Dr Dre sponsors tech innovation centre

The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook. Young – hip-hop mogul best known as Dr Dre and the co-founder of Interscope Records – appeared at a news conference

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Quake drama filmed across Chch

Hundreds of Cantabrians are reliving their earthquake experience as extras in a six-part television drama set in Christchurch. Scenes for the fictional Hope and Wire series were last night being shot on scaffolding erected on the side on a Worcester St building, near Cathedral Square.

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Video: Katt Williams Hit Target Employee In Face

  Katt William Hit Target Employee In Face after going on a rampage and eluding law enforcement.   Pimp Slapped ….   What did the 5 fingers say to the face? Ask the guy who got PIMP SLAPPED by Katt Williams. Katt wasn’t done after leading cops on a crazy three-wheeled chase through Sacramento on […]

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The Game’s Alleged Victim Says: He SUCKER PUNCHED Me At Lil Wayne’s Party

  The Game fights dirty — at least according to rapper 2Eleven, who says Game sucker punched him at Lil Wayne’s birthday party last week … and that’s why Game got his ass kicked out.   2Eleven Had No Idea The Game Wanted To Fight With Him 2Eleven tells us, he had no idea Game even wanted to […]

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Obama Sticks to a Deadline in Iraq

Obama Sticks to a Deadline in Iraq When President Obama approved a plan to withdraw combat forces from Iraq  this summer, it was based on the assumption that a newly elected government would be in place by the time Americans headed home. Fourteen months later, that assumption is exploding but the plan remains the same. […]

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More Iran election protesters go on trial

The mass trial of a third round of detainees arrested in the aftermath of Iran’s disputed presidential election began on Sunday. Prosecutors read out charges against more than two dozen detainees who are being tried in the Revolutionary Court. The defendants are among more than 1,000 people arrested after the government cracked down on days of street protests following the June 12 election

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