As insiders say emails came from device of disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, both sides question James Comey’s timing and deviation from protocol. Hillary Clinton has led a chorus of Democratic party fury over the FBI’s decision to investigate a new batch of her staff’s emails, a review announced just 10 days before the presidential election and in a striking break with law enforcement tradition ... Read more ... “It’s aberrational.” ... ....
Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past hundred years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we won and because we shouldn’t dig up old graves to frighten future generations. But Beni Zeid is an exception. It goes on for square miles and it is total destruction....
The widow of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, discovered a mysterious bag full of equipment from the moon landing buried in his closet. CarolArmstrong reportedly found the white bag, known as a McDivitt purse, filled with wrenches, lamps, cables and the 16mm camera that included footage of the Apollo 11’s descent on the moon’s surface ... Mrs ... NASA via Gizmodo ....
Russia, facing allegations of war crimes in relation to its policies in Syria, lost its seat on the UN Human Rights Council as the UN General Assembly voted to elect 14 members to the Geneva-based organ. The 193-member General Assembly yesterday elected 14 nations by secret ballot to serve on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe ... ....
(Source. FC Schalke 04 eV). Benedikt Höwedes..We can be pleased with the result. We were good in the first half, we defended well and did not give any chances away. We attacked well on the counter and had we been a bit more determined we could have got a goal. We put in a strong performance in the first half and maintained that in the second ... But it was a fair result. Sead Kolasinac. ... RalfFährmann. ... (noodl....
The comedian on mistaken identity, his love of birds and his disappointment at being overlooked for the role of 007... He has appeared regularly on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI, and his recent live shows include Qualmpeddler and Limboland ... Procrastination ... A rare Gibson electric guitar, which was a birthday gift from my wife, Kirsten ... Kirsten came to my first proper solo standup gig, without me knowing, and surprised me after the show ... ....
Borussia Dortmund are eight points behind league leaders Bayern Munich after their 0-0 draw with rivals Schalke at Signal Iduna Park... "We were closer to winning the game than Schalke ... Gotze echoed the remarks of his coach, after his effort in the second half was saved by Schalke keeper RalfFahrmann ... ....
Kirsten Drysdale brings us up-to-date with the latest bogus developments in milk marketing and Alex Lee examines who really owns your books (and other media) in this age of Kindle... ....
Borussia Dortmund were unable to avoid a fourth Bundesliga match without a win as they were held to a goalless draw by Schalke...Dortmund made a late push for a winner but Mario Gotze was denied by RalfFahrmann and a brilliant clearance from Kolasinac stopped Christian Pulisic converting at point-blank range, Tuchel's side slipping eight points adrift of leaders Bayern Munich ... ....
With just days to go before Halloween, party-goers are dashing to the shops to snap up spooky costumes. And as ever, many of Northern Ireland's would-be witches, ghosts and superheroes are lining up outside Elliott's FancyDress shop in Belfast - established by James Elliott in 1886. Share Go To ...Kirsten Fowler (21,) was just one of dozens of people lined up outside the shop on Thursday afternoon ... Grace explained ... Belfast Telegraph. ....
With just days to go before Halloween, party-goers are dashing to the shops to snap up spooky costumes. And as ever, many of Northern Ireland's would-be witches, ghosts and superheroes are lining up outside Elliott's FancyDress shop in Belfast - established by James Elliott in 1886. Share Go To ...Kirsten Fowler (21,) was just one of dozens of people lined up outside the shop on Thursday afternoon ... Grace explained ... Belfast Telegraph. ....
"What was 10-15 years ago - a Tata group that was a paternalistic conglomerate with more than 100 companies just ambling along - no longer works," said Shriram Subramanian of InGovern, a shareholder advocacy group ... HANGING AROUND ... Chandrashekharan, CEO of TCS, and Ralf Speth, CEO of Tata Motors' luxury car arm, Jaguar Land Rover, as directors to the TataSons board, fuelling speculation that one or both are frontrunners ... ....
As the team begins to closely look at each of the two survivors, they soon realized that bullying might have played a role in the murder cases ... Based on the teaser trailer for the upcoming fifth episode of “Criminal Minds” Season 12, it showed Penelope Garcia, played by Kirsten Vangsness, apparently stumbling across some key evidence and saying that she is just seeing merely the tip of the iceberg. Filling in for Hotch ... ....
Tata is by far one of the most powerful and diverse business houses in India... "It was done without grace. Nobody expected this from the Tata Group." ... "From the market perspective nothing has changed," he says ... A few internal candidates, namely Noel Tata, chairman of Tata's retail arm Trent, and TCS chief executive Natarajan Chandrasekaran, and JLR head Ralf Speth, are among those being considered, sources told Bloomberg News on Thursday....
Thomas Gibson fans are pretty hardcore apparently. They were a very quiet little demographic until Gibson was fired from Criminal Minds, but now they are holding major Twitter protests and boycotts of the show ...Thomas has nothing but fond memories of the show and he is thankful to his fans ... Criminal Minds character Aaron Hotchner doesn’t get nearly as many catchy lines as Penelope Garcia, played by Kirsten Vangsness either....