Dame Helen Mirren showed up at the White House correspondents’ dinner with purple gown, a purple tattoo near her collarbone and a plan to honor Prince.
The hand-drawn symbol is temporary, but the actress still wanted to honor the legendary singer, who died suddenly last week at age 57. “I admire great artists and he was a great artist,” she said, according to The Post’s Roxanne Roberts.
Mirren says she wishes the drawing had a cooler story. “I’d love to say that Prince himself did it in 1988 or something, instead of me in the bathroom this morning,” Mirren told The Post’s Emily Heil.
Lord knows, she didn’t have to make such an effort to get attention. From the time she arrived on the WHCD party scene Friday night, the Oscar winner was perhaps the most sought-after A-lister in town. At the dinner itself, she had a prime table with both Joe Biden and John Kerry. I mean, she is Dame Helen Freakin Mirren.
This isn’t the first time Mirren has arrived in Washington with a visible message: The actress showed up at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005 with a t-shirt over her dress as a tribute to Hurricane Katrina victims:
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Hindu man hacked to death in Bangladesh
At least two unknown assailants have hacked a Hindu tailor to death in central Bangladesh, police say, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the South Asian nation.
Police officials said they were investigating whether Saturday's killing in Tangail was linked to religious groups suspected of a series of minority killings, or was tied to a family dispute.
"They came on a motorcycle and attacked him as he sat on a roadside. They hacked him on his head, neck and hand," Aslam Khan, deputy chief of Tangail district police, told AFP news agency.
Bangladesh is reeling from a series of attacks on members of minority faiths, secularists, foreigners and intellectuals in recent months, including two gay activists and a liberal professor in the past eight days alone.
Many of the killings have been blamed on or claimed by groups such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.
Police said local Muslims had filed a complaint against Joarder, who owned a tailoring shop, to police in 2012 for making comments about Prophet Muhammad.
He was charged with hurting religious sentiments and spent three weeks in jail.
"But the trial did not proceed after the complainants withdrew the charges," Abdul Jalil, the police chief of Gopalpur sub-district, told AFP.
ISIL threat
Another police official said that the dispute appeared to have ended peacefully, adding that the victim's family said he was also being threatened by a relative.
The murder came less than a week after attackers hacked to death two gay-rights activists in the capital Dhaka, saying they tried to promote homosexuality in the deeply conservative nation.
In February suspected ISIL supporters decapitated a top Hindu priest inside a temple complex in a northern district.
However, the government denies that international groups such as ISIL or al-Qaeda have a presence in the country.
Hindus make up around nine percent of Bangladesh's population.
Police officials said they were investigating whether Saturday's killing in Tangail was linked to religious groups suspected of a series of minority killings, or was tied to a family dispute.
"They came on a motorcycle and attacked him as he sat on a roadside. They hacked him on his head, neck and hand," Aslam Khan, deputy chief of Tangail district police, told AFP news agency.
Bangladesh is reeling from a series of attacks on members of minority faiths, secularists, foreigners and intellectuals in recent months, including two gay activists and a liberal professor in the past eight days alone.
Many of the killings have been blamed on or claimed by groups such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.
Police said local Muslims had filed a complaint against Joarder, who owned a tailoring shop, to police in 2012 for making comments about Prophet Muhammad.
He was charged with hurting religious sentiments and spent three weeks in jail.
"But the trial did not proceed after the complainants withdrew the charges," Abdul Jalil, the police chief of Gopalpur sub-district, told AFP.
ISIL threat
Another police official said that the dispute appeared to have ended peacefully, adding that the victim's family said he was also being threatened by a relative.
The murder came less than a week after attackers hacked to death two gay-rights activists in the capital Dhaka, saying they tried to promote homosexuality in the deeply conservative nation.
In February suspected ISIL supporters decapitated a top Hindu priest inside a temple complex in a northern district.
However, the government denies that international groups such as ISIL or al-Qaeda have a presence in the country.
Hindus make up around nine percent of Bangladesh's population.
Kate Poses For Front Cover Of Vogue Magazine
The Duchess of Cambridge has for the first time taken part in an exclusive photoshoot for a magazine.
The 34-year-old royal is appearing on the front cover of British Vogue to mark 100 years of the well-known fashion publication.
Prince William's wife was snapped by British photographer Josh Olins in the Norfolk countryside in a series of pictures wearing casual clothing rather than more formal attire.
Mr Olins said she was "a joy to work with, a natural".
For the cover photo, she wears a coat and shirt by Burberry and the vintage hat from Beyond Retro.
In another image, she wears a top by Petit Bateau and trousers from Burberry
Seven photographs will appear in the centenary June issue of Vogue, and two of those are being displayed in the exhibition Vogue 100: A Century of Style, which is being held at the National Portrait Gallery.
A spokesperson for the royal said: "Since 1916, Vogue has been a leading champion of British portraiture.
"The Duchess was delighted to play a part in celebrating the centenary of an institution that has given a platform to some of the most renowned photographers in this country's history.
"She is incredibly grateful to the team at Vogue and at the National Portrait Gallery for asking her to take part.
"The Duchess had never taken part in a photography shoot like this before.
"She hopes that people appreciate the portraits with the sense of relaxed fun with which they were taken."
Alexandra Shulman, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, said: "To be able to publish a photographic shoot with HRH The Duchess of Cambridge has been one of my greatest ambitions for the magazine.
"I'm delighted the Duchess agreed to work with us and the National Portrait Gallery.
"And as a result of this unique collaboration we have a true celebration of our centenary as well as a fitting tribute to a young woman whose interest in both photography and the countryside is well known."
Josh Olins added: "It's a privilege to have been chosen to photograph HRH The Duchess of Cambridge for the Centenary issue of British Vogue and an honour that two of those portraits will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
"This was the Duchess's first sitting for a magazine and she was a joy to work with, a natural."
Prince William's mother Princess Diana also posed for Vogue, but the US edition, as well as several other major fashion magazines.
The exhibition Vogue 100: A Century of Style opens from Sunday 1 May at the National Portrait Gallery.
Calvin Harris rules out working with Taylor Swift
Calvin Harris is working on "a bunch of stuff" including projects with Rihanna, Ellie Goulding and John Newman.
But the one person not on his list is his girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
The Scottish DJ says: "We haven't even spoken about it, but I can't see it happening. She is about to take a long break."
On Friday, he premiered his current track with Rihanna - That Is What You Came For on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw.
It is the second time Calvin has worked with Rihanna, five years after We Found Love was released
Protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone and parliament
Hundreds of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have stormed Baghdad's Green Zone and some entered the Iraqi parliament building after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government.
The protesters, who had gathered outside the heavily fortified district housing government buildings and foreign embassies, crossed a bridge over the Tigris River on Saturday chanting, "The cowards ran away!" in apparent reference to lawmakers leaving parliament, a witnesses told Reuters.
Kenya To Light World's Biggest Ivory Bonfire
More than 100 tons of ivory will be burned later in a gesture Kenya hopes will shock the world into ending the trade in elephant tusks.
Eleven pyres of tusks have been piled up, ready to be set alight in Nairobi's national park.
The estimated 105 tons of ivory and 1.4 tons of rhino horn is believed to be seven times the size of any stockpile burned before.
It will mean the vast majority of the Kenya's ivory collection is destroyed.
On the black market, such a quantity of ivory could sell for more than $100m (£68.5m), while the rhino horn could raise as much as $80m (£55m).
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta will be the first to ignite the tusks at a ceremony attended by a number of African heads of state.
They are expected to burn for several days.
Speaking at a Giants Club wildlife summit on Friday, Mr Kenyatta demanded a "total ban" on trade in ivory to prevent the extinction of Africa's embattled elephant and rhino populations.
"The future of the African elephant and rhino is far from secure so long as demand for their products continues to exist," he told the meeting of African leaders and conservationists.
"To lose our elephants would be to lose a key part of the heritage that we hold in trust. Quite simply, we will not allow it," he said.
"We will not be the Africans who stood by as we lost our elephants."
The estimated 16,000 tusks and pieces of ivory due to be set alight represent just a fraction of the 30,000 elephants believed to be killed in Africa every year.
Demand for ivory, most recently in Asia, where raw tusks sell for around $1,000 (£685) a kilo, has resulted in the number of elephants on the continent plunging from 1.2 million in the 1970s to around 400,000 today.
There are now fewer than 30,000 rhinos.
The ivory trade was banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1989.
China, however, allows the resale of ivory bought before the ban.
Activists say this serves as a cover for illegal imports.
Conservationists warn elephants could become extinct in the next 50 years.
Two casualties feared in aircraft crash in North Yorkshire field
A light aircraft has crashed in North Yorkshire with it is believed two casualties on board, police said.
Emergency services were called to the scene near Castle Howard in the Ryedale area at about 10:40 BST.
The aircraft crashed in fields between Castle Howard and the A64, North Yorkshire Police said.
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