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Horror as top Spanish matador, 29, is gored to death by an 87st bull live on TV after it pinned him to the ground with its horns as he becomes the first bullfighter to be killed in over 20 years
Segovia bullfighter Víctor Barrio, 29, suffered a mortal blow during a tournament in the town of Teruel in Aragon – the first matador fatality in Spain this century. He was rushed to hospital unconscious but died shortly afterwards. He had rolled to the ground in a painful somersault after the bull caught him while he tried to attract the bull during his routine. The bull caught him in the side, rammed him to the ground and gored him the chest. Although deaths from Spain’s famous bull runs are relatively common, with up to around 10 deaths recorded each year, worldwide the last matador death was in 1987.
Spanish man, 29, dies after being gored in the chest during annual bull run festival
–Spanish man, 29, dies after being gored in the chest during annual bull run festival
-The 29-year-old man from Valencia was killed after being speared by the female cow in a village near Alicante
-The Red Cross reported the victim suffered extensive wounds to the chest and the stomach after being gored
-The deadly incident happened in the small village of Pedreguera near the southern holiday resort of Alicante
-Paramedics raced the man to hospital for emergency treatment but he died about an hour later from his wounds
A man from Valencia has died after being gored by a heifer in a bull-run near the southern Spanish town of Alicante.
The deadly incident occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday during late-night festivities in the small village of Pedreguera. The Red Cross says the heifer gored the 29-year-old man through the chest and stomach.
He was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, were attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. The man was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Shocking battlefield video shows moment two pilots were killed when ISIS shot down a Russian attack helicopter over Syrian city of Palmyra with ‘US-made missile’
-Chopper was flying over Palmyra, Homs and attacking advancing terrorists
-‘Skillful’ crew initially drove the terrorists back but their helicopter was shot
-Russian military pilots Evgeny Dolgin and Ryafagat Khabibulin both died
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Isis fighters shot down a Russian helicopter above Syria, killing both pilots on board.
The chopper was flying over the city of Palmyra and attacking advancing terrorists when it was brought down yesterday.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the skillful crew initially drove the terrorists back but the helicopter was shot as it turned around to return to base.
China’s richest man plans to launch a rival to the Champions League that will make Europe’s top clubs even richer
-Wang Jianlin, 61, owns the Dalian Wanda group, which is worth £20billion
-Dalian Wanda is talking with top European leagues about new competition
China’s wealthiest man is throwing his massive fortune behind a plan to launch a rival to the Uefa Champions League and is offering to make Europe’s top clubs even richer.
Billionaire Wang Jianlin’s company is said to be in talks with a number of top clubs about setting up a competition which would give even more money to top clubs like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Juventus and Bayern Munich.
The Financial Times said Dalian Wanda Group is said to be in talks with Uefa but is willing to set up a completely separate competition if negotiations break down.
Marco Bogarelli, strategic director of Wanda Sports Holding, said its aim was to get more teams from Europe’s ‘big five’ TV markets – England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France – involved in the elite competition.
That would probably mean excluding teams from countries like Scotland, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Romania unless they can bring in significant revenue, like for example Glasgow Celtic.
Chinese companies have invested billions of pounds in recent years acquiring stakes in European football clubs and in the last 12 months Chinese clubs have also started buying up big-name players like Alex Teixiera, Jackson Martinez and Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Biggest explosion in documented history is STILL a mystery: New study fails to find cause of 1908 Tunguska blast that ‘split the sky in two’ and flattened 80 million Siberian trees
-The explosion occurred on June 30, 1908 in the Tunguska region of Siberia
-Eighty million trees flattened in blast, charred reindeer found by hundreds
-Eyewitnesses at the time said it was as though the sky was split in two
-Scientists say it was likely a comet or asteroid, though little evidence found
-Others have suggested UFOs, supernatural activity, or the curse of a god
More than 100 years ago, a massive explosion ripped through the sky over the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees nearly 31 miles around.
The blast is thought to have been produced by a comet or asteroid hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere at over 33,500 miles per hour, resulting in an explosion equal to 185 Hiroshima bombs as pressure and heat rapidly increased.
But, with no impact crater and little evidence of such an object ever found, scientists remain perplexed as to what truly caused the event in which ‘the sky was split in two’ – and a new study has failed to reach a conclusion.
More than 100 years ago, a massive explosion ripped through the sky over the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees nearly 31 miles around. From UFO theories to speculation about the supernatural, the mysterious event has spurred explanations of all kinds
THE MANY THEORIES
Scientists think the explosion was caused by a large cosmic body slamming into Earth’s atmosphere.
But, no impact crater has been found, and little evidence the object was ever detected.
Traces of meteoroids found in the area may have come from different events, some say.
Conspiracy theorists have speculated about UFO activity and supernatural explanations.
Some scientists even suggested a black hole had collided with Earth.
And, locals believed the explosion stemmed from the visitation of the god Ogdy.
Obese paedophile who campaigned for sex with children to be legalised faces claims for damages from the families of three Filipino children he abused
-Douglas Slade, 75, was jailed for 24 years for paedophilia earlier this month
-He was one of the founders of the 1970s Paedophile Information Exchange
-Now the Preda Foundation have launched civil action against pervert
A paedophile who was jailed for 24 years for abusing five young boys is to face civil legal action after some of his victims announced they want to claim damages.
Representatives from child protection group the Preda Foundation are seeking action against Douglas Slade on behalf of children in the Philippines that he abused.
Morbidly obese Douglas Slade, 75 – one of the founders of the 1970s organisation Paedophile Information Exchange – was convicted for a catalogue of historic sex offences dating back 50 years earlier this month
Morbidly obese Douglas Slade, 75 – one of the founders of the 1970s organisation Paedophile Information Exchange – was convicted for a catalogue of historic sex offences dating back 50 years earlier this month
Father Shay Cullen of the Preda Foundation told The Sun: ‘We at the Preda Foundation now intend to pursue a civil case for monetary damages against Slade for the damage he has done to the young lives of children we have helped, who have had their lives ruined and still suffer from the long lasting effects of his paedophilia.’
Wealthy Slade was arrested at his home in Angeles City in December 2014 – just four days after MailOnline revealed how he had abused scores of boys as young as eight for years but repeatedly paid off police and officials to avoid arrest.
The brazen 22-stone paedophile had built a house overlooking a primary school playground in one of the city’s poorest districts and lured boys into his home where he would pay them the equivalent of the price of a pair of flip-flops for sex acts.
In response to our expose, MailOnline was contacted by a victim abused by Slade in Britain in 1979 when he was just 14 and passed between Slade and other members of Paedophile Information Exchange, including Christopher Skeaping, who was sentenced with Slade today.
We persuaded the victim, now in his 50s, to contact police in the UK and he provided vital testimony that led to Slade’s extradition to Britain last September so that he could stand trial for abusing a total of five boys between 1965 and 1980.
At his trial, Slade was found guilty of six serious sexual offences and seven charges of indecent assault. Skeaping, 72, was found guilty of one charge of indecent assault committed in 1980.
Slade was first exposed as a paedophilia advocate along with Skeaping in1975 and was dubbed one of the ‘Vilest Men in Britain’ by a national newspaper which caught him telling fellow deviants: ‘If you want to have sex with children don’t bottle it up – do it.’
His sick group Paedophile Information Exchange – which Jimmy Savile has been linked to – openly campaigned for legal sex between adults and children in the 1970s and 1980s and lobbied for a lowering of the age of consent.
Helicopter crashes through the roof of a house in Indonesia killing three people and severely injuring three more after the military aircraft lost power
-The military helicopter crashed after losing power to its engine
-It fell through the roof of an unoccupied house, killing three passengers
-The family who lived in the house were away on holiday at the time
-Military aircraft crashes are relatively common in Indonesia
A military helicopter has crashed into a house in Indonesia, killing three passengers and severely injuring three others.
The helicopter was flying to the city of Yogyakarta on Friday when it reportedly lost engine power.
The Bell 205 helicopter crashed through the roof of an occupied house in a suburban neighbourhood north of the city.
A military helicopter has crashed through the roof of a house in a suburban area of Indonesia
Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Sabrar Fadhila said the three survivors were being treated for serious injuries.
The helicopter was flying to Yogyakarta as part of preparations for a visit by President Joko Widodo on Saturday.
Crashes of military aircraft are relatively common in Indonesia where the armed forces suffer chronically low funding.
In March a helicopter belonging to the Indonesian military crashed after taking off in heavy rain, killing 12 of the 13 people on board.
Britain must help us’: Former Yazidi sex slave who was raped countless times by ISIS jihadists in horrific three-month ordeal calls on the UK to take in more refugees
-At the age of 19 Nadia Murad was kidnapped, tortured and raped by ISIS
-Endured three-month nightmare as a sex slave of Islamic State extremists
-The Nobel Peace Prize nominee has called on UK to take in more refugees
A young woman who endured a three-month nightmare as a sex slave of Islamic State extremists has called upon the UK to take in more refugees.
ISIS stormed Nadia Murad Basee Taha’s Iraqi village in August 2014 and captured the then 19-year-old before massacring members of her family.
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee is now pleading with the British government to take more refugees.
Nadia was part of the non-Muslim Yazidi community which was stormed by jihadis.
Six of her eight brothers were murdered in front of her alongside 300 other men from her village, before she was snatched and repeatedly raped by ‘countless’ men several times a day.
Her mother was killed while Nadia and her two sisters and teenage female cousins and nieces, were transported to the ISIS stronghold of Mosul with more than 150 other girls before being subjected to horrific sexual abuse.
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She said she had to ‘take herself off to another world’ as she was brutally raped.
Nadia was eventually able to escape some three months later, fleeing to the safety of a refugee camp before finding asylum in Germany.
The UN has branded ISIS’s treatment of the Yazidi people a possible genocide, after the terror group launched a campaign of murder, rape, abuse and torture against the population.
Her father had died before the harrowing atrocity.
Calling on the UK to take in more refugees, Nadia told The Mirror: ‘What IS has done to the Yazidi people is genocide, the UK must offer more asylum to refugees.
‘So many are in camps and they have been through terrible suffering.’
The young girls were even raped as they were transported to Mosul. Nadia told the United Nations Security Council in December: ‘Along the way, they humiliated us. They touched us and violated us.
‘They took us to Mosul with more than 150 other Yazidi families. In a building, there were thousands of Yazidi families and children who were exchanged as gifts.
‘One of these people came up to me. He wanted to take me. I looked down at the floor. I was absolutely petrified. When I looked up, I saw a huge man. He looked like a monster.’
Nadia’s two sisters also survived their ordeal – one is with her in Germany while her other sister is in a refugee camp in Iraq with her two surviving brothers.
She told The Mirror her 13-year-old nephew was being trained by ISIS to fight for them.
One niece escaped, but was later killed in an air strike.
Just last month, the brave survivor issued a chilling warning to the United States Senate, claiming ISIS would continue to be a threat to America unless the terror group was wiped out.
Speaking to the Senate Homeland Security Committee in June, she said the United States could expect further atrocities such as the recent attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando while the ISIS ideology continues to exist.
Addressing the United Nations Security Council last December, Nadia described the persecution the Yazidi people face under ISIS, which trades women and children from the minority population as ‘war booty’.
‘Rape was used to destroy women and girls and to guarantee that these women could never lead a normal life again,’ she said as she recounted her harrowing story.
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What US sanctions? Kim Jong-un laughs like a Bond villian as North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile
-North Korea test fired a KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile
-The weapon exploded in mid air and crashed into the sea after a few miles
-NORAD said the weapon was fired from off the north east coast near Sinpo
-The US is will deploy an advanced anti-missile system to South Korea
A North Korean submarine fired a ballistic missile which ‘fell into the sea’ during a botched weapons test.
The US Strategic Command confirmed it tracked what it believed was a KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile fired from near the east coast port of Sinpo.
In video released this morning, despotic leader Kim Jong-un is filmed laughing manically as the
NORAD tracked the missile’s flight path and said it fell into the Sea of Japan.
Kim Jong Un cackles as submarine launches missile
The launch location has been used previously for weapons launches by North Korea.
The South Korean Defence Ministry confirmed the missile successfully ejected from the submarine’s launch tube, put failed in its early stage of flight. It exploded after only a couple of miles before crashing into the sea.
Kim Jong-un’s regime is trying to develop a missile launched nuclear weapons system.
Pentagon spokesman Commander Gary Ross said: ‘We strongly condemn this and North Korea’s other recent missile tests, which violate U.N. Security Council Resolutions explicitly prohibiting North Korea’s launches using ballistic missile technology.’
The US State Department said: ‘We call on North Korea to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its international commitments.’
Kim previously described international sanctions against his despotic regime as ‘an act of war’.
North Korea’s acquiring the ability to launch missiles from submarines would be an alarming development for rivals and neighbours because missiles from submerged vessels are harder to detect in advance.
While security experts say it’s unlikely that North Korea possesses an operational submarine capable of firing missiles, they acknowledge that the North is making progress on such technology.
North Korea already has a considerable arsenal of land-based ballistic missiles and is believed to be advancing its efforts to miniaturize nuclear warheads mounted on missiles through nuclear and rocket tests.
North Korea last test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile in April, calling it as a success that strengthened its ability to attack enemies with ‘dagger of destruction’.
South Korean defense officials then said that the missile flew about 19 miles before likely exploding midair.
The North also test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Christmas Day, but that test was seen as failure, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The North first claimed a successful submarine-launched missile test in May last year.
The latest launch came a day after U.S. and South Korean military officials said they were ready to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defence system in South Korea to cope with North Korean threats.
Seoul and Washington launched formal talks on deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, after North Korea conducted a nuclear test and a long-range rocket launch earlier this year. China, Russia and North Korea all say the THAAD deployment could help U.S. radars spot missiles in their countries.
The deployment decision for THAAD was announced hours after North Korea angrily reacted to new U.S. sanctions on leader Kim Jong-un and other top officials for human rights abuses, with Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry saying such measures were tantamount to declaring war.
North Korea has already been sanctioned heavily because of its nuclear weapons program. However, the action by the Obama administration on Wednesday marked the first time Kim has been personally targeted, and also the first time that any North Korean official has been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury in connection with reports of rights abuses.
The United States stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence against potential aggression from North Korea.
ISIS Twitter traffic plunges 45 PERCENT in the last two years after US floods web with images illustrating terror group’s enslavement and abuse
-Pro-ISIS Twitter accounts had an average of 1,500 followers in 2014, but now only have about 300
-Drop in traffic credited to the US and its allies spreading countermessages
-Images include pictures displaying abused women and a teddy bear that says ISIS ‘slaughters childhood and kills innocence’
-Success has also been credited to now writing the memes solely in Arabic and disseminating them through Muslim governments
-Data shows the proliferation of ISIS propaganda is now decreasing
The ISIS group’s Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration has revealed.
The steep drop comes as the US and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization.
Among the images is a teddy bear with Arabic writing and messages saying ISIS ‘slaughters childhood,’ ‘kills innocence’, ‘lashes purity’ and ‘humiliates children.’
In another image, a male hand covering a female’s mouth, saying ISIS ‘deprives woman her voice’.
ISIS’s Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years. The steep drop comes as the US and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images about the group’s abuse
Yet another shows a woman in a black niqab (veil), bloody tears coming from a bruised eye, and the caption: ‘Women under ISIS. Enslaved. Battered. Beaten. Humiliated. Flogged.’
US officials cite the drop in Twitter traffic as a sign of progress toward eliminating propaganda they blame for inspiring attacks around the world.
When the US formed an international coalition in September 2014 to fight ISIS, the administration outlined multiple goals: military action and cutting off foreign fighters and finances, confronting the group’s extremist ideology and stemming the militants’ growing popularity in the Arab world and beyond.
The messaging element of the campaign struggled early on. Much of the anti-ISIS content put online was in English, limiting its effectiveness.
At the time, social media networks were only getting started with new technological approaches to the challenge of disabling accounts that were recruiting and radicalizing prospective ISIS members.
These shortcomings have been fixed, American officials believe. Memes and images depicting the group’s treatment of women, children and others are presented almost entirely in Arabic.
And whereas the US previously blasted the information out itself, it disseminates messages now through Muslim governments, religious leaders, schools, youth leaders and advocacy groups with credibility in local communities.
Among the images is a teddy bear (pictured) with Arabic writing and messages saying ISIS ‘slaughters childhood,’ ‘kills innocence’, ‘lashes purity’ and ‘humiliates children’
Data shows the proliferation of ISIS propaganda is now decreasing.
‘We’re denying ISIL the ability to operate uncontested online, and we’re seeing their social media presence decline,’ said Michael Lumpkin, head of the Global Engagement Center, which coordinates the US government’s approach to fighting extremist messaging.
‘Anti-ISIL audiences are increasingly vocal on social media,’ Lumpkin said. ‘This only weakens ISIL’s ability to recruit, a key aim of our messaging efforts.’
Data obtained by The Associated Press show a 6-1 ratio of anti-ISIS content online compared with pro-ISIS content — an improvement from last year.
When pro-ISIS Twitter accounts are discovered today, they have about 300 followers each. In 2014, such accounts had 1,500 followers each, according to the data.
Among social networks, the administration has primarily focused on Twitter.
The platform has been most heavily used by ISIS to crowdsource supporters and potential attackers, though it also has used YouTube and Facebook.
As ISIS emerged from al-Qaeda’s shadow and began seizing cities and large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2013, pro-ISIS accounts started firing out tens of thousands of tweets each day, rapidly and repeatedly opening new accounts as others were suspended.
The group’s enhanced use of social media quickly set it apart from al-Qaeda and previous jihadi militant groups.
Counterterrorism and law enforcement officials have pointed to ISIS’ online presence for inspiring deadly attacks in Europe and the United States, including some by individuals who never had physical contact with any of its leaders or fighters in the Middle East.
These include the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December.
The US messages attempt to undermine many of ISIS’ most oft-cited claims. These include the group’s supposed invincibility on the battlefield or that its caliphate is good for Muslims.
American partners have flooded social media with messages highlighting the group’s territorial loses and inability to effectively govern or provide basic services to areas under its control.
Although the US government has no formal arrangement with Twitter, its information campaign has dovetailed with new approaches by the company to identify and eliminate tweets supporting terrorism.
Until recently, child pornography was the only abuse automatically flagged for human review on social media. Terrorist messaging is now also included and Twitter announced earlier this year it was using a spam-fighting technology as well.
Since mid-2015, the company has suspended more than 125,000 such accounts.
UK medical student, 22, who joined ISIS ‘dies in air strike’ in Iraq but her husband and baby survive
Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine abandoned her studies to join ISIS last year
-She is the first UK female recruit to be killed by an air strike, reports claim
-Media in Sudan did not specify exactly where in Iraq the strike took place
-Her family set up ‘mourning tent’ in Sudan where relatives can pay respects
A medical student who joined the Islamic State terror group has become the first British female recruit to be killed by an air strike in Iraq, reports claim.
Rowan Kamal Zine El Abidine, 22, died on Thursday, but her husband and baby daughter are thought to have survived.
The reports by media in Sudan – where El Abidine’s family are from – did not specify where in Iraq the strike took place.
But IS’s foreign recruits there mainly live in the terror group’s main base in Mosul for safety reasons.
Before joining IS, El Abidine left Britain to attend the University of Medical Sciences and Technology in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Her family have set up a ‘mourning tent’ near their house in the city’s Al-Sajana area where relatives can pay respects, the Sudan Tribune reported.
El Abidine made headlines last year when it was reported that she and eight other British students from her university had suddenly abandoned their studies to join IS.
They flew to Istanbul and then travelled by land to the Turkish border town of Gaziantep. From there, they crossed into the IS-controlled town of Tal Abyad, Syria.
The medics, all undergraduates in their late teens or early-20s, used smartphone messaging service WhatsApp to tell their stunned families they had arrived.
It is thought they planned to work in hospitals controlled by IS.
The other Britons were Nada Sami Kader, Tasneem Suleyman Huseyin, Ismail Hamadoun, Tamer Ahmed Ebu Sebah, Mohamed Osama Badri Mohammed, Hisham Fadlallah, Sami Ahmed Kadir and Lena Abdelgadir – whose father is an orthopaedic surgeon in Norfolk.
The Foreign Office could not confirm El Abidine’s death.
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