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This handout photo released by Mumm/Novespace shows Jamaican retired sprinter Usain Bolt gesturing in zero-gravity conditions in an aircraft above Reims. — AFP
Bolt enters space race in zero gravity sprint
PARIS — Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt was back on the starting line Thursday — but found it a challenge to stay on his feet in zero gravity conditions aboard an airplane.The 32-year-old briefly broke off from his pursuit of a professional football career with Australia's Central Coast Mariners to travel to France for the event.Dressed in a spacesuit, Bolt was aboard a zero gravity Airbus as part of an event sponsored by a drink brand.The plane performed a series of parabolas as Bolt and two other guests experienced a phase of weightlessness for 22 seconds, time for a race to be staged within the cabin.The eight-time Olympic champion and 100m and 200m world record holder called time on his athletics career last year. — AFP
September 15, 2018

Bolt enters space race in zero gravity sprint

Hyun Ah
K-pop label faces fan, investor fury after firing dating artists
SEOUL — A South Korean record label's move to dump two K-pop artists who had declared their romantic relationship has sparked a major fan backlash on social media and knocked its share price lower.Cube Entertainment Inc announced in a statement that it had fired female singer Hyun Ah, 26, from the group Triple H, and E'Dawn, 24, from the 10-member boy band Pentagon, citing broken trust in the artists."After a few discussions and thought, we decided to expel the two as we thought it is impossible to rebuild faith with both Hyun Ah and E'Dawn," it said in a statement on Thursday. It did not elaborate on its reasons and did not explicitly refer to the relationship between the two.Several South Korean performers have complained in recent years about rules their record...
September 15, 2018

K-pop label faces fan, investor fury after firing dating artists

Ariana Grande arrives for the 2018 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in this file photo. — AFP
Ariana Grande sorry she 'couldn't fix' Mac Miller's pain
LOS ANGELES — Singer Ariana Grande on Friday spoke publicly for the first time about the death of her former boyfriend Mac Miller, writing on social media that he was "the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved."Miller was found unresponsive at his home in Studio City, California, and pronounced dead there at age 26, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said in a statement on Sept. 7.In a message on her official Instagram account on Friday, the 25-year-old Grande said she "adored" Miller from the day she met him when she was 19."You were my dearest friend. for so long," Grande wrote alongside a video of Miller. "i’m so sorry i couldn’t fix or take your pain away. i really wanted to. the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he...
September 15, 2018

Ariana Grande sorry she 'couldn't fix' Mac Miller's pain

A mock up of the Crew Dragon spacecraft is displayed during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, in this Aug. 13, 2018 file photo. — AFP
SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon
LOS ANGELES — SpaceX on Thursday announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the Moon using its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a massive launch vehicle that is being designed to carry people into deep space.“SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle — an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space,” the company said on Twitter.SpaceX gave no further details, but said more information would follow on Monday.This is not the first time the California-based company, headed by Internet entrepreneur and Tesla electric car CEO Elon Musk, has touted plans to send tourists around the Moon.In February, 2017, SpaceX announced it would send the world’s first two space tourists...
September 14, 2018

SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon

World sinks to 10-year happiness low
LONDON — World happiness levels are at their lowest level in over a decade, with the number of people who say they feel stressed and worried rising, according to a survey published on Wednesday.Conflict-hit Central African Republic (CAR) was the world's unhappiest place last year, with Iraq in second place, according to the ranking by pollsters Gallup."Collectively, the world is more stressed, worried, sad and in pain today than we've ever seen it," the group's managing editor, Mohamed Younis, wrote in a foreword to the study.Gallup surveyed more than 154,000 people in 146 countries on whether they had felt pain, worry, stress, anger or sadness the previous day. It said the global mood was at its gloomiest since the first such survey in 2006.Sub-Saharan Africa led...
September 12, 2018

World sinks to 10-year happiness low

A model walks the runway for Calvin Klein Collection during New York Fashion Week on Wednesday in New York City. - AFP
Calvin Klein puts 'Jaws' bite into NY Fashion Week
NEW YORK - Calvin Klein took a bite out of the New York runway Wednesday with Belgian designer Raf Simons inspired by "Jaws," in his latest exploration of America, its glistening surface and dark underbelly.Models marched down a red-carpeted runway against a glittering video seascape backdrop - all bobbing yachts, sun bouncing off gentle waves and a swimmer coming into view.Suddenly the summer idyll was shattered with the menacing chords of the theme music to the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster, more than 40 years on perhaps still America's most iconic summer horror flick.Models emerged as if straight from the ocean, with wet strands of hair, beads of water glistening on their skin and dressed in wet suits, both long and cropped, the "Jaws" metaphor labored in...
September 12, 2018

Calvin Klein puts 'Jaws' bite into NY Fashion Week

Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj 'mortified' by altercation with Cardi B
NEW YORK - Nicki Minaj has commented on her recent altercation with Cardi B whichtook place at a New York Fashion Week party.Minaj shared her thoughts on the scuffle, which involved Cardi B throwing her shoe at Minaj, on her Beats 1 radio show with the rapper explaining that the fight was embarrassing, reports UPI."The other night, I was a part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch of upper echelon people," Minaj said about the public incident happening in front of the New York Fashion Week crowd.Minaj then said that she did not say anything about Cardi B's newborn child Kulture Kiari Cephus whom she shares with Migos member Offset. Cardi B, following the altercation, had said that she went after Minaj due to comments she made about...
September 12, 2018

Nicki Minaj 'mortified' by altercation with Cardi B

Kimberly Brook and James Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek reflects on grief after wife's 3 miscarriages
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood actor James Van Der Beek is sharing his thoughts on grief following his wife's three miscarriages.The 41-year-old actor penned an emotional note on Instagram after Kimberly Brook went public about her miscarriages in a post last week."It will tear you open like nothing else. It's painful and it's heartbreaking on levels deeper than you may have ever experienced. So don't judge your grief, or try to rationalize your way around it," Van Der Beek wrote. "Let it flow in the waves in which it comes, and allow it it's rightful space.""Once you're able... try to recognize the beauty in how you put yourself back together differently than you were before," he said. "Many couples become closer than ever before. Many...
September 12, 2018

James Van Der Beek reflects on grief after wife's 3 miscarriages

Dogs take to the waves at the Helen Woodward Animal Center's 13th annual Surf Dog Surf-a-Thon in Del Mar, California.
Surfing dogs raise funds for California shelter
LOS ANGELES - More than 70 dogs and their owners took to the waves in California for the Helen Woodward Animal Center's 13th annual Surf Dog Surf-a-Thon. The event, sponsored by food maker Blue Buffalo, saw dozens of dogs competing in different weight classes to see which canine displaying the most wave-shredding skills - as well as "surf spirit" - at Dog Beach in Del Mar. The dogs rode waves in 10-minute heats and were judged by a panel of surfers and enthusiasts, who then went on to choose the "Best-In-Surf." The entire event was live-streamed on YouTube. The Surf-a-Thon raised funds for the Helen Woodward Animal Center, a dog and cat adoption organization in San Diego. - Agencies
September 12, 2018

Surfing dogs raise funds for California shelter

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping cook pancakes while visiting
Putin, Xi flip pancakes at Russian economic forum
VLADIVOSTOK - Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping on Wednesday took a break from the heavy lifting of international diplomacy to toss pancakes on the sidelines of an economic forum. Xi is one of the big names at the event in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok, where the focus has been on economic ties and North Korea. But the two leaders found time to flip blini on "Far East Street", an exhibition of the region's cultural and economic achievements. Photos showed Putin and Xi, wearing blue aprons, pouring out batter and turning the pancakes over before eating them with caviar and a shot of vodka. The pair earlier in the day praised their countries' increasingly close ties, with Xi saying their "friendship was getting stronger all the...
September 12, 2018

Putin, Xi flip pancakes at Russian economic forum

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