| Where's Santa? US-Canadian military command tracking St Nick Posted: 24 Dec 2017 10:24 AM PST  It's the question every good little girl and boy asks on Christmas Eve: When is Santa coming? A 3-D, interactive website at www.noradsanta.org shows Santa on his delivery route, allowing users to click to learn more about the various cities along the way. The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955, when a Colorado newspaper advertisement printed a phone number to connect children with St Nick mistakenly directed them to the hotline for the military nerve center.
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| Donald Trump redoubles attack on FBI deputy director in row over Hillary Clinton emails Posted: 24 Dec 2017 09:39 AM PST  Donald Trump has intensified his attack on the deputy director of the FBI. The US President appeared to quote Fox News in a tweet about Andrew McCabe, who is planning to retire from the bureau in the months ahead after being attacked for alleged anti-Trump bias in the agency. Mr Trump said: "@FoxNews-FBI's Andrew McCabe, "in addition to his wife getting all of this money from M (Clinton Puppet), he was using, allegedly, his FBI Official Email Account to promote her campaign.
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| World’s largest amphibious plane, the AG600, makes successful maiden flight in China Posted: 24 Dec 2017 07:15 AM PST  The world's largest amphibious aircraft, the China-made AG600, made its maiden flight on Sunday, and comes as the latest milestone in the country's efforts to modernise its military. State television showed live images of the AG600 lifting off from Zhuhai airport in the southern province of Guangdong, which sits on the South China Sea coast. It returned about an hour later and taxied to its stand accompanied by martial music and greeted by crowds waving Chinese flags. Xinhua news agency said the aircraft was the "protector spirit of the sea, islands and reefs". China has stepped up research on advanced military equipment as it adopts a more muscular approach to territorial disputes in places such as the disputed South China Sea, rattling nerves in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States. Powered by four turboprop engines, the AG600 can carry 50 people during maritime search-and-rescue missions, and can scoop up 12 metric tons of water within 20 seconds for fire fighting trips, according to state media. It had previously been scheduled to make its first flight earlier this year but it is unclear why it was delayed after ground tests took place in April. The AG600 approaches the runway in Zhuhai Credit: REUTERS State-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) has spent almost eight years developing the aircraft, which is roughly the size of a Boeing Co 737 and is designed to carry out marine rescues and battle forest fires. The AG600 is known as 'Kunlong' in China Credit: AFP However, state media has also noted its potential use in the South China Sea, where China, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei all have overlapping claims. The AG600's crew disembarking after its successful maiden flight Credit: VCG The AG600's chief designer, Huang Lingcai, was quoted in the official China Daily earlier this month as saying it can make round trips without refuelling from the southern island province of Hainan to James Shoal, claimed by China but which is located close to Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo. The aircraft has received 17 orders so far from Chinese government departments and companies. It has a maximum flight range of 2,800 miles and a maximum take-off weight of 53.5 tons. It can use conventional airports and also land and take-off from the sea. Ground staff stand guard for the latest military addition to China's military capabilities Credit: REUTERS China is in the midst of a massive military modernisation programme, ranging from testing anti-satellite missiles to building stealth fighters and the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier, to add to an existing one bought from Ukraine.
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| Prosecutor: 'No doubt' gunman was targeting police officers Posted: 24 Dec 2017 05:30 AM PST ![Prosecutor: 'No doubt' gunman was targeting police officers]( "Prosecutor: 'No doubt' gunman was targeting police officers") HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — There's "no doubt" a gunman who fired at police in several locations in the state capital, wounding one of them before they shot and killed him, was targeting police officers, a prosecutor said.
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| Folks Are Adding Donald Trump To Ruin Their Favorite Holiday Songs Posted: 24 Dec 2017 04:11 AM PST  These reworked seasonal songs may get you out of the holiday spirit.
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| Google's Santa Tracker Will Let You Follow His Deliveries All Over the World Posted: 24 Dec 2017 01:39 AM PST  You can see when he's coming to town
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| Police Release Suicide Note, Map Leading to Body From Man Who Admitted to Killing Wife Posted: 24 Dec 2017 01:21 AM PST  Police have released the suicide note in which Christopher Lockhart confessed to murdering his wife and drew a map leading to where he buried her body.
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| Miss America chief suspended over emails showing him mocking contestants Posted: 23 Dec 2017 10:12 PM PST  The CEO of the Miss America Organisation has been suspended after emails leaked allegedly showing him degrading and mocking contestants. Fallout has been swift after the Huffington Post published emails in which Sam Haskell was said to have used crude language to deride former contestants, and to comment on their weight. In a statement, the organisation's board said it had voted to suspend Mr Haskell while it conducts "an indepth investigation into alleged inappropriate communications and the nature in which they were obtained".
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| Philippines storm leaves 182 dead and tens of thousands displaced Posted: 23 Dec 2017 08:00 PM PST  Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by a tropical storm that battered the southern Philippines leaving at least 182 dead, police and aid agencies said Sunday. Tropical Storm Tembin, which triggered flash floods and mudslides as it lashed the nation's second-largest island of Mindanao, has displaced more than 70,000 people, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). "People left everything behind when they fled for their lives," the IFRC's Philippines operations and programmes manager Patrick Elliott said in a statement.
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| An Indiana Mom Accused a Mall Santa of Spanking Her Son. Now Santa Is Threatening to Sue Posted: 23 Dec 2017 07:24 PM PST  The accusations have sparked controversy
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