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People hold offerings while praying for loved ones who have passed away during the first day of ‘Festival of the Dead’ or Pchum Ben in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Tuesday. - Reuters
Cambodia’s Festival of the Dead: Rice offerings and chants
PHNOM PENH - Cambodians threw rice on the ground on Tuesday to mark the ‘Festival of the Dead’ or Pchum Ben and feed the spirits of the dead. Cambodians visit pagodas across the country during the 15-day festival that takes place annually to offer prayers and food to the spirits of their deceased relatives, who they believe only emerge to eat the food during this period. At Tuol Tumpoung pagoda in the capital Phnom Penh, hundreds of people crowded the temple complex to offer food and money to Buddhist monks to the backdrop of chanting. “During the first day of Pchum Ben, our dead relatives came to find us for food,” Mang Noy, 74, said at Tuol Tumpoung pagoda. For many, it is a time to remember the victims of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime. At least 1.8 million Cambodians - about...
September 25, 2018

Cambodia’s Festival of the Dead: Rice offerings and chants

Bill Cosby
Constand asks Cosby’s sentence hearing for ‘justice’
NORRISTOWN - The Canadian woman Bill Cosby sexually assaulted asked his sentencing hearing Tuesday for justice as the disgraced entertainer saw his maximum potential punishment reduced from 30 to 10 years.The frail 81-year-old - once beloved as “America’s Dad” - became the first celebrity convicted of a sex crime in the #MeToo era, for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a former university basketball administrator, at his Philadelphia mansion in January 2004.“All I’m asking for is justice as the court sees fit,” Constand told the court on the first of Cosby’s two-day sentence hearing in Norristown, Pennsylvania.Around 60 women, many of them onetime aspiring actresses and models, publicly branded Cosby a calculating, serial predator who plied victims with sedatives and...
September 25, 2018

Constand asks Cosby’s sentence hearing for ‘justice’




J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling teases ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ on ‘Today’
LONDON - J. K. Rowling teased “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” on the Today Show Monday and spoke about the number of new ideas she has in her head.“I know about the four things I’m writing, it’s just all backed up in there,” Rowling said when asked about the wealth of ideas she has from Cormoran Strike novels to Harry Potter.“I’m scared I’ll die before I get it all out,” the author continued.Rowling, when asked about “The Crimes of Grindelwald”, said the “Fantastic Beasts” series of films will further explore Albus Dumbledore and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.“These movies are largely about how Dumbledore became Dumbledore,” she said about the signature Harry Potter character who becomes a legendary wizard and headmaster at...
September 25, 2018

J. K. Rowling teases ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ on ‘Today’




In this photo released by the United Nations, K-Pop band BTS poses for a photo with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, right, during a meeting focused on youth issues at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday. - AFP
K-Pop stars at UN urge world’s youth to ‘just speak yourself’
UNITED NATIONS - K-Pop sensation BTS brought their star power to the United Nations on Tuesday, telling the world’s youth to listen to their inner voice and resist pressure to conform.“No matter who you are, where you’re from, your skin color, your gender identity, just speak yourself,” group leader Kim Nam-jun told a packed hall at the launch of a UNICEF youth campaign.Dubbed “Generation Unlimited”, the campaign to promote education, training and employment kicked off during the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.Wearing business suits and ties, the septet joined UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and Rwandan President Paul Kagame for the event - that was oddly devoid of screaming fans.Kim Nam-jun, who also calls...
September 25, 2018

K-Pop stars at UN urge world’s youth to ‘just speak yourself’




An installation is seen during the Lumina Light Festival in Cascais, Portugal on Monday. — Reuters
Light festival dazzles visitors in Portuguese holiday town
CASCAIS — Light shows and art installations brightened the streets of Portugal’s Cascais resort town on Monday for the seventh edition of the “Lumina” festival, a dazzling crowd puller showcasing the work of national and international artists. The event, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to Cascais every year, aims to “celebrate colors and forms in all their nuances, senses and aspects,” according to the organizers. It also hopes to highlight the historical heritage of Cascais, a former fishing village that became a first-class travel destination by the end of the 19th century.— ReutersThis year’s installations included an interactive skate ramp that flashed with different colored lights and shapes as skateboarders rode over it. “There are so many different...
September 24, 2018

Light festival dazzles visitors in Portuguese holiday town




Concealed drugs are seen after US customs officials discovered them hidden in a shipment of bananas in Houston, Texas.
$18M worth of drugs found in bananas given to Texas prison
HOUSTON — Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a Facebook post that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated because they were already ripe. The donation arrived Sunday. The department says sergeants who picked up the boxes found a bundle of a white powdery substance under the bananas. US customs officials were called to the scene, and authorities say 540 packages of cocaine were found in 45 boxes of bananas. The department says federal officials and the US Customs and Border Protection are investigating. — AP
September 24, 2018

$18M worth of drugs found in bananas given to Texas prison




James Woods
Actor James Woods bashes Twitter after getting locked out
LOS ANGELES — Actor James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account over a tweet he sent out months ago that was found to be in violation of Twitter’s rules.The tweet was posted July 20 and includes a hoax meme that said it came from Democrats and encouraged men not to vote in the midterm elections. Woods got an email from Twitter on Sunday saying the tweet “has the potential to be misleading in a way that could impact an election.” The e-mail says Woods can use his account again if he deletes the tweet.In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, Woods said this means he’ll be allowed back on Twitter only if he decides to do what Twitter says. He says he won’t do that, and he won’t delete the tweet.“Free speech is free speech - it’s not Jack...
September 24, 2018

Actor James Woods bashes Twitter after getting locked out

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Italian director and photographer Francesco Carrozzini pose as they arrive to attend the Green Carpet Fashion Awards on the sidelines of Women’s Spring/Summer 2019 fashion week in Milan on Monday. — AFP
Celebrities gather on Milan’s ‘Green Carpet’ to promote sustainability
MILAN — Italy’s fashion elite and celebrities such as film stars Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore and Colin Firth gathered at a “green-carpet” event on Monday at Milan’s fashion week to urge greater environmental sustainability in the global fashion industry.The black-tie gathering was the closing event to the city’s six-day fashion extravaganza, a week after London’s fashion week declared itself fur-free for the first time.fashion brands have begun paying more attention to their companies’ impact on the environment and their production methods as customers are becoming increasingly ecologically aware in their choices.A total of 13 awards were handed out at the second edition of the ‘Green Carpet fashion Awards’, promoted by Italy’s national fashion association, CNMI,...
September 24, 2018

Celebrities gather on Milan’s ‘Green Carpet’ to promote sustainability




A scene from “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”.
‘House with a Clock’ chimes in atop North America box office
LOS ANGELES — A horror comedy about a clock counting down to doomsday chimed in at the top of the North American box office this weekend, industry estimates showed on Monday.Universal’s family film “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” clocked up $26.9 million over its debut three-day weekend, the industry tracker Exhibitor Relations said.Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star alongside young Owen Vaccaro as Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan sent to live with his warlock uncle.In its second week, “A Simple Favor” jumped a notch to second place. Lionsgate’s tale about a mommy blogger (Anna Kendrick) investigating the disappearance of her friend (Blake Lively) earned $10.4 million.Just a shade below with $10.3 million, Warner Bros.’ “The Nun” dropped to third place.The latest fright...
September 24, 2018

‘House with a Clock’ chimes in atop North America box office

A model presents a creation by Salvatore Ferragamo fashion house during the Women's Spring/Summer 2019 fashion show in Milan, on Sunday. - AFP
Ferragamo brings Tuscan countryside to Milan with new collection
MILAN — The Tuscan countryside sprung in the heart of Milan on Sunday as Italian fashion designer Salvatore Ferragamo showed its spring-summer 2019 collection, full of soft hues and rich leather. Creative director of women’s collections, Paul Andrew, and Guillame Meilland, head of the group’s men’s ready-to-wear, said the collection was inspired by the color palette of Tuscany’s rolling hills, vineyards and olive groves. Bold tones of emerald, indigo, orange, red and violet popped out “as punctuation” among the taupe, caramel, biscuit beige, khaki and olive green, in clothes and accessories designed for both men and women.— ReutersIt was a continuation of the Florence-based maison’s autumn-winter collection, which was also created by the two designers.It showed monochrome...
September 23, 2018

Ferragamo brings Tuscan countryside to Milan with new collection

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