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Berlin CNN  —  A body was found in the undercarriage of a Lutfhansa plane that arrived at Frankfurt airport from Tehran on Thursday, according to German police and Lufthansa. Employees at Frankfurt airport discovered a male body on Thursday morning on a plane that had arrived from the Iranian capital during a routine maintenance check at 5:30 a.m. local time, Frankfurt police said in a statement. They added that an oxygen can with a mask was found next to the lifeless body. A statement sent to CNN by German airline carrier Lufthansa said: “We can confirm that during the routine…

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The TRUTH Social website is seen on a mobile device with an image of former US president Donald Trump in the background in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on 23 February, 2022.Nurphoto | Getty ImagesShares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank check company set to take Trump Media and Technology Group and its Truth Social platform public, rose Friday as Elon Musk took the reins at Twitter.Musk has previously said that he would reinstate Trump’s account on Twitter, which was banned after the Jan.6, 2021, Capitol riot. The former president had around 88 million followers on Twitter, but…

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This is the third in a three-part series on Roraima in the context of Brazil’s general elections. The project was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund. Rorainopolis, Brazil – Luiz Gomes is nervous about the prospects of Brazil’s presidential election, which heads to a second round on Sunday. As the owner of a sawmill in Nova Colina, a logging district in Rorainopolis in southern Roraima state, he fears that a more “environmentalist” government could suffocate the local timber trade, which he says is already in decline. Gomes blames excessive “bureaucracy” and crackdowns on illegal logging that have closed…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook visits the Apple Fifth Avenue store for the release of the Apple iPhone 14, New York City, September 16, 2022.Andrew Kelly | ReutersApple stock rose 7.5% on Friday, a day after it reported September quarter earnings that modestly beat expectations on revenue and profit and showed global demand for its premium hardware remains high.It was the best day for Apple shares since April 2020.The surge comes after a mixed week of Big Tech earnings, in which Meta and Alphabet showed signs of weakness caused by macroeconomic conditions hurting the digital ad market. Alphabet rose about 4.4%…

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The newest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the U.S. navy’s fleet arrived this morning in Halifax harbour. The nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford is on its first deployment, having left its home port in Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 4.Weighing in at more that 100,000 tonnes, the warship has been described as the world’s largest aircraft carrier.It can carry more than 75 aircraft and its crew can include up to 4,500 sailors.Before it arrived in Halifax, the ship took part in naval exercises with a number of NATO allies, including Canada, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. While in Halifax,…

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, May 7, 2018.Eduardo Munoz | ReutersNFL superstar Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen are getting divorced after 13 years of marriage, they announced Friday.”We arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together,” the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 45, said on Instagram. “We are blessed with beautiful and wonderful children who will continue to be the center of our world in every…

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New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not attend the U.N. COP27 global climate summit, his government announced Thursday, as it cited “pressing domestic commitments” that require attention.”The Prime Minister is not expected to attend the summit in Egypt due to other pressing domestic commitments, including preparations for the autumn statement,” a Downing Street spokesperson said, adding that Britain remained “absolutely committed to supporting COP27 and leading international action to tackle climate change.” Sunak will spend his time tackling a budget crisis and seeking economic stability and credibility after the British economy fell into turmoil under his predecessor Liz Truss, who…

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Dear reader,Investors typically succeed thanks to luck, inside knowledge or rigorous logic. Luck can run out. Inside knowledge can land you in jail. Cognitive biases can derail logical deduction.The latter problem is illustrated by the tech rout. It continued this week with a drop in the shares of Meta. The wider crash has this year removed more than a third from the value of the Faang stocks plus Microsoft. That equates to the destruction of $3.5tn in market worth, according to Refinitiv data.If we continue like this, real money could soon be in peril.Here is a chart using S&P CIQ…

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Check out some of these optical illusions, below — and see how you perceive images placed before your eyes. Just how do optical illusions work?”From an evolutionary standpoint, optical illusion is our brain’s attempt to process a segment of visual information and make a quick response in order to help us survive,” psychologist May Han, founder of Spark Relational Counseling in Portland, Oregon, told Fox News Digital.EYE SPY A BIG PROBLEM: CALIFORNIA DOCTOR REMOVES 23 CONTACT LENSES FROM ONE WOMAN’S EYEOptical illusions “harness the shift between what your eyes see and what your brain perceives,” according to Livescience.com. “They reveal the way…

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The end of an era. Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce — and it was not an easy decision. “This is heartbreaking for both of them,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, October 28, shortly after the pair’s split news made headlines. “They want to do what’s best for their family.” Brady, 45, and Bündchen, 42, share son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian, 9. The parents announced via their respective Instagram Stories that their legal proceedings had been finalized. Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Matt Baron/Shutterstock“With much gratitude for our time together, Tom and I have amicably finalized our…

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