Mitt Romney To Launch Scathing Attack On Trump

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has waded into the party's divisive 2016 presidential campaign to launch a scathing attack on Donald Trump.

In a speech that will be delivered at the University of Utah later on Thursday, Mr Romney will label the tycoon a "fraud" and will call on Republicans to shun him for the good of the party.

The former Governor of Massachusetts has joined a growing group of anxious Republican figures attempting to slow the real estate mogul's momentum in the nomination process.

He will say: "Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud."

Mr Romney will say that a win for Mr Trump at the Republican convention in Cleveland in July would enable Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the presidency, according to excerpts of his speech seen by the Associated Press news agency.

He adds that Mr Trump, who has courted controversy with a series of remarks against women, Muslims and Mexicans, "has neither the temperament nor the judgement to be president".

Mr Trump enjoyed victories in seven states on Super Tuesday, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz claiming three states and Florida Senator Marco Rubio winning just one.

According to a delegate count, the tycoon has won 46% of the delegates awarded so far, and he will need to increase that to 51% in the remaining primaries to claim the nomination.

In his speech, Mr Romney calls this moment a "time for choosing" and will add that "the only serious policy proposals that deal with the broad range of national challenges we confront have come from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich."

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The speech will also claim that Mr Trump's "domestic policies would lead to recession", his "foreign policies would make America and the world less safe" and his "personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill".

Party strategists have cast 15 March as the last opportunity to stop Mr Trump through the normal path of winning states and collecting delegates.

A win for Mr Rubio in his home state of Florida could raise questions over Mr Trump's strength.

The candidates will have an opportunity to make their case to voters during a prime-time debate on Thursday night.

It comes after retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson all but ended his campaign on Wednesday, saying he would not attend the debate and saying he did "not see a political path forward".

UN: Tens of thousands killed in South Sudan war

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan's two-year civil war, the UN said, putting the death toll much higher than estimates by aid groups that operate in the country. 

An unnamed UN official told news agencies that 50,000 have died in the conflict, which is a fivefold increase of the toll previously reported by humanitarian agencies.

Fighting is still ongoing, despite a peace agreement between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar signed in August last year.

The two men's power struggle started in December 2013 and prompted a cycle of retaliatory killings along ethnic lines between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer people.

UN spokesperson Ariane Quentier in Juba told Al Jazeera that "tens of thousands" had been killed in the war but that the exact number was difficult to verify.

"The country has hardly any roads and besides that moving around is very dangerous. It is impossible for anyone in or outside the country to have exact numbers," she said.

The battle for control of South Sudan has repeatedly pushed the country to the brink of famine, with millions of people dependent on the UN and aid agencies. 

In January, both sides of the conflict agreed to share positions in a transitional government, and in February Kiir reappointed Machar to his former post as vice president.

But despite the reconciliatory rhetoric there have been multiple clashes in the past weeks, according to Quentier.

Last month, the UN stated that South Sudan's warring parties were still killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property. 

Ahmed Soliman, a regional analyst at Chatham House in London, said there was a lot of undocumented killing going on. "Since the August agreement, fighting even occurred in new areas."

"The UN is clearly not overseeing what is really happening on the ground. There is limited access, they are overstretched and mainly focusing on their camps," Soliman said. 

"The actual amount of people suffering [in] this war is hard to tell," he added. "There are people dying of hunger and isolation in an attempt to flee the violence. To make a reasonable estimate of the people affected in the country is a very hard task right now."

Currently the UN peacekeepers are sheltering nearly 200,000 people at six protection sites in South Sudan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urgedthe leaders of South Sudan last month to respect the terms of a peace agreement that ended two years of civil war last year.

Recovering Didcot Bodies Could Take 'Months'

The bodies of the victims of the Didcot power station collapse may not be recovered for "many months", police have said.

Specialists have been working at the site using drones, sniffer dogs and robots for the past week but the structure is still considered too unsafe to gain access.  

One person, named as Michael Collings, is confirmed dead - three others are still missing, believed to be trapped in the wreckage of the building. 

Assistant Chief Constable Scott Chilton of Thames Valley Police said: "This will be an incredibly complex and difficult engineering operation.

"It will take many weeks and, in reality, more likely many months before we will be able to get access to those people that are trapped." 

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Some relatives of the victims have already visited the site in Oxfordshire and the police thanked them for their patience, Assistant Chief Constable Chilton added:  "I can't imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, it is absolutely terrible. 

"What we are doing through our family liaison officers is advising them step by step."

The decommissioned building known as 'Didcot A' was being prepared for demolition at the time of the collapse last month.

Five people were injured and more than 47 others were treated for dust inhalation in the accident.

Peter Baker from the Health and Safety Executive said: "Everyone is working very hard to identify the causes as quickly as possible and understanding what lessons can be learned."

Geordie Shore Star Charged With Drink-Driving

Reality television star Charlotte Crosby has been charged with drink-driving, police have said.

The 25-year-old, a Geordie Shore cast member and winner of Celebrity Big Brother in 2013, was arrested near Newcastle.

Northumbria Police said Crosby, from Shiney Row near Sunderland, has been charged with driving a vehicle while above the legal limit on 28 January.

She will appear at Newcastle Magistrates' Court on 11 March.

These Are the 5 Best Companies to Work For

Fortune’s annual ranking of the 100 best companies to work for was published March 3.

Topping the list for the seventh time in a decade is Google, now known as Alphabet. Among the new entrants this year? Hilton Hotels, which came in at #56.

Here are the top 5 best companies to work for, per Fortune:

1.  Google (Alphabet)

2.  ACUITY Insurance

3.  The Boston Consulting Group

4.  Wegmans Food Markets

5.  Quicken Loans

Women Launch Gun And Bomb Attack In Istanbul

Footage has emerged showing two women - one with a machine gun and the other a pistol - opening fire outside an Istanbul police station.

A passer-by can be seen running away as one assailant shoots at a police bus arriving at the station.

The CCTV footage shows the other attacker reach into her bag and hurl a hand grenade at the moving vehicle before she fires a handgun.

The pair fled the scene to a nearby building, where after a brief stand-off they were killed by riot police.

Special forces were deployed to the area and residents were evacuated before the police assault.

The state-run Anadolu Agency reported the women had been identified as members of the leftist DHKP-C militant group.

However, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's attack.

Last month, a car bomb blast near a military headquarters in the Turkish capital of Ankara which killed 29 people and injured dozens of others was blamed on Kurdish militants.

The government said the suicide bombing was carried out by a member of the Syrian Kurdish militia assisted by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK - which is considered a terrorist group by Turkey.

The attack was eventually claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), who have been linked to the PKK.

Turkey regards the Syrian Democratic Union Party (YPD), and its military wing, the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as terrorists because of their affiliation to Turkey's outlawed Kurdish rebel group.

Make Your iPhone Faster With This One Simple Trick

For as long as iPhones have been around, Apple’s company line has been that its mobile operating system, iOS, does an excellent job managing the device’s memory in the background. That means there’s no reason that users should have to quit apps, and those periodic fits that computers throw when they’re overtaxed shouldn’t happen on iPhones or iPads — at least in theory.

But in reality, users know too well that Apple’s mobile devices can melt down, too. It might not happen frequently, due to iOS’s superb application memory management, but it still happens. And until recently, it was believed that the only way to cure a cranky iOS device was to give it a restart.

But last week, years of Genius Bar advice got turned on its head when iPhone enthusiast Marc Forrest posted a way to clear memory in iOS without resetting the device. Here’s how to do it — and potentially make a slow iPhone much faster in the process.

1. Start by unlocking your iOS device. That means the display will be lit, and either the home screen or an app can be showing, but not the lock screen.

2. Hold down the power button until the “slide to power off” option appears on the device’s display.

3. Next, release the power button, and then hold down the home button for roughly five seconds.

And just like that — poof — the iPhone’s memory, or RAM, is refreshed.

It may seem like this fix is too quick to make a big change in your device’s operation, but upon closer inspection, you’ll notice some telltale signs that show your Apple gear has indeed improved. First, as the home screen reloads, watch the menu bar refresh. This doesn’t typically happen when you tap the home button, but it does when you reset or start up the device cold. Secondly, double-tap your home button to pull up the device’s quick launcher. All of your formerly-opened apps will still appear to be running in their last-viewed state, but when you tap on any of them, you’ll notice they reload. They have been suspended, and are now coming back to life.