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A TikTok user shared a video of the fox getting “way too comfy” in her bed after the “surprise visitor” snuck into her London home unnoticed while the door was open A confident fox made itself ‘way too comfortable’ on a woman’s bed in a ‘scary’ visit to her home. The urban spectacle of the animals meandering around residential areas in London has become fairly common. But it’s much more rare to find a fox has made itself at home on your bed. This became the reality when one woman came home to find the wild animal had bedded down…

Netball Australia lost a $15 million-dollar sponsorship deal with Hancock Prospecting after players refused to wear the company’s logo on their uniform, due to comments made by Gina Rinehart’s father in the 1980’s.Nova FM National Audio News Director Michelle Stephenson says, “I don’t think we should be holding Gina Rinehart to account”.“I think these players need to be really cautious because Australian sport is in dire need of funding,” Ms Stephenson said. “We can’t be apologising or expecting apologies for things that happened 20 to 30 years ago.” Source: Sky News

The numbers in the playoffs were ugly for Matt Carpenter heading into Game 3 of the ALCS on Saturday, but that didn’t stop Yankees manager Aaron Boone from putting him back in the lineup against Houston right-hander Cristian Javier. Carpenter had struck out in all seven of his postseason plate appearances heading into Game 3 after missing the final two months of the regular season with a fractured left foot.Asked what made him confident Carpenter would find his swing this October, Boone said, “He’s Matt Carpenter.” Carpenter provided one of the Yankees’ three hits in their 5-0 loss to the…

Editor’s Note: This article is part of CNN’s Undivided series, which chronicles how Americans of very different backgrounds have found common ground. In this series, which runs through the midterm elections, we profile unlikely friendships between people of differing ages, races, religions and cultures. CNN  —  Life can change forever in the space between two heartbeats. It’s a fact Pati Navalta knows all too well. In 2014, her 23-year-old son Robby Poblete was looking forward to a new career, training to be a welder and planning his future in their hometown of Vallejo, California. Then a sudden act of gun…

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Will the US post its first quarterly GDP increase of 2022?The US economy is expected to have grown in the third quarter of 2022 — largely helped by a shrinking trade deficit — despite forecasts for consumer spending to have weakened.The commerce department on Thursday is expected to report that US gross domestic product grew at an annualised rate of 2 per cent in the July through September period, according to economists polled by Reuters. That is down from an unexpected 0.6 per cent decline in the second quarter and a 1.6 per cent decline in the first three months…

Chinese President Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China’s leader on Sunday (Oct 23), shortly after the first meeting of the new Central Committee, which was elected on Saturday. Xi walked at the head of the group at the presentation event for the Communist Party’s seven-member Standing Committee, a position reserved for the party’s general secretary. The anointment of Xi came after a week-long congress which saw a sweeping reshuffle of the Central Committee, where a number of top officials – including Premier Li Keqiang – stepped down, as well as the endorsement of Xi’s “core position” among the…

No new taxes will be imposed to meet Australia’s commitments under the Global Methane Pledge.Australia has formally joined more than 120 countries to sign the pledge – which aims to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in methane emissions by 2030.Livestock – especially cattle – is the largest source of greenhouse gas in the agriculture sector, contributing around 10 per cent of Australia’s total emissions. Source: Sky News

A teenager who was out on two previous gun arrests was busted again in Queens on Wednesday for an armed robbery, according to police sources. Alleged gang member Jeffrey Mendoza, 18, was arrested after he and two friends pistol whipped a person with a 9 mm handgun and stole the victim’s cellphone and wallet, sources said. He was charged with robbery, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property. The two friends he was with were also arrested, according to police sources. Mendoza — who has been arrested over 20 times — was previously arrested in…

A man rescued a puppy he discovered floating in a box on a river in Texas, and the pooch is now at a shelter ready to be adopted.Earlier this month, Austin Pets Alive! received a call from another shelter in the state saying the man had come in with a puppy he found floating down a river and that it required help their shelter could not provide.The puppy, a two-month-old black Labrador retriever mix, had tested positive for parvovirus, a highly contagious, life-threatening virus, Austin Pets Alive! wrote on Facebook.The virus affects dogs’ gastrointestinal tracts and spreads through direct dog-to-dog…