Germany offers tsunami alert system | News

 Posted on May 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  281 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Germany said it has agreed to help Indonesia set up an early warning system against tsunamis such as the 26 December Indian Ocean wave that killed nearly 300,000 people. Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn signed an agreement with her Indonesian counterpart Kusmayanto Kadiman in Jakarta on Monday to provide a $58 million system developed by the Geoscientific Research Institute (GFZ) at Potsdam near Berlin, the ministry said in a statement. Sri Lanka and other neighbouring countries have also expressed interest in the technology, which measures shocks and provides real-time warnings of undersea earthquakes as they occur, the ministry said. [Read More]

Natural disaster or man-made, why was Libya so vulnerable to floods? | News

 Posted on May 10, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  900 words  |  Larita Shotwell

The process of retrieving the bodies washing up on Derna’s shores continues, as the death toll carries on increasing. According to the Libyan Red Crescent, more than 11,300 are now confirmed to have died after Storm Daniel hit the eastern Libyan city on Sunday and Monday, leading to the failure of two dams, which burst and unleashed torrents of water through a dry riverbed and onto the city. The mayor of Derna says the death toll could be even higher – as much as 20,000 – after whole neighbourhoods were swept away into the sea. [Read More]

Kehlani -- I Tried to Kill Myself ... Over Kyrie Irving Cheating Rumo

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  280 words  |  Martina Birk

R&B singer Kehlani says she was so devastated over rumors she cheated on her boyfriend Kyrie Irving, she tried to kill herself Monday night ... but fortunately, she survived. Kehlani posted the ordeal on Instagram -- showing a pic of herself with an IV in her arm in a hospital bed with the caption, "I wanted to leave this earth. Being completely selfish for once. Never thought I'd get to such a low point. [Read More]

Fans panic as all traces of huge pop star dubbed the 'Japanese Madonna' are scrubbed from the intern

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  620 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

The pop singer dubbed the 'Japanese Madonna' has left fans upset and panicked after all traces of her vanished offline.  Namie Amuro, 46, is a huge star in Japan with a career spanning over 30 years, with 12 albums, 40 million record sales and 10 number one singles.    She announced that she was retiring from music back in 2017 after completing her final tour the following year.  However in recent months, not only has Namie dropped out of the public eye, so has all her work. [Read More]

Free read! Wonder by RJ Palacio | Children's books

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  123 words  |  Martina Birk

Auggie wants to be an ordinary 10-year-old. He does ordinary things: eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school – and he's dreading it. [Read More]

Mumford & Sons Delta Is Hit or Miss

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1113 words  |  Aldo Pusey

There’s a specific point in the trajectory of every musical act with stadium-size ambitions where they start conceptualizing the live show from the studio, where Coldplay starts tracking down U2’s producers, where Arcade Fire seeks input from James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Populist appeal, the logic seems to follow, involves touching as many demographics as possible, and bands that come in with a strong but very specific sound all seem to grow peculiar new interests right around album four. [Read More]

Thanasi Kokkinakis parents: Trevor Kokkinakis and Voula Kokkinakis

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  259 words  |  Martina Birk

Australian tennis player Athanasios “Thanasi” Kokkinakis is known mostly for his doubles expertise. A professional since 2013, the 26-year-old reached his highest doubles rating of No. 15 in the world in November 2022. When he and Nick Kyrgios won the Australian Open doubles championship in 2022, it was a career-high point. In 2015 at the French Open, Kokkinakis advanced to the third round, his best performance in a Grand Slam tournament. [Read More]

Who inherited Eva Gabors money? Celebrity.fm #1 Official Stars, Business & People Network

 Posted on May 9, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1125 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

Gabor reportedly left the entirety of her estate to her final husband, 74-year-old Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who is “pretty much divesting of everything,” according to Mani. Then What is Conrad Hilton worth? On December 25, 2007, Barron Hilton announced that he would leave about 97% of his fortune, then estimated at US$2.36 billion (equivalent to $2.95 billion in 2020), to a charitable unitrust that would eventually be merged with the Conrad N. [Read More]

Eagles' Josh Sills Indicted for Rape, Kidnapping Before Super Bowl

 Posted on May 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  665 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Update 2/2/23 1:15 PM ET: The NFL confirmed that Philadelphia Eagles offensive guard Josh Sills was placed on the Commissioner Exempt List and will not play in the Super Bowl after being indicted on charges of rape and kidnapping. “Sills may not participate in practices and games or travel with the team while on the Commissioner Exempt List,” the league said in a statement on Wednesday, February 1. “The matter will be reviewed under the NFL’s personal conduct policy. [Read More]