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The National Park Service released this photo that shows a raccoon hitching a free ride on a bus taking a tour of the National Mall in Washington, DC. - Agencies
Raccoon takes a free ride on DC bus
WASHINGTON - A raccoon was caught on camera hitching a free ride on the back of Washington, DC, bus cruising the National Mall. The National Park Service's Mall and Memorial Parks Facebook page posted a photo showing the freeloading trash panda peering through a window while clinging to the back of the DC Circulator bus. "Look who decided to take a ride on the bus!" the post said. "Take the D.C. Circulator National Mall Route around National Mall and Memorial Parks," the service wrote. "It's only a dollar! Spotting wildlife is not guaranteed." - Agencies
September 04, 2018

Raccoon takes a free ride on DC bus

David and Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham shuts down split rumors
LONDON - Victoria Beckham has officially shut down rumors regarding her split with husband David Beckham. She disclosed all the details to Vogue magazine after the family vacationed in the South of France.The fashion designer apparently sat her kids down to reassure them that their parents’ marriage is solid as ever, confirming to them that David is not a cheat, reported The Sun.The pair even went as far as releasing pictures of them all loved-up from their holiday in France, while Posh revealed how she was forced to confront the false speculations.The recent interview with the magazine was initially intended to mark her 10 years in fashion but she took the opportunity to address the rumors and clear her husband of any allegations.The former England football team captain was also present...
September 03, 2018

Victoria Beckham shuts down split rumors

Sara Iftekhar
Muslim student set to become first contestant to sport hijab in Miss England pageant
LONDON - Sara Iftekhar, a 20-year-old Muslim woman, is set to become the first beauty queen to participate in the Miss England beauty pageant donning a hijab, Daily Mirror reported.Iftekhar will represent represent the country at the Miss World beauty pageant in China if she emerges victorious. The University of Huddersfield law student from West Yorkshire will vie for the crown at Kelham Hall in Nottinghamshire next Tuesday.While she is not the first Miss England aspirant to wear a hijab, she is the first to make it to the finals. Iftekhar, who started her own clothing business at the age of 16 is also using her label to raise funds for Miss World charity Beauty with a Purpose.On her GoFundMe page, Iftekhar explained her motivation for entering the beauty contest. “I participated in...
September 03, 2018

Muslim student set to become first contestant to sport hijab in Miss England pageant

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'Crazy Rich Asians' still on top of N. America box office
LOS ANGELES - It has been another crazy good weekend for rom-com "Crazy Rich Asians," which topped the box office for a third straight weekend amid a pretty good summer for North American theaters overall, industry watchers said Monday.The Warner Bros. film, with its mostly Asian cast, took in an estimated $22.2 million for the Saturday-through-Monday period, dropping just 10 percent from the previous weekend, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.The adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel, starring Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu, follows an American economics professor as she meets her super-rich boyfriend's family in Singapore in a story about the clash of love, family and great wealth.Warner Bros. meanwhile scored another hit with...
September 03, 2018

'Crazy Rich Asians' still on top of N. America box office

Bono
Bono says 'back to full voice', U2 tour will resume
BERLIN - U2 frontman Bono has said he will be "back to full voice" for the rest of a European tour after the Irish rock band was forced to cancel a gig in Berlin when they were only a few songs in.Thousands of fans were left disappointed on Saturday night when the band's set was abruptly cancelled after Bono appeared to be unable to sing."It's not right for you. It's useless," he told fans from the stage after pausing to drink from a thermos before the show was eventually called off.The surprise cancellation left the remainder of U2's seven month "Experience + Innocence" tour in doubt.But in a statement released through his publicist Monday, Bono said he had recovered his vocal health and that the tour would continue as planned."I've...
September 03, 2018

Bono says 'back to full voice', U2 tour will resume

The aftermath of an accident between two semi trucks in which 15 tons of beef roasts spilled out onto Highway 12 close to Summit, South Dakota.
15 tons of beef roasts lost in semi crash
SUMMIT, S.D. - Police in South Dakota said a crash involving two semi trucks created a meaty mess when one of the vehicles spilled its load of beef roasts. The South Dakota Highway Patrol said a trooper responded when the two semi trucks collided in foggy conditions on US Highway 12, about three miles west of Summit. Troopers said the truck hauling more than 15 tons of beef roasts collided with a semi hauling paper products when the second truck pulled onto the highway from a side street. Photos from the scene show the load of beef spilled out onto the ground next to the road. The driver of the semi hauling the beef was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, while the other driver was not injured. The highway patrol said the state's attorney is looking into whether any charges will...
September 03, 2018

15 tons of beef roasts lost in semi crash

David Cronenberg
Cinema-going is over, says director Cronenberg
VENICE - Hollywood director David Cronenberg has predicted that cinema-going will die out - and says he "does not care" in the least.The maker of "The Fly", "Crash" and "Naked Lunch" told a talk at the Venice film festival Monday that "television screens are getting bigger and bigger and therefore the difference between theater and domestic viewing has become really flimsy."But the Canadian auteur said cinema itself would survive streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon and that it was "just evolving".Cronenberg said the visual language directors were using now was also moving away stylistically from the big screen."The rule used to be that close-up shots were only done for TV, and not for movies. But today that's no...
September 03, 2018

Cinema-going is over, says director Cronenberg

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Syrian director seeks to show 'human' face of war in Venice film
BEIRUT - The director of the first Syrian film to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival has said she wanted to show the human face of her home country, calling out the media for presenting "stereotypes" of war.Soudade Kaadan worked for seven years to make her first fictional feature film, "The Day I Lost My Shadow", which draws on her own experiences as a young woman at the outbreak of war and will have its premiere in the Italian city on Tuesday.The 38-year-old fled Syria for Lebanon in 2012 and shot the movie on the border between the two countries. Most of the cast were Syrian refugees."I insisted on included my community in the film. There is nothing like the real face of somebody who has endured war," she said.Kaadan said she wanted to avoid...
September 03, 2018

Syrian director seeks to show 'human' face of war in Venice film

Actress Dakota Johnson waves as she arrives by boat at the pier of the Excelsior Hotel on Sunday during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. - AFP
Star Johnson needed therapy after horror film 'Suspiria'
VENICE - Actress Dakota Johnson admitted Sunday that she had to see a shrink after playing the lead in Oscar-winning director Luca Guadagnino's new horror flick, "Suspiria".The star made the confession as the movie was premiered at the Venice film festival."When you're working sometimes with dark subject matter it can stay with you," she told reporters."I absorb a lot of people's feelings," Johnson said."Then you talk about it with someone very nice afterwards. It is a really nice to (help you) move on from the project and my therapist is a very nice woman," she said.Johnson, 28, the daughter of actors Melanie Griffiths and Don Johnson, and the grand-daughter of Hitchcock favorite, Tippi Hedren, plays a young American Amish woman obsessed...
September 02, 2018

Star Johnson needed therapy after horror film 'Suspiria'

Ray Woolley, pioneer diver and World War II veteran, swims over the Zenobia wreck, off the Cypriot town of Larnaca, Cyprus on Sunday. - Reuters
At 95, WW2 vet breaks own record as oldest scuba diver
LARNACA, Cyprus - A 95-year-old British veteran of World War II broke his own record on Sunday as the world's oldest scuba diver after taking the plunge to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus. Ray Woolley, who turned 95 on Aug. 28, already holds the record as the oldest active male scuba diver. On Sunday he dived for 44 minutes at a depth of 40.6 meters, beating his previous record of 41 minutes and 38.1 meters - when he was 94. "We did it...I feel great. It's lovely to break my record again and I hope if I can keep fit I will break it again next year with all of you," Woolley said moments after emerging from the water. Woolley and dozens of other divers scoured the watery depths around the shipwreck of the Zenobia, a cargo vessel laden with trucks that sank about 2 km off the...
September 02, 2018

At 95, WW2 vet breaks own record as oldest scuba diver

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