The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz
The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz |
| Satisfaction! Rolling Stones’ Paris gig sells out in less than an hour Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:39 AM PDT The tickets for the belatedly added Paris leg of the "14 on Fire" tour on June 13 were put on sale at 10am (5pm Malaysian time) and sold out in 51 minutes, said Pascal Bernandin of Encore productions. The tour kicked off in Abu Dhabi on February 21 but was suspended after the March 17 suicide of Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's girlfriend, US fashion designer L'Wren Scott. The Paris gig was announced last Sunday after the Stones postponed a tour Down Under following Scott's death. The band has promised to reschedule the Australia and New Zealand concerts. The tour will resume on June 7 in the Netherlands. In Paris the iconic rock band will play at the Stade de France, a national stadium built for the 1998 World Cup. They are also scheduled to play two gigs in Germany and one each in Belgium and Italy. The band has promised to treat their generations of fans to classic hits such as "Gimme Shelter", "Paint It Black", "Jumping Jack Flash" and "It's Only Rock 'N' Roll", as well as unexpected cover versions. – AFP, March 28, 2014. |
| Angelina Jolie urges action against rape as a war weapon Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:35 AM PDT Jolie, whose 2011 directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey" dealt with violence against women during Bosnia's war, urged peace missions around the world to make combatting sex crimes a priority. "The use of rape as a weapon of war is one of the most harrowing and savage of these crimes against civilians," Jolie told a conference in Bosnia's capital. "This is rape so brutal, with such extreme violence, that it is even hard to talk about it," said the 38-year-old actress, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency. Jolie and Hague were in Sarajevo for a conference on sexual violence in war organised by Bosnia's defence ministry. They are due to co-host a high-profile summit on the same topic in London in June, which is expected to be the largest ever gathering of its kind, according to the British foreign minister. Hague said that today "sexual violence is used deliberately as a weapon of war" in the conflicts in Syria, Central African Republic and South Sudan. "I hope we can all work together to prevent the horrors seen in this region from being repeated in future conflicts anywhere in the world," he said. Around 20,000 women, mostly Muslim, were raped during Bosnia's inter-ethnic war in the 1990s, according to local estimates. So far only 33 people have been convicted for the crimes. Jolie and Hague left later on Friday for Srebrenica to pay respect to the victims of genocide committed in the eastern town near the end of the 1992-1995 war. Afer capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, Serb forces executed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst atrocity committed in Europe since World War II. More than 6,000 massacre victims, whose remains were found in mass graves, were laid to rest at a memorial cemetery in the town. Bosnia's war between its Croats, Muslims and Serbs claimed some 100,000 lives. – AFP, March 28, 2014. |
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