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Latex masks of famous football players are displayed at a factory in Jiutepec, Morelos State, Mexico. - AFP
Football: Mexican factory churning out Messi, Neymar masks
JIUTEPEC - A Mexican factory is churning out rubber Neymars, Messis and Ronaldos ahead of the World Cup, racing to meet demand for life-like masks of a dream team of football giants. An eclectic lineup rounds out the roster of 12 famous football faces being immortalized in latex at the Grupo Rev factory in the city of Jiutepec, in central Mexico: Retired legends Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane, current stars Luis Suarez, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Franck Ribery, and Mexican favorites Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez, Hirving "Chucky" Lozano and Jorge Campos. "A lot of people have been asking for our masks because they're planning to go to the World Cup," said Diego Esponda, an executive at the company. "Mexican fans always stand out for putting on...
May 05, 2018

Football: Mexican factory churning out Messi, Neymar masks

Charlie Rose
Ex TV anchor Charlie Rose hit with sexual harassment lawsuit
NEW YORK - Three women filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Saturday against former CBS News television anchor Charlie Rose, accusing the prominent journalist of touching them inappropriately and making offensive comments.The lawsuit in New York state court appears to be the first brought against Rose alleging sexual misconduct since he was fired from the network last fall following a Washington Post report that he had harassed eight women. CBS News is also named as a defendant.Rose, a co-host on CBS This Morning and a correspondent for the network's flagship Sunday night news program "60 Minutes," is among numerous men in politics, business and the entertainment industry who have seen their careers implode following allegations of sexual misconduct, fueling the social media...
May 05, 2018

Ex TV anchor Charlie Rose hit with sexual harassment lawsuit

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Stuck in second gear: Chinese fans ponder life without 'Friends'
SHANGHAI - No one told them it was gonna be this way.Millions of Chinese "Friends" fans are heartbroken after a video site pulled the US sitcom, beloved by millennials in China for its endearing young characters and as an English conversation resource.Top portal Sohu had broadcast reruns of Monica, Rachel, Chandler and the gang since 2014, but abruptly stopped in April, citing only unspecified "copyright issues".The move has touched off anguish on Chinese social media sites such as the Twitter-like Weibo, where a "Friends offline" hashtag has generated millions of posts.Many have called for Sohu to re-up on its "Friends" rights, with others offering advice on where to download pirated episodes of the Emmy-winning show, which originally aired in the...
May 02, 2018

Stuck in second gear: Chinese fans ponder life without 'Friends'

Kanye West
Kanye West sparks new outrage in calling slavery 'choice'
NEW YORK - Rapper Kanye West, on the receiving end of criticism in the music world after backing President Donald Trump, sparked fresh outrage Wednesday when he called slavery "a choice."The rapper, never shy about expressing himself, made the comments in passing during one of two free-flowing interviews he gave as he promotes two upcoming albums."You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice," West told TMZ Live, the broadcast wing of the celebrity gossip site.West elaborated little on his statement but appeared to be drawing a parallel to how he is presumed to hold certain views as an African American artist."We're mentally in prison. I like the word 'prison' because slavery is too direct to the idea of blacks. Like...
May 02, 2018

Kanye West sparks new outrage in calling slavery 'choice'

Harvey Weinstein
Netflix producer accuses Weinstein of persistent sexual assault
NEW YORK - A Netflix series producer has filed court documents in New York alleging disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein raped, sexually assaulted and verbally abused her over a five-year period.Alexandra Canosa, an associate producer of "Marco Polo", had initially filed a $10 million suit in December, and this week amended it to further detail her allegations against the 66-year-old father of five.She said Weinstein "constantly threatened" her and "made it clear that if she did not succumb to his demands for sexual contact or if she exposed his unwanted conduct there would be retaliation, including humiliation, the loss of her job and loss of any ability to work in the entertainment business," according to documents filed Wednesday.The misconduct...
May 02, 2018

Netflix producer accuses Weinstein of persistent sexual assault

Pawfficer Badges of the Troy Police Department
Police 'pawfficer' gets name, rank on force
TROY, Mich. - A suburban Detroit police department has created a new rank of "pawfficer" for the cat that has joined the force. The Troy police department announced Wednesday the kitty will be named Badges. That was the winning name from a Twitter poll, narrowly beating out Donut. The department added the cat to its ranks last month after auditioning five felines from the Michigan Humane Society. Badges will be used for therapeutic purposes and make public appearances. A Troy officer who has two cats at home is getting a new four-legged partner. Sgt. Meghan Lehman says the department is receiving gifts in the mail for the cat every day, including two boxes of cat toys and supplies on Wednesday. - AP
May 02, 2018

Police 'pawfficer' gets name, rank on force

DJ Avicii
DJ Avicii death a suicide: Report
NEW YORK - Dance music superstar Avicii's death last month in Oman was a suicide, the celebrity gossip site TMZ reported Tuesday.A representative for the Swedish DJ did not reply to requests for comment. But his family earlier insinuated that Avicii had killed himself."He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness," his family said in an open letter on Thursday. "He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace."TMZ, quoting unnamed sources, said that Avicii committed suicide.The 28-year-old whose real name was Tim Bergling was found dead on April 20 while on vacation in Oman.Police in the Gulf sultanate said that there was no indication of foul play.Avicii had long spoken of his problems with alcoholism and his struggles as an introvert in...
May 02, 2018

DJ Avicii death a suicide: Report

A picture provided by an Iraqi man running a campaign for love and to win back his ex-fiancee shows a poster reading in Arabic:
Iraqi man uses campaign fever to win back his sweetheart
BAGHDAD - Taking advantage of nation-wide elections, one Iraqi man has emptied his pockets to panel Baghdad with posters to campaign for love and win back his ex-fiancee. "I've loved this women for two years. We were engaged and planned on getting married... but before the wedding, people claimed that I had cheated on her," said Haidouz, using a pseudonym. "We argued and the issue grew when her family got involved, and our relationship fell apart." Brokenhearted, Haidouz found unexpected inspiration in the plethora of campaign posters hung across the city in the lead up to local and parliamentary elections on May 12. "I had the idea to take advantage of it. Not to run for election, but only to declare my love," the 32-year-old electrical engineer said. He...
May 02, 2018

Iraqi man uses campaign fever to win back his sweetheart

A man pushes a cart through the hallway of the nitrate film vaults at the Library of Congress's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. - AFP
Watching the detectives: The movie sleuths saving silent cinema
LOS ANGELES - In the Spanish colonial-style environs of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel, around 100 film buffs chew pencils, polish spectacles and furrow brows in the flickering glow of long-forgotten silent movies.These cinema sleuths are being shown a selection of snippets from thousands of old films stored lovingly by the US Library of Congress - despite no one having the foggiest idea what most of them are.The library hosts annual "Mostly Lost" workshops at its Packard Campus in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where scholars and plain old enthusiasts gather to find out as much as possible about the unknown, or little-known, films."The Library of Congress is intensely committed to investigating, identifying, preserving and making accessible our...
May 02, 2018

Watching the detectives: The movie sleuths saving silent cinema

A scientist prepares protein samples for analysis in a lab at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, England - Reuters
Too many cancer drugs? Crowded market gives investors pause
LONDON - In London's world-famous Great Ormond Street children's hospital, Dr. Karin Straathof is excited about a new cell-based medicine that offers hope for toddlers with incurable nerve tissue cancer.Her progress with a handful of children for whom standard care does not work reveals the promise of modern cancer drugs, an increasingly crowded pharmaceuticals field from which investors must try to select future winners.The new therapy using engineered white blood cells has shown anti-tumor activity in the hardest to treat neuroblastoma patients."The beauty is that it is very specific in targeting the cancer cells, while leaving healthy tissue unharmed," Straathof said, after presenting her early findings at a science meeting in Chicago in April. "It's an...
May 02, 2018

Too many cancer drugs? Crowded market gives investors pause

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