Director Tony Scott, famous for films including Top Gun, has died after jumping from a bridge in Los Angeles, the authorities have said. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said Scott’s death was being investigated as a suicide. British-born Tony Scott, brother of Alien director Ridley Scott, shot to fame in the 1980s with a string of action films. Director Tony Scott, famous for…
Ray J’s relationship with reality star Kim Kardashian was thrust into the spotlight when their sex tape was leaked back in 2007, catapulting her to fame. Ray J’s romance with Kim Kardashian is again making headlines, with the R&B singer alleging that the reality star may have cheated on her first husband Damon Thomas with him. According to The New York Post, Ray J, 31, refers to a woman…
The first breast augmentation operation using silicone implants took place 50 years ago. Now the procedure rates as the second-most popular form of cosmetic surgery worldwide, undergone by 1.5 million women in 2010. It was spring 1962 when Timmie Jean Lindsey, a mother-of-six lay down on the operating table at Jefferson Davis hospital in Houston, Texas. Over the next two hours, she went from a B…
…n is following in the footsteps of American Thomas Beatie, who became the world’s first pregnant man in 2007 and has since given birth to three children, Susan, Austin and Jensen. Thomas Beatie, 38, who lives in Arizona with wife Nancy, was born a woman, Tracy Lagondino. The transgender man began having testosterone injections when he was in his twenties, which lowered his voice, gave him fa…
…dictate students’ behavior online has been a controversial subject, even in the courts. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that administrators could punish a student who raised a “Bong hits 4 Jesus” banner across the street from his school, saying the banner created a “substantial disruption” within the school. The 7th Circuit sided with two high school students who we…
…ne had jumped off the bridge, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Tim Nordquist. Police are interviewing witnesses. A dive team with Los Angeles Port Police pulled the body from the murky water around 3:00 p.m. It was taken to a dock in Wilmington and turned over to the county coroner’s office. Investigators found a note in Tony Scott’s black Toyota Prius, which was parked on the bridg…
…w would be unthinkable 20 years ago,” says Nat Kretchun, co-author of a groundbreaking report into the changing media environment in North Korea. The paper, entitled A Quiet Opening, interviewed 420 adults who had defected from the country. Among their stories was a glimpse at the lengths people would go to use these illegal mobile phones. “In order to make sure the mobile phone freque…
tist was the son of Zachary, a priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, and Elizabeth – who was related to the Virgin Mary. He lived as a hermit in the desert of Judea until about A.D. 27. When he was 30, John began to preach on the banks of the Jordan against the evils of the times and called men to penance and baptism “for the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand”. John anticipated a messianic fig…
logistics were taken care of, freeing Lindsey Vonn to focus on skiing. Lindsey Vonn has blossomed into one of the top racers in U.S. team history, winning three overall World Cup titles. She also has 42 World Cup wins, tying her with Sweden’s Anja Paerson for fourth place on the all-time list. With her victory in the giant slalom last month in Soelden, Austria, Lindsey Vonn became just the…
…s – namely cadmium and chromium. These are linked to problems such as dermatitis (skin inflammation) and possible kidney damage in the long term. “Their extraction from the human body takes over 40 years,” the study warned. Similar studies have found lipsticks containing methacrylate, a form of adhesive, which can irritate the skin. Some research even links lipstick use with the development…
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…
working with the district attorney’s office and the New York State Tax Department to resolve any differences,” Russell Yankwitt said. The district attorney said Stephen Baldwin could face up to 4 years in prison if convicted. The actor is due back in court on February 5th, 2013. Stephen Baldwin was charged with failing to pay New York state taxes for three years, amassing a $350,000 debt T…
…logy founder L Ron Hubbard, the film also picked up the Silver Lion prize for best director. South Korean film Pieta, directed by Kim Ki-duk, has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival 2012 Directed by Paul Thomas Andersen, The Master tells the story of a sect leader who takes a war veteran under his wing. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who also collected Phoenix’s award, said: R…
Fans of cancelled TV series Veronica Mars have raised $2 million to help bring the show about a young private investigator to the big screen. More than 30,000 people donated money within 24 hours of a “crowd-sourcing” campaign being launched. “The more money we raise, the cooler movie we can make,” series creator Rob Thomas wrote in his appeal to fans. Veronica Mars show,…
A classified file released by the FBI shows how the agency tracked Marilyn Monroe’s suspected ties to communism in 1956. The agency documented an anonymous phone call to the New York Daily News that year warning that playwright Arthur Miller was a communist and Marilyn Monroe had “drifted into the communist orbit” after her marriage to him earlier that year. The file is just one piece of th…
…nd mouse. Surgeons say it gives them more control and avoids disruption. Independent experts say this approach could become the norm over the next ten or 15 years. Surgeons are increasingly reliant on 3D images to carry out complex and delicate procedures. Accessing the information they want is not straightforward. Using a conventional keyboard and mouse during the operation would risk contaminati…
Harold Lovell, a man from Cook County, Illinois, believed to be a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been found alive in Florida. Harold Lovell vanished from his family’s home in Cook County, Illinois, on May 1977, and was never heard from again. At that time, for his family, all signs pointed to John Wayne Gacy, the prolific killer who murdered 33 young men in the 1970s. Harold Lo…
ed. Troy Davis’ last days: September 17: Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles receives 600,000-signature petition asking for clemency. September 19: The board holds a clemency hearing. September 20: Board denies clemency for Davis, reportedly by a majority of three to two. Yesterday a.m.: Defense attorneys’ last ditch request for a polyghraph test is denied by the board. Yesterday 5:00…
sed. A new research suggests the presence of street lights substantially changes the ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and bugs Thomas Davies of the University of Exeter and his colleagues set 28 traps in Helston, some just under street lights, and some in dark regions midway between them, over a three-night period. The team found in general that a higher number of animals were trapped nea…
reathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops • Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep – you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it • Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep – it is very hard to wake up from Deep Sleep because this is when there is the lowest amount of activity in your body • After Deep Sleep, we go back to Stage 2 for a few minute…
…hese past few months and it has made me very happy. “I don’t plan on addressing this further as I would like to keep that part of my life between us, my family and close friends.” Tiger Woods, 37, wrote: “Something nice that’s happened off the course was meeting Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey and I have been friends for some time, but over the last few months we have become very close and are…
…as “Van”, accompanied the Prince on his first official tour to New Zealand and William and Prince Harry are patrons of a memorial fund dedicated to his brother Henry, who was killed in a car crash in 2002. Edward, Hugh, Nicholas and William van Cutsem are close family friends from Norfolk who have known the Prince since childhood. Three-year-old Grace van Cutsem – who almost stole the show…
…rtazapine and the prescription sleep-aid Lunesta in his system. It added Tony Scott did not have any serious illnesses, including cancer. Tony Scott jumped from Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles on 19 August. The findings shed no light on a motive for why Tony Scott took his own life. It had been revealed previously that the director left notes behind in his car including messages to friends an…
recalled three lots of the steroid Methylprednisolone Acetate on September 26 according to the FDA. The drug is primarily used to relieve back pain. The drug was administered to patients in their late 40s to early 80s. Tennessee’s S. Thomas Hospital, ground zero for the outbreak with a suspected 15 cases as of Wednesday with two in critical condition, reported having 2,000 vials of the stero…
In a recently unearthed edition of ESPN magazine, Lindsey Vonn displays her long legs in a very short and tight dress as she channels one of Sharon Stone’s sexiest character yet, Catherine Tramell, from the R rated film Basic Instinct. Baring a remarkable likeness to the actress, Lindsey Vonn, 28, dons the figure-hugging white polo neck dress, wears her blonde locks in a high updo and has s…
Google told to clean up auto-complete results in GermanyGoogle has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by…
Google Glass: Ten features and ways to use itGoogle has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer. 1. Google Glass responds to voice commandsGoogle Glass…
Samsung announces 5G mobile network technology developmentSamsung announces it has developed technology that could sit "at the core of 5G" - the successor to the 4G mobile-communications standard. The Korean company says its…
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere pass symbolic mark of 400 ppmCarbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark reaching its highest throughout human history, recent figures from a US monitoring station…
Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn perform emergency spacewalk to fix ammonia leakUS astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn are carrying out an emergency spacewalk to fix a leak of ammonia from the International Space Station's cooling system. Live…
Thermal invisibility cloak can hide objects from heatScientists have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat. Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and…
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