Gossip.Juliana To Feature In Deception Series.Drive Hot News

Diva Juliana Kanyomozi has lately been known for her singing proficiency until recently when she landed an acting deal with a popular TV station

Juliana Kanyomozi

The singer is set to feature in the famous TV series Deception which was premiered for the fifth season a few weeks back.
She has been added on the cast with fellow celebrity and comedian Patrick Idringi also known as Salvador.
Juliana who was on a musical break recently, is making a tremendous comeback after several projects have been put on the line up from her camp.
She is soon releasing her single titled Woman whose video was shot at Savy Films by the famous video producer Sasha Vybz.
She also recorded a song with Radio and Weasel recently, something that is highly anticipated by the fans of both camps.

Truck Rams Into Restaurant, Kills 2.Drive Hot News

Two People are confirmed dead after a truck veered off the road and rammed into a roadside restaurant in which they were dining. Four others were rushed to hospital in critical condition.

The truck that rammed into the restaurant

The incident occurred at Kiwangala trading centre in Lwengo district last evening when a Kampala-bound truck Reg. No. UAN-324F loaded tons of eucalyptus poles lost control and swerved off the road.
Eyewitnesses say the truck hit another vehicle Reg. No. UAE-456Z, before shattering the restaurant.
The deceased are identified as Noeline Namaganda (25), a waitress at Allah Akbar Hallal restaurant and Henry Ssebulime (17) a welder.
The survivors, Dalton Kintu, the truck driver, Sandra Namawanda (5), Timothy Bayimuka (7) and Vincent Mutagubya (18) sustained multiple body injuries.
They were all rushed to Masaka Regional Referral Hospital for urgent attention.
Noah Serunjogi, the Regional Police spokesperson, confirmed the incident and attributed the accident to over loading and mechanical glitches of the truck. He explained that truck was too heavy to brake.
Abdu Kabugo Mugendawala, the Ndagwe Sub-county councilor said that the driver was overpowered by the truck.
Meanwhile doctors attending to the survivors told us that they are recuperating.

Pop star Rihanna wins image battle.Drive Hot News

 The star won the initial case in July 2013.

Singer Rihanna has won a legal battle against high street store Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.

The Court of Appeal in London upheld a ban on the store selling a sleeveless T-shirt featuring a photo of the star without obtaining her permission.
In the first successful celebrity case of its kind, three appeal judges agreed marketing the item without Rihanna's approval amounted to "passing off".
In other words, the unauthorised image was damaging to Rihanna's brand.
The star sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia for $5m (£3.3m) back in 2013 over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken during a video shoot in 2011.
In his ruling in July 2013, Mr Justice Birss found some buyers would have been deceived into buying the top because of a "false belief" it had been approved by the singer.
He said it was damaging to her "goodwill" and represented a loss of control over Rihanna's reputation in the "fashion sphere".
Topshop lawyers had urged the appeal judges - Lord Justice Richards, Lord Justice Kitchin and Lord Justice Underhill - to rule that Mr Justice Birss had misunderstood the law on celebrity merchandising.

Rihanna originally sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia in 2013 over the T-shirts, as the BBC's Clive Coleman reports

Geoffrey Hobbs QC argued the court was dealing with a "decorated T-shirt" similar to merchandise featuring images of stars such as Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and Prince.
Mr Hobbs suggested Rihanna was using the law wrongly to claim "only a celebrity may ever market his or her own character".
Topshop lawyers had previously argued there was "no intention to create an appearance of an endorsement or promotion".
All three judges unanimously dismissed the appeal.

Saudi King Abdullah dies, brother Salman is new ruler.Drive Hot News

 This March 13, 1998 file photo shows Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz attending a horse race event in Riyadh. According to a royal court statement January 22, 2015, Saudi King Abdullah has died.

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah died on Friday and was replaced by his brother Salman as the ruler of the world's top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam.

The royal court said in a statement that Abdullah, believed to be around 90 years old, died at 1:00 am local time (2200 GMT) on Friday, expressing its "great sadness and mourning".

The late monarch's half brother Moqren was named crown prince, according to the statement.

Abdullah will be buried later Friday following afternoon prayers, and citizens would be invited to pledge allegiance to the new 79-year-old monarch and the crown prince at the royal palace, the statement said.

Abdullah was hospitalised in December suffering from pneumonia and had been breathing with the aid of a tube.

Under Abdullah, who took the throne in 2005, Saudi Arabia has been a key US ally in the Arab world, most recently joining the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

US President Barack Obama paid tribute to Abdullah as a valued ally.

"As our countries worked together to confront many challenges, I always valued King Abdullah's perspective and appreciated our genuine and warm friendship," Obama said in a written statement.

"The closeness and strength of the partnership between our two countries is part of King Abdullah's legacy."

As the top producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia has been the driving force behind the cartel's refusal in recent months to slash output to support plummeting oil prices.

Oil surged following Abdullah's death, with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for March delivery soaring as much as 3.1 per cent in New York.

"The market is probably uncertain over what the new king would do about this oversupply issue," said Daniel Ang, an investment analyst with Phillip Futures in Singapore.

BROTHER'S FOOTSTEPS

The kingdom is also home to Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and its role as a spiritual leader for Sunni Muslims has seen it vying for regional influence with Shiite-dominated Iran.

Salman, the new king, is widely expected to follow closely in his brother's footsteps, in foreign and energy policy as well as in making moderate reforms to the deeply conservative kingdom.

Abdullah pushed through cautious changes while in power, challenging conservatives with moves such as including women in the Shura Council, an advisory body.

He promoted the kingdom's economic development and oversaw its accession to the World Trade Organisation, tapping into the country's massive oil wealth to build new economic cities, universities and high-speed railways.

But the kingdom is still strongly criticised for a dismal human rights record, including the imprisonment of dissidents. Saudi Arabia is also the only country in the world that does not allow women to drive.

Salman is a stalwart of the royal family credited with transforming the capital Riyadh during his half-century as governor.

This handout file picture taken on December 25, 2014 and released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chairing a cabinet session in Riyadh to approve the state's budget for 2015. AFP PHOTO | HO | SPA

Recent years have seen concerns over his health after operations on his back, but Salman took on an increasingly high-profile role as Abdullah's own health issues forced him from the limelight.

Abdullah named Moqren as deputy crown prince last March, in an unprecedented move aimed at smoothing succession hurdles.

Moqren was a trusted confidant of Abdullah with a reputation as a liberal. A former air force officer born in 1945, Moqren is the youngest son of King Abdul Aziz bin Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia.

Since King Abdul Aziz's death in 1952 the throne has systematically passed from one of his sons to another.

The streets of Riyadh were quiet following Abdullah's death but many Saudis turned to social media to mourn the king.

Abdullah Saadoon, a member of the Shura Council and retired general, said Abdullah had "laid the foundations of a blessed renaissance" in Saudi Arabia.

Another Twitter user, Shaima, said: "We didn't lose a king, we all lost a father".

Government-owned Saudi-1 television showed only a repeat of the official announcement.

Entertainment channels run by network MBC, which is privately owned by Sheikh Walid al-Ibrahim, a member of the royal family, switched to the company's Al-Arabiya news channel for continuous coverage of the king's death, mostly featuring file footage of Abdullah and Salman.

Internet will 'disappear', Google boss tells Davos.Drive Hot News

 People walk through the lobby of the Congress Centre in Davos on January 20, 2015 on the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND

Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Thursday that the Internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background.

Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Schmidt said: "There will be so many sensors, so many devices, that you won't even sense it, it will be all around you."

"It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room and ... you are interacting with all the things going on in that room."

"A highly personalised, highly interactive and very interesting world emerges."

On the sort of high-level panel only found among the ski slopes of Davos, the heads of Google, Facebook and Microsoft and Vodafone sought to allay fears that the rapid pace of technological advance was killing jobs.

"Everyone's worried about jobs," admitted Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook.

With so many changes in the technology world, "the transformation is happening faster than ever before," she acknowledged.

"But tech creates jobs not only in the tech space but outside," she insisted.

Schmidt quoted statistics he said showed that every tech job created between five and seven jobs in a different area of the economy.

"If there were a single digital market in Europe, 400 million new and important new jobs would be created in Europe," which is suffering from stubbornly high levels of unemployment, he said.

The debate about whether technology is destroying jobs "has been around for hundreds of years", said the Google boss. What is different is the speed of change.

"It's the same that happened to the people who lost their farming jobs when the tractor came ... but ultimately a globalised solution means more equality for everyone."

EVERYONE HAS A VOICE

With one of the main topics at this year's World Economic Forum being how to share out the fruits of global growth, the tech barons stressed that the greater connectivity offered by their companies ultimately helps reduce inequalities.

"Are the spoils of tech being evenly spread? That is an issue that we have to tackle head on," said Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft.

"I'm optimistic, there's no question. If you are in the tech business, you have to be optimistic. Ultimately to me, it's about human capital. Tech empowers humans to do great things."

Facebook boss Sandberg said the Internet in its early forms was "all about anonymity", but now everyone was sharing everything and everyone was visible.

"Now everyone has a voice ... now everyone can post, everyone can share and that gives a voice to people who have historically not had it," she said.

Schmidt, who said he had recently come back from the reclusive state of North Korea, added he believed that technology forced potentially despotic and hermetic governments to open up as their citizens acquired more knowledge about the outside world.

"It is no longer possible for a country to step out of basic assumptions in banking, communications, morals and the way people communicate," the Google boss said.

"You cannot isolate yourself any more. It simply doesn't work."

Nevertheless, Sandberg told the assembled elites that even the current pace of change was only the tip of the iceberg.

"Today, only 40 per cent of people have Internet access," she said, adding: "If we can do all this with 40 percent, imagine what we can do with 50, 60, 70 per cent."

Even two decades into the global spread of the Internet, the potential for opening up and growth was tremendous, she stressed.

"Sixty per cent of the Internet is in English. If that doesn't tell you how uninclusive the Internet is, then nothing will," said the tycoon.

The World Economic Forum brings together some 2,500 of the top movers and shakers in the worlds of politics, business and finance for a four-day meeting that ends on Saturday.

Civilians killed as shells rain down in Ukraine's Donetsk region.Drive Hot News

Kiev, Ukraine civilians were killed when shells hit a trolley bus station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the City Council there said Thursday, as the months-long conflict in the country's east showed little sign of easing.

In total, 10 civilians have been killed and 20 injured in shelling of four city districts in the past 24 hours, the Donetsk City Council said on its website.

"As of now, the situation remains difficult," the statement reads.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has a monitoring mission in Ukraine, said it was still assessing what had happened in the bus incident. Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug told a news conference that an OCSE patrol had seen seven bodies near a vehicle that had been hit.

Ukraine's Defense Ministry blamed pro-Russian separatists for the attack, saying it was launched from areas they control. Russia's Foreign Ministry, though, demanded an investigation and criticized Ukraine for its shelling of cities.

Donetsk has been a stronghold for the rebels, who have been battling government forces for control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions since the spring.

Militants shelled two civilian areas elsewhere in the Donetsk region early Thursday, Ukraine's state-run Ukrinform news agency reported, citing Donetsk regional police Chief Vyacheslav Abroskin.

A Ukrainian woman waits for shelling to abate as she shelters inside a building.

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The reported shelling comes after talks Wednesday in Berlin among the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France aimed at resolving the crisis through the implementation of a peace deal agreed to last year.

After Wednesday's talks, the four foreign ministers condemned the continuing violence and called for the peace deal agreed to in Minsk, Belarus, last September to be respected.

Fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions "has severely escalated causing the loss of many human lives including civilians. This must stop immediately and the regime of quiet must be restored," the ministers said.

They said "tangible progress" must be made on full implementation of the Minsk pact ahead of a planned peace summit.

When women are few, men settle down: study.Drive Hot News

 Women want to settle down while men prefer to play the field, right? Not quite, said a study Wednesday that challenged long-held views of sexual selection.

Women want to settle down while men prefer to play the field, right? Not quite, said a study Wednesday that challenged long-held views of sexual selection.

It turns out the dynamics of sex are partly driven by the law of supply and demand: a man's fidelity depends to a large degree on the number of available women.

"When women are rare, men respond by desiring long-term committed relationships with a single partner," University of Utah anthropologist and study lead author Ryan Schacht told AFP.

"When women are hard to find, the best strategy is to find one and stick with her."

Men who continue skirt-chasing when competition among men is high, essentially risk losing out altogether, said Schacht: "If a man were not to live up to a woman's expectations, she has plenty other options to choose from!"

The findings, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, are based on a 16-month study of members of the 13,000-strong Makushi tribal community of hunters, fishermen and farmers in southwest Guyana.

Extended families live in villages of 160 to 750 people and premarital sex is seen as a normal part of partner-finding before settling down in a monogamous marriage.

Makushi gender relations are egalitarian, according to the study authors.

SPENT MONTHS BUILDING RAPPORT

During 2010-2011, Schacht and his wife Jacque spent months building a rapport with the tribe before doing confidential interviews with 300 men and women, aged 18 to 45, in eight communities with sex ratios ranging from 90 to 140 men for every 100 women.

Questions included:

- how many sexual partners have you had in the past year?

- how many do you expect to have in the coming five years?

- do you enjoy casual sex?

- is sex without love acceptable and enjoyable?

The Makushi were chosen because they form a homogenous group that shares a belief system and socio-economic circumstances, which meant religious and cultural differences would not colour the results.

"In general, Makushi men show a greater willingness to engage in uncommitted sex than do women, as the stereotype predicts," said Schacht.

"Men, when women were abundant, were the cads we often expect them to be. They had many sexual partners, and yet still wanted more!"

But this changed in areas where men were in the majority.

"As the sex ratio became more male-biased, men's interest in short-term relationships waned," said Schacht.

"In fact, in the communities with the most surplus men, men's and women's preferences were indistinguishable — both men and women desired long-term, committed relationships with a single partner."

SEXUAL STEREOTYPES 'INAPPROPRIATE'

Women's preference for a committed relationship did not change, the researchers found.

Why? "Short-term, uncommitted relationships are potentially costly" for women, for whom the physical and time investment in procreation, as carriers and rearers of children, is a lot bigger than for men.

Some of the results were surprising, said the team, for example contradicting the conventional view that when men outnumber women there are likely to be more fights among men and an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.

But mainly, they challenge the commonly-held view of gender roles that stems from Charles Darwin's near 150-year-old theory of sexual selection — essentially a picture of choosy, coy females and ardent, promiscuous males.

"It's time to move away from stereotyped assumptions of men having certain behaviours and women having others," said Schacht.

The message "is that sexual stereotyping of what is 'male' or 'female' behaviour based on biological sex differences is largely inappropriate," he added.

"Sex matters, culture matters, partner availability matters."

The study may hold interesting social data for Asian countries where a preference for male offspring has led to a majority of men over women in certain age groups.

But the findings may not apply to all communities, said Schacht — potentially influenced by differences in culture, religion and socio-economic status.

"The global story is likely to be a bit more complicated," he said, and in patriarchal societies, for example, a gender ratio favouring men may intensify male sexual control over women.

"But I think that, in general, in areas where women are largely free to choose their partners, a male-biased sex ratio increases their (women's) bargaining power in the market."