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Bad lip syncing –
Two Chinese pop singers face fines of up to $12,000 (£7,400) for allegedly miming at a concert. Miming was banned in China after a girl was revealed to have lip-synced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
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John Terry affair gagging order released –
The British High Court has lifted a press silencing order preventing the public from learning details about England Captain John Terry’s alleged affair with a team-mate’s girlfriend. The ‘super-injunction’ was originally granted by a High Court judge under human rights laws but was lifted today. Chelsea captain Terry claimed that exposing his alleged infidelity would be a breach of his right to a ‘private and family life’.
John Terry
The car in front… still won’t slow down –
Toyota is now recalling up to 1.8 million cars across Europe following an accelerator problem. The car maker will recall eight models including the Yaris, the Corolla (the biggest selling car ever – see list below) and the RAV4 sports utility vehicle. Last week it recalled 2.3 million cars in the US with faulty pedals.
Mais oui – the G-spot does exist –
French researchers have disagreed with English researchers at King’s College London who announced on New Years Day that the G-spot is a fallacy and does not exist. But French doctors the “G-Day” conference in Paris insist the G spot – supposedly a cluster of internal nerve endings – is far from a myth. “The English study is barking up the wrong tree,” said Sylvain Mimoun, France’s best-known gynaecologist.
Dog survives 24km trip on ice –
A dog stranded on an ice floe that had drifted 24km out to sea was rescued by the crew of a research boat off the coast of Gdynia in Poland. He is being called Baltic after the ship while a search is launched for his owners.
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Bulldog puppy thief –
Police are hunting thieves who stole one of Britain’s rarest and most valuable puppies worth a whopping £16,000 – because it’s purple. The cute eight-week old British bulldog puppy called Lila is so valuable because of her lilac colouring. Officers say it was snatched from his breeder by a man who was pretending to buy the puppy. The black man with short afro hair grabbed the pup when the specialist breeder’s back was turned and ran out of the home – knocking a female relative to the ground. [Daily Mail]
Volkswagen to recall over 580,000 cars in China: government –
Volkswagen AG told China’s quality watchdog that it planned to recall more than 580,000 cars in the country, after the agency launched an investigation in August. Volkswagen AG’s joint venture in China, FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co Ltd, will recall 563,605 New Sagitar models produced between May 2011 and May 2014 due to a problem with the rear axle arm of the cars, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement on its website. Volkswagen is also recalling 17,485 imported Beetles due to the same axle problem. [Reuters]
Parisian vandals destroy 24ft art sculpture that resembled a ‘giant sex toy’ after claims it ‘humiliated’ the city –
Vandals today destroyed an art sculpture in central Paris ‘because it looked like a giant sex toy’. Looming above the city’s Place Vendome, the 24ft tall piece, created by American artist Paul McCarthy, was meant to look like a green inflatable Christmas tree. But the artwork, simple entitled ‘Tree’, raised eyebrows in the French capital because of its uncanny resemblance to a certain type of sex toy. Today it was left as a giant pile of deflated plastic after vandals apparently took a number of sharp objects to it overnight. The incident came after claims that it ‘humiliated’ the French capital. [Daily Mail] See Video of the Day
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Hamilton is Sports Personality of the year –
Lewis Hamilton, winner of the 2014 Formula One world championship is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British public. Cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is given a Lifetime Achievement award and Christiano Ronaldo wins the overseas award at the ceremony held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Petsmart sells for $8.7bn –
The pet supply company PetSmart has signed a deal to sell itself to an investment group led by BC Partners for about $8.7 billion in the largest buyout of a US company in 2014.
Penultimate climate ultimatum –
United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change by setting national pledges for a summit due to be held in Paris in 2015. The document was signed after a two week meeting took place in Lima, Peru, hosted by Peru’s environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal. Environmental groups criticised the document, saying the proposals were nowhere near drastic enough.
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Shootings at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris –
Gunmen have attacked the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killing 12 and wounding 4. Witnesses report the gunmen shouted “we have avenged the Prophet. Editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier is among the dead.
Stephane Charbonnier
Second shooting in Paris –
Possibly connected with the Charlie Hebdo attack, a gunmen has killed a policewoman and seriously injured a civilian in the south of Paris.
LA Galaxy get their man –
Los Angeles Galaxy have confirmed that Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard will the club in July 2015. The former England midfielder, 34, will play for the Major League Soccer club after his contract at Anfield expires. Gerrard, is the second England captain to join LA Galaxy, after David Beckham played for them between 2007 and 2012.
Fast charger –
A new kind of battery charger has been revealed by Israeli start-up Storedot CEO Doron Myersdorf at the CES exhibition in Las Vegas that can recharge a modern smartphone in less time than it takes to boil a kettle. However the phone needs to have a completely new type of battery, which contains specially synthesised organic molecules so existing phones cannot be used.
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Paris gunmen killed after 2 sieges –
The 2 gunmen who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre on January 7th 2015 have been killed by French police after a brief siege at a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) north of Paris. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were shot dead as they came out of a warehouse building firing at police. Two officers were injured. Simultaneously, Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed a policewoman on 7th January, was shot dead at a kosher supermarket in Paris after he had killed 4 hostages – 15 hostages were rescued. Coulibaly knew one of the brothers and their respective partners had spoken on the phone more than 500 times. A total of 17 people plus the 3 gunmen have died in the 3 days.
Brand and Rascal to be studied –
The exam board Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Arts (OCR) plan to include evidence given by Russell Brand to a Commons select committee inquiring into drugs and an interview between Dizzee Rascal and Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman as part of the English A-level syllabus as from this September. The plans have been approved by exams regulator Ofqual amongst 37 new specifications for GCSEs and A-levels put forward by the exam board.
Dizzee Rascal
AirAsia tail section recovered –
The tail section of AirAsia flight QZ8501 that crashed while flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore has been recovered from the seabed using inflatable devices. Although the flight recorders are positioned in the tail it appears that the “black boxes” have been separated from it and the search continues.
The Indonesian navy has retrieved from the seabed the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed two weeks ago.
Lucky he was a Dolphin –
Former Miami Dolphins running back Rob Konrad swam nine miles to shore after falling off his boat while fishing and his boat, which was on auto pilot, drifted away from him off the South Florida coast. Konrad, who played 82 games for the Dolphins between 1999-2004, was treated for hypothermia after it took 12 hours to swim to shore.
Saturn centre pinpointed –
Scientists have located the centre of the planet Saturn to within just 2 miles using ten antennae, known as the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), spread over an area from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands. The antenna assembly uses signals sent by the Cassini probe to monitor the position of the gas giant. Previously estimates of the positions of Saturn and its satellites used data received by tracking Cassini’s radio signal during its communications with Earth but the new calculations are about 20 times more accurate.
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France remembers gunmens’ victims –
Nearly a quarter of a million people held marches in France on Saturday to condemn the attacks by extremist gunmen on France that took place on Wednesday 7th January 2015 killing 17 people including 12 at the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Large crowds gathered in Paris, Orleans, Nice, Pau, Toulouse and Nantes, with people holding banners that read “I am against racism”, “unity”, or “Je suis Charlie” – the latter a reference to the magazine.
#JeSuisCharlie top hashtag –
#JeSuisCharlie has become one of the most popular hashtags ever used on Twitter with between 4 and 5 millions tweets containing the phrase in 4 days.
Dart attack –
Rioting fans in fancy dress brawled and threw chairs and tables, stopping play at an Australian darts competition. Dutchman Michael ‘Mighty Mike’ van Gerwen was playing Australia’s Simon ‘The Wizard’ Whitlock in an invitational tournament at the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne when chaos broke out. Images show a man dressed as Batman’s sidekick Robin wrestling with an English knight, while security guards try to calm the situation down.
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More than three million take part in French unity rallies –
Huge crowds have taken part in a rally in Paris to commemorate the 17 people who died in gun attacks in the city in 3 days of attacks earlier in the week. More than 40 world leaders joined the start of the unity march, linking arms in an act of solidarity and an estimated 1.6 million marched in the capital. The rally was led by relatives of the victims of last week’s attacks and began at the Place de la Republique. The French government said the rally turnout was the highest on record.
Boyhood wins Golden Globe Awards –
At the Golden Globe ceremony “Boyhood” won best drama movie with Patricia Arquette getting best supporting actress in the film.
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Patricia Arquette
Actress Anita Ekberg dies –
The actress Anita Ekberg,has died aged 83. A former Miss Sweden, she was branded a “sex goddess” for her performance in Federico Fellini’s 1960 movie La Dolce Vita. The scene where Ekberg walks through the waters of Rome’s Trevi Fountain in a black strapless dress is considered one of cinema’s most iconic scenes. A quote attibuted to her in her later years is: “I don’t know if paradise or hell exist, but I’m sure hell is more groovy.”
First woman president in Croatia –
In elections in Croatia, opposition challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has become the first female president of the country. The voting was extremely close with Grabar-Kitarovic receiving more than 50% of the vote for her Croatian Democratic Union party, with more than 49% for Ivo Josipovic who had been president since 2010.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
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Fake US tweets of start of World War 3 –
The New York Post and United Press International (UPI) have had their Twitter accounts hacked and fake tweets on economic and military news posted. On UPI’s Twitter feed the Pope was quoted as saying that “World War III has begun” and the NY Post had a tweet that hostilities had broken out between the United States and China. The attacks follow the ones on US Central Command on 12th January 2015.
Stephen Fry gets married –
Comedian, actor and QI presenter Stephen Fry (57) marries his 27-year-old partner Elliot Spencer and announced it in a tweet:
His “A Bit of Fry and Laurie” comedy partner and star of House M.D. Hugh Laurie responded with his own tweet:
Plans for the wedding at Dereham Registration Office in Norfolk were revealed on January 6th 2015
New running on water record –
Shi Liliang, a monk from Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian province, has broken his own record for running on plywood sheets floating on water. He managed a distance of 120 meters in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan province breaking his previous best of 118 meters that he had kept.
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Saudi student guilty of Drug-driving in a McLaren –
A rich Saudi playboy was caught by police driving his father’s £168,500 McLaren supercar while high on cannabis through Hyde Park. Mohammad Al-Sharif, 22, confessed to smoking the drug at 7.30am that morning and was unsteady on his feet with slurred speech when questioned by officers. He pleaded guilty to driving a McLaren MP4-12c 3.8 litre twin-turbo V8 Velocita Wind Edition in West Carriage Drive on December 11 last year while unfit to drive through drugs. Student Al-Sharif, who lives off a family allowance, was fined £400, with £85 costs and was ordered to pay an £85 victim surcharge. He was disqualified for twelve months. [Daily Telegraph]
McLaren MP4-12c
Highwaymen steal €9m jewels and art on motorway in France –
A manhunt is underway to catch a group of armed robbers who successfully trapped two armoured vans at a motorway toll booth in Burgundy, escaping with €9m (£6.3m) of jewels and art. French police said the heist was carried out by around 15 “heavily armed and battle-hardened” individuals, all masked, who arrived in four cars and surrounded the vans on the A6 motorway around 125 miles south east of Paris. “The group carried out the attack around midnight,” said Cristophe Crépin, a spokesman for the police, adding that the robbers had forced the drivers out, emptied the vans, and then set them on fire a short distance from the toll booth. A local prosecutor said no one had been hurt. The local newspaper said the men had made a getaway towards Paris, in four high-speed cars. [Daily Telegraph]
Google has opened its first-ever branded shop, choosing the Currys PC World on London’s Tottenham Court Road as the location. The store, to be called The Google shop, will sell the company’s range of Android phones and tablets, Chromebook laptops, and Chromecast TV services. The shop will hold tutorials showing consumers how to use the devices and hold demonstrations showing off key Google apps. It is the first time that Google has opened a shop under its own name and highlights how online companies are increasingly exploring ways to open physical stores. Amazon is thought to be considering opening a shop in a standalone location in New York. [Daily Telegraph]
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Drone carrying drugs and weapons crashes into prison in smuggling bid –
A plot to smuggle drugs, mobile phones and weapons into a prison by flying them in on a drone failed after the operator crashed the remote-controlled aircraft into a jail wall. The device was spotted by guards at HMP Bedford after it crash landed into razor wire on top of the prison walls in the first incident of its kind. Guards quickly removed the drone – a DJI Phantom 2, which costs up to £900 – and found a package attached containing class A drugs, a knife, screwdriver and mobile phones. [Daily Telegraph]
Italian Job’s legendary Lamborghini discovered after almost half a century, now worth £1m –
It has a starring role in the classic movie The Italian Job – in one of the most memorable opening sequences in cinema history. A stunning orange supercar races through the Alps, before disappearing into a tunnel. Then, in a heartbreaking moment for car fans, the Lamborghini Miura crashes in a ball of flames. The smashed up wreckage is dragged out of the tunnel by the mafia and pushed into a ravine by a bulldozer – followed by a wreath for the driver. The millions who have seen the iconic film since it was made in 1969 must have assumed the car was an irrecoverable write-off, never to be driven again. The car’s new co-owner, Iain Tyrrell, received a tip-off at Christmas that the Miura had resurfaced.He said: ‘I was initially sceptical because no one had seen it for 46 years. But my source was a credible one so I started to pursue it.’ He was invited to see it – but given just three hours to verify the vehicle as the genuine article. ‘It was all very James Bond-ish – I had to go to Paris to inspect the car in a secret underground car park,’ he said. See Video of the Day. [Mail on Sunday]
Steven Gerrard sent off 38 seconds after coming on –
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was sent off 38 seconds after coming on as a half-time substitute as Manchester United retained their grip on a top-four place with a vital win at Anfield. Gerrard was introduced for Adam Lallana at the start of the second half with United deservedly leading through Juan Mata’s early goal – but was gone almost as quickly after following up a thunderous tackle on the goalscorer with a reckless reaction to a challenge with a clear stamp on Ander Herrera. See List of The Day. [BBC]
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Zoella turns 25 and Lady Gaga hits 29 –
Zoe Sugg gets a surprise cake party for her 25th birthday and tops the UK Twitter trend chart with #HappyBirthdayZoe. She shares her birthday with Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga who is 29 today.
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Lady Gaga
Eiffel Tower goes dark in symbolic move for Earth Hour
The Eiffel Tower has gone dark briefly to mark Earth Hour, the campaign to raise awareness about climate change.The five-minute dark-out on Saturday night was a symbolic gesture in the City of Light. Cities around the world also marked the event, with other landmarks like the Kremlin and the Empire State Building going dark.France has been preparing for months to host an international climate conference in Paris at the end of the year, pressing nations to set attainable goals for reducing greenhouse gases and mobilizing international finances to fight climate change. [Daily Mail]
Andreas Lubitz planned spectacular gesture that would go down in history, claims ex-girlfriend –
Airbus crash pilot Andreas Lubitz had been planning a spectacular gesture to make everyone “remember” who he was, it has been claimed. An ex-girlfriend of the Germanwings pilot who crashed his plane in the French Alps, killing all 149 others on board, described him as “tormented” and able to hide secrets. Maria, 26 (not her real name), told Bild newspaper that when she heard about the crash she remembered that he had said he was going do something “that would change the system” and “make everyone remember” him. [Daily Telegraph]
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Chelsea Manning begins tweeting from prison –
Former army intelligence analyst, serving a 35-year sentence for leaking US secrets, says she will be dictating tweets by telephone. Chelsea Manning, the US soldier serving a 35-year prison sentence for passing a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks, started posting on Twitter on Friday, with help from supporters. Within minutes of her first tweets, Ms Manning had recruited more than 5,000 followers under the handle @xychelsea. In her initial tweets, Ms Manning acknowledged she had no Internet access behind bars and that she was dictating comments to a communications company by telephone. [Daily Telegraph]
Gadget which turns all traffic lights green trialled in UK –
The pioneering technology is being tested ahead of trials of driverless vehicles. A device which switches all red traffic lights to green has been launched in Newcastle to prevent cars from ever needing to stop. The pioneering technology is being tested ahead of trials of driverless vehicles, which would be linked to traffic lights so that fully-automated convoys could pass quickly through urban areas. The new gadget, which attaches to the windscreen like a Sat Nav, detects traffic lights from around 100 metres away and requests priority so that they switch to green as soon as the car arrives. It also tells drivers of the speed they should be driving to make sure they always hit a green light in the event of traffic. [Daily Telegraph]
Paris aims to become ‘world bike capital’ –
Paris’s mayor has announced plans to double the number of cycle lanes. Paris is to double the number of cycling lanes by 2020 as part of its Socialist mayor’s push to turn the city into “the world’s bike capital”. The 150 million-euro project will increase the number of safe bike lanes from the current 700 kilometres (435 miles) to 1,400 kilometres within five years. Paris town hall hopes the new lanes will help triple the number of journeys made on a bike from five per cent to 15 per cent in that time.
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Clinton logo goes rainbow for same-sex marriage arguments –
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday changed the colors of her presidential campaign logo Tuesday on social media to the rainbow colors symbolizing the gay rights movement, less than an hour before the Supreme Court on Tuesday was set to hear oral arguments on same-sex marriage. Clinton, who is now seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, announced in 2013 her support for the right of same-sex couples to get married after leaving her post as Secretary of State. Clinton’s logo changed on her Facebook and Twitter pages Tuesday morning shortly before 9 a.m. Facebook pages for individual state branches of the Clinton campaign also changed their logos, though the main logo on HillaryClinton.com, remained the usual red and blue logo. [CNN] The hashtag #SCOTUS relating to the court case trended on Twitter.
Hilary Clinton Twitter (April 28 2015)
Baltimore police enforce curfew –
Police fired gas to enforce a curfew on the streets of Baltimore, a night after violence and arson rocked the city. After an evening of largely peaceful protests, a few hundred people defied the (local time)deadline of 22:00. But in the face of thousands of troops on the city streets, the remaining crowds later dispersed and police said the curfew was working. The protests have gone on daily since the death of Freddie Gray in police custody on 19 April. [BBC] (See Top Twitter Trends)
Sam Smith cancels Australian tour and Logie Awards show –
Sam Smith has been forced to pull out of his Australian tour due to bleeding on his vocal cords. The singer is just half way through an eight-date tour. He was also due to perform at the TV Week Logies, the annual Australian television industry awards. Writing on the tour website, Sam said having to cancel the tour “killed” him, but that he was on doctor’s orders to rest.
Sam Smith
Victoria’s Secret unveils 10 new models –
Victoria’s Secret added 10 new models to its roster, which had recently been whittled down to five (Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, and Lily Aldridge). The lingerie company provided a 15-second clip introducing their new employees, and handy dandy summary of each new model’s bona fides, which include, variously, racket sports, salsa dancing, and trying new meals. [Fox News] (See Video of the day and List of the day)
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Kate Moss escorted off flight ‘for being disruptive’ –
Supermodel Kate Moss has been escorted off a plane at Luton airport after reportedly being disruptive. The Easyjet flight had arrived from Bodrum in Turkey on Sunday afternoon. In a statement, Bedfordshire Police said they “were called to assist staff in escorting a passenger from a flight arriving into Luton airport this afternoon”. No formal complaints were made against her and she was not arrested. [BBC] In February 2010 Calvin Klein said of Moss – while “a great model,” she was a “difficult” person to work with.
Kate Moss with photographer Mario Testino
Bradley Wiggins breaks UCI Hour Record at Lee Valley Velopark –
Sir Bradley Wiggins has broken the iconic hour record by completing a distance of 54.526km (33.88 miles). The 35-year-old smashed the record previously held by fellow Briton Alex Dowsett of 52.937km (32.89 miles), which was set in May. Roared on by a capacity crowd at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, Wiggins became the sixth rider to claim a Tour de France title and the hour record. “I’m just glad it’s done. It was torturous,” he said.
“That’s the closest I have ever come to what it’s like to a have a baby,” Wiggins, who becomes the fifth person in the past nine months to break the record, joked. The multiple Olympic and world champion on track and road surpassed Dowsett’s 212 laps, set in Manchester, with 1min 42secs to spare and eventually completed 219 laps.[BBC] In January 2015, Wiggins launched his own cycling team, Team Wiggins, to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
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Dame Helen Mirren reigns at Tony theatre awards –
Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress in a play at the Tony theatre awards in New York. She took home the prize for her portrayal of the Queen in The Audience. Dame Helen, a previous Oscar-winner for The Queen, accepted the award saying: “Your Majesty, you did it again.” Other wins included Alex Sharp for best actor and Marianne Elliott for best directing of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was also named best play. [BBC] See List of the Day
Actor, Sir Christopher Lee dies, aged 93 –
See full story on June 11, 2015 when his death was announced.
Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
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An American in Paris
Something Rotten!
The Visit
WINNER: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Disgraced
Hand to God
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
WINNER: Skylight
The Elephant Man
This Is Our Youth
You Can’t Take It With You
WINNER: The King and I
On the Twentieth Century
On the Town
WINNER: Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
Robert Fairchild, An American in Paris
Brian d’Arcy James, Something Rotten!
Ken Watanabe, The King and I
Tony Yazbeck, On the Town
WINNER: Kelli O’Hara, The King and I
Kristin Chenoweth, On the Twentieth Century
Leanne Cope, An American in Paris
Beth Malone, Fun Home
Chita Rivera, The Visit
WINNER: Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Steven Boyer, Hand to God
Bradley Cooper, The Elephant Man
Ben Miles, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Bill Nighy, Skylight
WINNER: Helen Mirren, The Audience
Geneva Carr, Hand to God
Elisabeth Moss, The Heidi Chronicles
Carey Mulligan, Skylight
Ruth Wilson, Constellations
WINNER: Christian Borle, Something Rotten!
Andy Karl, On the Twentieth Century
Brad Oscar, Something Rotten!
Brandon Uranowitz, An American in Paris
Max von Essen, An American in Paris
WINNER: Ruthie Ann Miles, The King and I
Victoria Clark, Gigi
Judy Kuhn, Fun Home
Sydney Lucas, Fun Home
Emily Skeggs, Fun Home
WINNER: Richard McCabe, The Audience
Matthew Beard, Skylight
K. Todd Freeman, Airline Highway
Alessandro Nivola, The Elephant Man
Nathaniel Parker, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Micah Stock, It’s Only a Play
WINNER: Annaleigh Ashford, You Can’t Take It With You
Patricia Clarkson, The Elephant Man
Lydia Leonard, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Sarah Stiles, Hand to God
Julie White, Airline Highway
WINNER: Fun Home, Lisa Kron
An American in Paris, Craig Lucas
Something Rotten!, Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell
The Visit, Terrence McNally
WINNER: Fun Home, Music: Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics: Lisa Kron
The Last Ship, Music & Lyrics: Sting
Something Rotten!, Music & Lyrics: Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
The Visit, Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb
WINNER: Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Stephen Daldry, Skylight
Scott Ellis, You Can’t Take It With You
Jeremy Herrin, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Hand to God
WINNER: Sam Gold, Fun Home
Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten!
John Rando, On the Town
Bartlett Sher, The King and I
Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris
WINNER: Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Bob Crowley, Skylight
Christopher Oram, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
David Rockwell, You Can’t Take It With You
WINNER: Bob Crowley and 59 Productions, An American in Paris
David Rockwell, On the Twentieth Century
Michael Yeargan, The King and I
David Zinn, Fun Home
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Sir Christopher Lee death announced –
In one of his final interviews, Sir Christopher Lee declared his intention never to retire. “When I die, I want to die with my boots on,” he said.
The actor remained true to his word. He was preparing for his latest film role – a drama called The 11th, co-starring Uma Thurman – when he died on Sunday morning [June 7, 2015] at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Sir Christopher was one of the greats of the 20th century, but his career hit new heights in the last 15 years of his life. He will be best remembered by those of a certain age for playing Count Dracula in his Hammer Horror days, but to younger film fans he was a star of two of the biggest franchises ever made: Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in Star Wars. [Daily Telegraph] He appeared in over 200 films (See List of the Day)
Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
Female scientists post ‘distractingly sexy’ photos –
Female scientists have been sharing “distractingly sexy” photos of themselves after a feminist website encouraged them to respond to comments by a Nobel laureate. Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt was roundly criticised when he detailed his thoughts about the “trouble with girls” at a conference of science journalists. “Three things happen when they are in the lab,” he said, “you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry.” He said his comments were meant to be “light-hearted, ironic comment”, but whatever the intention, it went over like a heavy metallic dirigible in a field with some widely acknowledged gender issues. Hunt has now resigned from his position at University College London. On Thursday the hashtag #DistractinglySexy began taking off, with more than 10,000 tweets in a matter of hours. [BBC Trending] See Top Twitter Trends (UK)
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Sir Christopher Lee film appearances (including voiceovers) [List from Wikipedia]
| # | Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1948 | Corridor of Mirrors | Charles | |
| 2 | 1948 | One Night with You | Pirelli’s Assistant | |
| 3 | 1948 | Hamlet | Spear Carrier | Uncredited |
| 4 | 1948 | Penny and the Pownall Case | Jonathan Blair | |
| 5 | 1948 | A Song for Tomorrow | Auguste | |
| 6 | 1948 | My Brother’s Keeper | Second Constable | Deleted scenes |
| 7 | 1948 | Saraband for Dead Lovers | Bit Part | Uncredited |
| 8 | 1948 | Scott of the Antarctic | Bernard Day | |
| 9 | 1949 | Trottie True | Bongo | |
| 10 | 1950 | They Were Not Divided | Chris Lewis | |
| 11 | 1950 | Prelude to Fame | Newsman | |
| 12 | 1951 | Valley of Eagles | Det. Holt | |
| 13 | 1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Spanish Captain | |
| 14 | 1951 | Quo Vadis | Chariot Driver | Uncredited[1] |
| 15 | 1952 | The Crimson Pirate | Joseph (attache) | |
| 16 | 1952 | Top Secret | Russian Agent | Uncredited |
| 17 | 1952 | Paul Temple Returns | Sir Felix Raybourne | |
| 18 | 1952 | Babes in Bagdad | Slave Dealer | |
| 19 | 1952 | Moulin Rouge | Georges Seurat | |
| 20 | 1953 | Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot | Voice | Uncredited |
| 21 | 1953 | Innocents in Paris | Lieutenant Whitlock | Uncredited |
| 22 | 1954 | Destination Milan | Svenson | |
| 23 | 1955 | Man in Demand | ||
| 24 | 1955 | Crossroads | Harry Cooper | |
| 25 | 1955 | Final Column | ||
| 26 | 1955 | That Lady | Captain | |
| 27 | 1955 | Police Dog | Johnny, a constable | |
| 28 | 1955 | The Dark Avenger | French Patrol Captain at Tavern | Uncredited |
| 29 | 1955 | The Cockleshell Heroes | Submarine Commander | |
| 30 | 1955 | Storm Over the Nile | Karaga Pasha | |
| 31 | 1956 | Alias John Preston | John Preston | |
| 32 | 1956 | Private’s Progress | Gen. von Linbeck’s aide | Uncredited |
| 33 | 1956 | Port Afrique | Franz Vermes | |
| 34 | 1956 | Beyond Mombasa | Gil Rossi | |
| 35 | 1956 | The Battle of the River Plate | Manolo | |
| 36 | 1957 | Ill Met by Moonlight | German Officer at Dentists | |
| 37 | 1957 | Fortune Is a Woman | Charles Highbury | |
| 38 | 1957 | The Traitor | Dr. Neumann | |
| 39 | 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | The Creature | |
| 40 | 1957 | Manuela | Voice | Uncredited |
| 41 | 1957 | Bitter Victory | Sgt. Barney | |
| 42 | 1957 | The Truth About Women | François | |
| 43 | 1958 | A Tale of Two Cities | Marquis St. Evremonde | |
| 44 | 1958 | Dracula | Count Dracula | Alternative title: Horror of Dracula |
| 45 | 1958 | Battle of the V-1 | Labor Camp Captain, Men’s Section | |
| 46 | 1958 | Corridors of Blood | Resurrection Joe | |
| 47 | 1959 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Henry Baskerville | |
| 48 | 1959 | The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Dr. Pierre Gerard | |
| 49 | 1959 | The Treasure of San Teresa | Jaeger | |
| 50 | 1959 | The Mummy | Kharis, the Mummy | |
| 51 | 1959 | Uncle Was a Vampire | Baron Roderico da Frankurten | |
| 52 | 1960 | Too Hot to Handle | Novak | |
| 53 | 1960 | Beat Girl | Kenny | |
| 54 | 1960 | The City of the Dead | Prof. Alan Driscoll | Alternative title: Horror Hotel |
| 55 | 1960 | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Paul Allen | |
| 56 | 1960 | The Hands of Orlac | Nero the magician | |
| 57 | 1961 | The Terror of the Tongs | Chung King | |
| 58 | 1961 | Taste of Fear | Doctor Pierre Gerrard | |
| 59 | 1961 | The Devil’s Daffodil | Ling Chu | |
| 60 | 1961 | Ercole al centro della terra | King Lico (Licos) | Alternative title: Hercules in the Haunted World |
| 61 | 1962 | Stranglehold | ||
| 62 | 1962 | The Puzzle of the Red Orchid | Captain Allerman | |
| 63 | 1962 | The Pirates of Blood River | Captain LaRoche | |
| 64 | 1962 | The Devil’s Agent | Baron von Staub | |
| 65 | 1962 | Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 66 | 1963 | Katarsis | Mephistoles | |
| 67 | 1963 | La vergine di Norimberga | Erich | Aka Castle of Terror and Virgin of Nuremberg |
| 68 | 1963 | La frusta e il corpo | Kurt Menliff | Aka The Whip and the Body and Night Is the Phantom |
| 69 | 1964 | Il castello dei morti vivi | Count Drago | Alternative title: Castle of the Living Dead |
| 70 | 1964 | La cripta e l’incubo | Count Ludwig Karnstein | Aka Crypt of the Vampire and Crypt of Horror |
| 71 | 1964 | The Devil-Ship Pirates | Captain Robeles | |
| 72 | 1964 | The Gorgon | Prof. Karl Meister | |
| 73 | 1965 | Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors | Franklyn Marsh | |
| 74 | 1965 | She | Billali | |
| 75 | 1965 | The Skull | Sir Matthew Phillips | |
| 76 | 1965 | Ten Little Indians | Voice of “Mr. Owen” | Uncredited |
| 77 | 1965 | The Face of Fu Manchu | Dr. Fu Manchu / Lee Tao | |
| 78 | 1966 | Theatre of Death | Philippe Darvas | |
| 79 | 1966 | Dracula: Prince of Darkness | Count Dracula | |
| 80 | 1966 | Rasputin, the Mad Monk | Grigori Rasputin | |
| 81 | 1966 | Circus of Fear | Gregor | Alternative title: Psycho Circus |
| 82 | 1966 | The Brides of Fu Manchu | Fu Manchu | |
| 83 | 1967 | The Vengeance of Fu Manchu | Dr. Fu Manchu | |
| 84 | 1967 | Night of the Big Heat | Godfrey Hanson | |
| 85 | 1967 | Five Golden Dragons | Dragon #4 | |
| 86 | 1967 | The Blood Demon | Count Frederic Regula, Graf von Andomai | Aka The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism and Castle of the Walking Dead |
| 87 | 1968 | Curse of the Crimson Altar | Morley | |
| 88 | 1968 | The Devil Rides Out | Duc de Richleau | |
| 89 | 1968 | Eve | Colonel Stuart | Alternative title: The Face of Eve |
| 90 | 1968 | The Blood of Fu Manchu | Fu Manchu | |
| 91 | 1968 | Dracula Has Risen from the Grave | Count Dracula | |
| 92 | 1969 | The Castle of Fu Manchu | Fu Manchu | |
| 93 | 1969 | The Oblong Box | Dr. J. Neuhart | |
| 94 | 1969 | The Magic Christian | Ship’s vampire | |
| 95 | 1970 | Scream and Scream Again | Fremont | |
| 96 | 1970 | Umbracle | The Man | |
| 97 | 1970 | The Bloody Judge | Lord George Jeffreys | Alternative title: Night of the Blood Monster |
| 98 | 1970 | Count Dracula | Count Dracula | |
| 99 | 1970 | Taste the Blood of Dracula | Count Dracula | |
| 100 | 1970 | One More Time | Count Dracula | |
| 101 | 1970 | Julius Caesar | Artemidorus | |
| 102 | 1970 | Eugenie | Dolmance | Aka Eugenie – The Story of Her Journey into Perversion |
| 103 | 1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Mycroft Holmes | |
| 104 | 1970 | Scars of Dracula | Count Dracula | |
| 105 | 1971 | The House That Dripped Blood | John Reid | Segment: “Sweets to the Sweet” |
| 105 | 1971 | Cuadecuc, vampir | Count Dracula/Himself | |
| 106 | 1971 | I, Monster | Dr. Charles Marlowe/Edward Blake | |
| 107 | 1971 | Hannie Caulder | Bailey | |
| 108 | 1972 | Death Line | Stratton-Villiers, MI5 | Alternative title: Raw Meat |
| 109 | 1972 | Nothing But the Night | Col. Charles Bingham | |
| 110 | 1972 | Dracula A.D. 1972 | Count Dracula | |
| 111 | 1973 | Dark Places | Dr. Mandeville | |
| 112 | 1973 | The Creeping Flesh | James Hildern | |
| 113 | 1973 | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Count Dracula | |
| 114 | 1973 | Horror Express | Sir Alexander Saxton | |
| 115 | 1973 | The Three Musketeers | Rochefort | |
| 116 | 1973 | The Wicker Man | Lord Summerisle | |
| 117 | 1974 | The Four Musketeers | Rochefort | |
| 118 | 1974 | The Man with the Golden Gun | Francisco Scaramanga | |
| 119 | 1975 | Diagnosis: Murder | Dr. Stephen Hayward | |
| 120 | 1975 | Le boucher, la star et l’orpheline | Van Krig/Himself | |
| 121 | 1976 | The Keeper | The Keeper | |
| 122 | 1976 | Killer Force | Major Chilton | Alternative title: The Diamond Mercenaries |
| 123 | 1976 | To the Devil, A Daughter | Father Michael Rayner | |
| 124 | 1976 | Dracula père et fils | Prince of Darkness | Alternative title: Dracula and Son |
| 125 | 1976 | Albino | Bill | Aka Whispering Death and Death in the Sun |
| 126 | 1977 | Airport ’77 | Martin Wallace | |
| 127 | 1977 | Meatcleaver Massacre | On-screen narrator | Aka Evil Force and Revenge of the Dead |
| 128 | 1977 | End of the World | Father Pergado / Zindar | |
| 129 | 1977 | Starship Invasions | Captain Rameses | |
| 130 | 1978 | Return from Witch Mountain | Dr. Victor Gannon | |
| 131 | 1978 | Caravans | Sardar Khan | |
| 132 | 1978 | Circle of Iron | Zetan | Alternative title: The Silent Flute |
| 133 | 1979 | The Passage | Gypsy | |
| 134 | 1979 | Arabian Adventure | Alquazar | |
| 135 | 1979 | Nutcracker Fantasy | Uncle Drosselmeyer / Street Singer / Watchmaker | Voice |
| 136 | 1979 | Jaguar Lives! | Adam Caine | |
| 137 | 1979 | Bear Island | Lechinski | |
| 138 | 1979 | 1941 | Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt | |
| 139 | 1979 | Captain America II: Death Too Soon | Miguel | |
| 140 | 1980 | Serial | Luckman Skull | |
| 141 | 1981 | The Salamander | Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence | |
| 142 | 1981 | Desperate Moves | Dr. Carl Boxer | |
| 143 | 1981 | An Eye for an Eye | Morgan Canfield | |
| 144 | 1982 | Safari 3000 | Count Borgia | |
| 145 | 1982 | The Last Unicorn | King Haggard | Voice; also in German language version |
| 146 | 1983 | New Magic | Mr. Kellar | |
| 147 | 1983 | The Return of Captain Invincible | Mr. Midnight | |
| 148 | 1983 | House of the Long Shadows | Corrigan | |
| 149 | 1984 | The Rosebud Beach Hotel | Mr. Clifford King | |
| 150 | 1985 | Mask of Murder | Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich | |
| 151 | 1985 | Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf | Stefan Crosscoe | |
| 152 | 1986 | The Girl | Peter Storm | |
| 153 | 1987 | Jocks | President White | |
| 154 | 1987 | Mio min Mio | Kato | |
| 155 | 1988 | Dark Mission | Luis Morel | |
| 156 | 1989 | Murder Story | Willard Hope | |
| 157 | 1989 | La chute des aigles | Walter Strauss | |
| 158 | 1989 | The Return of the Musketeers | Rochefort | |
| 159 | 1990 | The Rainbow Thief | Uncle Rudolf | |
| 160 | 1990 | L’avaro | Cardinale Spinosi | |
| 161 | 1990 | Honeymoon Academy | Lazos | |
| 162 | 1990 | Panga | – | |
| 163 | 1990 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Doctor Catheter | |
| 164 | 1991 | Curse III: Blood Sacrifice | Doctor Pearson | |
| 165 | 1992 | Jackpot | Cedric | |
| 166 | 1992 | Kabuto | King Philip | |
| 167 | 1994 | Police Academy: Mission to Moscow | Cmndt. Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov | |
| 168 | 1994 | Funny Man | Callum Chance | |
| 169 | 1994 | Flesh and Blood | Narrator/Self | Last collaboration with Peter Cushing |
| 170 | 1995 | A Feast at Midnight | V. E. Longfellow, a.k.a. Raptor | |
| 171 | 1996 | Welcome to the Discworld | Death | |
| 172 | 1996 | The Stupids | Evil Sender | |
| 173 | 1998 | Tale of the Mummy | Sir Richard Turkel | |
| 174 | 1998 | Jinnah | Mohammed Ali Jinnah | Lee considers this to be his favourite role/most significant[2] |
| 175 | 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Burgomaster | |
| 176 | 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Saruman | |
| 177 | 2002 | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones | Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus | |
| 178 | 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Saruman | |
| 179 | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Saruman | Extended Edition only |
| 180 | 2004 | Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse | Heinrich von Garten | |
| 181 | 2005 | The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby | The Lord Provost | |
| 182 | 2005 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus | |
| 183 | 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Dr. Wilbur Wonka | |
| 184 | 2005 | Corpse Bride | Pastor Galswells | Voice |
| 185 | 2007 | The Golden Compass | First High Councillor | |
| 186 | 2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus | Voice |
| 187 | 2009 | Boogie Woogie | Alfred Rhinegold | |
| 188 | 2009 | Triage | Joaquín Morales | |
| 189 | 2009 | Glorious 39 | Walter | |
| 190 | 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Jabberwocky | Voice |
| 191 | 2010 | Burke & Hare | Joseph | |
| 192 | 2010 | The Heavy | Mr. Mason | |
| 193 | 2011 | Season of the Witch | Cardinal D’Ambroise | |
| 194 | 2011 | The Resident | August | |
| 195 | 2011 | The Wicker Tree | Old Gentleman | |
| 196 | 2011 | Grave Tales | Himself | Original version only |
| 197 | 2011 | Hugo | Monsieur Labisse | |
| 198 | 2012 | The Hunting of the Snark | Narrator | Voice |
| 199 | 2012 | Dark Shadows | Silas Clarney | |
| 200 | 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Saruman | |
| 201 | 2013 | Night Train to Lisbon | Father Bartolomeu | |
| 202 | 2013 | Necessary Evil | Narrator | Voice |
| 203 | 2013 | The Girl from Nagasaki | Old Officer Pinkerton | |
| 204 | 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Saruman | |
| 205 | 2014 | Extraordinary Tales | Voice | |
| 206 | 2015 | Angels in Notting Hill | The Boss, Mr. President |
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Parisians will be swimming in the Seine by 2024, promises French capital’s mayor –
Paris’ Socialist mayor on Thursday pledged to have resident of the French capital swimming in the Seine river by 2024, in her latest bid to clean up the city. Anne Hidalgo made the promise days after kicking off Paris’ bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games, after the city lost out to London in 2012.
She said it was her dearest wish that the swimming phase of the Games’ triathlon “should take place in the Seine”. Contestants for the event in London took to Hyde Park’s Serpentine. [Daily Telegraph]
Anne Hidalgo
French police allowed to sport beards and tattoos –
French policeman are finally going to be allowed to let their hair down a little after unions won a battle to relax rules on officers sporting beards and tattoos. While London recently went wild over a “hipster cop” spotted policing a far-Right march, there have been no known sightings of any Gallic equivalents, with policemen in France famous for their short-cropped hair and clean-shaven look. That could all change, however, after the force’s Left-wing Force Ouvrière trade union representatives won a campaign for the right to grow beards and have tattoos. However, there are restrictions. Beards, the union stipulated, must remain “short-cropped”, “neat and compatible with the wearing of equipment”. Tattoos, meanwhile, “must not be racist, political, religious or xenophobic.” [Daily Telegraph]
Paris to allow cyclists to skip red lights –
Cyclists in Paris are to be allowed to ride through some red lights in a bid by the mayors office to get more people on their bikes. At several junctions there will be separate signals for cars and bikes, and while cars will be held by a red light, cyclists will be permitted to turn right or go straight ahead. In such scenarios, they would have to give way to pedestrians and other road users where necessary. The new road rules will be rolled out from the end of July, the mayors office said, adding in a statement that the new rules will “help improve the flow of cycle traffic”. [Daily Telegraph]
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World Athletics Championships: Ashton Eaton sets new decathlon world record in Beijing –
Ashton Eaton’s world record in the decathlon has stolen the limelight from Mo Farah and Usain Bolt on the penultimate night of the world athletics championships in Beijing. Farah completed the long distance double for a second consecutive occasion at a world titles with victory in the men’s 5,000 metres final, while Usain Bolt captured his third gold in the Bird’s Nest in the last seven days when he anchored Jamaica to a win in the men’s 4x100m relay. But it was Eaton who deserved top billing, after the American dipped under his world mark to post a two-day total of 9,045 points. Eaton, the defending champion, collected 829 points in running four minutes and 17.52 seconds in the final event, the 1,500m, enough to beat his previous record by six points. [ABC]
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Mo Farah completes the ‘triple-double’ with 5,000m at the athletics world championships in Beijing –
Mo Farah is the first athlete to win the 5,000 and 10,000m races at successive world championships. The ‘triple-double’: it is a coinage usually confined to basketball, but in Beijing it belongs to the extraordinary Mo Farah, who for a record third successive global championships has completed twin triumphs over 5,000 and 10,000 metres. None of the distance icons – not Emil Zatopek, not Lasse Viren, not Kenenisa Bekele – managed it, but Farah streaked into history at the Bird’s Nest stadium with another exquisitely controlled performance over 12½ laps. [Daily Telegraph]
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Decathlon world record progression [As of August 29, 2015 – Wikipedia]
| Points | Adjusted points |
Athlete | Nation | Date | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,485.61 | 6,087 | Aleksander Klumberg |  EST |
1922-09-22 | Helsinki[1] |
| 7,710.775 | 6,476 | Harold Osborn |  USA |
1924-07-12 | Paris[1] |
| 7,820.93 | 6,460 | Paavo Yrjölä |  FIN |
1926-07-18 | Viipuri[1] |
| 7,995.19 | 6,566 | Paavo Yrjölä | FIN |
1927-07-17 | Helsinki[1] |
| 8,053.29 | 6,587 | Paavo Yrjölä | FIN |
1928-08-04 | Amsterdam[1] |
| 8,255.475 | 6,865 | Akilles Järvinen | FIN |
1930-07-20 | Viipuri[1] |
| 8,462.235 | 6,736 | James Bausch |  USA |
1932-08-06 | Los Angeles[1] |
| 8,790.46 | 7,147 | Hans-Heinrich Sievert |  GER |
1934-07-08 | Hamburg[1] |
| 7,900 | 7,254 | Glenn Morris | USA |
1936-08-08 | Berlin[1] |
| 8,042 | 7,287 | Bob Mathias | USA |
1950-06-30 | Tulare[1] |
| 7,887 | 7,592 | Bob Mathias | USA |
1952-07-26 | Helsinki[1] |
| 7,985 | 7,608 | Rafer Johnson | USA |
1955-06-11 | Kingsburg[1] |
| 8,014 | 7,653 | Vasili Kuznetsov |  URS |
1958-05-18 | Krasnodar[1] |
| 8,302 | 7,989 | Rafer Johnson | USA |
1958-07-28 | Moscow[1] |
| 8,357 | 7,839 | Vasili Kuznetsov | URS |
1959-05-17 | Moscow[1] |
| 8,683 | 7,981 | Rafer Johnson | USA |
1960-07-09 | Eugene[1] |
| 9,121 | 8,010 | Yang Chuan-kwang |  ROC |
1963-04-28 | Walnut[1] |
| 8,230 | 8,120 | Russ Hodge | USA |
1966-07-24 | Los Angeles[1] |
| 8,319 | 8,235 | Kurt Bendlin |  FRG |
1967-05-14 | Heidelberg[1] |
| 8,417 | 8,310 | Bill Toomey | USA |
1969-12-11 | Los Angeles[1] |
| 8,454 | 8,466 | Mykola Avilov | URS |
1972-09-08 | Munich[1] |
| 8,524 | 8,420 | Bruce Jenner[a] | USA |
1975-08-10 | Eugene[1] |
| 8,538 | 8,454 | Bruce Jenner[a] | USA |
1976-06-26 | Eugene[1] |
| 8,618 | 8,634 | Bruce Jenner[a] | USA |
1976-07-30 | Montreal[1] |
| 8,622 | 8,648 | Daley Thompson |  GBR |
1980-05-15 | Götzis[1] |
| 8,649 | 8,667 | Guido Kratschmer | FRG |
1980-06-14 | Filderstadt-Bernhausen[1] |
| 8,704 | 8,730 | Daley Thompson | GBR |
1982-05-23 | Götzis[1] |
| 8,723 | 8,741 | Jürgen Hingsen | FRG |
1982-08-15 | Ulm[1] |
| 8,743 | 8,774 | Daley Thompson | GBR |
1982-09-08 | Athens[1] |
| 8,779 | 8,825 | Jürgen Hingsen | FRG |
1983-06-05[3] | Filderstadt-Bernhausen[1] |
| 8,798 | 8,832 | Jürgen Hingsen | FRG |
1984-05-09 | Mannheim[1] |
| 8,798 | 8,847 | Daley Thompson | GBR |
1984-08-09 | Los Angeles[1] |
| 8,891 | 8,891 | Dan O’Brien | USA |
1992-09-05 | Talence[1] |
| 8,994 | 8,994 | Tomáš Dvořák |  CZE |
1999-07-04 | Prague[1] |
| 9,026 | 9,026 | Roman Šebrle | CZE |
2001-05-27 | Götzis[1] |
| 9,039 | 9,039 | Ashton Eaton | USA |
2012-06-23 | Eugene[4][5] |
| 9,045 | 9,045 | Ashton Eaton | USA |
2015-08-29 | Beijing |
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Nasa predicts near-miss with asteroid on Halloween –
An asteroid is due to pass by Earth on Halloween and miss us by a whisker, according to Nasa. Well, if whiskers were 499,000km long, at any rate. The asteroid was spotted by Nasa a fortnight ago and is set to fly past the Earth on Halloween at over 78,000mph. It will cross by Earth at the closest it’s been since 2006. The space agency explained why they spotted it at such short notice, despite constantly monitoring the size. They said: “The asteroid is on an extremely eccentric and a high inclination orbit.” We won’t be able to see the asteroid with the naked eye, but anyone with access to a telescope will be able to see it as it passes by. “This is the closest approach by a known object this large until 1999 AN10 approaches within 1 lunar distance in August 2027,” said Nasa. [Daily Telegraph]
Q Awards 2015: Foals beat Ed Sheeran and Blur to win Best Act In the World Today –
The Oxford band Foals confirmed their elevation to music’s biggest stages after being voted Best Act In the World Today at the Q magazine awards. Foals, who combine indie rock with electronic beats and African-inspired rhythms, beat Blur, Noel Gallagher and Ed Sheeran to the award, previously won by the likes of Radiohead and Coldplay. Ed Sheeran beat Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith to the Solo Artist award, capping a year in which the strummer sold out three nights at Wembley Stadium, performing with just his guitar and a loops pedal. However Sheeran lost out to the Brighton drums and bass rock duo Royal Blood for the Best Live Act prize. [The Independent] See List of the Day
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Hundreds Of Apps Banned From App Store For Accessing Users’ Personal Information –
Hundreds of iOS applications have been pulled out of the App Store, following a report from analytics service SourceDNA, which uncovered a group of applications that were extracting users’ personally identifiable information, including email addresses associated with their Apple IDs, devices and peripheral serial numbers, as well as a list of apps installed on their phone. The applications in question had been using an SDK from a Chinese advertising company called Youmi which was accessing this information by way of private APIs, the report found. Nearly all of the developers were located in China so, for now, this appears to be an isolated incident. However, the larger concern here has to do with how long this activity had been taking place – and what that means in terms of Apple’s App Store review process, given that it hadn’t caught this suspect activity until being alerted to it by a third party. [Tech Crunch]
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The Q Awards 2015 Winners
Q Best New Act
James Bay
Best Track
The Libertines – Gunga Din (Winner)
Q Best Album
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
Q Best Video
Florence + The Machine – Ship To Wreck
Q Hero
Mark Ronson
Q Best Live Act
Royal Blood
Q Classic Album
Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol. One
Q Best Solo Artist
Ed Sheeran
Q Innovation in Sound
Gary Numan
Q Best Act In The World
Foals
Gibson Les Paul Award
Tony Iommi
Q Outstanding Contribution to Music
New Order
Q Classic Single
Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
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Paris attacks –
Paris has suffered a night of deadly attacks, described by President Francois Hollande as “unprecedented”. Shootings, bomb blasts and a hostage siege have left at least 127 people dead and some 180 wounded. At least 80 are in critical condition. Six places were targeted, almost simultaneously. France has declared a state of emergency, imposed border controls and deployed 1,500 extra troops. [BBC]
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In January the offices of Charlie Hebdo were attacked by gunmen in Paris and in August train passengers overcame a gunmen on a train in France.
Bataclan Theatre, Paris
Jihadi John ‘dead’: MI5 on alert amid fears of Isil revenge attack –
MI5 is on high alert amid fears that Isil fanatics are already plotting revenge attacks for the reported killing of Jihadi John in a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria. The communications of known sympathisers are being monitored closely as surveillance is stepped up to prevent a terrorist outrage in revenge for the operation which is now widely acknowledged to have resulted in the death of Mohammed Emwazi– who as Jihadi John – earned global notoriety. [Daily Telegraph] See Top Twitter Trends
Athletics doping: Russia provisionally suspended by IAAF –
Russia’s athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from international competition – including the Olympic Games – for its alleged involvement in widespread doping. The IAAF took action after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged “state-sponsored doping”. Its council members voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned. “This is a wake-up call for all of us,” said IAAF president Lord Coe. [BBC] Lord Coe became IAAF president in August 2015.
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Ronda Rousey knocked out in UFC 193 title fight by Holly Holm in Australia –
Holly Holm pulled off a stunning upset over Ronda Rousey in the mixed martial arts championship, UFC 193. She knocked the women’s bantamweight champion out in the second round with a powerful kick to the head in Melbourne, Australia. Ronda Rousey, 28, was undefeated in her first 12 mixed martial arts fights with 11 wins in the first round. Holly Holm ended that run in front of a record Ultimate Fighting Championship crowd of around 75,000 fans. The UFC brought its showcase UFC 193 to Australia, with the Ronda Rousey-Holly Holm fight overshadowing the men as the main event. The stadium in Melbourne was transformed from a 56,000-seat Australian rules football venue to an auditorium holding close to 75,000 seats for the event. A full house would easily beat the 55,724 fans who attended UFC 129 at Toronto’s Rogers Centre in 2011. [BBC Newsbeat] Rousey starred in “Expendables 3” with Sylvester Stallone. See Top Twitter Trends
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Hundreds of Mormons resign in Utah same-sex policy protest –
Hundreds of Latter-day Saints mailed or handed in letters quitting the Mormon church on Saturday to protest a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) approved the policy last week. It added same-sex marriage to acts considered to be a renunciation of the Mormon faith and thus subject to church discipline, including excommunication. The church has more than 15 million adherents and 85,000 missionaries around the world. [Reuters]
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‘Pastafarian’ wins right to wear colander on head in driving licence photo –
A woman in the US has won the right to wear a colander on her head in her driving licence photo. The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles had previously forbidden Lindsay Miller from sporting the unconventional headgear, worn by followers of the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or ‘Pastafarians’. However, the decision was overturned after Miller launched an appeal with the assistance of the Secular Legal Society. Lawyer Patty DeJuneas told the Boston Globe: “I’m not a Pastafarian. But my understanding, and my view of it, is that it’s a secular religion that uses parody to make certain points about a belief system.” The Pastafarian ‘religion’ was founded a decade ago after the Kansas school board came under pressure to teach the theory of intelligent design in biology class as an alternative to evolution. [Daily Telegraph]
Town pays people to cycle to work –
An Italian town will pay people hundreds of euros per year if they cycle to work instead of using their cars. The council in Massarosa, just north of Pisa, says the pilot scheme will see cyclists paid 25 cents per kilometre travelled, up to a monthly cap of 50 euros (£35), the regional Il Tirreno news website reports. That means commuters who switch to two wheels could pocket up to 600 euros (£424) in a year. It’s said to be the first such scheme in Italy. Fifty workers will be included in the 12-month pilot, which will use a smartphone app to record the distance travelled each day. The scheme is being funded from fines collected from traffic tickets in the town, which by law has to be reinvested in road safety, the site points out. [BBC]
Budget private jet firm launched by French rugby legend –
Philippe Saint-André, the coach who took France to the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup, aims to democratise private jet travel. He and ex-player Christophe Ducluzeau have founded Le Jet, offering London to Paris flights for £363 one-way. The 45-minute service will launch on November 23 and will initially run on Mondays and Fridays, ferrying passengers between the private jet terminal of Stansted Airport and Le Bourget airport near Paris. Further London-Paris services and routes to other European destinations are also being planned. [Daily Telegraph]
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Charlie Sheen confirms he is HIV positive –
Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has confirmed he is living with HIV in a US television interview. “I am here to admit that I am HIV positive,” he said. The former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men appeared on NBC’s Today show, ending days of intense media speculation. Sheen revealed to Matt Lauer he had paid “enough to take it into the millions” to keep people from going public about his illness. “I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths,” he said, adding he was diagnosed four years ago. [BBC] In March 2015 Sheen launched a racist Twitter attack on Barack Obama.
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Bangkok sets record for longest half-marathon after route blunder –
The 6,000 runners who just completed the Bangkok half-marathon will have a special mention in sporting trivia quizzes for years to come, after they were forced to run an extra four miles to reach the finish line. Mark Kent, the British ambassador to Thailand, was among those who finished the longest half-marathon in history after a route blunder by organisers. The mishap occurred as the wrong gate was opened on a main road for the runners to complete a U-turn, some two miles further on than planned. The organisers have apologised profusely for the mistake and offered all competitors a free commemorative T-shirt bearing the message: “Finisher of 27.6 km”. An actual half-marathon should last 21.1 kms, or about 13 miles. [Daily Telegraph]
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Jonah Lomu: New Zealand rugby union great dies aged 40 –
New Zealand rugby union great Jonah Lomu has died aged 40. Lomu, who scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney condition by 1996. It forced him to quit the game and he had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped functioning in 2011. Despite never winning the World Cup, he is the joint top try-scorer in its history – alongside South Africa wing Bryan Habana, scoring 15 tries in 11 games. He was at his best at the 1995 and 1999 World Cups, terrifying defensive lines with his speed and size – 192 cm tall (6 feet 4 inches) and weighing about 119 kilograms (18 stone 10 pounds). [BBC]
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Australian police search for men on park-bench vehicles –
Australian police are looking to identify a group of men filmed riding motorised park benches on public roads in Perth. Footage of the nine men casually rolling through an intersection in Scarborough on Sunday has gone viral. While witnesses said they were amused by the spectacle, police said there were real dangers involved. They said the men could face several charges, including driving an unlicensed and unroadworthy vehicle. “Police are concerned for the safety of those riding on the tables with no protective clothing, especially when on roads alongside motor vehicles,” Western Australian police said in a Facebook post. [BBC]
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World’s second-largest diamond ‘found in Botswana’ –
The world’s second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest diamond to be discovered in Botswana and the largest find in more than a century. The 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond was found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels. [BBC]
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Scientists have trained pigeons to diagnose breast cancer –
Doctors train for years in order to be able to correctly diagnose cancer – but could they soon be replaced by pigeons? Well, no. Obviously not. However, scientists have now discovered that pigeons are surprisingly adept when it comes to spotting cancerous cells. In a study led by Professor Richard Levenson of the University of California, pigeons were shown microscope images of breast tissue, and then rewarded with food if if they correctly pecked a coloured button that corresponded to either cancerous or healthy tissue. [Daily Telegraph]
Bangladesh: Government ‘mistakenly’ cuts off internet –
An internet shutdown in Bangladesh which lasted for more than an hour was a “mistake”, according to the authorities. Officials announced on Wednesday that access to Facebook, Viber and WhatsApp had all been blocked in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling upholding death sentences for two men convicted of war crimes. But the country’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission says it accidentally cut off access to the internet across the whole country. The web blackout started at around 13:00 local time and lasted at least 75 minutes, according to the Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star. “We restored the internet as soon as we realised the mistake,” says Shahjahan Mahmood, the commission’s chairman. The messaging services were blocked as originally planned in order to maintain security, he says. [BBC]
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Indian Railways holds disabled recruitment drive on top floor – with no lifts –
A bid to recruit more disabled employees to work on India’s railways has ended in farce after test centres were set up on the top floors of buildings with no lifts or ramps. Many candidates who arrived at recruitment offices across India on Thursday either had to be carried or drag themselves up the stairs to their designated computers. Some were forced to abandon their applications entirely. [Daily Telegraph]
Vengeful surfer vows to eat the shark that bit him –
Don’t get on the wrong side of Allen Engelman – he has exacted the ultimate revenge on a shark that bit him. The Florida surfer was bitten by a shark, so the next day went out on a vengeful hunt. He killed a shark which he believes to be the same one that bit him. Not only did he kill it, but he now vows to eat it in order to punish the animal for the bite inflicted upon him. The surfer received 15 stitches, and from then on he was hell-bent on revenge. Him and his five-year-old son went back to the beach the following day and caught a shark with the same markings as the one which bit him. [Daily Telegraph]
New York follows UK in banning ‘hoverboards’ in public places –
New York has become the latest city to ban self-balancing scooters, known as “hoverboards”, warning that anyone caught riding them in public places could face a fine of up to $500. The two-wheeled electric vehicles, which use gyroscope technology to keep the rider upright, have exploded in popularity over the last few months – with celebrities including Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Lily Allen and Jamie Foxx all spotted riding them. However, according to the the New York City Police Department, hoverboards are prohibited by New York state law since they are considered “motor vehicles that cannot be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles”. [Daily Telegraph] October 21 2015 was the Back to the Future Day that featured real hoverboards
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Britain’s National Union of Journalists announces a strike against the Financial Times, protesting the changes in pension arrangements since the acquisition of the FT by a Japanese media group, Nikkei. (BBC)
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Ban bathtubs, says Sweden’s ‘green king’ –
The king of Sweden wants to ban all bath-tubs in an effort to save water. King Carl XVI Gustaf, who in recent years has put past scandals relating to his reputation as a lothario behind him to become better known as a dedicated environmentalist, has given a frank interview to describe his determination to turn the royal palace in Stockholm green. He also suggested that having given up taking baths himself his people should follow where he has led. “We should ban all baths, imagine that,” he said when asked about his suggestions for everyday energy saving. The question arose when he confessed he had recently been forced to run himself a bath when staying somewhere that lacked showers. “That’s when it hit me how much water and energy it used,” he said. “I thought ‘I can’t believe I’m having to do this’. I felt quite ashamed.” [Daily Telegraph]
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Angry Cheryl Fernandez-Versini takes legal action over ‘white powder’ bathroom picture –
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has taken legal action to prevent the publication of a photograph in which she is seen next to a white powdery substance in a public lavatory. The X Factor judge was photographed by a fashion journalist who posted the picture on Instagram after the 2015 British Fashion Awards at the London Coliseum on Monday night. The image was later deleted, but lawyers for the Girls Aloud singer have sent a warning letter to media companies not to use the picture. Taken in the reflection of a mirror, the picture shows Mrs Fernandez-Versini washing her hands with other women either side of her, with three lines of a white powder on a glass shelf in front and slightly to the side of her. [Daily Telegraph]
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Jeff Bezos’ space company does world first in landing reusable rocket –
[As promised in September 2015] Jeff Bezos’ privately-funded space company Blue Origin announced a historic first today – it successfully landed a fired rocket back on Earth after an unmanned flight to space. Bezos announced the compelling test flight video on Twitter – the first time he has ever tweeted – calling the achievement the “rarest of beasts.” In this test flight, the rocket separated itself from the New Shepard vehicle, which flew to an altitude of 93km on Monday, at almost 4 times the speed of sound. Usually, the rocket would have fallen back to Earth and been unable to complete any more flights. “Rockets have always been expendable,” Bezos wrote in blog post about the landing. “Not anymore.” In this case, it was guided towards a launchpad on Earth where it slowed down and landed, intact. This means the rocket can be re-used for subsequent flights, which companies like Blue Origin claim will make spaceflight far less expensive. [Daily Telegraph] See Video of the Day
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Andy Murray wins the Davis Cup for Great Britain –
Great Britain have won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 after Andy Murray beat Belgium’s David Goffin to clinch the decisive point in Ghent. Murray won 6-3 7-5 6-3 to give the visitors an unassailable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five tie. Britain have now won the team title 10 times [the last title was in 1936], while Murray adds the Davis Cup to his other major titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Olympic Games. Captain Leon Smith guided Britain from the third tier to glory in five years. [BBC] See Video of the Day. Andy Murray posted the most minimal of tweets afterwards:
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Formula One season ends with Hamilton champion but Rosberg winning –
Nico Rosberg beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to win the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The victory was the German’s third in a row, giving him a boost ahead of 2016 after Hamilton won the title last month with three races still to go. [BBC] See List of the Day
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New Zealand: Auckland aims to become trilingual city –
New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, has announced plans to encourage the entire population to speak English, Maori and a third language. The initiative, launched by the council-controlled educational organisation COMET, aims to get all of Auckland’s 1.4 million residents speaking the national language of Te Reo Maori, Radio New Zealand reports. Currently, only 2.3% of Aucklanders speak the language, the lowest rate in the country, while over 1m of the city’s residents are monolingual – usually English, the radio says. Some 377,000 residents already have two languages as a result of the city’s diverse ethnic mix, where 40% of Aucklanders were born overseas, but their languages tend to be overlooked in favour of English. [BBC]
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Russia: Book of Putin quotes ‘given to officials’ –
Officials across Russia have been given a 400-page book of “prophetic” quotes by President Vladimir Putin as a new year gift, it’s reported. The collection, entitled Words That Change The World, was sent to as many as 1,000 people by one of Mr Putin’s top aides, Vyacheslav Volodin, according to the business newspaper RBK. Recipients include MPs, regional governors and civil society representatives. In an accompanying letter, Mr Volodin says the book should be seen as a guide to the Kremlin’s “values and guiding principles”. He’s also reported to have recommended it to a recent meeting of officials as “required reading for any politician”. [BBC]
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Russia ‘unlikely’ to return by Rio Olympics –
Russia are unlikely to return to international competition in time for next year’s Rio Olympics, says European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen. Russia’s athletics federation was banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations for alleged involvement in widespread doping. An IAAF inspection committee is due to visit Russia in January. “For the moment they have to fulfil the conditions, but I cannot really see them competing in Rio,” Hansen said. [BBC]
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