The European manufacturer, which makes wings at a plant in north Wales, is selling more than 400 aircraft to four airlines.

UK,Wednesday 15 November 2017

Image:The aircraft will be allocated among low-cost airlines Frontier Airlines, JetSMART, Volaris and Wizz Air

Airbus is to sell 430 jets to airline owner Indigo Partners in a deal worth $49.5bn (£38bn) - described as the manufacturer's largest ever.


The European aircraft maker - which employs about 6,000 people at its wing assembly plant in Broughton, north Wales - announced at the Dubai air show that it had signed a memorandum of understanding for the purchase.


It includes 273 A320neo and 157 A321neo jets that will be used by four airlines controlled by Indigo - US-based Frontier Airlines, Chile's JetSMART, Volaris of Mexico and WizzAir of Hungary.

The $49.5bn headline price of the deal reflects the list value of the individual aircraft - often negotiated lower in large transactions - and the actual price to be paid was not revealed.

Image:Indigo Partners says 146 of the new aircraft will be used by low cost airline Wizz Air

Airbus' previous biggest ever deal came in August 2015 when it sold 250 A320neos to Indian budget airline IndiGo, worth $26bn at list prices.

The latest announcement is seen as a big turnaround for Airbus, which had been lagging behind US rival Boeing.

At the weekend, Boeing announced a $15bn deal with Emirates, thwarting hopes that the Middle East airline was to unveil a purchase of Airbus A380 aircraft.

Bill Franke, managing partner at Indigo, said: "This significant commitment for 430 additional aircraft underscores our optimistic view of the growth potential of our family of low-cost airlines, as well as our confidence in the A320neo family as a platform for that growth."

John Leahy, chief operating officer at Airbus, said: "An order for 430 aircraft is remarkable."

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Australia votes to legalise same-sex marriage

Almost two-thirds of voters backed legalizing same-sex marriage but the Australian parliament must now pass legislation.

UK,Wednesday 15 November 2017

Image:A majority of Australian voters backed the country legalising same-sex marriage


Australians have voted to legalise same sex marriage by an overwhelming margin in a national survey.


Some 61.6% of voters supported Australia becoming the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage, after countries such as the US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.

There were 38.4% opposed.

Video:Did British colonisers export homophobia?

One of those who voted "yes" was Hamish Koci, 37, from Melbourne, who said he felt "a bit delirious" following the result.

He told Sky News Online: "I'm actually lying in bed right now exhausted because I couldn't sleep last night, I guess in anticipation of the result today.

"I'd cleared my schedule for today, thinking I'd want to be at my local gay bar, surrounded by friends.

"But it turned out I needed to be alone for whatever result was announced, because my emotional reaction was going to be extreme either way, and I didn't think I could do that in the glare of even a supportive crowd.

"I will join them later.

"So my reaction has been weepy, and happy, but still angry, and quite drained. It really was an unnecessarily long and taxing process, and it's not even over yet."

Image:Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten was among those celebrating

Almost 80% of eligible voters - 12.7 million people - participated in the voluntary postal survey.

At a gathering after the result in Sydney, Alex Greenwich, co-chair of the Equality Campaign said: "Love has had a landslide victory."

In comments reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, he told the thousands in the audience: "Getting to this point has not been easy, but rarely in your life can you celebrate with such pride overcoming adversity to make history."



Each of Australia's states and territories voted 'yes' by more than 60%, except for New South Wales (57.8%).

The ACT (Australian Capital Territory) had the highest 'yes' vote (74%), followed by the state of Victoria (64.9%).

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Twitter: "The people of Australia have spoken and I intend to make their wish the law of the land by Christmas.

"This is an overwhelming call for marriage equality."

Image:David Kalisch of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said turnout was almost 80%

The poll is non-binding but the government had promised to allow parliament to consider a bill to create marriage equality in Australia during its final two-week session, which is due to end on 7 December.

This means that a law allowing same-sex marriage could be a reality by Christmas.

A recent poll by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation found that 72% of the lower House of Representatives would support changes

By Sharon Marris, News Reporter

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Donald Trump 'sentenced to death' by North Korea for insulting Kim Jong Un

The US President is called a "hideous criminal" and a "coward" for urging Asian nations to increase pressure on North Korea.

UK,Wednesday 15 November 2017

Image:Donald Trump on a golf buggy and Kim Jong Un in a new picture driving a tractor

Donald Trump deserves the death penalty for insulting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the country's state media has said.

An editorial in the ruling party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, called the US President a "hideous criminal" for urging the five Asian countries he visited last week to maximise pressure on North Korea to halt its growing nuclear programme.


The paper also called Mr Trump a "coward" for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border.

"The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared [to] malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership," the editorial said.

"He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people."

Image:North Korean leader Kim Jong Un laughed with tractor factory bosses in his first public outing in two months

Mr Trump refused to hold back on his usual criticism of Mr Kim during his 11-day trip to Asia.

While in Hanoi, towards the end of his trip, he taunted the North Korean leader over his height and weight.

He tweeted: "Why would Kim Jong Un insult me by calling me 'old', when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat'?"

The Rodong editorial attacked Mr Trump's failure to tour the demilitarised zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Korea, which has become a traditional stop-off for senior US officials visiting the south.

The US President's helicopter turned back after five minutes into the trip to the DMZ due to bad weather.

"It wasn't the weather. He was just too scared to face the glaring eyes of our troops," the editorial added.


Image:Kim Jong Un drove a tractor during his visit to a factory on 14 November

On the same day the editorial came out, Mr Kim resumed his public outings after a two-month hiatus during heightened tensions with the US and its allies.

He visited a tractor factory which he boasted was made mainly with locally produced parts, in a bid to show sanctions could not hurt the country.

China, North Korea's sole ally, has now announced it will send a special envoy to the hermit nation this week.

President Xi Jinping's special envoy, Song Tao, will head to Pyongyang on Friday to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's congress, which took place last month.

Image:Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to the Kumsong Tractor Factory


Mr Trump had urged Mr Xi to use China's influence over the North to rein Mr Kim in, warning that "time is quickly running out".

On Sunday, Mr Trump said his Chinese counterpart stated "he is upping the sanctions against" North Korea, but China has not yet announced any new measures.

The Chinese president has said he wants to resolve the nuclear crisis through diplomatic means over fears a regime collapse could trigger a rush of refugees across its border.

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Tillerson: Scenes of Rohingya suffering 'just horrific'

The US secretary of state called for an investigation into atrocities but said the US was not pursuing broad-based sanctions.

UK,Wednesday 15 November 2017

Image:this week revealed the shocking extent of the Rohingya crisis


The US secretary of state has condemned "just horrific" scenes of Rohingya suffering during a visit to Myanmar for talks with Aung Sang Suu Kyi.


Speaking during a joint conference with the country's leader, Rex Tillerson called for an impartial investigation into human rights abuses and for those who had committed them to be held accountable.

"We are deeply concerned by credible reports of widespread atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and by vigilantes who were unrestrained by the security forces," he said.

But he said the US was evaluating whether to use the term "ethnic cleansing" over the crisis and regarded levying sanctions against the state as "not advisable" at this time.

"We want to see Myanmar succeed," he said. "I have a hard time seeing how that helps resolve the crisis."





Mr Tillerson met Ms Suu Kyi and Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing, amid a crackdown in the country's Rakhine state that has seen more than 600,000 of the minority Rohingya population flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.

The operation has been condemned as ethnic cleansing by the UN, as well as monitors including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Sky News this week revealed the shocking extent of the crisis, reporting from a beach where thousands of people, including emaciated women and newborn babies, had been trapped for up to two months with little or no food and water.



Tillerson: Scenes of Rohingya suffering 'just horrific'

The US secretary of state called for an investigation into atrocities but said the US was not pursuing broad-based sanctions.

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By Bethan Staton, News Reporter

The US secretary of state has condemned "just horrific" scenes of Rohingya suffering during a visit to Myanmar for talks with Aung Sang Suu Kyi.


Speaking during a joint conference with the country's leader, Rex Tillerson called for an impartial investigation into human rights abuses and for those who had committed them to be held accountable.

"We are deeply concerned by credible reports of widespread atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and by vigilantes who were unrestrained by the security forces," he said.

But he said the US was evaluating whether to use the term "ethnic cleansing" over the crisis and regarded levying sanctions against the state as "not advisable" at this time.

"We want to see Myanmar succeed," he said. "I have a hard time seeing how that helps resolve the crisis."





Mr Tillerson met Ms Suu Kyi and Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing, amid a crackdown in the country's Rakhine state that has seen more than 600,000 of the minority Rohingya population flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.

The operation has been condemned as ethnic cleansing by the UN, as well as monitors including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Sky News this week revealed the shocking extent of the crisis, reporting from a beach where thousands of people, including emaciated women and newborn babies, had been trapped for up to two months with little or no food and water.



Mr Tillerson did not rule out action, saying that targeted sanctions against individuals may be appropriate and committing to £47m in aid for refugees.

He also said the US was committed to transition in Myanmar and condemned attacks by Rohingya militant groups, which in August preceded the escalation in the country's Rakhine state.

The diplomat also described discussions between Myanmar and Bangladesh as encouraging, urging Myanmar authorities to protect all within its borders and for the states to cooperate on the repatriation of refugees.
Mr Tillerson did not rule out action, saying that targeted sanctions against individuals may be appropriate and committing to £47m in aid for refugees.

He also said the US was committed to transition in Myanmar and condemned attacks by Rohingya militant groups, which in August preceded the escalation in the country's Rakhine state.

The diplomat also described discussions between Myanmar and Bangladesh as encouraging, urging Myanmar authorities to protect all within its borders and for the states to cooperate on the repatriation of refugees.

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Zimbabwe: No way back for weakened Robert Mugabe

The 93-year-old is seen as a liberation leader among African nations, but he will not be able to recover from being shoved aside.
Mugabe

The 93-year-old is seen as a liberation leader among African nations, but he will not be able to recover from being shoved aside.

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Image:Robert Mugabe is believed to be under house arrest

Robert Mugabe's unchallenged rule over Zimbabwe has come to an end.

The military insist he is still in charge but his writ doesn't run beyond the walls of State House in Harare which is now surrounded by armoured vehicles under the command of former comrades.

Just a few weeks short of his 30 year anniversary as the second president of Zimbabwe, the veteran of guerrilla war and detention in Rhodesian prison is now a prisoner of the very men who helped liberate their country.

They might have put up with the 93-year-old head of state had he not looked weaker by the day while his wife, Grace, manoeuvred herself into power and disenfranchised other veterans of the guerrilla camps in favour of her own cronies.



 Major General SB Moyo insisted when announcing that there had not been a coup that Robert Mugabe was very much still the Zimbabwean president.

But he is not.

And he will not be able to recover from being so summarily and bloodlessly shoved aside.

Even his notorious Sixth Brigade of North Korean trained presidential guards were unable, or unwilling, to protect him as the armoured vehicles rolled on to the streets of Harare the night before his home was surrounded.

The armed forces said that they had intervened to end economic collapse and a purge of their fellow veterans from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union from the civil service and elsewhere.

Image:An armoured personnel carrier at an intersection in Harare

Mr Mugabe will principally be remembered for instituting ever greater autocracy and for turning a breadbasket nation into a beggar through land reforms which drove white farmers off their land, replacing them with political supporters who mostly failed to work the land effectively.

But among African leaders he has a different reputation. One that Westerners tend to ignore.

He is seen as a liberation leader who served as prime minister and then president of a country that was hamstrung by economic "reforms" forced on it by western donors during the 1990s that simultaneously demanded democratisation.

Once an Anglophile and an avid scholar of Shakespeare, Mr Mugabe turned against Britain, the former colonial power, and saw himself in the vanguard of the developing world's attempts to see off "western neo-imperialist" attempts to force unviable and unwelcome change.

His supporters meanwhile ignored the mass killing of Ndebele in the south of the country while he consolidated power during the 1980s when an estimated 10,000 people perished.

Video:'We are only targeting criminals around Mugabe'

His defiance of western pressure meant that Zimbabwe was starved of donor support and his authoritarianism opened the doors to widespread corruption, often driven by the most senior elements in the armed forces.

Illicit diamond mining, fuel smuggling and direct theft from the government's coffers became widespread in a country that had, and still often boasts, the highest literacy rate in Africa.

Tendai Biti, the leading opposition intellectual, has called for the intervention of the African Union following the coup.

The union has been intolerant of coups elsewhere in Africa and sent troops to put them down. It has been silent on events in Harare so far.

Perhaps in recognition that a bloodless intervention may be the only way Zimbabwe can end Mr Mugabe's rule.

But there is no clear route to what is coming next.

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5.4 quake in southeast South Korea causes some minor damage

The Associated PressDebris from a collapsed wall is scattered in front of a shop after an earthquake in Pohang, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck off South Korea's southeastern coast Wednesday afternoon, but no casualties were immediately reported.

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook South Korea's southeastern coastal region Wednesday afternoon, breaking some windows and crumbling walls near the epicenter. No casualties were reported.

The quake was centered off the coast about 9.3 kilometers (5.8 miles) northwest of the port city of Pohang, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. South Korea's state-run Korea Meteorological Administration measured the quake at the same strength but said the epicenter was inside Pohang.

Residents in the capital, more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) away, felt tremors and said their buildings shook.

South Korean media showed crumbled walls piled on parked cars, broken windows from some buildings and elementary school students taking shelter on a playground.

No injuries or major damage has been reported, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.

It's the strongest quake in South Korea since a 5.8-magnitude occurred near the ancient city of Gyeongju, which is close to Pohang, in September 2016, Korea Meteorological Administration officials said.

South Korea has relatively little seismic activity, unlike neighboring Japan.

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Do outter world really exist!!! Listen to the haunting impact that humans have had on the natural world.

Ecologist and musician Bernie Krause has made it his life’s work to record the planet’s vanishing soundscapes. Here’s why we need to tune into the environment.

Imagine, for a moment, a forest without the chirps of birds. A pond without the croak of frogs. A savannah without the trumpeting of elephants. Unfortunately, we seem to be headed in that direction as the planet’s soundtrack changes rapidly and irreparably. Ecologist and musician Bernie Krause has spent 40 years traveling the globe to record its soundscapes. Today, he says, more than 50 percent of the habitats captured in his archive -- which contains over 5,000 hours of recordings and features over 15,000 species -- have gone silent or been altered, their unique voices lost. His recordings are “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything nonhuman,” as Carolyn Kormann wrote in the New Yorker.

The sounds of the natural world are captivating and beautiful, but they’re useful, too, points out Krause. Biophonies -- the collective sound produced by all of the organisms in a given habitat at a moment in time -- can provide important information about the health of an ecosystem. He believes sound has too often been overlooked in scientific surveys of the environment, which he compares to trying to study a film while ignoring its soundtrack.

“Visual impressions are not always efficient indicators,” Krause says. “I like to say: while a picture may be worth a thousand words, a soundscape is worth a thousand pictures.” By listening to a habitat’s biophony, scientists can assess its density (the total number of organisms), diversity (the total number of species), and richness (in this case, the number of sound-producing organisms within range of the mic).

Krause’s work can also provide the public with sobering proof of our species’ impact on the environment. Here, he takes us on an auditory tour of four habitats that have been damaged as a result of human practices like logging, mining and farming. “Natural sounds are the voices we need to heed closely. But we have to shut up,” he says. It’s time to start listening.

 

Coral reef, Vanua Levu, Fiji

Krause captured this spectrogram of a coral reef in 1995. Spectrograms are visual representations of sound that show the different frequencies in a biophony. One end of the reef was healthy and vibrant, while the other was bleached and dying from human-caused factors like warming waters and ocean acidification. The first 15 seconds of this clip were recorded in the healthy section, and you can hear crackling sounds -- these were the many clownfish, parrotfish, butterfly fish and other species gnawing on coral. Then, compare it to the last 15 seconds which were recorded in the bleached section, and it’s almost completely 

devoid of those noises.

Lincoln Meadow, Yuba Pass, California

Lincoln Meadow is nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, surrounded by forest and cut through by a clear mountain stream. Krause has been recording the meadow since the 1980s, when it still contained old-growth trees and was visited by the occasional hiker or skier. In 1988, after a logging company told residents that selective logging -- removing a few trees but leaving the bulk intact -- would have no negative impact on the meadow, it began cutting in the nearby forest.

Krause recorded the meadow before the logging, and the biophony included the sounds of mountain quail, finches, sparrows and sapsuckers. After 1988, he says, to the human eye or even a camera, the meadow appeared unchanged. But an audio recording revealed the loss of birds and frogs. Krause last visited the meadow five years ago, and “the biophony has not yet recovered to the levels of density and diversity present in the early 1980s,” he says.

Subtropical rainforest, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

When Krause first visited the Osa Peninsula in 1989, the area was relatively protected. In the first ten seconds of this clip, you can hear the sounds of a diverse and thriving ecosystem, including parrots, toucans and other bird species, like hummingbirds and yellow-billed continga; amphibians and insects; and howler monkeys.

By the time he returned in 1996, that biophony had vanished. Logging had commenced, and in some areas the trees had been completely cut down. Roads for the loggers crisscrossed the forest. The howler monkeys, uncomfortable on the ground, refused to descend from the canopy to cross the logging roads and reach food in other parts of the forest. In the last 14 seconds of the clips, the only sounds to be heard are the calls of a few birds and the sounds of some insects. While the same species remained in the area, says Krause, the change in the biophony was due to a dramatic decrease in the density of the animal life found there.

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, California


This spectrogram is divided into four sections that show the effects of climate change on Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in northern California. The sections were recorded in four different years, in 2004, 2009, 2011 and 2015, all within 48 hours of the same day in April. Between 2004 and 2009, there is a notable decrease in the density of birdsong. Spring has arrived earlier and earlier every year, says Krause, possibly causing the migratory patterns of birds to change. Then in 2011, California started to enter one of the worst droughts the region had seen in centuries, a fact you can hear in the park’s soundscape. In the first two sections, a stream is clearly audible. By the third section, the stream is nearly silent, and in the fourth section, which was recorded at the peak of the drought, it can’t be heard at all. (Since this article was reported, 75 to 80 percent of the park was destroyed by wildfires.)

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10 Businesses That Can Make You Rich In Nigeria

To make money in Nigeria, you have to study the economy and what thrives in it. You can’t possibly sell winter jackets and expect to get returns from it, our weather is not inclined in that way. Here are some business you would like to move into

E-commerce
Customers are crucial in business and apart from this being a very promising venture, it is a sure section that guarantees you billions of customers. Working with an already established company would better help you understand how things work here before going on to start yours.

Construction materials
Infrastructure will forever be needed be it housing, hospitals, schools, etc. that is to say that there will always be a demand for building materials. The Dangote Group is well known for their innovation in this aspect. Though it requires a substantial capital but there is also a continued assurance of you being in business all year long

Real Estate
Land will always appreciate and people are making money in it especially in Lagos. Most people don’t even rent homes now, they buy them. This is a lucrative business to put investment into. If you want to be successful here like Warren Buffett, you need to know that it is expensive and line up your financing.

Oil and Gas

What most Nigerians don’t know is that we are one of the biggest producers and exporters of oil in Africa and the world. Most people have started running petrol stations across the country, distributing diesel and kerosene in large quantities. This also requires a lot of capital, but it will keep you in business and make you millions for a very long time. I personally know someone who started a small petrol station in Kaduna last year and it has only gotten better ever since.

Rice Farming
One of the visions we are driving at in Nigeria is food security. Though it is sometimes hard labor to cultivate and also capital intensive, you are definitely going to remain in business. For example, Rice is a staple crop in Nigeria with high demand across the country. Sadly we still have to import this product from countries like Thailand even when we have the means to do it. Invest in this

Hotel Business
The hotel business is highly competitive, granted, but it is another goldmine waiting to be tapped. As usual, you will need capital but what would keep you in the game is excellent management skills.

Snail Rearing

Now to a low-cost business; snail. They are also low maintenance and don’t require a lot of food. Not many people are into this business, so that’s an edge for you especially as the demand is rising.

Poultry farming

Poultry farming will put you in business all year long turning your capital into millions. Even if you don’t start with many birds, you can always start with a few hundred work your way up from there. This guarantees millions if you are religious about it.

Trade in Second-Hand items

Simply, fairly used products or tokunbo trade. A fraction of Nigerians would rather purchase fairly used products in order to save money be it electronics, cars, clothes. This may not guarantee you millions in the beginning but there is a method to everything. In markets all over the country, second-hand items are moving fast. The OLX website is also known for its safe trade of products and services.

Transport Sector

You need management skills to venture profitably into this business. Transport companies make millions of money from it every day. Also, you will need a good amount of initial capital. There is always business for road transportation in Nigeria and companies like ABC and God Is Good transport among many others, have found a niche here.

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Taylor Swift in legal row with blogger who suggested she encouraged white supremacy groups

The American Civil Liberties Union has come to the defence of a blogger who said the star was "an icon of white supremacists".

Thursday 09 November 2017
Image:Taylor Swift has threatened a blogger with legal action


Pop star Taylor Swift has been accused of "unacceptable intimidation tactics" after threatening legal action against a blogger.


The singer's lawyer wrote to Meghan Herning regarding an article she wrote for online politics and culture magazine PopFront, which suggested that lyrics from Swift's new album Reputation, due for release on Friday, encouraged white supremacist movements.


Citing posts on far-right blogs and websites, Ms Herning discussed the idea that Swift was "an icon of white supremacist, nationalists and other fringe groups", performing lyrics that spoke to their "anger, entitlement and selfishness".

She said imagery in the music video for Look What You Made Me Do, the first single released from Reputation, bore "uncanny and unsettling" similarities to the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany.

The article, dated 5 September and titled 'Swiftly to the alt-right: Taylor subtly gets the lower case kkk in formation', also criticises the singer for not endorsing Hillary Clinton ahead of last year's US presidential election.

It says that her relative political silence could be seen as a "subtle encouragement" of the far right.

Image:Reputation is due for release on Friday

In a letter dated 25 October, Swift's lawyer accuses Ms Herning of defamation and demands the article's removal, alongside the publication of a full retraction. The letter states that the blog post is "replete with demonstrable and offensive falsehoods" that "completely misrepresent" the award-winning star.

The letter also threatens a lawsuit and warns Ms Herning against making it public by citing US copyright law, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has now waded into the dispute on behalf of the blogger and published the lawyer's letter.

The ACLU has written to Swift and her representative demanding that they refute their "meritless legal defamation threats" and asking them to confirm that they will not pursue a lawsuit by 13 November. The union says that the blog post is opinion protected by the First Amendment.

The ACLU's letter says that her public profile leaves her open to "adverse as well as favourable comment" and - quoting one of Swift's most popular tracks - says that she should be able to "shake it off".

ACLU attorney Matt Cagle said: "Intimidation tactics like these are unacceptable.

"Not in her wildest dreams can Ms Swift use copyright law to suppress this exposure of a threat to constitutionally protected speech."

Sky News has contacted Swift's publicist for comment.

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'You Only Live Twice' Bond girl Karin Dor dies

The German actress also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 thriller Topaz and American TV crime drama Ironside in 1970.

Thursday 09 November 2017
Image:Karin Dor and Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice, 1967

German actress Karin Dor, who played legendary Bond girl Helga Brandt alongside Sean Connery, has died at the age of 79.

A theatre in Munich where she had worked for several years confirmed the actress died in a care home on Monday.

Dor, who famously played an assassin sent to kill James Bond in You Only Live Twice, appeared in dozens of films, TV shows and theatre plays during her career after she started performing at the age of 17 in her homeland.

Apart from her James Bond role in 1967, which saw her character being fed to piranhas, she also appeared in the 1969 thriller Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which she played Juanita de Cordoba.

Image:Karin Dor played Helga Brandt in 1967

She appeared in US crime drama Ironside too, playing Jeanine Duvalier in the TV show.

The actress was married three times, most recently to stuntman and actor George Robotham, who died in 2007.

She is survived by her son Andreas, who she had from her previous marriage to Austrian film director Harald Reinl.

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