Why it is called black friday

AO.com is running their Black Friday sale for 2019 that has been dubbed its 'biggest Black Friday ever'. The electronics retailer sells everything from appliances to entertainment, so it's no wonder that it's Black Friday sale is extremely popular with bargain hunters. This year's sale include TV’s, laptops, kitchen gadgets and much more, which can be found on the retailer's dedicated Black Friday page. Read More Black Friday 2019 The offers will carry through to Cyber Monday on December 2nd, so you'll have plenty of time to snap up some discounted items - but we'd advise shopping soon to get the best deals. Whether you're after a new coffee maker or a cheap vacuum cleaner, the AO Black Friday sale is one you don't want to miss. What's more, we've pulled together a list of AO voucher codes that could give you an extra discount on top of your haul. Here are our top picks from the sale. Best AO.com Black Friday deals KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer - £299 (was £449) - … [Read more...] about AO Black Friday 2019 deals: LG 4K TVs and PS4 bundles get huge price cuts

Queensland has been hit by a massive thunderstorm on Friday afternoon which has caused flash flooding, pulled down traffic lights and knocked out power to more than 11,000 homes. A total of 120mm of rain fell in just one hour, something that happens only once every fifty years in the area, as the storm moved from the Gold Coast to Brisbane.  Cars on the Gold Coast were left submerged in water and baseball-sized hailstones pelted houses before the slow-moving storm tore through the state capital about 4.10pm. Scroll down for video  Baseball-sized hailstones have pelted houses in south-east Queensland as a ferocious slow-moving storm tore through the region on Friday afternoon (pictured hailstones in Goomboorian in the Gympie National Park) The state's SES rescued a person from their car during the deluge - which was one of 46 calls for helps the service received in the Gold Coast suburbs of Southport, Ashmore and Arundel.  A 2m-wide section of ceiling, meanwhile, caved … [Read more...] about Chaos in Queensland: Massive thunderstorm bringing BASEBALL-sized hail lashes the sunshine state with 120mm of rain in one hour leaving cars underwater and 11,000 homes blacked out

A teenager who tragically died after he and another boy were stabbed on the Gold Coast has been identified.  Jack Beasley, 17, was fatally stabbed in the chest and back after a fight broke out between two groups on Friday night on Surfers Paradise Boulevard.    Police say the melee began about 8.10pm, and some of those involved fled the scene.  Gold Coast detectives have released images of three males they say can assist with their investigation.  Jack Beasley, 17, was fatally stabbed in the chest and back after a fight broke out between two groups on Friday night on Surfers Paradise Boulevard  Police say the melee began about 8.10pm, and some of those involved fled the scene  Gold Coast detectives have released images of three males they say can assist with their investigation  The three males are described as of Pacific Islander appearance, with short black hair, and aged in their late teens  The three males are described as of Pacific … [Read more...] about PICTURED: Boy, 17, who was killed in Surfers Paradise brawl after he was stabbed in the chest and the back in front of a supermarket – as police release pictures of the men they want to talk to

Minutes after Tony Mokbel was brutally stabbed in a prison yard with improvised weapons, one attacker told the other 'happy birthday bro.' Teira Bennett and Eldea Teuira were 21 when they launched the 'frenzied' attack on the convicted drug lord after a birthday party at Barwon Prison in February 2019. 'It sounds like they were making a statement,' Victorian County Court Judge Liz Gaynor said about the attack. 'It's clearly arising from the newspaper articles ... this is a sort of marking of territory, a marking of status,' she said. The attack came the day after a front-page article called Mokbel a 'prison big wig' and a 'top enforcer' who disrupted an extortion racket run by Pacific Islanders in the prison. Graphic footage aired in court on Friday showed the pair waiting for Mokbel before they launched their attack and accused him of talking to prison officers. A prison officer heard Teira Bennett said 'this is what you get for talking to the screws you f***ing dog' during his … [Read more...] about ‘Happy birthday bro’: What Tony Mokbel’s attacker told his mate after they savagely stabbed the drug lord with improvised weapons in the prison yard while taunting him for ‘thinking he was an enforcer’

In the small hours of 25 February 1983, the playwright Tennessee Williams died in his suite at the Elysée, a small, pleasant hotel on the outskirts of the Theatre District in New York City. He was 71: unhappy, a little underweight, addicted to drugs and alcohol and paranoid sometimes to the point of delirium. According to the coroner's report, he'd choked on the bell-shaped plastic cap of a bottle of eyedrops, which he was in the habit of placing on or under his tongue while he administered to his vision. The next day, the New York Times ran an obituary claiming him as "the most important American playwright after Eugene O'Neill", though it had been two decades since his last successful play. It listed his three Pulitzer prizes, for A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Night of the Iguana, adding: "He wrote with deep sympathy and expansive humour about outcasts in our society. Though his images were often violent, he was a poet of the human heart." He was also a … [Read more...] about What drives writers to drink?