Ali Khan Having previously modelled for Chanel and House of Holland, singer Lily Allen has signed to IMG Models.
The 30-year-old singer has signed with the firm, who are ranked as the world’s number one international model management company. Reported Comtactmusic.
Actress Kate Mara has cut her shoulder-length hair into tousled pixie.
The “Fantastic Four” actress showed off her brand new super short hairstyle at the Max Mara Women in Film event taking place at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, reported Ace Showbiz.
For the occasion, Kate, who has slowly been turning her bright red hair into auburn over the years, stunned in raspberry-hued jumpsuit with a ruffled neckline by the brand. She completed her look with red sandals and an ebony handbag.
Rockers Thirty Seconds To Mars will host a three-day mMusical, “Outdoor Retreat” this summer in California.
Camp Mars will kick off on August 22 in Malibu and will feature activities such as hiking, climbing, yoga and cooking classes with members of the band, who will also perform two concerts during the weekend, reported Rolling Stone magazine.
Frontman Jared Leto said, “We have always looked to do things for our audience that are fun and unique.
“What better way to celebrate the summer than in beautiful Southern California with the Mars family in full.”
Pop srae Rihanna has teamed up with jewellery designer Jacquie Aiche to create a range of temporary inkings for Flash Tattoos.
The “Diamonds” hitmaker will create a line of edgy temporary tattoos in silver and gold hues which are described as perfect for wearing to the beach or to a music festival this summer, reported People magazine.
“Creating the tattoos was a really collaborative process between Rihanna and myself, which we feel is so evident in the final designs,” Aiche said.
“American Idol” judge Keith Urban says he never stops learning from his three leading ladies – wife Nicole Kidman, and daughters Sunday and Faith.
“I didn’t grow up with any girls in my family, it was just my brother and me and mum and dad. Now being in a family that is all girls, I’m learning an enormous amount,” Urban, 47, said.
Married in 2006, Urban and Kidman, 47, have found their parenting styles mesh as their relationship evolved, reported Us magazine.
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance was implementing its biggest defence reinforcement since the Cold War, as the region grapples with terrorism and an increasingly assertive Russia.
He spoke a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
Vietnamese dissidents have pleaded for international help for prisoners of conscience jailed inside their country and warned that warming US ties with Hanoi may send the wrong message to the ruling communists.
Prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai, who was released from prison in late October and sent into exile in America, told US lawmakers that “his fellow prisoners entrusted me to relay their cries for help.”
The balcony collapse that killed six college students appears to have been caused by rotted wooden beams, Berkeley’s mayor has said as the victims’ heartbroken loved ones began arriving in the US from Ireland.
Mayor Tom Bates yesterday said investigators believe the wood was not caulked and sealed properly at the time of construction and was damaged by moisture as a result.
Google’s Nest Labs is releasing new versions of its surveillance-video camera and talking smoke detector as part of its attempt to turn homes into yet another thing that can be controlled and tracked over the Internet.
The gadgets unveiled today are Nest’s most significant product updates since Google bought the Palo Alto, California, company last year for about USD 2.75 billion. A few months later, Google bought surveillance-camera maker Dropcam for USD 517 million to help Nest realize its ambition of creating “thoughtful” homes.
A 21-year-old self-declared US supporter of the Islamic State extremist group was arrested in New York after trying to stab an FBI agent today, officials said.
Fareed Mumuni, 21, is the third suspect detained in connection with an alleged plot to bomb the city on behalf of the IS group, which has declared a “caliphate” based in Iraq and Syria.
Prosecutors have identified one of the other suspects as fellow New Yorker, Munther Omar Saleh, from Queens.
The Canadian government’s public website for applying for social services and downloading official forms was briefly shut down today in a cyberattack, a senior minister said.
Several other government websites including those of Parliament, Industry Canada and Public Works also appeared to be down.
“Confirmed today that the Govt of Canada GC servers have been cyberattacked,” Treasury Board President Tony Clement said in a Twitter message.
Eight of 15 Chinese citizens indicted in an alleged test-taking conspiracy involving college entrance exams pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh.
The indictment unsealed last month says the suspects either took the Scholastic Aptitude Test or English fluency tests on behalf of others or paid to have that done for them so they could obtain student visas.
Defense attorney Lyle Dresbold represents 20-year-old Yue Zou. He says Zou and the others “just wanted to get an education” but made “mistakes” that could lead to convictions or deportation.
US banking regulators imposed fresh limits today on six banks’ mortgage servicing activities for their failure to fully implement a 2011 settlement designed to address home-foreclosure abuses.
The group, which includes JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, HSBC and Santander, faces new barriers in buying mortgage servicing rights from other companies and appointing senior mortgage service officials, among other restrictions, said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
The other two banks are EverBank and US Bank National Association.
Jordan said today the suspected mastermind of an attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982 that killed six people and wounded 22 has been bailed and banned from travelling.
Official sources said Zuhair Mohamad Hassan Khalid al-Abassi, alias “Amjad Atta”, was “arrested on June 1 under an international arrest warrant.
“A court imposed a travel ban pending a decision on whether he will be extradited,” an official source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A source in the security services said the 62-year-old suspect was freed on bail.
At least 31 people were killed today and dozens wounded in five simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group at Shiite mosques and offices in the Yemeni capital, medics and witnesses said.
IS, a Sunni Muslim radical group, said the attacks were in “revenge” against the Shiite Huthis, who have overrun Sanaa and much of the Sunni majority country and whom it considers to be heretics.
The blasts come almost three months after IS carried out multiple bombings against Shiite mosques killing 142 people.
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at near zero today, while describing US economic growth as “moderate” after the winter slowdown.
But predictions made by the individual participants in the Fed’s monetary policy meeting indicated most expect the federal funds rate to rise above 0.5 percent by year-end.
The Federal Open Market Committee trimmed its economic growth forecast for 2015 to just 1.8-2.0 percent, down from March’s 2.3-2.7 percent outlook, to account for the unexpected contraction in the first quarter of the year.
A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by two youths in Modinagar Bhojpur police station area here, police said today.
The incident took place on June 13 in Chudiala village.
The girl had gone to the fields to relieve herself when the two youths — Vicky and Atul — gangraped her, Bhojpur Station House Officer Dalchand said.
When she resisted and tried to escape, the accused thrashed her, he said.
A case has been registered against the duo, who are absconding.
Scores of irate villagers today manhandled the Additional District Magistrate and ransacked the Collectorate here for alleged inaction by the authorities in a case of dowry death.
The villagers were angry as no arrest was made in a three-month-old case in which a woman allegedly committed suicide even after a dowry case was registered against her husband along with four others.
Humanity’s saviour John Connor is turned into a vengeful killing machine in a new teaser for “Terminator Genisys”.
In a film that changes continuity from earlier “Terminator” installments, human resistance leader John Connor is transformed into a cyborg by Skynet and ordered to annihilate humanity, reported Digital Spy.
It’s up to his mother Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), time traveller Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) and the heroic T-800 known as Guardian to stop Skynet and save John’s soul.
History repeats itself! Prince George wears same outfit dad William wore in 1984 for balcony debut
George Takei has shed some light on the supposed feud between him and his former “Star Trek” co-star William Shatner.
Back in 2008, Shatner caused a bit of a fuss after claiming he wasn’t invited to Takei’s wedding – but the 78-year-old actor still insists Shatner was invited, reported New York Times.
Takei – who is preparing for his new Broadway musical “Allegiance” – said Shatner “pumps up the so-called controversy” between them for publicity.
Horror drama “Penny Dreadful” will be returning for a third season next year.
Sky Atlantic and Showtime have renewed John Logan’s critically-acclaimed series, which will shoot on location in Dublin for nine episodes to air in 2016, reported Digital Spy.
The second season has seen Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) forming a close bond as their group – including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and Sembene (Danny Sapani) – join forces to beat an evil force.
Longtime actress friends Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts passionately locked lips on stage at an awards show.
In a series of photographs that have hit the internet, Kidman, 47, can be seen grabbing 46-year-old Watt’s face as she leaned in to kiss her, reported Us magazine.
The friendly gesture sparked a series of cheers from the crowd who looked on, as Watts and Kidman smiled at each other.
In a strange twist, both the Hollywood heavyweights were wearing unflattering, floral shower caps.
Former top US officials can be held liable for the abuse of hundreds of detainees rounded up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for minor immigration violations, a federal appeals court said today, citing the importance of the rule of law even in times of crisis.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft, ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller and the former head of an agency that policed immigration may have exceeded the constitutional limits of their authority in the quest to find terrorists responsible for 9/11.
A Uruguayan army bomb squad dismantled an “incomplete” explosive device today in front of an office tower housing the Israeli embassy, officials said.
The device was contained in a sardine can and had a battery power source and cable but no explosive material, the military said.
Army spokesman Yamandu Lessa said the contraption had been deemed an “incomplete device.”
It was the third such episode near the Israel embassy since late last year, Lessa told AFP.
The embassy is in a waterfront commercial district of Montevideo.
Rebels surrounded a government-held Druze village on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line on the Golan Heights today after heavy fighting, a monitoring group said.
The advance came a day after Israel, with a significant Druze minority, said it was preparing for the possibility that people fleeing fighting might seek to cross to the Israeli-occupied side of the strategic plateau.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “closely following what is happening close to our borders,” and that he had “given instructions to do what is necessary.”
He did not elaborate.