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‘New Jaguar F-TYPE Offers Greater Driver Reward’

The new Jaguar F-TYPE is imbued with ideal balance of beautiful design, visceral performance and outstanding dynamics that has always made it unique, and now the definitive Jaguar sports car offers even greater driver reward.

A statement by the automaker said the new F-TYPE’s range of powerful, responsive engines includes four-six-and eight-cylinder options with outputs from 221kW to 423kW – a breadth of choice unrivalled in its segment. All are matched to eight-speed Quickshift transmissions with full manual control using either the SportShift gear selector or the steering wheel-mounted paddles.

Each engine is equipped with an active exhaust system, which …

Iraq

Medic, Driver, Witness, Baker: 4 Faces Of Iraqi’s Uprising

Tears roll out from behind Ayat’s oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq’s government, but their “revolution” continues.

“Peace be upon you and on your two rivers, Iraq,” sings Kazem Saher as young demonstrators mourn their peers in the epicentre of the anti-regime movement in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.

They stand sombre and motionless under the imposing “Liberty Monument,” as if mirroring the bronze figures on the long marble slab above them retelling Iraq’s tumultuous history.

Ayat, a medic, is but one of the characters in this new chapter, along …

NY: Long Island Man Stabbed In Stomach By Enraged Driver

Thanksgiving Day turned into a nightmare for a Long Island man when he was stabbed in the stomach by a deranged driver.

The 44-year-old victim was stabbed around 2:37 p.m. Thursday in Manorville by Gregory Spina, 43, as the victim’s wife watched helplessly, police said.

The victim, a Manorville resident, was driving along Wading River Road at about 2:30 p.m. when Spina, driving a gray Volvo, blazed past him at the South Street intersection, police said.

The victim, whose name was not released, believed Spina hit his 2017 Hyundai. So he pulled into a parking lot next to the intersection

Truck Driver Remanded At UK Court Over 39 Dead Migrants

Truck Driver Remanded At UK Court Over 39 Dead Migrants

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Maurice Robinson, a 25-year-old from Northern Ireland known as Mo, was charged Saturday with 39 counts of manslaughter, money laundering and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.

As bereaved families in Vietnam prayed for their missing sons and daughters, some of whose identities emerged online, Robinson made no statement in a brief video appearance at a court in Chelmsford, northeast of London.

He has been scheduled to enter a plea at London’s Old Bailey court on November 25.

The eight women and 31 men found Wednesday in a refrigerated container in Essex, southeast England, were originally identified as Chinese.

But

Essex Lorry: Driver Charged With Manslaughter Of 39 People

Essex Lorry: Driver Charged With Manslaughter Of 39 People

Maurice Robinson, 25, was arrested after the bodies of 39 People,31 men and eight women were found in Grays on Wednesday.

He is further charged with people trafficking, immigration and money laundering offences, Essex Police said.

Mr Robinson, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due before Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Three others, a man and a woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, and a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland remain in police custody.

All three were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.

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Bus driver to serve 3 years in prison for stealing

Bus driver to serve 3 years in prison for stealing

An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a commercial bus driver, Simon Monday, to three years imprisonment for stealing a bus valued at N750,000.

Magistrate K.K Awoyinka, convicted Monday, 23, following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge of stealing, under Sections 287 (10) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Before handing down the verdict, Mrs Awoyinka asked the convict if he had anything to say.

Monday replied: “Please temper justice with mercy. I have learnt my lesson. Please allow me to go and work so that I can pay back the money for the …

BREAKING: Driver kills four pupils, injure 10 in Anambra

BREAKING: Driver kills four pupils, injure 10 in Anambra

Four pupils of Ugwube primary school of Ugwube, Oba, Idemili South local government area in Anambra state, have been reportedly crushed to death by a driver along Oba/Nnewi old road.

The deceased were said to be on their way home after school hours when the driver, alleged to have suffered a brake failure, rammed into them.

The Nation gathered that four of the pupils died on the spot while over 10 of them sustained various degrees of injuries.

An eye witness said the driver of the vehicle was coming from Onitsha axis on a high speed when he suddenly had …

How reckless driver caused Ibadan tanker fire

Details emerged yesterday about  how a reckless car driver triggered the fire incident  that claimed the lives of  three people, three cars and more than 10 motorcycles in Ibadan during the week.

Also destroyed in  the fire incident were kiosks belonging to a motorcycle seller and a lottery operator.  The havoc wreaked by the incident according to eyewitnesses  would have been worse but for the quick removal of vehicles in a  nearby car wash. The  operator was said to have quickly driven the vehicles to safety when the fuel started  spilling from the tanker.

The 33,000litres fuel laden tanker going …

Driver testifies for Justice Onnoghen(Full Report)

The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has opened his defence in the ongoing trial for alleged questionable assets declaration.

The suit was filed against Onnoghen by the Federal Government at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

At the resumed sitting of the case in Abuja on Monday, a witness, Lawal Olarewaju-Busari, told the tribunal that he was Onnoghen’s driver from 1999 till date.

”On Nov. 3, 2010, His Lordship gave me N200 to get the assets declaration form. When I got back, I gave him the original receipt after the payment.

”On Nov. 4, 2010, I …

Bullion van driver vanishes with $1.13 million

The driver of an armoured bullion van disappeared early on Monday along with an estimated one million euros, police sources said. “When they came back out, the van and the driver were gone,” one of the sources said.

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