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While you were sleeping: 6 December 2016
Prominent Tamil leader dies, emergency stations at LA Metro, and Dylan, Clapton scripts go under auction.
Tuesday, 6th December
“She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long”
Ransom Riggs
In July 2016, we published an investigative feature that implicated the TUI Group, the world’s largest travel and tourism conglomerate, in a web of deceit and fraud that involved the deaths at sea of three South African sailors. The story reached over 100,000 readers
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of south India’s Tamil Nadu state, has passed away. The ‘Iron Lady of India’ died after being hospitalised for a fever. Jayaram enjoyed widespread popularity throughout India. Hundreds of devotees have since flocked to the hospital in Chennai where she had been treated.
LA Metro in security clampdown
Security at transit stations has been ramped up for Tuesday after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up a Los Angeles subway station. As the caller specifically mentioned the Universal City station, near the popular Universal Studios theme park, police and undercover security will be deployed throughout the network.
Abe announces Pearl Habour visit
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbour in December. With the anniversary looming on 7 December, Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit the iconic naval base. The visit mirrors President Barack Obama’s trip to Hiroshima and will commemorate those that fell during the battle.
Dylan and Clapton pieces under the hammer
Original manuscripts by Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton are to go on auction, Sotheby’s announced late on Monday. Included in the collection is an original version of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, which is expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000. Original lyric sheets of ‘Layla’, Clapton’s hit song, are also set to go under the hammer.
IN NUMBERS
28,000
The number of rubber duckies in a shipping container lost at sea in 1992. They are still being found worldwide.
FACT OF THE DAY
It is St Nicholas Day. Santa Claus traditionally places small toys in children’s shoes today. This might not be such a major tradition in the southern hemisphere.
Every Miss America since 1960 is still alive.
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