Paris Ile-de-France, the French regional tourism committee, is promoting Paris as the venue in which rugby and love come together with a controversial print campaign featuring kissing rugby union players.
The 16th annual ESPYs will be hosted by Justin Timberlake, who will be joined by an all-star lineup of top athletes and entertainers to celebrate the best sports stories of the year. The two-hour event will be held @ the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE tomorrow night and televised on July 20th @ 9pm ET on ESPN.
Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, director Christopher Nolan and Morgan Freeman (Photograph from Wireimage)
Taboo (real name: Jaime Gomez) and Jaymie Dizon were married in Pasadena, Calif on Saturday, reports PEOPLE.Serving as groomsmen were bandmates will.i.am and apl.de.ap. Fergie, the fourth Pea, was on hand with fiancé Josh Duhamel.
Interesting Fact: Taboo got married two days shy of his 33rd birthday.
Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from InBev, creating the world's largest brewer and heading off what was shaping up as an acrimonious fight for the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light beers. Inbev brands include Stella Artois, Beck's and Bass.
The combined company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev. As of the end of last week, InBev said it would be the world's third largest consumer products company by market capitalization after Procter & Gamble of the United States and Nestle SA of Switzerland.
The Anheuser-Busch board accepted the higher takeover offer Sunday night from Belgian-based InBev, according to a joint press release. The deal is expected to close by year-end.
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Barack Obama on the cover of the new Ebony titled "25 Coolest Brothers of All Time", which also includes Denzel, Prince and Samuel L Jackson to name a few.
Jacob the Jeweller was sentenced to 30 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to falsifying records and giving misleading testimony in relation to a Federal investigation into money laundering. The Bling King, whose real name is Jacob Arabov, was made famous in the mid 1990’s when many Hip Hop and R&B stars discovered his blinding diamond studded super-sized jewellery. He will start his sentence in January...."I feel ashamed that I broke the laws of this country, a country that has been so good for me" the Russian born 42 year-old was reported to have said.
After a two-year legal process the Paris Tribunal de Commerce found eBay guilty of gross misconduct in failing to prevent the sale of fake products.
eBay announced that it will appeal the decision. It said it has always removed listings if they were counterfeit and blames Louis Vuitton for its problems saying that it continues to use an outdated business model.
Rapper Nas has broken his tradition of sidestepping brand partnerships and inked a one-year partnership with athletic apparel company Fila.Fila will offer reciprocal financial support for Nas' print and TV ad campaign as well as his upcoming tour in support of his untitled album, due July 15 via Def Jam. In return, the MC will wear Fila products and co-create an apparel line that draws from fashions of the late '80s.
"My best friend Will and I loved Fila," Nas tells Billboard.biz. "It represented prestige and everything that was cool to us. When Will passed, we buried him in a black Fila sweat suit, so doing a deal with them has a lot of significance for me."
According to Fila president John Epstein, it was a natural match. "One of my executives spotted Nas shopping in our Manhattan store and struck up a conversation with him," Epstein says. "Nas isn't interested in selling out. He's interested in being true, and that fits with our brand."
Nostalgia aside, some may view Epstein as brave to co-brand his company with an MC who's pledged to unpack America's racial struggles.
"I had some trepidation, and then I started talking to 16- to 20-year-old kids in focus groups," Epstein says. "They looked at me like I was crazy for not understanding his message of positive change. Nas is relevant to his followers and I don't have to understand it as long as they do."
California drivers 18 and older must use hands-free devices when talking on cell phones beginning Tuesday. Drivers under 18 cannot use cell phones or send text messages.
NEW RULES
18 AND OLDER: Voice commands count as going hands-free for drivers 18 or older. BlackBerrys, GPS systems, etc., are OK to use. Text-messaging is legal for now, but legislation pending in Sacramento would ban this as of Jan. 1.
YOUNGER THAN 18: These drivers can't use cell phones. They also cannot send text message or use laptops.
FINES: $20 for a first offense and $50 for each subsequent conviction. Additional administrative fees and penalties can run to $190.
OTHER RULES
EMERGENCIES: OK to make emergency calls to police, health care providers, fire departments or other emergency agencies.
PASSENGERS: They can use any type of cell phone while in a car.
POINTS: No points against driver's licenses will be assessed.
PUSH-TO-TALK DEVICES: OK for those with licenses to operate a truck tractor or a motor truck. This exemption does not apply to drivers of pickups with commercial plates, even if the pickup is used for commercial purposes, such as by a contractor, landscaper or other business.
SPEAKER PHONES: Drivers cannot hold the phone in their hand while on a speaker phone.
Every year, tens of thousands of people flock to Parliament Hill to take part in the noon show with the Prime Minister, the Governor General and the Minister of Canadian Heritage Status of Women and Official Languages and Minister for La Francophonie. This year they mark and celebrate the founding of the Canadian state 400 years ago; from Champlain to today.
Spotted @ UK Tabloid - The SUNPRINCE CHARLES is helping to save the planet – by running his famous Aston Martin on WHITE WINE.
The classic gas-guzzler, a DB6 Volante given to the Prince by the Queen to mark his 21st birthday in 1970, has been overhauled to make it more environmentally-friendly.
It now runs on bioethanol extracted from local vineyards’ surplus plonk – at a cost of £1.10 ($2.00) per litre. [for those that don't know, 1 gallon = approx 3.78 litre's]
And, with the eco-friendly fuel burning at nearly 10 per cent more efficiently than petrol/gas the 150mph motor even goes FASTER at 165mph.
The Aston Martin quaffs 3½ bottles of wine per mile. But at £1.10 a litre, the eco-Prince beats the current fuel crisis and saves money at the pumps.The 59-year-old Royal’s scheme was revealed yesterday as Clarence House published his annual accounts.
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