Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
She recalled first hearing Purple Rain when she was 13 – a “magical moment”, she said ... At FirstAvenue, the Minneapolis club where Prince filmed the live show scenes for Purple Rain, fans began leaving floral tributes – mostly purple – at the foot of a wall decorated with a star bearing his name ... The song of the same name, with its first verse ......
To be sure, those who want to court the hubris capital of the so-called free world relocate their power and money, bribing “elected” officials, investing in WallStreet, and funding defense contractors with cash orders for lethal weapons.But make no mistake, the Washington-Riyadh pilgrimage is a dubious and dangerous strategy ... In reality, the militant capital is using Saudi Arabia to counter Iran and to contain Russia and China....
because the Saudis didn’t want the Americans to interrogate him.“The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell ... They were very unhappy about the attention paid to that because they went in and it was just a hit,” Hersh said ... That was the plan,” Hersh said....
During his visit to St GilesStreet on Friday 29 April, the Minister will meet local businesses from the wider St Giles Quarter and look at the first phase of the redevelopment work on the street, which was completed on Friday 15 April, two weeks ahead of schedule ... 'Since we won, we have not stood still and with the first phase of the refurbishment ......
Dallas restauranteur family launching new fried chicken concept Black-eyed Pea restaurants founder GeneStreet and other members of the Street family are launching a new fried chicken concept next month. The firstStreet’s Fried Chicken restaurant will open at 3857 Cedar SpringsRoad in Dallas, in the same building where the first Black-eyed Pea opened in 1975....
Tekken X StreetFighter is no longer in active development, Bandai Namco has revealed ... "But currently the situation is with fighting games, you have Street Fighter V that just released--a lot of people are playing that fervently--and there's a large crowd out there waiting or Tekken 7." ... Tekken x Street Fighter was first announced during San Diego Comic-Con 2010 as a partnership between Bandai Namco and Capcom....
"We loved him first," she says ...Corey Taylor, the singer from Slipknot and Stone Sour, will play a sold-out show inside FirstAvenue tonight, and as as his fans wait for the club doors to open, they get to watch dancers of every skill level go crazy in the street ... Eventually, all of 7th Street and two blocks of First Avenue, the entire corner surrounding the club, is filled with people....
INDEGO, the city's bike-sharing system, celebrated its first birthday Thursday ...Mayor Kenney led the celebrations on a sun-splashed RaceStreetPier, one of the locations that received a new docking station ... Eight of them will be in a swath of the city bounded by Fairmount and PennsylvaniaAvenues to the south, 33rd and DauphinStreets to the northwest, and 22ndStreet and Cecil B....
The 28 streets selected to be resurfaced were chosen through a lottery ... The scheme was the first infrastructure randomised controlled trial, with households in streets without the upgrade acting as the control group, says the study. The publicly funded scheme resulted in some streets receiving asphalt surfacing, designated lanes and parking spaces and, very importantly, roads that were connected to the city grid for the first time....
Bike lanesNew York opened its first segregated bike lane on Manhattan's Ninth Avenue in 2007. A year later, Ottawa city council directed staff to pilot a downtown, east-west on-street dedicated cycling lane to be separated by a median ...Last year, council approved a second segregated bike lane on O'ConnorStreet ... The clever designs included a guitar, high-heel shoe and dollar sign (for a rack located near WallStreet)....
WallStreet is sinking. The big banks had a lousy first quarter. Hedge funds are getting pummeled ... In other news, everyone on Wall Street has gotten a little too excited about a 'game changer' technology, and UBS just hired a rockstar for Wall Street's one good fixed-income business ... And the first tech IPO of the year already looks like a bummer. Here are the top Wall Street headlines at midday. ... SCHWARZMAN ... ....
In celebration of Earth Day, MLS WORKS conducted its first league-wide Week of Service as clubs organized day of service projects in their communities ... helping wash, clean and garden the grounds of Yonge StreetMission ... The day was filled with smiles on the faces of all the players, staff and leaders at Yonge Street Mission....
Diamond firm to move from Charterhouse Street to Anglo American’s HQ next to St James’s Park as part of debt-cutting drive ... About 300 staff were told on Friday that they would be leaving 17 Charterhouse Street, from where De Beers once controlled the flow of diamonds around the world ... Charterhouse Street became the centre of De Beers’ empire – and therefore the global diamond trade – in the early 1930s....