Car ploughs into bus stop along Kampong Bahru Road

SINGAPORE – A car ploughed into a bus stop near the junction of Blair Road and Kampong Bahru Road on Saturday night (Sept 7), taking down a sign and coming to a halt in the vegetation behind the structure.

The front of the car was crushed.

According to eye witnesses, the driver was in the car with a woman and a baby. The woman and baby were taken to hospital, one bystander said.

It is not known whether the driver was injured.

Student Athirah Fasihah Mohamed Yusof, 18, who was at a nearby eatery, said the accident occurred at about 11.45pm. “The car skidded and crashed into the bus shelter and took down one of the pillars.”

‘The Crown’ Officially Confirms Gillian Anderson As Margaret Thatcher For Season Four

Netflix has officially confirmed what’s been rumored for months: Gillian Anderson will play Margaret Thatcher in season four of the drama, now in production.

Anderson called Thatcher a “complicated and controversial woman” in the tweet confirming the casting. “I am relishing exploring beneath the surface and, dare I say, falling in love with the icon who, whether loved or despised, defined an era.”

The Crown third season climbs back onto the throne on November 17. The British drama launched in December 2017.

Season 3 of The Crown starts in 1964 and will cover the rise of the Beatles and England winning the soccer World Cup in 1966. Characters such as Camilla Parker Bowles will also start to emerge in the coming season.

Written by Peter Morgan, the third season will have a new cast. Oscar-winner Olivia Colman stars as Queen Elizabeth II, taking over the role from Claire Foy. Tobias Menzies (Outlander), Ben Daniels (The Exorcist) and Helena Bonham Carter will play Prince Philip, Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret, respectively. Parker Bowles is played by Call the Midwife‘s Emerald Fennell and Prince Charles by Josh O’Connor. Marion Bailey (Allied) plays the Queen Mother.

Erin Doherty stars as Princess Anne, Marion Bailey as The Queen Mother and Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Nazi design exhibition in Netherlands faces protests

Arthur Graaff’s father was a Dutch resistance fighter. He says the exhibition glorifies the Nazi era and should be banned.

Calls are being made in the Netherlands to ban an exhibition called Design of the Third Reich.

Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from the city of Den Bosch in the Netherlands, where exhibits of Nazi propaganda are on the show opposite a synagogue.

Winnipeg Jets sign goalie Eric Comrie to 2-year contract

The Winnipeg Jets have signed a two-year contract with goaltender Eric Comrie for $700,000 annually.

Comrie, 24, played one start for the Jets in 2018-19 while playing 47 games for the Manitoba Moose.

On the Moose, he had a 25-20-2 record with two shutouts.

Comrie has appeared on the ice for the Jets in five games over the past three seasons.

Comrie is the first goaltender in Moose franchise history to play over 10,000 minutes and make over 5,000 saves in his career. He now ranks second on the club’s all-time leaderboard in career wins.

Google, Facebook Will Face Launch Of Antitrust Probes By State Law Enforcement Officials

The formal launch of long-rumored antitrust investigations into the activities of Google and Facebook are set to start next week, according to a Wall St. Journal report.

The probe will look at whether the tech giants stifle competition in their spaces, specifically focusing on digital advertising and information markets. Issues of consumer choice and privacy are also on the legal agenda.

The bipartisan actions by state attorneys general will bolster investigations already underway in Washington on the federal level, the WSJ reported.

A press conference outside the US Supreme Court on Monday will reveal details of the Google probe. About 40 attorneys general will be present, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, leading the charge.

Paxton’s office issued a release on Friday and said the news conference will cover “a multistate investigation into whether large tech companies have engaged in anti-competitive behavior that stifled competition, restricted access, and harmed consumers.” Civil subpoenas are expected to flow from there

So far, the Facebook investigation has lined up attorneys general from Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and the District of Columbia. Facebook recently settled a Federal Trade Commission allegation that it used deceptive disclosures and account settings to gain personal information from users.

Iran threatens to take steps to stockpile of uranium for nuclear weapons

Iran said Saturday it had accelerated its nuclear research work and threatened to take fresh steps within a month that could allow it to expand its stockpile of enriched uranium, a material that can be used to fuel a nuclear weapon.

The move comes after Europe failed to meet a deadline Iran set in July to offset the impact of U.S. sanctions. The Trump administration abandoned a multi-nation nuclear deal last year and has intensified pressure on Iran’s economy in a campaign to roll back Tehran’s military activities in the region.

Tehran signaled its intent Thursday to breach key tenets of the nuclear deal, after Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Thursday sent a letter to the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, Federica Mogherini, outlining those steps.

Speaking to reporters Saturday, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, provided more detail of how the Islamic Republic was pushing past limits of the deal.

An expanded versions of this article appears at WSJ.com

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