Featured Blog Posts – August 2010 Archive (53)

Of her four Rock the Bells Tour stops, Lauryn Hill hasn't had one show exactly like any of the others.



On Saturday in New York, she brought a host of celebs onstage — including Jay-Z and Beyoncé — and on Sunday, at the closer in Washington, D.C., Nas was her guest. The two performed Esco's classic "If I Ruled the…

A St. Lucia soccer star's jubilant victory celebration was cut short by a deadly .45-caliber bullet, fired execution-style into his car Monday on a dark Brooklyn street.

Isidore Phillip Tisson, 27, scored the goal that sent his country to the…

ELMWOOD PLACE - An Elmwood Place police officer who stopped a car because it had illegally tinted windows received a bit of a shock when he looked inside.



Officer Ross Gilbert said the driver, Colondra Hamilton, a 36-year-old Downtown resident, was sitting with her pants unzipped and a sex toy in her lap.



He said Hamilton told him she was using the toy while watching a sex video on a laptop computer that a passenger in the front seat held up…

A Barbadian immigrant who entered the U.S. on a visitor`s visa, is now facing separation from her daughter who is stricken with cancer.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to send Petra Gooding packing by September 2nd, despite the fact that her 7-year-old daughter Niamh Stoute is going through chemotherapy in a battle with cancer.

`She…

Darmstadt, Germany (CNN) -- A German pop star was found guilty Thursday of causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm for failing to tell sexual partners that she was infected with HIV.



Nadja Benaissa, 28, former singer in the girl band No Angels, was given a two-year suspended sentence. She was also ordered to complete 300 hours of community service with people who are HIV-positive.



The…

A court in Dominica has ruled that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and Education Minister Peter Saint Jean will face trial on charges that their election to parliament in 2009 was invalid as a…

Could Hitler's hatred for the Jewish people have been a case of self-loathing?

The repulsive leader of Nazi Germany may have had Jewish and perhaps African relatives, according to DNA tests conducted on nearly 40 living…

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? Media outlets have obtained the call that every one is talking about. The Timbaland 911 call, in which his mother-in-law desperately declares an emergency -- stating the rapper/producer was "tired of the stress" ... and noted that he was near a cliff.

TMZ broke the story ... after receiving the call, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department dispatcher sent out a "possible suicide attempt" APB.

A…

USAIN Bolt, Jamaica's sprint king, has earned an extended sponsorship contract with sporting goods company Puma AG until the end of 2013, making him the world’s most highly sponsored runner.

Although the terms of the contract were not released, Puma chairman and chief executive…

Perjury and obstruction of justice simply mean that at some stage he lied and then attempted to cover up the lie. Were it not for the political vote of the Democratic Senate, which acquitted him, he would have been booted out of office.

At present, Prime Minister Golding has invited himself to the way of the gallows, all over…

Bibi Swahbirene Farzana Ali

Early yesterday morning, the man of Mount Standfast, St James, took Barbados police to the “well” where he had buried the woman. Bibi Swahbirene Farzana Ali, 33,…

Tiger Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren said she's “been through hell” since her hubby's infidelity surfaced last November -- but that she "feels stronger than I ever have" following the split, according to an interview released today.



Nordegren told People magazine she and Woods tried for months to reconcile.



In the end, a marriage “without trust and love” wasn’t good for anyone, Nordegren said in her first, and…

In this country, we don’t make urban-planning decisions strictly on the basis of religion. For that reason, the so-called ground-zero mosque had to move forward.

As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked: “Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? That may happen in other…

SAME-SEX UNIONS may not be acceptable today, tomorrow or even the next five years in Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours but they will eventually come to the region.

And the driving force behind any change in attitude may be a mix of economic factors – the need for tourists and investors – and a desire by West Indian immigrants for racial equality in North America and…

The 2010/2011 budget date is Wednesday, September 8, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night, as she briefed the media on her trip to New York. The announcement was made yesterday at a news conference at the VIP Lounge at Piarco International Airport.

Persad-Bissessar said talks with stakeholders would take place this week. She declined to give hints on what the budget would include. Regarding the postponed Cabinet…

Only in South Africa can you get away with a HEADLINE and story like this. On the front page.

Do you think this head line could be used on the front of a News paper in the US and if it was used would you be…

Anguish: The mobile phone footage was taken at a police station in Manila and shows a suspect lying naked on the ground



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DailyMail.co.uk: A number of police officers in the Philippines have been relieved of their duties after a TV station aired footage allegedly showing them…