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The death toll from a traffic jam of climbers on Mount Everest in the Himalayas, the world’s highest summit, has risen to 10, officials said on Saturday, as a record number of people tried to use a brief window of good weather to make it to the top.

The death toll for the 2019 climbing season on the 29,000-foot mountain currently stands at 17 over all, according to government tallies, the worst in decades, excluding major natural disasters such as avalanches and earthquakes.


Climbers waiting in queues while climbing are sucking up mountaineers' limited oxygen supply and exposing them to the harsher winds for longer.




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A line of climbers at 150metres away from the summit waiting to reach the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday.

The lines appear to have contributed to several deaths.




https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/world/asia/everest-death-traffic-jam.html

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Donald Trump pledged his support, alongside Governor Mike Parson, following the devastating floods plaguing the region.

Trucks and mobile homes were destroyed in the savage winds that hit Jefferson City in Missouri yesterday.

Both cars and homes were destroyed in the devastating tornado that hit Jefferson City on Thursday night.

Tornado packing winds of 160 mph tore through a General Motors and Toyota auto dealership complex in Jefferson City, Missouri on Wednesday night, damaging or destroying at least 500 vehicles and leaving them piled in crumpled heaps across the massive lot.


This shocking footage has revealed the devastation caused by a monster tornado which ripped through Jefferson City in Missouri leaving a massive trail of destruction.

More than three people have been killed and hundreds homeless.



Carey Riley looks over damaged cars at a Toyota dealership he owns with his two brothers Thursday, May 23, 2019 after a tornado tore though Jefferson City, Missouri late Wednesday.







https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7062859/Shocking-drone-footage-reveals-extent-devastation-caused-monster-tornado.html

So sad....Rest in Peace bro.

Mehdi Didda, 33 and Mohamed Safri, 34, accused of stealing high-end watches


Didda is on trial for the thefts alongside co-accused Mohamed Safri, 34, while his brother Sofiane Didda, 43, allegedly helped sell the stolen loot out of a lock-up in Bayswater.

A gang of watch thieves grabbed one of the world’s rarest watches worth £700,000 in a series of 'targeted' raids, a court heard.

Southwark Crown Court heard one of the timepieces was a Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon, one of only 30 ever made by the exclusive watchmaker.

‘The watches that were taken in robberies were worth between £20,000 and in one case nearly £700,000.’

One of the items they allegedly stole was a £700,000 Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon watch, similar to this one pictured, that is only one of 30 ever made.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7057967/Gang-watch-thieves-grabbed-one-worlds-rarest-timepieces.html

The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge sail in formation as part of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group in the Arabian Sea on Friday.


The USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea near the USS Kearsarge.

It is part of the US Fifth Fleet which was sent to the region amid an unexplained threat from Iran.


An F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft launches from the flight deck the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf as tensions mount with Tehran over President Donald Trump's sanctions.

A rocket was fired into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone where the US Embassy is based.

In an outburst following the rocket launch, President Donald Trump threatened Iran with destruction if it seeks a fight with the US.

He tweeted: 'If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!'

Mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran continued to escalate Sunday after Trump issued a direct threat that war would spell 'the official end of Iran.'

His remarks came in the wake of a rocket attack less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which appeared to have been carried out by Iran-backed Shiite militias, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

Taking to Twitter, at just after 4pm ET, the president posted:

'If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.

Never threaten the United States again!'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7047915/Trump-issues-menacing-threat-Iran.html

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The A350 is a technical tour-de-force.

It has a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic fuselage with increased resistance to corrosion and the pilots have all sorts of gadgets at their finger tips.

For example, 'brake to vacate', which applies the correct amount of braking automatically to bring the aircraft to taxiing speed at the desired runway exit, graphics of the 'wing shape' and screens that display everything from fuel levels to runway layouts.

Introduction: 15 January 2015

Status: In production, in service

Produced: 2010 - Present

Number built: 265 as of 30 April 2019

Program cost: €11 Billion

Unit cost: US$317.4 Million

It's 2017 and time to meet the Airbus A350 and its business class suite which has a lie-flat seat, a sliding privacy door and an 18-inch entertainment screen.

The cabin, meanwhile, has optimized pressure, temperature and humidity.

This is the economy cabin of a 1999 Boeing 777.

Delta says that the customer service at the time was 'industry leading'.

Even in economy, passengers had personal in-seat videos, adjustable footrests, headrests and lumbar support.

And the pilots were in another world, too.

They had satellite communications, GPS, predictive windshear and collision avoidance systems and enhanced ground proximity warning systems.

The 777 is still going strong today.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flew services for Delta between 1991 and 2005. '[The MD-11] brings new standards of convenience and comfort to the international traveler,' Ronald W. Allen, Delta's chairman, president and CEO, said in February 1991.

It had a cruise speed of 543mph, a huge range of 8,460 miles and aerodynamic enhancements, including winglets.

In 1987 the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (pictured) entered service.

Developed from the original Douglas DC-9, it has twice the passenger capacity of the first version, and modernized engines and avionics.

The final MD-88 was delivered in December 1993.

They are still in service today. It has a top cruising speed of 574mph and capacity for 142 passengers.

First delivered in 1984, the Boeing 757 is still flying services for Delta.

The first model, the 757-200, was 45 per cent more fuel efficient than the Boeing 727 it replaced.

In 1992, Delta received the 500th 757 made by Boeing and since 2007 has operated the largest 757 fleet in the world.

This is 1982 Boeing 767 and it's an aircraft type that Delta still flies.

Delta says the 767-200's technical advances included a new advanced wing design that allowed for more efficient lift for a quicker climb to cruising altitude, a digital "glass cockpit" with 40 computers and engines that were 30 per cent more fuel efficient'.

The Lockheed L-1011 was used by Delta between 1973 and 2001.

They had capacity for 250 passengers, could cruise at 552mph and in-flight entertainment included 'seven mood-matching channels of Deltasonic stereo words and music programs'.

Delta's first movies were shown on its transatlantic L-1011s in 1978.

Delta began flying Boeing 727s in 1972.

They were retired in 2003.

They could cruise at 566mph and had a range of 1,950 miles.

It's 1970 and the Queen of the Skies, the Boeing 747, is on the scene. Pictured is the first type, the 747-100.

Delta 747s offered the 'world's first flying penthouse apartment', located above the First Class cabin and adjacent to the First Class lounge.

It had seats for six passengers and was sold as a unit.

It had its very own flight attendant.

The 747 has a range of 6,000 miles and a top speed of 625mph.

In 1966 Delta upgraded its cargo service with the turboprop Lockheed L-100, which mainly transported goods between California and the Southeast.

Its top speed was 361mph.

Cabin crew on board a DC-9, which entered service in 1965 and flew until 1993 (the uniforms date to 1969).

After almost a 16-year absence, the DC-9 rejoined Delta's fleet during the Northwest merger in 2008, and flew until January 2014.

Delta was the first and the last U.S. airline to fly scheduled DC-9 commercial flights.

They had a top speed of 575mph and a range of just over 2,000 miles.

Delta launched the world's first Convair 880 (pictured) service on May 15, 1960, between Houston and New York City.

Two years later a Convair 880 set a new Delta speed record - hitting 715mph on a flight from Chicago to Miami and taking just one hour, 50 minutes and 55 seconds to complete the 1,258-mile flight.

Pictured is a 1959 Douglas DC-8 jetliner, an aircraft type that would serve Delta until May 1, 1989.

On delivery day, July 22, 1959, flew the 2,497 mile route from the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California, to Miami in 4 hours and 43 minutes.

The previous record on the route had been 5 hours and 50 minutes set by a Douglas DC-7.

The DC-8 produced a hefty 13,500 horse power and could reach 590mph.

1957, Delta had a sizeable cargo service.

It launched in 1947 with Douglas C-47 freighters and had grown by 724 per cent by 1956.

In 1957 new Curtiss C-46 aircraft (pictured) were delivered.

Delta boasted that they were big enough to load a Cadillac automobile without scratching the paint job.

The Curtiss C-46 remained in service until 1966.

A 1956 Convair 440, which had a range of 580 miles and a top speed of 284mph.

Delta's last Convair 440 retired in 1970, when its fleet became 100 per cent jet-engined.

Passengers on a 1954 Douglas DC-7, promoted by Delta as 'America's Fastest and Finest Airliner'.

It had a range of 2,760 miles, a top speed of 360mph and developed 3,250 horse power.

The cabin features were quite something for the time gold window curtains, typewriters for those who wanted to work, complimentary Champagne, entrees at mealtime and canapes and cocktails on afternoon flights.

It's 1953, the pressurized cabin, thanks to the Lockheed Constellation, which had, Delta says, 'nonstop transcontinental capability'.

It operated between 1953 and 1958, could hit 327mph and had a range of 1,800 miles.

It flew domestic and Caribbean routes.

In 1946 there was another leap, with the Douglas DC-4.

This had a relatively huge range 2,000 miles, and could cruise with up to 44 passengers on board at 215mph.

A Delta DC-4 flew the world's first nonstop scheduled flight between Chicago and Miami on November 1, 1946