NEWS: TURKEY'S ERDOGAN TAKES TOUGH EU LINE AFTER PM QUITS

Turkey's president has told the EU it will not change its anti-terror laws in return for visa-free travel. The EU has asked Turkey to revise its laws as a condition for allowing Turkish citizens visa-free travel for short stays. They want that migrants, mainly Syrians, returns to Turkey from Greece in order to ease Europe's migration crisis. Mr, Erdrogan said that the proposed constitutional changes were a national need.

The EU wants Turkey to change their laws about terrorism in order to be more similar to EU standrards. Mr. Erdogan doesn't agree because he said that Turkey remained under a severe threat of terrorism. Turkey is near Syria and Iraq. He says: "We will go our way, you go yours". 

My opinion:

I think that terrorism has to finish. War is not the solution for problems in life. Then, also think that we would have to help building homes in refugees' countries in order to they can come back. Also, because if lots of people comes in a country this is not good for this because there will be too many people. 

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NEWS: CANADA WILDFIRE: IMAGES SHOW FORT MCMURRY DEVASTATION

There was a devastating wildfire in the Canadian city of Fort McMurray. The exact scale of the damage is difficult to say. 1.600 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. Whole neighbourhoods have been wiped out.

Some parts of the city are still standing as the hospital. The city's airports suffered only minor damange thanks the efforts from the firefighters. The residents who fled their homes said that this couldn't be real. 

The fire in the province of Alberta covers 850 sq km and the entire city of almost 90.000 people was evacuated three days ago. Bill Stewart, co-director of the University of California's Center for Fire Research and Outreach, says that only nature can stop fire entirely. It's a dangerous and terrifying time for the firefighters. 

My opinion:

Unfortunately, nature punishes us with these natural disasters. Luckily, in this case there aren't death people because they were evacuated some days ago. I think that firefighters are so important in our life. In my area, in the summer of 2012 there was a big fire. I wish that I never see another time a fire so nearly from me. 

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NEWS: KENYA BUILDING COLLAPSE: DEMOLITION OF UNFIT HOUSES STARTS

Authoriries in Kenya have begun demolishing homes in an specific area. Last week, the collapse of a building killed at least 26 people. This building had been declared unfit for human habitation. Like this, there are lots of buildings that have to be destroyed.

At this moment, there are eight buildings destroyed in the district of Huruma. The buildings' structures aren't resistant for all the people that live inside. People were warned a week ago to vacate, but they don't leave their home until the last moment. 

Another building collapsed on 29 April, for the height Kenya's rainy season. The rescue operations continue. There are soldiers, firefighters and volunteers. Trained dogs are helping too. On Kenyan TV, transmited the rescued by a 24-years-old woman who was pregnant. She was through slabs. 

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I choose this news because talks about one human right. People have the right to have a deserving home. There are lots of people that don't have a shelter or that live in an awful condition. Especially in developening countries. This is not fair, and less when we talk about children because adults can survive more easily. 

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NEWS: EMBRYO STUDY SHOWA "LIFE'S FIRST STEPS"

Scientists say a breakthrough in growing embryos will improve fertility treatments and revolutionise knowledge of the earliest steps to human life. In the UK and US, the research was halted just before the embryons arrived at 14-days old. Before, scientists only researched untill a week, the moment to implant it into the womb. This is possible because they have found a way to chemically mimic the womb. 

The investigation give to the scientists how the embryo starts the process of organising itself into a human being. This time is very important because is when many embryos purchase development defects or fail to implant. Scientists are so proud because this discovery is enormous implicated with reproductive technologies. 

There is international agreement that experiments should not allow embryos to develop past 14 days. From this moment, embryo becomes an "individual". It is an area that could spark huge ethical debate in the coming years. 

My opinion:    

In my opinion, this investigation is so useful. I am agree to do these kind of researches if with they can learn about embryos and do pregnancy more easy. Also, I agree with this international agreement that not passed the 14-days old because after this moment there will be a life and with a person we can't experiment. 

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NEWS: SKIN BACTERIA STAY "STABLE OVER TIME"

Everyone has their own personal range of bacteria living on their skin, a US study suggests. In the human skin there are lots of bacteria, fungi and viruses. These are as much in the dry sites like in the oily sides. 

Most are harmless or even beneficial, but some have been linked with skin disorders such as acne. Eczema tends to affect moist sides and psoriasis commonly occurs on dry exposed areas. 

There are some investigations. The stability of skin bugs varied according to the person. In the future, the scientists plan to study patients with eczema and other conditions to look at how microbes might vary with disease. 

My opinion:

I choose this news because I find it interesting. People have to investigate in order to make a better world with less illness. In the last years, technology have improved a lot. 

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NEWS: GERMAN COUPLE TORTURED TWO WOMEN TO DEATH, POLICE SAY

Police in Germany are investigating the deaths of two women. They are the victims os a couple who held them hostage and tortured them. The murderers were a man called Wilfried and Angelika, his ex-wife. Detectives believe there may be more victims. The murderers' home is in Hoexter, north-western Germany. 

There are two cases. The first one, the victim was a 41-year-old woman, known as Susanne F. The women died later in hospital because she didn't be died, she was only injured. The second case was in the summer of 2014. The victim was 33 years old, called Annika W. Both suffered from physical torture. 

Police believe the motive for the murders was more likely to be power-relared than sexual. Angelika B. say that she only obeyed the man after also being tortured by him. The head of this investigation is Ralf Oesterman. 

My opinion:   

I can't understand how people can be so evil. A person who does this hasn't got consciousness. I choose this news because I want to know more about this case and because it's relation with human rights. A person never can take away the life of another person.

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NEWS: FOSSIL REPTILE DISCOVERY "SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY"

A newly discovered 250-million-year-old fossil reptile from Brasil gives an extraordinary insight into life just before the dinosaurs appeared. The reptile named Teyujagua is the close relative of a group that gave rise to dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds. As the scientists say the fossil is "beautiful" and fills an evolutionary gap. 

Dr. Richard Butler from the University of Birmingham said the animal is a new species that hasn't been previously known. A study published in the journal Scientific Reports says: "It'svery close to the ancestry of a very important group of reptiles called archosauriforms".

This ancient reptile lived just after a mass extinction event 252 million years ago. About 90% of the species were lost, creating a place for other animals like Teyujagua. The reptile and its close relatives became the dominant animals on the land and eventually gave rise to the dinosaurs. Teyujagua was a small crocodile-like animal that probably lived at the side of lakes, feeding on fish. 

Dr. Felipe Pinheiro, from Universudade Federal do Pampa, is one of the three scientists who discovered the well-preserved fossil skull near the southern city of São Francisco de Assis. He said that the discovery was really exciting and they known that they had something extraordinary in their hands. Teyujagua is different from other fossils from the same era. 
    

My opinion:

I'm not a scientist girl, but when I read the news I consider it very interesting because talks about the beginning of the world and the origin of the dinosaurs. I didn't know that before dinosaurs there were others species. I always think that dinosaurs were the first SPECIES in the world.

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NEWS: AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR IS WORLD'S OLDEST MAN

According to the Guinness World Records organisation a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is now the world's oldest man. This man is called Yisrael Kristal and is 112 years old. He was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903 and lived throught two world wars. 

When he received his Guinness World Records certificate, said: 

"I don't know the secret for long life, I believe that everything is determined from above". "There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men than me who are no longer alive" he added. 

He has a hard life. During the World War was separated from his parents. After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, he and his family were moved into a ghetto. He lost his two children and later, he and his wife were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 after the ghetto was liquidated. His wife was murdered in Auschwitz and he was the sole survivor from his family. When he was found weighed just 37 kg. In 1950 emigrated to Israel with his second wife and their son. 

His daughter said the Holocaust had not affected her father's beliefs. The Auschwitz death camp was built in 1940. About one million Jews were killed at the camp. Victims included disabled people, homosexuals, dissidents...

My opinion:
I think that this man is a very big fighter. Not for the longest age that he has, if not for all he has lived. He has all my respects. Leave from a death camp is really difficult, the most of people die, but he can survive. Another thing is looking how your family dies, I couldn't. He is very stronger too talking about his memories because there are people who never want to talk about horrible things like this. 

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NEWS: WHATSAPP TO END BLACKBERRY OS SUPPORT

WhatsApp is to end support for a number of old operating systems such as Blackberry 10 because the company wanted to focus development on the mobile platforms that the majority of people use. WhatsApp will stop working on these old operating systems by December 2016. 

The reason for dropping support of these operating systems is that they're no longer updated or installed on new devices. The company of Blackberry said that they are actively exploring alternatives for BlackBerry users once the support of WhatsApp ends in late 2016. This operating system accounts for less than 1% of the market. To the contrary, when WhatsApp started in 2009 about 70% of smartphones sold had operating systems by BlackBerry and Nokia. 

This is the full list of operating systems that WhatsApp will stop suporting:

• Android 2.1 and Android 2.2
• Blackberrt OS 7 and earlier
• Blackberry 10
• Nokia S40
• Nokia Symbian S60
• Windows Phone 7.1

My opinion:                                                                                                                             
I don't agree with that these mobiles which work with an "old" operating system don't have the support by WhatsApp. There are people who can't buy a new next generation mobile and with their old mobiles are so happy. This is only to do business and for self-interest. 

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NEWS: MOMENTS OF JOY "CAN DAMAGE HEART"

A Swiss study said that emotional stress that causes chest pains and breathlessness can occur in moments of joy like anger, grief and fear. Three-quarters of cases of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (a change in the shape of the heart's left ventricle, which can be fatal) are caused by stress. The University Hospital Zurich suggests about one in 20 cases is caused by joy. In the study, researchers discovered heart problems caused by:

• A birthday party
• A son's wedding
• Meeting a friend after 50 years
• Becoming a grandmother...

The study also suggested most cases were in post-menopausal women. One of the researchers said that the triggers for takotsubo syndrome can be more varied than they thought. Much more research is needed to understand how such emotional events can trigger temporary heart damage in some people. The medical director of the British Heart Fundation said that Takotsubo syndrome is a rare event. 

My opinion:

I found this news interesting because I didn't know that hearts damages can come from a moment of joy like a son's wedding. I thought that hearts damages came from bad things like fear. As everything, more research is needed.

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NEWS: GOOGLE DONATES $1M TO FIGHT ZIKA VIRUS

Google has donated $1 to Unicef to help stop the spread of the Zika virus. The virus affects to a large number of babies born with underdeveloped brains in Brazil. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus as a global public health emergency.

Google engineers are working with Unicf to analyse data, to determine how to map and anticipate the virus. They have also updated its search engine to display more information about Zika for visitors to the US and other countries. 

This virus is in the same category of importance as Ebola. The difference is that in Ebola the researchers was focused to treat patients and prevent transmission and with Zika the attention is on understanding the virus' link with microcephaly. 

My opinion:                                                                                                                         
All the illnesses are disturbing, but more if its affects on the babies born. Always appears new illnesses that we didn't know about it. This is not the main problem, because the world and the ecosystem are changing a lot and it's normal that appears new illnesses. The really problem is find a cure. 

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NEWS: HOW AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY INVENTED A NEW WORD

In the small town of Copparo, in central Italy, a few weeks back, primary school teacher Margherita Aurora, was intrigued when one of her students, used an unfamiliar word in a written assignment. The student, Matteo, described a flower as "petaloso" ("full of petals". The word doesn't exist but grammatically it makes sense as a combination of "petalo" ("petal") and the suffix "-oso" ("full of").

Aurora think how could the eight-year-old Matteo have invented a new word? They wrote to the Accademia della Crusca to ask for their opinion. One of the Crusca's top linguistic experts wrote that the word is well formed and could be used in the Italian language. It's beautiful and clear. So that the word will be official a larg number of people need to use it and undertand the meaning. 

The teacher wrote on her Facebook acount the following: "this is worth more than a thousand Italian lessons" and shared pictures of the letter. She triggered a movement. Her Facebook post has been shared more than 80.000 times and on Twitter #petaloso was used almost 40.000 times. The word quickly became the trop trending topic in Italy. "Petaloso its on the way to becoming an official Italian word. 

My opinion:

When I read the tittle of the news I thought what was this new word and I wanted to read all the news. It's amazing how an eight-year-old boy invented a new word. This boy in a few years will feel proud of himself. Sometimes, children have twice imagination than adults. 

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NEWS: MAN WRITES A LETTER TO ISIS IN HONOR OF HIS WIFE MURDERED IN PARIS ATTACKS

Last Friday, in Paris, many terrorist attacks took place in the most popular places of the city centre. A hundred and twenty-nine people lost their lives. One of those victims was a 35 years old woman called Hélène Muyal-Leiris who was wife and mother of a family. 

Her husband has written a letter in facebook addressed to those terrorists who committed that terrible success. 

In the letter he says that terrorists have not succed in stripping him of his sense of security and freedom "at home". This is how he reffers to this country. Of course, he admits being devastated by this pain. Moreover, he can not imagine the moment when he as a father will have to explain his son the way his mother died. Leires goes further saying that he won't grow up his son with hatred. Instead, he will educate his son with happiness, freedom and respect. Leires states: "The terrorists will not win our hatred".

My opinion:
I would like you to think of Leires words and imagine what would you do if you had lost a family member in a terrorist attack. I state that Leires is a very strong man and he had had lots of courage to write this letter. 

 

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NEWS: US FIREFIGHTER HAS WORLD'S MOST EXTENSIVE FACE TRANSPLANT

The volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison, who is 41 years old, has been under surgeon for 26 hours to have a new face. The operation took place last August. 

The donor was a 26 year old boy called David Rodebaugh who died in a cycling accident. Patrick had third degree burns of his entire face and scalp. He had waited for more than a year to have the surgery done. The operation cost one million dollars. Mr. Hardison will have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life. 

The doctor gave a press conference and he said that the amount of tissue transplanted in Patrick had not been done before. He also said the patient is doing really well though it had been a difficult operation. However, Mr. Hardison will need more surgery in a few months time. Mr. Hardison states that he is very pleased with the results. He says: "They have given me a new life". 

My opinion: 
It's difficult to believe that surgery can do these miracles. Medicine has improved a lot in the recent years. I admire what doctors can do with people who have had a terrible accident. 

(This is Patrick before and after the surgery)

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NEWS: ONE IN FIVE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS "EXPERIENCED SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN FIRST WEEK"

Nearly one in five students had sexaul harassment during their first week at university. The poll aimed to find out which students had either been victims of or witnesses to sexual harassment. 

The majority of these incidents happend at social events or night clubs while a third happened in halls of residence. A sexual comment about people's body it's also a form of harassment. 

In recent years, in many university campuses students have had a conference about sexism, sexual harassment and assault as commonplace.

The officer Susuana Amoah of the NUS said that "it's extremely worrying but not surprising". NUS has been working on this topic over the last five years as they consider it a very important field. 

Sometimes sexual harassment is not visible to students and this needs to change. Some students will be supporting this research and will try to help students to report it any time they suffer from sexual harassment.

My opinion:

Nowadays sexual harassment is a worrying problem in the majority of the universities and I think that conferences should be given to our future students to make that they will aware about this field. 

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NEWS: ORIONID METEOR SHOWER 2015

Every year, between the 21st ans 22nd of October the Orionid Meteor Shower lights up the sky offering everyone the chance to catch nature at its best. 

What's the Orionid Meteor Shower?

This meteor is made up of ice and dust fragments from the Halley's Comet. 

The name comes from the Orian constellation, one of the most visible constellation in the sky. 

When can I watch it?

The newspaper recomends that the best day to see the meteor shower will be on Tuesday morning just before dawn.

Where can I watch it? 

The best areas are the ones which usually have little light pollution, not the best news for city dwellers. However, there are a number of sites around the UK when the night sky is not affected too badly by light pollution.

What will I need?

You only need your eyes yo see the Orian Meteor Shower and staring peacefully at the sky. 

My opinion:

I believe that I've never seen a meteor on live with my own eyes. I have just seen it on TV or on the computer. I would like to see it one live at least once in my life.

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NEWS: 11 SURPRISING HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP

Sleep makes you feel better. Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and can benefit your heart, weight, mind and more. These are the 11 benefits you get if you have a good slep.

• Improve memory: During sleep you can strenghten memories or "practice" skills learned while you were awake (it's a process called consolidation).
• Live longer?: Sleep too much or too little is associated with a shortes lifespan. Sleep also affects quality of live. If you sleep better, you can certainly live better. 
• Curb inflamation: People who sleep less than six or fewer hours a night have higher blood levels of inflammatory proteins than those who get more hours sleep. 
• Spur creativity: People seem to strenghten the emotional components of a memory during sleep, which may help spur the creative process. 
• Be a winner: Sleep is good to improve your performance.
• Improve your grades: Children between the ages of 10 and 16 who have sleep disordered are more likely to have problems with attention and learning, Also if you didn't get enough sleep had worse grades than those who did.
• Sharpen attention: Children between the ages of seven and eight who sleep less than eight hours a night were more likely to be hyperactive, inattentive and impulsive.
• Have a healthy weight: Dieters who sleep well loses more fat than those who don't sleep enough hours. Dieters also feel more hungry when they get less sleep.
• Lower stress: Sleep can reduce levels of stress and people can have better control of their blood presure. It's also believed that sleep effects cholesterol levels.
• Avoid accidents: Sleepiness affects reaction time and decision making. Insuficient sleep can be as detrimental to your driving ability as having an alcoholic drink. 
• Steer clear of depression: Good night's sleep can really help a moody person decrease their anxiety. You get more emotional stability with good sleep. 

My opinion:

I think that it was an interesting piece of news to read. I have learnt more about this topic and I also realised that we should give more importance the way we sleep. 

                                                                  

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NEWS: WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU: 3 REASONS I'M PROUD OF THE PAIN I'VE EXPERIENCED

This piece of news was written by a 21 year old girl. She tell us her experience in her relationship and what she learned from it. 

Falling in love is a scary and beautiful thing. When you begin in a relationship you know that one day it might finish and one of the couple might be hurt. She gave all she had in that relationship, but one day, he just ended with her. She was completely heartbroken and she cried a lot until she finally realized that he had lost more than her. She learned a few things about herself. The most important one was that she would honestly rather get hurt never again. 

1. Getting your heart broken helps you grow: All people should experience a heart break in their liver because it teaches humility to you. Once you have your heart broken you understand the pain, and you most likely won't do that to someone else. Also you will be more compassionate in future relationships. 
2. It makes me feel alive: Feeling hurt means you're able to feel. A life without feeling joy, pay or any other feelings is not the way one should live. It's like you are just existing, but you're not really living. Feeling pain makes you feel alive because it means you can feel things deeply, and you can grow from it. 
3. Feeling pain means you're vulnerable: Being vulnerable is the hardest thing to do in the world. You're opening yourself up and handing someone you heart you're trusting that person as well. 

The writer will never stop believing in love and she thinks that one day she will find the man of her dreams. 

My opinion:

I agree with what the writer says. I also think that you should experience a heart broken in your life because it makes you learn a lot about life and love. A life without love is not a good life. Moreover, sometimes is better be alone before be in a toxic relationship because the real love don't hurt.

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NEWS: UNHEALTHILY UNDERWEIGHT MODEL

I choose this news because I think that i't's interesting and this is the beginning of a big change in the fashion world. 

Summary:

An Yves Saint Laurent advertisement has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The advert, which appeared in Elle UK showed a photo of a woman who was unhealthily underweight. Readers complained that the advert was "irresponsible" because they were using a model who appeared unhealthily thin.  

Although the ASA didn't agree with the readers opinions at the beginning, they finally admitted that the advert was not suitable to be advertised in magazines or on TV. 

Some people agreed that adverts using underweight models are promoting a distorted image of beauty and it may also promoted cases of anorexia and bulimia among adolescets.

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My opinion:

I think that modelling agencies should employ models who are hot below a certain body mass index because teenagers use to follow the fashiong trend. 

NEWS: WHERE IS MY SOLAR CAR?

I choose this news because when I read the tittle I thought that it will be an interesting news. 

Summary:

The students of the Institute of Technology in Manipal, southwest India have designed solar car prototype. This is called the SERVe (Solar Electric Road Vehicle). It's a join project of Manipal Institute of Technology and Tata Power Solar, the most important solar company in India. 

The solar panels that cover the roof keep the car reasonably aerodynamic. The battery and power system are handled by a student-programmed Raspberry Pi. The car's body is a fiberglass-reinforced plastic over steel tubing. Its weight is 1300 pounds and the car can drive more than 90 miles. The top is about  speed 37mph. 

These students weren't trying to build the fastest  or the farthest solar vehicle. They were trying to build a solar car that not only worked, but one that could be commercially viable. 

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My opinion: 
I think that we live in a technological world and it's possible that in a future all the cars that we will used be solar cars because this are more economics and don't pollute the world.