American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzanias

American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

 

 

A Louisiana man has drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater while the couple was vacationing in Tanzania.

Steven Weber and Kenesha Antoine were staying in Pemba Island, CNN affiliate WBRZ reports, in a wooden cabin with a bedroom submerged in the ocean off the east coast of Africa. Weber proposed Thursday by swimming underwater and holding a handwritten note against the bedroom windows,
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Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSGs

Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG

 

 

Angel Di Maria piles the pressure on Zinedine Zidane as Real loses at PSG. There was a time when Zinedine Zidane could do no wrong. That time feels an age ago.

Dressed in black and likely boasting a mood to match, Zidane watched on as his Real Madrid side succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain in its opening Champions League game on Wednesday.
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Frankfurt motor show hit by huge climate protestss

Frankfurt motor show hit by huge climate protests

 

 

Thousands of climate protesters descended onto the streets of Frankfurt Saturday to protest against the role of Germany’s car industry in climate change and the destruction of the environment.

The march paraded past Frankfurt’s annual motor show (IAA), one of the largest in the world, with protesters calling for an end to combustion engines and a transfer towards emissions-free vehicles.
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What you need to know about Apples’s iPhone 11 events

What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event

 

 

What you need to know about Apple’s iPhone 11 event. Despite a year of slumping iPhone sales, Apple chose to largely stick to its smartphone playbook with new models announced at a closely watched press event on Tuesday.

Apple (AAPL) unveiled two high-end iPhones — the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max —
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Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in yearss

Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years

 

 

Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years. The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has attacked an Israeli army base and a nearby military vehicle as tensions remain high along the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Israel says there were no casualties in the attack, and says it responded with artillery strikes on nearby Hezbollah positions,
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As the Amazon fires rage members of this indigenous community brace for their world to changes

As the Amazon fires rage, members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change

 

 

As the Amazon fires rage members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change. An orange hue greets dusk in the Campos Amazonicos. It is then, as the sun’s punishing glare ends, that the firefighters can comfortably approach the flames hurtling across the parched savanna.

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A giant pumice stone floating in the Pacific could help heal Australias’s Great Barrier Reefs

A giant pumice stone floating in the Pacific could help heal Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

 

 

A giant pumice stone floating in the Pacific could help heal Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A pumice “raft” the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half of which have been killed in recent years as a result of climate change.

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China and the US ratchet up trade war in a day of retaliations

China and the US ratchet up trade war in a day of retaliation

 

 

The US-China trade war ratcheted up yet again on Friday, with Beijing unveiling a new round of retaliatory tariffs on about $75 billion worth of US goods.

China will place additional tariffs of 5% or 10% on US imports starting on September 1st, according to a statement posted by China’s Finance Ministry.
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Gibraltar defies US and releases seized Iranian tanker Grace 1s

Gibraltar defies US and releases seized Iranian tanker Grace 1

 

 

Gibraltar defies US and releases seized Iranian tanker Grace 1. A seized oil tanker at the center of a standoff between the UK and Iran is free to set sail, despite eleventh-hour efforts by the United States to halt the move to release it.

The Supreme Court in the British territory of Gibraltar approved the release of the Grace 1,
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What a mysterious explosion tells us about Russias’s s’doomsday weapons’

What a mysterious explosion tells us about Russia’s ‘doomsday weapon’

 

 

What a mysterious explosion tells us about Russia’s ‘doomsday weapon’. An explosion. An abruptly-canceled village evacuation. Five dead nuclear experts. And a few traces of radioactive iodine in the air over the northern Norwegian coastline.

These are the fingerprints of what appears to have been Russia’s latest failed bid to test its Burevestnik missile, 
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