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Friday, April 22, 2016
Jennifer Aniston named People’s ‘most beautiful’ woman
NEW YORK - Jennifer Aniston was named People magazine’s most beautiful woman of 2016 on Wednesday, 12 years after she first won the honor. Aniston, 47, said she was “very, very flattered” to be named again, telling the magazine she had a “sort of very excited, teenage-y kind of moment” when she heard the news. People also named the “Friends” star the most beautiful woman in 2004 when the TV comedy series was in its final season. Recent winners of the honor include Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez and Lupita Nyong’o. Aniston, who last year married her second husband, actor Justin Theroux, said she started paying attention to her looks and her body early in her career after an agent told her she failed to get a part because she was “too chubby.” “I was like, ‘What?!’ But my diet was terrible,” she said. “Milk shakes and French fries with gravy. It was a good thing to start paying attention.” Aniston now works out at least six days a week but says she is not as strict as she once was when indulging in some of her favorite foods. (rtr) Cast member Jennifer Aniston attends the premiere of “Mother’s Day” in Los Angeles April 13, 2016.
Adele tops young musicians’ Rich List after success of “25” album
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Barcelona shows it’s still very much alive in Spanish league
Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday marked with new portraits Page 6
At least 8 dead in Houston-area floods, more rain falls
LONDON - Adele’s best-selling album “25” added 30 million pounds ($43 million) to the London-born singer’s fortune, putting her top of the Sunday Times newspaper’s Young Musicians 2016 rich list for performers under 30. The worldwide hit released last November boosted the 27-year-old singer’s fortune to 85 million pounds and lifted her to 30th place in the paper’s overall 2016 list of the wealthiest performers and composers in Britain and Ireland. Paul McCartney tops the musicians’ rich list for a second year in a row. The former Beatle and his wife Nancy Shevell have a combined fortune of 760 million pounds, according to the Sunday Times on Thursday, a rise of 30 million on last year. McCartney is followed by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, with 715 million pounds while the Rolling Stones are Britain and Ireland’s wealthiest band with the fortunes of its four members totalling 630 million pounds. Irish band U2, whose fortune jumped to 500 million from 431 million, was the highest-grossing rock act last year selling 1.29 million tickets worth 66 million pounds for 76 concerts. Singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran has jumped five places making him the second-richest young performer after Adele and propelling him into the main music list for the first time. The late David Bowie’s family, who inherited 70 million pounds from his will, are also a new addition to the list with a combined fortune of 90 million pounds. Although many musicians climbed the wealthy ranks over the past year, a few dropped including Cliff Richard, who fell four places despite a 3 million-pound addition to his bank account. Former Oasis band members Noel and Liam Gallagher were the only performers whose fortune showed a marked decline, the paper said, with a loss of 12 million pounds, dropping them seven places. The list ranks Britain and Ireland’s richest musicians and performers and is published ahead of the annual Sunday Times Rich List this weekend. (rtr)
HOUSTON - At least eight people have died and some 1,150 homes have been damaged in flooding triggered by torrential downpours in the Houston area this week as more rain fell in the region on Wednesday adding to vast pools of standing water. All of those who died were found in or near vehicles that had been in flooded areas, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences and a local sheriff said. The National Weather Service said about an inch or less had fallen in the area as of Wednesday afternoon, keeping water high in parts of the country’s fourth largest city where some roads have been turned into lakes. The Houston region had a recordsetting drenching that dumped as much as 18 inches (45 cm) on some places on Monday. Don Oettinger, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Houston/Galveston office, said there was a possibility of more rain on Thursday. “After tomorrow, we should dry up for a couple of days,” he added. The weather service issued a flood watch from central Texas through Houston and into large parts of Louisiana. There have been more than 1,200 water rescues during the flooding, with emergency crews shuttling people by boat to dry ground and picking
When Elvis met Nixon, and inspired a U.S. comedy movie NEW YORK - The most requested photo in the U.S. National Archives is not the first moon landing or the burning twin towers after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It is actually a picture of President Richard Nixon shaking hands with Elvis Presley in the Oval Office in December 1970 after the meeting between two pivotal figures in 20th century America. “Elvis & Nixon,” a comedy movie that reimagines their unlikely White House encounter, opens in U.S. theaters on Friday after premiering at New York’s Tribeca film festival. It is distributed by Amazon Studios. Kevin Spacey (Nixon) knows a thing or two about playing a president after years as the scheming Frank Underwood on the TV series “House of Cards.” But Michael
Shannon, who plays Presley, was just 3 years old when the singer died in 1977. “We weren’t, either of us, trying to do caricatures,” Spacey, who spent hours listening to tapes of Nixon and watching video of the president, told Reuters in an interview. There are no records of what exactly happened on the day when Presley requested a meeting with Nixon in a bid to become an undercover federal agent-at-large, and found a bond with the president over a shared dislike of the counterculture. Nixon had not begun his secret Oval Office recordings, so the screenwriters relied largely on first-hand accounts from Presley confidant Jerry Schilling and Nixon
aide Bud Krogh. Shannon, whose Presley is quiet, lonely and reflective, never imagined himself playing the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” “I didn’t go into it being a huge Elvis fan. I didn’t have his records or anything,” the Kentucky-born actor said. “But I am really happy I had a reason to investigate Elvis because there is nobody else like him, not just in terms of the scope of his fame but in the unique construct of his life. I think he was always trying to figure out ‘why me?’” Shannon listened to interviews and visited the tiny apartment in Memphis where Presley spent his teenage years. He also learned karate for a scene in which Presley demonstrated his black belt moves for an astonished Nixon. (rtr)
Obama starts talks with Gulf leaders aimed at easing strains Page 13
up hundreds of motorists whose cars were caught in rushing waters. The Houston Independent School District, the country’s seventh-largest school district, said it would reopen on Wednesday after flooding caused the closure of hundreds of schools earlier this week. Some suburban school districts remained closed on Wednesday. Heavy storms can overwhelm drainage channels that move water from Houston back to the Gulf of Mexico, particularly if the ground is already saturated. The city faced similar widespread flooding during a storm last May and Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/ global-fm-bali.
Indonesia Has the Most Hotels and Restaurants of all ASEAN countries
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, FILE
In this file photo dated Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, Adele poses backstage with her six awards at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, USA. According to figures released Tuesday April 12, 2016, Adele had the world’s best-selling album last year, as the British singer’s “25” sold 17.4 million copies.
Residents wait to be evacuated from their flooded apartment complex Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in Houston. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
MANGUPRA - The number of tourist accommodations in Indonesia has been rapidly increasing. Data compiled by the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) indicates that Indonesia has 2,194 hotels with 217,474 rooms. There are also 16,156 non-star hotels with a total of 289,727 rooms, bringing the total to 507,200 rooms in 18,353 hotels. During the PHRI’s National Working Meeting that was held in Nusa Dua, Wednesday (Apr. 20), Chairman of the PHRI, Hariyadi B.S. Sukamdani, added that there are a total of 21,856 registered restaurants offering a wide
range of culinary diversity. “Apart from having the largest number of hotels of all the ASEAN nations, Indoneisa also has the largest number of restaurants”, stated Sukamdani. Given the opportunities and potential that this represents, he said, the PHRI is all the more determined to reach the governments target of 20 million tourists per year in 2019, he said. Reaching this target will greatly contribute to the growth of Indonesia’s economy: “It will impact our economy, contributing eight percent to the GDP and will create job opportunities for more than 13 million people in 2019”, he said. Hotel... Continued on page 2