Lakers drop Bryant future hint
Los Angeles Lakers president Jim Buss hinted the club would be ready to hold discussions about possibly extending Kobe Bryant’s NBA career when the star’s current contract expires at the end of the 2015-2016 season. Buss told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Friday that Bryant’s history…
Taylor Swift invites Lisa Kudrow onstage for ‘Smelly Cat’
Continuing her run of inviting surprise guests to join her onstage during her current tour, Taylor Swift performed duets Wednesday night with Selena Gomez and Justin Timberlake. But it was her ode to an odoriferous cat that had everybody talking. Midway through her set at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Swift…
Marco Rubio on world leaders: Vladimir Putin a ‘gangster,’ Kim Jong Un a ‘lunatic’
Photo CNN When it comes to his assessment of world leaders, Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t pulling any punches: Russia’s run by a “gangster” and North Korea a “lunatic.” The 2016 Republican presidential candidate made a foreign policy speech Friday morning in South Carolina, in which he riffed on his unvarnished…
Secret NATO Taliban report revives Pakistan fears
The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it. “It is a marriage of convenience,” Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report. The Taliban see…
U.N. Security Council at standstill on Syria, reports of deaths rise
At least 48 people were killed across Syria Wednesday, opposition activists said, as diplomats at the United Nations prepare to debate once again how to respond to the mounting crisis in the country. The number killed in Wadi Barada, in the Damascus suburbs, rose to 21 according to the Local…
Tevez stays put on transfer deadline day
After a frantic final day of dealing twelve months ago, this year’s January transfer window has passed off in a far less febrile atmosphere. Despite not going anywhere, Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez still managed to hog the headlines as he lodged an appeal with the English Premier League over his…
