Music pumped, fireworks popped and the crowd cheered as the color of life filled the sky over the Detroit River on Monday night during the Ford Fireworks.
Thousands of people lined both the Detroit and Windsor banks of the river for the 23-minute, 10,000-fireworks show.
DENVER — At long last, Brian Shaw is getting his first chance to coach an NBA team.
The former guard for the Los Angeles Lakers and Phil Jackson pupil has agreed to succeed George Karl as coach of the Denver Nuggets, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
Just like these 19 rebellious humans, these 11 animals prove that some rules are meant to be broken. But they do so a little more adorably.
Check out the 11 animal rebels in the slideshow below and let us know which one is the biggest rule-breaker of all.
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Caroline Kennedy helped Ireland celebrate the 50th anniversary of her father’s visit to the country by lighting an eternal flame Saturday.
According to UPI, Kennedy lit the flame in New Ross, the County Wexford town her great-great-grandfather left in 1848.
A torch lit from the eternal flame at President John F. Kennedy’s graveside arrived in Ireland on June 20.
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Today is the 161st birthday of Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudi. If you’ve caught a glimpse of the amazing Google Doodle created in his honor, you can see that the Modernista creator of Sagrada Familia and other notable Spanish monuments is sort of a big deal.
As an architect, Gaudi possessed a distinct vision that incorporated nature, religion and Catalan culture to create beautiful organic monuments that remain hallmarks of Spanish architecture. Attention to detail was a marked trait of his colossal churches and palaces, culminating in swirling terraces and bulging balconies that lent a whimsical touch to familiar neo-gothic and orientalist styles. His unique imaginations paved the way for the emerging Catalan Modernisme and Renaixensa movements, which soared to success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
See that up there, guys? That’s your President, Barack Obama, singing Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” … Well, really, he’s not actually singing it, it’s more of a dubbed version clipped from various speeches he’s given over the years, but it’s pretty awesome, isn’t it?
Life, it seems, is a battle between polar opposites: good vs. evil, wrong vs. right, light vs. dark… and long hair vs. short hair. While it can be tricky to decide between two divergent options, we’ve finally found a middle ground, thanks to Rosario Dawson.
The 34-year-old actress is a fan of the undercut, a popular punky hairstyle that quite literally straddles two distinct looks. Spotted on set in New York City on Monday, Rosario showed off multitasking hair: cropped close on the left and hanging down on the right.
Rosario committed to the cut last week, and flirted briefly with the style last year. It seems she can’t make up her mind as to which style to pick — perhaps she could use your vote!
By Barbara Liston
SANFORD, Fla., June 25 (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the Florida murder trial of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman will reveal a star witness for the first time on Tuesday, the girl Trayvon Martin was talking with in the last minutes of his life.
The teenage girl, known as Witness #8 until now, was due to testify about what Martin, the unarmed black 17-year-old shot and killed by Zimmerman last year, told her what he saw that night.
Identified in court on Monday only as Rachel, a friend of Martin from Miami, she received a running account about what was happening, starting when he noticed a man, Zimmerman, watching him in the gated central Florida community he was visiting.
Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic, was a neighborhood watch volunteer in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the Feb. 26, 2012, killing. He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.
The racially charged case triggered civil rights protests and debates about the treatment of black Americans in the U.S. justice system, since police did not arrest Zimmerman for 44 days.
To win a conviction for second-degree murder, the prosecution must convince jurors that Zimmerman acted with “ill will, hatred, spite or an evil intent,” and “an indifference to human life,” according to Florida jury instructions.
In previous written testimony, Rachel described Martin as scared and trying to get away from the man. She was urging him to run. She last heard Martin say, “why are you following me” after which she said she heard what sounded like Martin falling. Then the phone line went dead.
The Martin family lawyer, Ben Crump, has said her testimony helps destroy Zimmerman’s claim that he acted in self-defense.
Zimmerman placed a four-minute phone call to police when he first spotted Martin, telling a dispatcher that the Miami teen looked “real suspicious.”
Martin was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the homeowners. He was walking back to the house after buying snacks at a nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a confrontation with Zimmerman.
Also on Tuesday, lawyers will continue to dissect witness testimony about Zimmerman’s call to police. Jurors heard the ‘suspicious person’ call three times on Monday, twice during the opening statements and again during witness testimony.
In opening statements Monday, the prosecution portrayed Zimmerman as a man with a concealed weapon who committed a vigilante-style killing. The defense suggested that Martin was the aggressor, and Zimmerman acted to protect his own life.
Six jurors, all women, were selected last week to hear the case. Florida law requires a minimum of six jurors except in cases where the death penalty is sought.
Under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, which was approved in 2005 and has since been copied by about 30 other states, people fearing for their lives can use deadly force without having to retreat from a confrontation, even when it is possible. (Editing by David Adams and Doina Chiacu)
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WASHINGTON — The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction.
But lately it seems to be wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, wreaking havoc as it goes.
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