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258/2017 • 4, NOVEMBER 2017 WEEKEND ISSUE

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Somalis mourn bomb victims in Mogadishu Thousands returned to the site of the countryʼs worst terror attack six days later. The US has stepped up the number of drone strikes inside Somalia since the beginning of the year. Thousands of Somalis gathered for a prayer service Friday in the capital, Mogadishu, at the site of the countryʼs deadliest truck bombing. More than 300 people were killedand hundreds injured Saturday when a bombladen truck detonated next to an oil tanker. The blast sent a huge fireball into the sky, incinerating multi-story buildings as well as people.

Germany recovers from deadly Storm Herwart The second major storm to hit Germany in a month has flooded city streets and caused havoc for transport. Four people were killed when the brutal winds brought down trees in Poland and the Czech Republic. Germany was still reeling from the aftermath ofStorm Herwarton Tuesday after days of train standstills, flooding and traffic chaos that destroyed historic buildings and caused Berlin to declare a state of emergency. In the Czech Republic and Poland, Herwart claimed the lives of four people who were struck by falling trees.

On the North Sea island of Langeoog, a freight ship remained stranded on the beach after flood waters receded. The town has called in top salvage experts, who remained stumped two days after the worst of the storm. Over the weekend, the storm wrecked havoc on the nationʼs transport system.

The trains in much of northern Germany, including Hannover and Hamburg, came to a complete stop – forcing rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) to send thousands of passengers in cramped taxis, sometimes for hours, to destinations as far away as Berlin.

CIA flunks

Arrest warrant expected for canine recruit Lulu for lack of Carles Puigdemont bomb enthusiasm

Catalonia crisis:

Spanish judicial sources have told reporters that a European arrest warrant for deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is imminent. Nine other Catalan leaders have been jailed for their role in an independence push.

German police detain Syrian for ʼpreparingʼ explosives attack A 19-year-old Syrian has been detained on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Germany. The man was ready to carry out the attack using highly explosive materials, according to prosecutors.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a terror attack was detained in the northern German city of Schwerin, the Federal Prosecutorʼs Office said on Tuesday in a statement. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Yamen A., was taken into police custody. Prosecutors said in a statement that the teen is "strongly suspected of having planned an Islamist-motivated attack" that involved "highly explosive" materials.

Authorities added that Yamen A. had already "concretely prepared" the attack. In July this year, the suspect made the decision to detonate an explosive device in Germany "in order to kill and injure as many people as possible," the statement read. Yamen A. then began to procure components to make an explosive device, including chemicals. It was not initially clear whether the suspect had selected a location to carry out the attack, prosecutors said. They added that there are no signs that Yamen A. was connected toany terrorist organizations. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the suspectʼs arrest prevented a "serious terror attack in Germany."

Golfer Tiger Woods pleads guilty to reckless driving, enters rehabilitation program Under a plea bargain, Woods will not serve jail time for his driving offense unless he violates his probation. Woods was last in trouble with the courts when he plowed his SUV into a tree in 2009.

The winner of 14 major golf titles and still the 17th best-paid athlete in the world pleaded guilty in a Florida court on Friday toreckless driving. Woods is to spend one year on probation, pay a $250 (€215) fine, perform 50 hours of community service, and complete a course the dangers of drunk driving among other conditions, said Dave

Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County. The 41-year-old Woods spoke only briefly, answering the judgeʼs questions about his plea agreement. "This particular plea agreement has no jail time on it," Judge Sandra Bosso-Pardo told Woods. "However, if you violate your probation in any significant way, I could revoke your probation and then I could sentence you to jail for 90 days with a fine of up to $500, is that understood?" Woods nodded in response. He will also be required to undergo regular drug tests and is not allowed to drink alcohol.

The US intelligence agency has dropped a puppy from its K9 training program for failing to enjoy detecting explosives.

But the story has a happy ending. A dog named Lulu has been dropped as a CIA recruit after it became apparent that she was not sufficiently enthusiastic about sniffing out explosives, the US intelligence agency has said.

"A few weeks into training, Lulu began to show signs that she wasnʼt interested in detecting explosive odors," the CIA said in a statement.

Wild boars terrorize northern German city of Heide Germanyʼs wild boars can be dangerous when they enter urban areas.

Residents from Heide, a small northern German town, found that out for themselves on Friday morning.

Four people were injured after squealing boars descended on the small city of Heide in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Friday morning. Two fullygrown, "aggressive" wild boars - a male and a female - stormed into the city center shortly after 9 a.m. according to local police statements.

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258/2017 • 4, November 2017 Weekend issue

White rhino killed by suspected

Sebastian Vettel takes Mexican GP pole

poachers at French zoo

Lewis Hamilton is on the brink of clinching the Formula One driversʼ championship. Sebastian Vettel wants to push him all the way though, earning pole position for Sundayʼs race.

The break-in at the Thoiry wildlife park near Paris is suspected as poaching. Rhino horns fetch thousands on the black market.

Zookeepers at the Thoiry zoo and wildlife park made the grisly discovery on Tuesday after an overnight attack. "Staff left the rhino enclosure on Monday. When they returned on Tuesday, an animal had been killed and its two horns had been sawn off," a police spokeswoman told news agency AFP. The 4-year-old white male rhinoceros named Vince had been shot three times in the head. His main horn was stolen, the policewoman said. The second horn was partially cut, leading the zoo to believe the poacher or poachers may have been disturbed or suffered equipment failure. The zoo said the intruders broke through a gate and forced through two doors to reach the animal, without disturbing the five staff members who live on site. The wildlife park is also equipped with security cameras.

Anti-Semitic Anne Frank football stickers appear in Germany Stickers displaying Anne Frank wearing football jerseys have appeared in Germany as an anti-Semitic provocation by neo-Nazi fans. Dortmund and Leipzig hooligan groups appear to be copying their Italian counterparts. An anti-Semitic campaign by far-right Italian football supporters appears to have spread to Germany, after stickers featuring murdered Jewish child diarist Anne Frank wearing a Schalke 04 football jersey have appeared in social media posts and stuck up around Düsseldorf, near the cities of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, where the club Schalke is based.

Lewis Hamilton will have to chase his fourth Formula One season championship from behind after blistering laps

by Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen left Hamilton in third on the grid.

Vettel, who trails Hamilton by 66 points, edged Verstappen by 0.086 seconds on Saturday for pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix. It was the 50th pole in Formula One for the German. "I am so happy," said Vettel, who took top spot with a record lap of one

minute and 16.488 seconds. "We will attack all the way and see what we can do." With a big lead over Vettel, Hamilton knows that he can win the title if he finishes fifth or better. He would be the first British four-time world champion if he seals victory. "Weʼre still on for the win and weʼll see what happens with Max. I hope to have a battle with at least one of them," said the Mercedes man. Hamiltonʼs teammate Valtteri Bottas qualified fourth.

When cold viruses take over the office! tʼs a familiar sight, co-workers with noses running and tissues piled high on their desks. But theyʼre just drawing it out for themselves and exposing others to the risk of infection.

Ideally, the thing to do with a cold is to stay home a few days and get plenty of rest. But nowadays, many sufferers bring their runny noses and coughs into work with them to prove they really are sick. Then, when the bug makes the rounds, everyone else does the same. Not only are they exposing their co-workers to infection but causing the company even bigger headaches when more and more employees call in sick. And the risk of infection is higher than many people think. Germs collect on door handles, keyboards, telephones and everything else people touch with their hands. Itʼs

hard to say exactly how long germs can live outside the body. The best strategy is to wash your hands persistently and regularly with soap and water for at least 25 seconds each time. And when somebody sneezes? They spray germs much farther than the two meters previously thought, so it wonʼt help much to duck and cover. Thatʼs the finding from research conducted by John Bush and his fellow scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They used high-speed cameras to show how a sneeze unleashes a fine shower of particles throughout the area. But entirely invisible is the spreading gaslike cloud of viruses carried in microscopic droplets. This path of infection is highly effective and very difficult to defend against. Keeping humidity in a room high can slightly lower the risk from flu viruses, as these remain infectious longer in dry air.

Night of the Dead in Gozsdu Udvar In Halloween night, terror and fright take over Gozsdu Udvar, where terrifying, undead creatures will scare passersby until midnight. Between October 30 and November 5, an eerie atmosphere lingers the passages, with funeral music, coffins, blood-sucking bats and talking undead beings! During this one week, the restaurants, bars and cafés of Gozsdu Udvar will also awaits guests with festive decorations, spooky lights and other surprises.

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Mourning geckos donʼt need males Some animal species can do very well without male partners. Mourning geckos are just one of many examples. Their reproduction method — known as parthenogenesis — is our natural phenomenon of the week.

More or less once every two to four weeks over her five-year lifespan, the female mourning gecko goes through the same ritual: The reptile begins the search for a well-protected place to hide one or two of her eggs. Fifty to 75 days later, new geckos hatch from these eggs. Not very spectacular, right? But the nocturnal climbers look exactly like their mother. And if they lay egg, once they reach maturity after eight months, their offspring will look exactly like them. Thatʼs because mourning geckos clone themselves — and all of them are female.

No males are required to reproduce.

That reptiles do not need males is not totally unusual in nature and various other species do the same. Some crabs, snails, and plants as well as komodo dragons and single-celled organisms — all of them come into the world alive and well without a male.

The process behind this is called parthenogenesis which means something like "virgin birth."

German job agency seeks minimum wage worker to trawl child porn photos from home A Bavarian job ad sounded enticing until potential employees were told what it actually involved. Investigators have questioned the practise of unskilled, minimum wage workers sifting child porn collections from home. A German business that posted job ads seeking workers to sift through troves of child pornography images came under scrutiny this week for its questionable handling of child abuse images. A data analysis business in the Bavarian city of Augsburg offered potential employees the chance to work from home in exchange for €450 ($525) a month, as part of a so-calledtax-free Minijob. The job advertisement called for a "forensic image analyzer," according to local news outlets. Applicants needed their own computer and some computer experience. They would be given four to five days of training after which they could work from home.