What's in the news today?

[alp]

Scorched cat dies hours after being plucked from devastating wildfire: Tabby nicknamed 'Billiegirl' after California street where it was found passes away at rescue centre amid fears thousands of animals will not survive the blazes

• Hundreds of animals rescued from the wildfires across California, US
• Unknown number of pets and wild animals have died in the flames
• Human death toll of Camp Fire reached 42, an additional two have died in Malibu
  
  
  
  
  
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  What devastation! At least, it lives to tell the tale!

 

[Gail_68]

OMG it's terrible to see and i'm an animal lover...these fires need more back up than what trumps willing to give

 

[alp]

Don't think the poor rabbit is going to make it. A lot of properties have been destroyed and lives loss! RIP! I wish they would hose down their properties as much as possible before the fire. Someone's house got saved as the owner had the presence of mind to hose down the whole house and the fire jumped to other houses.

 

[Gail_68]

Don't think the poor rabbit is going to make it. A lot of properties have been destroyed and lives loss! RIP! I wish they would hose down their properties as much as possible before the fire. Someone's house got saved as the owner had the presence of mind to hose down the whole house and the fire jumped to other houses.

I read some history novels and I've read about properties being hosed when battles was going on and you've just mentioned it, it would help them more like you say.
Terrible issue though alp and like you say RIP for all lives lost human or animals

 

[alp]

Boy, 15, is given six points on a driving licence he doesn't yet have after being caught at 'high speeds' on an electric SCOOTER

• Boy was caught riding his scooter at high speeds by Cleveland police officers
• The six points will be applied to the boy's driving licence when he applies for it
• It comes after move to crackdown on nuisance motorbikes by police and council
  
  Some jobsworth!
  
  Cleveland police officers should have made him pick litter or other community service instead!

 

[alp]

Some parents we have in this world

'If he didn't kill the kids, I want him to face that and let them prove it': Parents of Chris Watts say they want him to retract his guilty plea because he was 'railroaded into it and only murdered his wife after SHE strangled their kids'

• Chris Watts pleaded guilty last week to murdering his wife and their daughters
• Ronnie and Cynthia Watts said they want their son to take back his guilty plea
• 'If he didn't kill the children, I want him to face that and let them prove it,' Ronnie said
• Bodies of Shanann, 34, and daughters Celeste and Bella were found in August
• Until last week, he claimed Shanann strangled girls because he was leaving her
• He said he then strangled Shanann in a rage and dumped all of the bodies
• Watts faces life in prison but has been spared death penalty as part of plea deal

... Chris Watts had initially denied the murders which happened in August this year. ..

Watts' wife Shanann and their daughters Celeste and Bella were found dead in oil tanks just days after he reported them missing and made shifty television appearances pleading for them to come home.

Shanann was found in a shallow grave in a crude oil field where her husband worked.

She was 15 weeks pregnant with a baby boy who she planned to name Nico. It later emerged that Watts had been cheating on his wife. ...

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Shanann was 15 weeks pregnant with a baby boy she was going to name Nico at the time of her tragic death

The plea deal was approved by Shanann's family who told the district attorney they did not want to end his life as he did their daughter's and grandchildren's.
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When the bodies were found, Watts changed his story to say his wife killed the girls after he told her he was leaving her.

He claimed he then killed her in a vengeful rage for murdering them.

As part of his defense, his lawyers refused to hand over DNA samples from his hands and feet, likely to stop prosecutors from being able to match it to any found on the girls or their mother's body.

Because the girls' bodies were in oil for three days before they were found, any DNA evidence left on them is likely to have been compromised.

.... The victims' autopsy reports remain under seal. Rourke said he was 'sick' and 'saddened' over the case.

And one comment

dejavue51, Portland, United States, 6 minutes ago

Delusional parents: he killed his wife then the kids!!

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He should have to face death penalty! Who else killed his pregnant wife?

 

[alp]

OK, he has been damaging to democracy, but he does have gems which make me giggle

Fighting talk: Merkel calls for the creation of a 'real, true' European army... as Trump says 'they were learning German in Paris' until America showed up in WWII and publicly taunts Macron over his unpopularity and wine tariffs

• The German Chancellor called for EU army in speech to ministers in Strasbourg
• Her remark drew widespread applause but some boos from the lawmakers
• Comes after Emmanuel Macron put forward the same idea on French television
• Also comes after President Trump joked that the French 'were learning German before the US came along' and called on leaders to pay their way in NATO
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So far, I have only found 2 or 3 of these gems!

 

[alp]

One third of ALL food produced worldwide is thrown out before it hits consumers' plates, study finds

• New report found 1.3 billion metric tons of food is wasted worldwide each year
• This amounts to one third of food produced for humans, adds up to $1 trillion
• Still, report found that billions of people around the world have inadequate diet
  
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Hope the wonky produce campaign picks up!

 

[Gail_68]

Boy, 15, is given six points on a driving licence he doesn't yet have after being caught at 'high speeds' on an electric SCOOTER

• Boy was caught riding his scooter at high speeds by Cleveland police officers
• The six points will be applied to the boy's driving licence when he applies for it
• It comes after move to crackdown on nuisance motorbikes by police and council
  
  Some jobsworth!
  
  Cleveland police officers should have made him pick litter or other community service instead!

There's quite a few in the summer here go like mad on them on pathways and on the roads...idiots

 

[alp]

There's quite a few in the summer here go like mad on them on pathways and on the roads...idiots

They don't even have a driving licence. How can the police give them points???? LOL!

 

[alp]

China builds an 'artificial sun' that can hit temperatures of 180 MILLION degrees F in its quest to produce near-limitless cheap energy

• The state-of-the-art machine is designed to replicate the processes of the sun
• It hit a landmark this week when it reached 180 million F for the first time
• This is believed to be the temperature at which nuclear fusion occurs
  
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[Gail_68]

They don't even have a driving licence. How can the police give them points???? LOL!

I know where you coming from as it sounds sick really...another way of cutting crime in their eyes

 

[Gail_68]

@alp they're getting those fires under control more now mate

 

[alp]

Don't you just feel sorry for the teens these days. Bombarded with crazy trends and social media dumbing down, they don't even know what hits them.

Teenagers set themselves on FIRE as part of a new social media 'challenge' that is leaving them in hospital with serious burns

• The Fire Challenge has seen children setting themselves on fire for online 'likes'
• Children have ended up in hospital with serious burns all over their skin
• A rise in the number of cases has been seen in Wales in recent months
• Specialist staff at Swansea's Morriston Hospital have warned children not to do it
  
  

 

[alp]

Battle to save Mufasa from hunters: Rare white lion is at risk of being sold off and SHOT after South African authorities agree to put the animal up for auction

• Mufasa was confiscated in South Africa as a cub and handed to a wildlife centre
• Lion is infertile and activists fear his only value would be through sale for hunting
• South African authorities are said to have agreed to put the animal up for auction
• More than 230,000 people have signed a petition to save the rare white lion

Shame on the South African authorities involved!

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