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A wall of smoke hovers over Fraser Island, a popular tourist destination in Australia, as the six-week-long bushfires continue to rage and burn out of control. Footage recorded by @thor_thesailingdog on November 29 at Great Sandy Straits Marina in Hervey Bay shows the wall of smoke. @thor_thesailingdog said: "The fire is now very close to the Kingfisher Bay Resort, which has been evacuated." Weather conditions in the last few days have worsened the fire situation, with resorts on the island asking guests to evacuate.

Facebook's "Supreme Court" has officially picked its first cases.

The Facebook Oversight Board, an independent body launched this year to review appeals of Facebook's content moderation decisions, on Tuesday announced it has chosen six cases, USA Today reports.

Three of the cases concern content removed for violating Facebook's hate speech policy, as the Oversight Board outlined in an announcement. In one case, a user whose post was removed said they shared screenshots of "horrible... Читать дальше...

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ABC’s American Idol winner in 2019, Laine Hardy released his take on the Christmas classic, “Please Come Home for Christmas” in September. He also released other new music this year, “Other LA” in October, “Tiny Town” in July and “Ground I Grew Up On” and “Let There Be Country” in April of this year.

Tuesday night's Champions League fixture list is headlined by a mouthwatering tie between two of European football's heavyweights. But how can Atletico Madrid stop Bayern's incredible run?

The Indian government and protesting farmers have been unable to reach common ground in talks held Tuesday, with the farmers saying their demonstrations against new agriculture laws will continue as will their blockades of key highways

A confused mum shared a picture of her six-year-old daughter's maths homework, which challenged students to work out the number of starfish that could be in a tank, asking for two possible answers

Zombies allow players to bring their own custom loadout to the game mode. This guide will give the best one in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

LYNDON, Vt. (AP) —

Northern Vermont University has received a $3.5 million gift from an alumnus of Lyndon State College.

The school announced Monday that the gift from Mark Valade is the largest in the Vermont State College System's history.

Valade is the CEO of Carhartt, Inc., and the great-grandson of the founder of Carhartt, Hamilton Carhartt, the Caledonian Record reported. Lyndon State College merged with Johnson State College in 2018 to create Northern Vermont University. Читать дальше...

The war between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front is stil raging in Ethiopia’s Tigray region despite...

Josh McDaniels hasn’t lost faith in Cam Newton. Asked Tuesday whether he still has confidence in Newton as a passer after the New England Patriots quarterback’s ugly performance against the Arizona Cardinals, McDaniels immediately replied, “Absolutely.” Newton threw for a career-low 84 yards in Sunday’s 20-17 win over the Cardinals and posted a career-worst 23.6 […]

We pick 12 real-life winter wonderlands from charming Alpine villages to epic national parks - get ready for a dose of wanderlust

Ozil, the club's highest-paid player on £350,000-per-week, has been axed from Mikel Arteta's Premier League and Europa League squads and his days at Arsenal appear numbered.

Every day until Friday, December 25, we’ll present one new image of our universe from NASA’s orbiting telescope.

Joe DiGenova’s comments condemned as ‘behaviour befitting a mob attorney’

The Christmas tree that currently sits in my living room is fake—a tough call that I made on the fly after pricing out a real tree. She’s decorated within an inch of her life, covered in the dollar store’s finest frippery—ribbons stuffed in the gaps for fluff, gold ornaments everywhere, and two strings of lights…

The global economy may get back to pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year as vaccines help propel recovery, but growth is likely to be uneven, the OECD said on Tuesday. Signs that vaccines could now be weeks away from distribution have injected cautious optimism as the year limps to a close with COVID-19 having claimed some 1.4 million lives. “For the first time since the pandemic began, there is now hope for a brighter future,” OECD chief economist Laurence Boone wrote in her introduction to... Читать дальше...

BAYER LEVERKUSEN winger Leon Bailey says his new son Leo Cristiano is not named after Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo The Jamaican claims the baby’s name is ‘nothing to do with football’ despite the obvious similarities. Leon and long-term partner Stephanie celebrated the birth of their first child in June. And having called the little […]

Robots might have already taken over industries like manufacturing, but when it comes to more creative endeavors, like the arts, humans still hold a strong lead. But for how long? Disney’s researchers have created a system that allows human artists to teach aspiring robotic Michelangelos how to sculpt clay using tools…

1. Brussels Covid lockdown orgy: Hungarian MEP for anti-LGBT party resigns  Daily Mail
2. Belgian police arrest 25 men including MEP as 'sex party' breaks curfew  The Guardian
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Mason Walters of the University of Jamestown is this week's GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports men's basketball player-of-the-week.  Walters, a sophomore from Jamestown, North Dakota, posted back-to-back double-doubles in helping Jamestown to a pair of road wins last week. He scored 13 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in a win over Hastings, one board away from the all-time UJ record. Walters followed that up with 20 points and 12 rebounds in a win over Doane while also blocking three shots. He currently leads the NAIA with seven double-doubles. Читать дальше...

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come out in support of Edinson Cavani as the Uruguay striker is asked to explain a controversial social media post in which he used a racial term