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A huge explosion in an underground car park following a massive fire at Sindika market,  a  Moscow construction market, which triggered the evacuation of over three thousand if people as Structures started to collapse. About a hundred firefighters assisted by three helicopters battled the blaze.

The fire spread over 592, 000 square feet, as plumes of black thick smoke could be seen rising from the premises.

Three helicopters were dumping 450 tonnes of water on the blaze. The fire reportedly started in the basement of the Sindika mall on the northwest edge of Moscow and soon ripped through the entire shopping center which sells construction goods and eventually the entire roof of the building collapsed.

There were 300 people working on the site, according to Sergey Poletkin, head of Moscow emergency management.

Sindika consists of 1200 departmental stores and has 5,200 parking spaces.

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Valparaiso is a Chile’s coastal port city known for its steep funiculars and colourful, clifftop homes.  Pablo Neruda, A Chilean poet who was inspired by this town, used to live in La Sebastiana, which is now a museum with Pacific views. Valparaiso is also popularly known as “The jewel of the Pacific”, with its avant-garde bohemian culture and vibrant street art about 120 km west of the capital, Santiago de Chile. A trip to Valparaiso is like going to Venice and not taking the ride on a Gondola, as the ascensores cost as little as  £0.40pence (300 Chilean Pesos).The panoramic view of the city of Vina del Mar, Renaca, Con Con and Mirador del Cerro Artillery, with typical seafood dishes.

The colonial city displays excellent late 19th-century urban and architectural development, with vernacular urban fabric with steep hillsides with church spires in Latin America. This was the first and most important merchant port city which had a major commercial impact from the 1880s until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, on the sea routes of the Pacific coast of South America that offer a vital link to both Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Strait of Magellan. La Matriz Church and Santo Domingo Square located between the hills and the plain,   the two hill of Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepcion, the Echaurren Square and Serrano Street a predominantly commercial center which caters to street trade with promenades and alleyways.

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Google is to use  30 solar-powered internet-transmitting balloons to restore emergency phone reception to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria. According to the US Federal Communications  Commission, 83 per cent of phone towers, are out of service, with communications companies trying to install temporary masts.

The Google balloons which travel on the edge of space were designed to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide but they can also be deployed for disaster relief operations. Google’s emergency phone service as part of Project Loon in Peru earlier in the year after widespread flooding.

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Thirty giraffes strolling across the road in Kenya, blocking tourists on their way to Maasai Mara. This view was an unexpected treat for the tourists.

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The Last Jedi is finally here, with some impressive battles and visuals and teases galaxy plodding plot lines with some cool new images.

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A Japan Airlines ( JAL) Boeing 777 carrying 233 passengers and 15 crewmembers bound for New York was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo Haneda International airport after a jet engine burst into flames following a suspected bird strike on Tuesday 12th September 2017. Television footage showed red flame flickering from the left engine as the plane ascended from the runaway.

The aircraft returned to the airport about an hour after takeoff, and technicians were inspecting the engine. No injuries were reported.

Haneda has the worst record for bird strikes in Japan last year at 182 cases followed by Osaka with 73 cases and Narita’s 57 according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism

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A new fully electric auto rickshaw Tuk tuk, has been launched at Periyar wild life sanctuary, in Thekkady, Kerala, South India, as the Tuk Tuk craze is spreading quickly all over the world. The tuk tuk running on battery was brought to Thekkady range in Thekkady east division of the wild life sanctuary a month ago to assist physically challenged persons who visit the hilly periyar sanctuary.

In India, a four-seater electric auto rickshaw with a maximum run of 50 miles on a 3 hour battery charge with battery capacity of 51-80AH with a maximum load of 500kg, could cost Rs 1 lakh £ 1, 148 made by Phoneix Microsystems in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Auto rickshaw in India are also known as rickshaw in Pakistan, CNG in Bangladesh, Bajay or Bajaj in Indonesia, Bemo in Bali, Trishaw in Sri Lanka, tuk-tuk in Thailand and England, Trisaw autorick bajaji inMadagascar and Tanzania, Keke Napep or Maruwa in Nigeria, rick Tricycle in Phillippines, mototxi, babytaxi, lapa or tukxi in parlance.A new fully electric auto rickshaw Tuk tuk, has been launched at Periyar wild life sanctuary, in Thekkady, Kerala, South India, as the Tuk Tuk craze is spreading quickly all over the world. The tuk tuk running on battery was brought to Thekkady range in Thekkady east division of the wild life sanctuary a month ago to assist physically challenged persons who visit the hilly periyar sanctuary.In India, a four-seater electric auto rickshaw with a maximum run of 50 miles on a 3 hour battery charge with battery capacity of 51-80AH with a maximum load of 500kg, could cost Rs 1 lakh £ 1, 148 made by Phoneix Microsystems in Pune, Maharashtra, India.Auto rickshaw in India are also known as rickshaw in Pakistan, CNG in Bangladesh, Bajay or Bajaj in Indonesia, Bemo in Bali, Trishaw in Sri Lanka, tuk-tuk in Thailand and England, Trisaw autorick bajaji inMadagascar and Tanzania, Keke Napep or Maruwa in Nigeria, rick Tricycle in Phillippines, mototxi, babytaxi, lapa or tukxi in parlance.

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Sebastain Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari sandwiched Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, and all three collided in the rain before turn One, with the latter two coming together again. Sebastian Vettel was forced to withdraw which handed Mercedes driver the initiative. Fernando Alonso also was caught up in the chaos and the Spaniard was forced to retire.

Lewis Hamilton, who started fifth after struggling in qualifying, capitalised on this situation to win the Singapore Grand Prix and extended his Formula One world championship lead to 28 points.

Hamilton dodged the chaos on the run to the first corner and went into lead ahead of Daniel Ricciardo in the second crash of the race.

Hamilton fastest laps on a race which started wet and was dry for almost half its distance, featuring three safety cars, and ran only 58 of its scheduled 61 laps because of the two-hour time limit.

2017 season F1 standings

1 Lewis Hamilton GBR   Mercedes   263

2 Sebastian Vettel GER   Ferrari       235

3 Valterri Bottas     FIN     Mercedes   212

4 Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Red Bull     162

5 Kimi Raikkonen   FIN     Ferrari       138

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Kerala Tourism Department has won “The Pacific Asia Travel Association Grand and Gold Award 2017” for its Muziris Heritage Project Film Tourism Brochure in the Marketing and Media-consumer travel brochure category.

The awards were presented at the 32nd edition of the PATA Awards held at Macao, in recognition of its innovative and trending marketing initiatives, which in turn boosted the state’s profile as a must-visit destination. The other award they won for E-Newsletter. It reflects their cutting-edge marketing techniques in elevating the state into the top-tier of coveted destinations for inbound tourism market.

P Bala Kiran, Director of Department of Tourism, Government of Kerala, received the award and said: “ the award has given us the opportunity to showcase the picturesque backwater, pristine beaches, dreamy hill stations and exotic wildlife locations to a global audience that Kerala has to offer.”

There were 269 entries from 83 organisations and individuals worldwide.

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John Thomas Chambers (68), is to step down as chairman of Cisco Systems, the networking equipment company.

During his tenure, in the last 15 years, Cisco was described as the world’s most valuable company, and currently going through upheaval caused by cloud computing.

Chambers stepped back as Chief executive two years ago, handing the position to Chuck Robbins, although he stayed as executive chairman.

Mr. Chambers rode the first wave of internet tech boom of the 1990s,  with his unmistakable West Virginia accent and salesman’s charm, constant disruption,  reinvention, and innovation in the breakthrough, he has helped to grow the world’s biggest communications equipment maker.

The routers and IP-based gears dominated most of the voice calls and other traffic that flowed over all the networks, undermining giant telecoms equipment companies.

“ Our competitors form 10 years and before are gone or acquired by bigger companies, and till now nobody has been able to get us,” Mr. Chambers said obviously referring to successful start-ups which would turn into a “ Cisco killer”.

When Mr. Chambers joined Cisco, it was small IP networking company in the mid-1990s, emerging from $1.2bn to a $48bn  revenue last year. “ We got the market transitions right. We innovated at a pace other companies couldn’t.”

During the boom, Cisco even overtook Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company and its stock market value topped $600bn and make it the third most valuable today after Alphabet and Apple.

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The tremor punched holes on the side of the skyscrapers in the capital at Mexico City.

The 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 1 pm (6GMT) killed 250 people including 21 primary school children and toppled several buildings in the Mexico City.  The earthquake came on the anniversary of the devastating 1985 earthquake that caused major damage to the city.

Much of the city was plunged into darkness with over 60 per cent without electricity. According to Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera 44 buildings fell in Mexico City with over 80 dead and a fire broke out in several of them.

Mexico City is built on the former lake bed, and the soil amplifies the effects of an earthquake centred hundreds of miles away. There have been 19 earthquakes of a magnitude of 6.5 or larger within 200 miles of yesterday’s quake in the past century.

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Billionaire L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L’Oreal over a century ago, as the maker of hair dye and still owns largest stake in the cosmetics giant, has died aged 94. French businesswoman, listed in Forbes as the World’s richest woman, and L’Oreal, France’s fourth largest listed company.

Bettencourt and her family owned 33 per cent of the company and her daughter Fancoise Bettencourt-Meyers, who sits on L’Oreal board along with her own son, said the family remained committed to the company and its management team.

In 2011, Agon was appointed chairman and chief executive of L’Oreal, owner of the Lancome and Maybelline beauty and make-up brands and Garnier shampoos.

Nestle which owns 23 per cent of L’Oreal had agreed with the founding family that the two parties could not increase their stake during Liliane Bettencourt’s lifetime and for at least six months after her death.

Her net worth was estimated £29.10 billion ( $39.5 billion) earlier this year by Forbes.

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Nick Matthewman, a student at the University of Sheffield, who was celebrating his 20th birthday on 20th September 2017, at the Banker’s Draft Wetherspoons in Sheffield when Rory McArthur (19) posted the invitation along with a photo saying ‘This is Nick and it’s his birthday. We’re at the Banker’s Draft Spoons in Sheffield, table 67, be generous and send him a Bev on the app xxx. Guys, we’re getting a Christmassy Colin the Caterpillar..”. The message was shared eight thousand times and numerous recipients placed orders regardless of whether the buyer is anywhere near the pub. The Wetherspoon app allows you to get drinks brought to you

Rory said: “ We ended up with eight glasses of milk, a pint of John Smith’s, a bottle of prosecco, a Jagerbomb two non-alcoholic bottles of Becks, two fruit shoots a pot  barbeque sauce, a jug of curry sauce, a plate of peas, a bowl of ice cream and crispy onions.

According to Barman Steve Barnes 19, “ They left at 6 pm but we were still getting orders for table 67 at 10 pm. This is the power of App marketing on Twitter.

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A 1000-year-old brush washer ceramic dish from Ru Guanyao, the most revered of the five great Kilns used from the Imperial China commissioned during the Song dynasty, is expected to sell for more than £10 million at Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong, on October 3rd, 2017.

“Of the 87 heirloom Ru wares to have survived to this day, only four remain in private hands, the pale –toned with the color of the blue sky after the rain, the petit vessel has a diameter of just over 5inches the “ ice crackle glaze dish was made between 1086 and 1106.  The last brush washer to be sold publicly fetched £16 million in 2012 following a tense battle.

Nicholas  Chow, Sotheby;s Asia deputy chairman, said “ It was a unique opportunity to acquire a near perfect and ravishing brush washer form the Northern Song dynasty Ru Kilns.

The house is holding six Hong Kong Sales this season, the 230-plus lots on offer are expected to bring more than HK$ 600  $77 million.

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Mount Etna in Sicily, one of Europe’s tallest and the most active volcanoes in the world erupted spewing lava up in the sky in the early hours of Thursday 16th March 2017, after eight tourists suffered minor injuries. Lava flow mixed with steam had caused a huge explosion, pelting boiling rocks and steam.

Mount Etna, in the Nebrodi mountain range, with an area of 1.190 Square km, towering 10,900feet (3,329 meters) above the city of Catania on the island of Sicily, with base circumfernace of 93 miles ( 150km), has been growing for 500, 000 years and had a variety of eruption style spewing voluminous lava flows and violent explosions., as it is located above a sub-duction zone formed where the African and the Eurasian plates collide and this subduction zone a window had torn in the subducting slab. which also produced Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. 25% of Sicily’s population lives on Etna’s slopes,and their main income comes from rich volcanic soil and tourism.