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Broken Bono –
U2 lead singer Bono says that a crash on his bicycle last November resulted in multiple left arm fractures, a broken should and hand and a fractured eye socket. He now has a titanium elbow and fears that he may never play guitar but his band-mates have reminded him “that neither they nor western civilization are depending on this.”
Cancer due to bad luck –
A new piece of research by a team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US has found that most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking. The research printed in the journal “Science”, showed 66% of the cancer types analysed were caused just by chance mutations rather than lifestyle.
Taking a bite out of Apple –
Miami residents Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara are suing Apple over the amount of storage space the Apple iOS 8 uses on mobile devices.They claim it uses up such a large amount that it forces owners to pay for iCloud storage. They are suing in California for millions of dollars.
Prince Andrew named in court papers –
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has been named in Florida court papers by a woman who says she was forced to have sexual relations with the prince in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by his fried Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: “This relates to long-standing and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party. As such we would not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue”.
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U2 Albums (from Wikipedia)
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | ||||||
| IRE | CAN | FRA | GER | NLD | UK | US | |||
| Boy | Released: 20 October 1980 | 13* | 4 | — | — | 30 | 52 | 63 | World: 3,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| October | Released: 12 October 1981 | 17* | — | — | — | 23 | 11 | 104 | World: 2,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| War | Released: 28 February 1983 | 16* | 4 | 4 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 12 | World: 9,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| The Unforgettable Fire | Released: 1 October 1984 | 53* | 5 | — | 14 | 4 | 1 | 12 | World: 7,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| The Joshua Tree | Released: 9 March 1987 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 25,000,000[36] |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| Rattle and Hum | Released: 10 October 1988 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 15,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| Achtung Baby | Released: 18 November 1991 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | World: 18,000,000[47] |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| Zooropa | Released: 5 July 1993 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 7,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| Pop | Released: 4 March 1997 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 7,000,000 |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
| All That You Can’t Leave Behind | Released: 30 October 2000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | World: 12,000,000 |
| Label: Island/Interscope | |||||||||
| How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | Released: 22 November 2004 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 9,000,000[50] |
| Label: Island/Interscope | |||||||||
| No Line on the Horizon | Released: 27 February 2009 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | World: 5,000,00 |
| Label: Interscope | |||||||||
| Songs of Innocence | Released: 9 September 2014 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | |
| Label: Island | |||||||||
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- Somali civil war
- Somali al-Shabaab militants attack an army base on the outskirts of Baidoa, killing seven soldiers. (Reuters via Daily Times)
- Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
- Boko Haram militants attack a bus in Waza, Cameroon, killing eleven people and injuring six. (CNN via WLKY)
- 1998 United States embassy bombings
- Abu Anas al-Libi, a one-time associate of Osama bin Laden, dies in New York, United States, while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (NBC News)
- Disasters and accidents
- The MS Norman Atlantic ferry fire death toll rises to at least eleven with as many as 19 people still unaccounted for. (The Independent)
- International relations
- North Korea–United States relations
- The United States enacts more sanctions on North Korea in response to their alleged involvement in the hacking attack on Sony. The sanctions target the North Korean Special Operation Force and 10 government officials.(Reuters)
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