Alice Pyne, a teenager dying of cancer, has fulfilled her “bucket list” of things she wanted to do. Her final dream came true after her parents made a “terrifying” late-night decision to fly her abroad. Alice Pyne, 16, flew to Canada to go whale watching and tick off her last bucket list wish. The girl, who has a white blood cell cancer called Hodgkins lymphoma, made a pilgrimage to Vancouver and…
Aug 18 2012 | Posted in
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Alice in Wonderland fans have been marking the 150th anniversary of the fateful boat trip that saw the genesis of the children’s tale. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is, on one level at least, the story of a girl who disappears down a rabbit hole to a fantastic place full of bizarre adventures. Charles Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church, Oxford, first told his surreal story t…
Aug 20 2012 | Posted in
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Walmart heiress Alice Walton has topped the list of female billionaires with a net worth of $29.8 billion. Her sister-in-law, Christy Walton, is taking third place. Alice Walton, 62, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, managed to topple Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart off the top spot thanks to Walmart stock trading at a 12 year high. Christy Walton, 57, who inherited her husband…
May 27 2012 | Posted in
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…8217;s work Art writer Susan McCulloch told the Sydney Morning Herald that the destruction of the trees was “appalling and a tragic act of cultural vandalism”. Albert Namatjira was born in 1902 at the Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory and was a traditional custodian of the lands of the Arrernte people in that area. Growing up, Albert Namatjira made sketches of scenes aroun…
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Christophe Champenois, a 33-year-old man from Meaux, near Paris, has been charged with murder after allegedly killing his 3-year-old son, Bastien, by locking him in a washing machine and turning it on. Christophe Champenois allegedly stripped Bastien naked and shut him in the washing machine to punish him for a prank at nursery school – throwing a classmate’s drawing down a toilet. Th…
Nov 28 2011 | Posted in
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Veteran singer and actor Tony Martin has died at the age of 98. Tony Martin was best known for such romantic 1950s ballads as There’s No Tomorrow and To Each His Own, and his 60-year marriage to dancer Cyd Charisse. A peer of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin also starred in movie musicals from the 1930s to the ’50s, alongside stars such as Judy Garland. Business manager Stan…
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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A team of scientists has created what it believes is the first really accurate reconstruction of Neanderthal man, from a skeleton that was discovered in France over a century ago. In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male, given the name La Ferrassie 1. These remains have…
Kate Middleton has topped Vanity Fair’s annual International Best Dressed list for the third year running. The prestigious ranking, which appears in the September issue of the glossy title, saw the Duchess of Cambridge trump some of the fashion world’s most influential figures including actresses Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux, as well as the much-loved New York Times…
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AC/DC has released their music on Apple music store iTunes. The rock band had previously voiced strong opposition to the digital service. Until now AC/DC maintained their songs should not be made available for individual download because they were all integral parts of various albums. But the Australian band’s 16 studio albums, four live albums and three compilations, which have sold more t…
Nov 19 2012 | Posted in
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…huge ratings from the beginning, with an average of more than 20 million viewers at first two seasons. Ratings have slowly declined since its 7th season, which only brought in 1/2 the viewers at about 11 million. Critics have claimed the show “jumped the shark” in its 5th season. According to Access Hollywood, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry referring to the show’s end at the TCA’s Summ…
…she leaves with Beauty, worth £20 ($30), under her left arm. As she walks back to her car, bespectacled Christine Hemming looks up – straight into one of the four cameras installed by Emily Cox. 16 minutes of footage were played to the jury on Friday, the day three of the trial and called “compelling evidence” by prosecutor Jason Pegg. For the past few years, John Hemming has openly divided…
…irst Nocturnal Festival outside of California and the first multi-day Nocturnal (September 4 and 5). On Friday at three of Nocturnal Wonderland venues (Alice’s House, Labyrinth, Sunken Garden) perform 12th Planet, Arty, Avicii, Bunny of RITM, Calyx & Teebee, D. Ramirez, Dirty South, Fedde Le Grand, Fei Fei, Gareth Emery, Icicle, Jaquar Skills, Manufactured Superstars, Marky, Martyparty, MC Sha…
Sep 20 2011 | Posted in
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…r somewhat darkened. The trick was to use a diamond-shaped cloak, with properties carefully matched at the diamond’s corners, to shuttle light perfectly around a cylinder 7.5 cm in diameter and 1 cm tall Now, Prof. David Smith and his Duke colleague Nathan Landy have taken another tack, reworking how the edges of a microwave cloak line up, ensuring that the light passes around the cloak com…
…cole Kidman concedes he effectively failed in getting them to do so – saying while they realized that was his intention, the characters they played were “not really us”. She also denied that the 1999 film contributed to the demise of her marriage to Tom Cruise. The couple divorced just two years after the movie was released. Nicole Kidman explained how Stanley Kubrick tried to base Eyes Wid…
Oct 25 2012 | Posted in
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Legendary TV actor and presenter Gary Collins has died aged 74. Gary Collins passed away in the early hours of Saturday morning and his death was said to be from natural causes. The tragedy took place just before 1:00 a.m. at Biloxi Regional Medical Center in the American state of Missouri, according Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove. Gary Collins married former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley i…
Oct 14 2012 | Posted in
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Technology titan Bill Gates has been listed by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest American for the 19th year in a row, with a fortune of $66 billion, up $7 billion from last year. There was no change in the order of the top five richest from a year earlier. The total wealth of the US super-rich grew 13% to $1.7 trillion, with the top 400 worth an average $400 million more in 2012. The group’…
Sep 19 2012 | Posted in
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…at hardened Maleficent’s heart, leading her to curse the Princess Aurora played by Elle Fanning. Back in August, The Sun reported that once 4-year-old Vivienne was cast as the younger version of 14-year-old Elle Fanning, the rest of the kids wanted to be included too. “Ange thought it would be a fun experience for her and Viv to share, and Viv is a natural,” said the source. “The other kids…
Oct 23 2012 | Posted in
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…e-enter. The actress was later spotted at the scene covered in soot and cradling her dead pet, wrapped in a blanket. Several residents tried to tackle the blaze with fire extinguishers before at least 10 fire trucks screeched to the scene of the historic A-list complex, which was once lived in by Marilyn Monroe. The fire was quickly brought under control and extinguished just after 10am following…
Mar 23 2013 | Posted in
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Amanda Bynes debuted her new undercut last week after shaving half her hair off, but she continues to show off her new style in several pictures posted in Twitter on Sunday. The new bizarre self portraits featured Amanda Bynes winking at the camera while taking pictures of herself in a gym mirror. Amanda Bynes debuted her new undercut last week after shaving half her hair off “At the gym! Rawr!”…
Apr 29 2013 | Posted in
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The Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List in full: 1. Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, British style icon 2. Jessica Chastain, U.S. actress, star of The Help and Coriolanus 3. Bill Cunningham, 83, New York Times street style photographer 4. Léa Seydoux, French actress and model, appeared in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris 5. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Corey Carter, rapper, songwrit…
Jul 31 2012 | Posted in
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Amanda Bynes has decided to ditch the matted extensions in favor of a fashion-forward undercut after shaving half of her head. And, of course, she debuted her new look on Twitter. Amanda Bynes, 27, posted: “I buzzed half my head like @cassie! No more old photos! This is the new me! I love it!” The former Nickelodeon star follows in the footsteps of R&B singer Cassie, rocker Ellie Goulding and…
Apr 26 2013 | Posted in
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…Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died at the age of 87 On Jack Paar’s television show in 1964, Jonatha Winters was handed a foot-long stick and he swiftly became a fisherman, violinist, lion tamer, canoeist, U.N. diplomat, bullfighter, flutist, delusional psychiatric patient, British hea…
Apr 12 2013 | Posted in
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…case. Jessica Upshaw was an attorney who was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 2004. She was a Republican from Diamondhead along the state’s coast. Mendenhall is about 110 miles away from her hometown. Jessica Upshaw was not married, but did have an adult daughter who is married with a child of her own and lives in South Korea, according to the Clarion-Ledger. Clin…
…pictures of the inconsolable actress cradling her dead pet, wrapped in a blanket, have since been published on TMZ. Several residents tried to tackle the blaze with fire extinguishers before at least 10 fire trucks screeched to the scene of the historic A-list complex, which was once lived in by Marilyn Monroe. The fire was quickly brought under control and extinguished just after 10 a.m. followi…
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z made their first public appearance together since their daughter Blue Ivy was born at a basketball game yesterday. Beyoncé and Jay-Z enjoyed cheering on the New Jersey Nets, a team that Jay-Z co-owns, from their courtside seats and looked extremely loved up as they cuddled together. The R&B star whispered into his wife’s ear and kissed her cheek while keeping an arm protecti…
