Month: July 2019

Forecasters expect more than month’s worth of rain over weekend as flooding fears raised Via: UK weather: Severe weather warning issued as heatwave gives way to torrential rain and flooding

Vancouver ‘s Jessica Yaniv filed a complaint with B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in 2018 alleging 16 spas refused to wax her – including Brazillian waxes- because she is a male to female trans woman. Via: Trans woman who claims salons discriminated against her is accused of child sexual exploitation

Members of Australia’s women’s water polo team were celebrating in a nightclub in South Korea when a balcony collapsed killing two people and injuring 13 more.   Via: Australians caught up in fatal balcony collapse

Private audio swept up by Siri includes conversations between patients and doctors, sex, criminal activity, and official business talk.Confidential audio scraped by Siri includes Via: Who ISN'T listening? Report claims Apple contractors often hear private conversations from Siri

Country struggles to get back on track, with damaged power lines, storms and strikes potentially spelling trouble After a week in which Britain has been hit by record temperatures and thunderstorms, heavy rainfall could now bring flooding and further travel disruption.East Midlands Trains customers have been warned to expect a Read more…

Naomie Harris, 42, was appalled at being told that her four-times great-grandfather James Langdon was manager of the La Sagesse sugar plantation in Grenada in 1849. Via: Tearful Bond actress is stunned to learn her 'repugnant' relative managed a sugar plantation…

PETER OBORNE: To Boris Johnson, the world is divided between optimists who share his vision for Britain becoming ‘the greatest place on Earth’ and ‘doubters, doomsters and gloomsters’. Via: PETER OBORNE: I don't wish to be a gloomster and rain on your parade, Boris Johnson, but…