| Trump promises to ‘handle’ North Korea Posted: 31 Jul 2017 10:49 AM PDT  Following North Korea's Friday launch of a second ballistic missile in less than a month, President Trump said he wasn't worried about a possible nuclear threat from the belligerent regime.
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| Massive Jailbreak in Alabama Posted: 30 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  A dozen inmates escaped from jail by using peanut butter to trick a new employee into opening an outside door.
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| Officials: Young Afghans trafficked to study under Taliban Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:58 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was a routine check. Two vans, both without license plates, were stopped earlier this month by police in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, where Taliban hold sway in large swaths of the countryside.
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| Philippine militants behead seven loggers: police Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:58 AM PDT  Islamist militants in the Philippines have beheaded seven local loggers they kidnapped last week in their stronghold in the strife-torn south, police said Monday. The bodies of the loggers were found on Sunday in a mountainous village on the island of Basilan, local police chief John Cundo told AFP, blaming the killings on a faction of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group based there. The group of senior Abu Sayyaf leader Furuji Indama abducted and killed the loggers apparently over a local business row rather than for its typical ransom activities, Cundo said.
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| Kenya election official tortured, murdered before vote, officials say Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:52 AM PDT  By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - A senior Kenyan election official was found murdered on Monday, three days after he went missing, poll officials said, as opposition leaders warned the killing could plunge next week's national vote into turmoil. Chris Msando, the election board's head of information, communication and technology, was tortured before he died, the board told journalists, without giving further details. "There's no doubt that he was tortured and murdered," Wafula Chebukati, the chair of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, told journalists outside the City Mortuary.
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| Harvard apologises for erroneously listing Anthony Scaramucci as dead Posted: 31 Jul 2017 04:35 PM PDT  Harvard Law School apologised on Monday after its new alumni directory erroneously listed ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci as dead. The directory included an asterisk next to Scaramucci's name indicating that he had been reported dead since the previous edition was released in 2011. "Regrettably, there is an error in the Harvard Law School alumni directory in the listing for Anthony Scaramucci," Harvard Law spokeswoman Michelle Deakin said in a statement. "We offer our sincere apologies to Mr. Scaramucci. The error will be corrected in subsequent editions." A timeline of Anthony Scaramucci's fall from grace 02:06 The directory is published every five years and is available only to alumni of the Ivy League law school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scaramucci, who left his White House post on Monday after only 11 days on the job, is a 1989 graduate of the law school. He also served as an "expert in residence" there in 2012, according to Harvard Law's website, offering finance and investment advice to students. He founded the SkyBridge Capital investment fund in 2005 and later served as a senior official for the U.S. Export-Import Bank before being named communications director for the White House on July 21. Scaramucci shocked many last week with an expletive-laced interview that targeted then-chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. He later tweeted that he sometimes uses "colourful language" and pledged to refrain. But on Wednesday, the White House announced his resignation only hours after former Gen. John Kelly was sworn in as President Donald Trump's new chief of staff.
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| Clooneys to help 3,000 Syrian children in Lebanon Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:22 PM PDT  George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says around 200,000 Syrian refugee children are out of education. More than one million Syrians -- including over 500,000 children -- are registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing the devastating war that has lasted more than six years in neighboring Syria.
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| Who is Vietnam vet James McCloughan, Medal of Honor recipient? Posted: 31 Jul 2017 07:53 AM PDT  Vietnam War veteran and U.S. Army medic James McCloughan is scheduled to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor Monday, 48 years after he saved the lives of 10 comrades in Vietnam.
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| NASA will get to test its planetary defense system way sooner than we thought Posted: 31 Jul 2017 11:42 AM PDT 
NASA is extremely interested in building a true astroid defense network that could spring into action as soon as a threat is detected, destroying or diverting a space rock before it can do any serious damage here on Earth. The actual development of a protection system is still in its infancy — with many proposed plans for dealing with troublesome astroids but no real-world testing to back any of them — but that won't stop NASA from testing its detection capabilities during an upcoming near-earth astroid flyby in October. Here's how it's going to work.
The astroid named 2012 TC4 is going to make its closest approach to Earth on October 12th, coming incredibly close to our planet. At its nearest point, the rock is expected to be as close as 4,200 miles from our planet. Compare that with our moon's orbit of around 240,000 miles and you have a good idea of how insanely close the space rock will be. The close call makes 2012 TC4 a fantastic guinea pig for NASA's asteroid detection network, which will require the cooperation between many scientists and observatories acting in concert to establish the asteroid's exact path. At present, researchers know enough about the asteroid's path to be confident that it poses no threat to us, but figuring out exactly where it will pass will be a real test of the system. "This is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs across the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near-Earth object observation capabilities," Professor Vishnu Reddy of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said of the event. "The goal of the TC4 campaign is to recover, track and characterize 2012 TC4. "This effort will exercise the entire system, to include the initial and follow-up observations, precise orbit determination, and international communications."
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| Venezuelan leader defiant as US imposes sanctions on him Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:01 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro claimed a popular mandate Monday to dramatically recast Venezuela's political system, dismissing U.S. sanctions imposed on him and condemnations by his domestic opponents and governments around the world.
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| Nissan attacked for one of 'nastiest anti-union campaigns' in modern US history Posted: 01 Aug 2017 04:00 AM PDT  Days before a potentially historic union vote at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, the car company has been accused of running one of the "nastiest anti-union campaigns in the modern history of the American labour movement". The vote, a fiercely contested effort by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union to represent a foreign automaker's US plant, is planned for Thursday and Friday this week. In the closing days of the campaign, which has attracted support from the former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, UAW officials and their allies have become increasingly confident of victory even as managers have pressured workers to vote no. "People are rallying," says Frank Figgers, co-chair of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan.
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| China must decide on further action against North Korea: U.S. ambassador to U.N. Posted: 30 Jul 2017 05:25 PM PDT ![China must decide on further action against North Korea: U.S. ambassador to U.N.]( "China must decide on further action against North Korea: U.S. ambassador to U.N.") By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is "done talking about North Korea" and China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its two long-range missile tests this month, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday. Haley said in a statement that any new U.N. Security Council resolution "that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value." The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers as a show of force after Pyongyang fired a second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday.
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| Toronto man admits killing his family in bid to hide web of lies from fiancée Posted: 01 Aug 2017 03:12 AM PDT  A man has confessed to killing his mother and two of his brothers with a crossbow over fears they would expose his lies about having a job to his fiance weeks before their wedding. Brett Ryan had admitted his past as a bank robber to Kristen Baxter and she still agreed to walk down the aisle. After his mother Susan Ryan threatened to expose his lies to Ms Baxter and cut off financial support, the pair got into a heated argument, an agreed statement of facts submitted to the Ontario Court of Justice.
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| Earth Will Be 2 Degrees Hotter By 2100 Posted: 31 Jul 2017 10:05 PM PDT  Two separate studies published Monday reached similar conclusions about the state of climate change, with one predicting a more dire outcome than the other.
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| Saudi Arabia to launch Red Sea tourism resorts Posted: 01 Aug 2017 12:41 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the launch of a massive tourism project that will turn 50 islands and a string of sites on the Red Sea coast into luxury resorts. It covers more than 180 kilometres (112 miles) on Saudi Arabia's western coastline, stretching from Umm Lajj to Al-Wajh. Initial investments will be provided by the Public Investment Fund before the project is opened to international investors, state news agency SPA reported.
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| John Kelly was angry about James Comey’s dismissal: report Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:09 PM PDT  New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset by the dismissal of FBI director James Comey that he considered resigning from his position as secretary of Homeland Security, according to a new report.
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| Duke of Cambridge leads commemorations on 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele Posted: 30 Jul 2017 11:27 AM PDT  Every night in the Belgian city of Ypres at 8pm sharp, the Last Post echoes out across the Menin Gate. Since 1928 the buglers of the Last Post Association have performed this simple act of remembrance to the 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed here during the First World War. Sometimes they have played in the driving rain that defines this part of Flanders with not a soul watching. On Sunday evening, at an event commemorating the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, the eyes of the world were upon them. Before the service began, the Duke of Cambridge stepped forward to speak on behalf of a nation. "Thank you for the honour that you do us," he said. Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ypres Credit: Getty The event at the Menin Gate was the beginning of two days of commemorations marking the Third Battle of Ypres, latterly known as Passchendaele, which raged between July 31 and Nov 6 1917 causing some 320,000 Allied casualties. The Sir Reginald Blomfield designed Menin Gate is inscribed with the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed around Ypres in the First World War whose graves are not known – 40,537 were members of Britain's Armed Forces. The memorial was unveiled by Field Marshall Lord Plumer in July 1927 who told the assembled families of their fallen loved ones: "He is not missing. He is here." TRHs are joined by over 200 descendants whose ancestors are named on the Gate and representatives from nations who fought on the Salient. pic.twitter.com/V0S7lVnhbj— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) July 30, 2017 The service, attended by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who was wearing a cream dress and hat with a poppy pinned to her chest, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and dignitaries from the 19 nations that fought on the Ypres Salient, was the 30,752nd time the Last Post has played here after the custom was first started by a Belgian policeman. When the final notes echoed off the cobbles of the medieval Belgian city dubbed "Wipers" by the British troops posted here, the chairman of the Last Post Association Benoit Mottrie read the Exhortation. The Duke of Cambridge then laid a wreath alongside King Philippe of Belgium, followed by Theresa May, the Prime Minister. During his reading the Duke, who was wearing a suit with medals pinned to his chest, described how in the First World War, Britain and Belgium stood "shoulder to shoulder". Theresa May in Ypres Credit: James Whatling "One hundred years on, we still stand together, gathering as so many do every night, in remembrance of that sacrifice," he added. During his address, which followed that of the Duke of Cambridge, King Philippe of Belgium spoke of his pride at the people of Ypres for continuing the Last Post tradition for so many years and of "the immense sacrifice" of those who fell here. "Every time we stand here under the Menin Gate, we feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the sacrifice of the men whose names surround us," he said. "This battle, a hundred years ago, makes the bond between our countries strong and everlasting." The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Belgium tonight to attend events to mark the centenary of #Passchendaele100pic.twitter.com/19xDFFEr1w— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) July 30, 2017 After the wreaths were laid, the National Youth Choir of Scotland performed the song, O Valiant Hearts, which was adapted from a poem by John Stanhope Arkwright and has become known as the Ypres Hymn. As they sang, 54,391 poppy petals cascaded from the top of the Menin Gate – one for each name inscribed within its Portland stone arches. Around 200 descendants of those who fought in Passchendaele have travelled out to Belgium for the centenary commemorations which continue today at Tyne Cot Cemetery. Among those in Ypres on Sunday evening was Caroline Price, whose father, Colonel Cyril Helm, was in command of the 42nd Field Ambulance at Passchendaele. The 67-year-old from Kent recalls him first taking her to the Menin Gate aged just 10. "He stood there and cried," she said. "He had lost so many friends. It was a horrendous time for him." Duchess of Cambridge arriving at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium Credit: Chris Radburn Alan Evans, a retired Royal Navy petty officer had travelled out to pay tribute to his great uncle Thomas George Evans who had signed up to fight with the Liverpool Pals Battalion at the onset of war and survived the Somme and countless other battles before losing his life at Passchendaele on Sept 20 at the age of 28. Evans has managed to get hold of the battalion diary for the day he was killed which records one officer killed, four wounded, 14 other ranks killed and 16 others wounded. "They said that was a good day for Passchendaele," the 56-year-old says. Following the service at the Menin Gate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a commemoration event in Ypres Market Square. Dame Helen Mirren started the performance with a reading of the poem, In Flanders Fields, written by the Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae during the second battle of Ypres in 1915. She was followed by Ian Hislop who performed extracts from the Wipers Times, a play he wrote based on the satirical trench newspaper first produced in 1916 by two British soldiers holed up beneath the Ypres ramparts. Duchess of Cambridge and Queen of Belgium Credit: Stephen Lock / i-Images There was also a reading by the author Michael Morpurgo of his new short story, From Farm Horse to War Horse, specially written for the centenary event. The story is a follow-up to his children's book, War Horse, which in 2007 was adapted into an extraordinarily successful National Theatre production. The life-size puppet of Joey from the play accompanied Morpurgo in Ypres Market Square. His new story began with a grandfather recounting to his grandson the horrors of the war. "Just staying alive was the difficult bit," he says. "The worst was at Passchendaele. Hell on earth." Throughout the evening images from the battle were projected on to the Ypres Cloth Hall, along with footage of veterans recorded after the war. Private Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier from the Western Front who died in 2009 at the age of 111 recalled Passchendaele simply as "mud, mud, mud" – what unspeakable events were obscured by the morass he could never bring himself to say. The evening ended with a projection of soldiers walking past the Menin Gate, a route so many once took only to never return A century on and the footsteps of the fallen still ring out. Their sacrifice is not forgotten.
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| Venezuela: more than 8 million grant government more power Posted: 30 Jul 2017 09:43 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan electoral authorities said more than 8 million people voted Sunday to create a constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro's ruling socialist party with virtually unlimited powers — a report more than double the estimates of independent experts and opposition leaders who met the announcement with fury and derision.
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| Ford’s Mustang is getting a ‘Good Neighbor Mode’ thanks to an engineer’s angry neighbors Posted: 01 Aug 2017 07:33 AM PDT 
Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, you've likely experienced the unfiltered rage that comes with being disturbed by a particularly loud car or motorcycle passing by your home. It can be incredibly annoying, especially if it jolts you out of an otherwise pleasant slumber, but Ford thinks it has a solution, and it's all thanks to a little incident between a former Ford engineer and his ticked-off neighbors. The 2018 Ford Mustang will come with what is being casually referred to as "Good Neighbor Mode." Activated within the vehicle's dash menu system, the quiet mode seeks to mute much of the rumble of the exhaust pipes in an effort to keep your neighborhood from turning against you. It can be set manually or activated on a set schedule, automatically turning on or off depending on the time of day. Steve von Forester is responsible for the neighborly new feature. He's the former head of vehicle engineering at Ford and now leads the team which designs and tweaks the overall user experience. Von Forester is also a Mustang owner with a V8 Shelby GT350, which had a habit of rustling his neighbors' feathers. After one particularly touchy situation in which one neighbor called 911 to complain about his loud exhaust, Von Forester came up with the idea for the quiet exhaust option. Along with an overall calmer exhaust note, the newest Mustangs will also get a "Quiet Start" option, which will prevent the vehicle from roaring as the driver turns the key. These features should add up to an overall more suburb-friendly sports car, but that's only if Mustang owners actually decide to use them.
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| MS-13: a ruthless Latino gang that preys on its own Posted: 01 Aug 2017 06:28 AM PDT  The ultra-violent Latino street gang MS-13, which President Trump vowed to wipe out in a speech in suburban New York on Friday, is estimated to have some 10,000 members in the United States. Each of these units is loyal to the broader gang but has its own leader and functions differently, says Hector Silva of Insight Crime, a Washington-based center that studies organized crime in Latin America. Many were born in the United States.
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| Shark Attacks 2 12-Year-Old Girls On South Carolina Beach Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:20 AM PDT  One of the children had to be transported to a nearby hospital.
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| Trump just can't seem to make his mind up about China Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:20 AM PDT  Trump can't seem to work out his feelings towards China. The U.S. president attacked China on social media, just a day after North Korea tested out a ballistic missile that it claims can reach as far as the U.S. SEE ALSO: Trump started a Twitter war with China, and it worked: China's mad "I am very disappointed in China...they do NOTHING for us with North Korea," he posted in a series of tweets on Saturday. I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017 ...they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017 Just a month ago however, Trump had posted tweets to a different tune, saying he "greatly appreciated" China's efforts to help out with North Korea. While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017 Trump's latest tweets also come in direct contrast to the statements he made in April, where he said that he realised it was "not so easy" for China to negotiate with North Korea. "After listening [to Mr Xi explaining the history of China and Korea] I realised it's not so easy," Trump told the Wall Street Journal during President Xi's visit to his Mar-a-Lago estate. "I felt pretty strongly that [China] had a tremendous power over North Korea. But it's not what you would think." But if you look back just a little over a year ago, Trump was pretty disdainful towards China. In March 2016, he accused China of doing "little to help," and "playing the U.S. for years." North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been "playing" the United States for years. China has done little to help! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2017 Later in December 2016, he came out, guns blazing, criticising China's monetary policy. Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into.. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016 their country (the U.S. doesn't tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don't think so! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016 Those tweets were widely cited in Chinese media, and the White House had to reassure the Chinese government that the U.S. did not mean to undermine China. Experts: Don't look to China According to some experts, Trump is going to remain disappointed if he continues to count on China to mediate for peace with North Korea. Ben Rhodes, a foreign policy adviser under Barack Obama, took to Twitter to express his views, replying to Trump's tweet: It is not at all true that China can easily solve this problem and this is a very dangerous and destabilizing approach. https://t.co/xmV3HaO9Pj — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 30, 2017 Another analyst also agrees with Rhodes. "Don't look for the Chinese to help us on North Korea," Harry Kazianis, director of defence studies at the Centre for the National Interest, a DC think-tank, told CNBC. "If you look at it from the Chinese eyes, they are probably actually more scared of North Korea than we are." WATCH: Trump is getting crushed at his own handshake game
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| Mexican teenager dies after drinking liquid meth in front of smiling US border officers Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:12 AM PDT  A 16-year-old died after he took several sips of liquid meth in front of smiling and laughing border patrol officers to prove it was "apple juice". Mexican high school student Cruz Velazquez was shown on CCTV footage taking the drink after he was stopped from entering the US at a border crossing. The footage, obtained three years later, showed the jovial behaviour of the officers and the context of the teenager's death for the first time.
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| Archaeologists at Angkor Wat find large buried statue Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:30 AM PDT  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex studying the site of a hospital from eight to nine centuries ago say they have found a large statue in their excavations.
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| iPhone 8: Rumours, release date and everything you need to know Posted: 01 Aug 2017 07:32 AM PDT  Apple is gearing up to release its new iPhone in a few weeks' time. The upcoming iPhone 8 is expected to mark a radical change for the company as it seeks to wow users with a 10th anniversary device. The iPhone 8, if indeed it is called that, has been rumoured to include features such as wireless charging, an edge-to-edge display and - for the first time - no home button. Here's what we're expecting from the iPhone 8 release. When will it be released? Apple has developed a pretty reliable release pattern. A new iPhone tends to be unveiled in early September, either on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Perhaps by coincidence, it often tends to be the week after IFA, a big technology conference in Germany, which this year starts on September 1. That means the best guess is Tuesday September 5 or Wednesday September 6. Because the Monday is a US holiday, the Wednesday might be more likely. iPhone release dates The phone then tends to go on sale a week or two later on a Friday, so September 15 or 22 are the best bets. Pre-orders tend to open a week before they go on sale. However, rumours of production delays have been reported by Apple experts and supply chain sources. The latest news hints that the new iPhone will not be sent to consumers until October to November of 2017, according to Japanese news site MacOtakara. What will it be called? Apple has followed a familiar pattern since it released the iPhone 3G back in 2008. It releases a new phone with a major cosmetic change one year and then follows a year later with an improved "s" model. The last iPhone was the iPhone 7 so by that logic the next one would be called the iPhone 7s. However, there are reasons to suggest it could change this year. For one thing, last year's iPhone 7 was less of a radical departure from the iPhones of the previous two years, at least appearance-wise. If Apple does choose to introduce a brand new design, it probably wouldn't want to call it the 7s. The iPhone 8 makes more sense in that case. iPhone evolution Apple may choose to make a splash for its 10th anniversary, though. One rumoured name is the iPhone X. This makes some sense - few of Apple's series make it into double digits before changing their naming conventions (iPhone 13?) - so at some point a change is likely. There's a precedent here in Apple's Mac operating system - it went 1, 2, 3 and so on before switching to OS X. How much will it cost? The iPhone 9 could be Apple's most expensive handset yet, costing more than $1,000 in the US and £800 in the UK, Fast Company reports. At a glance | iPhone sales What will it look like? What will the iPhone 8 look like? What features will it have? Here are some of the most plausible suggestions floating around the rumour mill. Three different phones? For the last three years, Apple has released two phones, a 4.7-inch screen and a "Plus" 5.5-inch screen. But reports suggest a new high-end phone might be in the works for 2017. The third model may have an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen, as opposed to the LCD screens on current iPhones. OLED is an upgrade on LCD in many ways, improving brightness and viewing angles, and is already used in devices such as Samsung's Galaxy S7. iPhone 8 concept Credit: ConceptsiPhone If Apple does introduce a new premium phone, some of the features that are rumoured for the iPhone 8 may only apply to that model. The iPhone 8 might come in a limited range of colours, including no white option. Edge-to-edge display It has long been an ambition of Sir Jony Ive, Apple's design chief, to make an iPhone that looks like one piece of glass, with a screen that covers the whole of the front of the phone. Rumours suggest this might finally come to fruition with the new iPhone 8. Apple could replace the device's aluminium frame with a glass back, and have a screen that curves around the sides. Apple appeared to confirm the rumours in a leak at the end of July. An outline for what could be the company's next phone was discovered in the firmware of the HomePod. It showed an all-screen face. Apple leak in HomePod firmware could be iPhone 8 design Credit: Apple Such a design would allow Apple to increase the screen size of the iPhone without increasing its actual footprint. It has been suggested the new phone will come with 5-inch and 5.8-inch screens. It would also require the front-facing camera to be built into the screen, not to mention... No home button The home button has been a feature of every iPhone since the first one 10 years ago, but Apple may be in a position to get rid of it. It has already introduced advanced pressure-detection technology with 3D Touch, and last year's iPhone 7 had a solid-state home button that vibrates instead of clicks. Supposed leaked photo of the iPhone 8 with no home button Credit: BGR The iPhone screen now also wakes up when the phone is picked up, so there is less need to click a physical home button. Apple has patented a way of embedding Touch ID, its fingerprint reading technology, in the screen, so that might solve security issues. Touch Bar Removing the iPhone's home button could make space for a set of "function" keys similar to the Touch Bar on the new MacBook laptop. These could include short cuts for answering calls, sending messages and accessing popular apps. How the iPhone 8 function keys could look Credit: iDropNews iOS 11 The best indication of how the iPhone 8 could look is Apple's latest software, which was unveiled in June and will ship on the new device. The standout features of iOS 11 are peer-to-peer Apple Pay and a redesigned Control Centre. It also has a revamped Siri and a do not disturb while driving mode. iOS 11: 17 new and hidden features for your Apple iPhone and iPad Wireless charging Batteries are still the big problem with mobile phones - as good as they are, most still last just a day - and battery tech is only making incremental progress. This means manufacturers have focused on technology such as fast charging as a compromise. But Apple could go one better and allow wireless charging. Apple famously removed the iPhone 7's headphone jack, which meant users could not listen to wired headphones and charge their phone through the Lightning port at the same time. Removing the second part of that equation might make sense. Wireless charging technology demonstrated by Energous Credit: Energous Some phones and devices like the Apple Watch already use charging that requires the device to be placed on a inductive pad. Apple going one further and allowing true wireless charging that beams power from the socket would be a real breakthrough. Apples iPhone: a definitive history in pictures
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| Yemeni man executed for rape, murder of 3-year-old Posted: 31 Jul 2017 04:22 AM PDT  Thousands of people gathered in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Monday to witness the public execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl. Mohammed al-Moghrabi, 41, was sentenced to death for the June 25 rape and murder by a court run by the Shiite Huthi rebels who control Sanaa. Moghrabi was first given 100 lashes and then made to lie flat, his face on the ground, and killed by multiple gunshots by security forces to cheers from the crowd.
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| Elephants, tigers kill one human a day in India Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:13 PM PDT  Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures. India has lost vast swathes of forests to urbanisation in recent decades, forcing animals into human-occupied zones. According to the environment ministry, 1,144 people were killed in attacks across India in 1,143 days between April 2014 and May this year.
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| Elon Musk Took To Twitter To Tell Everyone The He Actually Made The First Autonomous Boat Posted: 31 Jul 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Elon Musk responded to a news article on Twitter saying that he actually made the first autonomous boat.
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| Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director; John Kelly has ‘full authority’ Posted: 31 Jul 2017 12:01 PM PDT  President Trump's volatile communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed from his position just 11 days after he was brought into the West Wing.
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| Light up your life with this Amazon sale on solar powered landscape and walkway lights Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:57 AM PDT 
Going to your local home improvement or gardening store is a good option in a pinch, but everyone knows that you'll end up paying more there than you would if you ordered online. It's just the nature of the beast these days, and it definitely applies to home goods and gardening supplies. A perfect example is the Nekteck Solar Powered Garden Spotlight (2-Pack), which is currently on sale for limited time. Use the coupon code L9P29XIS and you'll only pay $19.99 for a 2-pack of these highly rated outdoor spotlights, which are solar powered and perfect for illuminating the facade of your house, your walkways, any landscaping features you might want to draw attention to at night, or even your garden. In a local home improvement store, you're lucky if you can find a decent outdoor spotlight even at twice the price. Here are some key details from the product page: - Upgraded 4th Generation solar outdoor spotlights with 200 Lumen output enhanced LED, Waterproof and Heatproof features to ensure it can withstand all kinds of weather all round the year.
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| Pakistan: Ahead of PM vote, Islamabad crowds root for Khan Posted: 30 Jul 2017 11:51 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's parliament will meet Tuesday to elect a new prime minister after the disqualification of three-term prime minister Nawaz Sharif, as thousands gathered in the capital Islamabad Sunday to voice support for opposition leader Imran Khan.
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| A Grilled Cheese Burger Is The Love Child Between Two Of Your Favorite Foods Posted: 01 Aug 2017 07:20 AM PDT  You'll never look at a cheeseburger the same way.
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| Archbishop of Canterbury declares Sudan new Anglican province Posted: 30 Jul 2017 03:02 PM PDT  Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Sunday declared Sudan the 39th province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, six years after the predominantly Christian south gained independence from the north. The Anglican church in Sudan, a majority Muslim country, has been administered from South Sudan since the 2011 split which followed a civil war that left more than two million people dead. Sunday's ceremony in Khartoum added Sudan to the 85 million-strong worldwide Anglican communion's 38 member churches -- known as provinces -- and six other branches known as extra provincials.
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| Two sisters arrested for knife fight in front of children after night of drinking Posted: 31 Jul 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Two sisters have reportedly been charged with child endangerment after a knife fight in front of children. Jordan and Chelsea Pedro got into the violent fight after a night of heavy drinking in Albuquerque, a court heard. Police officers who arrived at the scene said the apartment was covered in blood.
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| Anthony Scaramucci's wife files for divorce Posted: 31 Jul 2017 10:44 AM PDT  "The View" co-hosts discuss the news about the White House director of communications.
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| President Xi says China loves peace but won't compromise on sovereignty Posted: 31 Jul 2017 09:13 PM PDT  By Philip Wen and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the founding of the People's Liberation Army. China has rattled nerves around Asia and globally with its increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and an ambitious military modernization plan. Relations with self-ruled Taiwan have also worsened since Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party won presidential elections there last year.
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| Incredibly rare white snake found in Australia Posted: 01 Aug 2017 07:08 AM PDT  A bright white snake with an "incredibly rare mutation" has been found in Australia's Northern Territory. The reptile was rescued by a resident in the area and handed into the Territory Wildlife Park where it is currently being cared for. "It is a white slaty grey, which is native to Australia but this one has an incredibly rare mutation, as they are usually a dark brown colour," the park said. "The nocturnal snake will be placed in quarantine at the park to ensure it is free of any nasties that can harm our other animals and then be put on display for everyone to marvel at." Staff said the white snake's black eyes indicate it is leucistic and not albino. They added the snake will not be released back into the wild as it "would be unlikely to live long". "Animals of this colouring are usually 'sitting ducks'," they added. "This one was also in a conflict zone with human pets - so safer with us, and we will make sure she has a good life free of threats. "In an ideal world we would not need to rescue wildlife, but humans have created this situation and we have to try and manage it the best we can." Electrocuted cannibal snakes give workers a massive fright Funniest animals
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| 30 Genius Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas Posted: 01 Aug 2017 09:45 AM PDT |
| Bernie's Pharma Bill Would Save Billions Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:43 PM PDT  A new Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that a bill introduced by Sanders and Senate Democrats allowing foreign drug imports would save the federal government $6 billion. But other Democrats aren't onboard.
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| App-downloading app breaks app-downloading record on app store Posted: 31 Jul 2017 02:43 PM PDT  The Google Play services app, a back-end Android app that makes the Google magic happen on your phone, has broken five billion downloads on the Google Play Store. That's a record and a major milestone for Google's third-party app store, so it's only fitting that it's broken by a Google-owned app that most people probably haven't heard of. The Google Play Services framework is a key part of Google's presence on Android devices. It's a required component of any officially-sanctioned phone that uses Android, and behind the scenes, it's necessary for apps like Maps, Google Wallet, and a myriad of other Google services you probably don't even think about. Given that it's a staple on every single phone running an "official" version of Android, it's no surprise that Google Play Services is the first app to break the five billion download benchmark. We don't actually know how many downloads the app has seen exactly: Google doesn't disclose precise download figures for each app, but instead puts each app in a bracket for downloads. 1,000,000,000-5,000,000,000 was the top category under the old system, but Google's had to invent something new for Google Play Services. Despite the download success, Google Play Services isn't a universally-loved part of Android. Users complain about the space it takes up and the fact that you have to download it as a standalone service, rather than piece-by-piece as many other developers choose to integrate tools.
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