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Authorities in Shanghai have ordered schoolchildren indoors and halted all construction as China’s financial hub suffered one its worst bouts of air pollution. isibility was reduced to a few dozen metres, while flights were delayed and the city’s spectacular skyline was obscured. The financial district was shrouded in a yellow haze, and noticeably fewer people walked the city’s streets. Vehicle ... Read More »

A Hermitage, TN couple left a McDonald’s drive-thru with a bag containing thousands of dollars instead of the breakfast they had ordered. According to Nashville’s NewsChannel 5, an employee working at the drive-thru unknowingly gave them the bag of money that was supposed to be deposited at the bank, mistaking it for a completed drive-thru order. Read More »

Porsha Stewart is truly a single woman now that her divorce from Kordell Stewart has been finalized. After months of messiness, Porsha’s sudden and shocking split from Kordell has been wrapped up. TMZ.com reports that Porsha and Kordell’s divorce has been finalized, effectively ending their two-and-a-half year marriage. The former NFL player’s lawyer, Shiel Edlin, said that Kordell is “very ... Read More »

Just days after Paul Walker’s death, a California jewelry store employee is telling the world about Walker’s secret act of kindness toward a soldier. More than a decade ago, Walker was browsing in a high-end jewelry store in Santa Barbara when he overheard a conversation between a soldier who’d just returned from a deployment to Iraq and his fiancee. The ... Read More »

Paris Hilton says sh is disgusted with writers of “that stupid fake tweet”. Soon after news broke of the death of Nelson Mandela a tweet allegedly written by Paris emerged on Twitter account @DeletedTweets. Sure enough, a supposed Tweet in which Hilton allegedly credited Mandela with the “I Have a Dream” speech was quickly exposed as a fake. Read More »

The South African anti-apartheid activist died Thursday at his home after a lengthy illness, said South African President Jacob Zuma. “He passed peacefully,” said Mr. Zuma in a state address. “This is a moment of our deepest sorrow. Our nation has lost its greatest son.” Mandela has being treated for the past three months in a Pretoria hospital for a ... Read More »

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, or free electricity. That’s the lesson Kaveh Kamooneh, the owner of a Nissan Leaf electric car, is learning after spending 15 hours in jail for plugging his car into a public school’s outlet without asking. Kamooneh was picking his son up from tennis practice at Chamblee Middle School in Chamblee, Ga., when ... Read More »

Rapper LIL’ KIM has recruited MILEY CYRUS for her upcoming mixtape, Hard Core 2K13. The collection of new music from the hip-hop star was originally scheduled to be released on Friday (29Nov13), but Lil’ Kim took to Twitter.com that same day to apologize for the delay. Read More »

Lady Gaga’s “Artpop” has serious artistic pretentions, right from the album’s title and cover: a Jeff Koons statue of the star with a Botticelli montage. Gaga has described the album as “a celebration and a poetic musical journey.” Yeah, right. Well, at least “Artpop” — out on Nov. 11 and already leaked online — is more ambitious than its predecessors. Read More »

Marvel has a fairly solid track record of keeping actors around for the inevitable sequels, largely by signing them ambitious multi-picture deals. Of course, there are a few exception, most notably Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, and Terrence Howard, who was replaced as James Rhodes in Iron Man 2 after reaching a salary impasse with the studio. Appearing last night ... Read More »

Barry Bonds put his estate in the gated Beverly Park community on the market for $25 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. The colossal estate is a home run: The seven-bedroom, 13-bathroom home sits on 1.85 acres and boasts a music room, theater, wine room, gym, spa and elevator. There’s also a pool, a basketball court, a guesthouse and a ... Read More »