Emperor, a Tibetan Mastiff, went on sale this week for a staggering 10 million Yuan ($1.6 million). With his thick double coat, Emperor was one of more than 1,000 Tibetan mastiffs from across China appearing at a two-day dog trade show in Shijiazhuang, capital of northern China’s Hebei Province, this week. The average price being asked for one of the dogs was around 1 million Yuan ($160,000…
Feb 19 2012 | Posted in
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…st-the-post constituencies. The other 77 out of 150 parliamentary seats in total are decided by the proportional, party list method. With 25% of the party list vote counted, Georgian Dream had secured 53%, while Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) had 41%. Mikheil Saakashvili had sought to portray the election as a choice between his Western-leaning government, and a future…
…nmates in a juvenile detention centre. It has long been suspected that prisoners in Georgia are mistreated, our correspondent says. When Mikhail Saakashvili swept to power after the Rose Revolution in 2004, he clamped down heavily on crime. But his critics say Georgia has now swung to the other extreme, accusing his government of becoming authoritarian. The abuse videos come as Georgia is preparin…
n in bright red ensembles, with matching bright lips, it is hard to deny that Georgia May Jagger has inherited some great genes. In the magazine feature, Georgia May Jagger revealed how she envies her 56-year-old mother for “her big, beautiful brows”. “That’s the thing I wish I had,” she said. Georgia May Jagger is carving her very own successful modeling career and as seen storming the catwalk du…
Oct 30 2012 | Posted in
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…atic transfer of power in Georgia’s post-Soviet history. Bidzina Ivanishvili said the “only right decision” would now be for Mikheil Saakashvili to resign. While Bidzina Ivanishvili, 56, is set to become prime minister, his rival, who has led the country since 2003, is due to remain in power until presidential elections next year. Under agreed reforms, the parliament and prime mi…
…off the promenade regularly – the only stretch of road without potholes – to race his Lamborghini up and down. When President Mikheil Saakashvili swept to power in Georgia proper after the 2003 Rose Revolution, he vowed to win back this stray territory. There were fears of civil war – but that was averted when Aslan Abashidze fled to Moscow. And although he still faces 15 years i…
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ember 20: Board denies clemency for Davis, reportedly by a majority of three to two. Yesterday a.m.: Defense attorneys’ last ditch request for a polyghraph test is denied by the board. Yesterday 5:00 p.m.: Georgia Supreme Court judge denies a final appeal 6:00 p.m.: Troy Davis’ lawyers “hit send” on an application to US Supreme Court 6:50 p.m.: Dramatic last minute intervention halts proceed…
Voters in Georgia are going to the polls in an election regarded as President Mikheil Saakashvili’s biggest test since he came to power in 2003. Opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s richest man, accuses the president of acting undemocratically and trampling on people’s rights. Mikheil Saakashvili says his opponent would allow Russia to dominate the former Soviet repu…
…ud Barak is on an official visit in Singapore. A statement issued by the Israeli defense ministry noted that Barak was in Bangkok on Sunday, AP reports. Police said the first explosion happened around 14:20, local time, at a house in the Ekamai area in central Bangkok, which the three Iranians were believed to have rented for a month. Two men managed to escape the explosion that severely damaged t…
…ested earlier this month. He is the cousin of the seven-year-old TV star, real name Alana Thompson. According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, Deputy Joe Rozier says he was driving along Highway 20 around 11 p.m. when he noticed someone carrying out a potentially fatal jape. “I observed a white male dressed in a gorilla suit acting as if he was going to jump into my lane of travel. I swerved…
Dec 4 2012 | Posted in
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na and Nick were shopping at AT&T in Roswell earlier today. She seemed pretty happy. She was holding hands with Nicholas and yes, she was wearing a huge engagement ring.” “They bought the new iPad 3,” the source added. Nick Gordon and Bobbi Kristina Brown couldn’t have seemed happier during a trip into the AT&T store in Roswell, Georgia Another source at the couple’s favorite Starbucks in…
Mar 17 2012 | Posted in
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…y but investigations continue. DNA evidence has been collected from the child’s body and the vacant apartment. Jorely Rivera was last seen on Friday afternoon, and her body was discovered around 12:30 p.m. on Monday. Police and volunteers had spent the weekend combing the area around the apartment complex playground where the girl was last seen. At the time of her disappearance, Jorely River…
An explosion has hit an Israeli diplomat’s car outside the country’s embassy in Delhi, India, injuring one diplomat. Police in Delhi said they were investigating “an incident” but could not confirm an attack had taken place. The Israeli embassy in London said there had also been an attempted attack on a diplomat in Tbilisi, Georgia, but an explosive device had not gone off…
Lil Wayne spent a day at an aquarium with his 4-old-son Dwayne just three days before he was rushed to hospital in LA while suffering uncontrollable seizures. According to TMZ, they visited the Georgia Aquarium on March 9 and checked out the Ocean Voyager exhibit. Lil Wayne, 30, has tweeted to say he is “good” despite it being said he was dying and being read his last rights. TMZ had reported Lil…
Mar 17 2013 | Posted in
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Honey Boo Boo’s mom, June Shannon, is wedding her beau Sugar Bear in a ceremony in Georgia, on Sunday, according to TMZ.com. Mama June and Sugar Bear, whose real name is Mike Thompson, met on an online chat room nine years ago and hit it off. Honey Boo Boo’s mom, June Shannon, is wedding her beau Sugar Bear in a ceremony in Georgia, on Sunday They got together and Alana Thompson, aka Honey Boo B…
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R&B star Natina Reed died Friday night after being hit by a car at the age of 32. Mother-of-one Natina Reed, who was a member of ’90s R&B group Blaque along with Shamari Fears DeVoe and Brandi Williams, was killed in Georgia almost instantly after she was hit by a car. The Gwinnett Police Department said the driver of the vehicle that hit Natina Reed called 911 at 10:30 PM last nigh…
Oct 28 2012 | Posted in
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…was cited October 26 for driving with a suspended license, failure to maintain his lane, and for possessing Alprazolam pills, which treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks. A citation from November 5 shows that Kyle Erwin Skinner was again arrested for driving with a suspended license….
Nov 27 2011 | Posted in
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didn’t take long to notice Troy Davis’ execution was different from the others I’ve covered. As I drove up to the prison, I could see the crowds of protesters and a group of at least 50 reporters. I’ve covered about 10 executions in Georgia. None of them are easy. This was by far the most unusual. There were four reporters besides me there to witness the execution. We ended…
Whitney Houston had just $29,000 in her bank account at the moment of her death, while having debts of more than $4 million. Whitney Houston’s financial situation was previously disclosed during her divorce from Bobby Brown in 2007, and it showed how the singer had managed to blow many of the millions she had earned during her career. But while Whitney Houston, who sold more than 170 millio…
…rs. Georgia’s board of pardons rejected the last-minute plea even after it attracted high-profile support, and Troy Davis execution will go ahead as planned. It was the last hope for Troy Davis, 42, who was convicted of killing police officer Mark MacPhail, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1989. Troy Davis, the convicted murderer of a police officer is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wedn…
vealed at the time. Drug paraphernalia can be seen in the room, where Whitney Houston holed up for days, according to Tina Brown, the sister of the singer’s husband Bobby Brown. Whitney Houston, 48, smoked as much as an “eight-ball” (1/8 of an ounce) of crack at a go, blending it with marijuana inside in a cigar wrapper, Tina Brown, also a self-confessed former addict, told the National Enqu…
Feb 12 2012 | Posted in
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Tibetan rescue teams are searching for 83 miners buried in a landslide in Maizhokunggar county on Friday. The chances of finding survivors at the mine near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, were slim, Chinese media quoted rescuers as saying. The miners’ camp, at an altitude of 15,000 ft, 45 miles east of Lhasa, was destroyed by thousands of tonnes of rock. Tibetan rescue teams are searching for…
, the Coca-Cola Company’s archivist and historian, told WXIA. “This particular formula is one of dozens that have popped up over the years trying to emulate the flavor of Coca-Cola.” Indeed, in 2011, NPR’s This American Life radio program published a formula that it reported was the original recipe. The primary flavors were: vanilla, lime juice, lemon oil, orange oil, cinnamon oil and…
May 14 2013 | Posted in
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lead Georgia Tech to a 20-12 record and a spot in the NCAA Tournament in 2007 before going pro the following year, according to WSB-TV. During his two seasons with the NBA, Javaris Crittenton averaged 5.3 points per game in a total of 113 games played with three different teams….
Apr 3 2013 | Posted in
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…court halted another planned execution a few months later. The U.S. Supreme Court granted Troy Davis a hearing to prove his innocence, the first time it had done so for a death row inmate in at least 50 years. At the June 2010 hearing, two witnesses testified that they falsely incriminated Troy Davis at his trial when they said Davis confessed to the killing. Two others told the judge the man wit…
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