Thousands of mourners are attending the funeral of renowned author Chinua Achebe in his Nigerian home town of Ogidi in Anambra state. Chinua Achebe’s body arrived back in Nigeria on Wednesday from the US, where he died in March at the age of 82. Relatives and officials were at Enugu airport in southern Nigeria as the [...]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called Azerbaijan’s failure to award any points to Russia’s entry in this year’s Eurovision song contest as “outrageous”. Sergei Lavrov said the points had been “stolen” from Russia’s Dina Garipova and “this outrageous action will not remain without a response”. Azerbaijan says it cannot explain how it awarded no [...]
An M1 motorway driver has described the moment she nearly ran over George Michael as he lay covered in blood on the road after falling from his car at 70 mph. Katherine Fox, 23, was travelling behind a silver Range Rover when George Michael tumbled out of the passenger door onto the third lane of [...]
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 74. He formed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison in 1965 after a chance meeting in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. Ray Manzarek, who had suffered from bile duct cancer [...]
Actress Christine White, who played a calming wife on a classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode that featured a young William Shatner, has died at age 86. Christine White portrayed Julia Wilson in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet in which her husband Bob, portrayed by William Shatner, becomes unnerved after seeing a gremlin on the wing of [...]
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia “nul points” at Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Voters and the official Azerbaijan jury in fact gave strong backing to the Russian entry, according to officials. Azerbaijan’s state broadcaster suggested there may have been voting violations. Russia gave the maximum 12 points [...]
All Duck Dynasty’s lovable, sweet tea-swilling couples are anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples – from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law – are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer , in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall [...]
All Duck Dynasty’s lovable, sweet tea-swilling couples are anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples – from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law – are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer , in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall [...]
All Duck Dynasty’s lovable, sweet tea-swilling couples are anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples – from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law – are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer , in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall [...]
All Duck Dynasty’s lovable, sweet tea-swilling couples are anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples – from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law – are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer , in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall [...]
All Duck Dynasty’s lovable, sweet tea-swilling couples are anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples – from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law – are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer , in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall [...]
Taylor Swift snagged not one but eight statues at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards stage in Las Vegas on Sunday night. The awards included Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 Artist. Additionally, Taylor Swift won Top Digital Songs Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Country Song for We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, and [...]
Top Artist Taylor Swift Top New Artist One Direction Top Male Artist Justin Bieber Top Female Artist Taylor Swift Top Duo/Group One Direction Top Billboard 200 Artist Taylor Swift Top Hot 100 Artist Maroon 5 Top Digital Songs Artist (tie) Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift Top Radio Songs Artist Rihanna Top Touring Artist Madonna [...]
Angelina Jolie will play her own mother in a biopic of the late actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer in 2007. Angelina Jolie, 37, who last week revealed she had undergone a voluntary double mastectomy, will star in the film produced by Plan B, the production company set up by devoted partner Brad [...]
A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by the VOX company, was bought by an unidentified US buyer in New York. George Harrison played I Am The Walrus on the guitar in a scene from Magical Mystery Tour [...]
Denmark has won 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Danish Emmelie de Forest had been the overwhelming favorite among the 26 entries, with her song Only Teardrops. There was disappointment for Ireland’s Ryan Dolan as he finished in last place with just 5 points. Emmelie de Forest won with 281 [...]
The Eurovision Song Contest has been running since 1956 and in that time, acts from around Europe have been singing their hearts out in the hope of winning the trophy. There have been 57 Eurovision winners to date but what has become of those acts that hit the dizzy heights of Euro fame? Some have [...]
2013 Eurovision Song Contest is under way in the Swedish city of Malmö as 26 countries compete in front of millions of TV viewers. Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest is the favorite to win with Only Teardrops. Veteran singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, performed the UK entry [...]
George Michael was involved in a crash in his Range Rover during rush hour on the M1 motorway near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, on Thursday. George Michael, 49, was recovering last night after being airlifted to hospital with a head injury following the accident. An ambulance crew was so concerned at the singer’s condition that [...]
Christoph Waltz was left shaken last night after a man pointed a hand-gun at him during a live French news programme TV show and threatened to blow up a studio with a hand grenade. Cristoph Waltz, who won Oscars for roles in two Quentin Tarantino movies, was being interviewed about Cannes Film Festival on the [...]
Mariah Carey’s performance on last night’s American Idol finale was so good it had some wondering whether she hadn’t lip-synched the entire thing. However, Mariah Carey, 43, whose voice has sounded strained in recent years, clearly wasn’t given enough credit. A rep for Mariah Carey told Entertainment Tonight on Friday that the star sang every [...]
More than $1 million (777,000 euros) worth of Chopard jewels have been stolen from Novotel hotel in Cannes, French police say. The jewels were to be loaned to stars appearing at the famous annual film festival on the French Riviera. They were taken from the hotel room of an employee of exclusive Swiss jewellers Chopard in [...]
George Michael has been airlifted to hospital with a head injury following a crash on the M1 motorway in UK. George Michael, 49, remains in hospital after the crash at junction 6A, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. A spokesman for the former Wham! star confirmed he had been involved in an accident on Thursday but said the singer [...]
Residents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has secretly been taking their photographs to exhibit and sell. Arne Svenson freely admits to secretly photographing his neighbors at the exclusive 475 Greenwich St apartment block in [...]
Sanjay Dutt has returned to jail to serve his sentence for firearms offences linked to 1993 blasts which killed 257 people in Mumbai. The Bollywood star gave himself up at a court in the western Indian city. Sanjay Dutt has already served 18 months of a five-year term for illegally possessing a rifle and pistol [...]
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