Monthly Archives: April 2019

Dolce & Gabbana's China Fashion Show Cancelled After Racism Accusation

Dolce & Gabbana canceled a Shanghai fashion show hours before it was scheduled after an outcry over promotional videos that many people complained were racist. “For the moment, please consider this event as suspended until further notice from Dolce&Gabbana,” the Italian luxury label said in an email to HuffPost on Friday. The company said on […]

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Chinese ‘Ivory Queen’ who smuggled tusks of more than 350 elephants jailed for 15 years

A court in Tanzania convicted a notorious Chinese trafficker known as “the Ivory Queen” on Tuesday, dealing a significant blow against the Asian crime networks behind much of the slaughter of Africa’s elephants. Yang Fenlan, a 69-year-old businesswoman who for years passed herself off as a respectable member of Tanzania’s Chinese expatriate community, was jailed […]

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Canada Post Strike Has No End In Sight As Deadline For Deal Passes

OTTAWA — The union representing Canada’s postal workers asked the federal government to appoint a mediator in its contract talks with Canada Post as it rejected the Crown corporation’s latest offers. The union made the request late Saturday, just before a deadline passed on Canada Post’s time-sensitive proposals that were meant to stop the rotating […]

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The Lion King Trailer Side-By-Side Comparison: 1994 vs. 2019

With the first official teaser trailer for the live-action remake of The Lion King now out, we’ve compared some of its most iconic images to the 1994 animated classic. Below we’ve compiled shots, both from the new trailer and from the original’s The Circle of Life opening sequence. Though much has changed, and the classic […]

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Auburn Montgomery Unanimous No. 1 in 2015 NAIA Softball Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 Poll

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) is the No. 1 unanimous choice in the 2015 NAIA Softball Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Tuesday. En route to a 44-7 record, the Warhawks won their first-ever NAIA Softball World Series last year, after a 10-6 defeat of No. 2 William Carey (Miss.), on […]

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Easy Recipes For The FIFA World Cup Finals

Did you know that the FIFA World Cup is the world’s most widely viewed sporting event? According to FIFA, almost 50 per cent of the world’s population will watch at least one minute of the games. As is the case with any major sporting event, beer is the obvious go-to beverage. In fact, Moscow was […]

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Andrea Horwath Says Ontario's Gender Wage Gap Consultation Is Insulting To Women

TORONTO — Ontario is gathering feedback on legislation aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap, including asking businesses how onerous pay transparency reporting would be. The Progressive Conservative government paused implementation last year of a law from the previous Liberal government that would require all publicly advertised job postings to include a salary rate or […]

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ESPN Networks to Carry Over 400 Division I Games

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN will offer its most robust NCAA Division I Softball slate to date with more than 100 games televised across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network (schedule) and Longhorn Network (schedule) and at least 300 games carried on ESPN3 and SEC Network +, totaling more than 400 games available this spring. ESPN will […]

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Red Dead Online Beta: Launch Dates and New Details Announced

Red Dead Online’s beta period will begin in a limited capacity on Tuesday, November 27, before becoming available to all players on Friday, November 30. Rockstar has announced the beta will be released in stages, adding more and more players throughout the week: Tuesday, November 27: All Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition owners. Wednesday, […]

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Explosions and gunfire mark opening of polls in Nigeria

Gunfire opened Nigeria’s delayed election on Saturday as President Muhammadu Buhari seeks a second term in Africa’s most populous nation. Among the country’s first voters, he said he was ready to congratulate himself in a race seen as too close to call. Police said the blasts in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, shortly before polls […]

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