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To offset carbon dioxide, a Japanese airline is asking its passengers to go to the toilet before boarding. The unusual request by All Nippon Airways (ANA) is part of its “e-Flight” promotional program to reduce the amount of carbon expelled on 38 domestic routes and its twice daily international flights to Singapore.
Versace, the favoured brand of celebrities such as Elton John and Jennifer Lopez, is pulling out of Japan after nearly 30 years — highlighting the depth of the consumer slump in one of the world’s largest luxury markets.
Manchester United went to the top of the English Premier League as Chelsea lost 3-1 at Wigan to see their perfect start to the season ruined. A seventh straight victory for the champions, 2-0 at Stoke, saw them move ahead of Chelsea on goal difference with both having 18 points after seven matches
Hollywood celebrated television’s best and brightest at the 61st Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
In just 200 days, Michelle Obama has put her own stamp on one of America’s most unusual political positions — the unelected, undefined job of being first lady. And the way she’s done it
“Doctor, I have this strange dream — that every three years there’s a movie about some guy who has a strange dream about people who die in some awful calamity — and that he acts on the dream by saving his friends, who then begin dying in grotesque ways — and that, each time, it’s really the same movie, just with a different calamity each time — and, this is the weirdest part, large numbers of moviegoers keep paying to see it! What do you think I should do?” “Buy stock in the company that produces the movies.” We wouldn’t absolutely insist on that last part — since Warner Bros., the studio in charge of the Final Destination horror films, is a corporate sibling of your favorite web site — but there’s no question that the series has been a triennial cash cow. The 2000 original earned $113 million worldwide; the 2003 sequel took in $90 million; and the third , in 2006, another $113 million. And since each is made for a thrifty $25 million, there are big profits in the FD franchise.
Her identity revealed, a blogger who posted rants about model Liskula Cohen said she was the real victim in the case and plans to sue Google for violating her privacy. Rosemary Port and her lawyer said Monday that they will file a $15 million lawsuit against the search engine giant for not doing enough to protect her identity. “I not only feel my client was wronged, but I feel now it sets precedent that anyone with money and power can get the identity of anyone that decides to be an anonymous blogger,” said Salvator Strazzullo, Port’s lawyer.
Ashly Covington is the kind of top model who doesn’t lift a finger. She doesn’t cook, she doesn’t clean and she avoids anything that could ruin her manicure
A tall, striking, confident, chiseled, brown-skinned beauty, she has forever changed how America defines beautiful. No, I am not speaking of our lovely First Lady, Michelle Obama. I am speaking of Naomi Sims.
Australia’s reputation as the happy, go lucky country was turned on it’s head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone. Melbourne’s “underbelly” of organized crime suddenly became very public. Men hungry for easy money, power and control of the state’s lucrative illegal amphetamines trade were prepared to do whatever it took to be the boss of the underworld.