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November 24th.Flossie the cat, just a couple weeks shy of her 27th birthday, has been crowned the world’s oldest living cat by Guinness World Records. The brown-and-black cat from southeast London is roughly 120 human years old, according to a news release.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
November 25th: Camilla, the Queen Consort, has said it was "a pleasure" to rehome Paddington Bears with children at an east London nursery, after thousands were left in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
November 26th. Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney's Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin cancer. The installation is American photographer Spencer Tunick's latest project, aimed at encouraging Australians to get regular skin checks.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
November 27th: A former rural retreat of Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been put on the market. Bignell Wood in the New Forest has been listed for sale by the current owner, interior designer Jane McIntyre, who has lived there for 16 years.
November 28th. A drug "super cartel" that controlled about a third of Europe's cocaine supply has been dismantled, police have announced. Dubbed Operation Desert Light, 49 people were arrested across six European countries, the EU's police agency, Europol, said.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
November 29th: The Chinese ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, was summoned to the Foreign Office for a meeting following the arrest of a BBC journalist in Shanghai. Ed Lawrence was beaten and briefly detained while covering anti-government lockdown protests on Sunday.
November 30th. Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie has died at the age of 79, her family has said. A statement on Facebook said: “On behalf of Christine McVie’s family, it is with a heavy heart we are informing you of Christine’s death. She passed away peacefully at hospital this morning, Wednesday, November 30th, 2022, following a short illness. She was in the company of her family. We kindly ask that you respect the family’s privacy at this extremely painful time, and we would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally. RIP Christine McVie.”
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
December 1st: The Prince and Princess of Wales have visited a charity that works with young people at risk of urban violence, as their US trip continues.
December 2nd. A cannabis-smoking mother who left her baby at home to die in 27C temperatures with a fractured skull as she went shopping has been jailed. Stacey Davis, 35, left her one-year-old son Ethan Davis alone in his cot for two hours while she ran a number of errands and visited a park near her home in Melksham, Wiltshire, in June 2018.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
December 4th. Indonesia’s highest volcano erupted on Sunday, prompting evacuation orders and raising the country’s volcanic activity threat level to its highest after the release of searing gas clouds, rivers of lava and thick plumes of ash that reached nearly 50,000 feet into the sky.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
December 5th: Passengers were evacuated and flights were cancelled at Glasgow Airport over a suspicious luggage item - which bomb disposal teams found was "innocent".
December 6th. Boeing’s final 747 rolled out of the company’s cavernous factory north of Seattle Tuesday night as airlines’ push for more fuel-efficient planes ends the more than half-century production run of the jumbo jet.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
December 8th. Céline Dion has revealed that she is living with a rare neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome (SPS) in an emotional video posted to her Instagram account on 8 December.
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark.
