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WOMAN SUES MAC COSMETICS AFTER ALLEGEDLY CONTRACTING HERPES FROM RIHANNA ENDORSED LIPSTICK

The NY Daily News reports that a woman has claimed in a lawsuit that she contracted herpes at a Rihanna concert in Brooklyn from the singer’s RiRi Woo lipstick. 28 year old Starkeema Greenidge (yes that’s right STARKEEMA) from Harlem, New York alleges she contracted the virus when a representative  of MAC operating inside a pop-up shop at the concert applied a used tube of lipstick on her upper lip. The employee instructed her to “press her lips together and spread the  lipstick around,” according to the suit. “(MAC) didn’t use []

PICS OF THE DAY: 2013 MR UNIVERSE NIGERIA COMPETITION – THE CONTESTANTS

Website BellaNaija.com has announced that the annual Mr Universe Nigeria pageant is here again. I personally did not know that there was a Mr Universe Nigeria pageant but you learn something new, exciting and interesting every day. Check out some of the handsome contestants below. CLICK HERE to view more photographs and to find out more about the 2013 Mr Universe Nigeria pageant. These are apparently some of Nigeria’s “hottest men”. Your thoughts please… [Thanks Nessa]

CELEBRITIES TO ‘LIVE BELOW THE LINE’ WITH FOOD BUDGET OF $1.50 FOR 5 DAYS

Via The LA Times The idea of Ben Affleck living on $1.50 a day sounds ridiculous, right? Maybe just as ridiculous as Hugh Jackman doing the same thing. The “Argo” director-producer-star is the latest celebrity showing his support for the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line campaign, a position Jackman initiated for the organization in 2011. The Oscar winner took on the organization’s challenge to spend five days feeding himself on only $1.50 a day, which is the the U.S. equivalent []

US GOVERNMENT INTERCEPTS ‘RICIN’ LETTER SENT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Various news sources report that a letter addressed to President Barack Obama apparently containing ricin has been intercepted. Via BBC News Initial tests on the letter, identified at a remote facility, showed the presence of the lethal toxin. The letter, which arrived at the facility on 16 April, is related to another laced with ricin intended for a US senator, the FBI said. The FBI said there was “no indication of a connection” between the letters and Monday’s deadly attack on Boston. The Federal Bureau []

MALAWI GOVERNMENT FALLS OUT OF LOVE WITH MADONNA

Well..well..well…. it sounds like Malawi’s “love affair” with Madonna has run its course. When the multi-millionaire superstar visited the African nation some years ago, adopted two Malawian-born children, spoke of starting a charity (later called ‘Raising Malawi’) and then started to fund the building of schools in the region, the government were quick to roll out the red carpet (like her name was Queen Elizabeth II). But now BBC News reports that government officials have fallen out of love with Madge. It is claimed that the star complained after she and her entourage were stripped of []

KIM KARDASHIAN ALLEGEDLY DESCRIBES NIGERIA AS BEING A ‘DISGUSTING COUNTRY’ / BLACK MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HOAX TWEET

The Voice reports that the extremely talented Kim Kardashian allegedly described Nigeria as being a “disgusting country and compared Nigerian women to apes in a private message to her sister, which was then accidentally sent to her millions of followers. According to The Voice some are claiming that the message above ‘may have been ‘photo shopped’. Earlier this year Kardashian flew in to Lagos to co-host for Dare Art Alade‘s “Love Like a Movie” Valentine concert. She was reportedly paid $500,000, appeared for 20 minutes []

VIDEO: GANG MEMBERS TEAM UP WITH THE KLU KLUX KLAN

Grape Street Crips of Memphis Tennessee and an Alabama Klu Klux Klan (KKK) group are working together to stop the KKK at a rally next month in Memphis after the Confederate parks in Memphis were renamed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNN8xPRn6M&feature=player_embedded I came across this story yesterday and totally dismissed it because I thought it was just an outrageous rumour. No way could this be true. Is the young black man being interviewed for real or is he an actor? Is this just a spoof news report? I am still having trouble believing []