Panasonic closes China plants after violent protests

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Panasonic halted operations at three factories in China after angry protesters ransacked Japanese businesses over the weekend amid rising tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Violence against Japanese companies was seen in Xi'an, Dongguan, Changsha and Guangzhou, according to local media reports. A Panasonic factory was set on fire and a Toyota dealership in Qingdao were damaged on Saturday, and a Jusco department store was ransacked. In Guangzhou, demonstrators broke into the Garden Hotel and attacked a Japanese restaurant on the second floor, according to the South China Morning Press.

Panasonic has suspended work three plants in China until Tuesday, after factories in Qingdao and Suzhou were damaged by protesters, company officials told CNN. Panasonic also halted operations at a factory in Guangdong province until Tuesday as some local employees staged a strike as protest against Japan's claim to the island chain, called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan.

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Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban, Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey Confirmed As ‘American Idol’ Judges

On Sunday morning it was officially announced, at the first "American Idol" Season 12 callback auditions taping at New York's Lincoln Center, that hip-hop diva Nicki Minaj and country crooner Keith Urban have finally signed on to be the new "American Idol" judges. They'll be joining the panel alongside longtime judge Randy Jackson (who is still on board to give the show continuity, despite earlier reports that he was being demoted) and Randy's star managerial client, Mariah Carey. The odd foursome made their first public appearance at Lincoln Center this Sunday morning.

Although Nicki once claimed she didn't want to be a full-time TV talent show judge, back when it was rumored that she'd been approached by Simon Cowell to join "The X Factor," the split-personality star has apparently since changed at least one of her minds. This is probably due to the reported $10 million (plus additional allowances for hair and makeup) that Fox will be paying her. Or maybe when she once joked about filling Jennifer Lopez's seat with her own equally famous curvy behind, she wasn't really joking after all.

Keith is coming in as a relative bargain, since he's reportedly "only" getting paid somewhere around $4 million. But regardless, neither of these two new judges will be getting anything close to the cool $18 million that Mariah is supposedly pocketing.

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Man with the Largest Biceps in the world, Moustafa Ismail, Aged 24

Meet Moustafa Ismail, 24, whose 31 inch biceps have just been crowned the biggest in the world.He has spent ten years pumping iron twice a day and his upper arms now have the same circumference as a grown man’s waist.

“Big Mo” as he is fondly called eats as much as 3lbs of chicken, 1lbs of steak or fish and four cups of almonds washed down with two gallons of water and three litres of protein shakes.

Moustafa, who lives with his wife Carolina, 30, started bodybuilding ten years ago in a bid to keep fit.

But after hitting the gym he received hundreds of compliments on his bulging biceps and decided to concentrate all of his efforts on making them even bigger.

Five years ago, when he failed to win a place in the Egyptian bodybuilding team he swapped his home country for the USA.

He now trains at least twice a day and can lift an incredible 500lbs.

Moustafa admits to taking protein shakes to help with his bodybuilding but puts his bulging body down to genetics – his father was an Egyptian wrestler.

He has a daily exercise regime of 5am until 8am during which he concentrates on cardio, strength-training and body sculpting, using heavy and light isolated weights.

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Brand New Single: Kardinal Offishall ft Wizkid – Repping for my City

The young singer lyrically murdered the hook while Kardinal who never fails to impress keeps the tempo high on the verses. It’s official, Wizkid has gone international.
Listen for yourself.

DMX thinks Drake working on Aaliyah's album is "disrespectul", and if this was the old DMX he'd "catch him in the eleveator, beat him up".

Never one to mince words, DMX was on Power 105.1’s the Breakfast Club, and it appears his view on Canadian rapper Drake hasn’t changed one bit.  Earlier in the year, X was very open about disliking Drake saying “[I don’t] like anything about Drake...the way he walks..his haircut.”
The Breakfast Club took the recent opportunity to broach the subject again and get DMX’s thoughts to see if his view on the Young Money talent had changed.  From HHDX, “no, not at all.  Not at all.  I don’t think that’ll happen,” X answered about changing his opinion of the Take Care rapper. 
It was when they brought up DMX’s “Romeo Must Die” co-star, Aaliyah, that X became angry.  He thinks it’s “disrespectful” for Drake to work on the fallen R&B star’s posthumous work, “Disrespectful, like that don’t even make sense. See that’s what I’m saying, you can’t do shit like that.”
X became a little threatening even, saying that if this were the DMX of old, he would probably corner Drake and rough him up a bit, “I wish it was like maybe seven years ago or maybe like 10 years ago where you know, catch him in the elevator, beat him up. Just to let ‘em know. It’s real son.”