Boxing world champion Hector “Macho” Camacho, known for skill and flamboyance in the ring as well as for a messy personal life and run-ins with the police, was declared dead on Saturday, four days after being shot in the face. Hector Camacho was 50. Shot while sitting in a parked car outside a bar Tuesday with a friend in the city of Bayamon, Hector Camacho was declared dead at the Centro Medico…
…ttack at the hospital. The family faced the agonizing choice of when he should be removed from life support, said Ismael Leandry, a longtime friend and former manager who was also at the hospital. The 50-year-old Hector Camacho was outside a bar in a parked car with a friend when he was shot in the face. The friend, whose name has not been released, was killed. No arrests have been made and no mot…
…the boxer was declared dead three days later after doctors removed him from life support. Police have said they have suspects but have not yet arrested anyone for the shooting. Hector Camacho, who was 50 when he died, moved to New York as a child. Known for his flamboyant displays in the ring, he won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s and fought high-p…
…, leaned down to kiss his body in the open casket. Cynthia Castillo then walked into an area reserved for family – causing tensions to spill over with the boxer’s sisters and former lover, 50-year-old Gloria Fernandez. The scuffle migrated outside the memorial service, followed by a pack of journalists brandishing camera phones and police who separated the women. Cynthia Castillo said…
in a simple ceremony at the hospital. Danica May Camacho was born two minutes before midnight and arrived to a celebratory cheer at the packed Government-run Jose Fabella Hospital in Manila. Weighing 5lbs 5oz (2,5 kg), Danica May Camacho was delivered amid an explosion of media flash bulbs in the delivery room at Manila’s Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital. Danica May Camacho, born in Philippi…
…um where the embalmed body of his father – national founder Kim Il-Sung – has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994. A state funeral will be held there on December 28. Ri Ho-Il, a lecturer at the Korean Revolutionary History Museum, said: “Our General is our people’s benevolent father. He defended our people’s happiness, carrying on his forced march…
As Whitney Houston’s silver casket was carried out of the New Hope Baptist Church, her unforgettable voice could be heard singing her greatest hit I Will Always Love You, reducing many mourners to tears, as the star made her final journey before being laid to rest. The singer’s mother Cissy Houston followed right behind the casket and had to be supported by two helpers as she tearfully watched he…
Kris Jenner develops a morbid obsession with her family’s unfinished funeral arrangements this week after spending time with her ageing mother. What starts off as a time for planning the happy arrival of a new life, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick’s at-the-time unborn daughter Penelope, quickly turns into a week spent in cemeteries and funeral homes to the horror of the Kardashia…
…After the service, there will be a private cremation service in Mortlake, south-west London. It is understood that Margaret Thatcher wished to be laid to rest alongside her husband, Denis, who died in 2003, in the cemetery of the Royal Hospital Chelsea….
…Whitney Houston was laid to rest at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, on Sunday in a burial service attended by close family and friends. The legendary singer, who died on February 11 at age 48, is buried near her father, John Russell Houston, Jr. …
rity operation alone is set to cost £5 million ($8 million). Police across London have been ordered to cancel any leave they had planned for Operation True Blue on Wednesday. There could be more than 4,000 officers and 2,000 troops lining the route. Hundreds of specialist police will be working on counter-terrorism measures, with others carefully monitoring CCTV cameras for trouble spots. Every c…
Edinburgh, all 32 members of the current cabinet will attend the service, along with more than 30 members of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinets from her time as prime minister. There will be more than 50 guests associated with the Falkland Islands, including veterans from the 1982 conflict with Argentina, but Argentina’s ambassador to London, Alicia Castro, has declined an invitation to atte…
…l your life. You go through every emotion.” Robin Gibb died last month aged 62 after a long battle with colon cancer. Maurice Gibb died of complications resulting from a twisted intestine in 2003 aged 53. At yesterday’s service at St Mary’s Church in Thame, Oxfordshire, Barry Gibb spoke of Robin’s “magnificent mind and beautiful heart”. Barry Gibb also read a poem he had written called Ode To Rob,…
…et Thatcher, who died at the age of 87 on April 8, had strong connections to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, home of the Pensioners, over the last 10 years. The Margaret Thatcher Infirmary opened there in 2009. Downing Street has announced that well-known hymns and poems will mark next week’s funeral of former British PM Margaret Thatcher The coffin will be carried into and out of the cathedral…
city’s Meskel Square, where a solemn religious ceremony began. Dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries, including at least 20 African presidents, were present. Meles Zenawi died at the age of 57 in Brussels, following a long illness. He came to power in 1991 and was credited for bringing development and growth to Ethiopia. But critics say this was achieved at the cost of respect for human…
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Former British PM Margaret Thatcher was this afternoon cremated at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London. After a reception for the guests at her ceremonial funeral, Margaret Thatcher’s body was driven from St Paul’s Cathedral to the suburban district. Margaret Thatcher’s ashes are due to be interred next to those of her beloved husband Denis, who died in 2003, at the Royal Hospital Che…
e Duke of Edinburgh are among more than 2,000 people expected to attend the service. Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney and ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will also be among the guests, while 4,000 police will be on duty. Barack Obama’s official presidential delegation will be led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as secretaries of state during the Thatcher era. Arge…
A military rehearsal of former British PM Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession has taken place in central London. More than 700 members of the armed forces drawn from all three services took part in the practice before dawn. They will line the route of the funeral procession from Westminster to St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday. Margaret Thatcher’s coffin is to be carried in a…
rs at the military academy, Major General Jacinto Perez Arcay. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have visited the coffin of their former leader. Shortly after Hugo Chavez’s death was announced on March 5, the government declared seven days of mourning, which was later extended to 10 days….
Mexican teachers incensed by sweeping education reforms have attacked the buildings of political parties in the south-western state of Guerrero. For several hours, masked protesters started fires and attacked the offices with pickaxes and sticks, spraying slogans on the walls. Guerrer governor has called for support from the federal government. The reforms impose centralized teacher assessment an…
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…the RAF – on the Strand. The coffin will then be transferred to the gun carriage and taken in procession to St Paul’s Cathedral. Big Ben Facts: The Great Bell, better known as Big Ben, is 2.2 m tall, has a diameter of 2.7 m and weighs 13.7 tonnes The hammer which strikes the bell weighs 200 kg When struck it chimes the musical note E It was cast in the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and in…
ut died soon after. His third wife, Isabel, oversaw the repatriation of Evita Peron’s body to Argentina. She now lies in her family’s mausoleum, in a crypt fortified like a nuclear bunker. 5. Charlie Chaplin The comedian’s body was dug up in March 1978 by two men who reburied it in a cornfield, and began demanding a ransom from Charlie Chaplin’s lawyer. Taken from the villa…
…an invitation to sickos. “It’s ironic that Whitney, who was most famous for The Bodyguard movie when she was alive, has to have bodyguards even in death.” Whitney Houston, who died on February 11 aged 48, is understood to have been buried in a gold lined casket worth upwards of $15,000, and wearing a diamond brooch and earrings. The overwhelming number of fans paying visits to the grave following…
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