Placebo Singer Brian Molko Under Investigation in Italy After Calling Countrys Prime Minist
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Placebo singer-guitarist Brian Molko is ruffling political feathers in Italy after lashing out against the country’s right-wing Prime Minster Giorgia Meloni, calling her a “fascist” and a “racist” during a packed concert near Turin.
Prosecutors in Turin have now opened an investigation against the U.S.-born frontman of the British alt-rock band following his performance last week in front of 10,000 fans at the Sonic Park festival in Stupinigi outside Turin, according to multiple press reports.
[Read More]Senator Ifeanyi Ubah dies in UK hotel days after donating 71m to APC
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Ifeanyi Ubah, Nigerian Senator representing Anambra South District in the 10th National Assembly, has died. Per Sahara Reporters, Ubah, who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Young Progressives Party (YPP) last year, died at a hotel in London, the United Kingdom. He had embarked on the London trip two days ago. The publication also said Ubah's colleagues in the Senate have confirmed his passing in a group chat on an unnamed social media platform, where tributes had already started pouring in for the deceased.
[Read More]Star Trek at 50: See Images From Long-Buried Pilot Episode
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Though Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary on Thursday—the first episode to air on TV ran on Sept. 8, 1966—the show’s actual first episode is a bit older than that. The original pilot episode of Star Trek, titled “The Cage,” was completed in early 1965. As these stills from the episode show, it exhibits both striking similarities with and a number of differences from the series that ended up on television.
[Read More]The 10 most intense ingrown hair-removal videos of all time
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Morbidly interested? Thought so. But before you dig into the videos, it's my job to remind you NOT to pop and pick ingrown hairs with your fingers. Doing that can lead to infections (yikes). Generally, you can get rid of that ingrown with regular exfoliation and acne-fighting products like salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide instead. If you really feel the urge to remove your ingrown hair, clean your skin and a sewing needle with rubbing alcohol, says Joshua Zeichner, M.
[Read More]The Australian Child Actor Who Became a Star in Sri Lanka
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
In 2021, Australian singer-songwriter Georgie Fisher started noticing comments from Sri Lankan social media users on her Facebook and Instagram pages that sent her spinning down memory lane.
Growing up in Sydney during the late 1980s and 1990s, Fisher spent seven years working as a child actor in Australian television, most notably playing roles in “A Country Practice”, “The Miraculous Mellops”, “Police Rescue”, and “Spellbinder”, before quietly fading out of the industry during her teens.
[Read More]The Crown Season 6 Covers Princess Diana's Landmines Walk
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
One of the reasons Princess Diana was so beloved around the world is because of her charity work and her ability to connect not only with those in the royal family’s elite social circle, but also ordinary people and society’s most vulnerable. The first part of The Crown Season 6, depicts a cornerstone of what became Diana’s legacy in charity work. In the second episode, Diana is on the boat of Harrods’ owner Mohamed al-Fayed, where she is getting to know his son Dodi, when she talks about her upcoming trip to Bosnia as part of her landmine awareness efforts.
[Read More]The Pictures That Moved That Most
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Martina Birk
‘Who is the Enemy Here?’
The vietnam war Pictures That Moved Them Most
While the Vietnam War raged — roughly two decades’ worth of bloody and world-changing years — compelling images made their way out of the combat zones. On television screens and magazine pages around the world, photographs told a story of a fight that only got more confusing, more devastating, as it went on. As Jon Meacham describes in this week’s issue of TIME, the pictures from that period can help illuminate the “demons” of Vietnam.
[Read More]The real story behind the Tattooist of Auschwitz
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Five years after Heather Morris’s 2017 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz topped the New York Times’ paperback fiction list, a limited series of the same name will stream on Peacock starting today (May 2).
The novel and six-episode series both center on the story of a real-life Auschwitz prisoner, Lali Sokolov, whom the Nazis forced to tattoo identifying numbers on to fellow inmates. Yet amid the hellscape of the concentration camp, he met the love of his life, Gita Furman, and they married when the war was over.
[Read More]Uruguay Hosts World's Largest Barbecue, Beating Argentina
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
December 12, 2017 2:47 AM EST
A small city in Uruguay has hosted the world’s largest known asado, winning bragging rights over a rival barbecue hotspot in Argentina.
Minas — about 65 miles northeast of Uruguay’s capital Montevideo — put almost 200 cooks to work to break the Guinness world record. Together they grilled 16.5 tonnes of raw meat for a total of 14 hours, the BBC reports.
But to steal the crown Minas still has to best the 9.
[Read More]What if Zach Bryan Is Actually as Good as His Huge, Fanatical Audience Thinks He Is?
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Zach Bryan has a fair amount of Bruce Springsteen in him. But not just a single Bruce. When the newly minted superstar headlined L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena last week (in a single sold-out gig at a venue he probably could have filled several times over), it felt like he is veering toward having his own “Born in the USA” moment, reviving that familiar mixture of populism and substance and making a new generation of fans scramble to get a scarce ticket.
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