…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…
y her grave appeared covered by flower Police closed the cemetery gates shortly after 2:00 p.m., allowing passage only to those with loved ones inside. Whitney Houston, who died on February 11 at age 48, is buried near her father, John Russell Houston, Jr. Monday’s spectacle brought some substance to the fears voiced by Westfield residents leading up to the burial. They said they worried Fairview…
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…st a select few in New Jersey on Sunday. Whitney Houston was buried in a private ceremony at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, where her father, John Russell Houston Jr., was interred in 2003. A day after Whitney Houston was buried at Fairview Cemetery in New Jersey her grave appeared covered by flower …
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…om North Korea but called for trust-based dialogue The election race saw high turnout, with 75.8% of the electorate casting their ballots. With more than 99% of the vote counted, Park Geun-hye had won 51.6% of the vote to Moon Jae-in’s 48%. Economic issues including welfare spending, job creation and inequality had dominated campaigning, while the national security focus fell on North Korea….
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…
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and Azerbaijan have so far made no public comment on the case. Azerbaijan and Armenia, both former Soviet republics, fought a war over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in the early 1990s, which left some 30,000 people dead, and displaced hundreds of thousands. Armenia-backed authorities are currently controlling Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies within Azerbaijan. Despite a 1994 ceasefire, skirmishes cont…
One of the oldest Mayan tombs ever found has been uncovered in Retalhuleu province, western Guatemala, say archaeologists. Located at a temple site in Retalhuleu, the grave is thought to be that of an ancient ruler or religious leader who lived some 2,000 years ago. Carbon-dating indicated the tomb had been built between 700 and 400 BC, said government archaeologist Miguel Orrego. A rich array of…
…we’re going to have to do is to get out of some of the formulas and habits that have blocked progress for so long,” he said. “Both sides are going to have to think anew.” About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel dispu…
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ands.” Iran insists there is no military element to its programme but Western powers fear it is constructing nuclear weapons. Nuclear stockpiles in numbers • Russia: 10,000 • US: 8,500 • France: 300 • China: 240 • UK: 225 • Pakistan: 90-110 • India: 80-100 • Israel: 80 • North Korea: fewer than 10 Source: Federation of American Scientists …
…n said the ministers had “unanimously expressed grave concerns” about the use of chemical weapons. Syria has said it would never use such weapons against its own people. The meeting of the 28-member Western military alliance’s foreign ministers in Brussels follows a request from Turkey to boost its defences along the border. NATO has approved the deployment of Patriot anti-missi…
t up. Now listen, when a man is talking do not interrupt.” The singer also gave a wave during the interview, which has been misinterpreted by some in the Australian media as a Nazi salute. John Lydon, 57, spoke about Margaret Thatcher’s death when he arrived at Sydney’s domestic airport on Wednesday from Brisbane ahead of his band Public Image Limited’s performance in the city th…
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Venice Film Festival 2011 winners. Michael Fassbender won Best Actor trophy. Madonna: “I absolutely loathe hydrangeas”. Venice Film Festival press conference. Madonna’s movie, W.E. makes its world premiere out of competition tonight at the 68th edition of Venice Film Festival. Madonna‘s film tells the story of celebrated romance between Britain’s King Edward VIII and the twice di…
would be a “grave provocation” and Japan urged the North to “exercise restraint”. The move is seen as violating UN Security Council resolutions passed after a similar launch in 2009. Japan is particularly concerned as North Korea’s April 2009 rocket was launched over the country. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Osamu Fujimura, told a news conference on Friday t…
A body found in a shallow grave was identified as Alexis Rasmussen, the 16-year-old girl who mysteriously vanished in North Ogden, Utah, on September 10 whilst babysitting. Alexis Rasmussen went missing six weeks ago, on September 10 in the early hours of the morning. The decomposed remains found in a canyon at a rural site north of Salt Lake City on Tuesday have been identified as hers. A body…
Dan Wheldon’s funeral has taken place today in his adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida. Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner funeral service began at 10:00 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church in St Petersburg, and well-wishers lined surrounding streets as the procession passed by, en route to a private burial. Order of Service wrote on the front page “Lionheart Forever”, underneath a picture of…
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…eir mothers The article also provoked responses from religious and Pro-Life groups. Rev. Joanna Jepson came to public attention when she spoke out against a late abortion that had been carried out in 2001. Doctors are permitted to carry out abortions beyond the 24-week legal limit if they believe a baby’s disability is serious enough, but Rev. Joanna Jepson argued that a cleft palate was a…
…stolen by copper thieves. State officials plan to repair the statue. The theft is believed to be the first to state property stolen at the Lincoln Tomb Historic Site since the same sword was thieved 101 years ago, Dave Blanchette said. The original sword would have been bronze, which was used in all metal statues. Much of the bronze came from melted-down Civil War cannons. The stolen sword was t…
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Iranian rescue teams are searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors from two strong earthquakes which left at least 250 people dead. The 6.4 and 6.3 quakes struck near Tabriz and Ahar on Saturday afternoon, and more than 2,000 are believed injured, many in outlying villages. Thousands spent the night in emergency shelters or in the open and there have been more than 55 afte…
…utin. The US, UK and EU all criticized the sentences as “disproportionate”. Prosecutors had been seeking a three-year jail sentence for the women. Judge Marina Syrova said Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, had offended the feelings of Orthodox believers and shown a “complete lack of respect”. “Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina and…
…he denies. Ecuador’s president has suggested Julian Assange could co-operate with Sweden if assurances are given that there would be no extradition to a third country. Australian Julian Assange, 41 – whose WikiLeaks website has published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables embarrassing countries including the US – first walked into the embassy in Knightsbridge, asking for protecti…
…atic transfer of power in Georgia’s post-Soviet history. Bidzina Ivanishvili said the “only right decision” would now be for Mikheil Saakashvili to resign. While Bidzina Ivanishvili, 56, is set to become prime minister, his rival, who has led the country since 2003, is due to remain in power until presidential elections next year. Under agreed reforms, the parliament and prime mi…
Turkey has fired into Syria for a fourth day after a Syrian mortar landed near Turkish village Akcakale, reports say. Turkish troops responded immediately after the mortar landed near the village of Guvecci in Hatay province, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency. Turkey has been firing into Syria since Syrian mortar fire killed five Turkish civilians on Wednesday. It was the first time Turk…
…st-the-post constituencies. The other 77 out of 150 parliamentary seats in total are decided by the proportional, party list method. With 25% of the party list vote counted, Georgian Dream had secured 53%, while Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) had 41%. Mikheil Saakashvili had sought to portray the election as a choice between his Western-leaning government, and a future…
Richard III was given a low-key burial in the Franciscan friary of Greyfriars. This was demolished in the 1530s, but documents describing the burial site have survived. The excavation, which began on 25 August, has uncovered the remains of the cloisters and chapter house, as well as the church. Work focused on the choir area, in the centre of the church, where it was indicated Richard was interre…
Facebook promises to address complaints it was responsible for wiping email contacts in some users’ mobile phone address books, replacing them with @facebook.com listings. The social network blamed the deletion of users’ contacts on a software bug. The problem followed last week’s move to make Facebook’s own addresses visible by default on its website, hiding the ones orig…
