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For a man BC, it took 48 years and 107 days. Staff at the Tooting Library in London, UK, were shocked to receive a book on Monday that appeared to have been last checked on 19 February 1974. The book, A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan, arrived by post from Port Moody, BC. “We received a mysterious package in the post … it said it was back from Port Moody, but there was no other information, there was no note,” said Christopher Arnsby, business director at Wandsworth Libraries....

The water was calm last Sunday morning as Samson and a friend trolled their usual spots between Toronto Island and the downtown waterfront. A layer of fog still covered the city’s towering skyline. With the CN Tower and other Toronto landmarks just a few hundred meters away, Sampson landed a big fish rarely seen in the big city. “It was definitely a shock and we knew we had caught a unicorn....

Celsius Network cryptocurrency lending platform suspended withdrawals due to “extreme market conditions”, causing a sell-off. Bitcoin fell to a 17-month low of $ 23,629 after the announcement of the degrees Celsius, while ether, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world after bitcoin, fell more than 15% to $ 1,237, the lowest since January 2021. Meanwhile, Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange, announced that it had “temporarily suspended” bitcoin withdrawals due to a “stuck transaction in the chain”, before announcing the resumption several hours later....

Wegen der Menschenrechtslage in Katar rufen linke Politiker dazu auf, sich nicht an dem Fußballspektakel zu beteiligen. Bürger hingegen finden das Turnier wichtig. Bundesrat Ueli Maurer reist Ende November an die WM nach Katar. Auf Einladung des Schweizerischen Fussballverbandes (SFV) wird er am 28. November am Spiel Schweiz-Brasilien teilnehmen, bestätigte sein Vertreter gegenüber der Agentur Keystone-SDA. Angesichts von Aufrufen zum Boykott der WM in dem Golfstaat ist Maurers Besuch umstritten....

No one was happy with the Vancouver Canucks’ start to the season. Not the players, not the coaching staff and certainly not the fans. Unsurprisingly, the Canucks’ upper management was part of that crew as well. “Well obviously they started 0-5-2 and nobody was in a very good headspace. In the last 48 hours they had back-to-back wins and everyone was feeling a little better. But I think one of the stories that came out of that was that the Vancouver Canucks made it very clear to some of their players that if there were going to be changes, it wasn’t just going to be the coach....

13.06.2022, 02:17 π.μ Michael Bradt reist mit einer Gruppe von 16 Abgeordneten nach Kiew. Der CDU-Politiker sagt, Deutschland sei jetzt schwer zu sprechen. Bundeskanzler Scholz wird es bei seinem Besuch in dem kriegsgebeutelten Land schwer haben. Der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete und Menschenrechtssprecher seiner Fraktion, Michael Brand, sieht nach seiner Rückkehr aus Kiew das Ansehen Deutschlands in der Ukraine schwer beschädigt. „Der Bundeskanzler macht einen schwierigen Schritt, auch wenn er in Kiew diplomatisch empfangen wird“, sagte Brad dem Tagesspiegel vor dem geplanten Besuch von Bundeskanzler Olaf Soltz in dem vom Russlandkrieg betroffenen Land in den kommenden Tagen....

ENQUÊTE – Sous prétexte de défendre la planète, la nébuleuse poursuit ses frappes et a été au centre des violences dans les Deux-Sèvres. Multipliant le poing des entreprises pour tenter de faire l’irréparable, la fureur de l’écologie radicale semble désormais ne plus connaître de bornes. Ainsi, un jeune militant en visite au musée d’Orsay a été empêché jeudi dernier de jeter de la soupe sur un tableau de Paul Gauguin pour attirer l’attention du public sur “l’effondrement social” qui s’ensuivrait....

CNN political analyst and Axios editor Margaret Talef said Sunday that talk by Democrats that he might not run for president Biden in 2024 “weakens his ability to govern.” Inside Politics presenter Abby Philip asked the panel about a New York Times article published Saturday that underscored Democrats’ concerns about Biden’s leadership. Many members of the party, according to the New York Times, see Biden as “an anchor to be broken in 2024....

Prominent figures on social media, including some of the loudest voices on the political right, are pushing a bad and false conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in an apparent attempt to shift the narrative about the attack . The claim that big names like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jr. and Dinesh D’Souza have promoted to their millions of followers: Paul Pelosi and the man who attacked him were gay lovers who had a fight....

Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario School Board of Unions, said if workers continue to protest after Friday “they will be left to what happens.” “I’m so proud because our members said, ‘Enough is enough,’” Walton said. The Ontario government introduced legislation Monday to force a contract on CUPE education workers — including librarians, custodians and early childhood teachers — and prevent a strike that was set to begin Friday....

Les anciens restaurants McDonald’s de Russie rebaptisés “Vkousno i totchka” Passés sous pavillon russe, les anciens restaurants McDonald’s de Russie ont été rebaptisés “Vkousno i totchka”. La chaîne de restauration rapide qui remplace l’américain McDonald’s en Russie avait déjà dévoilé le nouveau logo. Le cercle et les deux lignes qui y figurent représentent un burger et deux frites. Le propriétaire Alexander Govor a assuré que 51 000 anciens employés de McDonald’s à travers la Russie conserveraient leur emploi....

Toddie, 59, and Beezie, 61, met at the Douglas Aircraft Company assembly line in California in 1952. Both had served their nation during World War II – Toddie in the Women’s Army Corps and Beezie in the top-secret Manhattan atomic bomb project. Vera ‘Toddie’ Hays, 59, (left) and Florice ‘Beezie’ Bessire, 61, (right) were the best friends from La Pine, Oregon who were tricked into driving a caravan from Germany to India and smuggling 1....

The incident took place in the state of Odisha on Thursday, police said. Maya Murmu was in a well pumping water in the village of Raipal in the Mayurbhanj district when the wild elephant appeared out of nowhere. Authorities said he had moved away from the Dalma Wildlife Refuge, almost 200km from Mayurbhanj. After being trampled, Ms Murmu was taken to hospital where she died from her injuries, according to Press Trust of India, police officer Lopamudra Nayak....

A frantic last week of campaigning will begin on Monday before the run-off, as Macron’s center-left are still hoping to move on, but face uncertainty about whether they can win a crucial majority in parliament. Macron’s central alliance, the Ensemble, was projected to receive 25.2% of the vote, according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for France Télévisions. A historic alliance of parties on the left, led by Melanson’s France Unbowed party, including the Socialists and Greens, was in exactly the same shape – presenting a challenge to Macron....

Former Fox News columnist Chris Stirewalt said he was surprised by the internal storm that erupted in his former workplace after Fox became the first major news network to call Arizona for President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt, who was fired by Fox in January 2021, testified before the Capitol Committee on Monday to investigate the Capitol Uprising on Monday, telling lawmakers that the chances of former President Donald Trump winning were almost nil as most called elections for Biden on November 7....

Weitere Filialen müssen wohl schließen: Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof sucht erneut Rettung in einem Schutzschirmverfahren – zum zweiten Mal in weniger als zwei Jahren. Der letzte große deutsche Warenhauskonzern in Deutschland, Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, sucht erneut Rettung in einem Schutzschirmverfahren. Das teilte ein Vertreter des Unternehmens in Essen mit. Dem Konzern dürften weitere Ladenschließungen bevorstehen – laut Galeria-Chef Miguel Müllenbach muss das Filialnetz um mindestens ein Drittel reduziert werden. Betriebsbedingte Kündigungen seien daher unvermeidlich, sagte er der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung....

Des traces de cette fête païenne se retrouvent dans l’Irlande moderne. Elle a toujours lieu le 31 octobre, puis elle est devenue “la Toussaint”, littéralement “la veille de tous les saints”. Mais c’est au 19ème siècle qu’Halloween prend progressivement la forme qu’on lui connaît, lors de l’immigration massive des Irlandais – avec la crise de la pomme de terre – vers les Etats-Unis. “Les citrouilles étaient à la base des navets....

La Dre Sylvie Demers est une pionnière de l’hormonothérapie en santé humaine et, par son engagement remarquable, a réussi à faire des hormones féminines un véritable enjeu de société. Il projette une approche bienveillante du vieillissement et des femmes. “Ce n’est pas facile de trouver des informations et il y a des pièges partout. Il y a toutes sortes de courants contraires et il est très difficile pour les femmes d’être bien informées....

19.10.2022, 22:07 Uhr Meghan sagt gerne, dass sie ein normales Leben führen möchte. In einem Interview schildert sie ihren Alltag mit Prinz Harry so, dass man sagen muss: Die Herzogin ist dem Ziel ihrer Sehnsüchte schon sehr nahe. In einem neuen Interview spricht Herzogin Meghan über die Zukunft ihrer Kinder, den Alltag mit Prinz Harry und ihre Beziehung zur verstorbenen Queen. Trotz aller Differenzen mit dem britischen Königshaus bezeichnet Meghan Queen Elizabeth II....

Iran is preparing to send about 1,000 additional weapons, including short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, officials from a Western country that closely monitors the weapons program told CNN of Iran. The mission is being closely watched because it would be the first time Iran has sent advanced precision-guided missiles to Russia, which could give the Kremlin a significant boost on the battlefield....