Saturday 16 January 2016

Matthew Perry will not be joining the highly-anticipated Friends reunion



IF YOU were one of the millions of people celebrating the news of a two-hourFriends reunion, we hate to dampen your spirits with this update.
Matthew Perry will not be attending the highly-anticipated event, due to rehearsals for his West End play, The End of Longing.

His representative, Lisa Kasteler, confirmed in an email on Thursday that he would not be able to make it.

“Matthew may tape something for the tribute,” she wrote. “In other words, this is not the reunion people have been hoping for.”

Damn it, Chandler! We already established fifteen years ago that Phoebe is the flake, not you!

So far, remaining castmates Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc are all expected to attend the reunion episode.

The popular sitcom ran between 1994 and 2004, and became one of the most popular TV shows of all time.

The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season.

EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for tonight's massive £61million jackpot



It's a life-changing amount of money and tonight someone could scoop that £61million EuroMillions jackpot.
If you missed tonight's draw you can find out the results below.

Tonight's huge prize is the result of eight consecutive rollovers since the jackpot was last claimed on December 22.

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THE WINNING NUMBERS ARE: (43) (38) (19) (10) (46) Lucky Stars: (1) (11)

The UK Millionaire Raffle Selection was KXX 724553.

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Tim Peake tweets spacewalk selfie



UK astronaut Tim Peake described his first walk in space as "exhilarating", as he

It will "be etched in my memory forever - quite an incredible feeling," said Peake, the first astronaut representing the UK to carry out a spacewalk.

He and US colleague Tim Kopra were outside the International Space Station (ISS) for four hours and 43 minutes.

But their spacewalk was cut short after water leaked into Col Kopra's helmet.

The pair had already replaced a failed electrical box, which was their main objective.

After they returned and were safely inside with the outer airlock hatch closed, Major Peake thanked mission controllers: "You guys did a great job."

Later on Friday night, he posted two tweets, two hours apart

His first included three photographs and by Saturday morning it had had more than 9,000 retweets and 18,000 likes.

It included a selfie that showed his camera in the reflection of his helmet.

Wrapping up today's spacewalk activities. Huge thanks to the ground teams who make it all possible & keep us safe out there - you guys rock!"

His parents later spoke of their excitement at watching their son fulfil a long-term ambition.

"We are absolutely thrilled. This is a proud day," his mother Angela said.

Before the spacewalk, the couple said they had watched the ISS fly over their home in the West Sussex village of Westbourne.

"It was a brilliant pass in clear blue skies... it seems quite surreal that your son is up there," his father Nigel Peake said.

The spacewalk was expected to last more than six hours but was halted at 16:58 GMT on Friday when a water globule measuring a few inches across developed inside Col Kopra's helmet.

Nasa is under a ruling to terminate a spacewalk under such circumstances after an incident in 2013, when a European astronaut developed a significant helmet leak and nearly drowned.

A sample of water and absorption pads from inside the Col Kopra's helmet were collected by the crew as evidence for investigators to determine the cause of the leak.

Learn how to be the new $ 200 and $ 500 Argentines


The image of the legendary Eva Peron and the silhouette of the Falkland Islands will be exchanged for native animals in danger of extinction.
Argentina issued new banknotes in the image will change with the profile of the legendary Eva Peron and the silhouette of the Falkland Islands by other native animals in danger of extinction, it said in a statement on Friday the Central Bank of Argentina.
These two bills were initiatives of former President Cristina Kirchner (2007-2015), before Mauricio Macri took on 10 December. Both they received international awards for design and safety guidelines and were put into circulation in 2012 and 2015, respectively, under the series of banknotes "we have homeland." The new notes will have on its obverse depictions of different animals fauna in "pursuit of a meeting in which all Argentines can feel represented in the national currency," said the statement. Since mid-year Argentina will also have tickets 200, 500 and 1,000 pesos, while today the 100 bill is the largest denomination. "The new bills will coexist for a while with current circulating," the Central Bank. Also new series of 20, 50 and 100 will be in circulation at the beginning of 2017 will be issued. Currently the highest denomination is the 100 pesos and takes on its obverse the profile of Eva Duarte, second wife of three-time president Juan Peron of Argentina (1946/52, 1952/55 and 1973/74) and mythical figure Peronism. The new 100 peso Macri will have on its obverse the image of the Andean deer or Andean deer, an animal in danger of extinction. The current 50 pesos bill will have on its obverse the image of the Andean condor silhouette instead of the Falkland Islands, whose sovereignty is in dispute with the United Kingdom.

Pocket map prepared by the intertwining electric start

Buda started early Saturday morning the new system is called interwoven tram, which means more new tram line and completely restructured public transport. Therefore, the  asks passengers not to travel with habit before kick start getting familiar with the new network.

 To do this, we can now offer our help and we are trying to see who wins and who less fonódóval. New routes: The new, interwoven network has two new elements: two gaps have been filled so far missing small stage on which travel to the Vienna tram route 17 can connect to a large network of Buda. The first one is the Batthyány tér and Margaret Bridge, about a half-mile jumper, which passes through the Gellért tér trams now up to the Vienna road and Kelenföldi Kamaraerdőig commute. The other is the Turkish street, where the 17 tram tracks on it can turn a 4-6 track of that parallel those for a while along fermented in the Széll Kálmán Square, and from there take to Budafok- Albertfalva the way for the creation path. New lines: The amalgamation of three long North-South Buda Budan-long new line is created. One of the longest of them decide peaks: the 18.3 kilometers of 41-inch (Vienna road / Vörösvári road - between Kamaraerdő) a kilometer beating her seven years suspended, but now restarted 56 (Hűvösvölgy-Budafok, Town Hall Square ) tram. Elongating toward the South 17 will be 14.5 kilometers. A slightly shorter will be the starting Kelenföldtől and elongating the Vienna road # 19. Renewed linesThe electrical construction intertwined not only meant new track construction, but renovation of the 17 Leo Frankel Street and the Vienna road, all the way to the High Street on Saturday. Not only are the tracks, the path is reconstructed. The interwoven tram, a 17-inch, 19-inch and 41-inch lines will involve new CAF trams. As you can see our pictures made early Saturday morning, they started the CAF, but left in the Ganz electric reasons.
What's good about fonódóban? Primarily, that will connect the tram network in Buda fragmented, and long, it may be several possible routes to travel from north to south without change. Revive the dying has 17 tram, and along the 17-somewhat stuck in development, but worth a better fate Inner Óbuda. In addition, the new node establishes a busy public road from the Vienna-Vörösvári road at the junction, and creates conditions for the continuation of the external electric line-Vienna road, all the way to vasútvonalig. What is interwoven tram?
Although many people think that the concentration merger of the networks provide, but did not. The interwoven tram takes its name from the two reverse track (due to limited space) intertwine during the Margaret Bridge, that is, the transport will take place from 40 to 50 meters in a track where you take turns coming from the south and north of the fittings. Many people consider this point most neuralgic point of the whole project, in addition to the electric line in the path of Árpád high traffic., new trams:
Who interwoven in the great power? Obviously the ones in Buda. Among them is the best act of the Vienna road living within a couple of thousand people who receive a fast, modern, comfortable tram, which offers direct trains to all major Buda node, and if they like leutazhatnak up in degrees (obviously the latter will be insignificant demand) . Well go to the north terminus of Óbuda neighborhoods as well (Camp Mountain, Twin Mountain, Mountain Peak, Ürömhegy, Peter Mountain), it will be within reach of a good public transport hub, from which can travel further towards the center. Will benefit the kamaraerdeiek is (also around a thousand inhabitants), who is also a modern, fast, comfortable relationship will Buda all the bridge, now the Margaret Bridge is within easy can go to the North-Pest (DJ of more travel opportunities likely to be irritating for some of them) . Good interwoven even those in the south of Buda ones as well (pretty small set), Óbuda who go to work, or their cause is there because of all the great gain access to the node Buda Kolosy Square.
who drop out of blessing This refers primarily to Pacsirtamező travel and Szentendre housing estate residents to travel to be mentioned, who are neither divides, nor multiplies that power will be intertwined, since avoiding them far. They almost have it worse by removing the 86 bus, but the bus is launching a new BKK north of the 86 line (up to Batthyány Square), in the 109-est, so in the end it will not be affected. This neighborhood is the most ideal supply would be farther suburban train was brought into the Danube shore. This has long been planned, but the implementation distant mist (and maybe the 5 metro). Most of the budafokiak not enjoy the spinning mill, as we turn to a branch of the Savoy Park, this and stops. The Budafok center will continue to be so to get to the 47-singer Deak Square, and the Széll Kálmán Square (or even longer, Hűvösvölgy) the old-new 56-player. The lágymányosiaknak so much better that can be reached from the Danube 4-6 ost, which in turn has also taken the Széll Kálmán tér, but now you can choose from routes. Also go on the road to Vienna without change, but that is little affected.
Who's wrong? The BKK has transformed the bus system to have been remedied during the design of almost all public complaints arise, so nobody gets hurt except for some special case. Such a special case of our colleagues, who discontinued the 86 bus terminus south of the Independence Square live, and Florian's Square editorial staff now have to come in three flights in a 86 instead. (But then she reported, and according to him it is still faster to reach). A 86-inch successor will have the Óbuda extended-path 111 bus, the 17, the 19 and the 41 tram, as well as Budafoki travel section 109 in addition to the day and on weekends traveling 133- Bus. The 160 and 260 bus routes 260A and the external terminal of the associated Budensis ambulatory internal section then you can travel by tram. The No. 7 bus service changes, particularly changes are affecting battery life or up to the time the 33's, 107's and 133's flight timetable. Provisional status
The quay corridor 19 and 41 tram in March will be a small inconvenience . The Clark Ádám tér tram tunnel needs to be extended because of the new CAF trams and the construction will not be completed until March . Therefore , anyone who wants to go further , come down on one side of the tunnel , átkocog gyalogosaluljárón the bridgehead of the Chain Bridge to the other side where there is a waiting tram felszállva continue your journey. Clark Ádám tér jobs by the end of the 109 bus - tram route as a replacement - the extended route Szent Gellért tér carry passengers.


The asks passengers not to travel with habit before kick start getting familiar with the new network. Vizsgálódhatnak the briefing boards , they get pocket maps , and who nevertheless still hovering just as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction scene for , they will find " explanatory audio guide" and the B 's staff. The interwoven tram started to build in the autumn of 2014 , it was built in the EU and domestic sources to 15.9 billion forints . If you do not have time this weekend to try a spinning mill , you can do it with us, this made ​​ :

Burkina Faso attack: Troops battle to end deadly hotel siege



Exchanges of fire are continuing at a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital as special forces seek to break a deadly siege by suspected Islamist gunmen.
Some 30 hostages were freed overnight at Ouagadougou's luxury Splendid Hotel but there are fears that at least 20 people were killed.

Gunmen stormed the hotel and a nearby cafe after setting off bombs.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it carried out the attack in the West African nation, monitors said.

French President Francois Hollande - whose forces are part of the operation against the militants - condemned the "odious and cowardly attack".

Remi Dandjinou, the Burkinabe communications minister, told the BBC there were between six and seven gunmen and they had been staying at the hotel.

He also said a member of the government, Minister of Public Works Clement Sawadogo, was among those freed at the hotel.

Thirty-three people were in hospital receiving treatment, he added.

Witnesses said the gunmen had initially entered the Cappuccino cafe. One employee at the cafe told AFP news agency "several people" had been killed there.

Eyewitnesses reported hearing exchanges of gunfire between the men and security forces, as well as sporadic gunfire from inside the hotel, which is close to the country's international airport.

The SITE monitoring group, which analyses jihadist networks, reports that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it was behind the attack.

The monitoring group specifically stated that those responsible were the al-Murabitoun group, which is based in the Sahara desert in northern Mali and contains fighters loyal to the veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

Last month, the group announced it had merged with AQIM. Belmokhtar, a one-eyed commander who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, was once a member of AQIM but left after a falling-out with its leadership.

Belmokhtar has been declared dead many times, the latest by a US air strike on 14 June last year in Libya - according to Libyan authorities - but his death has not been formally confirmed.

AQIM and al-Murabitoun said they were behind an attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso's neighbour Mali in November, that left 20 people dead.

Burkina Faso had recently held its first presidential election since a coup earlier last year.

That coup toppled long-time leader Blaise Compaore, who had governed for 27 years.

"We are still in a context of political fragility, so I think the timing of this attack is meaningful," Cynthia Ohayon, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, told the BBC from Ouagadougou.

"The country has long borders with Mali and Niger, and we know there are armed groups present on the border, so this was probably something we had coming."

In November, an AQIM attack on a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako left 19 people dead.

Sweden’s Israel-bashing FM named in Stockholm housing scandal


Anti-corruption group wants Margot Wallström probed for bribery, after she bypassed waiting period when renting home from trade union
eden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, currently embroiled in a bitter dispute with Israel over her criticisms of its policies on the Palestinians, was named Friday in a domestic scandal involving unfair procedures for the renting out of apartments in Stockholm.
An anti-corruption group urged that she be probed for possible bribe-taking. Wallström denied any wrongdoing.


In an investigation of Sweden’s biggest trade union giant Kommunal, which owns several properties in Stockholm, the Aftonbladet daily reported that Wallström and other “high-profile figures” on the political left were given preferential treatment in the rental of apartments. Apartments are in short supply in the Swedish capital, and the favoritism shown to Wallström and others allowed them to bypass a waiting period that typically lasts eight years, the newspaper said.

Wallström acknowledged that she has been renting an apartment from Kommunal since April. “I got confirmation from the highest level that they followed all the rules and procedures in assigning apartments, and that I was not going to jump ahead of anyone on the waiting list,” she was quoted as telling Sweden’s TT news agency. “They lied to me about this… I am angry and disappointed.”

Her spokesman said she had been offered the use of the property “in an informal discussion with the head of Kommunal,” according to Sweden’sThe Local website. “She later said she had terminated her lease and would be moving out,” it reported.

The Swedish Anti-corruption Institute said investigators should examine whether Wallström’s accepting an apartment from the union constituted bribery, The Local reported.

The 61-year-old Social Democrat has repeatedly enraged Israel, starting with Sweden’s recognition of a Palestinian state shortly after she became foreign minister in October 2014.

In the wake of last November’s terror attacks in Paris, she identified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the factors explaining why “there are so many people who have become radicalized” — comments Israel called “appallingly impudent.”

And in December, she called on Israel to halt what she called “extrajudicial executions” in response to attacks by knife-wielding Palestinians, following up with a demand this month for “thorough” investigations into the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army.

Israel has made clear that she would not be a welcome visitor in the country, and Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu on Thursday called her critiques outrageous, immoral, wrong and stupid.

Said Netanyahu: “I mean, people are defending themselves against assailants, wielding knives, who are about to stab them to death. And they shoot the people. And that’s extrajudicial killings? So why is San Bernardino not extrajudicial killings? And the other day in Paris — a knife-wielding terrorist was shot to death. Is that extrajudicial killing? Does the Swedish foreign minister suggest that there be examinations of what happened there, in Paris. Or in the United States? This is definitely wrong. And it singles out Israel in an absurd way… I don’t want to call it by other names. I’ll just say this is an absurdity, and it’s outrageous.