Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Monday, October 5, 2015

Google News compiled for the BBC's Biodun Iginla--10/5/15

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Amtrak Train Derails in Northfield, Vermont

NBCNews.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
An Amtrak train traveling south through central Vermont careered off track Monday morning after striking a rock slide, officials said.

Cargo Ship With Crew of 33 Sank in Storm in Caribbean

New York Times - ‎57 minutes ago‎
MIAMI - The tropical storm had been newly christened Joaquin not long before the cargo ship El Faro pulled out of the busy port in Jacksonville, Fla.

Historic Pacific trade deal faces skeptics in Congress

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
ATLANTA Twelve Pacific Rim countries on Monday reached the most ambitious trade pact in a generation, aiming to liberalize commerce in 40 percent of the world's economy in a deal that faces skepticism from U.S.

NATO denounces Russian incursion into Turkish airspace

Reuters - ‎58 minutes ago‎
ISTANBUL The United States and NATO denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond, reporting two incursions in two days and raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the former Cold War ...

Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill

Los Angeles Times - ‎32 minutes ago‎
After a right-to die measure was approved by the California Assembly on Sept. 9., Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her daughter, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old California woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to legally end her life.

The Latest: Death Toll From Rainstorm Rises to 12

New York Times - ‎46 minutes ago‎
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The latest on the rainstorm that is pounding parts of the East Coast (all times local): 4:30 p.m.. The coroner for the county surrounding Columbia has released the names of several people found dead in flooded vehicles, bringing the ...

Europe Refugee Crisis: Turkey's Erdoğan To Hold Talks With EU In Brussels

International Business Times - ‎7 hours ago‎
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to hold key talks with EU officials in Brussels on Europe's refugee crisis and the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria.
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Jonathan: 'We only spent N332m for independence in 5-yrs' ex-President says

Pulse Nigeria - ‎Oct 4, 2015‎
In the words of Sulaiman, "We were taken aback by the recent comment reportedly credited to His Excellency, Governor Nasir El-rufai where he claimed that the immediate past President, His Excellency, Dr.
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Hillary Clinton Tries to Set Herself Apart From Others on Gun Control

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on the recent spasm of gun violence on Monday, detailing a gun control plan that sets herself apart from Republicans and differentiates her from Senator Bernie Sanders, her insurgent rival for the Democratic nomination.
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Greece's Tsipras pleads for debt relief with austere budget

Reuters - ‎3 hours ago‎
ATHENS Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued a resounding call for debt relief on Monday as his government unveiled an austere 2016 budget sticking strictly to international bailout targets in a new spirit of cooperation with European and IMF ...
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Peeple sites 'disappear' from web

BBC News - ‎6 hours ago‎
The website and social media pages for controversial human-rating app Peeple have been taken offline. Visitors to the Twitter and Facebook page for the Peeple app have been met with messages explaining such content is unavailable or that it doesn't exist.

Syria conflict: The close ties behind Russia's intervention

BBC News - ‎8 hours ago‎
While Russia's dramatic involvement in the war in Syria has reverberated in capitals around the world, in government-controlled Damascus life goes on much the same as before.

Work that won Nobel Prize for medicine 2015

BBC News - ‎5 hours ago‎
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been split two ways for groundbreaking work on parasitic diseases. The research, by William C Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu, has led to drugs to treat diseases affecting more than 3.4 billion ...

Grieving daughter Liz Page kissed 'wrong body' after hospital mix up

BBC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
The hospital, which has apologised, called to say she had passed away during the night. Mrs Page told The Sun it did not enter her mind that the body would not have been her mother.

Wild mammals 'have returned' to Chernobyl

BBC News - ‎5 hours ago‎
Removing humans from what is now the exclusion zone around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor has allowed wildlife to return. This is according to a long-term census of mammals in the area, which researchers say has shown that wildlife numbers are ...

Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over'

BBC News - ‎5 hours ago‎
Smartphone users can do "very little" to stop security services getting "total control" over their devices, US whistleblower Edward Snowden has said.

Tax credit cuts promote hard work, says Jeremy Hunt

BBC News - ‎6 hours ago‎
IFS director Paul Johnson told BBC News the move to a living wage - which will increase the minimum wage to £7.20 an hour from April next year - was a "big change" but "not a big enough change to compensate most of those who are receiving tax credits".

Virtual Reality demo includes surprise marriage proposal

BBC News - ‎9 hours ago‎
An employee of game developer Valve surprised his girlfriend by proposing to her during a demo of his company's virtual reality hardware in Seattle.

The Latest: Man Killed by Palestinian Last Week Was American

New York Times - ‎57 minutes ago‎
JERUSALEM - The latest developments in ongoing tensions between Palestinians and Israel following days of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank (all times local).

Russian insider: Have a better plan for Syria? 'Give us some names'

CNN - ‎2 hours ago‎
(CNN) Russia is willing to work with other leaders than Bashar al-Assad and happy entertain alternate solutions to the Syrian war, but has yet to hear any, a Russian insider and member of parliament told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday.

ISIS Destroys Another Ancient Temple: 'We're Going to Lose Palmyra,' Syrian ...

ABC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
A 2,000-year-old arch in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra is the latest casualty by ISIS militants. Professor Maamoun Abduilkarim, the country's director of antiquities, confirmed that ISIS Sunday blew up the Arch of Triumph, one of the city's most ...

Afghan forces called for air strike in Kunduz: US general

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON Afghan forces asked for U.S. air support while fighting the Taliban in Kunduz shortly before an air strike resulted in the deaths of civilians there, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Monday.

North Korea releases 21-year-old detained in April after illegally crossing border

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
North Korea has released a 21-year-old who was detained after he illegally crossed the border earlier this year, according to reports.

UPDATE 2-UK's Osborne borrows policy with eye on leadership

Reuters - ‎8 hours ago‎
... * Government to invest in infrastructure using pensions. * Policy had been promoted by opposition Labour Party. * Finance minister's speech seen as part of leadership bid (Adds speech, reaction).

Official: Multiple Bomb Blasts in Nigerian Capital, 15 Dead

New York Times - ‎Oct 3, 2015‎
LAGOS, Nigeria - Several bombs in two locations of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed at least 15 people, the National Emergency Management Agency said Saturday.

American Airlines flight diverts after captain becomes ill, dies

USA TODAY - ‎3 hours ago‎
An American Airlines pilot died after becoming ill on an overnight "red eye" flight from Phoenix to Boston, American Airlines confirmed to Today in the Sky.

Florida high school football coach accused of punching referee in the face

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
For the second time in about a month, a referee was hit during a high school football game. The latest incident comes out of Central Florida, where a high school football coach is being brought up on battery charges after he allegedly punched a referee ...

Publisher Promises Revisions After Textbook Refers to African Slaves as 'Workers'

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
Last week Coby Burren, a Houston teenager, was reading a textbook in his high school geography class when he came upon a map of the United States that caught his attention.

Senate Democrats Nearly Run Table in Recruitment

Roll Call - ‎2 hours ago‎
With New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan's entrance into the Granite State Senate contest, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has secured nearly every top-tier recruit it sought for 2016 - when Democrats will attempt to net the five seats ...

Study: Trapped Firefighters 'Could Feel Their Faces Burning'

ABC News - ‎6 minutes ago‎
The four Northern California firefighters were in serious trouble almost immediately after a helicopter dropped them near ground zero of what they thought would be a small blaze.

'Oh, My God': Man Who Finds Missing 2-Year-Old Girl Jubilant

ABC News - ‎11 minutes ago‎
A man who found a little girl who'd been missing from her great-grandparents' home for two days sounded jubilant in a 911 call.

11-year-old Tennessee boy shoots 8-year-old girl over argument about puppy

New York Daily News - ‎3 hours ago‎
An 11-year-old boy in Tennessee shot and killed his next door neighbor, an 8-year-old girl, over an argument about a puppy Saturday, police said.

Billionaire Ken Griffin and wife in settlement talks, court says

Chicago Tribune - ‎2 hours ago‎
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin and his wife, Anne Dias Griffin, have returned to the negotiating table on the day that their divorce trial was scheduled to begin.

Wall Street rises as investors eye rate hike delay, oil up

Reuters - ‎39 minutes ago‎
U.S. stocks jumped on Monday, with the S&P 500 rising for the fifth day in a row, as rising oil prices boosted energy stocks and investors bet the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates this year.

Sex, Betrayal and Bond Traders: The Fall of American Apparel

Bloomberg - ‎5 hours ago‎
Sex, money, betrayal: The bizarre brawl between American Apparel Inc. and its founder, Dov Charney, has all that and more. But now this tabloid tale is coming down to a seemingly staid bit of finance: the bonds.

Out-of-network ATM fees, overdraft charges hit record, survey says

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
It's costing consumers more and more to get ahold of their own money. The average fee consumers pay to withdraw cash from an ATM outside their bank's network is a record $4.52 per transaction, according to a new survey from Bankrate.

Steve Jobs and Elon Musk hated running two companies at once, so why is ...

Mashable - ‎1 hour ago‎
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives a keynote at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. Image: Paul Sakuma/Associated Press.

Buyouts coming at company behind Chicago Tribune, LA Times

Miami Herald - ‎18 minutes ago‎
The owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers is offering buyouts to employees. Tribune Publishing announced the "Voluntary Separation Program" in a memo to employees that was obtained by The Associated Press on ...

French airline workers attack execs over job cuts

CNN - ‎5 hours ago‎
air france protest 1 Air France executive Xavier Broseta is helped over a fence after he was attacked by employees. Angry protesters ripped the shirts off Air France executives on Monday after the company revealed plans to cut thousands of jobs during ...

Facebook Looks to Space to Bring the Internet Everywhere

WIRED - ‎1 hour ago‎
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes access to the Internet is a human right. And he's using his company's wealth to make sure, in Facebook's own idiosyncratic way, to see that everyone in the world gets connected.

As Microsoft focuses on mobile, Windows 10 will be key

Computerworld - ‎1 hour ago‎
Windows 10 -- and the fate of Microsoft's smartphones -- will be front and center at the company's event Tuesday as the Redmond, Wash.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow Rolling Out to Nexus Devices

PC Magazine - ‎1 hour ago‎
A sweet treat is coming your way, Nexus device owners. Google on Monday started rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow to Nexus devices.

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

SlashGear - ‎4 hours ago‎
If you listen to the cynics, the "s" in Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus stands for "same-old". The tick-tock upgrade cycle of the best-selling smartphone has led many to expect revolution one year and then mere evolution the next.

Teen star of YouTube's Bratayley family dies at age 13

Reuters - ‎34 minutes ago‎
LOS ANGELES Teen YouTube star Caleb Logan LeBlanc, part of the popular "Bratayley" family on YouTube known for posting humorous, wholesome daily videos, has died suddenly at age 13, his family and police said.

Add This to the Collection! Kylie Jenner Just Gifted Herself a $320000 Rolls ...

E! Online - ‎3 hours ago‎
Kylie Jenner might need a bigger garage soon! The 18-year-old just added yet another new car to her growing collection: a $320,000 white Rolls Royce Ghost.

Fear the Walking Dead showrunner on the 'badass yacht' and 'seabound refugees ...

Entertainment Weekly - ‎18 minutes ago‎
Sunday's Fear the Walking Dead season finale featured more zombies and more action than the rest of the season combined. In the end, the group was reunited and fled to new ally (?) Strand's house by the ocean.

Kim Kardashian: "Pregnancy Is the Worst Experience of My Life!"

Us Magazine - ‎46 minutes ago‎
Not here for it! Kim Kardashian hopes her and Kanye West's baby boy arrives sooner than later. The pregnant reality star complained on her website about her second pregnancy in an honest new post titled "From the Desk Of: How I Really Feel About Being ...

Yankees' CC Sabathia enters alcohol rehab center, to miss playoffs

USA TODAY - ‎2 hours ago‎
CC Sabathia announced on Monday he is entering an alcohol rehabilitation center "to receive the professional care and assistance I need to treat my disease," a surprising development on the eve of the New York Yankees' playoff opener.

Joe Philbin was out of his depth, but Dolphins' failures are on owner

CBSSports.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
Firing an NFL head coach four games into a season -- especially one that began with renewed hopes and expectations -- is a complete organizational failure from the top down.

Indian Wells executive Steve Simon to take over as WTA CEO

ESPN - ‎3 hours ago‎
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Steve Simon is the unanimous choice to take over as the new CEO of the Women's Tennis Association, the board of directors announced Monday.

In playoffs, Dodgers' Justin Turner to meet the team that took a pass on him

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Dodgers' Justin Turner points to the stands after hitting a home run against San Diego on Saturday. Dodgers' Justin Turner points to the stands after hitting a home run against San Diego on Saturday.

Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios recalled due to allergy risk

CBS News - ‎15 minutes ago‎
General Mills is recalling 1.8 million boxes of Cheerios, including regular Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, that could put people with wheat allergies and celiac disease at risk.

Brazilian company stops production, sales amid contamination concerns

UPI.com - ‎5 hours ago‎
European regulators discovered particles on Silimed's individual devices and implants, as well as at its production facility, during inspections.

Exercise Pills May Be In Your Future

TIME - ‎1 hour ago‎
It sounds too good to be true and for now, it is. But what if some of the benefits of exercise could be packed into a pill? Scientists are beginning to develop “exercise pills” that show some potential, according to two new papers—a review published ...

San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't his first broken condom, so Rafael didn't worry. But three weeks later, the man he'd met in a bar called to say that he had “probably been exposed” to H.I.

A Shifting Approach to Saving Endangered Species

New York Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
When the Obama administration announced last month that it would not add the greater sage grouse to the endangered species list, some conservation groups predictably criticized the ruling.

This ancient beaver outlived the dinosaurs

CBS News - ‎4 hours ago‎
How did a 3-foot-long, furry, plant-loving beaver-like animal with buckteeth outlive the dinosaurs? New fossil remains found in New Mexico provide scientists with some important clues.

US, Chile Announce New Marine Sanctuaries

Voice of America - ‎16 minutes ago‎
Last updated on: October 05, 2015 3:15 PM. President Barack Obama on Monday announced the creation of two new marine sanctuaries in the states of Maryland and Wisconsin as part of a video-address delivered to Our Ocean 2015, a major international ...

Out-of-place boulders hint at ancient 'megatsunami'

Christian Science Monitor - ‎3 hours ago‎
Some 73,000 years ago, a huge tsunami engulfed an island off Africa's west coast, say scientists. By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience October 5, 2015.

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