The open event meant any member of the public could join the video call to hear words from holocaust survivor Zvi Herschel. Instead, hijackers projected pictures of Hitler, shouted anti-Semitic abuse and pro-Palestinian slogans, and shared lewd imagery. Shortly after the interruption, the event was taken off the air, but later went live again and was conducted properly without abusive interference. “To dishonour the memory of the #Holocaust and the dignity of the survivor is beyond shame and disgrace and shows the blatant antisemitic nature of the activists,” said Israel’s ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff on Twitter....

1994 1995 Home PCs 27% 32% Modems 14% 18% CD-ROM drives 6% 13% Online services 6% 9% CD-ROMs[*] 8.2 13.4 NUMBER OF TITLES PER HOUSEHOLD WITH CD-ROM DRIVE. SOURCE: ODYSSEY HOMEFRONT SURVEY

Southern Platte Division Chief Chris Denney told Newsweek that firefighters from the Kansas City Fire Department and Southern Platte Fire Protection District responded to the incident at about 8:40 a.m. Friday morning in Parkville, finding smoke and flames billowing from the home. Two dogs were rescued at the home, and the homeowners were reportedly away at the time. Flames were extinguished and no injuries were reported. During the investigation, authorities accessed interior video cameras from the home in the Riss Lake neighborhood, which provided clear evidence that one of the homeowners’ dogs stood on its hind legs and turned a stove burner on....

In a statement sent out to students on September 24, administrators at Davis Senior High School explained that bats were discovered on Friday inside the gym where the dance was planned to take place Saturday. School officials contacted animal control to assess the situation and were informed that the bats would not be removed in time for the dance. Bats in America The furry critters are located all over Northern California, with many colonies migrating to warmer climates in the winter and often occupying caves, rock crevices, old buildings, bridges, mines, and trees around the United States....

The fire at the historic Cape Town Parliament complex began on January 2, and it took firefighters four days to fully put out the flames. The main chamber of the National Assembly building, where the nation’s Parliament sits, was destroyed, while other buildings received extensive damage. Because Parliament was closed at the time for the end of the year holidays, no deaths or injuries were reported. But about 300 firefighters, some using cranes, had to work for more than 70 hours total to extinguish the fire....

As reported by YourTango, Celine Villegas has found fame under the handle of Motel Meals on TikTok where she serves up food she promises offers “five star” quality at affordable prices. Her videos offer up an array of impressive and easy-to-follow recipes made from the comfort of her motel kitchen. Her first video, detailing how to make a classic spaghetti bolognese for just over $8 has been viewed over 100,000 times - and that’s only the beginning....

Kay Sanders, who has been hiking the Ouachita National Recreation Trail in Arkansas for 30 years, was horrified to see the damage done on the route last week. “There is [sic] dead limbs everywhere and these trees — some of them will not survive. Some will, but some of them won’t. It’s not right,” Sanders told KARK, the local TV channel. She added that “no one has the right to do this....

Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Wednesday, after the legislation sailed through Congress with broad bipartisan support. The act will allow the U.S. to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in the restive territory. It will also mandate an annual State Department review of Hong Kong’s special autonomous status, which gives the territory beneficial trade treatment. The bill is the culmination of a months-long effort by Hong Kong activists and lawmakers to push a harder U....

The measures in Hong Kong expand restrictions and sanitation procedures already implemented as means to address virus transmission in the city. They include work-from-home requirements for nonessential government employees, limit food service establishments to takeout between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m., and extend capacity caps for public gatherings, the Hong Kong Free Press reported. Amusement parks, gyms and other close contact venues will also remain closed, and residents are expected to wear face coverings in all public areas....

The communique comes as pro-democracy groups continue to push back against legislation criminalizing disrespecting the Chinese national anthem and banning anti-government dissent in the semi-autonomous former British colony, which for the last year has been convulsed by mass demonstrations against political encroachment from the mainland. The pro-Beijing Hong Kong government’s Education Bureau issued a memo on Thursday noting that all primary and secondary schools must adhere to the National Anthem Ordinance which came into effect on June 12....

After growing up in Hong Kong, Stanley Chow, Sophronia Cheung and Hugh Chan opted to study in the United States, enrolling at the University of Minnesota. When protests broke out at the beginning of June, the students were in America and Cheung said it wasn’t until she saw the magnitude of the demonstrations that she realized the situation’s severity. “Growing up in Hong Kong, I feel like we’re pretty politically apathetic,” Cheung explained....

It’s a day that means so many things to so many people. For us, it was a day of sadness, anger and shock—unable to imagine how we got to this place. At the beginning of the day, one of us was just a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School stressing about a Spanish test and thinking about lacrosse practice that night. The other—over 1,000 miles away—was entering his East Baltimore community—an all too familiar place with gun violence....

This isn’t China’s first encounter with massively multiplayer online games–so called because thousands of people can interact in the same game at the same time. Firms from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China have been marketing them for several years to China’s youth. The arrival of EverQuest, though, promises to kick the phenomenon into high gear. Since its introduction abroad four years ago, EverQuest has become one of the hottest-selling online games, with 430,000 fee-paying players....

In a statement posted to Solo’s Twitter account, Solo’s attorney Rich Nichols said that “[o]n the advice of counsel, Hope can’t speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest, and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges....

After menopause, when estrogen levels plummet, some women become forgetful. Past research has demonstrated that those who take estrogen do better on memory tests than their nonmedicated peers do. The hormone may even reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. The new study, published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, is the first to visually compare the neurocircuitry of memory both on and off estrogen. The drug made a big difference to participant Bernadette Settelmeyer: “All of a sudden I was remembering things....

Modeste, 28, is enjoying a spectacular season in the Bundesliga, having smashed 22 goals so far to fire his side to a challenge for Europa League qualification. And that form has not gone unnoticed, with the young shot-stopper putting him above the Bayern Munich and Dortmund superstars. Alexis could face Argentina “What Anthony is doing now is comfortably better than his rivals,” Horn told reporters at the weekend after a Modeste hat-trick helped down Hertha Berlin....

As the scale of devastation became clear Sunday from one of the worst storms ever recorded, officials said emergency crews could find more bodies when they reach parts of the archipelago cut off by flooding and landslides. Desperate residents raided grocery stores and gas stations in search of food, fuel and water as the government began relief efforts and international aid operations got under way. MORE: How to help | Sports world reaches to Philippines disaster...

But Liddle, 55, has many high points in his career, and they’ve earned him a rep as one of the meanest and toughest lawyers on Wall Street. His Manhattan firm, Liddle & Robinson, with about 20 attorneys, has built a track record of squeezing multimillion-dollar settlements out of big firms for clients that typically include aggrieved former employees and angry investors. Liddle is intimidating, and not just because of his broad shoulders and passing resemblance to Mr....

Millions of Americans turned to gardening during coronavirus lockdowns, according to the Garden Trends Report 2022 from PR agency Garden Media Group. Social media mentions of “front porch” and “front yard” reached a five-year high in 2021, the report found, and consultants at McKinsey & Company predict that 75% of new gardeners will keep up the hobby. If you’re among this cohort of lockdown gardeners, what should you be doing to your patch of green in the run-up to summer?...

“This home suffered a fire that damaged the front facade,” the house’s listing on realtor.com read, with a call to contractors. “House is in need of a complete renovation or potential tear down and rebuild. Buyer to do due diligence. House being sold as is.” Photos of the house on the listing’s website show a scorched front with boarded-up windows. Posts near the door are blackened and the parts of the siding are peeling away from the house....