I don't have a lot to say about these new Bentleys that were rolled out in New York City this week — they're very mildly refreshed versions of the existing Continental GT Speed and its various derivatives. But there are two very important takeaways: one, at 633 horsepower and 620 lb-ft. of torque, these are the most powerful production Bentleys in history. Two, the "Open Ocean" configuration of the GT Speed coupe shown at the event is probably the most beautiful version of the Continental that Bentley has ever displayed. I wouldn't have counted on a metallic blue body to work with bright, solid red trim, but here it is, and it looks amazing. Rims, lamps, and interior bits are all darkened, giving the car a menacing feel — which seems appropriate, considering the ridiculous 6-liter twin-turbo W-12 mill under the hood. Yes, it's just a Continental — the car that Autoblog has occasionally taken to calling "the Camry for rich people" — but it's just about the baddest-ass rich-folk Camry you're going to find. And it better be: the updated GT Speed starts at $240,300 when deliveries kick off this summer, going up to $277,235 for a Black Edition convertible.
Friday, May 27, 2016
The most powerful Bentley ever sold is also one of the best-looking
I don't have a lot to say about these new Bentleys that were rolled out in New York City this week — they're very mildly refreshed versions of the existing Continental GT Speed and its various derivatives. But there are two very important takeaways: one, at 633 horsepower and 620 lb-ft. of torque, these are the most powerful production Bentleys in history. Two, the "Open Ocean" configuration of the GT Speed coupe shown at the event is probably the most beautiful version of the Continental that Bentley has ever displayed. I wouldn't have counted on a metallic blue body to work with bright, solid red trim, but here it is, and it looks amazing. Rims, lamps, and interior bits are all darkened, giving the car a menacing feel — which seems appropriate, considering the ridiculous 6-liter twin-turbo W-12 mill under the hood. Yes, it's just a Continental — the car that Autoblog has occasionally taken to calling "the Camry for rich people" — but it's just about the baddest-ass rich-folk Camry you're going to find. And it better be: the updated GT Speed starts at $240,300 when deliveries kick off this summer, going up to $277,235 for a Black Edition convertible.
From homeless to $100m! Steve Harvey opens up about overcoming homelessness
Comedian, actor, talk show host and best selling author, Steve Harvey has had some ups and downs and now the comedian is opening up about being homeless at the beginning of his career. His rags-to-riches tale is one of integrity, ingenuity and success.
For an interview with People, Harvey revealed that while he's now amassed an empire estimated to be worth $100 million, he was once homeless and living out of his Ford Tempo. The Family Feud hosts says that there were moments when he wasn't sure how he'd make it through.
"It kills me when I hear very successful people say, 'I always knew I would get here,' " he says. "I didn't. I always hoped I would get somewhere, but this is above and beyond. My imagination didn't even go this big."
'I can't stop Ekiti workers from going on strike, these are perilous times' - Ayo Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose says he cannot stop workers in the Ekiti state civil service who intend to go on strike over unpaid salaries. Fayose said this in an interview session with pressmen yesterday May 25th
And since I became governor I have always put this before the leadership of labour, each time they give us a figure from Abuja, I give the paper to them for them to share and bring it for signature. Obviously at some point we all realized that there was nothing to share or probably for what we earn when you are to pay 2.5 or 2.6 billion as wage bill and you now get 1billion, you get 800million, you get 1.2billion, there is nothing to share. So rotating an alternating payment in terms of paying the university, the college of education, higher institution and so on, we pay them this month and pay the major work force next month. That has been the practice and we work with a technical committee of labour and government, we meet monthly to disburse.
"I want to make some clarification particularly on issues that affects the welfare of our workers. I want to say very expressly that workers are the engine room of government and they deserve all the encouragement but currently we are in crisis financially, the average wage bill in terms of payment of workers is between 2.5 to 2.6billion which includes parastatals, university, college of education and all that.
Why some couples have more sex
If researchers seem a bit, well, voyeuristic with regard to people's sex lives, there's good reason for it: In heterosexual marriages, the happier people are with the sexual lives, the happier they are with their relationships. And if you want to know how much a newlywed couple is enjoying and having sex — and really, who doesn't — then look at their personalities.
Specifically, look at the wife's personality. If she's super curious about life and easy to be around, it's more likely that the couple is getting laid, or so says a new study. The man's personality, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have much of an effect on how often the couple has sex.
Meet the female politics student who ran away to fight ISIS and says militants are 'easy to kill'
Joanna Palani gave up her life as a college student to fight ISIS
A young woman who travelled to Syria to fight jihadis on the frontline has revealed how ISIS thugs are 'very easy to kill' and children are rounded up to be sexually abused.
Joanna Palani, then 22, gave up her life as a college student to become a Kurdish fighter in the war-torn country, where she came face-to-face with murderous militants.
With the knowledge of how to shoot a gun, she spent a year battling ISIS on the frontline, teaching other girls how to fight and witnessing the brutal horrors of war.
Now back home, Joanna has told of her experiences from her time abroad - and the striking differences between the Islamic State and President Assad's 'killing machines'
KHLOE KARDASHIAN FILES FOR DIVORCE ... AGAIN
Khloe Kardashian has just gone to court a second time to end her marriage toLamar Odom ... 360 has learned.
Khloe, with the help of attorney Laura Wasser, filed for divorce Thursday, claiming -- as she did the first time -- irreconcilable differences. Our sources say there is a prenup and the 2 worked out a property settlement the first time around, so now it's just a waiting game. In California, a divorce cannot become final until 6 months after it's filed.
Rapper arrested for T.I. concert shooting that left one dead as terrifying footage emerges
Rapper Troy Ave has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a gun, in relation to the shooting on Wednesday night at T.I.'s concert in New York.
The shooting left one person dead and two others injured.
The 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Roland Collins, could be facing a murder charge once the investigation has been completed, according to the New York Daily News.
During the shooting at Irving Plaza in Manhattan, Collins is said to have accidentally shot himself in the leg.
Collins was on the bill to perform at the show, which was due to be headlined by Whatever You Like rapper T.I.It has been claimed that Collins was fighting with rapper rival Maino, who had just come off stage when Collins is alleged to have fired off up to five gunshots in the green room, insiders told the newspaper.
Earlier today, footage was released of the chilling moment a shooting broke out at a T.I. concert in New York , which left one person dead and others injured.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Teenage boy commits suicide rather than face his parents anger for crashing a new car
An 18-year-old teenage gymnast, Ruslan Gutu, committed suicide by hanging himself, after crashing a brand new car bought for him by his parents. According to his girlfriend Athena, Ruslan confided in her on how worried he was about telling his parents about the crash of the new car.
Athena told the coroner that he was 'shaking' as he told her he was worried about how he would pay for the damage done to his crashed car.
Africans in India living 'in fear' after killing: envoys

African nationals in the Indian capital live in a "pervading climate of fear and insecurity", a group of African ambassadors has said, after the brutal murder of a Congolese teacher sparked allegations of racism.
The Group of African Heads of Mission said they may recommend their governments not to send students to India until safety conditions improve, following a string of what they say are unpunished racial attacks.
In the latest case, Masunda Kitada Oliver, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was allegedly bludgeoned to death in New Delhi on Friday night by three Indian men after an argument over an auto-rickshaw.
Suspect arrested in death of ex-coal chief executive

Ohio man fatally shot a former coal company executive at a cemetery where the businessman's wife is buried and has been arrested on a first-degree murder warrant, a sheriff said Tuesday.
A second man has also been charged as an accessory.
Authorities said Anthony R. Arriaga of Delphos, Ohio, shot Bennett K. Hatfield on Monday at Mountain View Memory Gardens, a cemetery in southern West Virginia's Mingo County.
Hatfield, 59, resigned in 2015 as president and CEO of Patriot Coal, a month before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time. He was International Coal Group's CEO when a 2006 explosion at the Sago Mine in northern West Virginia killed 12 miners.
Mingo County Sheriff James Smith didn't immediately release a motive in Bennett's death. He said state police dogs found a weapon along a river bank next to the cemetery.
Arriaga waived his right to an extradition hearing Tuesday in municipal court in Lima, Ohio, said court Chief Deputy Clerk Brenda Benedict. Bond was set at $1 million.
Allen County, Ohio, Sheriff Sam Crish said West Virginia authorities were expected to transport Arriaga back to face charges.
Authorities believe Arriaga sneaked along the river bank after the shooting and asked some neighbors to take him to Wayne County, Smith said. A man who drove Arriaga contacted authorities after hearing about Hatfield's death.
"Once he heard what was going on, he let us know he gave this subject a ride to Wayne County," Smith said.
A state police team helped track the suspect to Wayne County and eventually into Ohio.
Smith said authorities had been stumped until the neighbor stepped forward.
"We were totally lost," Smith said. "Him catching that ride helped us."
Arriaga stopped at a man's house in Wayne County, along the state's western border with Kentucky and Ohio, before moving on to Ohio, authorities.
The man, Ricky Dean Peterson, 20, told a state trooper he had no knowledge about Arriaga or Hatfield's death, authorities said. Two others at the residence told a trooper that Arriaga had been there and spoke with Peterson.
‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle exaggerated medal count, records reveal
Newly published documents reveal that “American Sniper” Chris Kyle was not part of the elite group of U.S. fighters to earn one of the nation’s top three combat medals on more than one occasion during the global war on terrorism, as he claimed in his bestselling autobiography.
Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who was murdered by a disturbed fellow veteran in 2013, wrote that he had received two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars. The Silver Star, the third-highest combat decoration, is awarded for gallantry in action. Being recognized for exhibiting the highest levels of battlefield heroism more than once is rare.
“Receiving two Silver Stars would have put him in a very unique and small group,” said Doug Sterner, a Vietnam veteran and author of “Restoring Valor: One Couple’s Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect America’s Military Awards System.”
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Sterner, who is also a longtime investigator and archivist of military valor awards, said he suspected for several years that the medal count former Navy SEAL Kyle wrote about in
Profile Of Bobby Shmurda Details How Police Targeted Him
Last week, two of Bobby Shmurda’s Gs9 associates recieved sentences of 53 and 98 years. Shmurda goes to trial in September, and it’s looking more and more grim for Bobby
Or is it?
A new profile of Shmurda in GQ casts some doubt on the case against him. First, it details the extent to which he was targeted by the police.
In the piece, Shmurda’s friends say the NYPD began harassing Bobby and his crew once ‘Hot Nigga’ got big, waiting for them outside of shows.
One of the times the cops picked up Shmurda, his former manager Donny Flores went to the precinct to retrieve him. Flores reports the officers were “dancing and singing” to ‘Hot Nigga.’ “One cop was like: ‘Oh, my God, this is what my daughter is listening to?’ I didn’t know what was going on,” Flores said. “Now I know. They targeted him.”
Science Confirms That Drinking Alcohol Is Actually Incredibly Fun
Despite all the bad press booze has received over the years—that it wreaks havoc on the mind and body, that it’s steadily driving thousands of Americans to early graves—few would be surprised that, in the moment, getting drunk is actually a lot of fun. The U.S. bought roughly 30.6 billion liters of alcohol in 2015 alone, and drinking has become so ingrained in the fabric of our society that the country’s leading beer purveyor, Budweiser, is shortening its name to simply “America” this summer.
Still, what was once merely guesswork has now been proven as a fact of science: drinking makes people happy.
Warriors Fan Reportedly Tried to Fight Charles Barkley for Picking Thunder
The Golden State Warriors are one loss away from getting eliminated from the 2016 NBA Playoffs, and it's the fans who seem to be taking it the hardest. On the heels of a 2015-16 campaign in which Golden State had the best regular season record in NBA history, the Warriors fanbase felt incredibly confident that getting back-to-back titles was well within reach, even if history suggested otherwise.
11-Foot Python Chomps Down on Dude's Penis While He Uses the Toilet
One man's routine bathroom trip didn't exactly go as planned and ultimately landed him in the hospital with the delightful brag of having survived a brutalpython attack on his penis. Atthaporn Boonmakchuay reportedly noticed the 11-foot python attached to the tip of his member after feeling "a sharp bite" while on the toilet, the Daily Mail reports. Consider this a fair GRAPHIC CONTENT warning before you proceed.
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