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Billy Morgan lands world’s first snowboarding backside 1800 quad cork –
British snowboarder Billy Morgan becomes the first person to land a backside 1800 quadruple cork, in Livigno, Italy. Launching from a huge kicker, Morgan does four off-axis flips and five full rotations – that’s one full flip and half a rotation more than the previous biggest trick, a Triple Cork 1620, landed by Yuki Kadano at March’s US Open Slopestyle event. (See Video of the Day) [BBC]
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Gwyneth Paltrow fails $29-a-week food challenge –
Gwyneth Paltrow has admitted she failed in an attempt to feed herself and her family for a week on $29. When she accepted the challenge recently the Oscar-winning actress turned lifestyle guru was ridiculed on social media for her low calorie choices including seven limes and a bunch of coriander. Now, she has conceded that the food didn’t last and she only made it to four days before giving in and tucking into a bag of licorice. [Daily Telegraph]
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Time 100: Emma Watson makes first appearance in the world’s most influential list –
Emma Watson has been recognised as one of the world’s 100 most influential people together with Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the former Argyll salmon farmer who founded the charity, Mary’s Meals. The actress has recently won praise for her United Nations campaign on women’s rights. The former Harry Potter child star is one of four Britons named in the new Time magazine list of the world’s most influential people in for 2015. (See List of the Day) [Daily Telegraph]
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Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people 2015 – [List from time.com]
- Kanye West
- Lorne Michaels
- Mellody Hobson
- Tim Cook
- Elizabeth Holmes
- Charles Koch
- David Koch
- Susan Wojcicki
- Chanda Kochhar
- Tony Fernandes
- Lee Daniels
- Reid Hoffman
- Kim Kardashian
- Janet Yellen
- Danny Meyer
- Lei Jun
- Bob Iger
- Satya Nadella
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
- Misty Copeland
- Scott Kelly
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Jennifer Doudna
- Brian Chesky
- Jimmy Lai
- Emma Watson
- Vikram Patel
- Pardis Sabeti
- Reese Witherspoon
- Bryan Stevenson
- Chai Jing
- Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow
- Kira Orange Jones
- Aura Elena Farfán
- Martin Blaser
- Anita Sarkeesian
- Tom Catena
- Rudolph Tanzi
- Mustafa Hassan
- Laverne Cox
- Sarah Koenig
- Bradley Cooper
- Richard Linklater
- Chris Ofili
- Julianna Margulies
- Amy Schumer
- Alexander Wang
- Jill Soloway
- Chris Pratt
- Audra McDonald
- Tim McGraw
- Kevin Hart
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Julianne Moore
- Christopher Nolan
- Marie Kondo
- John Oliver
- Jorge Ramos
- Narendra Modi
- Angela Merkel
- Bob Corker
- Rula Ghani
- Muhammadu Buhari
- Alexis Tsipras
- Vladimir Putin
- Obiageli Ezekwesili
- Elizabeth Warren
- Haider Al-Abadi
- Joko Widodo
- King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Xi Jinping
- Jeb Bush
- Tom Frieden
- Samantha Power
- Raúl Castro
- Kim Jong-un
- Abubakar Shekau
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Hillary Clinton
- Martin Dempsey
- Beji Caid Essebsi
- Adam Silver
- Lu Wei
- Marine Le Pen
- Barack Obama
- Mitch McConnell
- Mohammad Javad Zarif
- Joanne Liu
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Taylor Swift
- Diane von Furstenberg
- Gabriel Medina
- Haruki Murakami
- Björk
- Jerry Brown
- Abby Wambach
- Ina Garten
- Thomas Piketty
- Malala Yousafzai
- Pope Francis
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War
- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula captures Riyan Airport, seaport and oil terminal in the city of Al Mukalla in southern Yemen. (AP viaWashington Times)
- Arts and culture
- WikiLeaks publishes 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails resulting from the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack believed to be undertaken by North Korea. (Variety)
- Disasters and accidents
- More than 40 people have drowned as a migrant boat sinks travelling between Libya and Italy. In a separate incident, 15 Muslim migrants from another Italy-bound boat have been arrested, after allegedly throwing 12 Christian migrants overboard. (BBC)
- International relations
- The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. (Al-Jazeera)
- Sports
- The National Football League reinstates Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings after a lengthy suspension. (Fox News)
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