Embarking on his Latin American tour, Justin Bieber was spotted showing some love from his hotel balcony in Mexico City on Saturday (October 1). The “Baby” hitmaker offered up a big wave while tweeting, “MEXICO CITY!! I can hear the fans outside the hotel. #MUCHLOVE – TE AMO MUCHO!” Bieber is set to play [...]
“Serve immediately.” The words have a needy, greedy quality that at the same time sounds unnecessary. And yet there are many recipes better for not serving the moment they come from the cooker: quiche or a fruit tart, for instance, which are best served at room temperature; a roast that needs time to relax so it doesn’t [...]
Samsung Electronics launched its newest mirrorless camera, the NX200, on Thursday, but downplayed any expectations of strong sales. Despite a forecast of three million in global sales of mirrorless cameras, Samsung’s director of product planning Kim Young-Bae says the firm is aiming to sell between 170,000 to 250,000 this year. DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT PLANNING GROUP [...]
Manchester City put a turbulent week behind them with a 4-0 victory at Blackburn on Saturday as Premier League leaders Manchester United rode their luck in a 2-0 win over Norwich. City, who suspended Carlos Tevez following his refusal to come off the bench in the Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich, bounced back in [...]
Bad news for those who have desk jobs – a new study has found that sitting down for long periods of time increases risk of early death. The study of more than 200,000 men and women in NSW has found that the longer people sit each day the greater their chances of going to [...]
Much of Cuba appears to be stuck in time. Vintage American cars roll past crumbling Spanish-style buildings, songs made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club drift from open windows along the street, and life seems to have changed little since the late 1950s, when Fidel Castro came into power. Similarly, the nation’s cuisine – [...]
Police have issued tickets to hundreds of protesters who occupied an iconic New York bridge during demonstrations against the nation’s financial system. The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters extended their rally to Brooklyn Bridge, where they were ticketed and summoned for blocking the roadway, authorities said late Saturday. Protesters banged drums and chanted, “the whole world [...]
NATO-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week. Khan is “the uncle of Siraj and Badruddin Haqqani … one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani network and a revered [...]
He has never been to Tibet, never breathed the thin air of the high plateau, nor spun a prayer wheel in the shadow of the great Buddhist monasteries. Yet on Aug. 8, 43-year-old Lobsang Sangay was sworn in as the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Born in a refugee camp in India and educated in [...]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Election Commission will be reconstituted and strengthened through discussions with all stakeholders including the main opposition BNP in efforts to ensure free and fair elections. “We agree with the opposition about the need for reconstitution of the Election Commission through discussions. That will definitely happen,” she told a [...]