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William and Kate. Telephost - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge flew from Victoria to Vancouver. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were left mesmerised by the stunning views of Canada's coastline when they took a trip in a sea plane. William and Kate spent much of the 30 minute journey looking out of the window as they flew from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, to the nearby bustling metropolis of Vancouver. The royal couple and their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte received a rapturous welcome from Canadians on Saturday when their eight-day tour of the Commonwealth country began. And they spent Sunday in Vancouver visiting organisations and projects to learn how the country is dealing with a range of issues, from the refugee fallout from the Syrian conflict to drug and alcohol addiction among mothers. Thousands of people turned out to welcome the royal couple throughout their day but there was one dissenting voice - a small group of republicans who had mad...

The Modobag will be available from January 2017. Telephost - We have all been there, attempting to make our way through a crowded airport, late for our flight – only to have our paths blocked, or our heels clipped, by the sight of a small child being pulled towards the gate by their parents on their own wheel-along suitcase. Depending on whether or not you have procreated and are escorting offspring of your own, you may decide that this particular vision is cute and heart-warming. You may even find yourself idly wondering whether the animal this be-wheeled luggage is designed to resemble is an elephant, a rhinoceros, a giraffe or perhaps a dragon – it can be hard to tell. One thought that won’t pop into your head – probably – is: “I wonder if anyone has ever thought to make one of those things for adults, and would I look good while riding one?”. Happily, if you have entertained this daydream, nirvana is almost at hand. An American entrepreneur has come up with the “Modobag” – a piece...

Zach Baldwin, 24, surprised his now wife Catie Bossard Baldwin, 25, by proposing to her and then asking her to get married immediately. Telephost - Catie Bossard was thrilled when her boyfriend of a year proposed while they were atop a mountain during a visit to Vail, Colorado. But when, seconds later as the couple's family and friends started running toward them, Zach Baldwin asked Bossard if she wanted to get married that same day, well, she couldn't contain her emotions. "That was when it kind of hit me," she told ABC News. "I'm like, 'Yes! Yes! Let's do it.'" The Denver, Colorado, couple's surprise wedding was actually two months in the making. Baldwin, 25, told ABC News that he "got this idea one day having dinner with a co-worker." "He was joking about having our family all in town and knocking it all out in one day," Baldwin said. "When I thought about it more and more. It just seemed too perfect." ...

Is pink coconut water as good for you as the cloudy stuff?  (Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova) Telephost - The first time I noticed pink coconut water, I was in a mildly run-down neighborhood grocery store. It was an unfamiliar bottle and the color of the liquid was near magenta. I didn't know if I was looking at a flavored variety of coconut water, or if something horribly wrong had happened during delivery. All I know is I did not buy it. Since then, I've seen coconut water in varying shades of pink everywhere from Whole Foods to gas stations. A quick perusal of the one of the bottle's labels revealed that the rosy hue is naturally-occurring, caused by a reaction that happens when the drink's antioxidants are introduced to light. So what's the real deal? Since coconut water is one of my go-to beverages whenever I need an energy or hydration boost, I wanted to know more. So I turned to Dr. Josh Axe, who has written...

Miss Arkansa Savvy Shields was named Miss America 2017. Picture: Noah K. Murray Source: AP New York (Telephost) - MISS New York Camille Sims may not have won the Miss America crown, but her response to a particularly blunt political question did win the night. After singing her way into the top seven, Ms Sims continued vying for the coveted 2016 crown in the Q&A round. The 23-year-old was then asked a question each of the ladies had probably prepared for in some form or another — what she thinks of her own state’s most colourful character, Donald Trump. Ms Sims had 20 seconds to answer. Here’s how she responded: “I think that he’s a bright reminder of how our country needs to come together. If you don’t agree with his message, then it’s time to decide where you stand in this debate.” At first, it appeared as though Ms Sims was throwing her support behind the Republican presidential candidate. But she wasn’t done just yet. “As Americans, we need to make sure that we come together,”...

Adolf Hitler awards the Merit Knight Cross to his private doctor, Theodor Morell, in February 1944. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Telephost - German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war. The German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Visiting him there is a vertiginous experience. For one thing, he works – and likes to entertain visitors – in what he calls his “writing tower”, a flimsy-seeming, glass-walled turret perched right on the very edge of the roof. (Look down, if you dare, and you will see his little boat moored far below.) For another, there is the fact that from this vantage point it is possible to discern two Berlins, one thrusting and breezy, the other spectral and grey. To our left, busy with traffic, is the Oberbaum Bridge, where there was ...

Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt attend the WSJ Magazine 2015 Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 4, 2015 in New York City. Telephost - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fans were left reeling Tuesday morning after news broke that the couple is getting divorced. According to the Associated Press, in the divorce papers she filed, Jolie Pitt cited "irreconcilable differences," a vague term that could apply to any number of reasons. The most common cause for divorce, however, comes down to communication differences, said Nicholas Wolfinger, a professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah. Communication problems are a huge predictor of divorce, Wolfinger told Live Science. For example, women may not communicate their emotional needs, or men may not hear them, Wolfinger said. Indeed, after a divorce that was initiated by a woman, men will often say that they don't know what happened, Wolfinger said. Women initiate divorce about two-thirds of...

Zuckerberg pledges funds to battle diseases. Telephost - The tech billionaire and wife Priscilla say the goal is to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime". Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have pledged more than $3bn towards an ambitious plan to rid the world of disease. The Facebook founder and his wife, paediatrician Priscilla Chan, said the goal was to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime". Investment will go towards research into cancer and infectious disease as well as heart and neurological disease, the couple said. The plans were revealed during an event in San Francisco for their philanthropic group, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, on Wednesday. Dr Chan said they had launched the initiative following the birth of daughter Max last year, with the goal of dramatically improving the lives of all other children in her generation. She recalled experiences of telling parents their child had an incur...

Marketing experts fear Iceland may have scored an own goal with the move. Telephost - The country's football association is accusing EA of "bad treatment" following on from the team's success during Euro 2016. Iceland has opted out of the latest FIFA video game following a row over money with Electronic Arts. The manufacturer was willing to pay about two million Icelandic krona (£13,315) in exchange for the team featuring on the long-awaited FIFA 17 game. But the Icelandic Football Association (KSI) accused EA of showing a lack of respect given their sensational quarter-final finish in Euro 2016. KSI president Geir Thorsteinsson said: "We don't accept bad treatment. We made them a counter-offer, which they did not accept." Icelandic marketing consultants have said they are dismayed with the decision - claiming KSI has missed a golden opportunity for exposure as smaller, cult teams are popular with players. Their squad gained an enthusiastic following du...

Twitter illustration. Telephost - The social media company is said to have held talks with companies including Google over a possible bid by the end of the year. Twitter shares have surged by a fifth after reports that it was the target of a possible takeover. Google and cloud computing company Salesforce were among those in talks with the social media company, according to US broadcaster CNBC. The report said Twitter could receive a formal bid by the end of the year. It comes as the business grapples with its slowest revenue growth since going public three years ago and a sluggish rise in users. Reuters quoted sources confirming that the company had started talks with several technology companies to explore a sale. Shares climbed as much as 21%, giving the company a market value of close to $16bn (£12bn). It was the biggest rise since Twitter's stock market launch in 2013. There was no immediate comment from any of the companies. Twitter has been the focus of much takeover specul...

Yahoo Telephost - The internet company, being bought by Verizon, says a state-sponsored actor stole email addresses, passwords and birth dates. Change your passwords. Now. Hackers swiped personal information associated with at least a half billion Yahoo accounts, the internet giant said Thursday, marking the biggest data breach in history. The hack, which took place in 2014, revealed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, security questions and answers, Yahoo said in a press release. Encrypted passwords, which are jumbled so only a person with the right passcode can read them, were also taken. The internet pioneer, which is in the process of selling itself to Verizon, said it's "working closely" with law enforcement. It called the hackers a "state-sponsored actor," though it didn't identify a country behind the breach. Yahoo urged users to change their passwords if they haven't since 2014. The company has 1 billion month...

Pep Guardiola kicked off his Manchester City reign with a friendly defeat. Telephost - Manchester City 4 Bournemouth 0: Kevin De Bruyne, Kelechi Iheanacho, Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan each scored to secure an eighth successive win for the Catalan's charge. They kill quickly do Manchester City. This was their fifth straight win in the Premier League under Pep Guardiola and the longest any team has held out before conceding was Stoke’s 27 minutes at the Britannia Stadium. Here, Bournemouth might have gone behind after nine seconds, they did so after a quarter of an hour and by the end they would have been grateful to have only lost by four. The only stain on the game was Manuel Nolito’s dismissal for needlessly grinding his forehead into Adam Smith’s face when the result was long since decided. The Bournemouth defender retaliated with a shove for which he was shown a yellow card. Nolito’s was red. This is not by a long way Guardiola’s best start – last season he won his first...

The Murray brothers needed every bit of their stamina to prevail Getty Telephost - Having battled it out for five hours and seven minutes in the opening match on Friday, Andy and Juan Martin del Potro found themselves on opposing sides again. Andy Murray dug into his depleted energy reserves to partner brother Jamie to a crucial doubles victory in Great Britain's Davis Cup semi-final against Argentina. Having battled it out for five hours and seven minutes in the opening match on Friday, Andy and Juan Martin del Potro found themselves on opposing sides of the net once again at Glasgow's Emirates Arena. This time it was the home hero who came out on top, thanks in no small part to the performance of Jamie, who won his third grand slam title at the US Open last weekend and was the stand-out player on the court. The 6-1 3-6 6-4 6-4 victory kept Britain in the tie at 2-1 and means a second successive final is still achievable if they can win both singles matches on Sunday. The pai...

Lewis Hamilton Rio de janeiro (Telephost) - Nico Rosberg took a stunning pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton was demoted to third by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. Hamilton was a massive 0.704 seconds slower than Rosberg after a difficult qualifying session, befitting what has been a troubled weekend throughout. Red Bull's Max Verstappen took fourth ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn's team-mate Sebastian Vettel will start last after a technical problem as Jenson Button starts 13th. What happened to Hamilton? Rosberg's was a remarkable performance - he has surely never been as superior to Hamilton when both have been gunning for pole. For his part, Hamilton has looked out of sorts all weekend, missing half of the second practice session on Friday because of a technical problem and struggling to get a good lap in before that. He failed again to do a qualifying simulation lap in Saturday's final practice session, locking his brakes ...

Bahman Golbarnezhad - here competing on the track in 2012 - crashed during the C4-5 road race on Saturday Rio de Janeiro (Telephost) - An Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men's C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics. The International Paralympic Committee said Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, suffered cardiac arrest after the incident on a "mountainous stretch" of circuit. "The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he passed away soon after arrival," a statement added. Golbarnezhad also competed at the London Paralympics in 2012. An investigation into the circumstances of the accident has been launched. "We're looking to gather as much information as we can and as quickly as possible - it should take a matter of days," said Piers Jones, sports director of cycling's governing body UCI. The Iranian flag has been lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village and a period of silence will be observed...

Beyoncé’s Ivy Park range being advertised outside Topshop in London. Photograph: Matthew Chattle/Rex/Shutterstock Newcastle (Telephost) - Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley once promised to finish off JD Sports, but now finds himself being trounced by his rival. JD Sports, the self-styled King of Trainers, is not only valued at a cool £1.1bn more than the Newcastle United owner’s chain, but last week revealed its sales and profits growth were a well-shod leap ahead of the rest of the UK fashion market. While other clothing retailers have spent the last two years moaning about unsuitable weather and claiming that shoppers are more interested in holidays and gadgets than the latest fashion, JD has powered on. Sales at stores open more than a year rose 10% in the six months to the end of July. Even executive chairman Peter Cowgill sounded surprised by the group’s 66% rise in underlying profits, revealed on Tuesday, saying they “exceeded reasonable expectations.” But the performance should no...

The (former) Great British Bake Off team: Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. Photograph: Love Productions/BBC London (Telephost) - Television programmes have been switching channels for years – from Men Behaving Badly to Big Brother, University Challenge to The Voice. Yet none have met with quite such an outcry as the poaching of The Great British Bake Off from the BBC. After all, it’s not every day that the UK’s favourite TV show switches channels. GBBO’s maker, Love Productions, has been pilloried in parts of the press, especially since it did the Channel 4 deal without securing the show’s current presenters, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, or judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. The company turned down an offer of £15m a year from the corporation – and higher bids from ITV and Netflix – to take the hit baking show to Channel 4 for around £25m a year. However, beyond the brouhaha about whether Love Productions was right to take a hit that had been nurtured by t...

Apple was ordered to pay €13bn in back taxes to Dublin. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP Washington (Telephost) - Business Roundtable warns of ‘grievous self-inflicted wound’ for EU and its people after Brussels’ ruling that Apple must pay back Ireland €13bn in taxes. US businesses have warned European leaders they risk a “grievous self-inflicted wound” unless they overturn Brussels’ demand that Apple pay the Irish government €13bn (£11.4bn). In an open letter to the leaders of the 28 European Union countries, the Business Roundtable group defended Apple over its tax dispute with the European commission. The US tech giant was ordered to pay €13bn to Ireland last month, after Brussels ruled that the tax breaks it was given between 1991 and 2015 amounted to unlawful state aid. But the group of US chief executives, who between them run companies with $7tn of revenue and 16 million employees, said the decision “must not be allowed to stand”. “The precedent set by this decision, if upheld, woul...

Zara B rowsing the rails at Zara, you might not be aware of this: but there's an 80-year-old grandfather in northern Spain who helped pick out what you're taking to the till. Amancio Ortega stepped down as chief executive at Zara's owner, Inditex, five years ago. But he didn't give up work. Not at all. Even this week, when the company's rising share price made him the richest man in the world for two days, he wasn't ready to retire. Every day he still makes the 10km journey from his town centre house to the Inditex headquarters, based just outside the coastal town of A Coruna where he first launched the Zara brand. Sometimes he sits down with the Zara Woman design team and they kick around ideas for the coming weeks and months - the new layout for a store, a new design for the upcoming winter collection. And if Mr Ortega has a hunch, they listen. After all, he has 60 years' experience in fashion retail, built up from humble beginnings. According to Forbes ma...

Calvin Harris may have just waved his white flag in attempts to make peace with Taylor Swift, and the proof is all in the Instagram.

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During an interview that aired on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” Thursday, Hillary Clinton declined to weigh on Colin Powell’s hacked personal emails: “I’m not going to start discussing someone else’s private emails.”

Republican Rep. Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, addresses the House in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, from the well of the camber to urge his colleagues not to expel him from the Tennessee General Assembly. The move to expel Durham follows an attorney general's investigation that detailed allegations of improper sexual contact with at least 22 women over the course of his four years in office. Nashville, Tenn. (Telephost) — The vote to expel a sitting Tennessee lawmaker for the first time in 36 years was overwhelming, even though House members had argued vehemently about whether a series of sexual harassment allegations were enough to boot one of their own. The state House voted 70-2 on Tuesday to remove Rep. Jeremy Durham. He surprised his colleagues by showing up in the chamber and contending that he shouldn't be ousted. Then he abruptly left in mid-debate. The vote to remove Durham, who represented the Nashville suburb of Franklin, followed an attorney genera...

Palestinian rocket strikes Israel, drawing Israeli reprisal Gaza (Telephost) - Note the marked pro-Palestinian bias of the AP report: the focus on the Israeli retaliation, the mentioning of the 17-year-old wounded boy (what was he doing?), implying that the Israeli strikes were disproportionate, indiscriminate, and targeted at civilians, etc. Only way down in the story do we hear that the rocket struck in an Israeli residential area — because the jihadis do actually target civilians. Nonetheless, it is clear from the report which side was the aggressor, as always. The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, targeting Hamas positions in response to a Palestinian rocket attack that hit an Israeli border town earlier in the day. Palestinian Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Qidra said two Palestinians, including a 17-year-old boy, were lightly wounded. Palestinian officials said nearly all of the airstrikes took place in northern Gaza, near the...

An Israeli tank takes part in a military exercise in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria Damascus (Telephost) - Syria's military said Tuesday it shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone in response to an attack on Syrian army positions -- a claim denied by Israel. "Our air defences blocked the attack and shot down the military aircraft in (the southern province of) Quneitra and a drone" in the province of Damascus, said the Syrian army statement carried by state news agency SANA. It accused Israeli forces of supporting "armed terrorist groups" in the country's south. The Israeli army said none of its aircraft had been downed overnight on Monday, as claimed by Syria, and it carried out fresh strikes against Syrian artillery positions on Tuesday night. Both raids were in response to what appeared to be stray fire from fighting in Syria landing on the Israeli-held zone of the Golan Heights. "At no point was the safety of (Israeli...

According to a new report by the Huffington Post Donald Trump's employees are not all eligible to receive eight-weeks paid parental leave, contrary to Ivanka's claims. CNN's Zachary Wolf reports.

Jikany Nuer White Army fighters holds their weapons in Upper Nile State, South Sudan in February, 2014. South Sudan's rebels said that government soldiers had launched attacks against their positions in oil-rich Unity State in what they said was a violation of a peace deal Khartoum (Telephost) - A high profile report detailing a network of alleged corruption in South Sudan emerged earlier this week, accusing South Sudanese senior hierarchy of profiteering from the civil war. The 66-page report was released by Sentry, an investigative organisation founded by the US actor George Clooney and the rights activist John Prendergast. It presented evidence of documents and eyewitness accounts alleging that President Salva Kiir and his family members, as well as top associates including former Vice-President Riek Machar and close senior military officers were involved in corruption. IBTimes UK looks at three key points from the report entitled, War Crimes Shouldn't Pay. The report a...