News Headlines - 08 August 2019
▽Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content - WSJ
Facebook Inc. is offering news outlets millions of dollars for the rights to put their content in a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Representatives from Facebook have told news executives they would be willing to pay as much as $3 million a year to license headlines and previews of articles from news outlets, the people said.
▽Pentagon report says ISIS is 're-surging in Syria' - CNNPolitics
ISIS is "re-surging" in Syria less than five months after President Donald Trump declared the terror group's caliphate there had been 100% defeated, according to a new Pentagon inspector general's report on the fight against ISIS.
"Despite losing its territorial 'caliphate,' the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) solidified its insurgent capabilities in Iraq and was re-surging in Syria," the report, which was published on Tuesday, warned.
Well known for playing villains, actor Danny Trejo got the chance to be a real-life hero on Wednesday when he helped rescue a young special-needs child trapped in an overturned car in Sylmar.
Trejo happened to be in the area when two cars collided Wednesday afternoon in the area of Hubbard Street and Jackman Avenue.
One of the vehicles overturned onto its roof and a young child was trapped inside, strapped into a car seat.
Trejo and another bystander helped rescue the child.
▽Kate Middleton's Boat Is Disqualified in King's Cup Race, Prince William Won Out
When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge competed in a sailing race in 2014 in Auckland, it was Kate who emerged victorious. But today, Prince William's team beat Kate’s in their inaugural King’s Cup charity race, as the Duchess’s team was disqualified... William’s boat, number 02, came in third overall after coming third in the first race and fifth in the second. Kate’s boat, number 01, came seventh place in the first race and was disqualified from the second race after failing to return to the starting line when they began the race too early. Her team came in last overall.
▽The Scot who took The Beatles' Abbey Road photo - BBC News
On 8 August 1969, one of the most-imitated events in pop music history occurred.
On the morning of Friday 8 August, 50 years ago, The Beatles were photographed walking across a pedestrian crossing in London.
The image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon striding across the road outside EMI studios in St John's Wood became the cover shot of their Abbey Road album and probably the most iconic photo of the Fab Four.
It was taken by the late Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan who stood on a ladder in the middle of the street while a policeman blocked the traffic.
