Above Photo: Likbez (USSR), Tatar Literacy Club, 1935. Almost every single child on the planet (over 80% of them) had their education disrupted by the pandemic, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural (UNESCO) agency. Though this finding is startling, it was certainly necessary to close schools as the infectious COVID-19 virus tore through society. What has been the impact of that decision on education? In 2017 – before the pandemic – at least 840 million people had no access to electricity, which meant that, for many children, online education was impossible. A third of the global population (2.6 billion people) has no access to the […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107902/59/1079025940_0:0:3151:1772_1200x675_80_0_0_abbf7b339d92603cc3c31a0af08593a7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202010171080798463-adult-film-park-with-porn-stars-as-employees-opens-in-tokyos-red-light-district/ The attraction was designed by one of the largest Japanese adult film companies, Soft on Demand (SOD), which has previously opened bars where porn actresses serve guests. The idea turned out to be a hit and the company has decided to expand its business. A theme park for adults that has porn actresses as employees has recently opened up in Japan’s capital Tokyo. Each floor of the five-storied building, located in the Kabukicho red-light district, has its own theme. Floor 1F is used as a sort of reception, where the features of […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. This week: Everyone is talking about Emily. (The one in Paris.) Two reasons to keep watching SNL. Things that made me happy! Things that made me angry! What can’t Mariah Carey do? Say Something Nice About SNL It’s like Charlie Brown and the football with Saturday Night Live, with all of us chugging coffee in order to stay awake for what promises to be searing, dangerous, […]
Whichever cameraman caught Dancing with the Stars professional dancer Keo Motsepe’s confused look as Tyra Banks announced the wrong bottom two dance duos on Monday night deserves a big raise. Ever since she took over as host of the beloved, long-running competition show, fans have been complaining about Banks’ on-stage antics, and more specifically her mistakes. The vitriol has been harsh—which might be why as soon as Banks realized something was wrong on Monday night, she struggled to improvise her way through it. Three couples remained on-stage Monday night when Banks announced the week’s bottom two pairs—a discrepancy Banks quickly noticed. […]
When asked to describe the fashionable heroine of his sunny Netflix rom-com, Emily in Paris, Darren Star chose his words carefully. “I wanted to know, to create a character that had a lot of real sort of gung-ho ‘American qualities’—ambitious,” he told me during a recent phone interview. “She’s… she’s not a know-it-all, but she comes in with a… I think certainly a lot of, um, you know, spunk…” He seemed to be tip-toeing around the increasingly obvious word: annoying. Eventually, he landed close: “I wanted all those qualities to be a little bit off-putting to a lot of the French […]
Conor McGregor’s plans of facing Manny Pacquiao in a blockbuster boxing match in the Middle East are unlikely to happen because key players in the region are loyal to UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Russian’s manager says. McGregor and Pacquiao are in talks to meet in the ring later this year or in early 2021, as revealed by the Irishman in a bombshell tweet on Friday. ‘The Notorious’ named the Middle East as the location for the contest, which would be his second professional boxing outing after he famously faced ring icon Floyd Mayweather Jr in a Las Vegas money-spinner in 2017. […]
The teenaged kids of some of the biggest names in New York’s media elite—Chris Cuomo, George Stephanopoulos, and others—have teamed up to start an online publication bridging the traditional style of their parents’ generation and the Gen-Z focus on fighting racism and inequality at all levels of society. In July, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Lily Wolfson and Ryan Pelosky, two New York City high-school students, decided they wanted to launch an online newspaper for teens. They emailed a network of friends they knew through school, extracurricular activities, and social occasions, and enlisted a few dozen peers from across the city to […]
It took nearly two hours for Carole Baskin to get thrown to the tigers. It was an excruciating wait. Like a big cat stalking its prey, the Dancing With the Stars producers waited a full 117 minutes before going in for the kill, stringing along the scores of new lookie-loo viewers who, judging by the sudden social media interest in the creaky 29th season premiere of the show, were tuning in for a reality-TV snuff film: the televised humiliation of the year’s most notorious TV star. They got just that, too. Baskin’s paso doble, danced with laughable predictability to Survivor’s “Eye […]
Fox News star Sean Hannity was once his network’s most prominent booster of conspiracy theories about murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, only stopping the rumor-mongering after Rich’s grieving parents publicly begged him to knock it off. Now, Hannity will have to answer questions, under oath, about Fox’s coverage of Rich’s death. Hannity, along with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and a host of Fox staffers, is set to be deposed in late October over the network’s debunked reporting on Rich, which falsely claimed that he had leaked thousands of Democratic emails to WikiLeaks—a leak, they suggested, that led to […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Must the show go on? Absolutely bonkers casting news. Bemasked couture, the new normal. The only movie I want to see. I’ll take “Big Jeopardy News” for 400. The Casting News That Broke Me Tracking Hollywood casting news—who’s been cast in what roles for which projects—is a major part of entertainment journalism and one that I’ve always felt was kind of silly. Outside of it, sure, […]
U.S. troops in the Vietnam War read the Stars and Stripes newspaper in 1969. The Pentagon plans to shut down the paper, for generations aimed at U.S. military personnel, at the end of this month. Godfrey/AP hide caption toggle caption Godfrey/AP U.S. troops in the Vietnam War read the Stars and Stripes newspaper in 1969. The Pentagon plans to shut down the paper, for generations aimed at U.S. military personnel, at the end of this month. Godfrey/AP The Pentagon ordered the closure of the venerable military newspaper Stars and Stripes on Friday. But hours later, President Trump tweeted that he wouldn’t […]
With the Pentagon reportedly set to shutter the US military’s long-running newspaper, President Donald Trump has stepped in to declare Stars and Stripes safe from closure. However, that closure has been in the works for months. According to a Pentagon memo reported by several US outlets on Friday, the US military’s newspaper, Stars And Stripes, will cease operations this month, and publish its last copy by September 30. As the news broke, Trump took to Twitter to declare the newspaper – first published in 1861 – safe. “The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107561/44/1075614484_0:65:1200:740_1200x675_80_0_0_e1640e5beeaf263f1f87e6afa2e92a0b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009041080370635-trump-reverses-pentagons-decision-to-shutter-stars-and-stripes-newspaper/ US President Donald Trump on Friday reversed a Pentagon decision to cut funding to Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that focuses on matters related to the US Armed Forces. “The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch. It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!” Trump tweeted Friday. Trump’s statement comes after the Defense Department notified Stars and Stripes in February that it intended to cut funding to the outlet. In an August 4 memo to the outlet’s publisher, first […]
The search for alien life in the universe usually focuses on exoplanets orbiting around distant suns, but a new theory proposed by researchers in New York suggests an extreme form of ‘nuclear life’ may be living inside stars. While constantly scanning the skies for Earth-like planets inhabiting the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of their stars – not too hot but not too cold, allowing for liquid water on their surface – alien-hunting scientists may have overlooked a source of potential extremophile creatures: the stars themselves. Also on rt.com NASA shares stunning IMAGE of Earth-sized planet that could harbor alien life As the name […]
They interpret for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in his coronavirus briefings. Their expressive signing has made them celebrities — and brought attention to South African Sign Language. (Image credit: Youtube/ Screenshots by NPR) Source link
Andrew Cuomo Hollywood stars traveling to New York City from out of state for the MTV Video Music Awards will have the special privilege of skipping the state’s 14-day quarantine mandate. Under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s mandate, anyone who travels to New York from any of the 34 ‘high risk’ states must quarantine for 14 days. Violators may be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for 15 days. “The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and Citywide Events is working in close coordination with the production to ensure guidelines are being followed,” a City Hall spokesperson told the New York Post. They […]
Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti has been labeled a despotic hypocrite by social media, after he cut off water and power at a TikTok influencer’s residence where gatherings were held in violation of coronavirus orders. In a tweet, Garcetti announced that he had instructed the city to disconnect utility services at a house in the Hollywood Hills, claiming that its tenants had put the community at risk by hosting parties “in flagrant violation of our public health orders.” The residence in question has reportedly been the site of several large social gatherings since the start of August. The New York […]
On Sunday night, a dozen Bravo stars from The Real Housewives, Married to Medicine, and Top Chef franchises gathered for a kind of programming different from what the network’s reality-TV obsessed fans are used to: a roundtable discussion on race and equality titled Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment. Outside of last year’s first-ever BravoCon convention, the historic gathering at the 2019 New York City Pride March, and Andy Cohen’s baby shower, it ranks among the largest assemblies yet of Bravo talent, taking place two and a half months after the police killing of George Floyd sparked a revolutionary […]
A new photograph captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) is the first image of a “very young version of our own sun” surrounded by two gas planets, according to the leader of the study that took the photo. Alexander Bohn of the Netherlands’ Leiden University told the Associated Press that the new study he led, published on Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, included an image of an “extremely exciting” discovery. The snapshot, he explained, was “the first time astronomers were able to capture such a shot” of a multi-planet system featuring a “very young version of […]
LONDON – The U.K. and U.S. governments have turned to startups and inventors in a competition to adapt commercial technology solutions to answer pressing challenges in the military space sector. The two countries have jointly put up £1 million, or $1.3 million, to tap into potential new ideas in six technology areas from small companies, innovators and others around the world. The finalists will face a beauty parade in front of senior British, American and NATO military officials at a space conference scheduled to take place in London in November. Up to 15 proposals will be selected to go forward with […]
Liverpool’s Premier League-winning squad has been accused of tone-deaf choices on one of the most momentous nights in the club’s history, with fans fuming that the club’s players have chosen Kanye West and Coldplay for the music. Stars including Virgil van Dijk, Jordan Henderson and Mohamed Salah have selected the accompanying music for their official title ceremony at Anfield tonight, when the players will be handed their Premier League medals after the club won the league for the first time in 30 years last month. Their final home match of the season, against Chelsea, will take place without fans because of the coronavirus […]
America’s ratings leader in cable news has been rocked by new allegations of sexual harassment, with the latest complaint against Fox News implicating its two biggest stars, in addition to accusing former host Ed Henry of rape. A lawsuit filed on Monday in the US District Court in New York alleged that former Fox News contributor Cathy Areu was harassed by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and two other Fox anchors, and that former Fox Business Network producer Jennifer Eckhart was sexually assaulted and raped by former news anchor Ed Henry. The suit alleged that Carlson and another Fox host, Howard Kurtz, tried […]
The new research postulates that a star has to be at least 1.5 solar masses in order to spread its “ashes” upon its demise. It appears that when a star dies, it ends up spreading chemical elements such as carbon across other celestial bodies, phys.org reports citing a new study that was recently published in Nature Astronomy. As the media outlet explains, the new research suggests that during the last stages of their lives, stars twice as big as the Sun produce carbon atoms that then get expelled to the surface and carried into the surrounding environment via stellar winds. “The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/27/1079792781_0:0:3433:1932_1200x675_80_0_0_ad69dba29e3f2de1b3619e0124e6a531.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007041079792580-football-stars-from-bayern-and-leverkusen-arrive-for-german-cup-final—video/ The faceoff for the trophy will be held without an audience because of the restrictions that are in place due to coronavirus-related concerns. In May, the Bundesliga resumed play after the epidemiological situation in Germany started to improve. Sputnik is live from outside the Olympiastadion in Berlin, where players from Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen are set to clash for the German Cup. The two teams made it to the final after Bayern Munich defeated Hoffenheim, Schalke 04, and Eintracht Frankfurt, while Bayer eliminated Stuttgart, Union Berlin, and Saarbrucken. Last year, the trophy was claimed by the […]
Several Fox News stars have continued to peddle the claim that Shake Shack employees “intentionally poisoned” the milkshakes of three New York police officers, even after the New York Police Department found there was “no criminality” by employees. Late Monday evening, several police unions claimed the officers had been briefly hospitalized after noticing a substance in their drinks, suggesting that bleach was deliberately placed in the shakes by employees due to the currently tense national mood around policing. The Detectives’ Endowment Association declared the officers were “intentionally poisoned” while the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association fired off a breathless statement claiming its members […]
Internet sensation Bella Angel, who has swapped tips with icons including Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia during her budding career on the course, has delighted her vast fanbase by speaking of her excitement at returning to golf. The 22-year-old has kept her vast following of more than 212,000 entertained during lockdown by sharing a video of herself in a figure-hugging dress performing 1,000 golf keepy-uppies in a single day for charity. Known for her chic fashion and skin-baring outfits on the course, the popular personality cheekily told fans to “take me to the candy shop” and showed off her baking skills […]
Eddie Redmayne has joined a growing numbers of actors from the Harry Potter universe to critique J.K. Rowling’s recent anti-trans tweets. The Fantastic Beasts actor addressed the controversy with a statement, in which he wrote, “Respect for transgender people remains a cultural imperative… “I disagree with Jo’s comments. Trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid.” On Saturday Rowling mocked an op-ed titled “Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” “‘People who menstruate,’” Rowling wrote. “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” […]
A few of the women seemed nervous as the cameras began to roll and the orgy got underway—not unusual for newbies. Except there was one woman who appeared to be dodging a particular male performer. If he got too close, she’d walk off-camera or reposition, creating a buffer of other performers’ bodies between them. It seemed personal. His physical performance began to suffer. Ugh. Wood problems would mean longer working hours for everyone. When several performers called for bathroom and water breaks, and with the scene paused and fewer people nearby, he sat down next to her and asked why she […]
Women’s world number three Karolina Pliskova says any male stars complaining over demands for equal pay for their female counterparts are “super weak” – but insisted she is not pushing for parity between the sexes. Recent weeks have seen renewed calls from the likes of men’s icon Roger Federer for the ATP and WTA tours to merge – leading to questions over what that would mean for the pay disparity between the tours. Also on rt.com Impractical idealism? Roger Federer calls for ‘men’s and women’s tennis to come together as one’ Pliskova, 28, said she did not think that a merger […]
Players in the Australian Football League (AFL) are chasing details from the powers that be as they attempt to understand a specific coronavirus restriction known locally as the “Bonk Ban.” The rule, which prevents players from having visitors to their homes other than their partners, or a friend or family member providing care for their wellbeing. But the law, dubbed the “Bonk Ban” by local media, has left the league’s single players confused, and they are seeking clarification over the rule, and how it affects their respective dating lives. Also on rt.com ‘Germany’s most beautiful streaker’: 72-year-old serial stripper who has […]
A-list stars of the entertainment world including Madonna, Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen are among dozens of celebrities whose personal and business information is being held to ransom by hackers who infiltrated the systems of media and entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks. Industry sites such as Teiss said that the hackers, calling themselves REvil, claimed on dark web forums to have accessed 756GB of information on many clients, past and present, including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Bruce Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Bette Midler, Jessica Simpson, Priyanka Chopra, Idina Menzel and Run DMC. The […]
Note: VT investigated Judy’s claims after two VT contributors, perhaps out of curiosity, featured her content. VT’s private affiliate does background checks and psychological profiles for a dozen nation state clients. We found Judy to be ‘less than compelling’ and her methodologies and assertions to be ‘grossly unsound’ and notified editorial staff accordingly. Mikovits is not the only one and is far from the worst. Also note that it was VT that has led the forefront in calling for an international tribunal into the creation of COVID 19 as a bio-weapon. Daily Beast: Dr. Judy Mikovits is portrayed as a science […]