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Lorde
Israel ambassador asks to meet pop star Lorde over canceled show
WELLINGTON - Israel's ambassador to New Zealand on Wednesday appealed to the pop star Lorde to meet him after she canceled a show in Tel Aviv after appeals from activists for her to shun Israel as a protest against its treatment of Palestinians.Itzhak Gerberg, Israel's ambassador to New Zealand, said in a public letter it was "regrettable" that the concert had been called off and the boycott of his country represented "hostility and intolerance"."I invite you to meet me in person to discuss Israel, its achievements and its role as the only democracy in the Middle East," Gerberg said on the Embassy of Israel's Facebook page.Lorde's representatives did not immediately respond to request for comment on her response or whether she planned to meet...
December 27, 2017

Israel ambassador asks to meet pop star Lorde over canceled show

A picture shows ties hanging on the fence of the Kosovo government headquarters in Pristina on Wednesday. - AFP
Kosovans hang ties in protest at PM salary hike
PRISTINA - Angry Kosovans hung hundreds of neckties on the fence outside the government's headquarters on Wednesday in protest after its leader justified doubling his own salary by saying that wearing smart clothes was part of his job. Protesters hung some 300 ties of various colors and patterns and even the odd shirt in a gesture of scorn aimed at premier Ramush Haradinaj. He sparked outrage by passing a measure raising his salary from 1,500 to 3,000 euros a month. Ordinary Kosovans scrape by on a fraction of that. Kosovo's unemployment and poverty rates are about 30 percent. Defending the move in an interview last week, Haradinaj said: "I am obliged to wear a tie. I cannot go out dressed any old how. I must have a shirt." For Wednesday's protest, campaign group...
December 27, 2017

Kosovans hang ties in protest at PM salary hike

In this Dec. 24, 2017, image made from a video provided by Honolulu news station KHON, Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane are interviewed in Honolulu, Hawaii. - AP
Lifelong best friends discover they're actually brothers
HONOLULU - Two Hawaii men who grew up as best friends recently learned that they're actually brothers and revealed the surprise to family and friends over the holidays. Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane have been friends for 60 years. Born in Hawaii 15 months apart, they met in the sixth grade and played football together at a Honolulu prep school. Macfarlane never knew his father, and Robinson was adopted. Separately, they sought answers about their ancestry. Macfarlane turned to family history and DNA-matching websites after unsuccessful searches on the internet and social media, Honolulu news station KHON-TV reported . "So then we started digging into all the matches he started getting," said his daughter, Cindy Macfarlane-Flores. A top match - someone with identical X...
December 27, 2017

Lifelong best friends discover they're actually brothers

George Michael
George Michael’s family shares emotional tribute a year after his death
LONDON - George Michael’s family reached out to fans of the singer a year after his death last Christmas.In a statement posted on Michael’s official website, his family shared a childhood photo of the singer and spoke about marking their first Christmas without “Yog," reports People.“This year has been a series of new and tough challenges for those of us close and loyal to Yog, not least of which was steeling ourselves this month, to hear ‘Last Christmas’ and ‘December Song’ streaming out of shops, cars, and radios, as it has done for decades, knowing he’s no longer here with us, missing him,” they wrote. “This Christmas will be hard without him, but we know that we are not alone in our mourning the anniversary of his loss, and that the sadness of our wider...
December 26, 2017

George Michael’s family shares emotional tribute a year after his death

Hugh Jackman
From big screen to big impact, five celebrities running businesses that give back
LONDON - Popularity and awareness of social enterprises - businesses that trade to address social problems - has flourished in recent years. From A-list actors to celebrity chefs, here are five famous faces running businesses with a mission to do good:HUGH JACKMANFamous for playing character Wolverine in the "X-Men" series of films, Australian actor High Jackman first stuck his tungsten talons into social enterprise in 2011 after a trip to Ethiopia.On the trip Jackman helped out local coffee farmer Dukale for a day and saw coffee traded, sparking an interest in fair trade which ensures growers get a fair price for their crop.Laughing Man coffee was founded in 2011 to trade directly with growers, with a Laughing Man coffee shop opening in New York's Manhattan.Next came a...
December 26, 2017

From big screen to big impact, five celebrities running businesses that give back

Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara
Singer Meghan Trainor engaged to ‘Spy Kids’ actor Daryl Sabara
LOS ANGELES - Actor Daryl Sabara proposed to singer Meghan Trainor on her birthday over the weekend and she said yes.Trainor, 24, shared a video of the touching moment on Instagram as he went down on one knee in a tunnel of lights.Her song “Hopeless Romantic” played as she tearfully accepted the engagement ring. The couple was then embraced by loved ones at the end of the tunnel.“For my 24th birthday, the love of my life @darylsabara made all of my dreams come true,” she wrote.“I’m still in shock. I’ve never been this happy! Thank you Daryl, my family and friends for making me feel like a real princess.”In his caption, Sabara, 25, called the “All About That Bass” singer his “soulmate.”“Thank you for changing my life forever and thank you for saying yes! You are...
December 26, 2017

Singer Meghan Trainor engaged to ‘Spy Kids’ actor Daryl Sabara

Google and Bing's camera cars passed each other on a Minnesota road and the image that ended up on Bing's Streetside map feature ended up censoring the Google car with a white block.
What happens when Google, Bing camera cars meet on the road?
SAINT PAUL - An eagle-eyed Internet user discovered the moment Google Maps and Bing Maps camera cars spotted one another - and one site censored the other. A Tumbr user revealed this week that the vehicles met on a Minnesota road in July and ended up with photos of each other for Google's Street View and Bing's Streetside map features. The Google photo shows the passing Bing car, while Bing's version features a white box over the Google car - but it's camera remains visible. Another shot from the exchange shows the uncensored Google driver giving a friendly wave to the Bing car. - Agencies
December 26, 2017

What happens when Google, Bing camera cars meet on the road?

Heather Menzies-Urich
'Sound of Music' actress Heather Menzies-Urich dies at 68
LOS ANGELES - Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film, "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 68.Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died Monday in Frankford, Ontario. She recently had been diagnosed with brain cancer."She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest," Urich said.Menzies-Urich played Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven von Trapp children, in the film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer."The Sound of Music" captured five Academy Awards, including best picture."Heather was part of 'the family.' There is really no other way to describe the members of the...
December 26, 2017

'Sound of Music' actress Heather Menzies-Urich dies at 68

Nayzia Thomas is seen finishing her psychology final exam in a hospital bed hours before she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
College student finishes her final while in labor at the hospital
ST LOUIS - A Missouri student's dedication is going viral thanks to a photo of her finishing up a final exam while sitting in a hospital bed preparing to give birth. Nayzia Thomas, a sophomore at Johnson County Community College, tweeted a photo that her mother snapped of her finishing up her psychology final while in labor at the hospital. Thomas said she wanted to be done with the semester before the birth of her son, Anthony Johnson, who arrived about 12 hours after she submitted her final. "It wasn't due until the end of the week," Thomas told Yahoo! Lifestyle of her psych final. "But my goal was to try to have everything done before. [I thought] before all this gets crazy, let me hurry up and finish this final." "School is so important to me," she...
December 26, 2017

College student finishes her final while in labor at the hospital

Lorde
Lorde cancels Israel show after pressure
JERUSALEM - New Zealand singer Lorde has canceled a planned show in Israel after facing pressure from supporters of a boycott of the Jewish state over its occupation of Palestinian territory.The 21-year-old, who enjoyed phenomenal success while still a teenager, announced last week a Tel Aviv performance in June as part of a tour.After criticism from international and New Zealand activists, Lorde announced on Monday she was canceling the performance in Israel."I've received an overwhelming number of messages & letters and have had a lot of discussions with people holding many views, and I think the right decision at this time is to cancel the show," Lorde wrote in a statement distributed by Naranjah, the Israeli promoters of her Tel Aviv show."I'm not too proud to...
December 25, 2017

Lorde cancels Israel show after pressure

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