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Award-winning Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan has revealed why he did not feature in Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Expendables’ alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. With ‘The Expendables’ franchise putting together every veteran actor on the same team, Jackie Chan was of course invited to the party. The actor, however, has not made an appearance in the franchise to date despite being asked many times. Chan was one of numerous action icons that Sylvester Stallone tried to recruit when putting together the cast for his Expendables movies. Assembling a large ensemble of popular action heroes is one of Stallone’s biggest goals each…
Firefighters have continued their search in the hope of finding survivors 48 hours after a building collapsed in the centre of the southern French city of Marseille following an explosion. Two residential buildings were destroyed in the explosion which caused a third to partially collapse. The blast occurred at 00:49 local time on Sunday (22:49 GMT on Saturday). Six bodies were found after the explosion flattened a four-storey apartment building in the southern French city of Marseille. Officials said two others remained unaccounted for and rescue efforts continued in the La Plaine district. Housing Minister Oliver Klein described the discovery…
British actress Millie Bobby Brown set tongues wagging on Tuesday, after she shared photos of her and Jake Bongiovi embracing. And eagle eyed fans have spotted a rather large ring on her engagement finger. Her fans are quick to come to the conclusion that the movie star and her boyfriend of three years, Jake Bongiovi, are engaged, after the couple posted the photos to social media on Tuesday, 11 April, 2023. “I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ‘em all,” the actress, 19, captioned the image. Her 20-year-old boyfriend also shared images on social media around the same…
Julian Figueroa, the 27-year-old son of actress Maribel Guardia and late singer Joan Sebastian, has died of acute heart attack. His mother Guardia confirmed on Tuesday, that Figueroa died of a heart ailment. Like his father, Figueroa sang northern-inspired ballads backed by a traditional band. His hits included songs like “Yo sería”, “Ay amor” and “Volaré.” Guardia wrote in her Instagram account that her son died over the weekend. “They found him unconscious in his room last night,” she wrote. “When the ambulance arrived and the police found him dead, there was no sign of violence. The medical report says…
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia, has been indicted by a grand jury, a prosecutor said on Monday. A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm, Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said in a news release. The Associated Press isn’t naming the mother to shield the identity of her son. The boy shot first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner on 6 January inside her classroom at Richneck Elementary School. Police said the boy’s mother legally…
In the latest mass shooting in the United States, five people have been killed by a Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle. The bank employee opened fire at his workplace on Monday morning, killing five people — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack on Instagram, authorities said. Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said. The city’s mayor, Craig Greenberg, called the attack “an evil act of targeted violence.” The shooting, the…
Lawmaker Justin Pearson could be reappointed on Wednesday at a meeting of the Shelby County Commission following the reinstatement of a fellow Black Democrat, Justin Jones, on Monday. The two men were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House. However Jones was reinstated after Nashville’s governing council voted to send him straight back to the Legislature. The unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council took only a few minutes to restore Rep. Justin Jones to office just four days after Republicans stripped him of his seat. Moments later, Jones marched to the Capitol several blocks away. He took the…
UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya has described Nigeria as “a very corrupt place”. He said he loves his people but there are a lot of red flags about the country. The Last Stylebender as he is fondly called, was featured in the recent episode of the Hut Boxin’ audiovisual podcast. The Nigeria-born New Zealander, pointed out that the leaders are desperate to loot public funds. He said: “Nigeria is a very corrupt place. I love my people but it is just that the government; everyone trying to find a way to siphon money.” Recall that Israel Adesanya donned the Nigerian…
Controversial spiritual leader Dalai Lama has apologized after a video emerged showing him kissing a child on the lips and then asking him to “suck my tongue” at an event in northern India. The young lad whose identity has been kept secret, was at an event with the M3M Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Indian real estate company M3M Group – based in Dharamshala, where the Dalai Lama lives in permanent exile. In a statement on Monday, the office for the Dalai Lama said he “wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many…
A 15-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in the Aqabet Jaber refugee camp in Jericho as tensions at Al-Aqsa Mosque continued for the fifth day in a row. Mohammad Fayez Balhan, who was 15 years old, was shot in the head, chest and stomach. This comes at a time when the Israeli Army is guarding thousands of Israeli settlers marching on Monday to the abandoned illegal outpost of Evyatar near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus to call on the Israeli government to legalize the outpost and to “denounce the increased attacks on settlements in recent weeks”.…