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יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad Don’t miss this! This video is proof of how anti-Israel organizations work and brainwash people around the world without regard to reality and without having any idea what the truth is...You have to see what happened when I arrived in New Zealand to the Palestinian club's booth at the University of Auckland... Watch! Credit - Perry Trotter Mar 7, 2023

Still no deal with Apple. Five of Australia's biggest banks have signed up with Google's Android Pay payments service as they continue to butt heads with Apple over Cupertino's own Apple Pay platform. ANZ Bank, Westpac, ING Direct, Macquarie Bank, St George, Bank of Melbourne, Bank of South Australia and Bendigo Bank will all support the Android payment service when it lands in Australia in the first half of next year. At launch, Android Pay will support Mastercard and Visa credit and debit cards, Google said in a blog post today. The company is currently "working with Eftpos" on similar...

When it comes to Sheryl Crow's touring requirements, if it's Tuesday, this must be Bombay. Gin that is. The rock star's performance contract includes specific day-to-day instructions on what kind of booze Sheryl needs in her dressing room (TSG has never seen such attention to detail in any other concert rider we've posted). For each show, Crow requires 12 bottles of Grolsch beer, 6 bottles of "local" beer, and a bottle each of "good Australian Cabernet" and "good Merlot." As for the harder stuff, promoters are directed to purchase specific booze depending on what day of the week the concert...

SAN FRANCISCO - Air New Zealand broke its nine-year drought on inaugural routes yesterday when its Lord of the Rings promo plane coasted onto the San Francisco tarmac and released 50 jetlagged guests into a day of celebration and champagne. The direct route, flying three times a week in each direction, is expected to become a valuable connection for tourists and exports. By 2006 Air New Zealand's new Boeing 777s - ordered last month and due to arrive in September next year - are likely to provide daily flights to San Francisco. The airline has been considering the route for...

The publishers of Zimbabwe's sole privately owned daily said on Monday its top editor had quit after authorities shut the paper down, but vowed to fight a closure that Britain branded an attempt to stifle democracy. Police shut down the Daily News last week after the Supreme Court ruled its publisher, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), was operating illegally because it had not registered with a media commission created by Robert Mugabe's government. ANZ lawyer Gugulethu Moyo said the newspaper group had applied for registration and had asked the police to reopen its offices, but the company said the paper's...