PETA is Mad at Naomi

Supermodel Naomi Campbell made PETA angry with her plans of organizing an elephant polo match for her millionaire boyfriend. Model Naomi Campbell’s plans of organizing an elephant polo match in Jodhpur to celebrate her billionaire boyfriend Vladimir Doronin’s 50th birthday, have not gone down well with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The organisation has […]

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Anti-American Protests Flare Beyond the Mideast

 The spreading violence comes as outrage grows over an obscure movie made in the United States called “Innocence of Muslims” that mocked Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.   Anti-American rage that began this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the Middle East and beyond on Friday, with violent and sometimes […]

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30 dead, 70 injured in fire at cracker factory

More than 30 people, mostly factory workers, today died of burns and shrapnel injuries in a huge fire triggered at a fire-crackers unit A blaze at a fireworks factory in southern India on Wednesday killed at least 30 people after triggering a mass explosion of firecrackers in several packed warehouses. Firefighter Shanmugaraju, who spoke from the […]

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India Hit by Second Larger Power Outage

  India suffered its second huge, crippling power failure in two days Tuesday, depriving as much as half of the vast and populous country, or up to 600 million people, of electricity and disrupting transport networks. The first power grid collapse, on Monday, was the country’s worst blackout in a decade. It affected seven states in […]

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France Rallies to Beat United States in Men’s 4×100 Swim Relay

    France beat the United States in the men’s 4×100-meter swimming relay on Sunday, with Michael Phelps and the United States taking a silver medal.   The medal is the 17th for Phelps, and puts him one behind Larisa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast who earned nine golds, five silvers and four bronzes between 1956 […]

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Cabbie turns taxi into hotel for Olympics

    A London cabbie turns his taxi into a hotel-for-one during the Olympic Games. CNN’s Rosie Tomkins checks it out.   Take the scarcity and expense of hotel accommodations in London this mix that with the missing revenue of London Cabbies (due to the restricted Olympic Lanes) and you would get something like a taxi-bed. One driver seen an opportunity while he […]

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Ryan Lochte was barred from wearing his custom grill on the medal stand

  Is there a dress code for the medal stand at the Olympics? American swimmer Ryan Lochte wanted to wear his custom  red, white and blue grill, which represents his country, on the medal stand after winning the 400 IM. But some IOC official informed him that wearing his bling would result in failure to […]

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Protests on opening day of Olympics

  As to be expected, with an international gathering of this size, just hours before the opening ceremonies London was dealing with protesters.    Taxi Drivers Protest Traffic Sanctions Imposed During the Games….   Cab drivers argue the traffic lanes — which are restricted to Olympic officials and athletes — should also be available to taxis. […]

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