Iraq’s leaders were called on by the most influential Shi’ite cleric to choose a prime minster within the next four days. This is a very dramatic political intervention that is being taken on which could mean the end of Nuri al-Maliki’s eight year rul. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who commands Continue Reading
Month: June 2014
In a blast and fire at a gas pipeline which occurred in Andhra Pradesh, fourteen people were killed and 20 were injured. This again has come to raise concerns of safety over the country’s energy projects. According to the TV news footage and the eyewitness,’ the fire broke out on a stretch of Continue Reading
Shia LaBeouf, who had satrred in the movie “Transformers” as well as the play “Nymphomaniac,” was reportedly arrested during a performance of “Cabaret,” inside the New York’s Studio 54. According to the NYPD detective Brian Seesa, the actor has been Continue Reading
You never want a past taunting you especially when your in the eye of the public. Neymar, the Brazil forward took a case to court when the June edition of the playboy magaxine featured his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Jordane as “The burnette who charmed Neymar.” Neymar won the Continue Reading
Tales from the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years are now being told by manga, Japan’s ubiquitous comics for adults and teens, which have taken up Fukushima on an unprecedented scale even as Japanese film largely avoids the topic. “Ichi Efu”, Continue Reading
YouTube is venturing onto radio with a weekly show on satellite radio service Sirius XM that will feature the online video website’s most popular and emerging artists, the companies said on Thursday. The show called The YouTube 15 will be hosted by Jenna Marbles, one of YouTube’s Continue Reading
“All the Way,” the Tony Award-winning drama starring Bryan Cranston as U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, broke a box office record when it crossed over $1.4 million in a week, more than any new straight play in Broadway history, producers said on Monday. The play by Pulitzer Prize Continue Reading
Movie studio Paramount Pictures and a Chinese company have resolved a dispute over a sponsorship deal that had threatened to disrupt the release of big-budget action movie “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” the studio said on Monday. Beijing Pangushi Investment Co Ltd last week Continue Reading
Google Inc’s Nest Labs will buy home-monitoring camera startup Dropcam for about $555 million in cash, technology blog Re/code reported, taking another step deeper into consumers’ homes. Nest and Dropcam confirmed the acquisition in separate blog posts on Friday, but did not specify Continue Reading
Oracle Corp is likely to buy Micros Systems in a $5 billion deal, expected to be announced as early as Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The takeover would value Micros at more than $67 a share, the newspaper said. Micros Systems makes Continue Reading