Britney Spears 3 Official Music Video Full HQ
Posted by: RAFAEL on: November 1, 2009
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Britney Spears 3 Official Music Video
Cristina Aguilera & Andrea Bocelli
Posted by: RAFAEL on: November 1, 2009
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Cristina and Andrea Bocelli singing It’s Imposible. A Song by mexican writer and singer Armando Manzanero. It’s in spanish in case you where wondering.
Cristina y Andrea Bocelli cantanto Somos Novios. Una cancion original de Armando Manzanero.
Actor Dennis Hopper diagnosed with prostate cancer
Posted by: RAFAEL on: October 30, 2009
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Los Angeles, California — Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his manager Sam Maydew said Friday.
Hopper is being treated in a special program at the University of Southern California.
He was expected to appear at an exhibition of his photography at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne but has cancelled in order to focus on treatment.
“We’re hoping for the best,” Maydew said. No other details were immediately available.
On September 30, Hopper was hospitalized in New York for flu-like symptoms and stomach pains. He was released the next day feeling “much better,” according to KTLA.
The 73-year-old Academy Award winner is known for his roles in “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Hoosiers,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Easy Rider” — the latter of which he also directed — among scores of other films.
Hopper recently finished shooting the second season of the Starz drama “Crash,” based on the 2006 Oscar-winning film.
Girl, 9, laid to rest as murder suspect, 15, appears in court
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A 9-year-old girl was laid to rest Wednesday as a 15-year-old girl, described as an acquaintance, was in court on charges she carried out the younger girl’s murder
Elizabeth Olten was coming home from a friend’s house last week in St. Martins, Missouri, when she disappeared.
Distraught residents searched for days for Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff’s Department received a tip that led them to the alleged killer.
It didn’t lead them to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender — avenues police had originally considered because of Olten’s age
Instead, it led them to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Olten.
The girl then led police to the body — which was found in an area authorities searched before, the sheriff’s department said, but was hidden so well they hadn’t seen it. Authorities said both physical evidence and some written evidence led to the suspect’s arrest. She has been charged with first-degree murder.
Olten’s family and friends watched as two white horses pulled her casket in a glass hearse. Hours earlier, a judge had ordered the 15-year-old suspect to be held while he decides whether she should be tried in adult court. Authorities have not released the suspect’s name.
Authorities released few details about the case, though they said an autopsy was conducted Saturday.
The Olten family spent the day of Elizabeth’s funeral remembering a very special little girl and mourning their loss, choosing to celebrate her life, instead of attending the court hearing of the teen accused of killing her. After the funeral ceremony, they released pink balloons, in honor of Elizabeth Olten’s favorite color.
For them, it was about their little girl — the one who was always ready with a bright smile.
“She wanted to be a mother, she wanted to love others and take care of others,” family spokeswoman Florence told HLN’s Nancy Grace. “She was just a lovely child — she never met an animal she didn’t love and dress up and play with.”
She loved to dress up and put on fancy dresses, Florence said, even in the snow and the mud.
“She was a beautiful little girly girl,” Florence said. “She had everyone’s heart.”
China invites Kim Jong Il to visit
Posted by: RAFAEL on: October 30, 2009
China has invited reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to visit at his convenience, state media in both countries reported.
The invitation was extended as an official from North Korea’s Workers’ Party visited China and attended a Wednesday meeting, in which the countries pledged to strengthen ties, according to China Daily.
The two nations are celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations.
“The party and the government of China are ready to strive with the Korean comrades to put the relations of friendship between the two countries on a new stage, defend regional peace and stability, and achieve common development and prosperity by further expanding cooperation and visits in all fields,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
Following a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao earlier this month, North Korea indicated a willingness to participate in bilateral talks with the United States and return to so-called six-party talks over its nuclear program. China, Japan, Russia, the United States, and North and South Korea are involved in those negotiations.
As North Korea’s close neighbor, traditional ally and main provider of economic aid, China is widely thought to hold the key to solving the North’s conundrum.
Beyonce causing controversy in Egypt
Posted by: RAFAEL on: October 30, 2009
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Diva Beyonce Knowles strutting her stuff in the conservative Middle East?
Looks like it. Even though not everyone is looking forward to the show.
Beyonce’s worldwide, year-long “I am …” tour, which has taken her from Canada to China since March, is due in Egypt on November 6 at the Red Sea resort of Port Ghalib.
The single show will mark Beyonce’s first-ever concert in the land of pyramids. Tickets have reached $400, according to the Al Arabiya television station.
But even before she starts shaking her booty on the Egyptian stage, the scantily dressed superstar singer has created controversy.
Last week, Islamist Egyptian Member of Parliament Hamdi Hassan, part of the conservative Muslim Brotherhood, slammed the government for allowing a singer “who appears naked in her clips” to perform in Egypt, saying it was violating Sharia law. Sharia, or Islamic religious law, covers many aspects of daily life, including family, sexuality, hygiene and social issues.
“The government is trying to make people indulge in sin and licentiousness to cover up the other crimes it is committing against them,” Hassan said in a parliamentary session.
Hassan accused the government of a double standard for allowing Beyonce to perform, but at the same time refusing permission to an Islamic band that sings religious songs for children.
It’s not the first time a Western pop diva has run up against Egyptian conservatism.
Last year, cleric Khaled-al-Gindi slammed a 2007 Cairo performance by Colombian singer Shakira, likening her to a prostitute.
Al Arabiya reported that organizers, seeking to avoid a similar fate for Beyonce, decided to hold her concert hundreds of miles away from Cairo at a thinly populated Red Sea resort.
Beyonce’s world tour, which continues until next March, has already run afoul of conservative Islam.
She postponed her October 25 concert in Malaysia after the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party called for the Kuala Lumpur show to be scrapped because it would promote “Western sexy performances.”
Beyonce previously called off a 2007 concert in Malaysia over the country’s dress code. Government rules there require female performers to cover themselves from shoulders to knees, and show no cleavage.
Instead, the singer performed in Indonesia, where rules governing stage performances by female singers are more relaxed than in Malaysia.
Other female singers like Avril Lavigne and Gwen Stefani have performed in Malaysia despite similar protests. Both singers showed little skin in their performances, however.
Beyonce is scheduled to perform in Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, the UK and Ireland in November. Dates in Brazil, South Africa and South America are due before the tour ends next spring.
Mafia hit in Italy caught on tape
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A still image taken from a video released by prosecutors in Naples shows the May 11, 2009 killing of Mariano Bacio Terrasino, 53, outside a bar in central Naples.
A security camera in Naples captured a member of the mafia shooting another man outside a store.
When Tarracino falls on the ground, the killer finishes him off with a bullet to the head.
None of the bystanders moves a finger, although it is hard to say if that is from genuine indifference or fear of retaliation.
A woman is seen rubbing off her scratch-and-win lottery card as Tarracino is killed in front of her. A cigarette-seller moves his stall a few metres down the road, while a man holding a toddler in his arms looks at the victim and walks away.
After five months of investigations, prosecutors have yet to identify the killer, despite the fact that his face is clearly visible in the footage.
“We have decided to circulate the video as widely as possible, urging the cooperation of whoever can provide information to identify the killer and his lookout,” the Naples’ office for anti-mafia investigations said in a statement.
The video, top news on the websites of leading Italian media, prompted outrage from politicians. A member of the Green party in the Campania region around Naples offered 2,000 euros ($2,950) for information leading to the killer’s arrest.
Naples, Italy’s third biggest city, is home to the Camorra crime syndicate and its residents have become inured and all but resigned to the almost daily violence on its streets.
Google launches music search with Lala and iLike
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LOS ANGELES – Google Inc on Wednesday partnered with Web services Lala and MySpace’s iLike to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet, expanding its music industry footprint.
The global Web search leader will provide users who want to sample a song with a pop-up box that will play at least a 30-second segment — in some cases the entire song — provided by iLike and Lala, which will then offer links to purchase the music.
Google has also teamed up with Pandora, iMeem and Rhapsody to incorporate links to those music sites, to help consumers discover music related to search queries. Google will begin rolling the feature out to users across the United States on Wednesday.
The move will help cement Google’s role in the music industry, which is struggling with plunging sales amid the rise of Apple’s iTunes and other sites, and fewer media outlets to break new acts. Investors hope that streaming songs or video clips online will help stem the fan-base losses.
“Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or that iconic song, or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head,” Google said on its blog.
The new capability will help listeners find songs by entering a search by title, album, artist or even with a line or two of lyrics.
Google said it did not work directly with any record labels — contrary to reports that it had forged ties with the likes of Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group — but had the industry’s full support.
“Everybody’s been very supportive. Indeed, our business model is to improve the search experience with the help of streaming partners, which offer interesting business models of their own,” said R.J. Pittman, director of product management for Google.
Popular social network Facebook last week also expanded its musical offerings through a deal to integrate Lala into its gift store. Google’s own Youtube video site — already a major discovery avenue for music — is separately partnering with Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony Music to create Vevo, a music video service expected to launch December.
iLike was recently acquired by News Corp’s MySpace social networking site.
The Lala-powered music service allows users to stream any song in its catalog of 8.5 million tunes once for free, and then sells unlimited streams for 10 cents per track and MP3 files, starting at 89 cents.
Lala founder Bill Nguyen said he expects the new alliances to significantly expand its business.
“We’ll see a thousand percent increase in our business. We have about 100,000 customers and the majority or about 60,000 of them are active, which generate about $67 per year,” he said.
Nguyen said his company’s revenues now total less than $10 million, but expects to be much larger by next year.
“We expect to be one of the largest retailers of online music within one year after this deal,” he said.
Chinese officials try to find parents of 60 lost children
Posted by: RAFAEL on: October 30, 2009
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Beijing, China — In some of the photos, the young children are wearing bibs and slight smiles can be seen on their chubby faces.
But these are not your normal baby pictures.
The Chinese government is trying to find the parents of these 60 homeless children, some of them so young that they had not yet developed the strength to hold their own heads up.
This week the Chinese Ministry of Public Security posted pictures of these rescued children on its Web site.
Many of them had similar stories. They were kidnapped, stolen or sold and somehow had been rescued by authorities.
Police tried to find their parents but could not find them through the national DNA database, state-run China Daily reported.
And for the first time, the Ministry of Public Security posted their pictures.
“Even if I can’t find my boy’s photo on the Web site today, it’s a blessing for desperate parents like us who have nearly lost hope,” Tang Weihua, a mother who lost her 5-year-old son in 1999, told China Daily this week.
About 30,000 to 60,000 children are reported missing every year, but it is hard to estimate how many are involved in child trafficking cases, the Ministry of Public Security told China Daily.
Police have rescued 2,000 children this year since China launch a nationwide anti-trafficking campaign.
But after rescuing the children finding the parents can prove difficult. One issue is that in some cases the parents sold the children.
Earlier this week China’s state media reported that police arrested dozens in an alleged child trafficking ring that sold at least 52 babies.
The traffickers bought 19 boys and 33 girls from impoverished rural families in Shanxi and Hebei provinces in the past two years, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The ring started crumbling after three men were arrested with a baby boy in their van, Xinhua said. The three suspects said they had bought the baby from a woman and her daughter in Hebei, according to Xinhua.
The women had sold 12 other babies to the men, and were arrested, Xinhua said.
Tiësto – Just Be
Posted by: RAFAEL on: October 30, 2009
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Known for creating hypnotic electronica in which fragments of airy female vocal melodies weave through pulsating layers of rhythms, Dutch DJ Tiesto is one of the most noted producers/remixers in progressive dance music. JUST BE continues Tiesto’s … Full Description forays into beat-based trance music, and his trademark sonic elements–floating vocals, eerie synth textures, and incessant, high-energy beats–are all present and accounted for.
“Forever Today,” which opens the album, features a building, swelling orchestral fanfare before launching into a flurry of breakneck beats. Surging compositions (particulary “Love Comes Again” and “Nyana”), complete with the requisite electro-hi-hat, conjure visions of late-night ravers contorting wildly, their waving hands illuminated by psychotropic light displays. The real surprise comes with the ghostly, lovely “UR;” the closest Tiesto gets to conventional song structure, this track recalls Japan, Nick Drake, and Radiohead, while still maintaining his lush electronica sound. A clever, twitchy reading of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” closes things out, putting a cap on 78 minutes of innovative DJ music.
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