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Published by Al-Araby The Egyptian education ministry has ordered educational directorates to integrate concepts of sexual education, sexual harassment and sexual violence into the basic education curriculum, local media reported on Thursday. The move is an aim to protect children following increasing public concern that they may imitate “deviant” sexual behaviours – which many in Egypt consider to include homosexuality – as children watch content online, according to Sada El Balad and Egypt Independent. Egypt has banned films containing homosexual references and its Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) rec… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 12 points, a Thursday poll showed, while the far-right leader seeking reelection has lost the pace against his leftist rival’s edge ahead of the Oct. 2 vote. The survey by Datafolha showed Lula with 45% voter support versus 33% for Bolsonaro in the election’s first round, compared with 45% and 34% respectively in the previous poll. In an expected second-round run-off, Lula would garner the support of 54% of voters versus 38% for Bolsonaro, a 16 point advantage, according to the poll, up from 14 points a week ago. Bolsonaro’s approval rating edged down to 30%, compared to 31% one week ago; still above the 22% he held in December, after which his popularity ticked up thanks to welfare programs and measures to tackle inflation. His disapproval came in at 44%, according to the poll, up from 42% one week ago but down from the 53% seen in December. Datafolha conducted 5,926 in-person interviews between Sept. 13-15. The poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points up or down. (Reporting by Carolina Pulice and Pedro Fonseca) View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Lil Nas X’s next track, ‘STAR WALKIN” will soundtrack the ‘League of Legends’ Worlds 2022 tournament. The ‘Old Town Road’ hitmaker’s fans can expect the new song on September 23, ahead of the big kick-off in Mexico City. What’s more, Nas will be playing live during the Worlds Finals at San Francisco’s Chase Center on November 5. The Grammy winner has also teamed up with Riot Games to design a skin for the new champion K’Sante, The Pride Of Nazumah, with Prestige Empyrean K’Sante being unlockable between November 3 and 14. In a statement, the 23-year-old star – whose real name is Montero Hill – said: “I felt like it was time for me to try something new. “I’ve left my mark on pop culture in so many ways, and now it’s time to take on the world of gaming.” The ‘Industry Baby’ hitmaker quipped: “I will be the greatest president of ‘League of Legends’, of all time. “Also I’m going to make the best Worlds anthem of all time and put on the biggest, coolest, sexiest Worlds in the history of all Worlds! ‘STAR WALKIN’’ is the only song anyone is allowed to listen to from now on.” Last year, PVRIS released the Worlds anthem ‘Burn It All Down’. The likes of Imagine Dragons, Zedd and Against The Current are among the acts to have released an anthem for the tournament. Worlds 2022 will take place in Mexico City, New York City, Atlanta, and San Francisco between September 29 and November 5. View the full article

Published by DPA Amazon Studios says it's working on a Blade Runner sequel series, with Ridley Scott on board as executive producer. Ian West/PA Wire/dpa Blade Runner looks set to return, after Amazon Studios announced that it’s producing a sequel series – called “Blade Runner 2099” – for Prime Video. Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 “Blade Runner” movie, is on board as an executive producer, Amazon said on Thursday, as is Silka Louisa (Shining Girls), who also wrote the script. The sci-fi film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, where original Blade Runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) has to fight insurgent synthetic humans also known as replicas. In the 2017, the Blade Runner universe returned to the screen with Denis Villeneuve’s sequel “Blade Runner 2049,” starring Ryan Gosling as well as Ford. Based on the title, the new Amazon series is likely to be set in 2099. So far, the streaming giant hasn’t disclosed any details concerning the plot or cast, however. View the full article

Published by Radar Online mega Since the passing ofQueen Elizabeth II, many celebrities have given their condolences to the Royal family but none have displayed the respect that David Beckham, 47, did. Arriving before dawn and dressed in a black suit and tie, Beckham did not attempt to conceal his emotions as he joined the queue of grievers waiting to see the Queen lying in state. The former captain of England’s soccer team continued to wait in line for the next 13 hours. Speaking from the queue to ITV, he stated, “I thought by coming at 2 AM it was going to be a little bit quieter — I was wrong.” mega Beckham described himself as a royalist and a “huge fan of the Royal family,” as he spoke highly of the Queen and what it meant to him to be able to join his fellow countrymen in honoring her legacy. “Her Majesty meant so much in so many different ways,” said the teary-eyed soccer star, who has been close to the Royal family for many years and has historical attended events such as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018. “I can speak on my behalf of the amount of times I was able to meet her through my career,” he continued, “Every time we stood there and wore those Three Lions shirts and I had my armband and we sang ‘God Save Our Queen,’ that was something that meant so much to us. Every time that we did it, it was something special.” mega “This day was always going to be a difficult day,” the former athlete said to interviewers, “Our thoughts are with the family, it’s very special to hear all of the stories from people here.” As one of England’s leading athletes for many years, Beckham met with Queen Elizabeth II several times since his rise to fame. It was clear as he spoke with reporters that this was more than just a stunt to see his name in headlines. “The most special moment for me was to receive my OBE. I took my grandparents with me who were huge royalists,” Beckham recalled on receiving the second highest ranking Order of British Empire (OBE) award from Her Majesty in 2003. the public queue to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.mega “I was so lucky that I was able to have a few moments like that in my life to be around Her Majesty. It’s a sad day, but a day to remember,” he solemnly reflected. As the world mourns the incredible legacy and reign that spanned seven decades, inappropriate controversies regarding who should be in attendance, including members of the family, have surfaced. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega Marjorie Taylor Greene seemingly kicked a gun control advocate this week after being confronted by a group of activists in Washington, D.C., RadarOnline.com has learned. The shocking incident took place on Thursday as the controversial congresswoman was leaving the United States Capitol building. Mega After being surrounded by the large group of gun control advocates, the 48-year-old representative of Georgia’s 14th congressional district engaged in a heated back-and-forth regarding gun violence. Even more shocking is the fact that MTG herself tweeted a video of the incident in which she appears to kick a young woman two separate times after the young woman – who has since been identified as 18-year-old Marianna Pecora – walked in front of the congresswoman. “Did she literally just tweet out the video of her kicking me?” Pecora tweeted. Nearly 25 minutes earlier, Greene posted the video to her Twitter account calling Pecora and the other activists “foolish cowards” and suggested they are “idiots.” Mega “These foolish cowards want the government to take away guns & the rights of parents to defend their children in schools,” MTG wrote alongside the 3-minute clip. “You have to be an idiot to think gun control will create a utopian society where criminals disarm themselves and obey the law,” she continued before adding gun free zones “kill people.” Despite the video which appeared to show MTG kicking Pecora two separate times, the congresswoman’s communications director, Nick Dyer, told NPR the allegations are “absolutely ridiculous” and a “lie.” Pecora, who also spoke to NPR, admitted she was “a little shaken” emotionally in the wake of the incident. “It’s incredibly disheartening to me that a member of Congress has so little respect for the people of our country that she finds it acceptable to turn to trying to hurt them,” she told the outlet. Mega Late Thursday evening, Santiago Mayer – who serves as the executive director of the group Voters of Tomorrow and who was also with Pecora at the time of the incident – revealed the group is looking into pressing charges against MTG over her allegedly belligerent behavior. “To answer the most prevalent question about pressing charges: we’re talking to our legal team and keeping our options open,” Mayer said. View the full article

Published by AFP Venezuelan migrants, sent from Texas, in front of the official Washington residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris in September 2022 Washington (AFP) – Fifty or so migrants sent to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard in the northeastern United States as part of a political battle over immigration will be temporarily housed at a military base not far from there, the governor of Massachusetts said Friday. The migrants, mostly Venezuelans and including children, arrived Wednesday at Martha’s Vineyard, a Democratic stronghold and popular vacation spot for the country’s political elite. They had been put on board flights from Texas which the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, says he chartered. Despite local mobilization to help the new arrivals, the island is “not equipped to provide sustainable accommodation, and state officials developed a plan to deliver a comprehensive humanitarian response,” said a statement from the administration of Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican. State authorities on Friday offered to move the migrants, on a voluntary basis, to temporary accommodation at the nearby Joint Base Cape Cod. “Families will not be separated,” the statement said, noting that the base had previously served as an emergency shelter and that the migrants would have access to care and legal services. According to local media, the migrants were on their way to the base by midday Friday. Some of them had said they had not known they were being sent to an island. ‘Human trafficking’ Local Democrat legislator Julian Cyr called for an investigation. “Whether or not this meets the legal threshold for human trafficking, this meets the moral threshold of human trafficking,” he told local television, adding that he hoped the Department of Justice would look into the incident. Sending migrants to Democratic strongholds has become a political cudgel for the American right as a means of denouncing President Joe Biden’s immigration policy, which they say has allowed undocumented migrants to cross the border with Mexico in large numbers. It is also a way to try to place immigration at the center of the campaign for the midterm elections in November. On Thursday morning, two buses carrying migrants arrived near the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, a place chosen on purpose because she is overseeing the explosive issue of immigration for the White House. They had been sent by Texas’s Republican Governor Greg Abbott. The White House on Friday again slammed the Republican governors’ tactics towards people who have fled the socialist regime in Venezuela. “These were children. They were moms. They were fleeing communism. And what did Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott do to them? They use them as political pawns, treating them like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt,” said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala. And for what? A photo op?” she said. But DeSantis shot back by mocking the fact that the migrants had been transferred off the wealthy island. “By the way, they already bussed them out. They said, ‘We want everyone. No one’s illegal.’ And they’re gone within 48 hours,” he said. View the full article

Published by Radar Online mega An explosive new tell-all book from journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser provides damning new insight into the marriage of Melania Trump and Former President Donald Trump during their chaotic time at The White House, RadarOnline.com has learned. The book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, contains never before heard accounts of interactions between the couple, as well as the Former First Lady’s criticism of her husband’s lack of actions on concerning issues. mega Incidences shared between the covers of The Divider, detail patronizing back-and-forth dialogue between Mr. and Mrs. Trump, over significant matters, such as his handling of the Coronavirus. The authors recount the moments when the country’s leading couple had a difference of opinions, to say the least, that caused the former model to become “rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up.” One excerpt exposed a phone conversation between Melania and then New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie. mega During the call, authors allege that Melania was relaying what she told her husband to Gov. Christie in a plea-like manner to potentially invoke pressure for her husband to reframe his opinion on the COVID-19 virus. “You’re blowing this. This is serious. It’s going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you’re taking it,” the authors claim Melania told Gov. Christie during their conversation. Failing to listen to his wife’s concerns, the authors shared the former reality star’s dismissive response: “You worry too much. Forget it.” mega In addition to not taking his own wife seriously, several other examples are outlined of the one-term president’s unbecoming disposition towards women, especially those in power. The remarks shared by the authors allege criticism from the former president focused on the women’s appearances rather than actions brought by their work. In one instance, it is shared that Trump “harshly criticized women for their looks, telling visitors that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was an example of why women should be careful about plastic surgery.” Another example provided context as to why Trump would not select his United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as his running mate, citing that the real estate mogul-turned-politician told unnamed parties that Haley had a “complexion problem.” Many concerns from the Trump team on national security are also exposed in the tell-all. The Divider is set to hit shelves for purchase Tuesday, September 20. View the full article

Published by Reuters By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) – “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show on Broadway, is set to close on Feb. 18, 2023 due to a sharp drop in ticket sales even after New York theaters reopened following the pandemic lockdown. “Phantom” is a staple within the Broadway world with over 70 major theater wins and 13,733 performances since its debut in 1988. Despite its legacy, the New York Post reported that the show was losing $1 million a month. Fans mourned the news across social media, reflecting on what the show has meant to thespians and audiences alike. In January, the show cast Emilie Kouatchou as its first Black American actress to portray the lead role of Christine. The decision broke racial barriers and made Broadway history but her performances will be short-lived. The musical will celebrate its 35th anniversary in January followed by a final Broadway performance on Feb. 18. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” is based on the classic novel by Gaston Leroux and was originally directed by Harold Prince. Broadway legends including Michael Crawford, who was the first to play the Phantom, Sarah Brightman, Judy Kaye and others have taken leading roles in the show. “Phantom” tells the 19th century story of aspiring opera singer Christine Daae who is taught by the mysterious Phantom to hone her vocal skills. However, things take a dark turn when the Phantom chooses Christine as his muse, and she falls in love with an arts benefactor named Raoul. (Reporting by Danielle Broadway; Editing by David Gregorio) View the full article

Published by The Mercury News The flu shot is as familiar an October ritual as football, foliage and Halloween. But health officials are urging Americans to get the new flu shot and COVID booster at the same time — the sooner, the better. “Right where we are now — that’s a good time to be vaccinated,” influenza expert Dr. Lisa Grohskopf of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the nation’s physicians in a conference call late last week. That’s ahead of time, by traditional measures. Flu season most often peaks in February — and our levels of protective antibodies are at their highest about two weeks afte… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Rosie O’Donnell has had a “weird” relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. The 60-year-old star fronted her own daytime chat show from 1996 until 2002 and – following a brief period where she was replaced by ‘Sabrina, the Teenage Witch’ actress Caroline Rhea – her slot was ultimately taken by fellow comedienne Ellen, 64, who fronted ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ between 2003 and 2022 but the pair are still “not friends.” She said: “We had a little bit of a weird thing, and after my show went off the air and hers was coming on the air. Larry King was on with ‘Ellen’ and he said ‘What ever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes! She came out as a lesbian and disappeared!’ And Ellen said, and I’m quoting, “I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.” At the time, Rosie was married to then-wife Kelli Carpenter and went on to explain that she has “never got over” the comments that Ellen made about her on air. Speaking on ‘Watch What Happens Live’, she told host Andy Cohen: “I was in bed with Kelli and I said ‘Did I just hear that? Or was that a hallucination, auditory voice in my [head]?’ ‘And that’s what happened. And it hurt my feelings like a baby. And I never really got over it!” However, ‘The Flintstones’ actress then insisted that she wishes no ill to her fellow TV star – who quit hosting ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ earlier this year after 19 years on the air – and in fact hopes that she is “well.” She added: “I wish her all the good things in life and that she should be well.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski say their pets “unconditional love” inspired their new business. The ‘Queer Eye’ stars attribute their “mutual love” of their furry friends as to why they created Yummers – a line of pet food ‘mix ins’ with 14 flavours – with Rebecca Frechette Rudisch. Jonathan – who has four cats Larry, Liza, Matilda and Genevieve and dog Rose- told PEOPLE magazine: “I just think some of my most fulfilling relationships have come from my pets, that unconditional love, and they take such good care of us. I do think that’s part of what makes Yummers so special is it really has been born from this desire for us to want to take better care of our animals and to want to show up for them in the ways that they show up for us.” The 35-year-old television personality added: “I think it’s a mutual love of pets, is what really kind of brought us together. We’re both pet parents, and Rebecca is really the mastermind. She saw that there was a gorgeous opportunity for us.” Antoni agreed, saying in the same interview that he adored dogs because they are “just unapologetic with their feelings and their neediness,” as he is a person who wears his “heart on his sleeve”. The 38-year-old reality star felt his dog – a rescue named Neon – helped him and his partner have some of “the best moments” of the lockdown brought on at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Antoni said: “When I look back at the pandemic, to bring that up, the best moments that I had were driving out to the country, going out into the woods with my partner and my dog, or r even just going on a walk with my dog after being in front of a computer screen all day long and just being in the outdoors and seeing how much joy it brought her and how much it actually helped me, and how symbiotic this relationship is that you have with a pet.” View the full article

Published by Radar Online MEGA Former President Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland was real and inspired by a friend, Radar has learned. As detailed in the new book, “The Divider,” Trump’s extensively covered 2019 interest in acquiring Greenland provides some juicy new details. Chief among them is that Trump reportedly at one point offered a straight-up exchange of Puerto Rico for the northern island territory. MEGA “He suggested taking federal money from Puerto Rico, which he disparaged, and using it to buy Greenland,” the booked noted. “On another occasion, he suggested outright trading Puerto Rico for Greenland.” Another more familiar revelation is that what Trump said publicly was apparently not quite in line with the truth. While the former president claimed the idea to acquire Greenland was his idea, based on looking at maps, the book says it was actually the brainchild of Estée Lauder cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder. MEGA “He discussed it with Trump from the early days of the presidency and offered himself as a back channel to the Danish government to negotiate,” the book purports. At the time, officials for Greenland quickly declared that the island was most definitely not for sale. Nevertheless, Trump’s interest was enough, according to the book, to move former National Security Advisor John Bolton to have aide Fiona Hill put together a team to brainstorm ideas. “They engaged in secret talks with Denmark’s ambassador and produced an options memo,” the book stated, according to the New York Times. The details about Trump’s interest in Greenland are some of the newest revelations revealed this week from upcoming books about his time in the White House. RadarOnline.com previously reported that a new book details Trump’s refusal to leave the White House in the days after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. MEGA View the full article

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — As a boy, Shuhei Komatsu loved Star Wars movies, especially the lightning-fast land speeders. So when he grew up, he decided to make one of his own, he said. “I wanted to make something from the movie real,” Komatsu said. “It’s a land speeder for the Dark Side.” On Wednesday, he and his AERWINS Technologies company put his vision for a machine that can race above the ground on display at the North American Auto Show in front of Huntington Place in downtown Detroit. It’s the first time the company’s XTURISMO hoverbike has appeared in the U.S., officials said. And at 1 p.m. Thursday, K… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday she was cautiously optimistic over a decline in the growth of new monkeypox cases, but that some areas of the country are still experiencing a rise in infections. She also said during a White House briefing that the agency was taking steps to address racial and ethnic disparities in distribution of monkeypox vaccines. Nearly 23,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified across the United States as of Sept. 14, Walensky told reporters. “Over the last several weeks, we’ve been pleased to see a decline in the growth of new cases here and abroad. There are areas of the U.S. where the rate of rise in new cases is still increasing,” she said. “We approach this news with cautious optimism.” The racial and ethnic makeup of the outbreak has evolved over the past few weeks, Walensky said. CDC is opening applications for a vaccine equity pilot program under which 50,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine have been allocated to address distribution disparities. “While monkeypox cases were first seen predominantly in non-Hispanic white men, in the last week among the cases for which we have race and ethnicity data, non-Hispanic Black men represented 38% of cases, Latino or Hispanic men represented 25% of cases and non-Hispanic white men represented 26%,” Walensky said. Conversely, of the 91% of first vaccine doses administered for which the CDC has race and ethnicity data, white people received about 47% of those shots, Hispanic people got about 20% and Black people accounted for some 12%, the CDC director noted. “The percentage of vaccines administered to Latino or Hispanic men and non-Hispanic Black men are disproportionately lower than we are seeing represented in cases,” she acknowledged. More than 540,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine have been administered so far, Walensky said. CDC data shows that 80% of those were first doses, but the number of second doses administered has increased over the past several weeks, Walensky said. Jynneos needs to be given in two doses, four weeks apart, to be fully effective. At a briefing on Aug. 26, Walensky said 97% of shots administered had been first doses. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh; Editing by Bill Berkrot) View the full article

Published by Global Voices Photo by Guillaume Paumier, published under CC BY 2.0 license on Flickr. French President Emmanuel Macron’s (center-right, liberal) government, who was reelected President in April 2022, is currently facing backlash over homophobic comments and stances expressed by some of its members. On July 13, 2022, six French anti-homophobia organizations filed a legal complaint against the current Minister of Local Authorities, Caroline Cayeux, only a few days after she was appointed. They denounced comments she made as a senator in 2013 when she said same-sex marriage was a “whim” and went “against natu… Read More View the full article

Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he’s raising his children to “have better values” than Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock, who called him a “weak little girl” on Twitter earlier this week. “If she wants to talk about little girls, Chasten and I are raising a little girl and a little boy. And we are raising them to have better values than the chairwoman,” he said. “The rest is politics.” Buttigieg is the nation’s first openly gay, Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary and a former officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. The Buttigieges announced last August they ha… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet By David Badash,The New Civil Rights Movement Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi mocked Republican lawmakers on Wednesday after U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham‘s decision to announce a bill to ban abortion nationwide continues to backfire on the South Carolina Republican and the GOP. Pointing to a little-noticed aspect of Graham’s proposed legislation, which would ban nearly all abortion at the 15-week mark, Speaker Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference the bill would not just place a nationwide ban of abortion, it would actually “criminalize” it. “The extreme MAGA Republicans gather… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden called on Americans to speak out against racism and extremism during a summit at the White House on Thursday, and said he would ask Congress to do more to hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate. “White supremacists will not have the last word,” Biden told the ‘United We Stand’ summit of bipartisan local leaders, experts and survivors. Biden said America had long experienced a “through line of hate” against minority groups, one that had been given “too much oxygen” by politics and the media in recent years. “It’s so important that we keep hollering,” he said. “It’s so important for people to know that’s not who we are.” The event also recognized communities that suffered hate-based attacks, including mass shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year, in which 10 Black people were gunned down by an avowed racist. Hate crimes in the United States hit a 12-year high in 2020, the last available data, the FBI said last year. Biden was introduced by Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed during an August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Her murder resonated around the world, but the hate did not begin or end there,” Bro said. Participants gave Biden a standing ovation when he said he wanted Congress to “hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate.” “I’m calling on Congress to get rid of special immunity for social media companies and impose much stronger transparency requirements on all of them,” Biden said. The White House event comes just weeks after Biden warned in a speech in Philadelphia that extremist Republicans are a threat to democracy. Biden addressed criticism that the speech was divisive on Thursday. “Silence is complicity, we can’t remain silent,” Biden said. “There are those that say we bring this up, we divide the country. Bringing it up we silence it.” Biden announced a $1 billion push by philanthropists to build bridges among Americans of different backgrounds, and an initiative supported by the foundations of former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford. Several big technology companies also joined in. YouTube said it was expanding its efforts to combat violent extremism by removing content glorifying violent acts for the purpose of inspiring others to commit harm, fundraise, or recruit. Microsoft said it was expanding use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to detect credible threats of violence, and use gaming to build empathy. (Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Andrea Shalal; editing by Jonathan Oatis, Heather Timmons and Richard Pullin) View the full article

Published by Al-Araby No artistic discipline is more neglected in Islamic civilisation than its figurative art, which involves the depiction of humans and animals on any surface. While the Jewish ban on this form of art has influenced the Islamic doctrines and cultures up till today; as Islamic civilisation grew in cultural centres outside the Arabian Peninsula, new Muslim nations continued making images in line with their inherited local artistic traditions, with varieties in terms of quality, quantity, styles, preservation conditions and the rules followed in determining what is permissible or not. So, what is ca… Read More View the full article

Published by Miami Herald MIAMI — Days after the Miami-Dade County School District denied students from attending Miami New Drama’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics,” school officials pointed to lines and imagery they considered to be “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for school-aged children. Among the examples cited were comments between characters, such as “I would’ve shot the son of [expletive] a long time ago,” and a stage note that referenced lovemaking on top of a table. There’s also a description “of what lovers do” and a violent passage in which a character reads fr… Read More View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega JoJo Siwa knows all about the pressures of performing on Dancing With The Stars — which is why RadarOnline asked her who she believes will come out victorious with this year’s hard-to-get mirror ball. We caught up with JoJo at the opening night of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill at Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday, where we asked the former DWTS contestant who she thinks will take home the coveted trophy. Not only did she spill about her prediction, but she also had some sound advice for Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice, along with the others fighting for the sought-after award. Mega Last week, the newest contestants and their pro pairs for season 31 of the competition reality series were announced. The celebrity-filled cast includes Bachelor star Gabby Windey, comedian Wayne Brady, singer Jordin Sparks, actress Selma Blair, Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino, country singer Jessie James Decker, Sex and the City actor Jason Lewis, Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s son Joseph Baena, and more. It also includes Teresa and Shangela, who is the first drag queen ever to compete on DWTS. JoJo broke barriers when she teamed up with dancer Jenna Johnson last year, making them the first same-sex pairing on the show. The reality star-turned-mega influencer didn’t win, but she thinks she knows who will take home the mirror ball this time around. Mega “The whole cast is awesome,” JoJo responded when we asked her about the cast. “I’m really excited for Shangela to be a part of the show. Shangela’s paired up with Gelb and, you know, it’s going to be really fun because obviously, Shangela is a drag queen, but on the inside, she’s also a he.” “I think that that’s going to be really fun to see if they dress in drag (or) if they present masculine,” she continued. “I think it’s going to be a really fun story to watch throughout the season.” When asked what it means to see DWTS eliminate stereotypes of dancing pairs, JoJo didn’t hold back. Mega “It’s incredible! I really love that they didn’t do another female-female this year, even a male-male,” she told RadarOnline.com, “they did a male-drag queen and I think that anything they would have done would have been incredible, but they brought a whole other level of inclusivity.” She added the “brilliant” move “shows, once again, that you can do anything — you can dance with anyone.” While JoJo’s votes are going to Shangela, her mother will be cheering for Teresa. When asked if she had any advice for the reality star-turned-mirror ball hopeful, she said, “It’s not about being a dancer, I can say that. It’s a totally different kind of dancing as well.” Shooting down the idea that Charli D’Amelio will walk away with the trophy because she’s a dancer, JoJo argued, “it really is such a different kind of dance than what a competitive dancer is trained to do. It’s a challenge for everybody.” Besides stopping to chat with RadarOnline.com at the event, JoJo made headlines by making her red carpet debut with her girlfriend Avery Cyrus. The two were adorable for their first-ever event, stopping to take their own photos as they walked into the theater. Jagged Little Pill will be showing in Los Angeles until October 2. View the full article