Twelve people suspected of planning new terror attacks were arrested in Brussels on Friday and Saturday after police carried out about 40 house searches across Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said a total of 40 people had been questioned after the raids. “In connection with a criminal investigation concerning terrorism... ....
photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong
How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
SKELTON, NormanLewis, 87, of Matoaca, Va., died Saturday, June 18, 2016. Born in Petersburg, he was the son of the late NormanClaude and Lula Mae Oveby Skelton. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Maude M. Skelton; brother, Ernest C. Skelton; and sister, Gloria Lesie. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mr ... Mr ... 23805 ... ....
When it comes to TV’s most popular shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, the big news these days is not only the spoilers, but the production teams and writers trying to figure out how to stop the spoilers ... Each of the cast members has said that they don’t know who actually died, except Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon ... Austin Amelio as Dwight; Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead....
We are living in worrying times, with our society at risk of becoming more and more polarised and with blame, grievance and division on the rise. Our politics is increasingly about sharpening battle lines and defining our country between “us and them” ... But public life, whether in politics or elsewhere, should be about something else – something better ... A wish to build bridges rather than walls ... The future of our economy ... Norman Muddeman....
It is a question the English used to ask about their subject peoples. are they ready for self-government? But it is now one that has to be asked about the English themselves. It’s not facetious. England seems to be stumbling towards a national independence it has scarcely even discussed, let alone prepared for ... And this isn’t happening ... an Anglo-French kingdom, the United Kingdom in its various forms, a global empire, the European Union....
P oetry involves rigour. Even a four-line stanza requires an economy of words ... He discovered the contemporary poetry of Ted Hughes, Seamus Heanery, Derek Walcott, Norman MacCaig and the work of the so-called confessional poets including Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath in college, and this changed the course of his life. He published his first collection of poems, 'A GuardedSpace' in 1981, followed by six books of poetry....
In the US, Patterson is targeting the population spurning books in favour of social media, viral videos, TV and gaming. The eagerly awaited and equally dreaded BookShots are here. You await them or dread them according to who you are ... Will it succeed? Of course ... It appeared half a century before the NormanConquest, and Europe would have to wait for the skill of paper-making to reach the Continent before similar work appeared there ... ....
BLOOMBERG SPEECH. 23 January 2013. In a long-trailed speech – the wait is compared to Tantric sex – David Cameron seeks to control his riven party and see off Ukip by pledging a future Conservative government to the “simple choice” of an in/out referendum on renegotiated terms of membership. Outers celebrate ... The outers reply with NormanLamont and a suggestion from Michael Gove that a Brexited Britain could seek to emulate Albania ... ....
As Euro 2016 enters its second week, a Scotsman writes. Boo-hoo. Boo-bloody-hoo for us not being there ... Still, the winter break is back and next qualifying campaign we'll be good and ready. Who are we playing again? Slovakia ... More of them in a bit ... Every inhabitant of Tirana too. I'm keeping a close watch on Albania, tournament debutants like the Irish, because I've long been fascinated by this mysterious land of NormanWisdom fanatics ... ....
It was a day like no other. A beautiful September morning transformed into horror and death, with nearly 3,000 innocents murdered for the crime of living and working in America. We promised ourselves and each other we would never forget ...Never Forget. They lie ... NormanSeabrook, former head of the correction-officers union, and a hedge-fund operator were charged in an alleged kickback scheme that involved $20 million of pension money ... ....
Kyle Peterson is the perfect analyst for ESPN to employ as its top commentator for the College World Series. He grew up in an Omaha, Neb., suburb, attended the CWS every year as a kid and pitched for Stanford in the CWS for two years ... Peterson has a few ties with Oklahoma ... There was this list that was outside the teachers lounge one day that said, 'Who made these calls?' It was like Norman, OK; Fayetteville, Ark.; Stanford, Calif....
It’s not been a good time to say goodbye to fine people and Peter Corrigan, who had been ill for some little while with cancer, was among the finest you could ever wish to meet. He was, as the BBC correctly observed on Friday, “a well-respected sports journalist” ... He did not lack for conviction on just about any subject on which he was asked to pass judgment ... Norman Giller, a Fleet Street sage and author, called him “Peter The Great”....
The state government has nominated John Fernandez as the Anglo-Indian representative to the state assembly ...Fernandez said that he would raise various issues faced by the Anglo-Indian community with the state government ... Fernandez, who was also the Anglo-Indian representative during the 1996-2001 period, is the district secretariat member of CPM....