atures plunged to -30C Peter Skyllberg’s neighbors in the town of Orebro in central Sweden said he had also broken up with his girlfriend and had lost contact with his father and other family members 20 years ago. “We now have to wait until he is better to try to find out what really was in his mind,” said police officer Ebbe Nyberg. Peter Skyllberg survived by taking handfuls of snow from the ro…
strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver.” The soot also proved cause for concern for Peter Lindberg’s colleague on the Ocean X explorer team, Stefan Hogeborn. “During my 20-year diving career, including 6,000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn,” Stefan Hogeborn said in the release. “I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down the…
…te Epiphany Mass followed by his traditional baptizing of babies in the Vatican’s frescoed Sistine Chapel. Security was tight at last night’s celebration, as it has been in recent years. In both 2008 and 2009 there were Christmas Eve security breaches, in which a woman with a history of psychiatric problems and wearing a telltale red sweatshirt jumped the wooden security barrier along the ba…
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…ame too much to bear. In the end, Jennie Garth told the magazine, she couldn’t face telling the children herself and left Peter and her therapist to break the news to their three daughters Luca Bella, 14, Lola Ray, 9, and Fiona Eve, 5. “I just held them. They cried. I cried. It was really hard,” Jennie Garth explained. Jennie Garth met Peter Facinelli while filming An Unfinished Affair in 1996 and…
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…Flash album called Flash – In Public. A post on his official website read: “It’s with great sadness to have to report the death of Peter Banks. He died in his London home on March 8, 2013. Thanks for all the music Peter!” Peter Banks was in Yes for just a couple of years. Peter Banks was found dead at his London home on March 8 after not turning up to a recording studio In…
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While Peter Stefan’s funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, is being protested, the owner says he is desperate for a gravesite as cemeteries all refuse to take Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body. However, a determined funeral director charged with burying the body of the Boston bomber says everyone deserves a dignified burial regardless of the circumstances of their death. Peter Stefan said dozens…
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…;Ultimately, it is different in a positive way, especially for 3D, especially for epic films.” The 3D film has been shot at a rate of 48 frames per second, compared with the industry standard of 24 frames. Peter Jackson says he is unsurprised by the mixed reaction to footage from his long-anticipated film The Hobbit presented at the CinemaCon The 10 minutes of unfinished footage was critici…
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Jennie Garth’s ex-husband Peter Facinelli and new girlfriend Jaimie Alexander arrived at the premiere of the comedy-crime movie Pain & Gain holding hands on Monday. Peter Facinelli, 39, wore a dashing light gray suit with an open-collared white dress shirt to watch the film, which is about bodybuilders who turn to crime. Jaimie Alexander, 29, radiated sophistication in a striking red d…
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ce. The role earned him the first of eight Oscar nominations, with others coming for such films as Becket, The Lion in Winter and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Peter O’Toole was given an honorary Oscar in 2003, an award he had initially refused to accept. In a letter he asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to delay the award until he was 80, saying he was “still in the game and…
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British-based gay rights activist Peter Tatchell claimed that Whitney Houston attended an AIDS event in London, in 1991, with her gay partner Robyn Crawford. Though he initially declined to identify her, the organizer – respected gay rights and equality consultant Vernal Scott – said that Peter Tatchell was referring to Robyn Crawford. Peter Tatchell even said Whitney Houston’s marriage to…
…The ring is second hand and is made of silver-plated gold, not the solid gold worn by Francis’ predecessor. With the reception of the pallium and ring, Francis officially began his office as the 266th pope. The Pope then received the obedience of the cardinals, and the Mass formally began. Pope Francis then delivered his homily, in Italian. It began by focusing on Joseph and his role as prot…
…ica of Saint John Lateran. Speaking to 50 inmates, he said: ‘I’m happy to be with you. Don’t give up hope.’ The foot washing on Maundy Thursday echoes a New Testament passage in which Jesus honors his 12 disciples before his Crucifixion. Pope Francis has carried out similar ceremonies in Argentinean jails. In a first for a Pope, he also attended to the feet of two woman prisoners. Several of the 1…
Director Peter Jackson has defended shooting The Hobbit trilogy in a new format at 48 frames per second after a mixed response from film critics. Since 1927, the standard frame rate – the number of frames or images that are projected per second – has been 24 frames per second. “24 frames is jarring to me now,” said Peter Jackson. “It looks primitive. Change is good,…
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Warner Bros. presented 10 minutes of 3D footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 48 frames per second at the CinemaCon 2012 convention in Las Vegas. Director Peter Jackson said in a videotaped message that he hopes his movie can be played in 48fps in “as many cinemas as possible” when it opens December 14. The Hobbit, the first major motion picture to be made at the higher frame rate, cl…
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…s bright as the sun,” he said. While he was getting the beating of his life on screen, the real Justin Bieber wasn’t having a much better time during his performance at the half-time show at the 100th Grey Cup in Toronto. According to reports, Justin Bieber faced a barrage of boos during his set, despite growing up just a few kilometers down the road from the stadium….
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…our love and best thoughts to his family and friends.” Peter Jones replaced the band’s previous drummer, Paul Hester, in 1994. Paul Hester killed himself after suffering from depression in 2005. Crowded House, led by New Zealander frontman Neil Finn, were formed in 1985 and went on to have worldwide success with hits such as Weather With You and Don’t Dream Its Over. They split u…
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Following her March split with Peter Facinelli after 17 years of marriage, Jennie Garth cut a noticeably slimmer figure. Now Jennie Garth has revealed the full extent of her weight loss. Jennie Garth, 40, says that she has lost a staggering “30lbs of dead weight” from her frame. In a new interview with People magazine, Jennie Garth says her body transformation came when she realized she had becam…
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To understand how fast a human can ultimately run, we need to go beyond the record books and understand how Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legs work. In 2008, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Usain Bolt ran the 100 m in just 9.69 seconds, setting a new world record. A year later, Usain Bolt surpassed his own feat with an astonishing 9.58-second run at the 2009 Berlin World Championships. With…
Socialism and capitalism are the two words sharing head rank of Merriam-Webster’s most looked up words in 2012, in a most unlikely unity. Socialism and capitalism have been announced as the online dictionary’s most searched words, with their traffic about doubling this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism” v…
The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in UK this week. During his lifetime, Leonardo da Vinci made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body. Leonardo da Vinci wanted to understand how the body was composed and how it worked. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on t…
…extreme, glaciers advance. The idea that these could dictate the cycles of glaciation in Earth’s climate was first proposed by Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch in the first half of the 20th century. “These periods of deglaciation saw massive climate changes,” Prof. Peter Huybers said. “Sea level increased by 130 meters, temperatures rose by about 5 degrees C, and atmospheric CO2 we…
…0;I’m staying here for work. I do finance, but I support it still. “Tents are not for me.” W Hotel Downtown is a $700-per-night hotel, with 350-count Egyptian cotton sheets Brad Spitzer, 24, also offered other demonstrators respite from the weather in his decadent surroundings, requesting a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, according to The New York Post. “He’s here all the t…
David Petraeus has told US Congress that the CIA believed almost immediately that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the September 11th attacks in Benghazi, according to a leading Republican congressman. Representative Peter King of New York, a member of the House Intelligence Committee that David Petraeus briefed, said that the former general left a “different impression” today than he had w…
…closed along large stretches on Italy’s coastline. The operators have said the new rules threaten the jobs of some 600,000 resort workers. The directive is due to come into effect in Italy from 2016….
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The secret of Kate Middleton’s face-framing look is a modest £15.50 ($24) Bobbi Brown eye shadow powder from Peter Jones store make-up counter. Duchess of Cambridge has learnt to use the product, from a range by make-up artist Bobbi Brown, to create the impression of thicker, darker, more luxuriant brows. Kate Middleton, who has apparently long been concerned about her fair and slightly patchy ey…
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