accused her of failing to use her common sense, leaving her feeling "very, very ...

Obama honors 'extraordinary' Medal of Freedom recipients

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON - The 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year are "extraordinary people" who have left their mark on politics, entertainment, athletics and the United States itself, President Obama said Tuesday.

Billionaire Battle: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Square Off on Reusable-Rocket Test

Space.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
A reusable-rocket milestone has sparked a mini-squabble between two of the billionaires who are helping transform the private spaceflight industry.

Asia stocks mixed amid geopolitical tension, oil eases from highs

Reuters - ‎15 minutes ago‎
TOKYO Asian stocks were mixed in early trading on Wednesday as investors assessed the geopolitical risk surrounding Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet, while crude oil prices eased from two-week highs.

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Tuesday

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Stocks overcame an early stumble Tuesday and finished modestly higher as investors shook off concerns about heightened tensions in the Middle East and a drop in consumer confidence.

UPDATE 3-CalPERS shared $3.4 bln in private equity profits over 25 years

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
(Adds payments by private equity firms and State Treasurer comment). By Robin Respaut. SAN FRANCISCO Nov 24 The nation's largest public pension, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, said on Tuesday that it had paid $3.4 billion to ...

U.S. Growth Revised Upward; Corporate Profits Slip

Nasdaq - ‎4 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy expanded at a faster pace than initially estimated in the third quarter while corporate profits slipped, an uneven reading that has been a hallmark of the six-year-old expansion.

U.S. Consumer Confidence Falls to Lowest in More Than a Year

Bloomberg - ‎8 hours ago‎
Consumer confidence unexpectedly declined in November to the lowest level in more than a year as Americans grew less enthusiastic about the labor-market outlook.

How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce

Bloomberg - ‎3 hours ago‎
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized with the efficiency that had built a retail empire.

YouTube Kids App Faces New Complaints Over Ads

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON - Visit YouTube Kids and typically it will not be long before promotions for junk food appear. The advertisements regularly show up in the form of funny contests and animated stories.

Dell Promised Security … Then Delivered a Huge Security Hole

WIRED - ‎2 hours ago‎
Caption: Dell Inc. signage is displayed outside of the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas. Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg/Getty Images.

Vine launches on Apple Watch, adds new content discovery features for iPhone

Apple Insider - ‎51 minutes ago‎
Vine on Tuesday released a long-awaited extension of their popular app for Apple Watch, and added a new feature to its iOS app designed to make it easier to surface new content quickly.

Pop Facebook Quiz: Should You Take It?

New York Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
More than 17 million people have taken a delightful little quiz on Facebook that displays their most-often used words in a sweet word cloud.

Movie review: 'Creed' is a worthy successor to 'Rocky'

Washington Post - ‎3 hours ago‎
One of the instincts you develop in the job of a critic is defense. The ability to guard against the jabs of cheap sentiment is essential if one wants to stay in the match - or to at least know what hit him.

All My Children and Bonanza star David Canary dies at 77

Entertainment Weekly - ‎1 hour ago‎
David Canary, the celebrated All My Children actor who also starred in Bonanza, died of natural causes on Nov. 16 in Wilton, Conn, his family announced on Tuesday.

Review: 'The Good Dinosaur,' Pixar Human and Apatosaurus

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
Blink and you may miss the sly joke that sets “The Good Dinosaur” on its enchantingly eccentric way. It begins with a near apocalypse 65 million years ago and an asteroid racing toward Earth.

The Adele Effect

Huffington Post - ‎4 hours ago‎
After years of declining album sells and a consumer consumption preference in digital singles and music streaming services, full studio album purchases have been left behind with the likes of cassette tapes and CD players.

Armour: Johnny Manziel remains more frat boy than NFL quarterback

USA TODAY - ‎2 hours ago‎
Johnny Manziel needs to decide whether he wants to be a frat boy or a franchise quarterback. A week after being handed the keys to the Cleveland Browns, Manziel was demoted to the No.

Bills "D" got to Tom Brady, now must wreak havoc vs. the non-Bradys

Bills Blitz - The Buffalo News - ‎39 minutes ago‎
The postgame reaction was a tad different at Gillette Stadium, than MetLife Stadium. Once it was over, Rex Ryan pulled off his headset, tossed it to the ground in sadness and met old pal Bill Belichick on the field.

College Football Playoff predictions: Clemson-Iowa, Alabama-Oklahoma in semis

ESPN - ‎25 minutes ago‎
Oklahoma fans, you can stop worrying about that loss to Texas. Iowa fans? You now have the team to beat in the Big Ten. The College Football Playoff selection committee shook up its top four on Tuesday, with No.

Pacers' Paul George playing better than ever year after gruesome leg injury

Washington Times - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Indiana Pacers forward Paul George (13) in action during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in Indianapolis.

CDC says at least 19 E. coli infections linked to Costco chicken salad

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
At least 19 people in seven states may have been infected by E. coli after eating rotisserie chicken salad sold at Costco Wholesale Corp's (COST.

FDA Advisors Paint Bleak Picture for DMD Drug

MedPage Today - ‎1 hour ago‎
savesaved. author name. by Kristina Fiore Staff Writer, MedPage Today. An FDA advisory committee said the evidence supporting BioMarin's application for drisapersen is weak and that the drug doesn't appear to be effective in Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

CDC: Physicians Need More Prep on HIV PrEP

Medscape - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Many Americans at high risk for HIV infection who could benefit from preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are not receiving it because many health providers do not know about it, federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

New Studies Show How Moms Also Benefit From Breastfeeding

ABC News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Two new studies are adding to a growing body of evidence that breast-feeding is both good for the baby and for the mother. The studies, which focused on diabetes and cancer, found that women who breast-feed cut their risk of diabetes and cancer ...

Franken Flatworms Grow Heads and Brains of Other Species

Live Science - ‎3 hours ago‎
Call them Franken flatworms. Scientists have created worms with the heads and brains of other species just by manipulating cell communication.

Tracking down the 'missing' carbon from the Martian atmosphere

Phys.Org - ‎3 hours ago‎
Carbon dioxide to generate the atmosphere originates in the planet's mantle and is released through volcanoes or trapped in rocks crystallized from magmas.

Earth Is Surrounded By Strings of Dark Matter

Daily Beast - ‎24 minutes ago‎
New computations from NASA suggest that long strings of mysterious dark matter form around planets like Earth. The solar system is hairy?

Water bears' super resilience may be linked to foreign DNA

Christian Science Monitor - ‎4 hours ago‎
Scientists sequence DNA from tardigrades, often called 'water bears,' to find that one-sixth of the animals' genetic material comes from other species.
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