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Job Kibii, head of the National Museums of Kenya's paleontology department, holds a piece of the 23-million-year-old bones of the newly-discovered giant 'simbakubwa kutokaafrika' (big lion from Africa), whose unveiling made headlines around the world, at the Nairobi National Museum, in Nairobi on May 23, 2019. -AFP
Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury
NAIROBI - The only hint that something extraordinary lay inside the plain wooden drawer in an unassuming office behind Nairobi National Museum was a handwritten note stuck to the front: "Pull Carefully".Inside, a monstrous jawbone with colossal fangs grinned from a bed of tattered foam -- the only known remains of a prehistoric mega-carnivore, larger than a polar bear, that researchers only this year declared a new species."This is one-of-a-kind," said Kenyan paleontologist Job Kibii, holding up the 23-million-year-old bones of the newly-discovered giant, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, whose unveiling made headlines around the world.But the remarkable fossils were not unearthed this year, or even this decade. They weren't even found this century.For nearly 40 years, the...
August 09, 2019

Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury

 This file photo taken on July 11 shows palaces belonging to Romanian Roma people in Buzescu village, southern Romania. -AFP
Romania's 'Roma palaces', a status symbol for poor minority
BUZESCU, ROMANIA - With their soaring marble columns, turrets and pagoda-style roofs, elaborate mansions built by affluent Roma dot Romania's countryside in their thousands.Amid modest surroundings of fields or small towns, the so-called Roma palaces seem improbable, even outlandish, but reveal a quest for status within a marginalized and mostly poor minority.They began springing up in the early 1990s after the collapse of communism, when some in the Roma community came into money, they say, mostly by collecting and selling scrap iron or by doing petty trading.Now spread across one of the EU's poorest members, the imposing buildings, estimated to number several thousand, often stand several storys high, as neighbors add floors to outdo one another.Decorative flourishes such as a US...
August 09, 2019

Romania's 'Roma palaces', a status symbol for poor minority

Danny Trejo
Actor Danny Trejo of 'Machete' fame pulls young boy from overturned car
LOS ANGELES, California — Hollywood actor Danny Trejo, known for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Machete," helped rescue a young boy who was trapped in a car that overturned in a Los Angeles traffic collision on Wednesday.Trejo, 75, told television station KABC-TV he was on his way to an auto mechanic in L.A.'s Sylmar neighborhood when he saw a motorist run a red light and crash into another car, which flipped over onto its roof in the intersection.The boy, strapped into his car seat in the back of the car, and his grandmother, who had been driving, were both trapped in the overturned, partially crushed vehicle.Trejo and another bystander - a woman who identified herself as Monica Jackson - teamed up to free the child before emergency personnel arrived on the scene,...
August 09, 2019

Actor Danny Trejo of 'Machete' fame pulls young boy from overturned car

The Netflix logo is seen on their office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in this July 16, 2018 file photo. — Reuters
'Game of Thrones' show-runners ink massive Netflix deal
LOS ANGLES, California — "Game of Thrones" show-runners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to write, produce and direct new series and films for the streaming giant, the company said on Wednesday.The contract sees the pair leave HBO after years on "Thrones," which demolished audience records, scooped an unprecedented number of Emmys for a fictional show, and redefined weekly "event TV.""We are thrilled to welcome master storyt-ellers David Benioff and Dan Weiss to Netflix," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, in a statement."They are a creative force and have delighted audiences worldwide with their epic storytelling. We can't wait to see what their imaginations will bring to our...
August 09, 2019

'Game of Thrones' show-runners ink massive Netflix deal

A new home, seen Wednesday, on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, has replaced the now razed home in which Sharon Tate and four others were killed by the Manson Family 50 years ago. -AFP
Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on
LOS ANGELES - As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America's morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown.But on the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Charles Manson's apocalyptic cult, he has never seen anything like it."It's unprecedented really. I've never seen the attention," he told AFP at his museum in Los Angeles. "I'm running extra tours, two or three extra tours a week. The attention is crazy."Michaels drives his customers up to Cielo Drive, the leafy and winding road above exclusive Beverly Hills where director Roman Polanski's wife Tate -- eight-and-a-half months pregnant -- was stabbed to death in the early hours of...
August 08, 2019

Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on

The 1969 Abbey Road album cover. -Courtesy photo
The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today
LONDON - Fifty years ago today The Beatles were photographed crossing a leafy street in north London, creating one of the most famous album covers in music history and an image imitated by countless fans ever since.The picture of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr striding over a zebra crossing on Abbey Road was taken outside the EMI Recording Studios where they made the 1969 album of the same name, and nearly all of their other recordings.Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan took just six shots of the group on the crossing, with the fifth used as the cover of the band's eleventh studio album, released on Sept. 26 1969.'Abbey Road', which was voted the best Beatles album by readers of Rolling Stone in 2009, was the only one of the group's original...
August 08, 2019

The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today

 In this file photo taken on October 19, 2017 a seagull stands along the river Seine banks, in front of the Conciergerie historic building, in Paris. Despite being a two-hour drive from the sea, Paris has attracted a growing number of gulls jostling with pigeons for a perch on the city's rooftops. -AFP
'Raucous' seagulls: Parisians' new noisy neighbours
PARIS - Parisians need no longer go to the beach, in the time-honored August tradition, to hear the plaintive cries of seagulls, but the birds' growing cacophony is ruffling many feathers in the French capital.Despite being a two-hour drive from the sea, Paris has attracted a growing number of gulls jostling with pigeons for a perch on the city's rooftops."In the spring we used to hear sparrows, it was the sound of dawn and was very pleasant. But now it's the raucous cries of these bothersome gulls!" said Anne Castro, a psychiatrist in the hilly Belleville district in the city's northeast, one of the birds' favorite nesting places.Rodolphe Ghelfi, a security guard in his fifties who also lives in the neighborhood, also feels tormented by the cawing."When...
August 08, 2019

'Raucous' seagulls: Parisians' new noisy neighbours

Disney to reboot
Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service
LOS ANGELES - Disney is rebooting "Home Alone" and "Night at the Museum" for its new TV streaming service, which launches in the US in November and is intended to rival Netflix.The beloved and high-grossing film franchises were acquired by Disney during its takeover of 21st Century Fox.Chief executive Bob Iger said Disney was "focused on leveraging Fox's vast library of great titles... for example reimagining 'Home Alone,' 'Night at the Museum,' 'Cheaper by the Dozen,' and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' for a new generation on Disney+.""Nothing is more important to us than getting this right," he added in an earnings call Tuesday.He did not clarify whether the new versions would be feature films or television programs.The...
August 08, 2019

Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service

California emoji house. -Courtesy photo
Neighbors frown at California emoji house's 'bullying' paint job
WASHINGTON - Those cute little emojis have emotions running high in one southern California seaside enclave.Irate neighbors in Manhattan Beach south of Los Angeles are not sure what they hate most about a local house's paint job - the garish pink color, the "bullying" imagery or the fact that the home is drawing curious crowds.But they agree they want it painted over, and worry more of the same could come, according to testimony to the city Planning Commission."It's hit a hot button for a lot of people,” commissioner Gerry T. Morton told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Wednesday, a day after citizens voiced concerns to the City Council.The situation began in May when Manhattan Beach neighbors reported Kathryn Kidd for flouting local laws by using her home for...
August 08, 2019

Neighbors frown at California emoji house's 'bullying' paint job

Courtesy photo
No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony
LOS ANGELES - Like the Oscars before it, the upcoming 71st Emmy Awards ceremony will go on without a celebrity host, organizers announced Wednesday.The decision will allow the September ceremony to dedicate more time to the television shows nominated for honors, said Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier."If you have a host and an opening number, that's 15-20 minutes that you don't have to salute the shows," Collier said at a gathering of industry reporters.The last time the Emmys skipped having a host was in 2003. It only happened two other times, in 1975 and 1998.This year's event honoring the best television shows is scheduled for September 22.The decision to go ahead without a host could help shake up a ceremony often considered too slow, which suffered from...
August 08, 2019

No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony

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