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Britney Spears, Jonah Hill, Princess Diana, Anna Nicole Smith, Taylor Swift, Meghan Markle . What do all these Hollywood celebrities have in common? Each one has been relentlessly harassed by celebrity photographers known as paparazzi as part of the sick business of celebrity gossip.  Why we’re saying sayonara to paparazzi pics with #BanPaparazzi All of us at Hollywood.com stand with our celebrity friends in their right not to be harassed anymore just so someone else can make a quick buck. ...

United States 1933 Double Eagle $20 Gold Coin The 1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist. When the United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was a...

Bukra fil Mish Mish director Tal Michael. (Courtesy) From left: David, Shlomo, and Herschel Frenkel, with the poster for a Mish Mish film. (Courtesy Menemsha Films) A still from Bukra fil Mish Mish featuring the title character opposite real-life Lebanese singer Sabah. (Menemsha Films) Thousands cheer Egypts King Farouk, seen driving with then-prime minister Ali Maher Pasha in Cairo, May 11, 1936. (AP Photo/Staff/Len Puttnam) Mish Mish Effendi, a character developed by the Frankel brothers in t...

Updated: 27 Jan 2021, 15:04 HOLOCAUST war criminal Adolf Eichmann plotted forming a Nazi terror cell as Germany collapsed at the end of World War 2, CIA docs claim. Eichmann is one of the most evil men history after he was one of the architects of the Nazis vile "Final Solution" - the mass genocide of six million Jews. 6 6 Adolf Eichmann wanted to set up a unit Nazi partisans to hold out in Austria Declassified files held in the CIA archives claim the SS commander was hatching a sinister plot e...

Islamabad January 23, 2021 Islamabad:Pakistan needs to set its focus on bolstering diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties with North African states as the historic ties with them remain short of achieving their true potential so far. The exigency was highlighted in a consultative session titled Pakistans relations with North African countries organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), which was addressed as keynote speaker by Pakistans former envoy to Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Amb...

Saturday, 2 January, 2021 - 13:00 A general view of the funeral procession for Syrian director Hatem Ali in Damascus, Syria, on January 1. (EPA) Damascus – Asharq Al-Awsat Damascus bid farewell to Hatem Ali, one of the city’s most prominent directors, on Friday. The funeral procession was held after his casket’s arrival from Cairo, where he had died of a heart attack on Tuesday. The Syrian capitals’ Al-Hassan Mosque was fi...

The United Nations, which is commemorating its 75th anniversary, continues to remain bogged down in one of the world’s most politically and militarily volatile regions: the Middle East. Virtually every other week, the Security Council has a predictable item on its agenda: “consultations on the Middle East”—perhaps a never-ending saga.

The Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, arrived at UN Headquarters by helicopter. A view of the helicopter as it approached the North Lawn of the UN campus on 13 November 1974. But Arafat was denied a US visa for a second visit to the UN in 1988. Credit: UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 2020 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is commemorating its 75th anniversary, continues to remain bogged down in one of the world’s most politically and milita...

Utah Jazz Owner Larry H. Miller’s Rare 1794 Silver Dollar Fetches Over $1MM Photo courtesy/copyright Stack’s Bowers Galleries Rare coin investing authority Steven Contursi, famed for his word record-setting $7.85 million rare coin sale further parlayed into a $10 million deal, nabs another 1794 Silver Dollar at auction for over $1 million On December 17thStack’s Bowers Galleries presented the sale of the remarkable collection amassed by Utah businessman and Utah Jazz owner Larry H. ...

December 20, 2020 Known as the cradle of civilisation and famous for its treasures, the Sphinx and the pyramid of Giza, the sprawling city of Cairo is pure magic The statue of the Sphinx with the Great Pyramid Giza behind it.  It was 2:00 am. The baggage claim area at the airport was now empty but my wife and I still held out for a miracle. Sadly, however, it was not a day for miracles. We were obliged to leave the airport empty handed with a receipt from the lost luggage counter, armed with t...