"Move over Dita Von Teese - Mel B has landed a $1million deal as a burlesque star in Las Vegas. In her sauciest ever role, former Scary Spice kicks off Peepshow next March in Sin City where she'll play the leading lady. A source said: 'She won't go topless but it will feature some very saucy outfits indeed. Mel can't wait - and her husband is even more excited that she'll take some of the outfits home with her.'" (3AMGirls)
"It was odd, wasn't it, that Britain's Guardian, of all publications, was first to report Hillary Clinton planned to become Barack Obama's Secretary of State? The paper's DC bureau chief, according to today's Observer, 'said... his source said he could use the information as long as he didn’t source it.' One tipster of ours, apparently speaking speculatively, is certain the source has to be Sidney Blumenthal, who was a senior unpaid campaign advisor to Clinton during her campaign, was an aide in Bill Clinton's White House and — key detail — has a column at the Guardian.." (Gawker)
"As negotiations started for the release of a Saudi-owned supertanker seized by pirates off Somalia, the Indian Navy said on Wednesday that one of its warships fought a battle at sea with would-be hijackers in the Gulf of Aden, sinking one suspect vessel and forcing the pirates to abandon a second as they fled. The drama on the night-time waters of the Indian Ocean late Tuesday underscored the growing international concern at the audacity with which armed pirates, mostly based in Somalia, range across vast areas of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, attacking at will." (NYTimes)
"WHICH talk-show host has a flatulence problem so bad, he's said to have an assistant follow him around with an odor-vaporizing spray can?" (PageSix)
"Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson had a lover's tiff at Mayfair club Mahiki last night. We're told Lindsay wanted to be there because the club is owned by one of her friends, but Sam was tired after a long week of DJing and wanted to go home. Onlookers said that at one point the couple were waving their fists at each other — and Lindsay was in a foul mood. When they got back to their Kensington hotel, Lindsay sat in the back of the car for a full 10 minutes after Sam had jumped out and stormed indoors." (Thisislondon)
"Sorry I didn’t start a pool on how long it would take the usually voluble Mark Cuban to move past that first relatively low-key—for him—response to the SEC’s charges of insider trading yesterday. Well, technically, he isn’t doing the talking. Instead, Tuesday’s salvo posted on Cuban’s Blog Maverick is from a second lawyer at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP 'on behalf of Mark Cuban.' This one denies the SEC’s claim that Cuban broke an agreement of confidentiality when he sold his stake in Mamma.com in 2004 just before the company made an announcement that would dilute the value. The post includes a partial transcript of an interview with former Mamma.com CEO Guy Faure, who is not identified by name in the SEC lawsuit." (Paidcontent)
"Tesfay Bekurezion Gebredngle paid $1,300 to make the clandestine boat trip from North Africa to Sicily. Instead, the Eritrean refugee was taken to Malta, an island a thousandth of Italy's size .. Malta, which joined the European Union in 2004, has become a dumping ground for unsuspecting refugees trying to reach the continent. They are left by their traffickers because the island is the first point reached by boats from war-torn parts of Africa. Under EU rules, Malta cannot refuse anyone who may qualify for international protection. Now the Maltese are asking their EU partners to help absorb the wave of immigration. The government is lobbying larger countries to provide financial and diplomatic aid to implement an immigration agreement signed by all 27 EU leaders on Oct. 16." (Bloomberg)
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