It’s that time of year again and we’re all getting super-excited about one of the biggest nights of the fashion year. Vogue’s Fashion Night Out is set to hit London and New York and raise loads of money for charity. Fashions Night Out at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, New York on Friday, September [...]
Actor Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as Otho the interior decorator in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice”, died after falling at his home in Birmingham, Alabama on Tuesday morning (September 7). “He was having mobility problems, and he was in a wheelchair,” Susan Gagne, Shadix’s sister, revealed. “It looks like he fell and hit his [...]
Hewlett-Packard Co. sued former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The suit was filed in Superior Court of California in Santa Clara, according to the people familiar with the matter. The contents of the suit weren’t clear but [...]
Kia Canada announced a recall has been issued for the 2010 Soul and 2011 Sorento crossover vehicles due to defective wiring harnesses that could short and lead to a fire. Some harnesses supplied by Johnson Controls for lighting in 2010 model-year Soul cars and 2011 model-year Sorento SUVs were improperly soldered, leading to possible electrical [...]
Third-seeded Novak Djokovic rolled into his sixth straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, by defeating US 19th seed Mardy Fish 6-3 6-4 6-1. Djokovic, the 2008 Australian Open champ from Serbia, has reached at least the semifinals at Flushing Meadows the last three years. Djokovic needed only 110 minutes to dispatch of Fish, whose normally big serve [...]
Ways to protect taxpayers from bearing the cost of any future banking crisis will top the agenda at a meeting of European Union finance ministers on Tuesday. European Union finance ministers are set to discuss the possibility of introducing a levy on banks and whether a tax on financial transactions can deal with another banking [...]
Human hair shows chronic stresses — including job, marital and financial — play an important role in heart attacks, researchers in Canada say. The hormone gets released in the bloodstream when you’re freaking out and seeps into your hair follicles. As the hair grows, it provides a timeline of your anxieties — and the toll [...]
American soldiers reportedly were called in to help Iraqi forces repel an attack by insurgents on an army base in Baghdad, just five days after the much-ballyhooed official end of U.S. combat operations in the country. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens. The attack in the capital on Sunday turned into a 2 [...]
A Gallup poll out this week finds, among 100 nations surveyed, a very strong correlation between religiosity and poverty. Richer countries in general are less religious. But that doesn’t hold true for the United States. Sixty-five percent of Americans say that religion is an important part of their daily lives. That is compared with just [...]
As many people expected him to, unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. quickly came out on Friday and apologized for his racist comments made towards Manny Pacquiao on Ustream during a 10 minute video on the internet. In the video, Mayweather, at times, refers to Pacquiao as “Poochiao,” saying that he will “cook that yellow chump,” that [...]
