Game Of Thrones Season 7 Release Date

The Great War is coming in Game of Thrones, and the Season 7 trailer gave us a preview of some of the epic battles and political showdowns we can expect this year. The seventh season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones is set to premiere on HBO on July 16, 2017 and conclude six weeks later on August 27, 2017.

The latest news is Game of Thrones might live on well beyond the core TV series. According to Variety, HBO has closed deals with four different writers to explore "multiple possible spinoffs". It looks like the new season will be full of fast-paced action, as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) has revealed to Entertainment Weekly his surprise at how quickly things moved this time around. He spoke about reading the scripts for season 7, saying: “I’m like, ‘Already? Now?! What. Everything happened quicker than I’m used to … a lot of things that normally take a season now take one episode.”

The official date for the broadcast of Game of Thrones season seven on HBO in the USA, announced in time-honoured although not very time-efficient tradition via an ice block and a couple of flame throwers, is July 17 2017. The new start date means that the season finale will take place on August bank holiday weekend. So if you're a fan and were planning to get married, go to a festival or head off on holiday that weekend, bad luck.

“Game of Thrones” Season 7 returns July 16 on HBO. Cannot. Wait.

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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about Isis to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week.

The report said that Trump shared details of intelligence gathered about an Islamic State threat that had been closely guarded within the United States government and among close US allies. The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

"The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump's decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. Trump, the paper said, didn’t reveal how the intelligence was gathered, but told them how ISIS was plotting an attack and how much damage such an attack could cause.

He also revealed the city in ISIS territory where the US intelligence partner discovered the threat. After Trump's meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency. But The White House declared the allegations.

On Monday, Ryan spokesman Doug Andres said that, "We have no way to know what was said, but protecting our nation's secrets is paramount. The speaker hopes for a full explanation of the facts from the administration."

Terrifying Sea Monster Washed Up In Indonesia?

The remains of a giant sea creature were discovered off the shore of an Indonesian island this week, this huge monster causes panic and army response with locals on Seram Island first thinking it was a stranded boat, and nobody's quite sure what it is.

Local media reported that when one of the island’s residents, Asrul Tuanakota, 37, first saw the giant blob, he mistook it for a stranded boat. Some believe the decomposing remains are those of a giant squid, but others say the hulking corpse could belong to a humpback whale. The 50ft-long beast, which stunned onlookers first thought it was a stranded boat, had died in unknown circumstances before it was found on Tuesday.

A video shared by the official Facebook page of the Indonesian Army shows a man describing the creature at length. Local military units are guarding the carcass and attempting to move it onto land so that the water is not contaminated by the decomposition. Indonesian news website Detik reported that marine biology experts examined the remains on Thursday and took samples to identify the creature. The animal is thought to have died approximately two weeks ago. Locals initially feared it had beached itself following an 6.5 earthquake which killed six on Sunday. But scientists said it was likely hit by a ship. 

The creature allegedly washed up on an island in the Philippines following an earthquake 

Blue Whale: A Suicide Challenge Game Targets Teens

The game was created by Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society by pushing to suicide to those he deemed as having no value. Blue Whale began in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network. It is believed that the first case of suicide related to the game occurred in 2015 in Russia. The game also known as the Blue Whale suicide apparently as a reference to the way the largest mammal beaches and dies at the end.

A game called Blue Whale, in which an anonymous moderator gives participants a series of challenges to complete over 50 days. These are usually some form of self-harm, such as cutting an image of a whale into your arm. At the end of the 50 days, you are told to kill yourself. The name Blue Whale supposedly refers to a habit of whales who beach themselves and die. The agency reported that 130 recent suicides had been “linked” to this practice. The game is based in the relationship between the challengers (also called players or participants) and the administrators.

A new moral panic is working its way across Europe and will no doubt be seized on by North American media. Rumors have been doing global rounds about an application-based shadowy suicide challenge game “Blue Whale” that hacks into users’ phone and cannot be deleted. Many of the reports on this phenomenon claim that if you don’t complete the tasks, you are threatened with some kind of awful retaliation, usually a threat to reveal some kind of secret (which of course the moderator knows about, from having monitored your computer use). You are told that the moderator knows exactly where your live, because of your computer’s IP address.

Recent news reports claim that the game has been "discovered" by a school in the UK and that police forces in France and Belgium have warned parents about the game after Belgian police became aware of three incidents of the game in just one week. There are several shocking pictures of self harm and even jokes about the sick game once you click through. Some include pools of blood on the floor, while others appear to show a whale carved onto an arm.

If you'd like to talk to someone about suicide, there is free help available and someone willing to listen to you:

In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted for free on 116 123, or visit Mind’s website.

In the US, call 1 (800) 273-TALK.

In Australia, Lifeline is on 13 11 14.

Hotlines in other countries can be found here.

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black finally get married

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black tied the knot at the Bovey Castle Hotel hotel (The Bovey Castle Hotel venue is about 30 miles from Daley's home city of Plymouth), on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England, surrounded by family and friends, BBC News reported Sunday. The couple shared a series of portraits, taken by Andy Mac Photography, via social media Monday. Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black took to their Instagram pages on Monday morning to excitedly share the first photos from their stunning nuptials.

The 22-year-old Olympian and 42-year-old Oscar-winning screen writer have been together for four years. The diver came out to fans in a YouTube video posted in December 2013, saying his "whole world changed" when he fell in love with a man.

The Olympic diver, 22, uploaded a photo of him and his new husband, 42, walking down the aisle hand-in-hand - sweetly telling fans in the caption that he had finally married "05.06.17 the day I married the love of my life shared with 120 of our closest family and friends from Texarkana to Plymouth," wrote Daley.

Wedding guest Ari Shapiro also shared the picture to his own Instagram feed, disputing a news report from The Sun that claimed Tom and Dustin had opted for a Romeo and Juliet balcony-inspired re-enactment.

Daley was hospitalized just two days before his wedding. The Olympic diver, who won bronze medals at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo of himself in a hospital bed Thursday night and promised fans he'd be "back on the board soon." Though he didn't divulge what was wrong with him, he said, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Suggesting he had suffered some kind of training injury, Daley added, "#AthleteLife."

Black, 42, is a US film director, writer and producer. He won the best original screenplay Oscar for the 2008 film Milk, which was based on the life of gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk.

The couple, who have been together for four years, looked overcome with joy as they ventured down the aisle in stylish Burberry suits, with their beaming faces clear to see.

Chatri Sityodtong: Conor McGregor not welcome in ONE Championship

Conor McGregor claimed he was worth $4.2 billion dollars "to this company," at the media conference for UFC 205 in September, there is no doubting McGregor could be very a lot the face of the franchise. CONOR MCGREGOR, an Irishman who is perhaps the world’s most famous mixed-martial arts (MMA) fighter, is as famous for his mouth as for his quick feet and hands. He boasts about how much more money he makes than his opponents. He has referred to other fighters as “twerp” and “snake”.

While ONE Championship remains a relative unknown to most fight fans in the U.S., it has quickly become not just the premier MMA promotion in Asia, but the largest sports media property in the continent’s history.

However there’s one struggle membership the place McGregor’s bigger than life character would not be altogether welcome — ONE Championship, UFC’s combined martial artwork equal in Asia —based on the franchise’s founder Chatri Sityodtong. Sityodtong explained that ONE Championship was more suited to a softer type of character, and that two of his current champions were perfect examples of what he wanted fighters in ONE Championship to represent.

“On television, we have all these heroes that are on the other side of the world,” Sityodtong said. “So I thought to myself: ‘There has to be a sport that can unify the entire continent.’ Asia’s been the home of martial arts for 5,000 years, but no one’s ever tried to commercialize it large-scale.”

Chatri Sityodtong is the martial-arts practising entrepreneur behind ONE Championship, the biggest sports property in Asia. Here he speaks to Ben Cronin about his rivalry with UFC and the secret of breaking into China. Chatri Sityodtong is part of the new breed of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) business executives who demand to be taken seriously.

“If Conor McGregor was a free agent, ONE Championship wouldn’t attempt to signal him,” Sityodtong informed CNN.

After this he started a number of businesses, including Evolve MMA, a chain of martial arts academies in Asia and One Championship, the biggest sports media property in Asia.