Tall, beautiful eyes and with an eye for the camera - Kourtney Kardashian may have already found a replacement for Scott Disick.
The 36-year-old met a handsome giraffe during a fun family day out at a safari on Sunday.
The lanky animal appeared to challenge the mother-of three and her little sister Kim to a longest lick competition, and easily out-tongued his opposition.
Some neck: Kourtney and Kim Kardashian posed for tongue-tastic snap with giraffe during safari on Sunday
While
Kourtney at least gave it gusto and the giraffe had the incentive of a
carrot, heavily pregnant Kim look like she was in no mood for taking
part but stuck a half-hearted effort out anyway.
The
eldest Kardashian seemed to be having a tonne of fun in her photos,
pulling off an impressive illusory trick with son Mason by appearing
twice in a single panoramic photo, achieved by running around the
photographer before they finish panning.
Also
along for the trip were Kourtney's middle child Penelope, as well as
Kim's hubby Kanye West and daughter North, the sisters' mom Kris Jenner
and her boyfriend Corey Gamble.
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Am I bothered? While the 36-year-old
at least gave it gusto and the giraffe had the incentive of a carrot,
heavily pregnant Kim look like she was in no mood for taking part but
stuck a half-hearted effort out anyway
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Witchcraft: The eldest Kardashian
seemed to be having a tonne of fun in her photos, pulling off an
impressive illusory trick with son Mason by appearing twice in a single
panoramic photo, achieved by running around the photographer before they
finish panning
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Sweltering: The mother of three looked hot in a oversized white shirt and a pair of denim cut-offs
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Family affair: Also along for the trip
were Kourtney's middle child Penelope, as well as Kim's hubby Kanye
West and daughter North, the sisters' mom Kris Jenner and her boyfriend
Corey Gamble
It
was the second time Kris, Corey and Kourtney have gone on the Malibu
wine safari in the space of three months, although the rest of the
entourage were replaced by Khloe the last time.
With
Kim's December due date fast approaching, she finally succumbed and
relinquished her heels, opting for a far more sensible if less
fashionable pair of trainers for the trek.
As
is common, much of the family decided to colour match for the outing
and go mainly in white, with everyone wearing some combo of short
sleeves, open shirts and shorts.
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Back again: It was the second time
Kris, Corey and Kourtney have gone on the Malibu wine safari in the
space of three months, although the rest of the entourage were replaced
by Khloe the last time
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Back in black: Everyone stuck with the white theme, except brother-in-law Kanye West of course
Everyone
except Kanye of course, who went the complete opposite despite the
sweltering heat and wore long sleeves and jeans, all in heat absorbing
black.
There
was no room on the outing for ostracised Scott Disick, who was dumped
by the mother of his three kids when Dailymail.com exclusively revealed
Scott was holidaying and getting cozy with his ex.
On
the same day as the safari trip, the final episode of Keeping Up With
The Kardashians aired along with a trailer for the upcoming season,
which shows the girls confronting the tearful Disick, who has by then
presumably figured out his relevance and related income is inextricably
linked to the family.
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Baby on board: With Kim's December due
date fast approaching, she finally succumbed and relinquished her
heels, opting for a far more sensible if less fashionable pair of
trainers for the trek
They've been brought together on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine for the first time in years.
And
the Kardashian sisters - all bar supermodel Kendall Jenner, 19 - were
present and correct on Monday night for the magazine's 50th anniversary
celebration in Los Angeles.
And while Khloe, 31, Kourtney, 36, and Kim, 34, united with their 59-year-old mother Kris Jenner in glamorous black ensembles, the littlest of the bunch, 18-year-old Kylie, bucked the trend in a thigh-skimming little white dress.
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A family affair:
(From left) Khloe, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian, along with mother Kris
Jenner looked chic in black at Cosmopolitan magazine's 50th birthday
party in Los Angeles in Monday, as Kylie bucked the trend in white
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians ladies have bagged their first six-piece cover with the US title this November.
And
as such, the five-piece got together for the magazine's big birthday
celebrations, with the notable exception of international superstar
Kendall.
Two people were killed by attackers Tuesday and at least 20 were
wounded in two separate incidents in Jerusalem, Israeli authorities
said.
Two attackers stabbed and shot people on a bus in a city neighborhood, killing a man thought to be around 60-years-old, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Police said one of the attackers was killed and the other was wounded
and was being treated by paramedics, according to the newspaper. Some 16
people were wounded and four were taken to hospital, one of them with
serious injuries, it said.
Almost simultaneously, police said a
driver rammed his car into a bus stop, exited the vehicle and began
stabbing pedestrians, killing a person and wounding others, the Post reported. The attacker was shot dead.
The
attacks, along with two other stabbings in the central Israeli city of
Raanana, would mark the most serious series of incidents in a month-long
wave of violence, the Associated Press reported.
Since the Jewish
New Year last month, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded
in a shooting, a stoning and a number of stabbings, the AP said. At
least 27 Palestinians been killed by Israeli fire, including 11
identified by Israel as attackers and the rest in clashes between
stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Hundreds of Palestinians have also
been wounded, the news agency reported.
Children living near the former site of a huge lead factory in
Philadelphia are six times more likely than children nationwide to have
elevated levels of toxic lead in their bodies, according to a new
federal study prompted in part by a USA TODAY investigation. Tests of
soil where these children play also found dangerously high levels of
lead contamination in most of the samples examined.
The latest
evidence that the neighborhood’s children are being exposed to harmful
levels of lead comes more than three years after USA TODAY’s “Ghost
Factories” investigation highlighted years of government failings and
revealed dangerously contaminated soil at homes around the former site
of the John T. Lewis-National Lead-Anzon lead factory that operated for
nearly 150 years in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.
Officials
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declined to be
interviewed. In an emailed statement, the agency said it hopes to make a
decision “within the next few months” on whether any cleanup will be
done of contaminated soil in the area.
“There’s a problem, and
that problem needs to be addressed,” said Sandy Salzman, executive
director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp., a
neighborhood revitalization group. “Kids’ lives could be at stake.”
Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., who called for the EPA to study the Philadelphia site and others nationwide after USA TODAY’s 2012 investigation, said federal officials need to move more quickly.
“EPA
should expedite its study of this issue so residents can have the peace
of mind in knowing that this challenge is being tackled head on,” Casey
said. “The health risks of lead exposure are clear. Given the effect on
child health and development, even one contaminated and un-remediated
site is too many.”
From about 1848 to 1996, various companies made
lead paint and other lead products at the huge factory, which spewed
lead dust from its smokestacks that would have landed in the yards of
the nearby row houses that have long surrounded the site.
While
Pennsylvania environmental regulators required the last operator of the
factory to address soil contamination inside the factory’s property
boundaries around 1998, they did not require the company to do any
assessment or cleanup of lead contamination in the surrounding
neighborhood, USA TODAY has previously reported. The former factory site is now a cement-capped retail area.
Exposure
to even trace amounts of lead — particles so tiny they’re barely
visible — can cause serious and irreversible harm to young children,
especially to their developing brains. While deteriorating lead-based
paint found in older homes is the most widely publicized source of
exposures for children, contaminated soil and water also pose
significant risks. Children are exposed to lead in soil when they play
in the dirt or put dust-covered hands or toys in their mouths.
Officials
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which headed up
the new EPA-funded study of children’s lead exposures in the area near
the former John T. Lewis-National Lead-Anzon factory site, declined to
be interviewed.
“Preliminary analyses indicate that higher levels
of lead in soil are associated with higher blood lead levels in children
in the study, even after adjusting for the child’s gender and the age
of housing,” the CDC said in written responses to USA TODAY’s questions.
Federal
officials drew blood from children and also tested tap water, household
dust and soil from their homes’ yards. Much of the collection was done
in the summer of 2014. While participating families received
notifications of their test results around that time, the preliminary
findings of the study only started being released publicly at a neighborhood meeting on Sept. 17.
Of
72 soil samples collected from children’s outdoor play areas, 51
samples – or 71% – were contaminated with more than 400 parts per
million (ppm) of lead, the EPA’s potential hazard level. The amount of
lead in the soil samples ranged from 40 ppm to 7,700 ppm, with a mean of
774 ppm, according to the CDC’s preliminary findings.
Of indoor
dust wipe samples collected from participating homes, elevated levels
of lead were found in 22% of entryway floor samples, 18% of play area
floor samples, and 12% of window samples in children’s rooms. More than
100 samples of each type were collected. Lead-based paint is often
viewed as a primary contributor to indoor dust, though particles from
tracked and wind-blown soil may also contribute to indoor dust.
Of
120 tap water samples collected from participants’ kitchen sinks, 22
had detectable levels of lead but none were elevated above the EPA’s
action level.
About 11% of the 126 children tested in the study
area around the former lead factory site had elevated levels of lead in
their blood. Nationally, the CDC said, just 2.5% of children have 5 or
more micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood in their bodies. This
federal level of concern was set in 2012. "Children living in the
investigation area are 6 times more likely to have blood lead levels
equal or above 5 ug/dL compared to the U.S. childhood population," the
CDC said in materials distributed to residents. In some age ranges,
about 13% of the children study area had elevated blood lead levels.
There
is no known safe level of lead for a child to have in his or her body.
Even at blood-lead levels below 5, children can have decreased academic
achievement and lowered IQs and an increased incidence of
attention-related and problem behaviors, according an extensive review of scientific evidence by the National Toxicology Program in 2012.
The EPA said it is finishing a scientific review of a separate study
it has done examining 65 additional soil samples from the neighborhood
to determine how much of the lead contaminating the area has the
potential to be absorbed once it is inside the body.
“EPA is
reviewing the results to determine what, if any, implications this study
will have on potential Superfund response actions at the site,” the
agency said.
The CDC said it is difficult to know how the lead
exposure of children in the study area compares with children living in
other parts of Philadelphia because the city’s health department uses
different data collection methods and has set a blood-lead level of 10
as its usual trigger for following up with children.
The
Philadelphia Department of Public Health first told USA TODAY:
“Generally, more than 5% of our children will have at least one
laboratory test that shows an elevated blood lead level (> 5 ug/dl).”
When
USA TODAY sent a follow-up question noting that this indicated children
living near the old factory site had a much higher rate of lead
exposure than those citywide, the department, after initially not
responding, sent a new answer.
“The number of children in
Philadelphia who have a single elevated blood lead level is
approximately 10%. Thus, prevalence of elevated (blood lead levels) in
the JT Lewis site is not significantly different than base line for the
city,” health department spokesman Jeff Moran said in an email.
“Nevertheless,
we are concerned about this site, if the source of the elevated
(blood-lead levels) in those children is determined to be soil,” Moran
said.
The city health department also initially disputed to USA
TODAY that the CDC’s preliminary findings showed an association between
soil contamination and the blood-lead levels of children living in the
lead factory’s neighborhood. In a series of emails, Moran wrote that
the data provided to city health officials earlier this year indicated
the neighborhood’s lead exposures “were associated with lead in
household doorway dust samples. They were not associated with soil lead levels.”
Philadelphia
health officials said they are seeking clarification from officials at
the CDC, who separately reconfirmed to USA TODAY that their current
analysis shows an association with soil contamination.
Federal officials have known about lead contamination in the
neighborhood for decades, evaluating it as far back as the 1980s,
records show. The Environmental Protection Agency is currently deciding
whether a cleanup of residents' yards is needed.
The CDC and EPA
have noted that in industrial urban areas, like Philadelphia, it can be
difficult to determine how much of the lead in soil or in house dust
might have come from an old factory source and how much may be due to
deteriorating lead-based paint in older homes, or from particles spewed
decades ago from vehicles fueled by leaded gasoline. The CDC emphasized
that “there is strong evidence that deteriorated lead paint is a major
contributor to both lead in house dust and lead in residential soil.”
In a slide show presentation to the neighborhood’s residents
last month, the CDC said that the preliminary analysis doesn’t seem to
show a relationship between children’s blood-lead levels and their
distance from the John T. Lewis-National Lead-Anzon factory site,
“however, we are continuing to study this further in different ways.”
Federal
and local officials have known about lead contamination in the
neighborhood for decades, evaluating it as far back as the 1980s,
records show. The EPA and other agencies have assessed the neighborhood
several times over the years, with inconclusive or limited findings. A
patchwork of yards were privately cleaned up in the late 1980s and early
1990s following a plant fire and accidental contamination releases in
the factory’s final years of operation and as part of a class-action
lawsuit involving only some residents.
USA TODAY reported in 2012 that the news organization’s tests of soil in nearby yards
continued to find dangerously high levels of lead – just as had been
found by EPA contractors in another round of testing in 2009.
Yet
internal EPA records showed reluctance by agency staff to do a soil
cleanup at homes around the John T. Lewis-National Lead-Anzon factory
site because they are located in an urban area where multiple sources
may have contributed to the contamination, USA TODAY reported. EPA
staff, the documents showed, expressed concerns about costs and
questioned whether the lead that’s been found in the neighborhood’s
yards came from the huge lead factory – which operated for nearly 150
years, or perhaps from lead paint or particles left behind by
leaded gasoline fumes.
The EPA is only authorized to address
contamination that came from factories. USA TODAY has previously
reported that environmental law experts say EPA isn’t required to trace
all of the area’s lead to the former factory.
In a May 2012 memo, obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act,
Jack Kelly, the EPA official assigned to the John T. Lewis site
investigation, wrote: “Continued assessment of these properties may
yield properties with elevated levels of lead without clear information
on the major source contributor.”
The memo, to EPA’s regional
administrator, added: “The urban lead-in-soil problem arguably exceeds
EPA’s Superfund resources making a traditional removal approach (dig
& cover) likely infeasible.”
Soil cleanups at homes around old
lead factory sites are expensive. Yet the EPA has done them in other
cities, including around several other old factory sites featured in USA
TODAY’s “Ghost Factories” series. This summer in Cleveland the EPA
says it spent about $511,000 removing 1,672 tons of lead-lead
contaminated soil from 12 residential properties near the former
Tyroler, H&L and Lockport lead smelters that were highlighted in the
USA TODAY report.
The
EPA, in response to USA TODAY’s questions, said the soil contamination
the agency removed from the Cleveland homes “could not be directly tied
to any particular site.” The EPA explained the disparity in the
Cleveland and Philadelphia responses this way: “In general, EPA
considers multiple site specific factors and data to determine whether
action is warranted” under the Superfund program.
Federal auditors from the EPA’s Office of Inspector General in a report last year
warned that the EPA’s lack of clear guidance on assessing lead at
former smelter sites “could result in differences in the level of
protection and cleanup from one community to another as well as
potential delays in addressing sites that could impact public health.”
The
auditors’ report, which cited USA TODAY’s investigation, noted that how
or whether to address heavily contaminated soil in urban neighborhoods
near old lead factory sites is a difficult issue for the agency because
multiple sources may be involved. “Nonetheless, the contamination still
exists and presents a potential risk to public health,” the report said.
Appropriate
EPA responses to the contamination, the report said, could include
creating barriers between people and the contaminated soil to prevent
future exposures. Education and health intervention programs might also
be an approach, though because such activities “are not permanent, these
actions may not be preferred remedies,” the auditors wrote.
Read
more about the John T. Lewis-National Lead-Anzon site, see a historical
map of the factory overlayed on the current neighborhood, get details
of USA TODAY’s soil sampling results, and read government documents
about the site on this interactive Web page. Read details in this article
about why it is likely that taxpayers or homeowners — and not the
factory’s former operators — will likely have to pay for any soil
cleanup of the area. Read full coverage of USA TODAY’s
“Ghost Factories” investigation, which examined more than 200 old
factory sites nationwide, at: ghostfactories.usatoday.com Follow USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young on Twitter: @alisonannyoung How lead factories can pollute soil
Old
smelters had the potential to spew lead dust through smokestacks,
windows and other openings. The factories might be long gone, but the
lead can remain in soil for hundreds of years – along with lead from
paint and vehicles that once burned leaded gasoline. Here’s how:
1: Winds carry lead particles beyond the factory’s property.
2: Lead dust falls onto soil and buildings, accumulating over time. Left undisturbed, the lead remains near the soil’s surface.
1. Democratic candidates take the stage for their first debate
The
stakes are high for Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, former
secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Maryland governor Martin
O'Malley, former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee and
former Virginia senator Jim Webb. The five candidates vying for the
Democratic nomination face off Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET in Las Vegas.
Anderson Cooper will moderate the event, while candidates stand in the order of their rank in the polls.
And to keep things interesting, debate host CNN is willing to make room
for one more if Vice President Joe Biden files for candidacy before the
debate begins. Here's USA TODAY's breakdown of what each candidate needs to do, what to watch for and how to watch the event. Still not sure which candidate is right for you? Play our Candidate Match Game to find your 2016 favorite.
USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page tells us the five
things we need to know about tomorrow's critical Demoratic Presidential
candiate debate.
USA TODAY
2. What caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster?
The Dutch Safety Board on Tuesday is publishing its final report
into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over
eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. The
report has set out to address four key questions:
What caused the crash? Why was the plane flying over a violent region?
Why did it take up to four days for some relatives of the victims to
receive official confirmation their loved ones were on the flight? To
what extent were passengers and crew aware of what was happening? But
the report will not directly address who was responsible. 3. Supreme Court considers reprieve for kids who kill
The Supreme Court will consider on Tuesday a case that could affect thousands of men and women who were sentenced to life in prison as juvenile offenders.
In 2012, the Supreme Court banned mandatory life sentences for juvenile
offenders who commit murder, but about 2,000 people are serving prison
time in a handful of states with mandatory sentencing laws that did not
treat the court's ruling as retroactive. For the court, the case is a
logical extension of its juvenile justice jurisprudence. In 2005, it
barred the death penalty for those whose crimes were committed before
they turned 18. In 2010, it prohibited life without parole for
non-homicides. Two years later, it blocked all future mandatory life
sentences, even for murder.
4. Indicted ex-Chicago schools chief to appear in court
Former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett is expected to make her first court appearance Tuesday
on charges that she attempted to steer more than $20 million in no-bid
contracts to her former employers in exchange for millions of dollars in
kickbacks. Byrd-Bennett, who was indicted last week, has indicated
through her attorney that she is cooperating with investigators.
5. Five years ago Tuesday: The dramatic, emotional rescue of Chilean miners
On
Aug. 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped more than 2,000 feet
underground after a main ramp to the mine they were working in
collapsed. Nearly three months later, on Oct. 13, the first of the
miners was pulled out from deep underground through a special capsule.
All 33 were eventually rescued. Here is a look back at the dramatic events as they unfolded. The upcoming film The 33, which opens Nov. 13, stars Antonio Banderas as the mine leader "Super" Mario Sepúlveda.
After 69 days trapped in a Chilean mine, the first of 33 men emerged
from a special capsule. The big moment capped a day filled with
feelings that were both festive and tense. (Oct. 13, 2005)
Pop star Wizkid shared two pictures of himself yesterday (October 11), on his Instagram page.
The award winning singer was in Berlin, Germany for a show with L.A.X on Saturday, October 10, 2015.
In
both pictures Wizkid appears to be stoned, well that’s according to his
fans. In the comment sections Wizkid fans observed that the superstar
looked ‘high’.
Do you believe Wizkid looked stoned in the pictures? Take our poll below so that we can know.
Last week the pop singer met iconic fashion designer Christian Louboutin in Paris.
The Star Boy singer met the designer thanks to Congolese singer Fally Ipupa who he recorded with a few days ago.
Wizkid shared the picture of him with Christian Louboutin and Fally Ipupa. “Paris living with my brother @fallyipupa01 and Christian Louboutin himself!! Lifestyle!!” wrote Wizkid in the caption.
In a recent interview with Empire FM in Ghana, Wizkid narrated how the 'Ojuelegba' remix with Drake came about.
Selena Gomez doesn't see anything wrong with being sexy.
In an interview with Refinery 29, the former Disney star opened up about the message behind her super sexy "Good For You" video, where she's seen nude in the shower and later writhing around on a couch.
WATCH: Selena Gomez Takes One Sexy Shower in Sultry 'Good For You' Video
"It's not something where I'm like, 'Let me glorify
what I do in the bedroom,'" Gomez said of the scenes. "But I think I
have a very healthy perspective on my sexuality. It's part of being an
adult, and I'm still figuring out how to be one of those, too."
The 23-year-old artist, who performed on the Today show
on Monday, also commented on the sexuality of fellow former Disney
stars Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus, pointing out that they've all come
into their own.
"Everyone has found their identity in a really
interesting way. We didn't come out as these robots that looked and
dressed the same,” she said. “We had to go through our own sh**. At the
end of the day, it’s respecting every female artist’s choice in how she
expresses herself, because that’s what she wants."
WATCH: Selena Gomez Talks Dating After Being 'Super in Love'
Gomez hopes her new album Revivalwill speak to young girls in a positive way, but calls out Nicki Minaj for influencing her.
MORE: Justin Bieber Recalls Being 'So in Love' With Selena Gomez -- 'My Identity Was in Her'
In 2010 on MTV's My Time Now, Minaj spoke
out about the double standard given to women. "When you’re a girl, you
have to be everything,” Minaj said. "You have to be dope at what you do,
but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy…and you have to
be nice. It’s like, I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human
being."
Gomez says she used to watch that clip every single day.
"I had to remind myself that it's an unrealistic expectation that people
have with women," she said.
WATCH: Selena Gomez Opens Up About Her Struggle With Lupus
Touting that she prefers to be around women over
men, Gomez has some super famous mentors -- Jennifer Aniston and Kerry
Washington, who became close confidant after this year’s Met Gala --
that are helping her along the way. “I treasure these women,” Gomez
said, adding: “I think [women] are interesting, complicated, and
beautiful.”
"I love her so much! I'm so proud of her," Washington
said of her new gal pal. "I think she's just such an elegant young woman
-- she's so filled with grace and poise and intelligence and
generosity. She's just a real girl, you know?"
In a recent interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Gomez also opened up about being body shamed over some pics of her in a swimsuit. Check out her perfect response to her critics:
