Fouani is a multinational company which represents LG, Hisense, Maxi, Huawei, and Jinko, among others. According to a source who spoke to Punch Online under the condition of anonymity, the incident happened around Falomo Bridge on the evening of Friday, June 14, 2024. The captives, whose names have not been ascertained, were said to be travelling through the Lagos waters from Apapa to Victoria Island when the kidnappers struck.

Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, two of the stars of the long-running CBS police procedural Hawaii Five-0, will not be returning to the television series for season 8 due to failed contract negotiations. Last week, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Kim and Park were leaving the series after having requested and been denied pay parity with their white co-stars and fellow veteran cast members, Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. In a Facebook post published on Wednesday, Kim wrote, “CBS and I weren’t able to agree to terms on a new contract, so I made the difficult choice not to continue.

Watch out, Milwaukee. Something is growing in the woods just over, or rather under, the Wisconsin-Michigan border. It feeds off rotting organic matter and tree roots, and has been doing so for 1,500 years, making it at least half as old as a mature sequoia tree. The thing has already taken over a whopping 15 hectares (37 acres). It weighs in at somewhere between 100 and 1,000 tons, at least as big as a blue whale.

ICM Partners has cut a deal to acquire U.K. music booking agency Primary Talent International. The deal calls for London-based Primary Talent to continue operating as an autonomous unit, led by its current management team.

For the last 40 years, teens with drug problems, learning disabilities and other behavioral issues have been sent to residential facilities to endure “tough love” techniques that are widely known to include methods of outright physical and psychological abuse. Whether labeled as boot camps, emotional-growth schools, behavior modification programs or wilderness programs, these organizations have operated without federal oversight, and state regulation of the schools ranges from lax to nonexistent.

Getty Images Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — it’s actually more akin to spoken language. And it’s a “spoken” language that is getting richer and more complex by the year. First, some historical perspective. Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago, whereas language probably traces back at least 80,000 years.

Andrew Burton / Getty Images If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct — unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks and pit vipers. A peevish, grudging rancor against men has been one of the most unpalatable and unjust features of second- and third-wave feminism. Men’s faults, failings and foibles have been seized on and magnified into gruesome bills of indictment.

Boxing is about a lot more than brute force; training helps to improve your endurance, balance, coordination, and cardio stamina, and works out your upper body, lower body, and core. It's also a great way to burn fat. So it's unsurprising that boxing workouts are pretty popular and Kendrick isn't the only famous fan of drilling. Earlier this year, Padma Lakshmi said she has her boxing training to thank for her amazing abs.

Well, now Kim is launching her very own waist trainer from her new shapewear line Skims . She's promoting the product and the practice in a new Instagram video. "A waist trainer is a gift that I used to give to all of my friends right after they had a baby," the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star says in the Instagram video. "They make me feel really snatched.

It was 150 years ago this May that Louisa May Alcott’s publisher, Thomas Niles, asked the author if she would write a “girls’ story.” She was reluctant to. “I don’t enjoy this sort of thing,” she wrote in her journal at the time. “Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters; but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” So she wrote about what she knew: a family of four tight-knit sisters who weren’t afraid to be themselves, living in Concord, Mass.