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Josh Homme
Rocker Homme under fire for kicking photographer
LOS ANGELES - Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme apologized Monday as he came under fire for kicking a photographer, who said she spent the night in the hospital.The rock guitarist and vocalist was playing Sunday in Los Angeles at an annual holiday festival of radio station KROQ when video shows him slamming his foot into the face of a photographer in the pit next to the stage.Chelsea Lauren, who shoots for Shutterstock, an agency that provides stock photos, said she spent the night in the emergency room and Monday was still suffering a sore neck, a bruise in the eyebrow and nausea."Assault in any form is not okay, no matter what the reasoning," she wrote on Instagram.She speculated that Homme may have been impaired by drugs or alcohol. She posted another picture in...
December 11, 2017

Rocker Homme under fire for kicking photographer

A screenshot of a receipt for an 8-km Uber ride that cost one Toronto resident over $18,000.
Uber rider charged $18K for 8-km ride
TORONTO - Uber charged a Toronto man more than $18,000 for an 8-km ride that should have cost about $10 after an error during surge pricing. Instagram user votethehish posted the receipt for his ride for the amount of Canadian $18,518. According to votethehish's friend, Emily Kannard, Uber said they wouldn't give a refund. But Kannard posted the receipt on Twitter and caught some interest, including from news sites like The Comeback and Slate. Uber then acknowledged that a mistake was made. "There was an error here and it has been resolved," Uber said in a statement. "We have provided a full refund to this rider and apologized to him for this experience. We have safeguards in place to help prevent something like this from happening, and we are working to understand...
December 11, 2017

Uber rider charged $18K for 8-km ride

Alexander Selivanov, the founder and the designer at the Russian street style store Codered, poses during an interview in Moscow. Russian street style might not conjure up images of high glamour, but the look is making its mark on the global fashion industry, from the catwalk to the high street. - AFP
Get the 'post-Soviet' look: how Russian street style went global
MOSCOW - Russian street style might not conjure up images of high glamour, but the look is making its mark on the global fashion industry, from the catwalk to the high street.In-demand Muscovite designers such as Gosha Rubchinskiy and Andrey Artyomov have brought "post-Soviet" style to Paris, London and New York fashion weeks.Western chains like Urban Outfitters and Topman have picked up on this contemporary take on 1990s Russian wear, selling T-shirts with Cyrillic slogans.The post-Soviet look also includes graphic T-shirts, football scarves, cropped jeans and sportswear brands, worn together with higher-end items.Largely appropriated from the Russian working class, it also draws on the suburban "gopnik" subculture that appeared 25 years ago at the collapse of the...
December 11, 2017

Get the 'post-Soviet' look: how Russian street style went global

Liam Gallagher performs at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens Park on Saturday night.
Celebs join 'world's biggest sleepout' to help raise money for Scotland's homeless
EDINBURGH - Celebrities joined, and entertained, thousands of fundraisers for the homeless sleeping rough in a Scottish park in frigid conditions overnight Saturday, in what organizers described as the biggest event of its kind globally.Around 8,000 people gathered in Princes Street Gardens in central Edinburgh to hear the likes of singer-songwriters Liam Gallagher and Amy MacDonald, and bands Deacon Blue and Frightened Rabbit, "busk" for the cause.Live Aid founder Bob Geldof, Monty Python comic John Cleese, Olympian Chris Hoy, comedian Rob Brydon and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were also among the well-known faces helping to keep participants fed and entertained through the night.Geldof, who recalled sleeping rough in London when he first arrived in the city decades...
December 10, 2017

Celebs join 'world's biggest sleepout' to help raise money for Scotland's homeless

Gal Gadot
Gal Gadot is IMDb’s top star of 2017
LOS ANGELES - After coming sixth in the 2016 ranking, actress Gal Gadot knocked fellow actress Margot Robbie off the top spot. Gadot, who plays the title role in the box-office hit “Wonder Woman,” comes ahead of Tom Hardy, up from fourth to second place, and Emilia Clarke from “Game of Thrones,” who drops to third.The rest of the ranking comprises lesser-known, often upcoming stars who piqued the interest of curious web users during the year, such as Alexandra Daddario from “Baywatch”, Swedish actor Bill Skarsgard, who played Pennywise the clown in “It”, or Dan Stevens from “Beauty and the Beast”.2017’s top 10 has a three-quarters female line-up, completed by French actresses Pom Klementieff (Mantis in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”) and Sofia Boutella (“The...
December 10, 2017

Gal Gadot is IMDb’s top star of 2017

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma
Kohli-Sharma set to marry in Italy: Reports
NEW DELHI - India cricket captain Virat Kohli is set to marry long-time girlfriend and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma in a much-anticipated wedding in Italy this week, according to media reports on Sunday.Rumors started swirling when Kohli pulled out of India's limited-overs matches against Sri Lanka and Sharma also ducked out of her busy acting schedule in December.Indian TV channels have gone into overdrive over what they have billed as the "wedding of the year"."A heritage property within a resort in Tuscany is being decked up for the wedding," the Hindustan Times said on Sunday."Arrangements for a typically Punjabi wedding are reportedly being made by the wedding planner," the newspaper added, citing unnamed sources.The celebrity couple and their...
December 10, 2017

Kohli-Sharma set to marry in Italy: Reports

Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen sues tabloid over assault allegation
NEW YORK - Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer, saying that the magazine defamed him by alleging he sexually assaulted teen actor Corey Haim.In papers filed Sunday in Los Angeles, Sheen called the tabloid's allegations "ridiculous" and "disgusting." The Enquirer's Nov. 8 edition includes a quote from actor Dominick Brascia, saying that Sheen had assaulted Haim when he was in his mid-teens and Sheen around 20. Sheen and Haim, who died in 2010, both appeared in the 1986 release "Lucas." Brascia told the Enquirer that the assault came during the film's production.Sheen is seeking unspecified damages.The Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., said in a statement Saturday that it looked "forward to litigating" the case...
December 10, 2017

Charlie Sheen sues tabloid over assault allegation

A fan holds a placard reading
Thousands mourn rock idol Hallyday at Paris memorial
PARIS - Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris on Saturday as a convoy of 700 Harley Davidson motorcycles escorted the white coffin of late French rock and roll giant Johnny Hallyday to a memorial service attended by French stars and politicians.Hallyday's hearse drove the length of the famous Champs Elysees from the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde, in a rare honor usually reserved for foreign statesmen on July 14 National Day.As his band played instrumental versions of his biggest hits, the crowds belted out the words, many in leather biker jackets and carrying pictures of Harley Davidson enthusiast Hallyday, who died of lung cancer on Wednesday.Largely unknown abroad, Hallyday was a household name in France, where he had tens of millions of fans and sold more records...
December 09, 2017

Thousands mourn rock idol Hallyday at Paris memorial

John Legend
John Legend on fatherhood: 'You want people to have justice'
NEW YORK - The Nobel Peace Prize winners will be serenaded by John Legend on Monday and for that they can thank Legend's infant daughter - and a second baby on the way.The Grammy winner will take the stage at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 11 for Nobel Peace Prize Concert, a gig he takes mindful of the world he'd like to leave for his children."Having kids puts in context for me the kinds of things kids need to be successful and healthy and happy. And realizing that far too many kids don't have that," the singer-songwriter said by phone from Los Angeles. "That's what being a father has done for me."Legend, who performed at the 2006 peace prize concert, said he's honored to celebrate the same award that was handed to the Rev. Martin Luther...
December 09, 2017

John Legend on fatherhood: 'You want people to have justice'

Children's clothes are displayed at The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia. - AFP
Bosnian museum of wartime childhood aims to go global, wins top prize
SARAJEVO - In just a year, a small Bosnian museum dedicated to the experience of growing up during the Balkan wars has opened its doors, won a best European museum prize and decided to go global.The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, a trove of memorabilia from Bosnians whose childhood was traumatized by the 1990s war, has started collecting personal items from children affected by other wars, such as those in Syria and Ukraine.The idea was born out of the experience of the museum's founder, Jasminko Halilovic, and has become a long-term project to create the world's largest archive on the impact of war on children."Speaking about the war from a child's perspective is the most powerful anti-war message," 27-year-old Halilovic told Reuters. He said that giving away...
December 09, 2017

Bosnian museum of wartime childhood aims to go global, wins top prize

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