Author: Jeremy Martinez
LONDON, An evening dress worn by the late Princess Diana has sold for $1.1 million, 11 times its estimate, breaking the record for one of her gowns to go under the hammer, Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles said. Diana first wore a black and blue ballerina-length evening gown by designer Jacques Azaguri in Florence in 1985. She was also photographed wearing it a year later during a visit to Vancouver, the auction house said. The dress, along with a matching design, sold for $1,148,080, Julien’s Auctions said Sunday after it had been estimated at $100,000 to $200,000. “ Julien’s now…
Jack Draper has claimed the biggest prize of his career with £431,000 for winning the Ultimate Tennis Showdown Grand Final in London. The only Briton in the eight-man field in tennis, responding to T20 cricket, the 21-year-old Londoner drew only by wildcard. But he lived up to the invitation by going through the three-day event undefeated, eventually defeating Holger Run in the final. UTS is an abbreviated game format where each match consists of only eight-minute quarters, no second innings, narrowed nets and a DJ playing music to attract younger audiences to the sport. In the semi-finals, Draper defeated two…
An opposition Turkish lawmaker died on Thursday, two days after suffering a heart attack and collapsing in front of parliament as he finished a speech criticizing the government’s policy towards Israel. Hasan Bitmez, 54, a member of parliament from the opposition Felicity (Saadet) party, died at Ankara City Hospital, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told reporters during a televised address. A graduate of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, Bitmez was chairman of the Islamic Union Research Center and previously worked for Islamic NGOs, according to his parliamentary biography. He was married and the father of one child. The parliament’s official broadcast showed Bitmez…
SAG-AFTRA members voted to ratify a preliminary agreement that ended a 118-day strike by actors. In the contest, which ended Tuesday night, 78.33 percent voted for the contract and 21.67 percent voted against it, with a turnout of 38.15 percent. Since the participants have given the green light to the deal, the new agreement will take effect retroactively to June 9 and will be extended until June 30, 2026. “This contract is a huge win for working artists and marks the beginning of a new era in the industry. It has been a truly collective effort to get to this…
Three weeks after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly fired CEO Sam Altman without giving a specific reason for the decision, former CEO Reid Hoffman says he’s still baffled by what happened and why. ” When I read the blog post, I was like,’ What is going on?'” Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-author and prominent nascency investor, said at Wired’s Live Wired conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. “I still don’t think we know completely.” Altman was eventually brought back to lead the high-profile AI startup after a major push from top investors and the threat of a mass exodus. The board…
SYLHET: Kane Williamson scored a defiant century but failed to put New Zealand in control in the first Test against Bangladesh in Sylhet on Wednesday. The callers reached 266- 8 at wholes on the second day, still trailing Bangladesh by 44 runs in the first innings. Williamson smashed 104 off 205 balls in his 29th Test innings with 11 fours before Taijul Islam broke through his defense and dismissed the right-hander. “I mean, you feel the whole world, it’s shocking and how he moves other attacks, other habits that people expect to get him out, different shells, ” New Zealand coach Luke Ronchi praised Williamson. ” So to be equal…
One bite of the chile verde burrito with papas at Burritos Sarita in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has the power to shatter any preconceived notions you have about burritos. In it, a soft, smoky flour tortilla wraps a flavorful mix of tender potatoes, caramelized onions, and flame-roasted chile verde, topped with salty and tangy heavy cream. From beginning to end, the treasure in foil is delicate and neat. Burrito interpretations away from this border town tend to be overstuffed, oversized, overdressed and bloated. But here, the purist burrito, as the locals call it, has only what it needs: one tortilla, one…
Kanye West Delivers Surprise Performance of his new song on Sunday night in Dubai. The 46-year-old “I Love It” rapper appeared on stage during Lil Durk’s concert with Ty Dolla $ign at Blu Dubai, where he sang his new song “Vultures”. The nightclub posted a video of West’s performance on Instagram Stories, in which the musician raps offensive lyrics from the track, such as: “How am I anti-Semitic? I just poisoned a Jewish bitch.’ “Vultures,” West’s first official release since “Hot Shit” featuring Cardi B and Lil Durk last July, first debuted Nov. 17 on Chicago’s WPWX Power 92 and…
Police in Burlington, Vermont, have arrested a suspect in the killing of three Palestinian students in what the city’s mayor said was being investigated as a possible hate crime. The suspect, identified by police as 48-year-old Jason J. Eaton, is expected to be charged Monday in connection with the shooting deaths of the students, three men in their 20s who attend American universities. They were shot Saturday by a white man with a handgun while they were walking near the University of Vermont, police said. Two of the victims were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, a traditional headdress. The youths told family…
Brazilian rap artist Djonga( real name Gustavo Pereira Marques) caught fire in his films while performing on stage; a videotape from the musicale is published by the Telegram channel “ Bild in Russian.” The footage shows how the artist walks past a pyrotechnic installation, it goes off, and the fire instantly spreads to the musician’s clothes. It is noteworthy that Marquez himself did not immediately notice that his clothes were on fire. Seeing the fire, the rapper quickly took off his shorts, and the flames were extinguished by people who ran up. Last year in Feodosia, a 35-year-old fire show…