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Stylish Eid-Ul-Fitr Collection 2013

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This weekend Muslims around the world will mark Eid-al-Fitr - the culmination of Ramadan - the month of fasting and praying. Two of the main traditions of this holiday encourage Muslim women to dress up in their best clothes and wear Eid mehndi - henna used to dye hands and feet. Eid-al-fitr is also known as the time for fellowship. So, no matter the religion, open your heart and join the observance of this holiday. Easy way to do it, is to take part in our new fashion competition by creating an Eid look for your lady - find the best clothes in her wardrobe and don't forget to visit the Tattoo Studio in the city and decorate her hands and feet with henna.

Why Do Kelly Osbourne’s Shoes Look Good Enough to Eat?

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Kelly Osbourne shows off her delicious new heels. (Instagram) Kelly Osbourne is embracing summertime … from her head down to her feet! The "Fashion Police star was on hand to celebrate mom-to-be Fergie's baby shower in West Hollywood on Sunday afternoon  and she was one of the sweetest things in the room thanks to her fabulous footwear. "Loving my new ice cream cone jelly heels," the 28-year-old wrote on Instagram before the party, posting a pic of her refreshing fashion statement.The platform heels, which are a design collaboration between Brazilian shoe label Melissa and iconic designer (and harsh fashion critic Karl Lagerfeld, are mostly black matching Osbourne's long-sleeved LBD with a decorative glittery pink single scoop of ice cream on the heel above a wafer cone. Also of note? The plastic shoes are scented. Each pair gives off a fruity fragrance. And they won't melt! Well, anything other than our hearts, that is. Also, unlike an actual ice cream cone,...

Ronda Rousey’s ‘Body Issue’ picture immortalized in fan tattooa

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UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey posed nude for the cover of ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue in 2012 . One fan was so moved by the picture he had the image turned into a tattoo. There was some artistic license taken with the tattoo, like UFC gloves instead of the body wraps, but it's not a bad likeness of the champ. Here's the big question: Rousey's rival coach on the next season of "The Ultimate Fighter" and opponent at UFC 168, Miesha Tate, posed for the Body Issue this year. Will we see some overzealous fan with Tate body ink next year?

Police: Woman arrested in DC cathedral vandalism

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WASHINGTON (AP)  A woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral, and police were investigating her in connection with two similar incidents on the National Mall, authorities said. Tian Jiamel, 58, was arrested inside the cathedral shortly after the paint was found and charged with defacing property, police and cathedral officials said. Investigators were hoping to question her about the vandalism on the Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial, but a language barrier was complicating those efforts, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said soon after the arrest. It was not immediately clear if Jiamel had an attorney. Police believed she was homeless. No motive was given. Green paint was found early Friday morning on the Lincoln Memorial, and symbols were found painted in green later Friday on another statue on the Mall. The Lincoln Memorial was closed temporarily but reopened later Friday. Officials at ...

Selena Gomez's Celebrity Crushes

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Selena's been smitten over the Transformers star and fellow Disney Channel alum for years, and after the folks at Live! With Regis and Kelly arranged for the two to meet backstage she was positively starstruck. The starlet's team caught their first liaison on video, which she shared on her official YouTube channel. After a quick embrace, Shia beamed: "Thank you for being so sweet to me! Selena replied by saying  I admire you.

5 fashion items that are worth the splurge and 4 that aren’t

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It’s easy to overspend when restocking your closet. To smartly allocate your budget, stick to this rule: “If it’s an item you think will look as good on you in five years, it may be worth spending on,” says Jessie Holeva, editor of TrendHungry.com, a Philadelphia-based fashion site. Not sure which clothes fit the bill? Here are five pieces to invest in, and four you should buy inexpensively“You can pretty much wear it with anything,” says Holevaand in any season. The versatile piece tops a flowing dress and feminine blouse as well as it pairs  with jeans. Low-quality leather can tear and get discolored easily, so getting a high-quality jacket, which starts at about $300, is worth the investment. Pick a neutral color, such as black or brown, in a classic style. A short one with a tailored collar won’t look dated after a few years, explains Holeva. Consider long-lasting lambskin jackets, which look shiny and feel soft. While shelling out on what’s underneath seems like a waste, a br...

Good-natured Rex Ryan takes photo with Jets fan wearing ‘This team makes me drink’ shirt

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CORTLAND, N.Y. – A chance meeting between a New York Jets fan and coach Rex Ryan showed that even though Ryan is facing the pressure of a season on the hot seat, he still has a sense of humor. On Saturday night following the second day of training camp, Ryan and his coaching staff went out to enjoy the nightlife of Cortland, N.Y. and bumped into Joseph Grinwis, a lifelong Jets fan. When Grinwis strolled up to Ryan around midnight on Saturday night to ask for a photo, he wasn’t sure how his T-shirt would be handled by the head coach of his long-suffering team. His shirt simply said: “This Team Makes Me Drink.” “I was a little bit ‘Oh no’ inside. I mean, the one night I’m wearing this shirt, you know?” said Grinwis, who made the trip from Wantage Township, N.J., more than a three-hour drive from upstate New York, to watch training camp. “But he was cool with it. Maybe he wasn’t on the inside but he seemed cool with it.” Ryan referenced the trip to downtown Cortland during his Sunday pre...

Wow! Christina Aguilera Reveals Dramatic Beauty Makeunder

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Christina Aguilera is back! All eyes were on the 32-year-old "Your Body" singer when she appeared at an NBC press event in Beverly Hills on Saturday to promote her big return to "The Voice." Not only was the show mentor showing off her slim, trim new frame, which there has been buzz about in recent months, but she also unveiled a serious style makeunder.Wearing a curve-accentuating pink minidress with a flirty ruffled bottom, Aguilera looked like she did in her early days. The subtle, natural look (including her barely there makeup!) was a departure from how we've come to expect her on the reality series. There were no rhinestones, bustiers, hotpants, spiked berets, or other attention-grabbing fashions which have become part of her signature style on "The Voice." Just a beautiful, fresh-faced Aguilera, looking tanned, toned, rested, and ready for Season 5. This isn't the first inkling we've had that her return (after sitting out Season 4) will ...

Egypt warns sit-ins as weekend death toll climbs

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CAIRO (AP)  Egypt's interior minister on Sunday pledged to deal decisively with any attempts to destabilize the country, a thinly veiled warning to supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi occupying two squares in Cairo in a month-long stand-off with the security forces.The warning came as authorities said that the death toll in weekend clashes between Mohammed Morsi's Islamist backers and security forces near one of those sit-ins had reached 72, in the deadliest single outbreak of violence since the July 3 military coup. "I assure the people of Egypt that the police are determined to maintain security and safety to their nation and are capable of doing so," Mohammed Ibrahim told a graduation ceremony at the national police academy. "We will very decisively deal with any attempt to undermine stability," said Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police.Ibrahim's comments added pressure on Morsi's backers three weeks after the Islamist president was ...

Fashion Faceoff: Selena Gomez vs. Kourtney Kardashian

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When they wore it: The reality star rocked her studded sandals during a lunch date with her daughter, Penelope, at Taberna in Los Angeles on July 13. The "Come & Get It" singer stepped out in her fashionable footwear as she left a Burbank studio with her Starbucks in hand on July 21. How they styled it: Selena kept her look casual with a pair of black shorts, a white T-shirt, a boho chic bag, and blown out locks. The mother of two rocked similar bottoms, but polished off her outfit with a green and black check blouse, an oversized diaper bag, and cat-eye sunglasses. [Related: Fashion Faceoff: Britney Spears vs. Taylor Swift] Judge's scorecard: While Kardashian scores points for dressing up the look with a little color (and toting a cute kiddo!), the sandals are enough of a statement piece that they don't need to be fussed with. Do you agree?

Eid Ul Fiter Shopping For 2013

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During Ramadan, shopping for Eid in the walled quarter of Hyderabad does not end with the night. In fact, it picks up at night with the centuries-old markets doing business round-the-clock. As such, with only a couple of days left for Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the culmination of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, all roads in the city are now leading to shops, hotels, roadside eateries and the ubiquitous vendors around Charminar, the symbol of Hyderabad and the hub of Eid shopping. In fact, the old city and some Muslim-majority areas in the central part of the city never sleep during the holy month. While the faithful spend the holy nights in prayers, other men, women and children throng the markets for Eid shopping. As one crosses the Musi river to enter the old city, the aroma of haleem (a Ramadan dish of meat, wheat flour, spices and ghee) wafts in. The numerous hotels at Madina Junction and on the High Court Road do brisk business selling haleem, said to have come to Hyderabad via Iran a...

Unsealed birth records give adoptees peek at past

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Maura Duffy spent a day in Chicago last September with her mother: A walk along Lake Michigan, shared meals, a boat tour highlighting Second City architecture. But this was no typical mother-daughter outing. It was the first time the two women had ever met. Since a handful of states, including Illinois, have unsealed birth certificates, thousands of adoptees have claimed them and learned about their beginnings. The 35-year-old Duffy, adopted at birth, is among 8,800 Illinois residents since 2010 to do so. Not everyone who gets the document goes on a search. But for many, it's led to heart-rending reunions. "I finally got to see and meet someone who looked exactly like me," said Duffy, a marketing professional. "It's a very kind of emotional, strange thing that you grow up your whole life and don't ever know anything about your background. And it's the first chapter of your life, that birth certificate." View gallery.In this Jul...

NASA Flooded with Asteroid Exploration Ideas

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 SAN JOSE, Calif.  A NASA call for novel ideas on how to tackle its ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and park it near the moon has paid off in spades, with the agency receiving hundreds of proposals from potential partners. NASA has received more than 400 proposals from private companies, non-profit groups and international organizations in response to a call for asteroid-retrieval mission suggestions released last month, agency officials announced Friday (July 26). The space agency will review the submissions over the next month and plan to discuss the most promising ideas in a public workshop in September. We are really excited about the overwhelming response," NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver told reporters here at the NewSpace 2013 conference, adding that the ideas were "overwhelmingly positive.NASA put out an official request for information on June 18 to seek input on how to achieve its asteroid retrieval mission. That asteroid capture plan, which NASA unve...

Great white shark tagging expedition said to be most ambitious in U.S. history

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Imagine a world in which people can keep tabs on all of the large great white sharks that roam the world’s oceans.Lots more would be learned about apex predators that, by and large, remain mysterious. While tht day may never come, scientists are getting closer, and this week a group called OCEARCH has announced that it will embark on the most ambitious tagging project in U.S. history. OCEARCH, led by Chris Fischer and Greg Skomal, on Tuesday will embark on a month-long expedition off Cape Cod, during which it plans to capture, tag, and release as many as 20 great white sharksDuring the tagging process, a team of scientists will take samples and conduct other studies they say will help answer a lot of unknowns.    It’s hoped that more knowledge will help scientists pursue greater protections in areas the sharks frequent. On the West Coast, different scientists have determined that many adult white sharks that gather seasonally at seal rookeries off California and at Mexico’s...

Musician JJ Cale dies; wrote Clapton, Skynyrd hits

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If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll. His best songs like "After Midnight,Cocaine and "Call Me the Breeze" were towering hits for other artists. Eric Clapton took "After Midnight" and Cocain and turned them into the kind of hard-party anthems that defined rock for a long period of time. And Lynyrd Skynyrd took the easy-shuffling "Breeze" and supercharged it with a three-guitar attack that made it a hit. Cale, the singer-songwriter and producer known as the main architect of the Tulsa Sound, passed away Friday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. His manager, Mike Kappus, said Cale died of a heart attack. He was 74.While his best known songs remain in heavy rotation on the radio nearly 40 years later, most folks wouldn't be able to name Cale as their author. That was a role he had no problem with...

Study Finds Only 28 Percent of Millionaires Think They're Rich

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 If you had investments worth a million dollars, would you consider yourself rich? How about $5 million? Well, hold on to your wallet because a new study has found that the majority of millionaires don't consider themselves rich According to a study from investment bank UBS, entitled "What is Wealthy?," 40 percent of those with $5 million in investable assets said they didn't feel they were rich. And only 28 percent of investors who had between $1 and $5 million in investable assets viewed themselves as rich. "To us, the surprise was that that many people with $1 million or more did not consider themselves wealthy," said Emily Pachuta, head of investor insights at UBS Wealth Management Americas. "We think it shows a very interesting mindset shift. People have certainly experienced a shock from the volatility of the market, and they are very aware that it takes a significant amount of money to have that dual feeling of having enough money and no financia...

Gone batty: David Ortiz ejected after arguing balls and strikes, destroys bullpen phone

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Boston Red Sox designed hitter David Ortiz officially flipped his lid on Saturday night. After striking out in the seventh inning against Jairo Asencio, Ortiz turned his attention to home plate umpire Tim Timmons to argue a 3-0 strike call earlier in the at-bat. To Timmons' credit, he let Ortiz show him up by pointing to his helmet  indicating he felt the pitch in question was too high  and give him an earful all the way back to the dugout without reacting. In most cases, Ortiz's actions constitute an immediate ejection, but Timmons was willing to move on had he dropped his case peacefully. Instead, Ortiz went bonkers and ended up smashing the bullpen phone in the visiting dugout at Camden Yards into smithereens with his bat (see: 1:22 in the video). Ortiz's violent meltdown didn't really fall under the entertainment category. It was actually very dangerous and a little scary as shrapnel from the bat and phone flew all over the dugout. In fact, some of the shrapnel near...

2nd body found in NY river where best man fell in

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PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) A day after a bride-to-be was pulled dead from the Hudson River, the body of her fiance's best man was found a mile downstream Sunday, the second victim of a nighttime crash involving a speedboat and a barge north of New York City.The deadly collision left the groom-to-be grieving for his intended and his best friend, while facing surgery for his own injuries as another friend is charged with manslaughter  two weeks before the wedding day.I don't think you can put words to what we have to tell these families, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said as he announced that a body believed to be that of Mark Lennon 30 the best man, was found Sunday morning. At the church where Lindsey Stewart and Brian Bond, both 30, would have been married Aug. 10, the pastor said their lives "were filled with hopes and dreams, and that has been snuffed away." Stewart, Bond, Lennon and three others were on a speedboat that crashed Friday night into a barge holding eq...

Couple Born on Same Day, Married 75 Years, Die One Day Apart

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 A California couple born on the same day and married for 75 years, died only one day apart. According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, Helen and Les Brown died on July 16 and 17 respectively , both were 94.Zach Henderson, owner of the Ma N'Pa Grocery in Long Beach, Calif., said he saw the couple almost daily and called their relationship "a wonderful blessing.About a year ago, [Helen] had her hand on his face and they were cheek to cheek," Henderson said. "She said, 'Isn't he the most handsome man you've ever seen?' hat's exactly how they were. They were full of love and passion." According to the Press-Telegram, the couple also shared the same birthday of Dec. 31, 1918, and eloped in 1937 after they met in high school.Henderson said that even though the couple were in their 90s they remained active in their community and insisted a local band set up in their driveway during a residential block party.They were fun-loving and beautiful peopl...

Justin Bieber Attends Selena Gomez's Birthday Party, Brings Singer Single Red Rose

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It's so hard to say goodbye. Selena Gomez held yet another birthday celebration to ring in her big 2-1 with family and friends at Revolve Clothing beach house in Malibu on Saturday, July 27, withonefamous(andunannounced face making a late appearance: on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber. The "Heartbreaker singer,19 arrived at the gypsy-themed house party around 9 p.m., an eyewitness tells Us, dressed down in a black-and-green letterman jacket, dark jeans and white high-tops, with a small present for the birthday girl. PHOTOS: Justin and Selena: Their love timeline "Justin flew in specifically for the party on a day off from his tour," the source tells Us. "He wasn't dressed in costume, but carried a single red rose in his hand.Other celebrity guests included Julianne Hough, Nina Dobrev, Derek Hough, Ashley Benson and Jaden Smith, among others. Best friend Taylor Swift was performing at a show and unable to attend. The Hollywood pals took shots of chil...

Adrian Peterson says he wants HGH testing in NFL to show he is clean

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It's hard, in this era of steroids, human growth hormone and whatever else athletes are using to enhance their performance, to not be skeptical of Adrian Peterson and what he did last season. He suffered a bad knee injury late in the 2011 season, and less than a year later he rushed for more than 2,000 yards and almost broke Eric Dickerson's record. He looked even better than he did before his ACL surgery, and he has been pretty good ever since we took notice of him when he was at Oklahoma

Rescued hikers drown inside vehicle leaving state park

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A pair of hikers who had been rescued after getting lost in the fog and rain inside a Maine state park drowned on Tuesday night when their car plunged into the water off a boat launch as they were trying to leave.Amy Stiner, 37 and Melissa Moyer, 38, were found dead inside a minivan in 20 feet of water about 175 feet from the boat ramp on the edge of Roque Bluffs State Park, the Washington County Sheriff's Department said. A dog, a pit bull mix who was with them also drowned.Officials say the women, who had just been returned to their vehicle by a game warden, took a wrong turn as they were driving away from the parking area."The end of the road becomes the boat landing and they just weren't familiar with it," Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith told the Kennebec Journal. "It was foggy and rainy and they literally drove off the boat landing right into the water.Stiner made a desperate call to 911 at approximately 9 p.m., saying they were trapped inside the sub...

Beautiful Eid Ul Fitr Bangles For Girls

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Ramadan seems to leave its spiritual impact on every Muslim and Eid is a time when one fully enjoys the blessings of Allah and celebrates festivity to the fullest. Preparations of Eid, involves lot of cooking, shopping and celebrations at homes and outside. Eid-ul-Fiter is coming closer and shopping is gaining momentum as you find men, women and children rushing to market to buy clothes, jewellery, makeup, shoes and so much more. Preparations of Eid, involves a lot of excitement and festivity for the Muslims of all ages. It is a time, when every Muslim gets an Opportunity to relax, dress and eat as much as possible. Market and shopping centres offer variety of new collections in their clothing lines, shoes, makeup and bags etc. Despite price hikes, people run, for shopping and enjoys iftar brunches. Whether you are headed for Alfateh, Anarkali, Defence, Shadman or Moon market, a period of unending joys fill up the sky and twilights are decorated throughout the city. For Eid-ul-Fiter, t...