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Taylor Swift performs at the iHeartRadio Wango Tango concert in Carson, California, US, in this June 1, 2019 photo. — Reuters
Swift, Grande lead VMA nominations but K-pop fans unhappy
LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande dominated nominations on Tuesday for the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) with 10 apiece, but some K-pop fans cried foul when best-selling Korean bands were placed in a separate category.Grande's breakup anthem "thank u, next" and Swift's "You Need to Calm Down," in which she criticizes social media trolls, will contend for the top prizes of song of the year, best pop and video of the year.Grande also got a nod for artist of the year along with rapper Cardi B, 17-year-old newcomer Billie Eilish, Halsey, the Jonas Brothers and Shawn Mendes.Korean boy band BTS, which has led a K-pop music wave in the United States and scored three No.1 albums on the Billboard chart in the past year, got just four nods, including three in...
July 24, 2019

Swift, Grande lead VMA nominations but K-pop fans unhappy

Musicians dressed as Santa Claus perform during the World Santa Claus Congress, an annual event held every summer in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday. — Reuters
Summertime, and the living is easy for Santas in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN — Being Santa Claus is an all-year job if you ask the 150 Santas from around the world who have left Rudolph and the elves at home to make early Christmas preparations at their annual meet in Denmark.Santas from as far away as Japan and El Salvador are attending 62nd World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen, a four-day event where the Santas parade through the streets of Copenhagen, bathe in the sea and compete in a five-match tournament.The congress, first held in 1957, is always held at the world's oldest amusement park — Bakken just outside of Copenhagen.The Santas began the congress amusing tourists at Copenhagen's statue of The Little Mermaid, depicting the main character from a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.With more than five...
July 24, 2019

Summertime, and the living is easy for Santas in Copenhagen

In this file photo taken on May 15, 2018, Zapata CEO Franky Zapata flies a jet-powered hoverboard or
French inventor to hover across English Channel on 'flyboard'
PARIS — A French inventor aims to soar across the English Channel this week on a jet-powered "flyboard", despite authorities warning the stunt is a danger to shipping.Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata has pledged to go ahead on Thursday on his device, which can reach speeds up to 190 kilometers an hour (118 mph).It will come 10 days after the entrepreneur wowed crowds when he flew above the Champs-Elysees boulevard in Paris in front of President Emmanuel Macron for the annual July 14 military parade.But authorities are divided over the daredevil venture, which will mark 110 years to the day since Frenchmen Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the Channel.While the civil aviation authority (DGAC) has approved the crossing from a beach near Calais to Dover...
July 23, 2019

French inventor to hover across English Channel on 'flyboard'

Veteran rocker Mick Jagger will return to the silver screen at the Venice film festival in September for the premiere of art-world thriller
Mick Jagger back to Venice fest with art heist thriller
ROME — Veteran rocker Mick Jagger will return to the silver screen at the Venice film festival in September for the premiere of art-world thriller "The Burnt Orange Heresy", alongside Donald Sutherland.The adaptation of American author Charles Willeford's novel was filmed before Jagger, 76 on Friday, underwent heart surgery in April.Directed by Italian Giuseppe Capotondi, the film features Jagger as wealthy art collector Joseph Cassidy who proposes to a young couple to visit the studio of famous artist Jerome Debney, played by Sutherland, in order to steal one of his works of art.The film, also starring Denmark's Claes Bang and Australia's Elizabeth Debicki will close the Venice Mostra on Sept. 7, organizers said on Monday.Legendary frontman Jagger in June resumed...
July 23, 2019

Mick Jagger back to Venice fest with art heist thriller

The merger of the Milky Way progenitor galaxy and the dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus roughly 10 billion years ago (L) and the current appearance of the Milky Way galaxy (R) are shown in this artist's conception released by Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in La Laguna, Spain on Monday. — Reuters
Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in long-ago cosmic crash
WASHINGTON — The Milky Way, home to our sun and billions of other stars, merged with another smaller galaxy in a colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago, scientists said on Monday based on data from the Gaia space observatory.The union of the Milky Way and the so-called dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus increased our galaxy's mass by about a quarter and triggered a period of accelerated star formation lasting about 2 to 4 billion years, the scientists said."Yes, indeed it was a pivotal moment," said astronomer Carme Gallart of Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain, lead author of the research published in the journal Nature Astronomy.Galaxies of all types including the Milky Way began to form relatively soon after the Big Bang explosion that marked the...
July 23, 2019

Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in long-ago cosmic crash

London's Mayor Boris Johnson (front R) collides with 10-year-old Toki Sekiguchi during a game of Street Rugby with a group of Tokyo children, outside the Tokyo Square Gardens building in this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo. The game was held with the attendance of school children, Nihonbashi, Yaesu and Kyobashi Community Associations and the Street Rugby Alliance to mark Japan hosting the Rugby World Cup in 2019.  — Reuters
Zip-wire calamity to wild rugby tackles: The comedic face of UK's Johnson
LONDON — Dangling helplessly from a zip-wire while waving British Union Jack flags, Boris Johnson and his attempt to publicize a party in one of London's parks became one of the most memorable non-sporting moments of the 2012 Olympic Games."It's going well ... Get me a ladder," the portly then-London Mayor jovially shouted as the crowds below laughed along after he became stuck.For most politicians, such a turn of events would be an humiliating embarrassment that could overshadow their careers. For the man famed for his mop of unruly blond hair and who is Britain's next prime minister, it was par for the course.Johnson, 55, has made a point of turning run-of-the-mill publicity events into a comedic adventure thanks to a large helping of upper-class English...
July 23, 2019

Zip-wire calamity to wild rugby tackles: The comedic face of UK's Johnson

A clumsy driver led police to a drug bust in Australia after he crashed a van laden with methamphetamines into a patrol car parked outside a police station in suburban Sydney.
Bad driving leads to $140m drug bust in Sydney
SYDNEY — A clumsy driver led police to a A$200 million ($140 million) drug bust in Australia after he crashed a van laden with 270 kg (600 lb) of methamphetamines into a patrol car parked outside a police station in suburban Sydney.The man, 28, slammed the drug-filled van into the empty police patrol car at Eastwood in the city's north on Monday morning, crushing its bonnet, before speeding off, CCTV footage shows. He was caught by police an hour later.A search of the vehicle turned up 273kg of ice, said police, who released footage of the drugs neatly packed in cardboard boxes, taped up and loaded into the back of the van. Police said in a statement the drugs had a street value of A$200 million.The driver was arrested and charged with drug supply and negligent driving and is due in...
July 23, 2019

Bad driving leads to $140m drug bust in Sydney

Reiwa Shinsengumi's disabled candidate for Japan's upper house election Yasuhiko Funago, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), attends an election rally in Tokyo, Japan, in this July 12, 2019, photo. — Reuters
Two severely-disabled candidates win seats in Japan upper house vote
TOKYO — Two wheelchair-bound candidates won seats in Japan's upper house vote on Sunday, media projections showed, a sign of changing attitudes towards disabled people in a country where they have long been encouraged to stay in the shadow.Yasuhiko Funago, a vice president of a company that provides elderly and patient care, has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological disease in which patients gradually lose control of most of their muscles.Although a lower house lawmaker in the past was diagnosed with ALS after winning a seat, no one had previously begun a career in parliament after being diagnosed with the disease, according to the Japan ALS Association.The other candidate is Eiko Kimura, who has cerebral palsy. Both of them were running from a small...
July 22, 2019

Two severely-disabled candidates win seats in Japan upper house vote

Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit unveiled at Smithsonian
WASHINGTON — The spacesuit astronaut Neil Armstrong wore during his mission to the moon went on public display for the first time in 13 years on Tuesday, at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum exactly 50 years to the day when Apollo 11 launched into space.Armstrong’s son Rick unveiled the suit along with US Vice President Mike Pence who recalled how the country was deeply divided in the late 1960s but came together in pride when Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.Armstrong died on Aug. 12, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio.“On top of the contributions to science and human understanding, for that brief moment, the man who wore this suit, brought together our nation and the world,” Pence said.“Apollo 11 is the only event of the 20th century that stands a chance of being...
July 22, 2019

Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit unveiled at Smithsonian

Cast member Donald Glover poses as he arrives for the World Premiere of
'The Lion King' rules with $185 million debut
LOS ANGELES — Simba and Mufasa reigned supreme this weekend as Disney’s “The Lion King” dominated box office charts. Director Jon Favreau’s remake of the animated classic collected a massive $185 million from 4,756 North American theaters during its first three days of release.In yet another win for Disney, the movie landed the best domestic launch for a PG film and set a new record for the month of July. That figure represents the second-best domestic debut of the year behind Disney and Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame” ($357 million). The Buena Vista company now holds five of the top six biggest movies of 2018 so far.Overseas, “The Lion King” felt the love with $269 million for a global start of $433 million. The film launched in China last weekend and has since earned $98...
July 22, 2019

'The Lion King' rules with $185 million debut

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