Summary: Major oil spill of California's coast could became an 'ecological disaster'. A swatch of the Southern California coastline is now covered with oil after 3,000 barrels' worth gushed into the Pasific Ocean this weekend. The spill equal to about 126,000 gallons of post production crude is a "potential ecological disaster," Huntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr said Saturday. As of Sunday morning, "the leak has not been completely stopped," the city of Huntington Beach said in a press release. It said preliminary patching has been completed to repair the oil spill site, and additional repair efforts will be attempted. "Currently, the oil slick plume measure an estimated 5.8 nautical miles long, and runs from the Huntington Beach Pier down into Newport Beach," the press release said.
Summary: Global outages as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp go offline.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world using some of the most popular social media flatfroms, that is Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been forced offline in major global blackout. It's one of the longest outages, lasting several hours and leading to a sharp drop in Facebook's share price. It's not yet known what has caused the problems.