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This week on Arrow, Oliver sought answers in Nanda Parbat, where he also found his sister and an old frenemy along the way. Plus, wow, how about that ending?!

Nudged by Tatsu to wonder if the Monitor is being straight with him, Oliver ventured to Nanda Parbat, hoping that the ancient order might have some intel on the cosmic being. He quickly if unexpectedly reunited with his sister Thea, who is done shutting down Lazarus Pits but still dogged by the Thanatos Guild. Thea shares that Roy reconnected with her after his Star City visit/bombshell drop, and is now taking time to sort out his new life. She also breaks the bad news that Nyssa is still globe-trotting, and thus can’t help him out.

But you know who can? Talia al Ghul, whom Oliver and Thea soon bump into. She owes Oliver a debt from before, and thus offers to take him to a chamber beneath the Nanda Parbat stronghold, where an centuries-old scroll might disclose what the original Ra’s learned from ancient gods. The chamber, they find, has been looted save for the scroll. And though the text itself offers no clues, Oliver recalls a League motto about how “your old self must die so that your new one may be reborn” — which apparently means to torch irreplaceable documents! And indeed, once the scroll bas been rendered to ashes, they find inside a marble etched with a constellation that will point them to the original Ra’s’ crypt.

First, though, they must battle the arriving Athena and her Thanatos goons. After doing so and escaping, Oliver parts ways with Thea, then continues on with Talia. Alas, once they reach the next marker — a key plus map to the crypt — Talia jabs Oliver with a knockout drug. When Oliver comes to, Thea is at his side, and together they forge ahead up the face of the mountain where Ra’s years ago vanquished him. During a pit stop along the way, Oliver opens up to Thea about seeing Earth-Two destroyed, how she wasn’t even alive on that world, and how he must now make certain his mission is worthy of the sacrifices he has made. (They also marvel some over what their parents would think of who they each have become!) Continuing on to the crypt, they find it open, and get ambushed by Athena, who already captured Talia.

Athena nudges the trio to brave the crypt and its Raiders of the Lost Ark-like booby traps, which they ably do. But at the final juncture, Oliver stays behind to ward off the Thanatos goons, while Thea battles Talia for an ancient sword that, like Ra’s ring, gives one dominion over the League. Thea, however, winds up with the upper hand and forces Talia to yield. In the aftermath, Thea and Oliver flip through an ancient text that has a rough sketch of what looks like the Monitor (but could be someone quite the opposite) and is described as god who will “bring forth the end of times.” Suffice to say, Oliver is now fully wary of that for whom he has been doing bidding.

Thea invites Talia to join her… as the co-leader of a League of Heroes, a notion which pleasingly amuses Ra’s’ daughter. After Talia leaves, Oliver bids Thea a tearful adieu, saying that he has enough assistance for the fight ahead.

Meanwhile….

* John and Lyla traveled to Kasnia, where Ben Turner’s wife, Sandra, and son, Connor, were being held hostage. The trick there was that the baddie involved was the son of a man Lyla once killed, though she wound up using that to her advantage, as she and John bested security and whisked the Sandra and Connor to safety. Their mission complete, John waxed romantic about how they will always be at each other’s side. That led Lyla to cryptically ask John that “no matter what happens, you’ll always remember the good times” they shared.

* In 2040, we learn that William managed to dodge the Deathstrokes who stormed the bunker. Future Team Arrow then breached JJ’s HQ, where a massive fight ensued. Midway through, Mia and Zoe were making peace over a previous argument when JJ suddenly ran through the latter with his sword. As Zoe faded away in Mia’s  arms, Connor went mano a mano with his step-brother and eventually gained the upper hand. But just as Connor debated going for the kill… a bright light permeated the scene, shining on Connor, Mia and William. When the light faded, we saw Oliver…  in the current timeline’s Star City bunker… where Diggle, Dinah and Rene were surprised to see him suddenly appear.

“What is going on?” wondered Oliver.

That, Rene noted, was a very good question, seeing as standing across the bunker from them were… grown-up Mia, William and Connor.

“Dad…?”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/arrow-recap-when-worlds-collide/feed/ 0 Hollywood-Style Photos Show How Wildlife and Humans Collide https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-style-photos-show-how-wildlife-and-humans-collide/ https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-style-photos-show-how-wildlife-and-humans-collide/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:34:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hollywood-style-photos-show-how-wildlife-and-humans-collide/ Photographer Nick Brandt led a big-stage production for his latest project exploring conservation in Kenya.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-style-photos-show-how-wildlife-and-humans-collide/feed/ 0 Book Excerpt: Two Young Lives Collide in ‘The Current’ https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-two-young-lives-collide-in-the-current/ https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-two-young-lives-collide-in-the-current/#respond Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:52:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-two-young-lives-collide-in-the-current/ Tim Johnston’s debut novel, 2015’s Descent, was both a critical success and a New York Times bestseller — so anticipation is obviously high for his newest book, The Current (out this week from Algonquin Books), a story of loss, survival, and buried secrets. But the ambitious author is up for the challenge.

“The Current may differ from other ‘literary suspense/crime’ novels in that it does not always offer absolute certainty or resolution or justice; nor does it race toward an ultimate confrontation between protagonist and antagonist,” Johnston explains. “Instead it moves in and out of time, in and out of families, building on the wounds and obsessions of characters who, while not villains themselves, do not always act nobly or even legally. The individual currents of characters barely known to each other combine through chance and history into a single current of loss, but also love.”

We’re pleased to present this excerpt from the book’s opening chapter.

FROM CHAPTER ONE OF ‘THE CURRENT’ 

THE TWO GIRLS, young women, met for the first time the day they moved in together, first semester of that first year of college, third floor of Banks Hall, a north-facing room that overlooked green lawns and treetops and streams of students coming and going on the walkways below. Roommates by mysterious processes, perhaps a computer algorithm, perhaps a tired administrator plowing his way through a thousand folders, the girls cried at first to become friends, then tried simply to get along, and finally put in for reassignment, each without celling the other, and by the end of the winter holidays had both moved into new rooms with new roommates. If they saw each other on campus after that, they pretended they hadn’t; they looked away, they looked at the sky, they received phone alerts of highest importance. They seemed to have made a pact of mutual invisibility, and chis pact might have gone on forever, all the way through college at least, if not for a literature class in the fall of their sophomore year.

The class – The Romantics, it was called, like the band – was crammed into a too-small classroom, a space not much bigger than chose dorm rooms, and yet neither girl wanted to be the one to drop, but instead kept coming to class and caking her seat. Three weeks into the semester one of the girls, arriving lace, had no choice but to sit next to the other, and from then on they made a point of it: sitting shoulder to shoulder, nearly, in the crowded classroom, eyes on the profes­ sor, notebooks open . . . a game of academic chicken that neither girl felt too great about, to be honest, but felt even less great about losing, and so on it went. Until, one day, one of the girls-the one named Caroline-turned to the other girl, whose name was Audrey, and asked to borrow a pen, setting off a backpack search of such intensity that the professor herself, prowling her narrow crack of floor at the head of the class, halted, one eyebrow cocked, while the girl hunted, and dug, and at last fetched up from the very last place it could have been a plain blue Bic with bite marks on the cap. The pen passed from hand to hand, and in this simple way the girls started over. Their story reset itself, and they became friends.

ON FEBRUARY 4 of that same school year, Caroline Price turns twenty, and two days later at the Common Grounds Cafe her friend Audrey Sutter is telling her that her father is sick, and she needs to get home and she doesn’t have a car, and the Visa her father gave her is maxed out on tuition, and so she’s wondering, what she wanted to ask is, could she possibly borrow $ 150 for bus fare, she can pay Caroline back when … well, as soon as she can? And Caroline Price, sipping black coffee, shudders at some inner picture-perhaps the interior of that bus: God-knows-how-many miles up to the Arctic to see your sick – your dying? – father and nothing to keep you company but the smell of diesel and the cold, droning miles and probably some mullet-headed yahoo with halitosis just waiting for you to take those headphones off, like you would ever take them off!

It’s not the Arctic, Audrey could remind her, it’s Minnesota, but to a Georgia girl like Caroline it might as well be. Even Memphis, less than a three-hour ride north from her hometown, is too much. An ice storm last week, a tree limb snap­ping the power line behind her apartment, and all weekend in Troy’s dorm room with its stink of boys, or in the library, or right here in the cafe, before the city got the power line repaired …

Audrey sitting meanwhile across the cable, holding Caroline’s image in her wet blue eyes-chose pale, Arctic eyes-waiting, until at last Caroline says, Sure, of course, what time does your bus leave, I’ll drive you to the station, and like that the storm lifts from Audrey’s face, and wiping the tears from her cheeks she says, like one who has just regained her senses after a blow to the head: “Caroline, you look so nice today. What’s going on?”

Because, as Caroline herself would be the first to admit, unless she’s off to see Troy on a Friday night, or unless she’s going out dancing with her volleyball girls, she tends to look like what she is: a sweats-and-sneakers kind of girl, a big, loose athlete, on her way to or from practice. But when she decides to look good? When she hits the shoes and skirts and makeup? It’s like she swooped down from some other world, a sudden alter-Caroline of extreme beauty and dazzle.

But it’s nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning and Caroline is on her way to class, so – what gives?

A good question, a fair question, but Caroline must fly – running late again, always running late, Audrey watching through the glass as her friend fast-walks toward campus in her short jacket and short skirt and her tights, leaning into a cold headwind that seems to push at her with actual purpose, as if to discourage her, stop her even, turn her back – Go back to your room, Caroline Price, go back to your bed, curl up under the heavy quilt the old women of home sewed just for you, no warmth like that in the world, not even a boy’s . . .

Caroline’s boot heels clock-clocking on the sidewalk, her long fingers stuffed as far as they’ll go into the fake pockets of her jacket, batting tears from her chickened lashes and asking herself too, perhaps, what’s going on. A meeting with a professor, that’s all. After class, if she has time, said the email. So, OK. Lose the Adidas and the hoodie for a change, but that’s it, effortwise.

It’s not anything sexual, this looking nice – she has a boyfriend, after all.

And the professor is old – like, forties-old.

But there are girls she knows who want that A so badly, who learned in mid­dle school – hell, grammar school – how these things worked. The world. Power.

But that power is a false power, girl, says her memaw. With her dentures and her bent little body. That power will turn on you like a stray dog.

And the profs themselves, these older men, these wise and fatherly teachers; you could always tell who they had their eye on. And you watched it progress over the semester, the favored girl bringing it for a 9 a.m. class: the cloches, the hair, the earrings, the lashes.

But that’s not what this is. Caroline would wear a damn Snuggie to class if she felt like it, and she would earn her grade according to her performance, just as she’d earn a win on the volleyball court where there are no grades and no flirting, only muscle and sweat and the unambiguous counting of points.

As for the perfume, well, a girl wanted to smell nice when she looked nice. Just a touch, a fingerprint, on the neck. That was for you and not for anyone else. Certainly not for some forty-year-old man who wanted to see you after class, if you had time.

But it was the good stuff, Audrey knew, having caught its scent over the smell of coffee even before her friend sat down: the little French bottle Caroline bought on her trip to New York City last summer, and the scent of which Audrey now associates with Caroline almost as intensely as the potent green slime she’d rub into her legs before practice and before each game and sometimes, in those old dorm room days, before going to bed. And it’s this weird remix of seems­ French perfume and overpowering muscle gel – that Audrey smells as she, too, leaves the cafe, stepping into that same cold wind but the wind pushing at her back as she moves in the opposite direction of Caroline – a wind not to stop her but to hurry her along home, the sooner to pack, the sooner to be ready when Caroline comes to get her, the sooner (though she knows this is not logical) to get home to her father, who of course has told her not to come, to stay in school, nothing to see here, says he, just a little touch of the inoperable cancer is all, nothing that won’t keep until you come home in the spring . . .

And with such thoughts fluttering within her it seems actually a piece of these thoughts, like an escaped fragment, when the air itself bursts into violence just above her head – a sudden flurry and a kind of shriek as a bird nearly crash­ lands on her head, close enough to fan her with wingbeat, low enough to sweep something soft and alive along the part line of her hair; it’s the plush tail of a squirrel, she just sees, a juvenile, who rides like a pilot in the bird’s claws, this bird and rodent combo descending with flaps and cries to earth behind a low wall of hedges, a troubled landing that no one – she looks: students plod­ ding head-down, locked into phones, ear-stoppered – no one but her has seen or heard.

And she steps around the hedges slowly, coming all the way around before she sees the bird – a hawk, sure enough – standing with its back to her, wings fanned out on the dirt like the wings of a broken craft, great riffling wings that become arms, crutches, here on earth, keeping the hawk upright atop the body of the squirrel; young, round-eyed squirrel, unsquirming in its cage of talons.

The hawk rotates its head halfway round, puts two black eyes on Audrey and opens its sharp beak soundlessly. Audrey standing there doing nothing. Saying nothing, just watching. A passive but rapt witness to chis instance of wildness on a college campus. Predator and prey. The hawk watching her with those black eyes, that sharp beak, considering her – Audrey’s – intentions here, the pros and cons of waiting it out, until at last in a single high note the hawk says, You Little bitch, and lifts the great wings and unhooks the talons and with one windy beat is aloft again, and with another is gone.

The young squirrel remains, wide-eyed, belly to the ground; in a state of rodent shock maybe. Or maybe it’s the dead-like stillness prey is said to adopt when all hope is lost, when it’s time simply to die. But then, suddenly, the squir­rel leaps to its feet and flies into the hedges and there’s nothing where it had been, where the hawk had been, but a random patch of ground – and no one sees any of this but Audrey, and she will tell no one, not even Caroline; it’s her own personal event flown down from the sky- some kind of sign, surely, some kind of message: a last-second reprieve from death.

And so enlivened – so incited – by this vision, she takes the four wooden porchsteps of the little gray rental house in two bounds, then likewise flies up the staircase that leads to the two upstairs bedrooms and begins tossing things onto her bed like one making her own escape. Like one whose own reprieve has just been assured.

Excerpted from “The Current” by Tim Johnston © 2019 by Tim Johnston. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. All rights reserved.

            

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-two-young-lives-collide-in-the-current/feed/ 0 Christianity and conservationism collide in ‘Pangolin’s Puzzle’ https://briefnews.eu/christianity-and-conservationism-collide-in-pangolins-puzzle/ https://briefnews.eu/christianity-and-conservationism-collide-in-pangolins-puzzle/#respond Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:32:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/christianity-and-conservationism-collide-in-pangolins-puzzle/

Pangolin’s Puzzle is a new mobile game that offers a refreshing approach to the puzzle genre — instead of relying solely on spatial manipulation or number-based solves, it serves up written logic problems. Players manipulate patches of the environment on a grid, building landscapes according to descriptions of how each feature relates to one another. It’s tricky, thoughtful and addictive, especially when you add in the adorable main character, an anteater-like animal called a pangolin.

There’s a special section in Pangolin’s Puzzle that doesn’t exist in most games. Tap on “Pangolin’s Extras,” open up the “We <3 Pangolins” tab, and the following message appears:

“We at Hero Factor Games hold a Christian worldview. We believe that ideas and choices have consequences. Each choice we make leaves an eternal impression on our hearts, minds, and souls. For us, the issue of environmental stewardship goes deeper than respecting our beautiful planet; it reflects what we believe about the God who made the heavens and earth.”

Pangolin’s Puzzle comes from Hero Factor Games, a studio based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and founded by the husband-and-wife team of Tim and Sara Kilpatrick. Their mission at Hero Factor is to build entertaining games that also spread the word of God as they see it. In the case of their latest game, that means introducing players to the pangolin, the world’s most-trafficked animal, and raising money to help save the species from extinction.

Pangolin's Puzzle

“As a Christian, God is everything,” Tim Kilpatrick said. “He is in everything. He is in science. He is in the world. He is in the games that we play. He is, and my whole life is worked around bringing honor and glory to Him. But with games, it’s not a Bible.”

Video games are more interactive than a static, printed book, and they provide new, engaging ways for the Kilpatricks to share their religion and worldview. However, they’re lifelong video game fans, and they always start by thinking about the game, rather than focusing on a message to preach and building a set of rules around that.

“What we’re trying to do is, first thing, build a fun game mechanic,” Kilpatrick said. “We go through and we find a game, build something fun that we want to play, and then we just look at it and say, well what’s the appropriate way that the Christian worldview would make sense in this game? And we just apply it through there.”

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Pangolin’s Puzzle represents the tenet of stewardship, or caring for the Earth and all of the creatures in it. It began as a much larger game, featuring 60 of the world’s most overlooked animals — the ones that don’t make it into zoos because they’re too noisy or smelly or unsightly, Kilpatrick explained. Eventually, Sara and Tim Kilpatrick scaled it down to just one animal, the scaly, beady-eyed pangolin, which faces extinction as the most-trafficked mammal in the world. Demand for the pangolin is high in China, where people desire its scales, meat and blood. Pangolin scales are boiled down and used in traditional medicine, their blood is viewed as a healing tonic, and their meat is a delicacy in some regions.

“The big fear is that they’re going to be extinct before anybody even knows they exist,” Kilpatrick said. “And so, we just really felt passionately about the pangolin, fell in love with him, and wanted to make a game that could help him.”

“They’re going to be extinct before anybody even knows they exist.”

The Hero Factor Games team consulted with conservation groups like REST Namibia to ensure Pangolin’s Puzzle got all of the details right and it actually supported positive change. The game has in-app purchases, allowing players to buy hints, and half of the profits from this system benefit conservation efforts around the globe.

“These people are sacrificing everything to try to save these animals,” Kilpatrick said. “And so all of that just kind of went into us — as Christians, we see the environment as God’s creation. We should be taking the best care of it that we possibly can and saving these animals, and not letting them go extinct. We just felt this was the right way to do it for this game.”

Kilpatrick said there are a lot of Christian video game fans out in the wild, and even a handful of Christian-centric games. He called out That Dragon, Cancer by Numinous Games as the most high-profile title — it tells the true story of the Green family as their youngest son, Joel, battles an aggressive form of cancer. That Dragon, Cancer picked up a handful of accolades in 2016, including a SXSW Gaming award, two Games for Change wins and the “Games for Impact” prize at The Game Awards.

Because of their focus on social change and the depth of the human experience, both That Dragon, Cancer and Pangolin’s Puzzle can be shuffled into the category of “games for change” or “socially aware games.” This segment has expanded on the mainstream marketplace in recent years, with popular, award-winning projects like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, Cart Life and Papers, Please.

Pangolin’s Puzzle may be a Christian game first, but it has a home alongside other socially aware titles and philanthropic studios. Kilpatrick said Hero Factor Games hasn’t encountered any extra challenges as a Christian studio.

“It doesn’t feel any harder or anything,” he said at the Tulsa Pop Culture Expo, where Pangolin’s Puzzle won the Scissor-Tail Prize for the best game from an Oklahoma studio. “We’re here, sitting alongside all these wonderful developers, having a blast integrating and sharing our games with each other. It’s just games. And we’re just in love with games.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/av-and-ev-collide-revealing-apples-self-driving-car-program-in-action/feed/ 0 WATCH: Shocking moment two yachts COLLIDE during high school prom https://briefnews.eu/watch-shocking-moment-two-yachts-collide-during-high-school-prom/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-shocking-moment-two-yachts-collide-during-high-school-prom/#respond Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:44:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/watch-shocking-moment-two-yachts-collide-during-high-school-prom/

The viral video was captured last week during a New Jersey high school prom.

While docked in Hoboken, a chain reaction in the water ended up pushing the larger boat into the smaller one.

In the video, the large boat is full of people on the very top deck.

Suddenly, it pushes into the smaller boat in front of it that is also docked.

It pushes up and damages the back of the yacht.

The smaller boat then crashes into the pier in front as well, damaging it further.

The captain can be heard yelling “I have no control” in another video of the event.

Onlookers gasp at the scene, as windows are smashed and the railings bend under the pressure from the larger ship.

The larger boat, called the Cornucopia Destiny, had 95 passengers and 11 teaching staff on it.

It is unclear how many were on the smaller boat, called the Cornucopia Sundancer.

Thankfully no-one was hurt and students were taken back to the school.

Local reports state that the prom was then cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

The Weehawken Schools’ superintendent Robert R. Zywicki tweeted at the time: “Weehawken High School students disembarked the Destiny at 9:50pm.

“The students are en route to the Weehawken Elks via @WeehawkenTSD school bus.

“Students may continue the evening at the Elks until midnight.

“Every effort will be made to hold another prom before graduation.”

It isn’t the first time a boat crash has been caught on camera.

One ship was caught speeding towards a harbour that was full of people.

As they realise the ship is not slowing down, people begin to flee in an attempt to escape.

Suddenly the ship slams into the pier, causing damage as it fails to stop.

No-one was injured and an investigation was launched.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/watch-shocking-moment-two-yachts-collide-during-high-school-prom/feed/ 0 British passengers 'feared for their lives' as planes collide at airport https://briefnews.eu/british-passengers-feared-for-their-lives-as-planes-collide-at-airport/ https://briefnews.eu/british-passengers-feared-for-their-lives-as-planes-collide-at-airport/#respond Tue, 15 May 2018 01:03:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/british-passengers-feared-for-their-lives-as-planes-collide-at-airport/

A plane packed with passengers returning from holiday was hit by a larger plane at an airport in Turkey yesterday.

Travellers were left terrified when back of their aircraft was knocked by an airbus.

The crash took place shortly after the Turkish Airlines A321 plane had landed at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport. 

The aircraft was full of passengers preparing to disembark after a flight from the north of Cyprus.

The larger plane, an A330 from Asiana Airlines, taxied too close to the Turkish Airlines jet, knocking it sideways and severing its tail in half.

The Asiana plane was also full of passengers, and had been about to take off for a trip to Seoul. Due to the incident, the flight was cancelled.

Kaarina Barron from Berkshire was on her way back to the UK from a holiday in Cyprus. She was onboard the plane that was hit and spoke to the Daily Mail about the ordeal.

“There were a lot of people standing in the aisle, despite the seatbelt sign still being on. They all went flying.

“Everybody was falling about all over the place. It was totally surreal,” she recalled.

“I looked out of the window and saw another plane had stopped right behind us. Then I saw the damage to its wing and I said, ‘Oh my God, we’ve been hit by another plane.’

“It could have been a lot worse. We’re feeling very lucky,” the 55-year-old said.

“We’d just pulled into the parking bay. We hadn’t even been stationary for a minute and the engines were still going when there was this huge noise. 

“It sounded like a bomb going off and the whole plane seemed to tilt over. I thought it was going to turn over. It leant to one side and then it sort of righted itself.

“All kinds of things were going through my mind at that point. I thought the plane had blown up. It was really scary. For a moment I really thought, ‘This is it, this is the end of my life,’” the mother-of-two admitted.

“It was certainly an exhilarating end to our holiday. We went and ordered gin and tonics inside the airport to recover after that.”

According to The Korea Times, the collision resulted in a small fire at the back of the Turkish plane. An aviation fire and rescue team rushed to the scene to douse the rear of the plane with water.

The newspaper reported that the Asiana airbus also suffered damage, but no one was injured.

A spokeswoman for Turkish Airlines said of the crash: “Turkish Airlines confirms that the Airbus A330-type aircraft of the South Korean airline, Asiana Airlines, hit the tail of Turkish Airlines’ Airbus A321 while it was taxiing on Istanbul Atatürk International Airport in yesterday.

“There were no passengers and crew injured due to the incident, it just caused physical damage on both aircrafts.”

Some reports state that the Turkish Airlines jet stopped 30 metres short of its intended parking space.

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After losing his place to Daniel Ricciardo, Vettel had some defending to do with Verstappen chasing him down.

The Red Bull driver saw an opportunity to overtake the championship leader at the hairpin but the move did not go to plan.

Verstappen dived down the inside late into the hairpin but didn’t leave enough room and touched the Ferrari causing both cars to spin.

“I don’t think I need to say anything,” Vettel fumed over the radio.

Vettel dropped down into seventh as a result of Verstappen’s move while the Dutchman dropped to fifth.

Verstappen was later handed a 10 second penalty for causing the collision with Vettel which will be applied to his time at the end of the race.

After losing his place to Verstappen earlier in the race, Hamilton was able to move above the Red Bull driver after the collision.

However, with the Red Bulls on softer tyres, it didn’t take long for Verstappen to overtake Hamilton and move back into fourth.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chinese-grand-prix-2018-watch-max-verstappen-and-sebastian-vettel-collide-in-crazy-move/feed/ 0 The absolute best cosplay photos from Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 — where tech and pop culture superfans collide https://briefnews.eu/the-absolute-best-cosplay-photos-from-silicon-valley-comic-con-2018-where-tech-and-pop-culture-superfans-collide/ https://briefnews.eu/the-absolute-best-cosplay-photos-from-silicon-valley-comic-con-2018-where-tech-and-pop-culture-superfans-collide/#respond Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:49:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-absolute-best-cosplay-photos-from-silicon-valley-comic-con-2018-where-tech-and-pop-culture-superfans-collide/ silicon valley comic con best cosplay 4501Melia Robinson/Business Insider

Fans in cosplay, or role-playing costumes, invaded San Jose, California, for the third annual Silicon Valley Comic Con.

The event, which Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak co-created, combines the Silicon Valley icon’s love of technology and pop culture. This year, we saw screen accurate supervillains, “Game of Thrones” queens, and video game heroes descend on the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

Here are some of our favorites.

See any great cosplay? Email me your best photos at mrobinson@businessinsider.com.

A “life-sized” Totoro greeted attendees of Silicon Valley Comic Con at the doors.

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The man inside the costume, Zach Dender, said he made Totoro by wrapping fabric around a skeleton he made from drainage pipe. A camera situated by his ears let Dender see outside.

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Ciri from video game “The Witcher” is a princess who doesn’t need saving.

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At least two people have been killed in an incident at the Marion Municipal Airport in Indiana, after two planes collided on the runway, according to local authorities.

The deadly incident unfolded when a smaller plane that was taking off to the southeast clipped a larger plane that was landing from the north, the coroner, who was dispatched to the scene following the collision, told local WTHR 13 news.

As a result of the crash, the private jet caught fire, killing the pilot and passenger on board, the official said, adding that no injuries were sustained on the larger plane.

Photos and videos, allegedly captured by eyewitnesses at the scene, show two planes wrecked on the runway, with emergency vehicles on site.

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