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Real Madrid vs Barcelona, El Clasico, La Liga - Latest score, news updates, live match report and result as Cristiano Ronaldo faces Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi   REAL MADRID 0 BARCELONA 1 17 mins:  Barca with a bit more of the ball now, but they lose it and here are the Whites. Marcelo orchestrating the break, slides it out to Ronaldo who has a shot from distance that's easy for the keeper. 16 mins:  Suarez hasn't seen much of it. Corner for Barca. Cleared. 14 mins:  Dear me, the more you look a that goal. Terrible defending. Anyhow, Kroos with a run and a shot but straight at the keeper. 11 mins:  Benzema has missed a sitter. Neymar has gone into the book for elbowing Carvajal. Real Madrid having all the ball, Ronaldo running the show and an equaliser feels very likely. 10 mins:  Messi, that well known enforcer, has committed two fouls. He's slid in on Modric and then done the same to Kroos. Either one could have earned him a yellow, and h...

Megan, a social studies teacher at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, heroically stopped the horrific shooting that took place in Washington on Oct. 24, by reportedly grabbing the 15-year-old gunman, Jaylen Fryberg’s, arm before anymore shots could be fired. According to a new report, she potentially saved dozens of lives.  Social studies teacher  Megan Silberger  heroically confronted  Jaylen Fryberg , 15, as he fired bullets across Marysville-Pilchuck High School’s cafeteria on Oct. 24, preventing what could have been a bigger massacre than it already was, according to witnesses. Marysville Shooting: Hero Teacher Stopped Jaylen Fryberg Megan allegedly ran into the cafeteria after hearing Jaylen shoot one student dead and critically wounding four others, according to Daily Mail. As the popular teenager went to reload his gun, Megan allegedly went over and grabbed his arm. In a struggle, Jaylen a...

While I was finishing   my morning post on brincidofovir’s preliminary efficacy   in  immune  compromised patients with  adenoidal  infections, the announcement came that Thomas Eric Duncan had succumbed to Ebola Virus Disease in Dallas earlier this morning. I’ve been asked for some feedback because Mr. Duncan was reported to have received the Chimerix antiviral drug on Saturday afternoon. Adam Feuerstein at TheStreet just   expressed his disgust at the response of stock traders   within minutes of the announcement of Mr. Duncan’s death, by driving the stock price of Chimerix down 9% and that of rival Tekmira up 4.7%. Adam closes his post with the single word, “Gross.” One of his  commentators , however, wrote, “The market is reacting to news that brincidofovir failed in its first high profile test against Ebola, not cheering the death of an individual treated with it. Suggesting otherwise indicates the authors mora...

It seems pretty safe to say that  Kathy Bates  probably never expected to play a bearded lady, let alone one with a broad Canadian accent. Or that  Sarah Paulson  aspired to play a woman with two heads – the one on the right puritanically grim and skeptical, the one on the left a bit dippy and worshipful of movie stars.  But anything goes on  American Horror Story , starting its fourth season,  Freak Show .  Everything  goes.  This new incarnation of the series stars  Jessica Lange , the anchor of every season so far, as Elsa Mars, a failed German actress who runs a barely surviving traveling sideshow in the early 1950s.  She and her entourage of human curiosities, including a young man with lobster-claw hands and a  woman no taller than a shoe box , have pitched their few tents outside Jupiter, Florida.  Drumming up business is a challenge. The local authorities aren't encouraging, and the townspeople...

With the Cardiff Kook, the local nickname for a bronze statue of a surfer, officially named "The Magic Carpet Ride", in the foreground, a full lunar eclipse of the moon could be seen in the western sky above Cardiff-by-the-Sea early Wednesday morning.  Hayne Palmour IV Many San Diegans were up early (or late, in some cases) to watch the night sky and see a total lunar eclipse that turned the moon blood red. Yes, they took photos. Yes, they were beautiful. Also lovely? This time-lapse video of the eclipse by San Diego photojournalist Greg Torkelson. It's mesmerizing and almost seems three-dimensional. BLOOD MOON TIMELAPSE The moon started to move into Earth’s shadow at  1:17 a.m.  The full eclipse began at 3:27 a.m. and lasted until 4:22 a.m. The eclipse ended at 6:32 a.m. It was the second time this year San Diego and night-sky watchers elsewhere were treated to a total lunar eclipse. Read More :

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The most congested pedestrian area by the World Trade Center has been expanded. World Trade Center construction chief Steven Plate on Monday cut the yellow tape that stretched the public space on Vesey Street in lower Manhattan to more than 10,000 square feet. The walkway flanks the north end of the 16-acre site along 1 World Trade Center, the nation’s tallest building. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns the site. Spokeswoman Erica Dumas (doo-MAH’) says up to 1,600 people an hour use the block between Church and West streets. The area is now 28 feet wide from the 18 feet that at rush hours produced a squeezed human demolition derby. Also Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH’-moh) said $1.6 billion in funding has been approved to ensure completion of 3 World Trade Center.

Amanda Bynes ‘s latest  DUI arrest comes at the tail end of a string of erratic behavior.  “It’s very obvious that she is not 100 percent well,” a source who saw Bynes at her Thousand Oaks gym over the summer tells PEOPLE. “She is still obsessed with her body and spends more time in front of the mirror than she actually works out. She doesn’t like when people look at her and has even confronted a few other members.”  A second source adds that she appeared to be unhappy about being under her parents’  court-ordered conservatorship .  “Her parents were closely monitoring her, including her driving,” says the source of Bynes, who  got her license back in April . “She would have arguments with her dad in the car.”  The conservatorship ended in June, according to her father, Rick Bynes, who told  x17  he has not seen his daughter since.  “She’s 28, she does what she wants,” he said. “We don’t know a thing.”  Several Twitter users...

Being a parent is a total bait-and-switch. Your kids start out helpless and adorable, gurgling bundles of ceaseless wonder. You are a god in their eyes, powerful and wise beyond knowing. And then, one day, the transformation happens. They turn into teenagers. Everything you thought you knew about them is wrong. Overnight you became the worst human being on the planet. If only you would just disappear (leaving behind a fully stocked refrigerator and the keys to the car) all their problems would melt away. Of course, there are some benefits to having teenagers in the house. By the time they’re 13 they’re big enough to help carry groceries from the car (provided you can pry them off the couch). They’re intellectually mature enough to engage you in lively debate (assuming you can persuade them to look up from their phones). And they eventually turn into interesting and even charming adults (or so I am told). Read: 5 Mobile Apps That Should Scare the Pants Off Parents ...

Today, Microsoft took the wraps off the next version of Windows. You’ll be able to install a free, unfinished “technical preview” version this week, or get it in final form sometime next year. It’s called  Windows 10 . (Why is it Windows 10? What happened to 9? Making sense of the Windows naming sequence is like solving one of those Mensa “What’s the pattern?” puzzles. So far, we have this: Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. OK, whatever.) Windows 8, as the world now knows, was a superimposed mishmash of two operating systems. There was the touchscreen-friendly TileWorld interface, as I called it. (Microsoft, at various times, called it Modern or Metro; it has officially retired both of those terms and replaced them with nothing.) And, underneath, there was the regular desktop: They are quite separate, these two environments. Each has its own Help system, its own Web browser, its own email program, its own control panel, its own conve...

The Kansas City Royals led the Major Leagues with 153 stolen bases in 2014, rallying around the mantra “That’s what speed do” as they worked to secure a Wild Card berth. The Oakland A’s started backup catcher Geovany Soto on Tuesday to better suppress the Royals’ running game, but after Soto left the game with a thumb injury, Kansas City ran wild on replacement Derek Norris. The Royals stole seven bases in their 9-8, 12-inning win over the A’s: One each by Nori Aoki, Lorenzo Cain, Christian Colon, Jarrod Dyson, Alcides Escobar, Alex Gordon and Terrance Gore. Well-timed steals helped key the eighth- and ninth-inning rallies that evened the Royals with the A’s and forced the Wild Card game to extra innings. And Colon came around to score the winning run after stealing second in the bottom of the 12th. According to baseball-reference.com, the Royals tied a Major League record by stealing seven bases in a postseason game. The record was first set by the Chicago Cubs...

TIME answers your questions about Ebola in the United States A renowned infectious disease expert named Michael Osterholm wrote an opinion piece in the  New York Times  that said airborne Ebola is possible if the virus mutates enough. As TIME reported in the past, anything is possible with viruses, but there are many other mutations that are more likely than a change in the mode of transmission—meaning how you catch it. For instance, a virus could become more virulent—more contagious—or could develop incubation periods that are longer than the current estimate of 21 days. But in general, scientists are not very concerned about that. What’s the likelihood it will spread in the U.S.? Not very, though the patient’s direct contacts must be screened. On Tuesday, director of the CDC Dr. Tom Friedensaid in a press conference: “The bottom-line here is I have no doubt that we will control this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely.” The CDC has consistently sa...

FKA Twigs  has addressed the racist online trolling that she’s received, after it emerged that she is allegedly dating white actor Robert Pattinson . The singer – who is nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize and three MOBOs – said she was “disgusted” by the offensive comments shared on Twitter. “I am genuinely shocked and disgusted at the amount of racism that has been infecting my account the past week,” she wrote. “Racism is unacceptable in the real world and it’s unacceptable online.” Her debut album,  LP1 , was released in August this year, and she has numerous UK gig dates planned starting on 3 October in Birmingham.

When New England plays the Kansas City Chiefs on “Monday Night Football,” Patriots linebackerDont’a Hightower will be wearing No. 54. Viewers need to know that if they want to keep up with the former Alabama standout, because he’s liable to line up anywhere in New England’s front seven on defense. The Patriots and Chiefs wrap up Week 4 of the NFL season at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Arrowhead Stadium. ESPN will televise the game nationally. “He’s played off the line, inside on the guard, on the tackle and played on the line on the tight ends, played down,” New England coach Bill Belichick said during his Wednesday press conference about Hightower’s roles with the Patriots defense. “Did that in college, did some sub rushing in college, played Sam. Then when (Rolando) McClain left, he moved inside and played Mike. So he’s a pretty versatile player. “We saw him as a versatile player, and we’ve used him that. So I would say it’s not really a big surprise. I t...

If you’re hankering for a cup of coffee, today’s one day you can get your coffee and drink it too — for free! Need caffeine? Today’s your day! If you’re hankering for a cup of coffee, today’s one day you can get your coffee and drink it too — for free! Sept. 29 is National Coffee Day, and several popular places will give your fix for free. McDonald’s, Krispy Kreme, Dunkin’ Donuts are among businesses in Phoenix and elsewhere celebrating National Coffee Day with a free mug of java. Do they hope you’ll pay for an Egg McMuffin, Chocolate Frosted or Original Glazed while you’re sipping? Of course! But do you have to? Apparently not! “On Sept. 29, National Coffee Day, guests can walk into any participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant across the country and receive a free medium cup of Dunkin’ Donuts hot Dark Roast Coffee, with a limit of one per guest,” Dunkin’ Donuts proclaims in a press release. “Coffee Isn’t Just A Drink. It’s A Feeling,” Krispy Kreme says. “Take you...

PITTSBURGH — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent nine long days aching for a shot to shake off embarrassment. Given multiple chances at redemption thanks to the sloppy Pittsburgh Steelers, the Buccaneers didn’t let this one get away. Mike Glennon hit a diving Vincent Jackson for a 5-yard touchdown with 7 seconds remaining to lift Tampa Bay to a stunning 27-24 win Sunday. The Buccaneers (1-3) lost to Atlanta by six touchdowns more than a week ago but responded by rallying from seven points down in the fourth quarter to give Lovie Smith his first victory at his second head coaching stop. “I was out last year, so it’s been a long time since I’ve tasted winning a game,” Smith said. “For our football team, we needed this.” Did they ever. Only a pair of garbage time touchdowns against the Falcons prevented Tampa Bay from the worst loss in a franchise history littered with lopsided defeats. The Buccaneers responded with relentless if not exactly crisp...

‘Once Upon A Time’ is back, and ready to stir up some magic (and trouble). The fourth season of the hit show premiered on Sept. 28 and featured a blast of ‘Frozen’ air! The highly-anticipated fourth season of  Once Upon A Time  debuted on Sept. 28, and the drama in Storybrooke is more intense than ever. Elsa ( Georgina Haig ) made her chilly entrance,  Frozen  took over, Hook ( Colin O’Donoghue ) and Emma ( Jennifer Morrison ) attempted to figure out their relationship and we realized Regina ( Lana Parilla ) may be returning to her old ways. ‘Once Upon A Time’ Recap: Sister Act Our first look at season four found Elsa and Anna’s ( Elizabeth Lail ) parents on their ill-fated ship. Before the ship went down, Momma Frozen had to write a letter to her girls. She hoped the message in a bottle would one day fall in the hands of her daughters. Where’s Ariel when you need her? “Anna and Elsa must know the truth,” their mother frantically said. “It’s the on...