ENGLAND - One chicken nugget has embarked on an out-of-this-world journey.As strange as it sounds, British supermarket chain Iceland celebrated its 50th anniversary this year by partnering up with Sent into Space in order to send a chicken nugget to the stars.It took just under two hours to reach an altitude of 110,000 feet — approximately “880,000 Iceland Chicken Nuggets high” — above the Earth.Having reached its peak height, the lucky nugget, believed to be the first chicken nugget in space, came back down to Earth at a speed of 200 mph before its parachute launched for a safe landing.“2020 is a huge year for us as we celebrate our 50th birthday, and we wanted to find ways to mark the occasion, just like anyone celebrating a birthday in.

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Dalhousie graduate launches COVID-19 student support network

A recent Dalhousie University graduate has created a new tool to help post-secondary students across Canada who are struggling to transition to online learning. Ashley Field has more.

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Presidential debate: Trump touts coronavirus response in opening remarks

During Thursday’s final presidential debate, President Donald Trump touted his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stating “we’re fighting it hard.” He also stated the pandemic is a worldwide issue, adding that it came from China.

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Durham case spike could cause more closures

Durham’s Chief medical officer of health is asking residents to continue following health protocols to avoid going back to stage 2. This after a big spike in cases over the past few weeks. Frazer Snowdon has more.

Sacha Baron Cohen reveals hardest Borat moment ever was five days in lockdown with coronavirus conspiracy theorists

COMEDIAN Sacha Baron Cohen has done some pretty wild things as his character, Borat, but he has now revealed which moment was the hardest. Baron Cohen, 49, surprised fans by reprising the iconic character for a sequel, which he seemingly managed to film in secret.

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‘These numbers are different’: CEMA chief outlines dire COVID-19 climb in Calgary

As the province sees a second record-breaking day of new COVID-19 cases, the Calgary Emergency Management chief is outlining just how dire the situation is in the city. Lauren Pullen reports.

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How to safely celebrate Halloween during the COVID-19 pandemic

Infectious diseases expert Dr. Martha Fulford shares her tips for safely celebrating Halloween during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Quarantined fishermen drive New Zealand virus spike

A coronavirus outbreak among hundreds of Russian and Ukrainian fishermen flown to New Zealand to bolster its struggling deep-sea fishing industry has prompted that country's largest daily increase in infections in months, authorities said.

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Kate Hudson celebrates being back on film set for first time since start of COVID-19 pandemic

She has started filming her first project since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.And Kate Hudson celebrated being back on a set in a series of Instagram Stories on Tuesday.The actress, 41, posted a selfie in which she's wearing a towel wrapped around her hair and a face mask and wrote: 'A whole new world of filming! Back on set.' Working: She has started filming her first project since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Kate Hudson celebrated being back on a set in a series of Instagram Stories on TuesdayHudson is part of the cast for the indie comedy Shriver which is shooting in and around Los Angeles.

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Many thorny global situations hinge on US election outcome

LONDON – Four years after Donald Trump's election reframed how many nations interacted with the United States, the way that the world's foremost superpower moves forward after its presidential election stands to impact many geopolitical pressure points — whether the victor turns out to be Trump or his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. From Iran to Cuba, from China to Israel, American involvement and influence on the international stage has evolved sharply since Trump took office in 2017.

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No knocking Bellinger's homer celebration in World Series

Bellinger’s two-run shot gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning and they went on to an 8-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.Instead of jumping up and banging elbows, a grinning Bellinger ran up to teammate Max Muncy and exchanged foot taps before making his way down a line of Dodgers doing the same thing.Bellinger and Mookie Betts traded taps with their right feet as Justin Turner laughed, Will Smith clapped and manager Dave Roberts appeared to be smiling behind his face mask.There had been concern about Bellinger's shoulder after the Dodgers wrapped up the NLCS against the Atlanta Braves. He said it felt sore going into the World Series.

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Scots groom celebrates wedding day with trip to Blackpool - with first dance in arcade to beat Covid rules

a kilt with his new wife sampling the seaside town's amusements and enjoying their first dance in an arcade.Rose Cook, 33, married Scots boyfriend Paul on Saturday, October 17.But with exotic holidays off the cards, the pair decided to make the most of the Lancashire town for the day.Paul, dressed in full Highland dress, and Rose, in her wedding dress, played the amusements on the piers, enjoyed pleasure rides and even got serenaded by locals.And instead of a slow song under the lights- the pair played Dance Revolution to mark their first dance.The newlyweds had their original wedding plans scuppered twice by coronavirus restrictions and so decided to throw caution to the wind and get married in Blackpool without the 'big do', reports

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Report: Tax records show Trump tried to land China projects

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first run for president and forging a partnership with a major government-controlled company, The New York Times reported Tuesday. China is one of only three foreign nations — the others are Britain and Ireland — where Trump maintains a bank account, according to a Times analysis of the president’s tax records.

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SpaceX launch to not take place on original date, new date to be announced

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Saskatchewan CMHO urges caution about gatherings as coronavirus cases linked to events climb

coronavirus caseload continues to climb, the chief medical health officer says people “really have to be careful” when it comes to gathering and stick to “a small consistent group.”On Tuesday afternoon at the legislative building, Dr. Saqib Shahab discussed the primary, secondary and tertiary cases that continue to be linked to Saskatoon nightclubs, a religious gathering in Prince Albert, weddings and parties — and now, Thanksgiving dinners.

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Rossdale residents speak out amid increase in crime, social disorder

Some Rossdale residents are speaking out, calling for more to be done to deal with rising social disorder and crime in their community. As Vinesh Pratap explains, the area between downtown and the river has drawn attention since a homeless camp opened there earlier this year.

Why PM Modi is still so popular even as India battles Covid-19

coronavirus caseloads, its worst-ever economic slump, shuttered factories, farmer protests and the deadliest border fighting with China in decades.Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to remain as popular as ever. Opinion polls in Bihar, where from Oct.

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Student to return to UK after paying £50 for unproven coronavirus vaccine in China

A university student says she is planning to return to the UK after taking an unproven coronavirus vaccine.

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Toronto continues to work to expand outdoor dining space

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Cuomo: NY won't enforce NJ, CT, PA quarantines

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The rate of COVID-19 infections has risen enough in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to require those states' residents to quarantine if they travel to New York, but Gov.

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Senate to vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination Oct. 26, McConnell says

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate will vote Oct. 26 to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, to the Supreme Court, according to FOX News.McConnell said earlier Tuesday that he will begin the process as soon as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up its work Thursday.

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Grand Theatre hosting virtual ‘Un-opening’ night in light of COVID-19

Cabaret, and Alexis Gordon, accompanied by London artist Matthew Atkins. With season cancelled by COVID-19, London’s Grand Theatre unveils digital ‘intermission’ offerings “Before the pandemic, all plans were to have our 2020-21 season launch with an unforgettable party – a three-week-long Nova Scotia kitchen party to be exact.

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat Performs Health Exam, Swaps Pants with Jimmy Kimmel

Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss his new filmBorat Subsequent Moviefilm,the sequel to the 2006 mockumentary. But in typical Borat fashion, things did not go at all as planned.

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Sweden bans Huawei, ZTE from 5G, calls China biggest threat

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Welsh Government on I'm a Celebrity 'circuit breaker' fears - as it admits show is good for mental health

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Student returning to the UK claims she's had unproven £50 coronavirus vaccine

Sky News, the 20-year-old, who plans to return to the UK in January, said she had the first two doses of the unproven vaccine last week at a hospital in Yongkang, eastern China.

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Senate to work through weekend to push Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation

WASHINGTON - Wasting no time, the Senate is on track to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court by next Monday, charging toward a rare weekend session as Republicans push past procedural steps to install President Donald Trump's pick before Election Day.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will begin the process as soon as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up its work Thursday.

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Strictly's Amy Dowden and JJ Chalmers bond over health battles - here is how Amy's disease could affect her

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China justifies giving covid vaccines to thousands before final trial results

China said giving coronavirus vaccines still in clinical trials to hundreds of thousands of people is justified given the risk of Covid-19 returning through its borders and the lack of any significant side-effects so far from the shots.The country authorized the emergency use of three vaccines developed by local firms China National Biotec Group Co. and Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

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CAMH adds 3 coronavirus cases to its COVID-19 outbreak

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says three more patients have tested positive for COVID-19.That brings the total number of cases at its 1-4 Unit in downtown Toronto up to five after two were announced on Sunday.CAMH is one of three hospitals in Toronto with active outbreaks,Toronto Western Hospital said on Sunday five staff and three patients in two of its units have tested positive. 3 Toronto hospitals report COVID-19 outbreaks St.

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Bangladesh garment workers pray for orders as pandemic shreds exports

Bangladesh garment factory owner Shahidullah Azim laid off 20% of his workers in the wake of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Now watching the second wave build in Europe and the United States, Azim is staring at "an unprecedented crisis".He's not alone.

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Chinese drugmaker setting up vaccine production lines

BEIJING – A state-owned Chinese drugmaker is setting up production lines to supply 1 billion doses of two possible coronavirus vaccines that are being tested on 50,000 people in 10 countries, the company chairman said Tuesday.Testing by SinoPharm Group is “in the last kilometer of a long march,” chairman Liu Jingzhen said at a news conference. He gave no indication when results are expected.China’s fledgling drug industry is part of a global race to produce a vaccine and has four candidates in final stages of testing.

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Heathrow Airport launches one-hour rapid £80 coronavirus test in boost to holidaymakers

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA rapid one-hour coronavirus test is now available at Heathrow Airport in a boost to the flagging travel industry.Holidaymakers travelling to Hong Kong and Italy - which require pre-flight tests showing they don’t have it - can pay £80 for it before they fly.It is the first time pre-departure Covid-19 testing has been made available at a UK airport, following repeated calls from travel bosses to introduce it.The firms behind it, Collinson and Swissport, described it as the "crucial next step toward keeping the travel industry moving while limiting the spread of the virus".Facilities at Terminals 2 and 5 at the airport will offer the

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I'm A Celebrity crew given 'proximity monitors' as Covid-19 risks show's future

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NATO to set up new space center amid China, Russia concerns

KESTER – To a few of the locals, the top-secret, fenced-off installation on the hill is known as “the radar station.” Some folks claim to have seen mysterious Russians in the area. Over the years, rumors have swirled that it might be a base for U.S.

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Covid-19: Vardhan launches portal for info on clinical trial of repurposed drugs

New Delhi: Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic in India and government's attempts to contain the spread, Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday launched an online portal that provides information about CSIR ushered repurposed drugs and their current stage of trials.The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been exploring multiple combination clinical trials of antivirals with host-directed therapies for a potential treatment of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.It has been working with the AYUSH Ministry for clinical trials of AYUSH drugs and has undertaken safety and efficacy trials of prophylactics and therapeutics based on individual plant-based compounds.Apart from information about

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Chennai corporation seals textile showroom for overcrowding amid pandemic

New Delhi: Chennai Corporation officials said Kumaran Silks was sealed on Tuesday as huge crowds thronged the popular textile showroom at the shopping hub of T Nagar on Sunday, and the staff did not implement any Covid-19 safety regulations. The action was taken after a video of the overcrowded showroom went viral on social media.

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Coronavirus: A look inside the supply chain crisis slowing Canadian labs

Doctors and researchers say there is a growing crisis in the shortage of medical grade plastics and other supplies that are putting pressure on Canadian labs as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Carolyn Jarvis reports.

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First results from Russian covid vaccine's final trial likely next month

coronavirus vaccine candidate could include data from 5,000-10,000 participants, Reuters reported, citing Denis Logunov, a director at the Gamaleya Institute that developed the vaccine.

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Intel to sell NAND business to SKorean rival for $9 billion

SEOUL – Intel has agreed to a $9 billion deal to sell most of its memory business to South Korea’s SK Hynix as it moves toward more diverse technologies while shedding a major Chinese factory at a time of deepening trade friction between Washington and Beijing. Intel said it will keep its “Optane” business of more advanced memory products, which analysts say are mostly produced in the United States.According to the plan confirmed by the companies on Tuesday, SK Hynix will acquire Intel’s NAND memory chip and storage business, including a related manufacturing site in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian.

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China calls on India to honor pledge, return missing soldier

BEIJING – China’s military says it hopes India will make good on its pledge to swiftly return a Chinese soldier found lost along their mountainous border where the sides have been locked in a tense standoff. The defense ministry issued a statement late Monday saying the soldier had been helping herders round up yaks when he lost his way on Sunday evening.

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China's experimental coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac is safe: Brazil institute

vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech appeared to be safe in a late-stage clinical trial in Brazil, preliminary results showed on Monday.São Paulo's Butantan Institute, one of Brazil's leading biomedical research centers, which is carrying out the Phase 3 tests, said the two-dose vaccine, called CoronaVac, proved to be safe in a trial so far involving 9,000 volunteers.But Butantan director Dimas Covas said data on how effective the vaccine is will not be released until the trial is completed on all of the 13,000 volunteers."The first results of the clinical study conducted in Brazil prove that among all the vaccines tested in the country, CoronaVac is the safest, the one with the best and most promising rates," São Paulo Governor

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Few fans, masked umps, muted celebrations for World Series

ARLINGTON, Texas – A World Series like no other opens Tuesday night with Clayton Kershaw’s Los Angeles Dodgers pursuing redemption, Kevin Kiermaier’s Tampa Bay Rays seeking acclaim and Major League Baseball relieved just to reach the championship of the pandemic-delayed season.Buzz figures to be dampened, with attendance down to about 11,000 in the smallest crowd for a Series game since roughly 1909. The entire Series will be played on artificial turf for the first time since 1993, at new $1.2 billion Globe Life Field, home of a Texas Rangers team eliminated on Sept.

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Andy Puzder: Biden wrongly blames Trump for economic impact of coronavirus — both parties backed shutdowns

The second-quarter gross domestic product report issued Thursday showing the U.S. economy shrank by 9.5 percent from April through June wasn’t pretty.

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Nirmala Sitharaman said the government is assessing GDP contraction and is not closed to the option of another stimulus package to soften the blow the pandemic dealt the economy. Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said India’s covid-19 count would drop to 40,000 active cases by February 2021 if “coronavirus-appropriate behaviour is followed", a prediction based on modelling done by “scientists from the world".

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Manitoba health officials to give coronavirus update as further restrictions come to Winnipeg

COVID-19 Monday as at least two weeks of tighter restrictions start in Winnipeg.Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief public officer of health, has scheduled a press conference for 12:30 p.m., and Global News will stream the event live here.

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