Rita Moreno talks about getting a lifetime achievement award backstage at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Author: Ade Adewale
Crime caper “American Hustle” won the top film prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Saturday, earning another big boost in Hollywood’s all-important Oscars race. Australian Cate Blanchett won best actress for her role in Woody Allen’s “Blue…
Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday bash featured musical performance by popstars Beyonce and John Legend, according one prominent guest on Sunday. “Amazing. Incredible party,” said political analyst Donna Brazile, speaking to CNN the morning after about…
From a sporty, V12 S Class to a be-winged Smart car, Mercedes brought everything (and a little in-between) to the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and parked it right across from Cadillac. If you don’t think that’s Mercedes making a deliberate statement,…
Astronomers said Sunday they had for the first time seen the gas strands theorised to hold the universe together in a “cosmic web”. They had used the intense radiation generated by a quasar — a byproduct of a supermassive black hole — acting as a…
South Sudanese troops fought Sunday to win back the key oil town of Malakal from rebels loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar, the army said, a day after reclaiming the strategic town of Bor. The army said its troops were launching an offensive…
Thousands of people protested abortion in France in a Paris rally Sunday on the eve of a parliamentary debate on a bill that would make terminations of pregnancy easier. Organisers, among them rightwing religious groups, anti-gay activists and associations…
BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s foreign minister welcomed President Obama’s official pledge to curb the powers of the National Security Agency (NSA) on Friday. But a quiet unease lingers across Berlin and many other European capitals. “President Obama…
Suspected Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people in two separate attacks on villages near Nigeria’s border with Niger while three others drowned in a river while fleeing, locals said Sunday. The attackers, thought to be from the Boko Haram militant group…
Small children and women in colourful headscarves cluster around the altar, bundles of their belongings piled high near a statue of the Virgin Mary. In the Central African town of Boali, the local church has become a refuge for some 700 Muslims fleeing…
US lawmakers raised concerns Sunday about the threat of attacks at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, with one faulting Russia for not sharing intelligence. “The threats are real. They are basically calling for attacks on the Olympics. I think you…
You know what they say about the best-laid plans. We collected our top stories of the week this past Thursday so that we could complete the companion video by our Sunday deadline (it’ll be up a bit later this afternoon), and Friday wound up giving…
2013 saw less venture capital (VC) funding raised for solar startups than 2012. The 2013 total was $600 million across 97 deals, whereas the 2012 total was $992 million across 106 deals. While solar power is skyrocketing, VC funding has ironically fallen…
At the end of my recent interview with Mike Tinskey, Ford’s global director of vehicle electrification and vehicle infrastructure, I brought up comments made by Tesla co-founder Marc Tarpenning regarding the internal barriers major car companies…
For a long time, the auto industry has basically just been about selling cars (and trucks, SUVs, etc). However, electric vehicles are a new breed of automobile. Actually, there’s a lot more “auto” potential with these vehicles, as well as linkages…
Acting U.S. Surgeon General releases annual tobacco report which outlines new health hazards of smoking.
Smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than previously known, including liver and colon cancer, blindness, diabetes and erectile dysfunction, said a major US government report on Friday. Top health officials gathered at the White House…
The US Treasury Department said Thursday that it plans to sell about 40 percent of its shares in rescued bank Ally Financial for around $3 billion. Ally Financial, the former lending arm of automaker General Motors, was bailed out by the government…
The knives are out in some Republican circles for embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). According to Tegan Goddard’s Political Wire blog, one top Republican fundraiser described the governor as disloyal and self-promoting. “The guy, as a…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday dismissed President Barack Obama’s proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they would change very little. In a speech intended to quell the furor over surveillance programs…