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Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner leads People magazine's beautiful list
LOS ANGELES — Actress, businesswoman and children's advocate Jennifer Garner is featured on the cover of People magazine's annual beautiful issue, the magazine said on Tuesday.People said it chose the 47-year-old "Alias" actress for balancing her career and charitable work with the raising of her three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck.In addition to film and TV roles, Garner co-founded organic baby food company Once Upon a Farm and works as an ambassador for advocacy group Save the Children.Garner told People that she never considered herself "one of the pretty girls" when she was growing up in West Virginia. She described her style at the time as "band geek-chic."Her current "uniform" more often than not is workout clothes, or jeans, a...
April 24, 2019

Jennifer Garner leads People magazine's beautiful list

Head of the Ukrainian National Police Sergey Knyazev (R) gestures as he speaks during the presentation of the painting
Stolen in France, $1.68m Impressionist work found in Ukraine
Kiev — Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday they had found an oil painting by the French Impressionist Paul Signac, valued at 1.5 million euros ($1.68 million), which was stolen last year from a museum in France.Police chief Sergiy Knyazev said the painting was discovered at the home of a Kiev man who was also wanted on suspicion of murdering a jeweller.He added that the suspects in the theft, all Ukrainian, had been arrested.The painting would shortly be returned to the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy in northeast France, Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov said as he presented the work at an event with French ambassador Isabelle Dumont.The 1915 oil painting, which was cut from its frame during the theft, depicts boats at the entrance to the French port of La Rochelle."We...
April 24, 2019

Stolen in France, $1.68m Impressionist work found in Ukraine

Experience the flavors at the oberoi, Madina
Saudi GazetteThe Oberoi, Madina continues to create bespoke culinary experiences for its guests throughout the year. Celebrating the success of food festivals, the hotel revealed its calendar for 2019. The Oberoi, Madina are currently hosting a Japanese Food Festival at Kyoto, an in-house Japanese Restaurant, with a team of highly qualified chefs from all over the world. The chefs prepare innovative dishes, with exotic ingredients sourced from various areas in Japan. “The festival started last month and will continue until the end of April. The festival will continue from 1 pm until 3 pm for lunch and from 7 pm until 11 pm for dinner,” Khaled Thabet Executive Assistant Manager F&B of The Oberoi, Madina said. The hotel introduced a pastry and bakery festival at the beginning of the...
April 24, 2019

Experience the flavors at the oberoi, Madina

Prince memoir to be released in October
Washington — Prince's unfinished memoir, "The Beautiful Ones," will be released in October, its publisher announced Monday -- three years after the singer's sudden death in April 2016.The "Kid from Minneapolis," who died of an accidental fentanyl overdose aged 57, had announced a month before his death he would tell his story in his own words in a book originally set for release in 2017.Publisher Penguin Random House said the book -- now to be released on October 29 -- would contain previously unseen photos, scrapbooks and lyric sheets, as well as the memoir Prince had started to write."This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to...
April 23, 2019

Prince memoir to be released in October

This handout photograph released by Heso Production Company shows the company's production, a can containing the air of Japan's outgoing Heisei era, in Seki city, Gifu prefecture. — AFP
New air-a: Canny Japanese shops sell tins of Heisei air
Tokyo — With just days until Japan ushers in a new era with the crowning of a new emperor, one entrepreneurial company is cashing in by selling cans containing "the air of the outgoing era" -- a breeze at $10.The can filled with "the air of Heisei" -- the 30-year reign of current Emperor Akihito -- hit the shelves on Monday at the ambitious price of 1,080 yen ($9.60), with producers hoping to sell as many as 1,000 units."Air is free of charge but we hope people will enjoy breathing the fresh air of Heisei after the new era comes, or just keep it as a momento," company president Minoru Inamoto told AFP.The cans have been produced in the central Japanese village of Henari, which is written using the same characters as those used for "Heisei", he...
April 23, 2019

New air-a: Canny Japanese shops sell tins of Heisei air

Horror film 'Curse' leads the pack on a very slow weekend
Los Angeles — For Warner Bros., the release this weekend of "The Curse of La Llorona" brought good news and bad: the horror film topped all comers in North American theaters, but it did so on the worst weekend overall in years."Curse," part of the fright-based Conjuring Universe film franchise, took in an estimated $26.5 million for the three-day weekend, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.But the overall box-office total of $112 million was the lowest for an Easter weekend since 2005, the Comscore site said, with no new blockbusters coming out."Curse" stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Velasquez in the story of a mother in 1970s Los Angeles trying to protect her children from a ghost -- a story loosely based on the "Weeping...
April 22, 2019

Horror film 'Curse' leads the pack on a very slow weekend

Pictures show a balanced sculpture built during the European Stone Stacking Championships 2019 in Dunbar, Scotland. — AFP
Stone stackers defy gravity at European championships
Dunbar, United Kingdom — Expertly balancing one rock on top of another at the European Stone Stacking Championships, competitors combine skill and artistic creativity to come up with gravity-defying constructions.Now in its third year, the event takes place in the Scottish coastal town of Dunbar, east of the capital Edinburgh.Saturday's competition down on the Eye Cave Beach was all about quantity: the most stones balanced vertically in 30 minutes.Sunday's battle put the emphasis on artistic merit: creating anything from stones or found objects within three hours.The winner receives a trip to the Llano Earth Art Festival in Texas where the 2020 World Rock Stacking Championships will be held."Stone stacking is one of the most ancient art forms. It may go back to the beginning...
April 22, 2019

Stone stackers defy gravity at European championships

US rapper Pusha T performs on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. — AFP
Latin pop has US grooving more and more in Spanish
Indio, United States — Just two years after the lilting mega-hit "Despacito" captivated the globe, Latin stars are cementing their place in the US mainstream, moving beyond scoring a one-off smash to headline festivals and permeate the charts.An unprecedented number of Spanish-language acts are performing at this year's Coachella festival, where a second weekend of shows begins Friday -- a sure-fire sign of their mounting influence in a country where 41 million people claim Spanish as their mother tongue.They are not just guests of top-billed acts or appearing on lesser stages -- stars like reggaeton revolutionary J Balvin and Puerto Rican trap artist Bad Bunny are winning key time slots on their own.And they are singing in Spanish, eschewing the "crossover" label...
April 21, 2019

Latin pop has US grooving more and more in Spanish

Adele (R) and her husband, charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki (2R) attend The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.  — File photo
Pop superstar Adele splits from husband
London — Global superstar Adele, one of the world's top recording artists, has split from her husband, UK media reported Saturday, citing the British singer's representatives.Pop diva Adele, 30, married charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki in 2016 after five years together. They have a son, Angelo."Adele and her partner have separated," Benny Tarantini and Carl Fysh said in a statement, according to British media."They are committed to raising their son together lovingly. As always they ask for privacy. There will be no further comment."Adele, who boasts 15 Grammy Awards, is one of Britain's most successful pop exports.With sales topping more than 100 million records, the north Londoner is one of the world's best-selling music artists.Her three studio...
April 21, 2019

Pop superstar Adele splits from husband

Roman Polanski
Polanski sues US motion picture academy for reinstatement
Los Angeles — Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is suing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, demanding his reinstatement nearly a year after the organization expelled him amid the #MeToo movement.Polanski, who in 1977 pleaded guilty in California to statutory rape, argued in a court filing in Los Angeles that the academy wrongly denied him a hearing when it voted in May to oust him amid the nationwide furor sparked by sexual-abuse revelations against famed producer Harvey Weinstein.The complaint, filed to the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles on Thursday, says the academy's board of governors convened on January 26 to re-examine its decision, and confirmed it. Polanski had been a member since 1968."The procedures taken to expel Mr Polanski...
April 21, 2019

Polanski sues US motion picture academy for reinstatement

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