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29 January, 2015. 13:10 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact Hours after a public face-to-face meeting and brief discussion during halftime of Tuesday night's Miami Heat-Milwaukee Bucks game in Miami, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. met privately for more than an hour to continue discussing terms for their proposed May 2 megafight. They met inside Pacquiao's hotel suite and "it was...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -Employees of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in the Texan suburb of South Houston have today spoken about their relief to see former world wrestling great, Booker "Booker T" Huffman, subdue a lone gunman during an attempted robbery of the outlet on Tuesday evening. It's believed Mr Huffman, a former WWE wrestler and current commentator,...

28 February, 2015. 10:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Early last month, seventeen people, including journalists and police and three gunmen -  died in France during a terrifying week that started with the execution style murder of several journalists inside their Parisian CBD newspaper office The bloodshed ended with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in which four hostages were killed. The attacks...

13 January, 2015. 12:15 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOCIAL MEDIA and parts of Nigeria are on fire today as news of Jennifer Lopez's Golden Globes "nip slip" surfaces. Also, France is still in shock after the deadly shootings in Paris which left 17 people dead. But there has been another shocking death toll in recent days with reports of hundreds, possibly thousands,...

23 April, 2015. 15:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] IN JANUARY Kanye West told us he was the "Only One" - with his much-talked about collaboration with Paul McCartney. A world first for cross-genre collaborations and the first single released by Kanye since his last solo album "Yeezus" in 2013. It was during these sessions in the studio that McCartney, the...

3 January, 2015. 08:59 DARRYL SEYMOUR | Gossip and Music | CONTACT If you haven't heard the song yet. Listen to it. Recorded in September and released on New Year's Eve, the Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaboration is billed as the most important record this century. A perfect fusion of modern hip hop production and 1960's rock and roll. Titled "Only One" -...

30 December, 2014. 13:09 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE LATEST DISAPPEARANCE of an airliner is causing a worldwide shortage of tin foil as millions around the world begin fashioning hats made from the malleable metal. The hats have entered vogue with everyday people as the latest airline vanishing has made it socially acceptable to harbour even the most wild conspiracy. Traditionally,...

20 July, 2016 14:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT It's finally here, the app that thousands of young men and women have been waiting for, CREEPCHECK! A smartphone application created to help people "not sound like psychos" when texting their crushes. Have you ever sent a late-night message to a significant other that makes your cringe the next morning? The answer is probably yes....

22 December, 2014. 06:24 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] North Korea's hack of Sony Pictures was "cyber vandalism" and not an act of war, United States president Barack Obama says. Washington has blamed North Korea for a cyber security breach at Sony that led to the release of embarrassing emails and caused executives to halt the release of the madcap action film...

21 December, 2014. 14:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDER and Betoota local, Alex Whippett, has appeared on the global internet sensation Humans of New York - only a day after running in to Hamish Blake. Whippett was in town for the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Monster Energy Buck off at Madison Square Garden this week, where he placed...