Thursday, 18 February 2016
Manny Pacquiao fired by Nike over anti-gay comments
Kylie Jenner looks chic in this beautiful multi-colour dress
Kylie Jenner looked very stylish in this multi colour dress and sneakers. Another photo after the cut...
Chelsea striker Radamel Falcao forces hairdresser to travel 200 miles for 'emergency' blowdry
“I was more than happy to help Radamel out with his emergency. “He does love the Brazilian blow dry treatment that we offer. The treatment is revolutionary. “It smooths and sleeks the hair giving the client manageable hair that takes very little styling. It took around two hours to do but the results will last him a couple of months.”Ed styled him last year for the big red carpet Player of the Year event at Man U, chopping off Falcao’s shoulder-length locks for the first time in nine years. The hairdresser was introduced to Falcao by fellow football star Cristiano Ronaldo, 31, who is also a big fan of Ed’s.
Photos: Man. U kit sponsors, Adidas, mock Van Gaal's 'boring' style of play with new shirts
Ian Mayo, 36, said: “I wouldn’t wear it ,what’s the point of a T-shirt, they should just take action instead and sack the manager.”
Adidas signed a ten-year £750million kit deal with United last summer. But even Adidas' CEO Herbert Hainer criticised Man u's style of play. “Business with Man United is going very well ,we are selling more shirts than expected. We are satisfied... even if the current playing style is not exactly what we want to see.”
'I was mad at Kylie': Kanye West reveals Kylie secretly signed Puma deal without him knowing
Kanye revealed to TMZ on Wednesday as he was making his way into the terminal at LAX that he had no idea that his sister in law blindsided him by secretly signing with his athletic wear competitor Puma: ''She had already signed and I was mad for a little bit... but I'm really happy for her though.'
He also shed a bit more light on his financial situation:
"I spent 53 million over the past 13 years chasing my dreams and I wanted to make sure all entrepreneurs that it's possible to go under and still make it out.
You know with my shoes I know I'm going to make it better but there's times it was definitely hard, there was times it was a struggle, there were times it was frustrating because it felt like if you make the Yeezys maybe someone will come out and support you.
It felt like if you are a dope artist then maybe someone will support you, but that didn't happen. The only company that ever supported me was Adidas, without Adidas I wouldn't have had his fashion show at Madison Square Garden or even been inspired for my new album The Life Of Pablo."
It was announced earlier this week that the Kylie Jenner signed a deal with Puma and has even wrapped shooting her first campaign with them.
Hmm...look at what MTO figured out about Kanye's rants. It's eerie
Remember all those Twitter rants that Kanye has been doing lately. People in the media have been dissecting them wondering what Yeezy was really doing. Welp, turns out he was just trolling us all in the biggest "Twitter performance art" ever done.
If you read the FIRST letter of all his Tweets, it spells out, "I Am Lord Voldemort." Lord Voldermort is Harry Potter's ARCH ENEMY in both the book and the movies.
We're no art critic, but it seems like Yeezy is trying to tell us something about being a VILLAIN. Well done Kanye.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Abia state holds thanksgiving over his Supreme court victory
England Football Players looking dope in official suits for EURO 2016 (Photos)
The Three Lions will get their Group B campaign underway against Russia on June 11, before clashes with Wales and Slovakia . While we wait for the official England strip for the tournament, M&S have unveiled a rather suave navy suit, complimented by a light blue shirt.
More photos...
Photos: President Buhari receives UK Member of Parliament, Ms Chi Onwurah at the State House
The Authority Newspapers unveil Phyno, Kcee, I Go Dye, Gordons as brand ambassadors
The unveiling of the ambassadors, was activated by Mr Amaju Pinnick, Chairman of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), while thanking the Publisher of the Authority Newspapers, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, for being part of the major sponsors of the event.
The climax of the event was Phyno's electric performance which culminated in the presentation of his plaque by the Publisher of The Authority Newspapers himself, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, much to the elation of everyone present. This year's edition of Warri Again? featured several music and comedy artistes like Timi Dakolo, Praize, Tonye, I Go Dye, Gordons, Harrysong, Seyi Law, Dr. Don, Young Chief, Ogus Baba. IK and Helen Paul were the hosts while Uti Nwachukwu anchored the red carpet moments for this special Valentine edition, which also had Mr. Peter Amamgbo, Managing Director of Zenith Bank, representatives of Guinness Nigeria amongst others.
The newly unveiled ambassadors expressed their delight and gratitude to the Management of The Authority Newspapers for considering them for the honor, while promising to remain good and quality ambassadors of the brand.
Source: www.authorityngr.com
Chris Rock steps out with his Nigerian girlfriend
The couple was first photographed together in September at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, then they were both spotted when they escaped to St. Bart's witand again at the Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy bash on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Megalyn's dad is Nigerian while her mum is white. She has been tweeting about the upcoming Oscars, which Rock will host, quoting Whoopi's comments about not boycotting the Oscars.
Rock has 2 children Lola, 12, and Zahra, 10, with Malaak, a 45-year-old philanthropist
Anti Beyoncé rally flops in New York as only 3 people show up
Then came the backlash from viewers annoyed that nods to Malcolm X and the Black Lives Matter movement had turning the sporting interval into a political platform.
But on Tuesday, only a handful of protesters turned up for anti-Beyonce rally outside American Football's New York headquarters.
They were outnumbered by the singers' supporters and campaigners with Black Lives Matter banners.
Ariel Kohane said he attended the protest because Beyonce's new song, Formation, was a call to violence against the police.
"Some of us are surprised that there are only a couple of us out here today," he told New York magazine's The Cut. "It is scheduled from 8 to 4pm. It's a business day. Also, the weather; the rain turned a lot of people away."
Witnesses said he was one of only three people (including one person who said he had not even seen the halftime show) to heed the call to protest by a new group, called Proud of the Blues.
“We encourage anyone and everyone who supports the police to show up and march around the block of the NFL headquarters on this day. Be absolutely peace and non-aggressive,” the group said in its invitation.
“Let's show the world that it's not necessary to be disruptive to America while conveying an effective message to the masses.”
And there was certainly little disruption outside the offices of the National Football League, where police had cordoned off part of Park Avenue for the protesters.
In fact they were outnumbered by about 30 of Beyonce's fans, who carried banners saying “Pro black doesn't mean anti white,” and “Get information,” a line from the new song.
Florida family mourns loss of third child to inherited syndrome
Naples Daily News reported that Erin Mading and her husband, Benjamin, had five children when they learned about Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition that increases the risk of colon cancer and other types of cancer.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that among the 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancers diagnosed annually, about 3 to 5 percent are caused by Lynch syndrome.
Isabella, who was diagnosed when she was 7, died Saturday, Feb. 6, at age 10, after suffering from a brain tumor linked with the syndrome. Cody, Isabella’s 17-year-old brother, died in 2010, and her sister Averi died three years later at age 17. They were both diagnosed with Lynch syndrome too.
Erin Mading, Isabella’s mother, told the newspaper that Isabella “just flourished” during the last year of her life, and she described her as “the social butterfly of our street.”
NaplesNews.com reported that the Madings relocated from Bonita Springs, Fla. to Pittsburgh so
Isabella could undergo an experimental infusion therapy that was part of Bristol-Meyers Squibb’s compassionate drug program. On Halloween 2015, Isabella began the treatment, which targeted the cancer in her brain and that doctors administered every two weeks. Despite undergoing seven infusions and surgery to reduce swelling, Isabella’s tumor kept growing, the newspaper reported.
“It was just more than we expected,” Erin, 41, also mother to 20-year-old Kylie and 15-year-old Olivia, told NaplesNews.com.According to the Mayo Clinic, if one of the parents possesses a gene mutation for Lynch syndrome, there's a 50 percent chance they'll pass it along to each of their children. NaplesNews.com didn’t report whether Kylie and Olivia have been diagnosed with the syndrome.
Erin said Isabella wanted to become a nurse when she grew up. Watching medical professionals interact with her brother and sister as they underwent treatment inspired her career choice.
"[Isabella] grew up in a hospital with her brother and her sister,” Erin told the newspaper. “She had a wisdom beyond her years."
Pope loses his cool with person who almost knocked him down (photos)
Two arms reached out to grab him and the person would not let go, even after the pope lost his balance and his chest was pressing on the child's head.
Aides and security men stopped the pope from falling to the ground.
Aides and security men stopped the pope from falling to the ground.
After he returned to an upright position, his face turned angry.
He looked at the person, raised his voice and said twice in Spanish: "Don't be selfish!"
It was not clear if the person who pulled the pope was a man or a woman.
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Chinese journalist banned from flying to US to accept a prize for his work
Yang Jisheng, a retired correspondent from Beijing’s official news service Xinhua, was awarded Harvard University’s prestigious Louis M Lyons Award in December for his “ambitious and fearless reporting” on one of the 20th century’s deadliest man-made catastrophes.
The prize, which Yang had hoped to collect at a ceremony in Massachusetts next month, was in recognition of his 2008 book Tombstone.
The 1,200-page work – considered the most authoritative account of a tragedy China’s Communist leaders still attempt to conceal – meticulously documents the horrific toll of the 1958-1961 famine in which the author estimates at least 36 million lives were lost, including that of his own father.
Announcing its decision to honour Yang last year, Harvard said it hoped to recognise courageous and dedicated journalists who were battling to “document the dark and difficult struggles of humankind”.
However, the Guardian understands that Xinhua, the state-run news agency for which Yang worked, has forbidden the 75-year-old author from travelling to the US to collect the award.
In a brief response to a faxed request for comment, a Xinhua spokesperson said: “[W]e never heard Mr Yang received an award, so we are not able to give you any response.”
In a statement, the co-chairs of the Lyons Award, Hamish Macdonald and Debra Adams Simmons, said: “We remain optimistic that Chinese journalist and author Yang Jisheng will be granted permission to travel to Harvard University on Thursday 10th March 2016 to accept the annual Louis M Lyons Award.
“We are following all necessary steps to enable Mr Yang to travel to Harvard in March. We have no formal indication of any problem and look forward to welcoming Mr Yang.”
Contacted by telephone on Monday, Yang, who lives in Beijing, declined to discuss the situation.
Yang Jisheng was born in the central province of Hubei in 1940, nine years before Chairman Mao’s communists seized power.
As a young man he was a committed member of the Communist party, which he joined in 1964. After graduating from Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University in 1966 he quickly secured a job at Xinhua where he worked until his retirement in 2001.
But Yang’s enthusiasm for the party faded as he journeyed across China on reporting trips and came to grasp the scale of the human tragedy Mao’s Great Leap Forward push for industrialisation had unleashed on his country.
“The chief culprit was Mao,” Yang later recalled in an interview.
In the early nineties, further disillusioned by the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, the journalist began secretly piecing together the famine’s hidden history as a way of remembering those who had died.
He roamed the country, surreptitiously building up an extensive body of first-hand interviews and documentary evidence about a disaster that has been described as China’s hidden Holocaust.
“I just had a very strong desire to find out the facts,” Yang told the Guardian in 2012. “I was cheated and I don’t want to be cheated again.”
Yang’s unprecedented investigation - first published in Hong Kong in 2008 and unavailable to this day in mainland China - earned him plaudits around the world.
The author has received a succession of international awards for his work and was previously able to travel overseas to receive them.
In November last year Yang visited Sweden to accept the Stieg Larsson award in recognition of the “journalistic courage he has shown in finding and telling the truth” about the Great Famine.
The travel ban is the latest sign of the increasingly toxic political climate in China.
Since Xi Jinping came to power in late 2012 academics, journalists, authors, lawyers and activists have all complained of increasing pressure from authorities.
Experts say many talented young Chinese journalists are abandoning the profession, partly because of their frustration at intensifying censorship.
Historians meanwhile complain that securing access to government archives containing material about sensitive periods such as the Great Famine has become increasingly difficult.
In the introduction to the English edition of his book, Yang said his 15-year inquiry into the famine was an attempt to expose how a totalitarian system had attempted to forcibly eradicate all memory of the disaster.
“A tombstone is memory made concrete. Human memory is the ladder on which a country and a people advance,” he wrote. “I erect this tombstone so that people will remember and henceforth renounce man-made calamity, darkness and evil.”
Frank Dikötter, the author of Mao’s Great Famine, said the decision to prevent Yang travelling to the US underscored the deteriorating political situation.
“I’m not really surprised in that [over] the last two if not three years there really has been a very chilling effect on historians and more generally anybody who writes critically about the past,” he said.
“That has become very clear in the last year or so. It is very sad,” Dikötter added.
“In a nutshell, it has been made pretty clear by decree that undermining the credibility of the Communist party by querying episodes of the history of the CCP [Chinese Communist party] or questioning some of its leading figures, meaning Chairman Mao, is not desirable.”
Dikötter described Yang’s work on the Great Famine as “essential”. “It will take somebody from China to grind the reputation of Chairman Mao into dust,” he said.
Source: The Guardian
Kendrick Lamar and his fiancee at the Grammys last night
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