NBA bans Clipper's owner Donald Sterling over racist comments

 

VIDEO: President Obama condemns Sterling's racist rant about black people

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VIDEO: Barcelona's Dani Alves eats banana thrown at him by racist fan

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Good Bye David Moyes - These tweets helped bring Man U's manager down

 

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's daughter wedding in Pictures

 

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The event was broadcast on the #BisiOlatiloShow on Bentv . President Jonathan gave away his

BOOK REVIEW: The story of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Notable Nigerians - Meet Nigerian novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele

Nigerian novelist and playwright, Biyi Bamidele

Biyi Bandele-Thomas, 47 is a Nigerian novelist and playwright generally known as Biyi Bandele. He was born in Nigeria and attended the University of Ife, now known as the Obafemi Awiolowo University before coming to England in 1990.
Bandele is one of the most versatile and prolific of the U.K.-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theater, journalism, television, film, and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his name. Acclaimed as both a prolific playwright and a versatile novelist, his 1997 adaptation of fellow Nigerian Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart for the British stage confirmed his place as an important voice on the post-colonial stage.

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Writer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born 1977

Nigerian writer and award winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a cause to celebrate. Her best selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set for worldwide release in 2014. The novel published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor tells the story of the Nigerian-Biafran War which started in 1967 and lasted until 1970.The book centres on the war and relays the conflict through the experiences of four characters Olanna, Kainene, Ugwu, and Richard.

In 2008, Nigerian novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele began writing a screenplay for the film. The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in late 2013. The film stars Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA Award Winner Thandie Newton. 

Half of a Yellow Sun received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction which included £30,000. The award is given annually for the best original full-length novel written by a woman in English.

Chimamanda Adichie has also written other best selling novels including: her first novel, Purple Hibiscus which made the Orange Prize shortlist in 2004 and the New York Times "100 Most Notable Books of the Year"; The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009 and Americanah, 2013.
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe commented: “We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers. She is fearless, or she would not have taken on the intimidating horror of Nigeria's civil war."

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How and why did Bob Geldof's daughter, Peaches Geldof die?

Peaches just after the birth of son, Phaedra who was born in 2013 and on her late mother's birthday

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LONDON, UK -  As news filtered in that Peaches Geldof, the daughter of musician and campaigner Bob Geldof, had been found dead at her Kent home on Monday, people are wondering how or why it happened.  Bob Geldof has said his family are "beyond pain" following the death of his daughter Peaches.

Peaches as a baby with her parents, Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and sister Fifi Trixibelle

Peaches Geldof who lived in Kent was found dead in her home. Kent Police have said that her death was being treated as "non-suspicious but unexplained and sudden".
Just last week Peaches Geldof who was a writer, TV presenter and popular model attended a fashion show in London last week.

Many leaders and celebrities have paid tribute to her including singer Boy George. Fifi Trixibelle Geldof paid tribute to her sister Peaches earlier on Tuesday and posted on Instagram: "My beautiful baby sister.... Gone but never forgotten. I love you Peaches x."

About Peaches Geldof
Peaches was born in April 1989 to celebrity parents Bob Geldof and the late TV presenter Paula Yates. She was the second of two daughters.  Her first marriage to Max Drummey ended in 2009. Peaches Geldof got married again to Thomas Cohen, lead singer of the band SCUM, in 2012 and had two young sons Astala born in 2012 and Phaedra born in 2013. 
When she was expecting Phaedra, the socialite insisted she was amazed to be told he would share the same birthday as her late mother Paula Yates.

 

She told the Hello magazine: ‘It wasn't an option. Maybe it is if you go private, but we didn't and were given the date randomly by a consultant.
‘I was pretty amazed when I read it though, and had to smile. I couldn't help feeling Mum must have had a hand in it.’

Right after the birth of Phaedra, Peaches was pictured in the park playing with older son, Astala

 2013: Peaches, showing off her baby bumb with her husband and son

Peaches posted this picture on Instagram in 2013

Problems Peaches Geldof may have faced?
Celebrity parenting?  Could she have been exposed to a lot of publicity and stress as the daughter of celebrities? Bob Geldof was knighted in 1986 for his work in organising world famous event - Live Aid and other concerts that raised millions for the starving people of Africa. He first gained prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats in the 1970s.

Her mother Paula Yates was famous for presenting Channel 4's The Big Breakfast and music show The Tube, died suddenly of a heroin overdose in September 2000. Peaches was only 11. 

Childhood troubles?  Peaches from an early age had been caught up in allegations of drug taking, shoplifting and extreme dieting. She was only 15 when she started modelling and made friends in the fashion world.

Heartbreak? According to a 2010 article posted by Andy Pemberton in the Huntington Post, an ex lover, 23-year-old artist Ben Mills, posted naked photos of the model online and told the world they were taken during a heroin-fueled sex session in Los Angeles. According to Andy Pemberton, the images showed Peaches then 21, "bleary eyed, posing in a pair of black knickers with a blond-haired companion."  Furthermore Pemberton alleged that bosses at the Ultimo lingerie company were embarrassed by the images and decided Geldof could no longer be the face of their underwear line. They tore up her modeling contract, worth $150,000 a year because according to them, she was setting a bad example to their young female audience. They also ordered Peach's pictures to be removed from their window displays, website and department stores where their brand is sold.

Internal conflict? Miss Geldof divorced rock musician Max Drummey in 2009 after a six-month marriage. The pair had married in secret in a drive-in ceremony in Las Vegas after a 10-day romance.

Family breakdown? When Peaches was getting married to Cohen in 2012, her father, Bob made his pronouncement to his young daughter that she must stay married to Mr Cohen forever – even though his marriage to Paula Yates ended after 20 years together. Bob's marriage ended when his wife and mother of his daughters, Miss Yates publicly left the Live Aid activist for INXS heartthrob Michael Hutchence in 1995.

Family links to depression and loss? In 2013, Bob Geldof, 60, told how he almost killed himself over the breakdown of his marriage, admitting he battled ‘universes of grief’. He said the pain was so intense that he considered suicide — and that he only decided against it for the sake of their daughters.

Sir Bob said: ‘I made a list of reasons to live. There was only one item on it: the children.’


The rocker later found some solace in music, he said, and went on to meet current partner, French actress Jeanne Marine, in Paris.


Miss Yates died in 2000 from an accidental heroin overdose aged 41 — three years after Hutchence hanged himself aged 37.

Following her death, Bob won custody of Tiger Lily, the daughter of Miss Yates and Hutchence, who is now 16 and goes by the name Tiger Hutchence-Geldof.

Wild lifestyle? In a family statement issued on Monday night, Bob Geldof said: "She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. 

Missing her mum? Only a few days before she was found dead, Peaches tweeted a picture of herself and her mum. She frequently referred to her mother. Peaches was told she her baby Phaedra would be born on her mother's birthday and she was ecstatic. She said of the baby: ‘I feel like it’s a little wink from my mum; her way of sending a message to let me know that she’s watching over me and my baby.’

Postnatal depression? Peaches had two sons in quick succession - Astala in 2012 and Phaedra in 2013 caring for the two sons without any help. When her younger son, Phaedra was born, the older son was just about a year old. She told a magazine just before she was due to  give birth last year that she and her husband had decided they did not want help caring for their child.
Thomas added: "We won't have a nanny, we've taken that decision. I've been reading baby books and watched a film the other night with tips about how to make sure he'll be happy." 

In an interview with Hello magazine, Peaches told of her trauma after her son Astala was whisked away after being born, as he was not able to breathe properly.

She recalled the experience: "He had a lack of something called surfactant, which made it a struggle for him to breathe. He was in intensive care for a few days.
"It was the most terrifying experience to have our tiny baby whisked away like that. I was yearning for that skin-to-skin contact I'd waited so long for and to not be able to hold him and nurse him and comfort him was so upsetting."

Peachers and her husband, Cohen

Geldof's final tweet on Sunday was a picture of her as a child with her mother Yates, with the message: "Me and my mum."

Toyota to recall 6.4 million vehicles globally

Toyota Camry is among the models impacted by the latest recall

Toyota is recalling 6.4 million vehicles globally, including 35,124 in the UK, due to five separate issues.Some 3.5 million vehicles are being recalled to replace a spiral cable attached to the driver's side airbag.
It may be damaged when the steering wheel is turned and result in the airbag not being deployed in a crash.
Other issues include problems with seat rails, steering columns, windscreen wipers and a glitch with the engine starters that poses a fire risk.
Toyota said it was not aware of any vehicle crashes, injuries or fatalities caused by these conditions.
However, it said it had received two reports of fires due to the engine starter problem.
The car maker said that "due to inefficiencies in the design of the starter motor relays, metallic particles might accumulate on the contacts within the relay".
It said that if the relays continue to be used the particles could come off and enter the relay's circuitry and in the "worst case, this could lead to the starter relays catching fire".
Approximately 20,000 vehicles involving six Toyota models and the Subaru Trezia are being recalled to replace both engine starter relays and the engine starter motor.
Other recalls include:

• Approximately 2.32 million vehicles over problems with the seat rails
• Some 760,000 vehicles due to a potential defect with the steering column bracket
• Nearly 160,000 vehicles to replace the windshield wiper motors

Overall, the five issues affect 27 models.

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First black man - Lewis Hamilton wins Bahrain Grand Prix as predicted!!!

BAHRAIN - It was a nerve raking race from start to finish as Lewis Hamilton and his team mate Nico Rosberg sped through the finishing line, with just seconds apart, Hamilton inched ahead receiving the chequered flag to win the Bahrain Grand Prix. CONGRATULATIONS LEWIS! 

For Hamilton this is a record breaking moment in history - This is the 24th time that he will chequered flag in his F1 career. The son of a Granadian father and a white British mother, Lewis Hamilton is the first black driver ever to win a Grand Prix not once nor twice but several times.

He is also the first driver of black African heritage to win a major race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in any discipline.

In his first season in Formula One, Hamilton set numerous records, while finishing second in the 2007 Formula One Championship, just one point behind Kimi Räikkönen. Hamilton won the World Championship the following season

Formula One records

Hamilton holds the following Formula One records:

Record	Achieved
Most consecutive podium finishes from debut	9 podium finishes: 2007 Australian GP – 2007 British GP
Youngest driver to lead the World Championship	22 years, 4 months, 6 days at the 2007 Spanish GP
Most wins in a debut season	4 wins (record shared with Jacques Villeneuve in 1996)
Most pole positions in a debut season	6 pole positions
Most points in a debut season	109

Figures from Wikipedia


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Anthony Hamilton, his mentor and manager, worked day and night for years (at one time he held three different jobs) to further his son's racing career, which effectively began when eight-year-
old Lewis was given a well-used go-kart that cost nearly as much as the family's modest monthly income. Soon the Hamiltons - Anthony, Linda, Nic and Lewis - were a fixture at karting events
and the boy racer, wearing the familiar yellow helmet chosen by an anxious Anthony to better keep track of his speedy progress in crowded kart fields, began winning races and championships. 

In 1995, a 10-year-old kart champion, wearing a borrowed suit and shoes, picked up two trophies at a motorsport awards ceremony in London. Brandishing an autograph book prepared by his father, he approached Ron Dennis, boss of the McLaren Mercedes Formula One team. "I said 'Hello Mr. Dennis, I'm Lewis Hamilton and one day I'd like to race for your team.' I asked him for his autograph and his phone number. He put them in my book and also wrote 'Call me in nine years.'"

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She was picked by the French beauty giant for her unique qualities. A Lacome representative said Nyongo was opcked because of , 'her instinctive and sophisticated talent and one of a kind beauty, both delicate and strength-exuding ...'