Royal Caribbean Cruises announced Thursday that it has contracted with STX France to build a third Oasis-class vessel for delivery in mid-2016. In October, the cruise line announced it planned another sister ship to the successful Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas.The contract, subject to financing and other conditions, includes the transfer of Pullmantur’s Atlantic...
Dec
26
40 years later, survivors of Eastern Flight 401 want memorial
Label: World Forty years have passed since Eastern Flight 401 slammed down in the Florida Everglades, yet no memorial has been raised to remember the 101 people who perished that night. It's time to change that, say survivors and families of the victims, who hope to raise $15,000 for a granite block containing the names of those who died. “We want to get something that's permanent, because...
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in ICU
Label: LifestyleFormer President George H.W. Bush has been transferred to the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital as he continues to recover from a fever and a persistent cough. A spokesman for the 88-year-old Bush told ET that the former president has been in the ICU of Methodist Hospital since Sunday.RELATED: Jenna Bush Hager: I'm Pregnant"Following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever, President...
Repairs underway for collapsed wall in Chelsea building
Label: Health Repairs are underway on a landmarked Chelsea building that was evacuated when part of a structural wall fell to the sidewalk.The seven-story building at 655 Sixth Avenue was emptied on Tuesday night when the wall failed on the building’s West 20th Street side.Workers began constructing a sidewalk bridge around the collapsed area today. They don’t expect...
90-year-old real estate baron, philanthropist Jay Kislak is forever young
Label: Business Real estate baron Jay I. Kislak discovered a Fountain of Youth of sorts that springs from an inquisitive and acquisitive mind.At 90, Kislak is wheeling and dealing in real estate, and he’s exploring history and art with the fervor of a man generations younger.The patriarch of The Kislak Organization marked 74 years in real estate this year, 59 spent in Miami. ...
Dec
25
Causeway victim Ronald Poppo finds peace but not healing
Label: World When Ronald Poppo was a kid in the 1950s and ’60s, a family Christmas in Brooklyn meant wind-up model trains circling the tree, Italian dinners of lasagna and stuffed squid, and, because Dec. 25 was also his father’s birthday, ricotta-filled cassata cake.There was always music, because the Poppos have musical talent. Ronnie, as his older sister and two older brothers called...
Tajikistan blocks scores of websites as election looms
Label: TechnologyDUSHANBE (Reuters) – Tajikistan blocked access to more than 100 websites on Tuesday, in what a government source said was a dress rehearsal for a crackdown on online dissent before next year’s election when President Imomali Rakhmon will again run for office.Rakhmon, a 60-year-old former head of a Soviet cotton farm, has ruled the impoverished Central Asian nation of 7.5 million for 20 years. He has...
Lady Gaga Documentary Announced
Label: LifestyleThe nearly 33 million Little Monsters who follow Lady Gaga on Twitter got a massive Christmas present this morning as the singer revealed she'll soon be coming to a theater near you!
VIDEO - Lady Gaga Hosts Fame Picnic in Paris"Merry Christmas little monsters," Gaga wrote. "Terry Richardson is making a #LadyGagaMOVIE documenting my life, the creation of ARTPOP + you!""Thank you for being so patient...
Affleck won't run for Kerry's Senate seat
Label: HealthBOSTON -- Ben Affleck is taking his name off the list of possible candidates for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat, which would be open if the Democratic senator from Massachusetts is confirmed as secretary of state.Affleck says in a Monday posting on his Facebook page that while he loves the political process, he will not be running for public office.Speculation about the Cambridge, Mass., native rose...
Miami: We’re still busiest cruise port
Label: Business Florida’s ports are steaming bow-to-bow in the race to be the world’s businest cruise ship port. Though some publications have reported Port Canaveral in the lead with 3,761,056 million for its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, PortMiami officials Monday said they had hosted 3,774,452 passengers during the same period, putting it slightly ahead. Fort Lauderdale’s PortEverglades...
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