touched a high-voltage power line while painting the Ridglea Baptist Church in November 2008. The man received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor, and has had more than 38 surgeries. However the transplant, which was paid for by the US military, was unable to restore his sight, and some nerves were so badly damaged from his injury that he has partial sensation on hi…
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…rial for the actor, which is believed to be this weekend. The star’s marriage to his wife Maj was a great Hollywood love story. Had he lived another month, the couple would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. Yesterday, Gene Yusem said Maj Hagman, who lives in California, was “doing well”. Larry Hagman had planned to headline the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Associat…
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ow. “I didn’t want any authority,” he told her at their one lunch. But he did think a consultancy wouldn’t be out of the question since basically, Dallas relies on all the characters he created in the 1970s – JR Ewing, Bobby Ewing, Sue Ellen, and their family, even the same Southfork Ranch set. …
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…in 18 miles (30km) of the Kenya-Somalia border, reminding travellers that there had been earlier attacks in Kenya carried out by Somali militia. Two nuns from Western Europe were kidnapped in November 2008 and three aid workers were abducted in July 2009. Accordind to Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said the couple had come from a trip to the Masai Mara reserve and were the resort’s only g…
The new series of TV drama Dallas will be rewritten to reflect the death of actor Larry Hagman, who played scheming oil tycoon JR Ewing. Larry Hagman, whose role as the stetson-wearing villain made him a global star in the 1980s, died on Friday aged 81. He was on board when a new version of the show appeared earlier this year. A statement from UK broadcaster Channel 5 said: “Dallas is midwa…
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…stinctive faces on television screens across the world. It quickly became one of the network’s top-rated programmes – with its 356 episodes being seen by an estimated 300 million people in 57 countries – and was revived this year. Larry Hagman, who played for more than a decade TV villain JR Ewing, has died at the age of 81 Born in Texas, Larry Hagman later moved to Los Angeles…
…emergency for Dallas and Hutchins!” Dallas tornado tosses trucks across the skies as dangerous twister targets Texas Local television footage shows a large funnel cloud on the ground near Interstate 35 south of Dallas. The weather service says the “large and extremely dangerous” tornado was near Lancaster about 20 miles south of Dallas and moving north. The weather service is also reporting othe…
…her down a little bit,” he told the station. “She said she was bipolar.” A cell phone video showing for the first time the flight attendant who caused panic aboard AA flight has emerged today Flight 2332 was halted after the woman commandeered the plane’s public address system and told passengers there were technical difficulties. First class travelers helped the cabin crew subdue the attendant,…
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…er members of the family. “We all called each other,” said Linda Gray, after being asked if it was a group decision to make the comeback. “People don’t remember that we’ve been friends for 35 years and we see each other all the time. “So it wasn’t like we hadn’t seen each other for 20 years. This was friendships reigniting and we could work together again. That was the grea…
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…episode Jesse Metcalfe plays Christopher Ewing who, along with cousin John Ross Ewing (Josh Henderson), continues the legendary family rivalry on Southfork ranch. The original Dallas, which aired from 1978 to 1991, centred around Ewing brothers JR and Bobby’s long and bitter battle over the family fortune. US critics gave it mixed reviews, with some accusing the show of “cashing inR…
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Read More » …elease of fellow tribesman who was jailed after the 2004 bomb attack at the resort of Taba that killed 31 people. The Americans were reportedly travelling through the Wadi al-Sual area of Sinai, about 40 km (25 miles) from St. Catherine’s, when a vehicle carrying masked men armed with machine-guns forced the bus to stop. The gunmen took the tourists’ money and valuables before grabbing…
…a. Moscow’s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters the resolution was one-sided and supported the armed opposition. Western nations praised the resolution, which passed by 133 votes to 12 with 31 abstentions. It criticizes both the UN’s own Security Council and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its use of violence. The assembly debated the resolution, which was p…
bell to open up trading on Wall Street. Jordana Brewster and Julie Gonzalo looked glamorous as they posed up together before heading to the podium where they joined their male co-stars Josh Henderson, 30, and Jesse Metcalfe, 33, to ring the opening bell. Jordana Brewster, 32, opted for a color block outfit, tucking a red blouse into coral shorts and topping off her look with a white blazer and tan…
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…ile Matthew McConaughey has been on a slim-down mission for six months, Jaredo Leto has transformed his physique in little over a month after only recently getting involved in the project. Jared Leto, 40, who has waxed his body hair and eyebrows for the movie. This week, Jared Leto told Vulture about how he has been suffering for his art, revealing he has essentially starved himself for the past…
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Gunmen have kidnapped a security agent working for the Italian embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. The Italian man was taken to an unknown destination from a street near Italy’s embassy in south-west Sanaa, security and diplomatic sources have said. Police have said they are trying to track down and identify the gunmen. Gunmen have kidnapped a security agent working for the Italian emb…
Judith Tebbutt, the kidnapped British tourist in Kenya is refusing food and defying her captors who are continually moving her to different locations, sources in Somalia claimed Sunday. Locals reported explosions, believed to be bombs dropped by Kenyan or U.S. helicopters, in the Kismayo area of Somalia where Judith Tebbutt, 56, was brought ashore “kicking and screaming” last Monday after she was…
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Gladys Remigio, a teenager from Santa Ana, California, who lied to her boyfriend about being pregnant, allegedly hatched an elaborate plan to kidnap her roommate’s two-week-old baby. Gladys Remigio, 17, allegedly asked gang members Steven Quirino, 20, and Robert Rodriguez, 19, to steal the child. The teenager then intended to ride with the men to her boyfriend’s, where she would pass the baby off…
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Judith Tebbutt, the British woman kidnapped in Kenya, has been freed in Somalia six months after she was seized and her husband David killed. Judith Tebbutt, 56, from Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, was flown to Nairobi after her family paid the pirates a ransom for her release. The woman said she was “very relieved” and looking forward to seeing her “fantastic” s…
…Ethiopian government accusations that it sponsored the gunmen involved. Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war. Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, said Ethiopian Television (ETV). It said the two injured tourists had been taken…
Matthew McConaughey was spotted a couple of days ago looking unrecognizable and showing off a gaunt frame on the set of his new movie. Matthew McConaughey, 42, appeared thinner than ever as he returned to his Manhattan hotel on Thursday. A white v-neck T-shirt, which would normally be fitted across his usual muscular torso, literally hung off the Hollywood hunk, while his blue jeans were even mor…
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…is to like the man,” President Barack Obama said of his predecessor. “He is a good man.” The last time all five living presidents were together was shortly before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, when he said he needed their advice before taking office. “We’ve been called the world’s most exclusive club – and we do have a pretty nice club house – but the truth is…
Kings of Leon interrupted a concert Friday in Dallas, Texas subsequent to guide performer Caleb Followill informed admirers, “I’m going to move behind the scenes and I’m gonna vomit, I’m gonna drink a beer and I’m gonna come back out and play three more songs.” The rocker by no means came back to the stage, that pushed the other members of this rock band to s…
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…Arlington fire chief Jim Self says three people suffered minor injuries there, including two residents of a nursing home who were taken to a hospital after swirling winds clipped the building. Around 50 homes were damaged in the area. “Of course the windows were flying out, and my sister is paralyzed, so I had to get someone to help me get her in a wheelchair to get her out of the room,” said Joy…
Jason Witten, a 6’6” NFL player weighing 265lbs, took down Melissa Kellerman, a cheerleader rooting for his own team, Dallas Cowboys. Tight end Jason Witten, 29, ran out of bounds in a game and ended up taking down cheerleader Melissa Kellerman, 22. Jason Witten caught a Tony Romo pass but was forced out in the fourth quarter of a 20-19 win over the Miami Dolphins, reported the Los Angeles Times….
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spian to have vigorously exercised the pounds off for a juicy role was Christian Bale, who lost 63 pounds for The Machinist thanks to a diet of coffee, water, a can of tuna, and an apple a day. Rapper 50 Cent did a two-month liquid diet to lose 50 pounds for Things Fall Apart, while Matt Damon suffered adrenal gland damage from losing 50 pounds for his heroin addict character in Courage Under Fire…
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