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The Scottish model whose career took off at 60

Media captionGillean McLeod was 60 when a swimsuit photoshoot launched her modelling career Gillean McLeod only had her first professional photos taken when she was in her early 50s and her career as a model did not take off until a swimsuit shoot at the age…

bubmagSeptember 22, 2019

Nukes

Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, ‘The Man Who Saved the World,’ Dies at 77

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer, poses at his home in 2015 near Moscow. In 1983, he was on duty when the Soviet Union's early warning satellite indicated the U.S. had fired nuclear weapons at his country. He suspected, correctly, it was a f…

bubmagSeptember 22, 2019

Free Internet

The real threat from China isn’t “spy trains”

Bruce Schneier is the author of "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN)The trade war with China has reached a new industry: subw…

bubmagSeptember 22, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Salvini: ‘Milan are laughable!’

Italian politician Matteo Salvini slammed Milan after their 2-0 derby defeat to Inter. “This team is laughable! Maybe it wasn’t Gennaro Gattuso’s fault.” The former Deputy Prime Minister was in the stands at San Siro to watch Marcelo Brozovic and Romelu Luka…

bubmagSeptember 22, 2019

Drones

Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings

"A former Google engineer who worked on the company's infamous military drone project has sounded a warning against the building of killer robots," reports Business Insider.Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger quotes their report: Laura Nolan had been workin…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Yellow Vests

More than 100 arrested in Paris ‘yellow vest’ protests

Over a hundred demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as about 7,500 police were deployed to deal with the movement's radical anarchist "black blocs" strand. After first marching with the yellow vests, around 1,000 radical d…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Trade War

Trump’s Trade War Hammering Farmers, Factory Workers In Crucial Wisconsin

EAST TROY, Wis. –Farm Aid musicians who over three-and-a-half decades have helped farmers cope with torrential floods, withering draughts and epidemics of bank foreclosures this year added a new calamity to their list: President Donald Trump’s trade war. “Wi…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Yellow Vests

More than 100 arrested in Paris ‘yellow vest’ protests

Over a hundred demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as about 7,500 police were deployed to deal with the movement's radical anarchist "black blocs" strand. After first marching with the yellow vests, around 1,000 radical d…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

AR-15

FBI, Police Face Spike in Active Shooter Tips Following Mass Shootings

(LOS ANGELES) — It had all the makings of a massacre. Six guns, including a Colt AR-15 rifle. About 1,000 rounds of ammunition. A bulletproof vest. And an angry Southern California man who threatened to kill his co-workers at a hotel and its guests. But a co…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

Panda

Peace comes at last to prince(ss) of pandas

To the casual observer, the news of the death of a panda bear in Chiang Mai last Monday may have elicited queries as to why it attracted such prominent media coverage. I mean, floods are ravaging the Northeast. Tourist numbers are way down. The economy is in…

bubmagSeptember 21, 2019

The Scottish model whose career took off at 60

Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, ‘The Man Who Saved the World,’ Dies at 77

The real threat from China isn’t “spy trains”

Salvini: ‘Milan are laughable!’

Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings

More than 100 arrested in Paris ‘yellow vest’ protests

Trump’s Trade War Hammering Farmers, Factory Workers In Crucial Wisconsin

More than 100 arrested in Paris ‘yellow vest’ protests

FBI, Police Face Spike in Active Shooter Tips Following Mass Shootings

Peace comes at last to prince(ss) of pandas

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