OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will stop issuing visas to people from those West African nations where the Ebola virus is widespread, the government said on Friday. The federal citizenship ministry, explaining the move, said in an official document that "the introduction or spread of the disease would pose an imminent and severe risk to public health in Canada". (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - The Canadian man who killed and dismembered a Chinese student in 2012 was raised by a domineering mother who would get drunk on vodka and was obsessed with germs, the man's father testified on Friday, while describing himself as an alcoholic schizophrenic. Luka Magnotta, 32, has admitted killing and dismembering engineering student Jun Lin, 33, and to videotaping the acts and mailing parts of the body to several addresses. He is pleading not guilty due to mental illness. ...
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, officials said. Two pilots were aboard the spaceship, which was undergoing its first powered test flight since January.
Virgin Galactic's suborbital space plane SpaceShipTwo suffered a serious malfunction during a rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, today (Oct. 31) resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. The SpaceShipTwo passenger spacecraft experienced an unspecified anomaly after igniting its rocket motor shortly after the vehicle separated from its carrier plane WhiteKnightTwo. "Virgin Galactic's partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo earlier today," Virgin Galactic officials said in a statement on Twitter today. "During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo.
MOJAVE, Calif. - A witness says Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo exploded during a test flight over California's Mojave Desert.
Virgin Galactic's suborbital space plane SpaceShipTwo suffered a serious malfunction during a rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, today (Oct. 31) resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. The SpaceShipTwo passenger spacecraft experienced an unspecified anomaly after igniting its rocket motor shortly after the vehicle separated from its carrier plane WhiteKnightTwo. "Virgin Galactic's partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo earlier today," Virgin Galactic officials said in a statement on Twitter today. "During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo.
Ervani Emihandayani (29) harus berurusan dengan hukum setelah memposting tentang kejelekan seseorang di media sosial Facebook. Lantaran tak terima, sang korban pun melaporkan ibu rumah tangga tersebut ke polisi.Suami Ervani, Alfa Janto mengisahkan awal mula istrinya ditahan. Alfa menuturkan pada 13 Maret 2014 lalu, ia yang bekerja sebagai petugas keamanan di Toko Jolie Jogja Jewellery menolak untuk dimutasi perusahaanya ke Kota Cirebon, Jawa Barat. Ia beralasan dalam perjanjian perusahaan tidak ada ketentuan mutasi pegawai. ...
MERDEKA.COM. Polisi telah menangkap narapidana Akra Dinata bin Armen yang sempat kabur dari penjara. Akra sebelumnya kabur menggunakan benda tajam diduga memakai gunting baja.Kapolres Batanghari AKBP Robert A Sormin mengatakan, gunting baja itu diduga digunakan napi tersebut untuk memotong gembok pintu sel Polres Batanghari. Akra Dinata merupakan napi kasus perampokan toko emas di Kota Jambi penghuni Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Klas IIB Muarabulian, Kabupaten Batanghari. Dia kabur bersama delapan napi lainnya setelah menodong petugas Lapas dengan senjata api pada Minggu (12/10) dinihari. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Iran's foreign minister and the European Union foreign policy chief in Oman on Nov. 9-10 to discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. Kerry's talks in Muscat, Oman with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif and the EU's Catherine Ashton are due to take place two weeks before a Nov. 24 deadline to complete an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. (Reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Warren Strobel; Editing by Diane Craft)
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, officials said. Two pilots were aboard the spaceship, which was undergoing its first powered test flight since January. It was not immediately known if they were able to parachute to safety. More than 800 people have paid or put down deposits to fly aboard the spaceship, which is carried to an altitude of about 45,000 feet and released. ...
(Reuters) - A man who shot and killed three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and wounded two others in June has been given five life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole for 75 years, an unprecedented sentence in Canada, according to several media reports. Justin Bourque, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings, which took place in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton, New Brunswick. He will be 99 years old before he can apply for parole. ...
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo craft suffered an "anomaly" during a test flight over California on Friday, the commercial space flight operator announced on its Twitter feed.
(Reuters) - A man who shot and killed three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and wounded two others in June has been given five life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole for 75 years, an unprecedented sentence in Canada, according to several media reports. Justin Bourque, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings, which took place in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton, New Brunswick. He will be 99 years old before he can apply for parole. ...
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo craft suffered an "inflight anomaly" on Friday, the commercial space flight operator announced on its Twitter feed.
By Joseph Ax and Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus ventured out of her home in Maine and took a bike ride on Thursday, defying a quarantine order and setting up a legal collision with state authorities. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, 33, said they had not yet been served with a court order to enforce a 21-day quarantine - matching the virus's maximum incubation period - but remained prepared to fight such an order if necessary. ...
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's spy agency and national police force are so constrained by a lack of resources that they can’t keep close track of all the Islamic extremists who may be a potential threat at home and they have also had to abandon some counter-espionage work and criminal investigations, according to current and former intelligence and police officials. ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Member of Parliament Dean Del Mastro, a former aide to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was found guilty in an Ontario court on Friday of violations under the Canada Elections Act, local media reported. Del Mastro, who currently sits as an independent in the House of Commons and once served as Harper's parliamentary secretary, was found guilty of going over campaign expense limits among other charges. ...
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaii National Guard is deploying troops to a rural Hawaii town as lava makes a slow crawl toward a major road and threatens to further isolate the community that got its start during the lumber and sugar-plantation heyday.
In a photo contest that honors all things small, it's tough to beat a shot of a rotifer: A view into the mouth of one of the tiniest animals on the planet won the top prize in this year's Nikon Small World competition. Rotifers rank among tardigrades as the smallest creatures in the animal kingdom. The winning photo, captured by Rogelio Moreno, a programmer and self-taught microscopist from Panama, shows the open mouth of a rotifer surrounded by a heart-shaped corona, or a crown of cilia that sweep water into its maw. Moreno watched the rotifer for hours, waiting for the right opportunity to snap a shot of the constantly moving creature at the moment it opened its mouth, according to Nikon.
People infected with Ebola vary greatly in how severe their symptoms are. Now, a new study in mice suggests that genetics plays a role in how each body reacts to the same Ebola virus. To study the relationship between genes and the virus, researchers used a group of mice that were bred to have high genetic diversity, as opposed to the typical laboratory mice, which are produced by many generations of inbreeding and are therefore extremely similar. Normally, classic lab mice don't develop the symptoms of Ebola that are seen in people, even though the animals do die from a lethal dose of the virus.
In a photo contest that honors all things small, it's tough to beat a shot of a rotifer: A view into the mouth of one of the tiniest animals on the planet won the top prize in this year's Nikon Small World competition. Rotifers rank among tardigrades as the smallest creatures in the animal kingdom. The winning photo, captured by Rogelio Moreno, a programmer and self-taught microscopist from Panama, shows the open mouth of a rotifer surrounded by a heart-shaped corona, or a crown of cilia that sweep water into its maw. Moreno watched the rotifer for hours, waiting for the right opportunity to snap a shot of the constantly moving creature at the moment it opened its mouth, according to Nikon.
By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threw his support behind Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Friday, ending speculation that he would seek to try to bring in his own candidate as head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government. Ukraine won a vital breathing space by sealing an interim gas supply deal with Russia on Thursday that will see it through winter, but the new Kiev government faces a mountain of other problems, not least pro-Russian insurrection in eastern areas. Poroshenko offered his quick backing for Yatseniuk after the 40-year-old former economy and foreign minister, whose People's Front ended slightly ahead of the President's own bloc in an election last Sunday, had bluntly said he expected to stay on. The move confirmed that the partnership between the two men will dominate Ukraine's political landscape in the near future as it battles a separatist rebellion in the east and pursues a course for European integration deeply opposed by Russia.
(Reuters) - Dollar General Corp extended its tender offer for shares of Family Dollar Stores Inc to Dec. 31, until after a shareholder vote that will decide the fate of a rival bid by Dollar Tree Inc . Dollar General had received offers for only about 4 million Family Dollar shares of a total 114 million outstanding shares as of Oct. 30, a day before the offer was to expire. Dollar General's perseverance to close a deal highlights its struggles in a weak economy where penny-pinching customers look for more discounts and deals. ...
By Edward Taylor FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler AG will buy 25 percent of Italian motorcycle maker MV Agusta - the latest sign that motorbike and car technologies are converging, driven by a push to lower emissions and improve safety. Daimler said on Friday it would buy the stake via its Mercedes-AMG performance cars unit and take a seat on the board at Agusta - a legendary name in the sport of motorcycling, having won at least 75 world championship rider and constructor titles. It did not disclose the financial terms and said it was part of a broader cooperation deal between high-end brands Mercedes and Agusta which would mainly focus on marketing and sales. Daimler says Agusta's motorbike engines are unlikely to be used in its Mercedes passenger cars any time soon - however tougher anti-pollution rules have increased interest among carmakers in the lightweight construction technology and compact engines, which could be used as "range extender" add-ons to complement electric engines in hybrid vehicles.
In a photo contest that honors all things small, it's tough to beat a shot of a rotifer: A view into the mouth of one of the tiniest animals on the planet won the top prize in this year's Nikon Small World competition. Rotifers rank among tardigrades as the smallest creatures in the animal kingdom. The winning photo, captured by Rogelio Moreno, a programmer and self-taught microscopist from Panama, shows the open mouth of a rotifer surrounded by a heart-shaped corona, or a crown of cilia that sweep water into its maw. Moreno watched the rotifer for hours, waiting for the right opportunity to snap a shot of the constantly moving creature at the moment it opened its mouth, according to Nikon.
Unlike Dracula or Frankenstein, these Halloween monsters aren't based on a literary resource. In fact, the modern conception of a zombie dates back to 1968, in a movie that doesn't so much as use the word: George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead." "He didn't call them zombies, and he didn't think about them as zombies," said Ozzy Inguanzo, a screenwriter and author of "Zombies on Film: The Definitive Story of Undead Cinema" (Rizzoli, 2014). Since then, the walking undead have wormed their way into video games, comic books — and even the classics (witness 2009's novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).
People infected with Ebola vary greatly in how severe their symptoms are. Now, a new study in mice suggests that genetics plays a role in how each body reacts to the same Ebola virus. To study the relationship between genes and the virus, researchers used a group of mice that were bred to have high genetic diversity, as opposed to the typical laboratory mice, which are produced by many generations of inbreeding and are therefore extremely similar. Normally, classic lab mice don't develop the symptoms of Ebola that are seen in people, even though the animals do die from a lethal dose of the virus.
The UN's top panel on climate change was sifting Friday through the final details of a report aimed at guiding policies on global warming for years to come, sources said.
By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threw his support behind Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Friday, ending speculation that he would seek to try to bring in his own candidate as head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government. Ukraine won a vital breathing space by sealing an interim gas supply deal with Russia on Thursday that will see it through winter, but the new Kiev government faces a mountain of other problems, not least pro-Russian insurrection in eastern areas. Poroshenko offered his quick backing for Yatseniuk after the 40-year-old former economy and foreign minister, whose People's Front ended slightly ahead of the President's own bloc in an election last Sunday, had bluntly said he expected to stay on. The move confirmed that the partnership between the two men will dominate Ukraine's political landscape in the near future as it battles a separatist rebellion in the east and pursues a course for European integration deeply opposed by Russia.
Two marine reserves proposed for Antarctica failed to win approval at international talks in Australia on Friday, campaigners said, adding the decision left one of the world's last untouched wildernesses vulnerable.
Sepekan sudah Muhammad Arsyad merasakan dinginnya lantai sel tahanan Mabes Polri. Si tukang sate masuk bui karena diduga menghina Presiden Jokowi, dengan mengunggah foto porno yang wajahnya diedit menggunakan orang nomor 1 di Indonesia itu di Facebook (FB).
VIVAnews - Petugas Kepolisian Sektor Cilandak Jakarta Selatan masih menyelidiki pria yang tewas dengan luka tusuk di dada pada Jumat 31 Oktober 2014. Dalam keadaan terbujur kaku dengan pisau masih bersarang di bagian dada, polisi menemukan narkoba."Dari tubuh korban kami menemukan tiga paket sabu-sabu, kunci L dan sebuah linggis," kata Kapolsek Cilandak Komisaris Sungkono.Dari hasil indentifikasi ditemukan identitas korban yang bernama Pebri Andea. Pria berusia 34 tahun itu warga Lubuk Linggau Sumatera Selatan.Meski demikian, polisi masih mendalami penyebab kematian korban. ...
VIVAnews - Muhammad Arsad alias Imen diduga telah melakukan tindak pidana penyebaran gambar porno Jokowi-Megawati melalui media sosial, Facebook. Tepat sepekan, Imen menjadi tahanan Bareskrim Polri.Terkait hal itu, kuasa hukum keluarga tersangka telah mengajukan surat permohonan penangguhan penahanan. Tak ingin salah langkah, penyidik Bareskrim masih mempertimbangkan surat permohonan itu.Direktur Tindak Pidana Ekonomi Khusus Bareskrim Polri Brigjen Pol Kamil Razak mengatakan, agar permohonan penangguhan itu dapat disetujui, harus ada beberapa persyaratan yang harus dipenuhi. ...
MERDEKA.COM. Enam perampok rumah kosong yaitu Heri (28), Riki (31), Epoy (29), Andriansyah (35), Yulianto (29), dan Ali (32) dibekuk oleh Tim Jatanras Polres Metro Jakarta Utara. Keenam perampok itu ditembak polisi karena melawan saat ditangkap.Kasatreskrim Polres Metro Jakarta Utara AKBP Azhar Nugroho mengatakan, salah satu pelaku bahkan sempat menodongkan senjata api (senpi) ke arah polisi. Selain itu, empat dari keenam pelaku merupakan kelompok kemayoran yaitu Heri, Riki, Epoy dan Andriansyah yang beraksi dengan sasaran rumah mewah di kawasan Ancol, Pademangan."Mereka menyasar rumah kosong. ...
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's spy agency and national police force are so constrained by a lack of resources that they can’t keep close track of all the Islamic extremists who may be a potential threat at home and they have also had to abandon some counter-espionage work and criminal investigations, according to current and former intelligence and police officials. ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Czech Tomas Berdych booked his place in the ATP World Tour Finals for the fifth time in a row when he advanced into the semi-finals of the Paris Masters with a 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 victory over South African Kevin Anderson on Friday. The fifth-seeded Berdych, who won on his Bercy debut in 2005, is the sixth player to secure his place in the November 9-16 elite eight-man event in London. ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Member of Parliament Dean Del Mastro, a former aide to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was found guilty in an Ontario court on Friday of violations under the Canada Elections Act, local media reported. Del Mastro, who currently sits as an independent in the House of Commons and once served as Harper's parliamentary secretary, was found guilty of going over campaign expense limits among other charges. ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal budget deficit declined to C$316 million ($280 million) in August from C$2.04 billion in the same month a year earlier, Department of Finance figures showed on Friday. For the first five months of the fiscal year, April through August, the deficit fell to C$1.12 billion from C$6.58 billion in the same period last year. ...
OTTAWA - A top United Nations official praised the Harper government Thursday as a global champion for human rights in what amounted to a strong rebuttal to critics of the government's foreign policy.
CALGARY Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Thursday it is planning a new, C$1.5 billion ($1.34 billion) natural gas pipeline serving southern Ontario and Quebec, as it converts other lines to oil service as part of its massive Energy East pipeline project. Canada's second largest pipeline operator said its 250-kilometer (155-mile) Eastern Mainline Pipeline project will have a capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day and ensure natural gas can reach growing markets in Canada's two most populous provinces. ...
A newly described fungal disease is killing salamanders and newts in Europe and could soon land on U.S. The disease invades the skin of salamanders and newts, and is related to another fungus that has been wiping out frog and other amphibian populations around the world. "If it gets here, it's going to be really bad," said Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland who participated in the new research. That's because the United States is home to the world hotspot of salamander diversity: More species of salamander live in the southern Appalachian Mountains than anywhere else on the planet, according to the North Carolina-based Highlands Biological Station.
Rosie the Riveter's old plant in Michigan has officially avoided the wrecking ball. Yankee Air Museum board chairman Ray Hunter signed papers Thursday making the aviation museum the owner of a 144,000-square-foot ...
By Alastair Macdonald and Pavel Polityuk BRUSSELS/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia, Ukraine and the European Union are likely to conclude an accord on Thursday that would see Moscow resume gas supplies to its ex-Soviet neighbor over the winter, EU and Ukrainian officials said. Nothing is certain after months of hard bargaining. But Russian negotiators, who broke off three-way talks overnight saying a deal depended on firmer EU commitments to Kiev to help it pay, returned to Brussels to renew trilateral discussions. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to Myanmar President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in separate telephone calls on Thursday, the White House said. Obama is due to make his second presidential visit to Myanmar in mid-November to attend a pair of regional summits, amid growing U.S. concerns about human rights abuses in Myanmar, including jailing of journalists and alleged oppression of stateless Rohingya Muslims and ethnic minorities caught in conflict with government troops. ...
MERDEKA.COM. Masih ingat dengan Sumardirejo alias Klewang, pria paruh baya yang disebut-sebut sebagai ketua Geng Motor Pekanbaru yang terlibat sejumlah aksi kriminalitas. Narapidana tersebut kini masih mendekam di penjara akibat sejumlah ulahnya.Namun, kali ini anak Klewang yang berbuat ulah, yakni Feb alias Colo (18) warga Siak Hulu, Kampar terpaksa berurusan dengan polisi untuk kedua kalinya. Feb diduga melakukan aksi pencurian dengan membongkar rumah dan melarikan satu unit televisi. ...
A newly described fungal disease is killing salamanders and newts in Europe and could soon land on U.S. The disease invades the skin of salamanders and newts, and is related to another fungus that has been wiping out frog and other amphibian populations around the world. "If it gets here, it's going to be really bad," said Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland who participated in the new research. That's because the United States is home to the world hotspot of salamander diversity: More species of salamander live in the southern Appalachian Mountains than anywhere else on the planet, according to the North Carolina-based Highlands Biological Station.
A newly described fungal disease is killing salamanders and newts in Europe and could soon land on U.S. The disease invades the skin of salamanders and newts, and is related to another fungus that has been wiping out frog and other amphibian populations around the world. "If it gets here, it's going to be really bad," said Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland who participated in the new research. That's because the United States is home to the world hotspot of salamander diversity: More species of salamander live in the southern Appalachian Mountains than anywhere else on the planet, according to the North Carolina-based Highlands Biological Station.
A NASA spacecraft has spotted the place where one of its brethren slammed into the surface of the moon six months ago. The agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photographed a new lunar crater that researchers say is the grave of NASA's LADEE probe, which ended its mission with an intentional crash onto the moon's surface on April 18, 2014. LADEE's grave lies about 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) from the eastern rim of the larger Sundman V crater, just 0.2 miles (0.3 km) north of the spot where mission team members predicted the spacecraft would go down based on tracking data, NASA officials said. "I'm happy that the LROC team was able to confirm the LADEE impact point," LADEE project manager Butler Hine, of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, said in a statement.
By Alice Mannette WICHITA Kan. (Reuters) - A small airplane crashed into a building at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday morning, killing at least four people, injuring five and setting off an explosion and fire, officials said. The twin-turbo airplane struck a building on the airport grounds that does pilot training and at least five people were reported missing, officials said. I rushed over," said Lana Johnson, 65, who was in a post office near the airport when the plane crashed. The pilot of the airplane, which was identified as a twin-engine turbo-prop Beechcraft King Air 200, reported losing engine power just after taking off from the airport and crashed as it tried to return, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Liberia is making some progress in containing the Ebola outbreak while the crisis in Sierra Leone is going to get worse, the top anti-Ebola officials in the two countries said.
A nurse who vowed to defy Maine's voluntary quarantine for health care workers who treated Ebola patients followed through on her promise Thursday, leaving her home for an hour-long bike ride.
Leading international donor organisations have pledged $3 billion to help save the shrinking Aral Sea -- the worst man-made ecological catastrophe ever.
A NASA spacecraft has spotted the place where one of its brethren slammed into the surface of the moon six months ago. The agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photographed a new lunar crater that researchers say is the grave of NASA's LADEE probe, which ended its mission with an intentional crash onto the moon's surface on April 18, 2014. LADEE's grave lies about 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) from the eastern rim of the larger Sundman V crater, just 0.2 miles (0.3 km) north of the spot where mission team members predicted the spacecraft would go down based on tracking data, NASA officials said. "I'm happy that the LROC team was able to confirm the LADEE impact point," LADEE project manager Butler Hine, of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, said in a statement.
