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Malia and Sasha Obama Just Want To Be Normal

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Sasha and Malia Obama were missing in action at the  White House Easter Egg Roll   this weekend. Instead of attending the annual event, the first daughters  opted for schoolwork   instead. According to First Lady Michelle Obama, the girls don’t mind if they miss an event or two because the don’t want to be celebrities. “My kids are not star kids. They do not seek the limelight,” she said during an  interview   Live!‘s  Michael Strahan. “They want to be normal.” Mrs. Obama went on to say 15-year-old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha focus on living their lives like regular teenage girls. “We fight everyday to help them be normal. You know? Now they’re teenagers, so now there are dances, and there’s driving, and there’s homecoming, spring break,” the mother of two explained. “It’s all the things that any parent is dealing with with teenagers except you have to manage details like security, staffing.” The young girls may not enjoy the fame and fortune, but the FLOTUS revealed they cher

Londoners, say hello to your new neighbours

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Beyoncé  and Jay Z are moving to the UK and have found their dream £5.5million London townhouse. That's right, they found it all on their own - Kirstie and Phil weren't even called! Before deciding on their West London digs,  Bey  and Jay Z looked around London's Mayfair area, and Kate Moss' neighbourhood - the Cotswolds. Getty The famous pair decided on a London home because they plan to spend more time here in the UK this year - it is believed they exchanged on the house around four weeks ago.

Tyler Perry Helps Evicted Atlanta Family Pay Their Rent

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Thanks to Tyler Perry, an Atlanta family has a guaranteed roof over their heads for the next year. According to  reports , the filmmaker stepped in to help Xernna Nieves, a single, unemployed mother of four who was facing an eviction. She found the notice on her front door after turning from Make-A-Wish foundation event with her son Joshua Williams, who suffers from severe aplastic anemia and endured two bone marrow transplants. “I have no place to go. I really have no place to go,” she told with  Atlanta’s Channel 2 news , and thankfully Perry was tuning in In response, the 44-year-old star reached out and offered to pay her rent for one year. “Thank you. Thank you for watching the news when you did,” Nieves said. “We appreciate it. It will allow me to get John back on his feet.” According to the local sheriff’s office, Nieves eviction was scheduled for Tuesday morning, but the apartment complex decided to accept Perry’s payment. “It’s just overwhelming,” the mom said of

Jay Z Master Recordings Extortion Plot Investigated

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Jay Z  and a collection of some of his master recordings are in the middle of an extortion investigation. The masters were recorded between 1998 and 2002 are valued somewhere between fifteen and twenty million dollars. The police have already taken possession of the tapes which led to the extortion investigation. A producer named  Chauncey Mahan  is somehow connected and was questioned by police this past weekend. As the story goes, Jay-Z and other artists who were signed to Roc-A-Fella Records recorded tons and tons of master recordings in the four year span. The masters went missing some time in 2002 which around the same time Mahan stopped working with the label. However, when the masters went missing everyone assumed they were lost and never thought they were stolen. In present times, the producer Chauncey Mahan had several of the master recordings in a storage facility in Northridge, California. Mahan supposedly got in contact with Live Nation–Jay Z’s partner in Roc Nation– a

Chris Brown Reacts To “The Boondocks” Premiere Episode [HUMOR]

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It’s been more than five years since  Chris Brown  threw his career into disarray by assaulting his then girlfriend Rihanna. Since then, the R&B bad boy has had a difficult time staying out of trouble–whether it be in rehab or a nightclub. Since Brown refuses to stop giving snarky writers material for their creative works, the hit animated series  “The Boondocks” decided it was time to hold a satirical mirror up to the celebrity  and show him just how ridiculous many people think he is. After the episode aired, one of the main questions The Urban Daily was how did Chris Brown take it when he saw it. We caught up with Brown, who conducted the interview via collect call from a D.C. prison, to get his take on the latest episode of “The Boondocks.” Breezy didn’t didn’t go into too much detail about his feelings about the “Boondocks” spoof, but check out what he did say below.

CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies

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VKontakte founder Pavel Durov in 2012.  Nadine Rupp / Getty Image So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russia’s most popular social network. Pavel Durov, the founder of   VKontakte , Russia’s most popular social network, said on Monday that he had been fired and that the site was now “under the complete control” of two close allies of President Vladimir Putin. Announcing his firing on his VKontakte page, Durov  said : “Today, VKontakte goes under the complete control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov.” Usmanov is a metals tycoon who expanded into tech via his company Mail.ru, which has steadily upped its stake  in the Russian social network. Until recently, Usmanov  owned a 10% stake  in Facebook. Sechin is the leader of the hardline  silovik  faction that backs Putin, is CEO of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, and is believed to be one of the Russian president’s closest advisors. “Probably, in the Russian context, something like this was inevi

10 Beauty Tips From A Professional Makeup Artist

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1. Health and fitness are the first steps in beauty. If you put good things inside of your body, this will shine through on your exterior. Try to eat as many grains, nuts, fruits, and veggies as possible. Eat more fish, poultry, and get in good proteins. Don’t forget to work out! It doesn’t have to be strenuous, either — maybe instead of taking your car out on a local errand, you can throw on your sneakers and opt for a walk or a jog instead. 2. Drink LOTS of water — 8 to 9 glasses of water per day. Water is excellent for you. It hydrates your body and nourishes your skin. This goes with health and fitness. Water will also make your face glow! 3. Take vitamins. Don’t forget your Biotin in the mornings. Biotin helps grow healthy hair, skin, and nails! (We all want that!)

An Armed Robber Was Given A 13-Year Sentence In 1999, Except No One Ever Took Him To Prison

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Michael Cornelius Anderson was arrested in 1999 for armed robbery. He helped rob a Burger King manager. He was then sentenced to 13 years behind bars. He posted bail and waited to be taken to prison. Except, he said, no one never came to bring him to jail. Thirteen years passed and Anderson joined a church, started a small business, got married, had children, and never left the St. Louis area.

'Piles and piles' of bodies in S Sudan slaughter

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Nairobi - The UN says hundreds of civilians were killed in the massacre last week in Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan's oil-producing Unity state, a tragic reflection of long-standing ethnic hostilities in the world's newest country. "Piles and piles" of bodies were left behind after the shootings, said Toby Lanzer, the top UN aid official in South Sudan. The violence appears to have been incited in part by calls on the radio for revenge attacks, including rapes. The attack, which targeted members of certain ethnic groups, was a disturbing echo of what happened two decades ago in another country in eastern Africa. Rwanda is marking the 20th anniversary this month of a genocide that killed an estimated 1 million people and also saw orders to kill broadcast over the radio. Thousands of people have been killed in violence in South Sudan since December, when presidential guards splintered and fought along ethnic lines. The violence later spread across the cou

Lagos computer village gets new e-commerce service

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 A local software development and mobile strategy company has launched an e-commerce platform for businesses in the popular Computer Village at Ikeja in Lagos. The platform is the brainchild eKnowvate Solutions Limited. The Managing Director, eKnowvate Solutions Limited, Muyiwa Alawode, said the platform would provide opportunity for over 6 000 shops and an estimated 18 000 businesses at the popular computer and allied accessories market to showcase their products to a global audience for improved customer engagement and patronage. “The launch of the e-commerce platform by eKnowvate Solutions Ltd in conjunction with the executives of the Market Association – CAPDAN has become expedient in order to preserve the market share of businesses in Computer Village in the sales of IT equipment and accessories in view of recent competition from a number of e-commerce platforms.  MyComputerVillage.com offers a unique platform that promotes the company names and brands of the individual busines

Keshi gives Super Eagles players deadline for Scotland friendly

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Coach Stephen Keshi said Super Eagles players invited for the friendly against Scotland are expected to arrive at the team’s camp latest on May 27. The media reports that the match against Scotland will take place at the Craven Cottage in Fulham, England on May 28. Keshi said the deadline was given to the players to enable the team have one day to get its strategy for the match right. “We are playing on May 28, and we all should be there on May 27 so that we can have at least a one-day training session before we play,” he said. The coach said he was still working to get 30 players out of the list of 38 already submitted to the Nigeria Football Association (NFA). The media reports that the list was to be submitted to FIFA on May 10.

The best singing priest, ever? Watch the viral wedding vid

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Here at  GLAMOUR  we love a viral wedding video; whether it's an elaborate marriage proposal, or a dog dressed up as a bridesmaid, we just love them all. But we have a new favourite - thanks to this video going viral, we now know that there's a priest out there who has one amazing voice.  Scroll down to watch (it already has over 3million views)... Fr Ray Kelly has become a YouTube sensation after singing the Leonard Cohen version of  Hallelujah  on a couple's wedding day in Ireland.

Kate Winslet: "The Titanic nude scene still haunts me!"

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That nudey  Titanic  scene may be one of the most famous moments in the film's history - but  Kate Winslet  is NOT a fan.  Speaking about the moment where Jack sketches Rose naked, while she wears a Heart of the Ocean necklace, Kate Winslet told  Yahoo  that 17 years on, photographs of that moment still haunt the actress.  Rex Features "I don't sign that (picture)," she said. "It feels very uncomfortable. Why would you do that? People ask me to sign that a lot." Indeed they do - just a few weeks ago at the  Divergent  premiere,  Kate was offered a recreation of that very sketch  to sign, which must have annoyed her a little bit: 

Drew Barrymore has baby number two! Baby name revealed...

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Congratulations to  Drew Barrymore  and her husband Will Kopelman on the arrival of their baby girl. The new parents have chosen the name Frankie, and we love it. The actress, who is now a mummy to two ( Drew  already has 19-month-old daughter Olive) released a statement which said they were "happy" and "proud". Rex Features It is believed that the 39-year-old actress gave birth on Tuesday. The statement, released to  People  magazine, said: "Happy to announce that today we are the proud parents of our second daughter, Frankie Barrymore Kopelman.