Pentagon: North Korea fired ICBM
From Newsmax The Pentagon says North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday Korea time. The missile traveled 2,800 miles and landed close to Japan and was the first test by Pyongyang since a missile fired over its neighbor…
John Profumo ‘Had Long Relationship With Glamorous Nazi Spy’, MI5 Records Reveal
By Steven Hopkins From Huffington Post UK Gisela Winegard met Profumo at Oxford in the early 1930s. John Profumo, the Tory minister forced to quit after a notorious 1960s sex scandal, also had a long-running relationship with a glamorous Nazi…
India: Woman sexual assault by four members of family in UP
From siasat.com Muzaffarnagar: A woman was allegedly raped in a village here by four members of her family, including her father and brother, for eloping with her boyfriend, police said today. All the accused have been arrested, a police official…
Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Oxford honor
By Joshua Berlinger, From CNN Story highlights “Our reputation is tarnished by honoring those who turn a blind eye to violence,” the Oxford City Council said Suu Kyi’s handling of the Rohingya crisis has been roundly criticized by the West…
Gadget of the week
Facebook rolls out new AI software designed to identify and assist suicidal users By Yoni Heisler From BGR In a testament to how entrenched Facebook has become in our day-to-day lives, it’s not uncommon for users who commit suicide to…
Meals on Wheels Turkey Trot
Cayman Islands Meals on Wheels Turkey Trot Walk/Run 2017 Century Old Turkey Trot Race Tradition Comes to Cayman (November 27, 2017 – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) – There are over 1,000 Turkey Trots across North America. Last year, Cayman joined…
Let’s end it: On World AIDS Day, a look at HIV in the Caribbean
By Sophie Weiner The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s. By 2001, it had become the second-most affected region in the world with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population –…
Doctors treating man for stomach ache discover hundreds of coins and nails in his stomach
By Mike Wehner From BGR It happens to the best of us: There you are, with a months-long stomach ache that you just can’t shake, so you head to the doctor who says you probably have food poisoning. You get…
ECLAC establishes task force for Caribbean’s Debt Swap Initiative.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago:— The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has established a task force to advance ECLAC’s Debt for Climate Adaptation Swap Initiative. The Debt Swap initiative, which…
Puzzles for Nov 29 2017 Number search/Sudoku/Word search/Crossword
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