Super Typhoon Haiyan death toll over 100

9 Nov USA Today

Super Typhoon Haiyan, among the most powerful storms ever recorded, crashed across the central islands of the Philippines Friday, killing more than 100 people and forcing nearly 750,000 people to flee from their homes.More than 100 others were injured in the city of Tacloban on Leyte Island, Capt. John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority,

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US, Israel lose voting rights at UNESCO over Palestine row

9 Nov Al Arabiya Channel

UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.’s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians.

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Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel sold for £110,000

9 Nov BBC

A spinning wheel used by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi while in prison has been sold at auction for about £110,000 ($180,000). He used it to spin thread and make his own clothes in Pune's Yerwada jail in the early 1930s.Gandhi gave the wheel to the American Free Methodist missionary Reverend Dr Floyd A Puffer in 1935.

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