NCM Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). Presented by NCM Fathom Events and Warner Bros., The 20th Anniversary of The Bodyguard event will be broadcast to more than 400 select movie theaters across the country through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network. Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard returns to movie theaters to celebrate its 20th anniversary in a speci…
Mar 15 2012 | Posted in
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The big winner of this year MTV Movie Awards was the breakout hit The Hunger Games that swept the ceremony, taking home four gongs. The film’s star Jennifer Lawrence won the prestigious Best Female Performance award – but unfortunately the 22-year-old wasn’t in Los Angeles to collect her trophy. However, Jennifer Lawrence accepted her award via a pre-recorded video as she is cur…
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New research might help explain why black women are much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: they seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women are 40% more likely to develop cervical cancer and twice as likely to die from it. The…
ring the trial, as compared to those receiving chemotherapy. Be sure to find out if Zelboraf is right for you before you order. Zelboraf is being approved with a first-of-a-kind test called the cobas 4800 BRAF V600 Mutation Test, a companion diagnostic that will help determine if a patient’s melanoma cells have the BRAF V600E mutation. The BRAF protein is normally involved in regulating cell grow…
…t the scientists are worried the aspirin could aggravate the eye disease, as long as lots of seniors take this medicine. The European study has been published in the journal Ophthalmology and included 4691 people over 65. The subjects were from Norway, Estonia, Britain, France, Greece, Italy and Spain. Medical scientists, led by Dr. Paulus de Jong at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and…
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…out by a man who works near the country’s embassy in Beijing. The man posted on Sina Weibo: “Downstairs from the office, the cars at the Korean embassy are increasing rapidly, now there are over 30 cars. It’s the first time I’ve seen this situation, did something happen in Korea?” This seemingly innocuous question, bolstered by other witnesses who saw an unusual number of cars at…
Labiaplasty – plastic surgery for female genitalia – has been called the “final frontier” of cosmetic surgery. Shannon, a 23-year-old woman has openly shared her experiences of labiaplasty on CBS’s show “The Doctors”. The Doctors, aired yesterday on CBS, featured Shannon, who wanted nothing more than to correct her “painfully long labia”. The…
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Zelboraf (vemurafenib) has received approval from the European Commission to be used as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with BRAFV600 mutation-positive inoperable or metastatic melanoma. Its companion diagnostic, the cobas 4800 BRAF V600 Mutation Test is CE marked and commercially available in Europe. “The approval of Zelboraf by the European Commission marks a significant a…
Lydia Gale Clark, a student at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, died after she apparently downed 16 shots on the night of her 21st birthday celebration. Lydia Gale Clark had been seen “stumbling” at several bars on a six-hour drinking marathon that ended Saturday early in the morning, at 3.30 a.m. According to the student’s friends, she had drunk about 16 shots of alcohol on Friday evening….
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…ight performance in the Staples Centre, Los Angeles, Madonna began by telling her audience that she wanted have a “serious talk”. According to Entertainment Today, Madonna told fans that the news that 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai had been gunned down by the Taliban had made her “cry”. Madonna said: “The 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on a school bus for writing a blog about how important…
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More than 200 people are now known to have died in a fire at a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistani police have said. Many others were injured in the blaze. It began on Tuesday night, hours after a factory fire killed 23 in Lahore. Correspondents say that the Karachi blaze is one of the worst industrial accidents in the country’s history. Some 40 firefighting vehicles were needed to tackle…
a phone could have been smuggled into his cell. The doctor is alleged to have used a fake hepatitis B vaccination campaign to obtain DNA samples of Osama Bin Laden’s family. He was sentenced to 33 years in jail in May for funding and supporting a militant group, but correspondents say it is generally acknowledged he is being punished for helping the CIA. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor…
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Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham as an inpatient. Malala Yousafzai, 15, was being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred following the attack in October. She will continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the West Midlands. Malala Yousa…
…r told reporters. Police have now sealed off all entry and exit point in Multan, and a massive search operation is under way, local media report. Yousuf Raza Gilani served as prime minister until June 2012, when he was forced out of office by the Supreme Court over his refusal to pursue a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. But it is still a powerful political family, with Yousuf R…
outside the court that he had made his arguments and “the court considered them”. “I bow to the verdict,” he added. The trial court in Mumbai had found Mohammad Qasab guilty on 3 May 2010 of murder, terrorist acts and waging war on India and sentenced him to death. In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Mohammad Qasab argued that the prosecution had “failed to prove beyo…
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…spinal cord has not been seriously damaged and he has been moved out of intensive care. Meanwhile there has been more violence ahead of the elections. At least three people have been killed and about 25 injured – including six policemen – in a suicide bombing outside a police station in the Bannu region of north-western Pakistan. Police said that it was not clear if the target was the…
steps foot in Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf tweeted a photo of himself aboard the plane, writing: “Settled in my seat on the plane to begin my journey home. Pakistan First!” A group of about 200 supporters and journalists are travelling with the former military ruler – including party members from the UK, Canada, Switzerland and the US. Before take-off chants of “Long live Pe…
$4 billion needed every year. More than 10 years after the US toppled the Taliban regime, violence is continuing unabated in Afghanistan. According to UN figures, the number of deaths reached a record 3,031 in 2011 – the great majority caused by militants. Earlier this month the Taliban announced the start of their annual spring offensive. On Saturday a suicide bomber killed at least 10 peop…
…o the terror leader. Under Islamic law, a man may have only four wives at one time. Osama Bin Laden married six times, but divorced his second wife in the 1990’s and annulled the fifth marriage within 48 hours….
16 NATO supply tankers transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze in a bomb attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 28 trucks were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of the provincial capital Peshawar when an explosion triggered a fire that engulfed 16 of the vehicles, AFP reported. 16 NATO supply trucks set ablaze by Talibans in Pakistan Pakistan police official, Khur…
At least 21 suspected militants have been killed in two separate attacks of an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan, according to Pakistani security officials. The missiles struck targets in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Pakistan has previously complained that such attacks violate its sovereignty. Last month, President Barack Obama defended the use of dro…
More than 100 Pakistani soldiers have been buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region, officials say. Local TV stations say that the incident happened near the Siachen glacier in the eastern Karakoram mountain range. 130 troops were buried when a battalion headquarters in the Gayari district was engulfed, says the AP news agency, quoting a security official. The area is in the northern…
de guidance to the Pakistan-based operation. Analysts have said that he was in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. He was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Pakistan’s frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and it is very difficult to verify…
Senior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan’s Movement for Justice party (PTI), led by former international cricketer Imran Khan. She was killed by gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in the city’s upmarket Defence neighborhood. Her murder comes on the eve o…
…speculation that there were nuclear weapons stored at the site. It was not immediately clear how the attackers managed to enter the base. Minhas is one of Pakistan’s biggest air bases with about 30 fighter jets including new JF-17 planes – jointly developed with China – that are being assembled there. It is about 60km (35 miles) north-west of Islamabad. No group has said it carri…
