…y for Clive Davis’ party. The singer’s assistant left Whitney Houston to run an errand at department store Neiman Marcus. When the assistant returned to Whitney Houston’s room around 3:35 p.m. on Saturday February 11, the singer was lying face down in the bathtub in approximately 13-inches of water. Whitney Houston case report She was pulled out of the tub by her assistant and b…
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“but poorly skilled” local militiamen and contract guards was “misplaced”, the report said. In a letter to Congress, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she accepted all 29 of the recommendations put forward in the report. Hillary Clinton outlined some steps the agency would take, including sending hundreds of US Marines guards to missions abroad and assigning a stat…
…he problems, the agency quoted him as saying. The Pentagon report also criticizes a “lack of transparency” in China’s military modernization programme and defense spending. “In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the US government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese…
…showing how incredibly hot it would have been when she first got into it. Whitney Houston was found face down and unresponsive in about 13 inches of water on February 11 and passed away at the age of 48. The startling revelations of how badly damaged her body is an indication as to how much her lifestyle took a toll on her, leading to her untimely death. Some scars were recent – others from…
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…among netizens and then state media. The incident on Wednesday came to light after the attendant, employed by China Southern Airlines, reported it on her microblog. Her account was retweeted more than 30,000 times, Shanghai Daily reported. Pictures of bruises, scratches and a rip in her uniform received during the alleged assault were also posted online. Pictures of bruises, scratches and a rip i…
would be interviewed at an appropriate time. Children who witnessed the attack would also be interviewed – in the presence of parents and professionals – Lt Vance added. Gunman Adam Lanza, 20, did not seem to have had run-ins with the police, he said, and gave no information about whether mental health professionals had come forward with information about him. As well as remembering th…
…County Coroner's Office reported Thomas Kinkade's cause of death as “acute ethanol and Diazepam intoxication” and manner of death as “accident” Thomas Kinkade was arrested for drunk driving in 2010, the same year his company filed for bankruptcy. Art galleries reported a surge in sales of Thomas Kinkade’s paintings following his death. Thomas Kinkade’s scenes of country gardens…
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…y saddened by Friday’s senseless violence”. The attack at Newtown is the second deadliest shooting attack at a US school or university, after the Virginia Tech killings of 2007, which left 32 people dead and many injured….
…women died in the assault on Sandy Hook school by a lone man who then took his own life. The first funerals for victims will be held on Monday. The gunman has been identified by police as Adam Lanza, 20. He shot dead his mother before driving to the school in her car. Officials say he was armed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and used a semi-automatic rifle as his main weapon. He was also…
A power cut could have prevented a shark spotter from sounding a warning alarm just before Michael Cohen was savaged by a great white off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa. The shark spotter is thought to have seen Michael Cohen, the 43 year-old British swimmer enter the water and attempted to warn him of danger – but the siren didn’t work because of a city-wide power cut, it has…
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Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has been finally released from formal probation for the first time in four years. Lindsay Lohan, 25, was ruled to be in the clear at her final hearing today, but not without some blunt advice from Judge Stephanie Sautner. Judge Stephanie Sautner told Lindsay Lohan: “You need to live your life in a more mature way, stop clubbing and focus on work.” Lindsay Lohan coul…
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…bulletin board. It was right on there; it said three feet of water on the floor. I don’t know if there’s conflicting reports or not,” Chad Myers said. CNN wrongly reported that NYSE was flooded with 3 feet of water following the worst of Hurricane Sandy The claim instantly went viral, spreading quickly on social networks and circulating as fact. An NYSE official quickly tried to thwart the rumor…
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lled 32 people and injured many more. Sandy Hook school shooting victims: Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Rachel Davino, 29 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 Dawn Hochsprung, 47 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine Hsu, 6 Catherine Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6 James Mattioli, 6 Grace McDonnell, 7 Anne Marie Murphy, 52 Emilie Parker, 6 Jack Pinto, 6 Noah Pozner, 6 Car…
Sean Young spent four hours in a police station after allegedly fighting with a security guard at the Governor’s Ball, the official Oscar party, last night. Sean Young, 52, who hasn’t been in a major film since 2008, is said to have argued with a guard at the Governor’s Ball in Los Angeles. The actress was placed under citizens’ arrest by another member of the security team then…
t the six young men whose testimony before a grand jury contributed to a report detailing allegations against Jerry Sandusky will be called to testify next Tuesday. Jerry Sandusky, 67, is charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, and prosecutors allege he met his victims through a charity he founded in 1977 to help at-risk children, The Second Mile. The former coach denies being a paedophile and…
…es, just hours before she was to perform for Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party. The final report will definitively determine exactly what amounts of substances and which drugs killed her. Whitney Houston, 48, was found in the bathtub of her guest room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the eve of the 54th Grammy Awards, February 11, 2012. She was pronounced dead at about 4:00 p.m. that afternoon. …
recession. Last week, an EU report forecast that Greece would end years of recession in 2014 with growth of 0.6%, in line with an earlier forecast by the IMF. Following what the IMF forecast will be a 4.6% contraction of the economy this year, the Fund warned that attempts to “artificially” stimulate growth should be resisted….
ens”. For the fourth year running, Colombia has the highest number of internally displaced people, according to the IDMC annual report for 2012 The report says that Colombia, with its estimated 4.9 to 5.5 million internally displaced people tops the global list. It estimates that Colombia’s internal armed conflict forced around 230,000 people to flee their homes in 2012. However, the…
…shut down as authorities investigate the incident and try to determine what exactly went wrong. Jasbir Gill told Contra Costa Times that he wants producers of the show, which has been on the air since 2003, to pay for his van and the other damage the cannonball caused. No Dublin residents, or anyone on the Mythbusters crew, were injured in the incident. The Mythbusters show follows the exploits of…
Fabian Zanzi, a sailor who accused John Travolta of sexual harassment, is now suing the star for assault. Fabian Zanzi is claiming the incident occurred when he worked as a room service operator for Royal Caribbean International in 2009 and made a delivery to the actor’s stateroom. The sailor alleges John Travolta asked for a neck massage, and that when he reached over to comply the 58-year…
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According to Google’s Transparency Report, governments around the world made nearly 21,000 requests for access to its data in the first six months of 2012. Google’s Transparency Report indicates government surveillance of online lives is rising sharply. The US government made the most demands, asking for details 7,969 times in the first six months of 2012. Turkey topped the list for request…
A newly unveiled report written for wartime British intelligence says Adolf Hitler developed a “messiah complex” towards the end of World War II. The report, written in 1942 by Cambridge academic Joseph MacCurdy, said Adolf Hitler was turning increasingly to “Jew-phobia” as defeat loomed. Social scientist Mark Abrams commissioned the report, which came to light as a result…
s from operating in its areas. The famine later spread to other areas, including Middle Shabelle, Afgoye and at camps for displaced people in the government-controlled capital, Mogadishu. An estimated 4.6% of the total population and 10% of children under five died in southern and central Somalia, the report says. “The report confirms we should have done more before the famine was declared,&…
On Saturday morning a man fired three air gun shots in Erfurt, Germany, around one mile (1,6 kilometers) from the city’s main cathedral (Saint Mary), where Pope Benedict XVI was to celebrate Mass. The shooting incident has occurred on the edge of the security zone about an hour before the Pope started his celebration of the Mass for around 30,000 people. The gun fires aimed at a secu…
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…partners.” The family’s investments reportedly spanned several sectors. The newspaper cited one holding as Ping An, an insurance company which it said had benefited from reforms enacted in 2004 by a state body over which Wen Jiabao had oversight. It said that partnerships controlled by Wen Jiabao’s relatives, along with their friends and colleagues, had bought into the firm befor…
