November 30, 2019
A new education centre for children is set to open up at Kensington Palace - right next to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's home.
The centre will be built onto Queen Anne's Orangery, close to Will and Kate's Kensington Palace apartment.
According to a Historic Royal Palaces spokesman, the "Kensington Palace Orangery Learning Centre [will] provide a light and spacious purpose-built education facility designed to meet the needs of our school and community groups.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have made children's development and education a key part of their charitable duties.
With her Early Years work, the Duchess of Cambridge has met with professionals from a number of sectors to discuss children's mental health and parenting.
November 30, 2019
Two people have died in an avalanche on the Italian side of Mont Blanc.
Border police at the Courmayeur station said the victims were Italian.
Italian state TV Rainews24 reported that the two people had been skiing off piste when they were struck by the avalanche at roughly 10,000 feet of altitude.
November 30, 2019
Boris Johnson has said the criminal justice system “simply isn’t working” after a convicted terrorist freed halfway through a 16-year prison sentence killed two people in the London Bridge attack.
Usman Khan, 28, stabbed to de+ath a man and a woman in the knife rampage on Friday afternoon, leaving three other people injured.
The PA news agency understands one of those killed was Jack Merritt, a course co-ordinator for University of Cambridge-associated Learning Together, who was described by his father on Twitter as a “beautiful spirit”.
Khan was on licence and wearing an electronic monitoring tag when he attended a conference on prisoner rehabilitation hosted by Learning Together at Fishmongers’ Hall and reportedly “threatened to blow up” the building.
Armed with two knives and wearing a fake suicide vest, Khan was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders, before he was shot dead by police on London Bridge next to the Hall.
November 30, 2019
Anticipation for director James Gunn’ reboot of DC’s Suicide Squad is soaring high, but the audience for the film could be restricted.
It has been reported that Warner Brothers and DC have given the greenlight for the film to contain expletives and graphic violence, prompting speculation that the film will be R-rated.
The recent of success of Joker, directed by Todd Philips, which was also R-rated is believed to have pushed the studios to releasing more adult themed films.
Audiences will have a long wait to see the film which isn’t set to be released until August 6, 2021.
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November 30, 2019
The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, with the death toll at 51 and no more bodies believed to be in the ruins.
Prime Minister Edi Rama said preliminary figures show more than 1,465 buildings in the capital Tirana, and about 900 in nearby Durres, were seriously damaged in Tuesday’s 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake.
About 2,000 people were injured.
Preliminary figures estimate at least 4,000 people are homeless, with about 2,500 given shelter in hotels. Others have been taken to neighbouring Kosovo or have moved to eastern areas of Albania.
Mr Rama has pledged all homeless will be in “stronger homes” in 2020.
The first seriously damaged building has been demolished, and a dozen others are expected to follow. Assessment experts from Greece, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia are involved.
A new draft law will sentence all investors, architects and supervisors to seven to 15 years in prison for violating construction regulations.
Those violations and corruption in Albania’s burgeoning building industry have been blamed for much of the quake’s effects.
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November 30, 2019
Donald Trump is “absolutely cognisant” of the importance of not interfering in other nations’s elections, a US official has said ahead of the president’s trip to the UK.
Boris Johnson has already warned Mr Trump not to get involved in the General Election campaign, after the president previously urged him to form a pact with Nigel Farage.
The Conservatives will be wary of any endorsements or comments from Mr Trump during the visit, a week before the public goes to the polls on December 12.
The president is set to visit Buckingham Palace for a reception on Tuesday, before he joins world leaders during a Nato summit in Watford the following day.
When asked if Mr Trump has been briefed and warned not to speak about the election on his trip, a senior US administration official said the president is “very conscious” of the fact “we do not interfere”.
Pressed further, the official added: “He also, as I suspect you know, likes Boris Johnson – Prime Minister Johnson, personally.
“But he is absolutely cognisant of not, again, wading into other country’s elections.”
The official, asked why no meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Johnson has been announced, said they are “continuing to develop our bilats and that we’ll update accordingly”.
Asked about whether there would be a press conference, the official said: “Stay tuned. We might have more for you on that as it goes forward.”
November 30, 2019
Frozen 2 has topped the box office in the US, pulling in over 200 million dollars in its first week.
The sequel to the 2013 smash hit earned 14.7 million dollars on Thursday, falling just short of the record that was set by ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2013.
Although the film does look set to break five-day records for the holiday period, with a record-setting 135 million dollars.
The animated film is facing off against the star studded murder mystery Knives Out, directed Star Wars director Rian Johnson, which pulled in 6.2 million on Thanksgiving.
November 30, 2019
Two protesters have been shot dead and at least 26 were wounded in Baghdad and southern Iraq, in continued unrest after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced he intended to resign.
Iraq’s cabinet held an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss Mr Abdul-Mahdi’s stepping down and approved the resignations of key staff. Experts said parliament must approve Mr Abdul Mahdi’s resignation for it to be valid.
Security and hospital officials said two protesters were killed and 15 wounded early on Saturday by security forces who fired live rounds in the holy city of Najaf, in southern Iraq.
The officials said at least 11 protesters were wounded near Baghdad’s Ahrar Bridge when security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
November 30, 2019
North Korea has lashed out at Japan calling their Prime Minsiter, Shinzo Abe an “imbecile” and a “political dwarf”.
The criticism came after Mr Abe condemned the country for “repeated launches of ballistic missiles”, which North Korea said was inaccurate.
The North insisted that they were not testing ballistic missiles, but were in fact testing a “super-large multiple-rocket launcher”.
On Saturday, North Korean state media threatened Japan, saying that they “may see what a real ballistic misile is in the not distant future.”
UN Security Council Resolutions prohibit North Korea from firing ballistic missiles.
On Thursday, North Korea fired two “unidentified projectiles" into the Sea of Japan.
November 30, 2019
Director Tom Hooper has said that some of the character designs for the upcoming film Cats is to be reevaluated following an online backlash to the trailer.
Speaking to Empire Magazine, Hooper said that the production team had been receptive to the feedback and were making some tweaks to the visuals, although he also admitted that they were not expecting such a controversy.
Hooper, who also directed The Kings Speech and Les Miserables, said: “We'd only finished shooting in March, so all the visual effects [in the trailer] were at quite an early stage. Possibly there were, in the extremity in some of the responses, some clues in how to keep evolving [the production]. When you watch the finished film, you'll see that some of the designs of the cats have moved on since then, and certainly our understanding of how to use the technology to make them work has gone up, too."
Cats will be released in cinemas on December 20th.
