Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Google News compiled for the BBC's Biodun Iginla--10/24/15--in New York

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Police: 3 dead, 34 injured after homecoming parade crash

Washington Post - ‎27 minutes ago‎
STILLWATER, Okla. - A woman suspected of driving under the influence plowed into a crowd Saturday during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing three people and injuring dozens more after a collision that sent some spectators flying ...
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Mexicans express relief as once-ferocious Hurricane Patricia weakens

Los Angeles Times - ‎45 minutes ago‎
When word came that the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere was about to hit, Liliana Ramon Garcia and her five children headed for the place they thought would be the safest: their small apartment at Aquatic Jungle, the water ...
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Bush at 91: Irritated and Invigorated by '16 Race

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
He has given up his “C.S.I.” reruns, consuming campaign coverage on Fox News - intently but fretfully - when he is perched in front of the television in his Houston home.
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Maureen O'Hara, Fiery Star of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 95

Variety - ‎25 minutes ago‎
Maureen O'Hara, the Irish actress who starred in a slew of American films including “Miracle on 34th Street,” “The Quiet Man” and “The Parent Trap” and one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood's golden age, died on Saturday at home in Boise, Idaho.
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Vatican Split on Rules Over a More Inclusive Church

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
VATICAN CITY - A three-week global assembly called by Pope Francis to re-examine church teaching on marriage and family in the modern era ended with bishops stopping short of allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to take communion, but ...
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Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation's public schools

Washington Post - ‎5 hours ago‎
The number of standardized tests U.S. public school students take has exploded in the past decade, with most schools requiring too many tests of dubious value, according to the first comprehensive survey of the nation's largest school districts.

Bill Clinton, Katy Perry rallying Iowans for Hillary Clinton

U.S. News & World Report - ‎2 hours ago‎
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Pulling out all the stops, Hillary Rodham Clinton was bringing her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and pop singer Katy Perry to Iowa on Saturday in a show of force before a pivotal dinner with thousands of Iowa Democrats.
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US freezes $370m in aid to PA

Ynetnews - ‎14 hours ago‎
Head of the House Committee on Appropriations, Republican Kay Granger from Texas, and senior Democratic Representative Nita Lowey from New York, sent a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warning that a continuation of incitement on the ...
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Obama warns over test 'obsession,' calls on schools to set limits

Al Jazeera America - ‎3 hours ago‎
Targeting one of education's most divisive issues, President Barack Obama on Saturday called for capping standardized testing at 2 percent of classroom time and said the government shares responsibility for turning tests into the be-all and end-all of ...
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Putin's Press: How Russia's President Controls The News

Huffington Post - ‎10 hours ago‎
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin committed his air force to a bombing campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar Assad, a weather forecaster on Russia's state-owned Rossiya24 TV channel positioned herself in front of a massive screen ...
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How to rescue a downed pilot over enemy territory

BBC News - ‎13 hours ago‎
A US military unit is based in the Middle East with the specific task of rescuing and extracting pilots who have been shot down over Islamic State-controlled territory.
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Germaine Greer: Transgender women are 'not women'

BBC News - ‎13 hours ago‎
Australian-born academic and writer Germaine Greer has said that in her opinion, transgender women are "not women". She also claims that "a great many women" who are not transgender think transgender women - who she refers to as "male to female ...

News at Ten's new host Tom Bradby: Everyone thinks BBC News is too powerful

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎16 hours ago‎
THERE was a time in the not-too-distant past when no one really knew when to tune in to ITV's flagship news bulletin. Over the course of nearly a decade it bounced around the evening schedules, filling slots at 9pm, 10pm, 10.30pm, and even 11pm ...

Slapped child taken away from mother

BBC News - ‎8 hours ago‎
A child has been taken away from a mother who slapped the four-year-old across the face, then swore at and pushed a woman who intervened.
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NI honeymoon couple drown in South Africa

BBC News - ‎5 hours ago‎
A couple in their 20s from Northern Ireland have drowned while on honeymoon in South Africa. John and Lynette Rodgers, from Holywood in County Down, were found on a beach at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape on Friday.
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TalkTalk cyber attack 'smaller than originally thought'

BBC News - ‎6 hours ago‎
The cyber attack on TalkTalk was "smaller" than originally thought, but customers' bank account and sort code details may have been accessed, the company's chief executive says.
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Teenager survives night on mountain after father is killed

BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
A 15-year-old school boy whose father fell to his death from a rock face in the French Alps has been rescued after surviving 10 hours overnight.
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Is new India state capital Amaravati more bane than boon?

BBC News - ‎10 hours ago‎
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a new capital for the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, amid much fanfare.
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Jordan proposes TV cameras to defuse Jerusalem tensions: Kerry

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
AMMAN/JERUSALEM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday sketched out steps, including Israeli-Jordanian video surveillance, he hopes may ease tensions over a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims and Jews, after weeks of violence in which dozens ...
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Over 200 Landmarks to Light Up UN Blue on 70th Anniversary

New York Times - ‎19 hours ago‎
UNITED NATIONS - More than 200 landmarks in 60 countries from the Pyramids in Egypt to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Empire State Building in New York will be lit up in blue - the official color of the United Nations— on Saturday to commemorate ...
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Maldives Vice President Arrested Over President's Boat Blast

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
MALE, Maldives - The vice president of the Maldives will be charged with high treason after being arrested Saturday in connection with an explosion aboard the president's boat last month that authorities have called an assassination attempt, officials ...
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South Korea Media Muzzled, Hassled By North Koreans At Reunions Of Divided ...

Forbes - ‎5 hours ago‎
North Korean authorities have been battling South Korean journalists covering reunions in the North Korean resort of Mount Kumkang of families divided by the Korean War.
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack in Bangladesh

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Three bombs exploded early Saturday morning during a giant procession here commemorating the Shiite Muslim holiday of Ashura, killing one person, wounding dozens more and unsettling a country that has little history of sectarian ...
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Iraqi Shias gather at Karbala shrine for Ashura rituals

Al-Bawaba - ‎2 hours ago‎
Shias gathered at the shrine of Imam Hussein in the Iraqi city of Karbala. (AFP/File). Follow >. Click here to add Baghdad as an alert.
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Torrential rain -- up to 20 inches in spots -- pummels much of Texas

CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎
(CNN) Much of Texas was deluged Saturday by pounding, relentless rains -- up to 20 inches, in some locales -- causing dangerous flooding that washed away cars, a train and, possibly, one person.
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Small Plane Crashes Into Woods After Takeoff; Pilot Killed

ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
A single-engine plane taking off from a regional airport went off a runway on Saturday morning and then crashed into nearby woods, killing the pilot, authorities said.
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Alleged Plot of Va. School Violence Revealed

NBC4 Washington - ‎1 hour ago‎
Officials said they were able to stop a planned attack on a Spotsylvania County, Virginia, high school with the arrest of two juveniles.
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James, Holmes, shooter in Aurora theater massacre, allegedly assaulted in prison

New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV - ‎2 hours ago‎
James Holmes appears in court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center July 23, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes, 24, is accused of shooting dead 12 people and wounding 58 others at a cinema Friday in Aurora, outside Denver, as young moviegoers ...
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FBI director links 'viral videos' of police to rise in violence

USA TODAY - ‎5 hours ago‎
Recent criticism and scrutiny of police departments and viral videos of officer-involved killings might explain the rise in violent crime in some cities, FBI Director James Comey said Friday.
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Officials: Fire That Destroyed New Brunswick Synagogue Appears To Be Accidental

CBS Local - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - The multi-alarm fire that gutted a historic synagogue in New Brunswick appears to have been accidental, county and local officials said Saturday.
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Mike and Nick's Week in Tech: Microsoft in the Cloud

New York Times - ‎7 hours ago‎
Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry.
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Fed interest rate hike might not happen in 2015 - experts

Modern Readers - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Federal Reserve was originally expected to announce an interest rate hike in September, but since that clearly did not happen, some experts now believe that the central bank might not raise rates in 2015 after all.
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Chinese Official Economists: China Should Grow At 6-7% For Some Years

Forbes - ‎4 hours ago‎
Given that this is the official stance of China's Communist Party, that the Chinese economy can and will grow at 6-7% in the coming years, it's not all that much of a surprise to hear official economists stating that China's economy can and will grow ...
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Joe Cahill on Business United Airlines needs guidelines on CEO health matters

Crain's Chicago Business - ‎2 hours ago‎
Improv works on Wells Street. Not so much in a corporate boardroom when illness strikes the CEO. United Continental Holdings' public statements about CEO Oscar Munoz's recent heart attack remind us that corporate boards have no script to follow in such ...
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Kuwait's Equate to buy ME Global from Dow, PIC for $3.2 bln

Reuters - ‎Oct 22, 2015‎
DUBAI Oct 22 Kuwait's Boubyan Petrochemical Co said on Thursday its affiliate Equate had signed a $3.2 billion deal to buy ME Global from Dow Chemical of the United States and a subsidiary of state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
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Improving Social Security Disability Insurance with a Flat Benefit

Heritage.org - ‎Oct 23, 2015‎
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) became law in 1956. Since then, it has morphed from a relatively small-scale, anti-poverty program into a massive system that provides benefits to one out of every 20 working-age individuals.
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow streamlined in the new Wunderlist to-do app update

The Next Digit - ‎1 hour ago‎
Since many latest Android phones have started to receive the latest Marshmallow firmware update, the popular to-do app Wunderlist has also rolled out a major new update with many Marshmallow features-integration with Google Now on Tap for enhanced ...
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Chromecast (2015) review: A superfluous upgrade to a high-caliber product

TechHive - ‎Oct 23, 2015‎
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These leaked screenshots could be a glimpse at Apple Music for Android

VentureBeat - ‎5 hours ago‎
A German website called Mobile Geeks has posted what it says are screenshots of Apple Music for Android and is reporting that Apple is currently conducting a private beta test with Android users.
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Khloé Kardashian Teases New Book with Sizzling Behind-the-Scenes Video

People Magazine - ‎54 minutes ago‎
Khloé Kardashian released a revealing promo today for her equally revealing new book, Strong Looks Better Naked. The reality star released a behind-the-scenes video on Twitter Saturday, with the caption, "My book is coming out so soon!
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New Sherlock Christmas Special Trailer Reveals Title and Release Date, and We ...

E! Online - ‎1 hour ago‎
Merry Christmas! Oh, and an incredibly happy new year. A newish trailer for the hotly anticipated, desperately awaited (etc.) Sherlock Christmas special is quite similar to the last 90-second teaser—but it includes two rather important pieces of ...
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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Are All Smiles on Second Post-Baby Date Night

E! Online - ‎2 hours ago‎
It looks like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel lucked out and found a sitter for baby Silas two nights in a row. On Thursday night, the A-list couple walked their first joint red carpet since becoming parents at the 2015 Fashion Group International ...
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Meek Mill's Instagram Getting Slammed With Birthday Wishes for Drake [PHOTO]

The BoomBox - ‎23 minutes ago‎
The Drake and Meek Mill feud is far from over at least from a fan's perspective. Since Drizzy turned 29 years old today (Oct. 24), his fans are trolling Mill's Instagram page with birthday wishes to the Toronto rap star.
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USC Trojans vs. Utah Utes: Live stream, live score updates, odds, time, TV ...

AL.com - ‎35 minutes ago‎
The 2015 college football season continues Saturday, Oct. 24, as the No. 3 Utah Utes travel to meet the USC Trojans in a Pac-12 battle at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.
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Asking questions about hunger

WMTV - ‎1 hour ago‎
MADISON, Wis. -- "Are you hungry?" will be one of the questions pediatricians may ask you when you bring your child in for an appointment.
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Dislocated shoulder? You should be thinkinking twice about your surgery decision

The Market Business - ‎11 minutes ago‎
Generally, people who suffer acromio-clavicular joint dislocation go through surgery. But a new study has suggested that there may be no need to go under knife unless it is severe dislocation.
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Walgreens halts expansion of Theranos bloodwork centers

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
SAN FRANCISCO - Walgreens is putting plans to expand Theranos bloodwork centers on hold, a sharp turnaround from an original partnership vision that included an eventual rollout to all 8,200 of the chain's national locations.
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WHO experts signal victory over one of three polio strains

Reuters - ‎Oct 23, 2015‎
GENEVA The world should stop vaccinating children against one of the three strains of the crippling polio virus as part of a drive to eradicate the disease once and for all, a group of health experts has advised the World Health Organization.
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Lovejoy Comet Producing Ethyl Alcohol and Sugar in Trek Across Space

The Escapist - ‎48 minutes ago‎
International scientists find that the Lovejoy Comet is producing enough alcohol to start a winery ... and keep it going for some time.
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Howler Monkeys With Smaller Balls Have Deeper Howls

Immortal News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Male howler monkeys, one of but a few primate species that builds nests, must choose between big balls and a deep howl, according to a new study.
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Beluga Whale Final Necropsy Results Expected in 4 to 6 Weeks

ABC News - ‎19 minutes ago‎
FILE - In this April 11, 2012, file photo, Georgia Aquarium's resident pregnant beluga whale Maris swims in the aquarium's tank in Atlanta.
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Is Global Warming about to sink the global economy?

The Market Business - ‎49 minutes ago‎
With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new economic and science study.
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