3651 - 3660 from 4888 .
In "Life"
January 15, 2018
'Feminist' Deneuve apologizes to sex assault victims for letter
TOKYO — A Japanese pop group hopped on the bitcoin bandwagon on Friday, dedicating themselves to singing and dancing about the cryptocurrencies that have taken the world by storm, and especially their homeland.In their debut, the eight “Virtual Currency Girls”, or Kasotsuka Shojo in Japanese, cavorted in maid costumes with frilly skirts and full-face professional wrestling-style masks with fuzzy pom-pom ears, extolling the virtues of decentralized digital currencies such as bitcoin.“They’re so convenient you kind of have to wonder why we didn’t have them before,” said Rara Naruse, 18, the group’s leader. “We want everyone to learn more about them.”Each group member adopted the guise of a different cryptocurrency, offering a brief self-introduction to 20 fans gathered at...
January 15, 2018
Japanese pop group chants cryptocurrency choruses
January 15, 2018
Chinese 'rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like hummingbirds
PARIS — A new biography of French first lady Brigitte Macron says her husband penned a racy novel inspired by their early romance, when he was still a teenager and she his married drama teacher.President Emmanuel Macron, who turned 40 last month, fell for Brigitte during rehearsals for a school play at the Providence high school in Amiens, and defied his parents' disapproval to pursue the relationship with a woman 24 years his senior.The book, "Brigitte Macron, The Liberated Woman", to be published next week, quotes a family neighbor from Macron's home town who says she typed up the 300-page manuscript."It was a daring novel, a little bit smutty. Of course, the names were not the same but I think he needed to express what he was feeling at the time," the...
January 15, 2018
Brigitte biography says young Macron wrote steamy book
LOS ANGELES - Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Anthony Anderson and Danny Glover will be in the spotlight at the 49th NAACP Image Awards Monday night.Anderson is hosting the ceremony at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, which will be broadcast live on TV One. Glover will receive the President's Award for his professional and philanthropic achievements. And Blige and Jay-Z are the leading nominees at the show that recognizes exceptional work by people of color in film, TV, music and literature.Jay-Z is up for entertainer of the year honors against Ava DuVernay, Bruno Mars, Chadwick Boseman, Issa Rae and Chance the Rapper.Producers say Blige, Boseman, DuVernay and Rae are set to appear on the show, along with Halle Berry, Terry Crews, Octavia Spencer and Sterling K. Brown.Early winners were announced...
January 15, 2018
Blige, Glover, Jay-Z in spotlight at NAACP Image Awards
TOKYO — Japan's sewerage industry has found a way to clean up its dirty and smelly image: elaborately designed and colorful manhole covers with 12,000 local varieties nationwide — including, of course, a Hello Kitty design.Appealing to a Japanese love of detail and "kawaii" ("cute"), bespoke manhole covers adorn the streets of 1,700 towns, cities and villages across Japan and have spawned a collection craze among so-called "manholers."The designs represent an instant guide to a place as they feature its history, folklore, or specialty goods: a castle design for an ancient town, a bay bridge for a port and Mt Fuji for a city at the foot of Japan's iconic mountain.As for Tama City, located in the western sprawl of greater Tokyo, locals are pinning...
January 15, 2018
Japan sewers clean up their act with manhole art
January 15, 2018
Plot twist as Pakistani soap operas seek to break taboos
January 14, 2018
After outcry, Mark Wahlberg donates $1.5 million film fee
January 14, 2018
Dolce & Gabbana's royal flush wows Milan Fashion Week
LONDON - Ed Sheeran's latest best-selling album is up against four debut offerings at this year's Brit Awards, including one by breakthrough pop star Dua Lipa, who also dominated Sunday's nominations.Singer-songwriter Sheeran, whose "Divide" was the fastest-selling album ever for a male solo artist in Britain, is nominated in the best solo artist and best album categories for the Feb. 21 awards.Meanwhile Dua Lipa, 22, has five nominations including best British female solo artist, where she will battle it out against 2015 winner Paloma Faith, rapper-poet Kate Tempest, Jessie Ware and Laura Marling.Dua Lipa is also among four artists whose first full-length studio albums have been nominated. Grime star Stormzy, singer Rag'N'Bone Man and rapper J Hus join her...
January 14, 2018
Sheeran, Dua Lipa lead Brit Award nominations
