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Zut alors! New York beats Paris to become the most fashionable city in the world

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New York, home to $1 pizza slices and Carrie Bradshaw, is officially more fashionable than Paris, home to haute couture and better cheese.

According to new research released today by the Global Language Monitor, an Austin-based data-research company that catalogs trends in word usage, New York is the reigning fashion capital of the world.

Paris finished in second place, with London and Los Angeles close behind. Asia was also well represented with Shanghai in the tenth spot followed by Tokyo (11), Singapore (19), and Hong Kong (20).

Over the course of three years the Global Language Monitor tracked 250,000 blogs, print outlets, and social media channels, looking for buzzwords associated with haute couture, ready-to-wear, and fashion.

It then looked at the frequency and contextual usage of the words, creating a set of data able to rank global fashion cities.

New York City, therefore, showed up more than Paris or London in relation to words like fashion, fashionable, best designers, street style — but it was a narrow win: New York City bet Paris by 0.5per cent.

 

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Man who thinks he’s Jesus… along with hundreds of young women who follow him across the world

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A 66-year-old Brazilian man has spent 35 years preaching the word of God – because he believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus.

Inri Cristo has ‘hundreds of followers’ from around the world, including the UK, Britain and France, some of whom live with him at his ‘church’ compound outside Brasilia.

Since 1979 he has travelled for 27 countries to spread his word, however his controversial views has seen him expelled from the US, Britain and Venezuela.

Most of the disciples who live at his church – mostly women – have followed Inri for decades, the eldest, Abevere, 86, has been following him for 32 years.

His youngest disciple is now 24 years old and first met Inri when she was just a two years old.

His Jesus-like dressing and unorthodox views on capitalism, abortion and even Christmas has seen him detained by police more than 40 times.

But despite seeing himself as Jesus reborn, Inri refuses to celebrate Christmas saying it is just a day where ‘the rich humiliate the poor’.

He now runs his own church, the ‘Soust’ (Suprema Ordem Universal da Santmssima Trindade), located on a lush farmland outside of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, which he calls the ‘New Jerusalem’.

His quirky life has led to critics saying he is mentally ill – an accusation he firmly denies.

 

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German railways to use mini drones to stop graffiti

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1Գերմանական երկաթուղիները կօգտագործեն անօդաչու սարքեր գրաֆիտիների դGermany’s railway operator plans to deploy mini drones to catch vandals who deface its trains with graffiti, with the aerial vehicles shooting thermal images of its train depots at night.

Deutsche Bahn plans to soon start testing the vehicles which have four helicopter-style rotors and can shoot high-resolution pictures.

A “pilot” remotely steers the vehicles at heights of up to 150 metres (500 feet) and speeds of up to 54 kilometres (33 miles) per hour. An operator evaluates the images, which the company plans to use as evidence.

Deutsche Bahn said it suffered property damage last year worth 7.6 million euros ($10 million) from people spray-painting its carriages.

The rail operator said it would only use the drones over its own depots, not in public areas, in line with German anti-surveillance laws.

Man addicted to eating INSECTS reveals he has consumed 5,000 species in the past 11 years – with cockroaches among his favorites

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i2A man has told how he is addicted to eating bugs and has consumed over 5,000 species in the past 11 years.

To satisfy his cravings David Gracer, 47, from Providence, Rhode Island, keeps a constant stock of his favorite treats, which include fly pupa, cockroaches and scorpions, in his basement freezer.

In a preview for tonight’s episode of TLC’s My Crazy Obsession, the married father-of-one demonstrates how he uses a net to hunt for creepy crawlies in the undergrowth and ‘painlessly’ kills them via a freezing method.

Mr Gracer, who works as an English teacher, admits that his diet is unconventional.

But defending his bizarre eating habit, he explains that it is just like people eating marine crustaceans – which are also considerably more expensive.

‘Bugs, as long as they’re in the ocean – crabs, shrimp and lobster – are just fine to eat and people can spend quite a bit of money for them. But whereas bugs on the land, suddenly it’s all ewww.’

However his wife, Kim Jason, seems unenthused by his fondness for foraging, which has gradually turned into a full-blown obsession.

‘David’s interest in eating insects just kept getting bigger, bigger and bigger,’ she describes.

The couple’s basement freezer contains over 12,000 insects, including 20 different species.

It is estimated that more than half the world’s population eat a variety of flying, crawling, and biting bugs.

 

Car bomb explodes outside French embassy in Libya leaving two guards seriously injured

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f2France’s embassy in Tripoli has been hit by what appeared to be a car bomb this morning, injuring two guards.

It is the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

‘There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby-trapped car,’ said an embassy official.

‘There was a lot of damage and there are two guards wounded.’
The attack on the fortified complex in Tripoli comes just over two years to the day since former president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered his airforce to start attacking Gaddafi’s forces as part of the liberation of the North African country.

The guards, both of whom were French nationals, were badly hurt, with one said to be in a life-threatening condition, said the source

Diplomatic missions have been targeted in Libya, most notably an attack on the US mission in the eastern city of Benghazi last September that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

 

Germany fines Google for privacy violations

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3Գերմանիան տուգանել է Google-ինGerman authorities said on Monday they had fined Google for illegally collecting massive amounts of personal data including emails, passwords and photos while setting up its disputed Street View service.

The data protection office in the northern city of Hamburg said it had slapped the US Internet giant with a 145,000-euro ($189,000) penalty for privacy violations on what it called a nearly unprecedented scale.

It found that while specially equipped Google vehicles took city snapshots between 2008 and 2010 for its Street View function, which supplements its standard map service, they had also picked up data from unsecured wireless networks.

“Among the information gathered in the drive-bys were significant amounts of personal data of varying quality. For example emails, passwords, photos and chat protocols were collected,” the Hamburg authorities said in a statement.

Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls taken to hospital after ‘poison attack by Taliban’

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Up to 74 girls in Afghanistan have been treated after a suspected poisoning attack at their school, officials said yesterday.

The girls became ill after smelling gas at their school, Bibi Maryam, in Takhar province’s capital, Taluqan.

Many of the children remained in a critical condition in hospital last night.

The Ministry of Public Health is investigating and samples of the victims’ blood have been sent for testing.

Sulaiman Moradi, Takhar governor’s spokesman, said the attack was to try to prevent girls from going to school.

He said ‘enemies of the government and the country’ were to blame for the mass illness.

There have been numerous substantiated cases of mass poisonings of schoolgirls in Afghanistan by ultra-conservatives who oppose giving women access to education.

The girls in Takhar, about 155 miles north of Kabul, were taken to a provincial hospital.

No-one has claimed responsibility for either incident.

Takhar has been a hotbed of militancy and criminal activity since 2009, with groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan active.

The Taliban banned education for women and girls but since they were ousted in 2001, females have returned to schools, especially in the capital city Kabul.

Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and employment since 2001.

However, fears are growing that such gains could be traded away as Western forces prepare to leave and the Afghan government seeks peace talks with the Taliban.

Thousands take to streets of Paris to protest against legalisation of gay marriage set to pass this week

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f2Thousands of opponents of gay marriage marched through Paris yesterday in a last-ditch protest before a law allowing same-sex union and adoption is passed tomorrow.

About 50,000, most of them older people and families with children, waving pink and blue flags massed behind a banner reading: ‘All born of a mum and a dad.’

Although it ended peacefully, riot police had been on standby after a series of violent demonstrations outside the French parliament earlier this month.

Yesterday’s march had been hastily organised after the law’s passage was sped up to avoid a big rally set for next week.

‘We warned the president back in November that we would not give up and that we would do everything to stop this law being passed, or to get it repealed if it is adopted,’ said protest organiser Alberic Dumon.

Numerous opinion polls have shown that a majority of French people support gay marriage but far fewer agree that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children.

Senior religious leaders have condemned the same-sex marriage and adoption laws and many were expected to join yesterday’s protest.

The extremist arm of the movement has seen public stalking of government ministers and a spate of homophobic attacks around the country.

And in January, around 350,000 protesters massed under the Eiffel Tower and tore up the lawns beneath it.

Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe, one of few French public officials who is openly gay, headed a rival march yesterday in favour of same-sex marriage and said that it was too late for anything to derail the law.

Hollande, who is grappling with the lowest popularity ratings of any recent French president as unemployment surges above 10 per cent, hoped to win some glory from passing a reform already in place in a dozen other countries.