Category: Yahoo News

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Source: Yahoo News, Africa’s week in pictures: 23 – 29 October 2020

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested for hiding a loaded firearm at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

Source: Yahoo News, Tourist arrested for hiding a loaded firearm at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom

‘Maybe he’s working for the Chinese,’ former mayor baselessly claims

Source: Yahoo News, Rudy Giuliani wants Twitter CEO jailed over limitations on unverified Hunter Biden story

A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time.

Source: Yahoo News, UK fusion experiment used in hunt for clean energy

Mission scientists raced to stash the asteroid sample because it was leaking into space. Now the probe is ready to bring more than 2 pounds to Earth.

Source: Yahoo News, NASA’s asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth

At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, daylight-saving time will end. Clocks will fall back by one hour.

Source: Yahoo News, Daylight-saving time ends this weekend in the US. It’s one of the world’s stupidest rituals.

More than 600 dogs and cats flew across the Pacific Ocean from crowded Hawaii shelters to Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, where there’s more space for them to await adoption — a charity operation that organizers said is the largest pet rescue flight. The rescue flight was necessary because the coronavirus pandemic has led to overcrowding in Hawaii pet shelters. “Lots of kittens,” said Douglas Carroll, spokesman for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, which helped coordinate the effort.

Source: Yahoo News, Hundreds of shelter dogs, cats flown across the Pacific

Royal Caribbean Group reported its third 10-digit loss of the year Thursday as cruises in the U.S. — its biggest market — remain canceled.

Source: Yahoo News, ‘Beyond frustrating’: .3 billion Q3 loss for Royal Caribbean as cruises remain canceled

With five days to go, here’s how candidates stack up in key U.S. Senate races.

Source: Yahoo News, Who is leading key Senate races less than a week from election? Here’s what polls show

A sheikh and Emirati cabinet minister will not be prosecuted for the alleged sexual assault and torture of a Hay Festival curator, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Thursday. Caitlin McNamara, 32, had claimed Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, 69, had kissed and groped her when she went to visit him at his private island villa in February to discuss Hay’s first literary festival in Abu Dhabi. Her lawyers had hoped the CPS would be able to prosecute the Gulf royal under the concept of “universal jurisdiction”, in which serious offences can be tried despite them not having taken place in the UK. But in a statement the CPS said the legal criteria had not been met for charges to be brought against the sheikh, the United Arab Emirates’ tolerance minister. The sheikh has denied the allegations. Jenny Hopkins, the head of the CPS’s special crime and counter terrorism division, said: “Sexual offences can have a devastating and lasting impact on victims, and the CPS will always prosecute cases where our legal test is met. “The CPS has carefully reviewed evidence passed to us by the Metropolitan Police after a British woman reported being sexually assaulted earlier this year while working abroad. Possible charges of sexual assault and torture were considered. “However, after thorough consideration, we have concluded that the evidence does not support a prosecution and will not be taking the case any further. We have explained our reasoning in detail and offered to meet the complainant to clarify any points.

Source: Yahoo News, ‘No legal case’ to try sheikh over alleged sex attack