The Australian government today announced a travel ban on all flights from West African countries, including Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Thankfully, Nigeria is not included.
Making the announcement, the Australia's Minister of Immigration, Scott Morrison said under the new travel ban, no new visas would be issued to intending travelers from these countries and that all temporary visas would be cancelled, this is all i a bid to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
He also said all passengers with permanent visas that have to travel to Australia from these countries will be subjected to 21 days of isolation in their countries of departure and upon arrival in Australia will be subjected to all kinds of test. He also announced the suspension of all its West African and Humanitarian programmes.
You remember the $2.2million diamond-encrusted loafers Nick Cannon wore to the grand finale of America's Got Talent in September? Well, he has donated it to a children's hospital. The actor and TV host donated the foot wear to the St Mary's Hospital for Children in Queens, New York.
The shoes will be auctioned off at a later date and the hospital will keep all the money made from selling it. Nick says he's happy to donate the shoes
"I want to keep this children's hospital going. It's one of the oldest children hospitals in New York. You got there and it puts everything into perspective. You see all that they are going through and that they can still have a smile on their faces. I get so much out of it. I'm glad to do this" Nick said
Kim Kardashian says her 16 months old daughter North West has developed her own unique style and prefers the masculine, boyish clothes to girly, pink dresses. Kim explains;
"She's not that girly, I don't really like pinks and your typical girly colours. I like a neutral palette for her and with Kayne the same. I'm not big on loud or over the top colours. I love when she wears greens and reds and blush, just different colours of blue and creams. She doesn't like pink or purple. She likes greys, creams, oatmeal colours and black,' she told Lucky magazine.
"Every once in awhile she'll add in some colour, like with her little red Air Yeezys, but other than that she likes to keep it pretty simple.'
Is it that she prefers it or that's what they put on her? Can a 1 year old have their own sense of style?
Pastor Brian Houston appears on stage during Hillsong's 2014 conference in New York City at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Hillsong Church pastor Brian Houston has issued a statement specifying his position on marriage and homosexuality after a news outlet reported that he "won't take (a) public position on LGBT issues."
The news report came after Houston brought up the topics of homosexuality and same-sex marriage at a press conference held on Thursday with New York City media, on the occasion of Hillsong Conference being held at Madison Square Garden.
"I encourage people not to assume a media headline accurately represents what I said at a recent press conference," Houston says in a statement emailed to The Christian Post on Saturday.
"Nowhere in my answer did I diminish biblical truth or suggest that I or Hillsong Church supported gay marriage," he adds. "I challenge people to read what I actually said, rather than what was reported that I said. My personal view on the subject of homosexuality would line up with most traditionally held Christian views. I believe the writings of Paul are clear on this subject."
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Pastors Brian Houston and Bobbie Houston of Hillsong Church appear at a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at The Eventi Hotel in New York City. The press conference came on the occasion of the Hillsong Conference being held at Madison Square Garden from Oct. 16-18 in NYC.
The question that resulted in Houston's remarks on homosexuality centered on how his church tries to remain relevant. In his response, the Hillsong pastor offered homosexual marriage as an issue that is a challenge for some churches. Traditional Christian teachings define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
April 5: Lorde performs on stage during the 2014 Lollapalooza Brazil at Autodromo de Interlagos in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Lorde may never become a royal, but at the 2014 American Music Awards, she's set to share the same stage as Britain's most popular band and The Dutchess.
The soon-to-be-18-year-old singer will headline this year's AMAs along with One Direction and Fergie, both of whom have new albums on the horizon. Fergie will perform her new single "L.A. Love" while 1D will play a song from their impending album Four.
Lorde hasn't announced a sophomore album yet, but she is the creative curator ofThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 soundtrack. Fingers crossed she bringsMiguel & Chemical Brothers to perform their Hunger Games collabo.
Lorde is up for four AMAs this year, while Iggy Azalea leads the pack with six noms. Previously announced performers include 5 Seconds of Summer, Sam Smith, Mary J. Blige and Charli XCX.
Pitbull is set to hostthe Nov. 23 ceremony, which will be broadcast live from L.A.'s Nokia Theatre.
It's already getting serious? Kris Jenner, 59, and her rumoured new boyfriend, Corey Gamble, who is said to be Justin Bieber's co-manager were spotted jetting back to LA on a private jet early yesterday morning after partying in Las Vegas for Kim's birthday.. Kris and Corey were joined in the jet by Kim, Khloe, Kanye and their other friends. So her daughters have met her new man.
The federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more states and extending federal benefits to those couples, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday.
Gay marriage recently became legal in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming.
The government's announcement follows the U.S. Supreme Court's decision earlier this month to decline to hear appeals from five states that sought to keep their marriage bans in place. It brings the total number of states with federal recognition of gay marriage to 32, plus the District of Columbia.
15 year old Jaylen Fryberg (pictured above), a member of the Tulalip Native-American tribe, entered his school cafeteria yesterday morning around 10.41 am, walked over to a table, pulled out a gun and shot five students. He killed one, injured four, who are in critical condition at the hospital, and then he took his own life by shooting himself in the head with his father's gun.
*Jaden Smith is calling out all the rappers who are better than him to please stand up.
“Dear everybody who can rap better than me. Please show me,” he tweeted.
Smith recently used his sister’s (Willow Smith) Soundcloud account to release a track called “Melancholy” — rapping over a sample of Pink Floyd‘s “Breathe.”
But Smith wasn’t done calling out other rappers on Twitter. He followed up with, “cause I got 2 or 3 albums in stock already” and “just just give me the word.”
Barack Obamadid his part to play nice at the polls!
On Monday afternoon, the president was casting his vote early for Chicago's midterm elections when he encountered a jealous boyfriend with a big mouth! The boyfriend, identified by Today as Mike Jones, addressed Obama as he voted alongside Jones' gal Aia Cooper, saying, "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend now."
"Did you just say that?" asked Cooper.
Obama heard Jones loud and clear, though, and without missing a beat, he responded flatly, "You know, I really wasn't planning on it."
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Cooper apologized for her boyfriend's immaturity, but that wasn't the end of it. "Now, there's an example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason," remarked Obama. "Just for no reason whatsoever!"
"I knew he was going to say something smart," said the girlfriend somewhat embarrassedly, "but I didn't know what he was gonna say."
The president wasn't through with it, though! "And now, you'll be going back home and talking to your friends about, 'I can't believe—' what's his name?...'I can't believe Mike. Mike: He is such a fool.'"
"Fortunately," Obama continued, mimicking Jones' girlfriend, "the president was nice about it, so it was all right."
Luckily for the couple, Obama did, indeed, have a sense of humor about the whole thing. "It's all right," he said. "Mike seems like a decent guy."
As Obama and Cooper parted ways, though, the president joked, "Give me a kiss and give him something to talk about!" Then, after planting a tiny kiss on Jones' girlfriend's cheek, he joked, "Now, he's really jealous!"
David Gushee is distinguished professor at a prominent Baptist university and co-author of one of the most popular Christian ethics books of the last 25 years. He’s also now an LGBT ally. – Image courtesy of David Gushee
NEW YORK (RNS) At a moment when American churches and politicians are warring over gay rights and same-sex marriage, each side needs every soldier it can muster. Conservatives are about to learn that one of America’s leading evangelical ethicists is defecting to the opposition.
David Gushee, a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, a Baptist college and divinity school in Georgia, plans to announce that he now affirms same-sex relationships, in a speech to The Reformation Project Conference, a gathering of pro-LGBT Christians in Washington, on Nov. 7.
“I do join your crusade tonight,” Gushee’s prepared remarks say, according to a draft obtained by Religion News Service. “I will henceforth oppose any form of discrimination against you. I will seek to stand in solidarity with you who have suffered the lash of countless Christian rejections. I will be your ally in every way I know how to be.”
A US doctor based in New York who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea has become the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola. 33 year old Dr. Craig Allen Spencer (pictured above) had been working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, and returned to NYC on October 17th. He tested positive to the virus the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan New York yesterday October 23rd.
He and three other people he had contact with in recent days, including his girlfriend have been placed in isolation at the Bellevue hospital. He's officially the 4th person to test positive on American soil.
Many are alarmed at this new case due to the population of the city but the New York mayor while confirming the recent case said New Yorkers have nothing to fear
"We want to state at the outset, there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is a very hard disease to contract." Mayor Bill de Blasio said
The rapper is the host of the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards and released these photos from a teaser trailer to promote the forthcoming award show. See more photos after the cut...
59 year old Kris Jenner went on a romantic candlelit dinner date with a hunky mystery black man at Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks, LA last week. (See here) Radar Online just got a pic from inside the restaurant and Kris looks smitten. A fellow diner told Radar Online...
"Kris was playing with his bracelet, acting very flirtatious, she kept laughing. 'They were holding hands, it was clear that they were on a date.'
Kendrick Lamar released one of the most anticipated records of the year a few weeks back when the powerful “i” impacted our headsets out of nowhere. Capitalizing on K Dot’s popularity and the record’s self-empowering message, the NBA has decided to go ahead and use the song in their 2014-2015 promo ads. The single will serve as the backdrop to the NBA’s promotional videos for the season and is now available for you to watch over at NBA.com. The first ad that’s being aired shows flashes of NBA stars Carmelo Anthony, James Harden, LeBron James, Dirk Nowitzki and others, while K. Dot can be seen rockin’ a baseball cap and mouthing the lyrics to his inspirational record. The ad will be brought to you as soon as we can lay our hands on it.
Jordin Sparks is embracing pain ... and this time it has nothing to do with ex-BF Jason Derulo -- instead she's finally worked up the nerve to get a bull ring piercing.
Maybe she was celebrating the single life -- or just looking for a new look -- but Jordin took a trip to T-Man Tattoo in Studio City last weekend to get a hole punched in her septum ... one of the more painful piercings you can get.
Sources say it wasn't an easy decision -- in fact, Jordin initially left the shop ... and then came back when she felt brave enough.
We're told it ended up taking 2 attempts to get the former "American Idol" champ hooked up -- so they took $30 off the price for her trouble ... and her pain.
Gotta hand it to Jordin ... post break-up piercings beat post break-up tattoo makeovers. Always.
Yesterday rapper Wiz Khalifa wished his estranged wife Amber Rose a happy birthday and Amber responded by saying she will always love him no matter what! These two should get back together…
Mavin artists - Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr Sid, Reekado Banks and Di'Ja rocked the stage and gave their fans a performance of a lifetime at their concert which held at The Ritz Manchester last night. The group will move to London's Indigo 02 for another great show tomorrow night. See photos from the Manchester show after the cut...
Renee Zellweger made her return to the red carpet at Elle's annual Women In Hollywood Awards on Monday night, and she looked well, not immediately recognizable!
Despite looking extra wide-eyed, the actress also proudly showed off her fresh, dewy skin. Not to say she doesn't look good, but after comparing her looks from the past few years, we couldn't help but wonder if she had gone under the knife, or maybe just upped her own facial routine.
Nicki has flaunted her butt with a lot of twerking and bare-naked images, but GQreporter Taffy Brodessor-Akner wrote that Nicki thinks the discussion of her a** is "degrading"!
Actually Nicki is so tired of talking about her booty, that she reportedly fell asleep 4 times during her interview!!!"To be completely accurate, she never fell into actual REM sleep during our interview, but at four separate times she dozed off, her head jerking awake at just the moment it had started to dip.
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