Daily Archives: July 23, 2013

Lady GaGa Named Highest-Earning Celebrity Under 30 by Forbes

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lady-gagaLady GaGa regains number one spot on Forbes’ list of highest-earning celebrities under 30. Despite her hip injury which forced her to cancel several gigs, the 27-year-old popstar raked in approximately $80 million between June 2012 and June 2013. GaGa was named best-paid celebrities under 30 in 2011. Other young celebrities who make it into this year’s top three are Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.
The “Paparazzi” singer tops the list of highest-earning celebrities under 30 with $80 million in earnings. The singer would earn more if she had not scrapped the remaining gigs on “Born This Way Ball” tour because of hip injury. Forbes noted that the tour grossed $168 million through January. Her new album “ARTPOP” is coming out in November and she will cash in more following the album’s release.

Taking number two spot is 19-year-old singer Justin Bieber. The Biebs nabs the second place with approximately $58 million. The amount was earned from his “Believe” tour as well as stakes at Enflick, Tinychat and Spotify.

Taylor Swifts, who takes number three spot, cashed in approximately $55 million between June 2012 and June 2013.

Forbes’ team, which talked to agents, managers, producers, executives and others to compile the list, put world-renowned DJ and producer Calvin Harris in number four with $46 million in earnings. Rihanna takes number five spot after collecting $43 million.

Forbes’ List of Highest-Earning Celebrity Under 30:

  1. Lady GaGa, $80 million
  2. Justin Bieber, $58 million
  3. Taylor Swift, $55 million
  4. Calvin Harris, $52 million
  5. Rihanna, $46 million
  6. Katy Perry, $39 million
  7. Adele, $25 million
  8. Jennifer Lawrence, $26 million
  9. Kristen Stewart, $22 million
  10. Taylor Lautner, $22 million

 

1 Killed in Firefight at Turkish-Syrian Border

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Turkish soldiers patrol and search for mines on a road surrounded by rugged mountains in south-eastern province of SirnakTurkey’s military says soldiers returned fire on a group of people trying to cross into Turkey illegally from Syria, killing one of them.

The shooting is the latest in a series of incidents on the shared 910-kilometer (566-mile) border. Turkish security forces have been retaliating to stray fire from Syria landing on Turkey’s territory or to attacks from smugglers or other people trying to enter the country illegally.

The military said that a group of eight “civilians” fired up to 15 shots at soldiers patrolling the border late on Monday, ignoring their warnings to stop. The troops then fired back.

Separately, the military also said Tuesday that seven soldiers were slightly injured after a group of suspected fuel oil smugglers from Syria threw stones at the security forces.

 

Commuters push 32-ton train car off trapped woman in Japan

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japanese-commuters-free-woman-moving-32-ton-trainEven during Tokyo’s notoriously hectic rush hour, dozens of commuters stopped to push a 32-ton train car out of the way.

A woman trying to get off a train in Saitama, north of Tokyo, fell in a gap between the train and the platform Monday morning, said Takashi Tsukahara, a spokesman for the train operator JR East.

About 40 passengers and JR staff rushed to push the train off the woman. Tsukahara said a train carriage typically weighs about 30,000 kilograms, but is able to sway a bit side to side to absorb the train’s movements.

The commuters pushed the train just enough to free the woman. A loud cheer erupted as the woman was pulled up.

The woman, in her 30s, was not seriously injured.

Just eight minutes later, the train took off again.

 

President Serzh Sargsyan sent a letter of condolences to the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping

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 Սերժ-ՍարգսյանPresident Serzh Sargsyan sent today a letter of condolences to the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping on a devastating earthquake in Gansu province which claimed numerous human lives.

“I am confident that measures taken by the Chinese Government will allow to quickly overcome the consequences of this calamity.

Sharing your and the friendly Chinese people’s grief, I wish the families of the victims and the people of China tenacity and resolve and I wish a speedy recovery to those injured,” the letter of the President of Armenia reads.

First spectacular images emerge of planet Earth taken from Saturn… after thousands posed and looked to the heavens for NASA photo op 898MILLION-miles away

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Planet Earth can been seen as just a miniscule star from this enhanced shot of Saturn1Thousands of astronomy fans looked to the heavens and posed for a unique picture on Friday afternoon – a shot of planet Earth from Saturn.

The first photos are are just being transmitted back now – but anyone who participated in the ‘Day the Earth Smiled’ shouldn’t hope to see their face. This was, after all, a 898million-mile photo op.

The photos, some of which have been enhanced by astronomers, show Earth as a tiny dot – only a little bigger than the North Star appears in our sky – illuminating the skies beyond Saturn.

The images were taken by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting the ringed giant since its arrival in the Saturn system in 2004.

The Earth has only been pictured in images from outer space on two other occasions. The first was  in 1990, when Voyager 1 captured an image from 3.7 billion miles away. The second occasion was when Cassini took a photo in 2006 from 926 million miles away.

The raw images of Earth that arrived back home from Saturn on Saturday were raw and not easy for the average layman to decipher. The images showed both wide and narrow-angle views and different shots were taken with different color filters, additionally, Cassini moved slightly in between shots.

Guillermo Abramson, a physicist at Argentina’s BarilocheAtomicCenter, tweeted a zoomed-in shot of Earth – as seen from nearly 900million miles away.

The main purpose of the photograph is to study any changes in Saturn’s rings, after an 2006 image showed possible changes.