…ed” after it was “hijacked” by his opponents, including state security agents. Morgan Tsvangirai’s first wife, Susan, died in a car crash soon after he became prime minister in 2009. …
…just hours after his daughter’s funeral at the Cathedral International in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The man had been due to take his daughter to see the animated film Happy Feet Two on Monday, November 21. Arthur Morgan was legally-obliged to return Tierra by 9:00 p.m., but when he did not come back her mother, Imani Benton, called the police. Imani Benton learned of his arrest when she arrived at…
rview with Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, on CNN – in which Piers Morgan called his guest “a dangerous man”. Petitions posted on the White House website only require 25,000 signatures to get a response from the government. The campaign was started by a journalist in Texas following Piers Morgan’s CNN programme of December 19. The petition says the talk show…
…7;t ask, don’t tell” policy that had banned openly gay men and women from serving in the US military ended last September. Brandon Morgan and Dalan Wells follow in the footsteps of Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta of California and Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell of Los Angeles who in December became the first lesbian couple to share the traditional home coming first kiss. …
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wants to hold elections in March 2013 with a referendum on a new constitution this November, court papers reveal. His long-time rivals in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have condemned this timetable as “unrealistic”. The two sides are unable to agree on a draft constitution, which is supposed to be in place before the new election. Un…
…rgan Stanley announced in a memo on Wednesday that it is reviewing Facebook trades and would adjust prices for some retail customers who overpaid After pricing at $38, Facebook’s stock closed up 23 cents on Friday and has been down since. On Wednesday, it closed up $1, at $32, still down nearly 16% from the IPO price. NYSE declined to comment. The news comes as even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerb…
David Gray, a very successful JP Morgan investment banker has thrown away his career by stalking his beautiful colleague Daniela Rausnitz. David Gray, 28, is almost certain to be fired from his prestigious position at JP Morgan after a passionate affair became an uncontrolled obsession. The young and wealthy American analyst was yesterday convicted of harassing Daniela Rausnitz, 25, after she tra…
The New York Attorney General has sued JP Morgan Chase for allegedly defrauding investors who lost more than $20 billion on mortgage-backed securities sold by Bear Stearns. JP Morgan bought the investment bank Bear Stearns in March 2008. It said that it would contest the allegations. This is the first action to come out of a working group created by US President Barack Obama looking into the caus…
…e made $1.13 billion on the sale. By the end of trading on Tuesday however the price had dropped to $31 meaning Mark Zuckerberg saved himself a cool $174 million by getting out early. Mark Zuckerberg, 28, still holds a vast amount of Facebook stock but his decision to sell off so much will leave investors wondering about his confidence in the company. The drop is based around the realization that…
…n asset. The trading loss, revealed in a regulatory filing, is expected to hurt JPMorgan’s overall earnings in the quarter, and will come as an embarrassment to the bank. It had emerged from the 2008 financial crisis in much better health than many of its rivals after avoiding risky investments that had hurt others. “We will admit it, we will learn from it, we will fix it, and we will…
Bank of America is being sued for $1 billion for an alleged mortgage fraud. The civil lawsuit has been brought by the US Attorney Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, New York. Preet Bharara accuses Countrywide Financial, which Bank of America bought in 2008, of selling thousands of toxic home loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government agenci…
Reports from several suppliers in Asia said that Apple has reduced its orders by 25% in the last quarter for this year, according to JP Morgan Chase. Apple has enjoyed global success and market domination with its pioneering tablet computer, iPad. Shares in Apple Inc fells as much as 3% in early trading today after an analyst claimed Apple was cutting orders from suppliers of parts for its iPad t…
utions In Friday trading, shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were up 0.8%, HSBC had gained 0.6%, and Barclays had risen 0.5%. Lloyds was 1.6% higher. In France and Germany, Societe Generale was up 2.1%, while shares in Deutsche Bank were flat. In a statement, RBS responded to its downgrade saying: “The group disagrees with Moody’s ratings change, which the group feels is backward-l…
Zimbabwe starts voting in key referendum on a new constitution, amid simmering political tensions. Both main parties – Zanu-PF and the MDC – are urging their supporters to back the constitution, which would pave way for new elections later this year. The polls could end a shaky power-sharing deal between the rival parties following a disputed vote in 2008. Campaigning for the referend…
CNN earned itself another black eye after wrongly reporting that the New York Stock Exchange was flooded with three feet of water following the worst of Hurricane Sandy. “There has been no damage to our building or systems, and we will conduct tests with the industry today with the aim of reopening U.S. markets on Wednesday,” NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia said in a statement. During a live segmen…
…th by $3.2 billion, or $12.8 billion at an annual rate,” Michael Feroli wrote. That 0.33 percentage-point boost, he added, “would limit the downside risk to our Q4 GDP growth protection, which remains 2.0 percent”. Michael Feroli laid out his math. J.P. Morgan’s analysts expect Apple to sell around 8 million iPhone 5s in the fourth quarter. They expect the sales price to be about $600. With…
…at “clearly we had mistakes in the Facebook listing”. It has all taken the shine off one of the most anticipated flotation in history. Facebook shares, launched at $38 each on Friday, fell 11% on Monday and a further 9% on Tuesday. The shares are now worth $31 each. It is a remarkable turnaround from recent weeks, when the social network’s share sale was over-subscribed and the e…
…s for “the people who live and work in New York and those from around the world who come to visit our great arts institutions”. The museum said it had previously “lacked” early 20th Century art, but with Leonard Lauder’s donation it would be at the forefront of world collections. “We have long lacked this critical dimension in the story of modernism. Now, Cubism…
rol when she was in the nude,” Hugh Hefner recalled in a statement. “What would be a position of vulnerability for others was a position of power for her.” The December issue hits newsstands November 20….
…r at Yahoo! to Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi get by on four hours a night, while Donald Trump claims to survive on three. Geraint Anderson, author of City Boy, who worked as an analyst and stockbroker for 12 years, recognizes the phenomenon. “There was a real macho competition in the City about sleep. One of the ways of getting respect was bragging about how little you got.” The hours were…
A second Ariel Castro’s neighbor, Angel Cordero, is coming forward claiming that he was the one to save Amanda Berry from the house where she had been kept for nearly a decade. Angel Cordero was never mentioned by Charles Ramsey, the entertaining folk hero who has captured the attention of the nation in the wake of the dramatic rescue Monday night. Spanish speaking Angel Cordero, who has his niec…
…S’s $1trillion a year budget deficit, investors fear that President Barack Obama will face a renewed struggle reaching an agreement with Congress by the deadline for the “fiscal cliff” of January 1st, 2013. Failure to meet that deadline, enshrined in law, would mean that automatic budget cuts and tax rises would come into effect taking $600 billion out of the economy and sending America and much o…
Two dogs found by police at Ariel Castro’s home and another one in his car could have served as pets for his three captives and were apparently in better condition than the women he imprisoned. A Chihuahua was found in the car with Ariel Castro the night he was arrested for allegedly holding three women captive for a decade, while two terrier poodle mixes were found in his Cleveland home. O…
Bank of America has reported a sharp rise in profits for the first quarter of 2013 after it shed costs and set aside less money for bad loans. Bank of America reported a net income of $2.3 billion in Q1 2013, after making $328 million in the last year’s same quarter. Over the year the company has taken costs of $1 billion out of the bank, helped by 16,000 job cuts. Also helping was a fall in the…
In the weeks since election night, the emerging styles of the Obama daughters, and especially Malia, has taken center stage – the 14-year-old blossoming from the President’s wide-eyed “baby” into a self-assured young woman who has inherited her mother’s confidence, bold fashion sense and looks. Wearing a shiny blue full skirt from ASOS with a neon pink Zara belt, and J. Crew fla…
Real Housewives of Miami: Adriana de Moura marries Frederic Marq wearing a grey wedding dressAdriana De Moura was rumored to have already wed her fiancé Frederic Marq five years ago, but The Real Housewives of Miami's star walked down the aisle with the interior…
Beyoncé posts defensive note amid pregnancy rumorsBeyoncé was obviously frustrated with the pregnancy rumors as she posted a sharply worded note to Instagram appearing to address the gossip head-on. The defensive…
Rihanna sues Topshop for $5 million over using pictures of her on T-shirts without her permissionRihanna says she will sue Topshop after claiming they sold T-shirts with her face on it without asking permission. Rihanna's team is said to have told the British high…
Photo: George Michael airlifted to hospital following car crash on M1 motorwayGeorge Michael was involved in a crash in his Range Rover during rush hour on the M1 motorway near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, on Thursday. George Michael, 49, was…
Christoph Waltz: Man points gun at him and threatens to blow up studio with hand grenade during Cannes TV interviewChristoph Waltz was left shaken last night after a man pointed a hand-gun at him during a live French news programme TV show and threatened to blow up a studio with a hand…
Mariah Carey's American Idol finale performance branded worst lip-sync of all timeMariah Carey's performance on last night's American Idol finale was so good it had some wondering whether she hadn't lip-synched the entire thing. However, Mariah Carey, 43,…
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Ireland Baldwin displays tan lines in backless top
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