General news

• Catalan referendum: Region's independence 'in matter of days' - BBC News

  03-10-2017 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News
  Catalan referendum: Region's independence 'in matter of days'
  BBC News
  Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. In his first interview since Sunday's referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would "act at the end of this week or the ...
  King Felipe: Catalan authorities have 'scorned' all Spaniards with referendumThe Guardian
  Spain's king censures Catalonia in rare political interventionFinanc
  
  Read more

• Full interview: May on Brexit, Boris Johnson and Labour

  03-10-2017 23:40
  In an interview with Sky's Faisal Islam, Theresa May has dismissed claims ofa split in her Cabinet and played down the lack of progress in Brexit talks.
  
  Read more

• Boris Johnson Libya 'dead bodies' comment provokes anger

  03-10-2017 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Boris Johnson says Sirte could be the new Dubai - "all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away".
  
  Read more

• Theresa May to tell Tories it's time for Brexit infighting to cease

  03-10-2017 23:30
  Theresa May will issue a call for unity within the Conservative ranks on Wednesday as a string of cabinet ministers told the Guardian they were deeply frustrated with Boris Johnson for creating days of headlines about party division.The prime minister will use her centrepiece conference speech to demand an end to the infighting, declaring a “duty to Britain” to shift the focus from the job security of senior Tories to that of ordinary working people.The call will be made as at least
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Theresa May orders Tories to 'shape up' in conference unity plea

  03-10-2017 23:30
  Theresa May will try to reassert her authority on Wednesday when she urges Conservatives to "shape up and give the country the Government it needs".The embattled Prime Minister will deliver her first leader's speech to the party conference since June's botched election gamble, when the Tories lost their parliamentary majority.Since then she has abandoned key pledges in the 2017 manifesto, tried to contain challenges to her approach on Brexit and dampened speculation about the length of her premi
  
  Read more

• Theresa May tells Conservative Party conference, 'Let's shape up'

  03-10-2017 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM will tell the Tories to "do our duty by Britain", after insisting she still has the authority to lead.
  
  Read more

• Call for ban on 'bump stocks' – owned by Las Vegas shooter – that boost rate of fire - The Guardian

  03-10-2017 22:42 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian
  Call for ban on 'bump stocks' – owned by Las Vegas shooter – that boost rate of fire
  The Guardian
  Bump stocks were a novelty popular with YouTube gun enthusiasts wanting to simulate machine gun fire. Then they were found in a mass shooter's arsenal. An employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a 'bump' stock works at the North Carolina ...
  Las Vegas shooting: Five reasons US gun laws don't changeBBC News
  How firearms got their deadly grip on the United States
  
  Read more

• Royal Mail staff vote to strike over pensions

  03-10-2017 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Union describes 89% 'yes' vote as a 'massive vote of no confidence' in Royal Mail managerial leadership.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Former Equifax CEO blames breach on one IT employee

  03-10-2017 22:20
  The Equifax data breach that leaked information on the now-145 million people was caused by a vulnerability in Apache's Struts system.Trouble is, the software provider supplied a patch back in March that should have eliminated that vulnerability.While speaking to the committee (video below), former CEO Richard Smith outlined the company's normal procedure for new patches: Have a technician install it and then scan the system for any remaining vulnerabilities.
  
  Read more

• Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman's Rifle Had 'Bump Stock' to Make it Rapid-Fire Weapon - New York Times

  03-10-2017 22:13 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman's Rifle Had 'Bump Stock' to Make it Rapid-Fire Weapon
  New York Times
  A memorial to the victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Credit Hilary Swift for The New York Times. LAS VEGAS — At least one of the rifles the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting had in his hotel ...
  Las Vegas shooter likely altered guns to be even deadlierNew York Post
  What's the bump fire stock that Las Vegas killer may have us
  
  Read more

• Syrian funeral held for British man killed by IS

  03-10-2017 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Mehmet Aksoy, from London, was shot by IS fighters when they ambushed a base outside Raqqa.
  
  Read more

• EU talks going well, but there's too much gloom - Johnson

  03-10-2017 22:01
  MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Chancellor Boris Johnson said on Tuesday negotiations to leave the European Union were going well but there was too much gloom attached to Brexit. At the Conservative Party's annual conference, Johnson said that, while trade deals with other countries might take time to negotiate, there would be "loads" of them done before the next British election, due in 2022. Johnson also told a meeting on the sidelines of the conference that Britain would want to do th
  
  Read more

• Boris Johnson gives PM May advice on Brexit while parading loyalty

  03-10-2017 22:01
  By William JamesMANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson offered Theresa May unsolicited public advice about how to make Brexit a success on Tuesday, delicately testing the extent of the prime minister's weakened authority while pledging overt loyalty.Alongside public proclamations of backing for May, he used media articles and interviews ahead of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to offer up his own vision of a bold Brexit."The whole country owes her
  
  Read more

• Spain's king censures Catalonia in rare political intervention - Financial Times

  03-10-2017 21:59 via ft.com
  Financial Times
  Spain's king censures Catalonia in rare political intervention
  Financial Times
  King Felipe VI of Spain voiced harsh criticism of the “irresponsible” Catalan government for its independence campaign on Tuesday night, in a rare televised speech that stressed the crown's commitment to the unity of the country. Catalonia's ...
  Catalan referendum: Vote illegal - Spain's King FelipeBBC News
  King of Spain accuses Catalan leaders of 'unacceptable disloyalty'CNN
  The Latest: S
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump Compares Puerto Rico Death Toll With Katrina’s ‘Real Catastrophe’ During Extraordinary Visit

  03-10-2017 21:59
  Donald Trump has visited Puerto Rico and appears to have said little to help ease the concerns of devastated Americans, suggesting the hurricane-battered US territory had not faced a “real catastrophe” and joking about the cost of the recovery effort.
  
  Read more

• Bottle diggers burned in mustard gas discovery in Roughton Moor Woods

  03-10-2017 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Two people were treated in hospital after digging up canisters in a Lincolnshire wood.
  
  Read more

• Sirte can become a holiday destination if it 'clears the dead bodies', says Johnson

  03-10-2017 21:45
  Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative party conference.Theresa May is facing further calls to sack Boris Johnson after he said that a war-torn Libyan city only has to “clear the dead bodies away” to become a world-class tourist and business destination.Johnson was accused by Labour of being “unbelievably crass, callous and cruel” about those who died in the battle to reclaim Sirte from Islamic State (Isis), after he was asked at the Conservative party conference what i
  
  Read more

• Boris Johnson: Sirte can be next Dubai once it 'clears the dead bodies'

  03-10-2017 21:45
  Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative party conference. Photograph: A Davidson/SHM/Rex/Shutterstock
  
  Read more

• WhatsApp is used by paedophiles and gangsters and needs to be stopped, home secretary Amber Rudd says - The Independent

  03-10-2017 21:25 via independent.co.uk
  The Independent
  WhatsApp is used by paedophiles and gangsters and needs to be stopped, home secretary Amber Rudd says
  The Independent
  WhatsApp is a shelter for paedophiles and gangsters and needs to make messages available to the government, the home secretary has said. Amber Rudd has complained that apps like WhatsApp are not doing enough to help the government catch ...
  Amber Rudd: viewers of online terrorist material face 15 years in jailThe Guardian
  Under 18s will be banned from buying
  
  Read more

• Trump's half-baked Puerto Rico press conference, annotated - Washington Post

  03-10-2017 21:18 via washingtonpost.com
  Fortune
  Trump's half-baked Puerto Rico press conference, annotated
  Washington Post
  President Trump spent most of his press conference in Puerto Rico on Tuesday playing the expectations game. Puerto Rico is messing with the U.S. budget, he said. The loss of life isn't as bad as Hurricane Katrina, he said. Everybody is doing a great ...
  Puerto Rico: Trump praises 'great job we've done' in visit to stricken islandThe Guardian
  Trump, in Puerto Rico, Compares Death Toll With 'Real Catastrophe,' Katr
  
  Read more

• Married officer fired for police van sex with colleague

  03-10-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MARRIED policeman who had sex with a female officer in the back of a patrol van was sacked today.
  
  Read more

• Cancers linked to excess weight make up 40% of all US diagnoses, study finds

  03-10-2017 20:47
  In 2014, roughly 630,000 people in the US were diagnosed with overweight- or obesity-linked cancer. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
  
  Read more

• May says Brexit will not mean a hard border with Ireland

  03-10-2017 20:43
  Prime Minister Theresa May said the government would do everything it could to help restore Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, adding that Brexit would not herald the return of a hard border between the British province and Ireland."I believe very firmly that the decisions for Northern Ireland are best made in Northern Ireland in that devolved administration.
  
  Read more

• Terror-weary French set aside worries over security law - Daily Mail

  03-10-2017 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  Daily Mail
  Terror-weary French set aside worries over security law
  Daily Mail
  France is proud of its human rights traditions -- but after a wave of jihadist attacks few are standing in the way of a new anti-terror law that campaigners say erodes freedoms. Backed overwhelmingly by MPs in parliament's lower house on Tuesday, the ...
  French MPs adopt tough anti-terror lawChannel NewsAsia
  Five arrested after 'homemade bomb' found in ParisFRANCE 24all 126 news articles »
  
  Read more

• Instagram baby photo thief banned from social media

  03-10-2017 20:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Kati Ringer, 21, claimed other people's babies were sick or dead in an attempt to get money.
  
  Read more

• Anglicans sanction Scottish Episcopal Church over same-sex marriage

  03-10-2017 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The Scottish Episcopal Church voted in June to allow same-sex couples to be married in church.
  
  Read more

• Stourbridge stabbings: Lydia Wilkinson 'feared triple funeral'

  03-10-2017 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  A student recalls the moment she found out her family had been attacked by a knifeman.
  
  Read more

• Stourbridge stabbing: Lydia Wilkinson 'feared triple funeral'

  03-10-2017 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  A student recalls the moment she found out her family had been attacked by a knifeman.
  
  Read more

• Submarine owner charged in journo's death kept torture, killing videos: prosecutor - New York Post

  03-10-2017 20:28 via nypost.com
  New York Post
  Submarine owner charged in journo's death kept torture, killing videos: prosecutor
  New York Post
  Over a dozen stab wounds were found on the headless torso of a Swedish journalist last seen aboard an eccentric inventor's submarine — and videos taken from his computer hard drive show women being tortured and executed, a Danish prosecutor said ...
  Police find videos showing murder of women on Danish submarine owner's computerGlobalnews.ca
  Kim Wall: Fifteen stab wounds foun
  
  Read more

• Motive for Las Vegas concert massacre baffles investigators - Reuters

  03-10-2017 20:28 via reuters.com
  Reuters
  Motive for Las Vegas concert massacre baffles investigators
  Reuters
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials puzzled on Tuesday over what motivated a retiree with no criminal record to assemble an arsenal in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel and rain gunfire onto a outdoor concert, killing at least 59 people. The ...
  How did Las Vegas shooter get his arsenal? Easily, and legallyDaily Mailall 4,980 news articles »
  
  Read more

• Trade minister - Unacceptable for trading nations to 'pull up drawbridges'

  03-10-2017 20:27
  MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British trade minister Liam Fox said on Tuesday it was unacceptable for trading nations to turn their back on free trade having previously reaped the benefits of such a system. "Those who have benefited most from free-trade in the past cannot pull up the drawbridges behind them. It is completely unacceptable," Fox said at his Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester. (Reporting by William James; editing by Kate Holton)
  
  Read more

• Thursday's Tube strike called off after 'progress' in talks

  03-10-2017 20:27
  A London Underground strike that had threatened to bring "substantial disruption" across the capital on Thursday has been called off.Members of the Aslef union were due to walk out for 24 hours in a dispute over work-life balance linked to the introduction of overnight Tube services on weekends.Aslef has now announced it is suspending the industrial action following talks with London Underground at the conciliation service Acas.
  
  Read more

• Boris the orgasmatron tickles Tory faithful but fails to end with a bang | John Crace

  03-10-2017 20:05
  Boris Johnson warmed up the crowd with some crap gags.You couldn’t ask for a better warm-up man than Mogadon Michael Fallon.After the defence secretary’s speech, all Boris Johnson had to do was make it to the podium in one piece to be guaranteed the undying thanks of everyone in the hall.
  
  Read more

• Tory conference is like a North Korea rally, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

  03-10-2017 20:04
  Jacob Rees-Mogg addresses a Conservative party conference event in Manchester.Jacob Rees-Mogg has compared this year’s Conservative conference to a North Korea-style rally, saying the party will face a crisis unless members are given more stake in it.The backbencher, who has been packing out fringe meetings, said ordinary party members had no power to debate policy compared to when he entered politics.
  
  Read more

• The Tory Three Brexiteers brandish boasts and the best gags

  03-10-2017 19:49
  ‘Without pain and doubt and anxiety, there can be no pleasure, no triumph and no success,’ said Boris Johnson at the Conservative conference.Britain faces the Brexit equivalent of an All Blacks rugby haka, nervous Tories were told on Tuesday: “tongue-wagging, bulging eyeballs and chest-thumping” from their European Union opponents, but nothing that a stiff upper lip won’t see off.Never fear, was the rallying cry of the three Brexiteers who took turns on the conferen
  
  Read more

• It doesn’t matter AT ALL! Liam Fox mocks EU parliament’s Brexit trade talks vote

  03-10-2017 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  British trade minister Liam Fox lampooned the European Parliament’s non-binding vote to block Britain from discussing trade after Brexit with a fiery putdown.
  
  Read more

• Catalonia Independence: Brexiteer Peter Bone lashes EU's silence on brutal crackdown

  03-10-2017 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Peter Bone lambasted the European Union for 'double standards' as it fails to condemn the Spanish government for its crackdown on the Catalan independence referendum.
  
  Read more

• REVEALED: Horror moment homeless killer hid in family garden before murdering mum and son

  03-10-2017 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  CHILLING CCTV footage has revealed the moment a homeless killer was spotted lurking in a family’s garden before breaking into the house to murder a mother and her teenage son.
  
  Read more

• We’re not too posh to wash, we just lived through the war | Brief Letters

  03-10-2017 19:24
  Vivienne Westwood, like me, although a few years younger, was brought up in the austere 1940s and 50s when hot water was a precious commodity and people bathed once a week.• No need to visit Cornwall to see a superb collection of art from St Ives (Letters, 2 October).While visiting friends, we discovered the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness has a collection to rival the Tate, including Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Naum Gabo, Peter Lanyon and Ben Nicholson, along
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump's Latest Tone-Deaf Response To Las Vegas Is His Most Baffling Yet

  03-10-2017 19:12
  Donald Trump has baffled many by calling the Las Vegas massacre “in many ways, a miracle” against a backdrop of calls for stricter gun controls in the US.
  
  Read more

• Union does not rule out Christmas strikes

  03-10-2017 19:10
  Deputy general secretary of the CWU, Terry Pullinger, does not rule out the prospect of Christmas postal strikes in its dispute with Royal Mail.
  
  Read more

• Royal Mail staff vote for strike ballot over pensions

  03-10-2017 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Postal workers will push ahead with a further vote on whether to stage a walk-out over Christmas.
  
  Read more

• Tube strike called off after 'progress' made during talks

  03-10-2017 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  London Underground drivers were due to walkout for 24 hours from midnight on Thursday.
  
  Read more

• Uber promises to make things right in London after 'constructive' licence meeting

  03-10-2017 19:00
  By Costas PitasLONDON (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] promised to make things right in London after its new global boss had a "constructive" meeting with the city's transport regulator to try to hold on to the app's operating licence in one of its main foreign markets.Transport for London (TfL), which runs and regulates the British capital's transport system, shocked Uber last month by deeming it unfit to run a taxi service and refusing to renew its licence.Both TfL and Uber described Tuesday's meeti
  
  Read more

• London Tube strike called off after 'progress' in peace talks

  03-10-2017 18:52
  A Tube strike that had threatened to bring "substantial disruption" across London on Thursday, has been called off.Members of the drivers' union, Aslef, had been expected to walk out for 24 hours in a dispute over work-life balance linked to the introduction of night Tube services.Aslef's organiser on London Underground, Finn Brennan, said: "I am pleased to say that the our negotiating team believes they we have made sufficient progress in talks at Acas to recommend to the Aslef executive commit
  
  Read more

• England to 'reap benefits' from fracking after SNP announces Scottish ban - Telegraph.co.uk

  03-10-2017 18:48 via telegraph.co.uk
  Telegraph.co.uk
  England to 'reap benefits' from fracking after SNP announces Scottish ban
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Scotland will miss out on billions of pounds and thousands of jobs from fracking while England “reaps the benefits”, a petrochemical giant has said after SNP ministers banned the practice north of the Border. Paul Wheelhouse, the Scottish Energy ...
  Scotland and fracking: How did we get here?BBC News
  Scotland extends ban on fracking 'indefinitely'Financial Times
  Scottish governm
  
  Read more

• Theresa May: Boris Johnson isn't undermining me

  03-10-2017 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM says she wants a "range of voices" in cabinet rather than being surrounded by "yes men".
  
  Read more

• Veteran killed in Las Vegas massacre posted on Facebook about ‘nightmare’ of being shot at in battle

  03-10-2017 18:39
  In a Facebook post from July, Christopher Roybal told people his response to the question “what’s it like to be shot?”.
  
  Read more

• Uber CEO meeting with London transport authority "constructive"

  03-10-2017 18:38
  Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi had a constructive meeting with London's transport boss on Tuesday, the company said, just days after the city refused to renew its operating licence.Transport for London, the body which oversees public transport in the capital, also described the meeting as constructive."Today's constructive meeting centred on what needs to happen to ensure a thriving taxi and private hire market in London where everyone operates to the same high standards.
  
  Read more

• Tube strike suspended but South Western Trains disruption looms

  03-10-2017 18:36
  South Western served 230m journeys last year, including all trains to Waterloo (above), the UK’s busiest station.A planned tube strike that was expected to bring most of the London Underground network to a halt on Thursday has been suspended.Passengers had been warned to expect transport chaos from a 24-hour strike by drivers in the Aslef union.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!