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Elaine LingElaine LingElaine Ling splits her time between New York and California, but wherever she is and needs a coffee, she doesn’t visit a Starbucks.She only goes there for her cold drinks. Her “real coffee” comes from local cafes.”I don’t really like to go to Starbucks for coffee. I think their coffee is like too sweet,” Ling, 21, told the BBC. “I’m more of a refresher girl when it comes to going to Starbucks.” Though founded as a coffee shop more than five decades ago, Starbucks says that three out of every four drinks it now sells are cold. Think…
BBCHolly Ratchford has decided to speak out publicly for the first timeHolly Ratchford still cannot believe that the man who moved into the residential complex she once managed would go on to be accused of involvement in the darkest day in recent US history.”It’s almost impossible for me to wrap my head around who he said he was, and who he really is. I still struggle with that,” she tells the BBC.The man, Omar al-Bayoumi – a Saudi in his early 40s – moved to the complex in San Diego, California, with his family in September 1999.The new resident at…
AFP via Getty ImagesThe US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, President Donald Trump announced.”This Historic Transaction MORE THAN DOUBLES American Oil Reserves, greatly increases our Oil Supply, and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans,” Trump posted on social media.Venezuela’s interim President, Delcy Rodriguez, hailed the agreement as one that would help her nation’s economic revival.Trump vowed to tap Venezuela’s reserves, the world’s largest, after the US captured its then-President Nicolás Maduro this year. More recently, Trump has been under pressure to tame domestic petrol prices,…
AFP via Getty ImagesLatest opinion polls have been so close that the result is impossible to callIcelanders are voting in a referendum to decide whether to resume talks on joining the European Union, 13 years after they were broken off.In an indication of how tight the result is expected to be, the latest opinion poll put the No campaign in the lead with 51.6%. An earlier poll had put the Yes campaign ahead.Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s centre-left government had already intended to hold a referendum, but turbulent international affairs prompted her to bring it forward.But the debate was fought less…
97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like ‘a warrior’A 97-year-old woman, Guna Maya Bohara, survived the flash floods and was rescued using an excavator. 3 hrs agoAsia
ReutersBerlin Mayor Kai Wegner said the German capital would not cave to the ransom demandBerlin is being blackmailed by hackers who were able to compromise city systems and steal data earlier this month, its mayor has said.Kai Wegner said officials would not cave in to the ransom demand, which came on Thursday evening. He did not say how much was being sought, though Der Spiegel reports the hackers are demanding 30 bitcoin, worth around €2m (£1.7m).Some of the German capital’s online systems were forced to close down as a result of the attack, while investigators were working to understand what…
Video shows scale of flash flood hitting Nepal-Tibet borderThe dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives.The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around the world.Except here, in China.Only a single still-frame shot has been broadcast so far by the country’s state-run flagship news bulletin.Beijing has launched a massive rescue operation involving hundreds of emergency workers, which is continuing, and President Xi…
Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash floodNew satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal’s Trishuli River caused by Wednesday’s deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse.Before-and-after images show how sections of the valley, where a torrent of floodwater and debris surged through, destroyed villages, bridges and hydroelectric power stations.More than 550 people have been killed, Nepalese officials say, with hundreds more missing.Among the worst-hit locations reviewed by BBC Verify was a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing, which was engulfed by a rush of floodwater and captured on camera.Damage and mud can be seen more…
ReutersYiannopoulos seen holding a news conference in 2017British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is awaiting deportation.Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and onetime employee of rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to ICE’s inmate registry. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said he “was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing”, and will remain in custody pending deportation.The self-styled provocateur has called himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the…
Norway’s ‘grandfather’: Late King Harald remembered as son Haakon takes the throneNorwegians paid their respects to the late King Harld after his death on Friday morning. 1 hr agoEurope