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220e06f72c9cb5e15c7e78a4be04523769c40084 | By . John Drayton . Olivier Giroud believes the French . national team have come a long way since their turbulent World Cup . campaign in 2010 and he wants to prove it in Brazil. France imploded in South Africa four . years ago, with the players boycotting training after Nicolas Anelka was . sent home for verbally abus... | French striker claims side have put past tournament collapses behind them .
Positive results have seen France fans and the national team reconcile .
France begin World Cup campaign against Honduras on June 15 . |
220f0ccdd9b58959e5dac6b8005a46cb5193e295 | WNBA star Brittney Griner felt fortunate to be 'OK' after getting cut on the elbow in a knife attack in China. Griner, 24, sustained a small cut when she was attacked by a man while boarding a bus after practice Monday in Shenyang. The man, who followed the players onto the bus, also stabbed one of Griner's teammates. ... | WNBA star Brittney Griner sustained a small cut as her team was boarding a bus after practice in a random attack .
The 24-year-old 6ft 8in player did not require stitches .
'Life can be took at any moment! Cherish every moment!' Griner wrote on Instagram after the incident .
An unidentified assailant left the scene, th... |
220faddb617a97e471c9c5ceb65d1318c0562f16 | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 17:45 EST, 3 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 18:04 EST, 3 February 2014 . Google must move its mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order, a state official said Monday. The notice came after the San ... | Google is being forced to move a barge it has on a construction site in the middle of the San Francisco Bay .
San Francisco Bay authorities say the company does not have the correct permits .
Google can resolve the issue by moving .
the barge to one of the permitted construction facilities bay .
Google has been tight-l... |
220febc6a7c79de3841a863002bc1692d5911049 | By . Sophie Borland . PUBLISHED: . 19:03 EST, 21 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:20 EST, 22 November 2012 . Lauren Hughes, pictured, died three days after being admitted to hospital with an asthma attack . Nurses who didn’t know how to give the kiss of life went into a panic when a child was admitted to hospital with... | The Patients Association report discloses how some doctors are 'acting like God' by telling relatives they will not try and resuscitate their loved ones .
Other distraught family members have spoken of lack of compassion amongst staff who don’t care if patients 'lived or die' |
22103b8758e0903af908e1fb28287c0d99c07751 | (CNN) -- Security forces arrested eight members of a group linked to al Qaeda on Friday in a Spanish enclave in North Africa, authorities said. "We have broken up a network responsible for sending combatants to al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups operating in Syria," the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ... | Group was sending fighters to Syria, authorities say .
Suspects were rounded up in raids early Friday . |
2211c6e4bfbacf3215f06c63fbb1b3eb5f852729 | So Eva Mendes was pregnant after all. On Friday, the actress and partner Ryan Gosling welcomed a baby girl into the world, according to Us Weekly. The couple had kept the gestation under wraps, even though rumors of it had been percolating through magazines and the tabloid press since July. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes:... | Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling reportedly had a baby girl on Friday .
The two have been very quiet about her pregnancy .
Other celebrities prefer to keep their private lives private. |
22122f5cd763a7ce54b952857829d0da770657a2 | It seems that almost everyday there's a new advertisement for the last must-have piece of technology. But IKEA just one-upped the competition with the announcement of their 2015 catalogue aka 'bookbook' - a play on Apple's MacBook. This parody video is particularly timely as Apple gears up to launch the new iPhone with... | IKEA 2015 catalogue ad campaign is parody of Apple's MacBook ads .
Hilarious advert describes catalogue as latest must-have technology .
Adopts the phrase 'bookbook' in attempt to make light of hyperbolic ads . |
2212322a61cf0dfd29040e2f5875bfa29d2c92ba | Apple's iPhone can already provide a soundtrack during your daily commute and distract you with a book, movie or game, but now the tech giant wants to make it easier for you to get where you're going. A US patent application submitted by Apple shows that the California-based company has been developing a new 'Commute A... | US patent application shows Apple is developing a Commute Assistant .
The new service will help Apple compete with Google Maps which already provide information about public transport and can plan journeys .
Apple has recently acquired several companies that make travel apps .
App will even help commuters plan journeys... |
2212b301aa2d158981ac7137ff587131352eb959 | (CNN) -- Last week Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone's encryption only protected a small amount of the data, and Apple had the ability to bypass security on the rest of it. From now on, all the phone's data is protected. It can no longer be a... | Schneier: Apple closed serious security vulnerability in the iPhone, enabling wide encryption .
He says law enforcement overreacted in saying it is a major form of protection for criminals .
Law enforcement always complains about encryption but is little stymied by it, he says .
Schneier: The benefits in protecting pri... |
221310dba06730c1936bc2f1b87ed28d787e7c8d | LONDON, England (CNN) -- The creators are billing it as one of the coolest hostels in the world and it's undoubtedly one of the most novel overnight stays you are ever likely to experience. Welcome to the Jumbo Hostel -- an old Boeing 747 which is being converted into a 25-room hostel at the Stockholm-Arlanda airport. ... | Swedish entrepreneur to open a Jumbo Hostel at Arlanda airport in Sweden .
Decommissioned Boeing 747-200 currently being renovated into a 25 room hostel .
Jumbo Hostel will cost €110 per room per night or €500 for the cockpit suite . |
221446fbd10e6b1133048f514493de6a9c97cf49 | (CNN) -- Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether a form of caffeine sold in lipstick-shaped containers is safe for consumers. The inventor touts AeroShot as caffeine without the coffee, soda, tea or a pill, but a U.S. lawmaker questions whether it's safe. The product comes in a lipstick-shape... | Inventor touts AeroShot as caffeine without the coffee, soda or tea .
But New York Sen. Charles Schumer says he has some concerns .
"This product could be very dangerous," he says .
The product comes in a dispenser that puffs out a powdery mixture of caffeine and B vitamins into your mouth . |
221632372440e19343ada1d75ca58ece9912b969 | By . Luke Salkeld . PUBLISHED: . 10:33 EST, 3 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:14 EST, 3 December 2013 . A woman whose family was wiped out in a car crash said 'I lost my everybody' in the collision. Elber Twomey was the only survivor after the crash which took the lives of her husband, their son and their unborn chil... | Elber Twomey was 24 weeks pregnant when the crash wiped out her family .
The mother was on holiday from her native Cork when their car was hit .
Her son Oisin died at the scene while her husband Con died 10 months later from a brain injury suffered in the crash .
Suicidal driver Marek Wojiechowski also died in the coll... |
22168a298eb5b5b72e5b621e94228a11275f70b4 | A Brazilian man died after a cow crashed through the roof of his home and landed on top of him as he lay sleeping in his bed. Joao Maria de Souza, 45, had been in bed with his wife Leni when the animal suddenly fell through the ceiling of their home in Caratinga, south east Brazil. The cow is believed to have escaped f... | Brazilian Joao Maria de Souza, 45, died from internal bleeding as he was waiting for treatment .
Bizarre incident happened when cow escaped from nearby farm . |
2216c5a5cd0e501ad1c7fc9eafc3794228bc8068 | By . John Breslin . PUBLISHED: . 23:41 EST, 18 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 23:52 EST, 18 September 2012 . Missing: Christine Marie Tessier disappeared from a San Antonio motel in 2005 and has never been seen again . Convicted child murderer Jack McCullough hid a dark family secret while awaiting trial for the abduc... | Jack McCullough was convicted last week of the murder and abduction of Ridulph, age 7, in Illinois .
His daughter Christine Marier Tessier, 34, is missing and it is not known whether she is alive or dead .
She was last seen with her boyfriend in a motel in San Antonio, Texas . |
2216d40484e8f45fa21bb91dd47399c3854ed5b3 | By . Jonathan O'Callaghan . Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed what they believe to be a skull 8,000 years old that could contain the oldest remnants of a human brain. The discovery was made at a dig site in Stokke, southwest of Oslo. Initial findings suggest the skull belonged to a child no older than ten years o... | Archaeological dig near Oslo, Norway may have found an ancient brain .
The suspected organic matter is thought to originate from about 6,000 BC .
Researchers think the 'brain' belonged to a child no older than ten .
An adult in a fetal position and deer antlers were also found in the grave .
'This is definitely an arch... |
2216f48889e9387f25a808d7e07ee08301f2615f | By . Ryan Gorman . Police have arrested two teenagers in the savage beating of 54-year-old . white man left in a coma after he got out of his car to check on a young black boy he accidentally hit. The two suspects, aged 16 and 17, were arrested in connection with the attack last week of beloved grandfather Steve Utash,... | Steve .
Utash, 54, accidentally hit David Harris, a 10-year-old black boy, with his truck when he darted out into the busy street .
Utash stopped to make sure the boy was okay and was instead savagely beaten by as many as 12 people, said police .
Authorities have arrested two teenagers and expect more arrests to come .... |
2217f6da961bafe4ed422c1b74283d91e0574733 | A church has become an internet sensation after hundreds of people have flocked to see the face of a chicken within its walls. With its large round windows resembling two eyes and roof tiles appearing as a beak, the so-called 'chicken church' is attracting an expanding fan club online. The congregation at the Church by... | The Church by the Sea in Tampa Bay, Florida, has gained an online fan club .
Congregation said people regularly stop to get snaps of the Chicken Church . |
221a0830ecb41b10b0bc3b7d28352c2e43cd6aa8 | By . Richard Spillett . Watford player Alexander Merkel had to fight off a four-strong gang of robbers at his home . A top footballer was attacked by a gang of robbers on mopeds who battered their way into his home and stole a bag from him. German international Alexander Merkel, 22, has been renting a house in Hampstea... | Raiders targeted the north London home of Watford star Alexander Merkel .
The gang tried to knock down front door of Hampstead home with mopeds .
He opened the door and struggled with the men, who made off with bag .
Believed to be second similar raid in upmarket area of capital in hours .
Friend says Merkel, 22, is ok... |
221acd9d0718583f01392ac49c22508ad2989a7e | Modeling agency founder Eileen Ford, who shaped a generation's standards of beauty as she built an empire and launched the careers of Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Jane Fonda and countless others, has died. She was 92 and died Wednesday, according to Arielle Baran, a spokeswoman for Derris & Co., which handles public ... | Her discipline pushed Ford Model Agency to the top of its field, making multimillionaires of both Mrs Ford and her late husband . |
221bee3a7ef8c1670c5ee6d3c6005ede4d8ef372 | As the father of tennis champs Venus and Serena Williams, Richard Williams is a controversial figure who has earned a reputation as someone willing to question the sport’s establishment. His unorthodox methods were undoubtedly instrumental in helping turn his daughters into two of the biggest names in the women’s game,... | Richard Williams has written about his upbringing in abject poverty in Shreveport, Louisiana .
He was raised as one of six by a single mom after his father left them and says that the experience has defined his life .
As a boy he provided for his family by hunting, growing fruit and veg and stealing from white folks .
... |
221c29704ab315450cfad1b77a44437e52403c89 | Sportswear giant and Olympic sponsor adidas is facing an investigation after revelations that their official merchandise for the London Games is being made by Cambodian garment workers who are paid just £10 a week in basic wages. Adidas is believed to have invested £100 million in the Games and is one of the event's la... | Six-day weeks earn workers in factory of sportswear giant Adidas just £40 a month as a basic rate .
That rate is below the national minimum wage and a fraction of the recommended living wage for a family .
London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games vows to investigate following the revelations . |
221c946d29f50606c6872f2178b99c102947dd28 | By . Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 06:55 EST, 7 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 17:27 EST, 7 November 2012 . Four years ago, when Barack Obama was a presidential candidate on the verge of creating history, his young family were often seen by his side on the campaign trail. But this time around - after four difficult years... | Malia, 14, and 11-year-old Sasha joined Obama on stage following Election Night victory speech after being kept out of the public eye during grueling campaign .
Stark contrast to Republican opponent Mitt Romney who was surrounded by his children and grandchildren on the campaign trail .
By the end of President's second... |
221ca770747e4121a0fbb0b404b4143a50872298 | By . Rob Cooper . PUBLISHED: . 05:30 EST, 19 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:29 EST, 19 July 2013 . A 15-year-old boy is believed to have drowned in a river while a woman died after being pulled from the sea as the heatwave water death toll rose to 15. The teenager was airlifted to hospital after being rescued from the w... | Teenager drowned at a country park in Limavady, County Londonderry .
Boy died after heatwave killed four people on Tuesday .
Four-week-old baby admitted to hospital with severe sunburn .
Fears death toll will rise as the heatwave is set to last another week .
Up to 760 people have died as a result of the heatwave, expe... |
221cc75e1f7c75f83883a4fbc5a7d9591d469ad3 | By . Toby Harnden . PUBLISHED: . 18:09 EST, 12 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 18:09 EST, 12 July 2012 . The Romney campaign has accused Barack Obama of being a serial liar and the President’s aides hit back by suggesting the Republican candidate might have committed a felony as the 2012 election reached new heights of ranc... | President has hit out at Romney's record as boss of Bain Capital .
GOP candidate accuses Obama of 'lies and exaggerations' in campaign ads .
But Democrat's campaign suggests Romney could have committed felony by misleading SEC about his role at Bain . |
221d474ab6264dff70a84b2433a5803009e28a74 | By . Hannah Ellis-petersen . PUBLISHED: . 16:22 EST, 18 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:40 EST, 18 May 2013 . It is the bizarre fashion trend championed by everyone from Cheryl Cole to Nick Clegg. Now it seems the onesie has become a must-have item in the equine world as well. Customers in Britain and abroad have been cho... | Horses can now join in the onesie trend for the princely sum of £169.99 .
Famous human wearers include One Direction and Holly Willoughby . |
221dd18016613809fe71c9f69a7e53f1e0defe06 | (CNN) -- An Army social worker who was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan in 2009 told a military court Monday that she thought the shooting at Fort Hood was a training exercise. She comforted a soldier who later died, she said. Capt. Dorothy Ellen Carskadon was in the Soldier Readiness Processing Center for a final ch... | An Army social worker, shot 4 times, thought the Fort Hood shooting was an exercise .
She comforted a soldier who later died, she said at Maj. Nidal Hasan's court-martial .
A nurse said she saw a man shot to death in front of her as she hid from the gunman . |
221e2fe497d2db4b8847a2cfe491b9b2360c1ed0 | Older women are fuelling a middle-age travel boom, using their landmark 50th birthdays as a reason to head off the beaten track for adventurous holidays in exotic locations, a survey has found. Many are ditching lazy beach holidays and relaxing cruises in favour of treks to far flung destinations - and they are increa... | Women now feel 'more daring' about travel in their forties and fifties .
Ditching beach holidays and cruises for something more adventurous .
South East Asia, East Africa and South America are popular destinations . |
221e600e1eb379a635752ffe0edae441907ab310 | A vehicle dashcam has captured the frightening moment a driver has spun out of control at high speed, after being clipped by a truck changing lanes. The footage shows a motorist driving along the M1 highway at Gosford on the NSW Central Coast when suddenly a car is hurled sideways and spins across three lanes, in front... | A vehicle dashcam has captured the moment a driver spins out of control on the M1 highway in NSW after being clipped by a truck .
The dashcam also captured the expression of the driver, who appears frightened and alarmed .
The incident which was posted to Facebook has received mixed reactions as to who was at fault . |
221f2d979205e08e5bf59e24846ea8b7ec7bb4a1 | A schoolboy hanged himself after he was falsely branded a rapist by fellow pupils after pulling out of a playground drug dealing racket, an inquest heard. Tom Acton, 16, claimed that he was bullied into taking Ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine in between lessons – yet when his mother, Gaynor, went to see staff at the 1... | Tom Acton was falsely accused of having tied a girl to a tree and sexually assaulted her .
The 16-year-old, of Cheshire, began self-harming and carved the word 'rapist' into his leg .
Mother blames school for not trying to stop drug dealing .
Father said Tom had become 'prisoner in his house' to avoid bullies .
At Macc... |
2220ad6258c01d47836ce24a0ee9bb20d7576e38 | Dappy appeared before a judge at St Albans Crown Court after breaching his probation order . A judge has ordered N-Dubz rapper Dappy to behave but said he will not go back to jail - despite breaching his sentence for punching a nightclubber. The 27-year-old, whose real name is Costadinos Contostavlos, arrived at St Alb... | Dappy was ordered before a court after he missed a probation appointment .
He had been serving a suspended jail sentence for punching a clubber .
Judge John Plumstead told 27-year-old rapper to 'shape up and behave'
Dappy admitted the breach and was fined £1,000 at St Albans Crown Court .
Leaving court after the eight-... |
2220e3e1be32076d84b25d3b5a764c3e05a2928c | As menus go, it sounds more like a gruesome task from I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! than something you would choose to eat. But bugs of all types including grasshoppers and worms will be served at Britain's first insect restaurant when it opens this summer. Grub Kitchen in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South W... | Grub Kitchen will be Britain's first insect restaurant when it opens this year .
Bugs of all types including grasshoppers and worms will be served .
Head chef Andrew Holcroft wants to pioneer the movement in the UK .
The restaurant will also be serving up bug burgers and lamb kebabs . |
2220fcd6b4abdc9466d943daef467bc8db9ea74b | By . Alex Gore . PUBLISHED: . 11:33 EST, 28 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:49 EST, 28 February 2013 . Millions of matchsticks have been pieced together with painstaking precision by a craftsman who has devoted years of his life to creating models of iconic buildings. Pat Acton has dedicated thousands of hours to his... | Pat Acton has been crafting models with painstaking precision since 1977 .
He used 478,000 matches for the Capitol building and 602,000 for Hogwarts .
The careers counsellor hand-crafts models at his home workshop in Iowa .
Mr Acton proudly shows off his creation in a museum at his family home . |
222123e407327427a5147a6adf529b85b1bc226b | By . Emma Glanfield . A huge spillage of mash potato brought a major road to a standstill as emergency services desperately tried to clear up the unusual incident. Motorists were urged to avoid the A64 near Malton, North Yorkshire, after it was left covered in food when a lorry accidentally shed its load. The lorry dro... | Mash potato strewn across road after lorry accidentally spills cargo on A64 .
North Yorkshire road closed for hours as emergency services try to clear it .
One witness said: 'It was like a sea of white. It was a big disturbance' |
2221c7191bcac385eb6b7cfdf72c60ed5284db9a | Two Secret Service agents on President Obama's detail has been reprimanded after trying to force himself into a woman's hotel room to collect a bullet that he had left there after meeting her hours before in the hotel bar. Ignacio Zamora Jr., who works as a senior supervisor in charge of more than 20 agents, was invest... | Secret Service supervisor Ignacio Zamora Jr has been removed from the President's detail following an altercation at the Hay-Adams Hotel in DC .
He met a woman at the bar when he was off duty and went back to her hotel room and emptied the bullets from his gun while inside .
When he left, he realized that he left a bul... |
2222116999be88334df2cef543ba49e7b89d15a7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:29 EST, 26 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:06 EST, 26 November 2012 . A benefits cheat caught hula dancing on holiday after claiming to be wheelchair bound must pay more than £300,000 or face a longer prison sentence. Abdul Esfandmozd, 52, will have at least five years adde... | Abdul Esfandmozd exposed after holiday photos showed him in grass skirt .
Despite claiming £100,000 he was lifting a woman and diving into the pool .
The 52-year-old stole money supposed to fund carers he called 'D.Duck'
But he still insisted on wheeling himself into court in chair he didn't need . |
2222b82329fa7328b0b97b5667e2e2be01cde33c | (CNN) -- Even the Pope was one of Eli Wallach's biggest fans. So said the cheeky chameleon of an actor when he received an honorary Oscar in 2010 and remarked that the pontiff -- he didn't say which one -- wrote him a fan letter extolling his performance as the bandito Calvera in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960). This st... | Carrie Rickey: The late charactor actor Eli Wallach told a story that the Pope sent him a fan letter .
She says Wallach was great at playing bad guys and was often cast as an "American ethnic"
He acted with big names in film -- Eastwood, Gable, Stiller -- but his love was theater .
Rickey: He worked well into his 90s; ... |
22231b3bbe562ab0a62457446120f5585fbc9cc3 | A young boy with psychiatric problems is locked in a cage every day to stop him destroying things and beating up his sister while his father goes out to work. Xiao Wang, 12 years old, was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Cortical Dysplasia - a congenital abnormality which causes seizur... | Xiao Wang, 12 years old, has been diagnosed with psychiatric problems .
Began being violent to other children and destroying neighbours' property .
Father Zhong Kefu began locking him in a metal cage to protect others .
Mr Zhong says he has to work to earn money for his son's treatment .
'I can't bear to treat him thi... |
222380fd4a930689f634cddbbe679315333dd17e | By . Ian Drury . Thieves, burglars and violent thugs will be free to work in schools, hospitals and care homes after a ruling by judges. The Supreme Court said thousands of criminals should be allowed to wipe their record clean so they are not haunted forever by past offences. The change means people will not be forced... | Man complained after being forced to reveal cautions to new employers .
Identified only as 'T', he said forced disclosure breached his human rights .
Supreme Court ruled in his favour, backing previous Appeal Court ruling .
Employers now cannot ask about certain minor or old convictions . |
22246a88399418abb71857af10a0b1734fdeb0a6 | A homeless man in Kansas City, Missouri has received more than he could ever have imagined after he returned a diamond engagement ring to its rightful owner last month. Sarah Darling and her husband were so taken with Billy Ray Harris' act of kindness that they set-up an online fundraising page on giveforward.com which... | Billy Ray Harris kept the ring safe for the woman who had mistaken dropped it into his collection cup .
Sarah Darling and her husband setup a fundraising page for Harris which has so far raised more than $175,000 .
The publicity surrounding Harris' good deed has also enabled his sister to reconnect with him after 16 ye... |
22254e19fe239309d05dad90557ee71b33fcf922 | Tucked behind picture frames, inside bedside bibles and on top of toilet cisterns - one traveller is letting hoteliers know exactly what he thinks of their establishments. Self professed 'comedian and hotel graffiti artist' David Bussell has spent seven years leaving his mark on rooms on his travels across the country... | David Bussell is a self professed 'comedian and hotel graffiti artist'
Notes are behind picture frames, inside bibles and on top of toilet cisterns .
But 37-year-old Londoner insists he has never had a complaint from a hotel . |
22261fc22b0eccb1e9016b93d1b08547f4b07555 | (CNN) -- As President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney crisscrossed the country during the final week of the 2012 presidential campaign, few people were able to see the candidates in their most candid and unguarded moments, except for their personal photographers. Several weeks ago, CNN invited each campaign te... | CNN asked each campaign to submit photos from the final week before Election Day .
Pete Souza is President Barack Obama's Chief Official White House photographer and was a White House photographer during Ronald Reagan's second term .
Many of these photographs are exclusive to CNN . |
22286db3897cf924e1e6bfc61e82954b7dcb9359 | By . David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor . The Obamas' three day trip to Ireland last June cost the taxpayer more than $7.6million, it was revealed today. Michelle Obama spent more than $251,000 of taxpayers' money on a sightseeing jaunt to Dublin, Ireland while the first family was the official trip to Belfast, Nort... | Michelle Obama and her daughters stayed in the 'Princess Grace' presidential suite at one of Dublin's fanciest hotels .
The $3,300-per-night mini-palace includes butler service, two bedrooms and two bathrooms .
Her side trip during the Belfast G-8 meeting was billed as an official visit but she saw Riverdance, gawked a... |
2228edf68a1b9c700de578a95cccdcae5340e7d5 | (CNN) -- Yet again, politics and race got mixed up together today, and this time with an added bonus -- adoption. In a segment on her MSNBC show, host Melissa Harris-Perry highlighted Mitt Romney's family photo, in which the former GOP presidential candidate held his newly adopted African-American grandson on his knee.... | April Dinwoodie: MSNBC panel's flip jokes about Mitt Romney's grandchild were thoughtless .
She is a transracial adoptee and says such adoptions have scant guidance or support .
She says MSNBC jokes hurt and don't help adoptees already facing identity issues .
Dinwoodie: Transracial adoptive families need preparation a... |
222a7b205f2427a7a038545d346718e2d73a46f5 | (CNN) -- News stories saying authorities thwarted a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are not true, the Mexican secretary of the navy said Tuesday. At least two Mexican media outlets published a supposed internal report on the plot that had been leaked to the media. But the navy said the report is "fake." In a st... | NEW: A source at the U.S. State Department says a Somali citizen was arrested in 2010 and released .
Two Mexican media outlets publish a supposed report on a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy .
The report alleges an arrest in June 2010 broke up the plot .
The Mexican secretary of the navy says the report is a fake . |
222bcd3fe2fa3b306c738fc384c3dd9827c97eaf | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 19:55 EST, 21 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:49 EST, 22 February 2013 . Pub regulars have celebrated saving their beloved local from being turned into a Tesco after a 16 month campaign. The retail giant planned a new Tesco Express store on the site of the Victoria and Albert pub i... | The retail giant planned a new Tesco Express store on the site of the Victoria and Albert pub in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland .
But planners and villagers waged a bitter battle against the grocery chain's plans to extend and convert the pub .
There have been with more than 200 conversions of pubs to supermarket chain... |
222ced63ba7ef698bbe64de6d1f2e6c324ef64a5 | Former Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung was unveiled as a club ambassador at Old Trafford on Sunday, and was joined by his former manager Sir Alex Ferguson. The pair were interviewed on the pitch before United's match against Everton, and Ferguson spoke about Park's time at the club and the influence he had in... | Park Ji-sung has been made a Manchester United club ambassador .
The other ambassadors are Sir Bobby Charlton, Andrew Cole, Sir Alex Ferguson, Denis Law and Bryan Robson .
Park was welcomed back at Old Trafford, with former boss Sir Alex Ferguson, before the home match with Everton on Sunday .
The South Korean's role w... |
222d3d3fb831912710ef046a422f3bf7785dfc51 | By . Lydia Warren for MailOnline . A baby delivered by emergency cesarean section after his mother suffered a brain hemorrhage just six months into her pregnancy is preparing to head home after more than a month in hospital. Brayden Ellison weighed just 3 pounds 6 ounces when he was delivered in Tarzana, California on ... | Kayla Katler, 21, was six months pregnant when doctors discovered she had a blood clot and she suffered a deadly seizure .
Her son Brayden was born by emergency C-section and survived .
After six weeks, he is healthy enough to go home with dad, Derek Ellison .
He said he has been overwhelmed by support from strangers a... |
222dc8852f35d1a434c8815ac5d5a06ac9661cba | By . Daily Mail Reporter . If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that the modern family is falling apart. The majority of Americans believe families today are weaker compared to when they were kids, according to a new poll conducted by CBS. Sixty-four per cent said the American family is weaker today ... | Most Americans believe families today are weaker than when they were kids, according to a new poll .
The Baby Boomer generation was the most passionate about the issue, with just 7 per cent saying the American family is stronger . |
222e3f45c15432c2d2b1a23e90ab81aa0913bd80 | By . Martin Beckford . and Robert Verkaik . MPs are demanding answers after Kenyan officials claimed MI5 were behind a decision not to lock up Michael Adebolajo for terrorism offences . The Security Services are facing demands from MPs to answer ‘deeply troubling’ claims that they left one of Lee Rigby’s murderers free... | Michael Adebolajo is serving life for killing Lee Rigby in Woolwich .
Intelligence Select Committee is investigating the soldier's murder .
MPs have demanded more information on the role of MI5 .
Kenyan officials claim agency stopped them from jailing Adebolajo .
It has even been suggested that Adebolajo was an informa... |
22308de8884af1888535834a5cb6ad6f9dfc6456 | A couple accused of trying to extort money from missing Madeleine McCann's parents have been arrested at a hideaway in Portugal. Italian Danilo Chemello and his Portuguese girlfriend Aurora Pereira Vaz hit the headlines in 2007 after being seized in southern Spain over the alleged bid to get their hands on a £2.5 milli... | Danilo Chemello and girlfriend Aurora Peperia Vaz arrested in Portugal .
Allegedly attempted to claim £2.5m reward for info on Maddie McCann .
Couple were arrested on the same charges in 2007 but released . |
22309e8e3d17f31642c641010ea9aef413ea5594 | By . James Tozer . PUBLISHED: . 09:26 EST, 19 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:01 EST, 19 November 2013 . One of the country’s most distinctive Morris dancing troupes is proud of its efforts to preserve an English tradition going back at least a century and a half. Now it fears its days are numbered after council bure... | The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers face being banned from annual parade .
Lancashire County Council instruct dancers to keep routine off the road .
Over 800 people attended the Easter Saturday festival this year .
Undercover officials compiled dossier after posing as spectators at last year's event . |
2230ac9ae3e7f6448c845b2268509049adb262d8 | (CNN) -- It could be the worst mass poisoning in history. And the terrible irony is that it may all be due to an idealistic push to clean up drinking water for some of the world's poorest people. A new study published in British medical journal The Lancet says that up to 77 million people in Bangladesh are being expose... | Contamination taking years off lives of up to 77 million in Bangladesh .
WHO calls its "largest mass poisoning of a population in history"
Well-meaning groups had encouraged villagers to dig wells .
Arsenic found in abundance in rock and soil in the country . |
22316809c07349afd48bbde4dc4d10ae5b11483e | By . Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 08:21 EST, 9 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:12 EST, 9 August 2013 . A judge has called the Crown Prosecution Service 'crackers' for pursuing a £7.49 criminal damage claim against a retired Army captain. Timothy Hallam, 55, who is said to have sawn the top off a wooden fence post in a... | Timothy Hallam, 55, of Thurgoland, S Yorks, is accused of criminal damage .
He cut top off wooden fence post erected by neighbour in long-running row .
Mr Hallam's neighbours Alan and Carol Smith filmed the incident on CCTV .
District judge John Foster says CPS out of touch to pursue trial over issue .
Mr Hallam says p... |
22316b87f38deac4e1ef2c5820832b311f5dc188 | (CNN) -- The prospect of a winter World Cup in 2022 looks set to become a reality after Europe's football associations voted against holding the tournament in the Qatari summer. All 54 member associations of UEFA, Europe's governing body, backed the decision at the meeting in Croatia Thursday. "They all agreed that thi... | UEFA backs plan to move 2022 Qatar World Cup to winter .
FIFA will hold vote next month in Zurich to decide on outcome .
UEFA president Michel Platini has suggested a January or February time frame .
Australia wants compensation for switch from winter to summer . |
2232b77a39e83583a4191da8173cdc49d228fc31 | (CNN) -- When tens of thousands hit the streets to decry an authoritarian regime -- calling for its overthrow, trying to overrun police, setting fires -- one might expect the arrival of army tanks would be met with fear, consternation and violence. But not in Egypt. The warm embrace that demonstrators gave troops this ... | Protesters have embraced Egyptian troops since they were deployed on the streets .
This is in sharp contrast toward how they've approached the much reviled national police .
The military is well represented in Mubarak's government .
An expert says the military must decide how to keep order without antagonizing the publ... |
2232f51ff833621be79eec8d4f19572b1527180a | They have described themselves as the 'Spice Girls' of their day - the 'lily white' Maids of Honour chosen to accompany the Queen on her Coronation Day. Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Anne Coke, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton, Lady Moyra Hamilton and Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willo... | Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill and Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart .
Lady Anne Coke, Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton and Lady Moyra Hamilton .
Lady Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby .
The six women describe the Coronation in 1953 as joyfully chaotic . |
2233c35465a8bbb005a5ec9e9032be877e290e36 | Oakland Township, Michigan (CNN) -- The FBI on Tuesday spent a second day digging in a Detroit-area field in the latest search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa -- an effort spurred by information from an aging reputed mobster. Agents began digging Monday in waist-high grass in Oakland Township north... | NEW: Alleged mobster who tipped off police says he hopes his "good friend" is exhumed .
Search has ended for the night, will resume Wednesday morning .
Concrete slabs are removed during the dig, a source says .
Hoffa, then 62, was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside a Detroit-area restaurant . |
2233fbe6c502b85287b9fed4648ddbb14b64de26 | Expensive drink: The Warren Cup was bought by British Museum trustees 15 years ago for £1.8million . One of the most treasured exhibits at the British Museum has been denounced as a fake by a German archaeologist. The Warren Cup – a silver Roman drinking vessel – was picked by the museum’s director Neil MacGregor for ... | The Warren Cup was bought by British Museum trustees for £1.8m .
Now archeologist claims the cup is not Roman, but 20th century . |
223479a37d0da12a17df41728b50e3cd2452e228 | By . Helen Lawson . PUBLISHED: . 07:25 EST, 3 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:56 EST, 3 June 2013 . Ben & Jerry's, owned by Unilever, plans for its products to be GM-free by 2014 . Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's is to stop using genetically modified ingredients in its products. The Vermont-based brand has promised to er... | The brand's ice cream is already sold GMO-free in the European Union .
Company says transition from old to new ingredients could last into 2014 . |
22353743e0223261523e4ea1d98a32fef413b409 | Model Joelle Hatem decided to share with her 58,000 Facebook fans that she was divorcing her husband - before changing her mind and deleting the post . US-born Lebanese model Joelle Hatem announced she was divorcing her husband to her fans on Facebook - only to retract it hours later after deciding she wanted to stay m... | Lebanese model Joelle Hatem, 36, announced her divorce on Facebook .
She is married to singer George Al Rassi and they recently had a baby .
She shared news of their split with her 58,000 fans on the social network .
But hours later she deleted post and told fans they are staying together . |
223598e19540aa47515c01e7a4c220a5ebc5a971 | Climate scientists have backed Britain’s shale gas revolution – saying it could help to slow global warming. The world’s leading experts on climate change say fracking will cut greenhouse gas emissions and should be made central to the country’s energy production. It will help the UK move away from ‘dirty’ coal and co... | World’s leading experts say fracking will cut greenhouse gas emissions .
UK should away from ‘dirty’ coal and contribute to saving the environment .
Unexpected endorsement will be a welcome boost to David Cameron .
Blow to green activists who are concerned about the effects of fracking . |
22363d9cebe5d453bfd9022947e465c68167e5b8 | A judge busted for sending a nearly nude picture of himself to a married court bailiff has defiantly admitted sexting the same snap to a string of other women. Wade McCree, a specialist in sex misconduct cases on Detroit's 3rd Circuit, nonchalantly batted away claims the seedy semi-naked shower pictures sent by mobile ... | Detroit 3rd Circuit judge Wade McCree 'sent snap out to other women'
Echoes of Anthony Weiner's fall from grace and Homeland spy-drama plot . |
223882acd41f06032235c4d2f485865c47b1c69d | (CNN Student News) -- March 1, 2011 . March is Women's History Month. The following discussion questions and learning activities can be used to help your students learn about the history and achievements of women in America. You may want to adapt each activity to accommodate your curriculum needs as well as the needs... | March is Women's History Month .
These questions and activities help students learn about the history and achievements of women in America .
These questions and activities can be adapted to accommodate students of different grade levels and learning styles . |
223882e688a07cbec6af9a0fb9390b0e11fa349e | By . Katie Nicholl, Mail On Sunday Royal Correspondent . She's done a remarkable job of overseeing her family’s rise up the social ladder – but these pictures might give Carole Middleton something to be a little anxious about. For they show that her son James, the Duchess of Cambridge’s younger brother, is still in a r... | He and TV presenter spent Christmas apart triggering rumours of a split .
But they were both spotted leaving his London office on Friday .
Friend of Donna said: 'They are as happy as ever and laughed at reports' |
2238d47d1d61dc78676f6fe8a926c82e41d75895 | With a single, vicious and unprovoked punch, a life is tragically ended. Andrew Young, 40, paid an appalling price for his good citizen act of challenging a cyclist who was riding on the pavement. The cyclist’s friend, a convicted robber, delivered the killer blow – yet could spend just two years behind bars. Mr Young... | Andrew Young, 40, died in hospital after he was punched by Lewis Gill .
Mr Young had become involved in an argument with Gill's friend .
CCTV footage shows Mr Young falling backwards and striking his head .
Gill pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for four-and-a-half years .
Mr Young's mother Pamela has descr... |
223a0a718fbe94210ed29907f1a7a462028d08b7 | By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 11:08 EST, 4 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:33 EST, 4 November 2012 . New York marathon organizers have blamed the media for the negative publicity that led to the race being cancelled in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. A letter from the New York Road Runners was sent to 47,000 runners ... | New York Road Runners sent letter to 47,000 disappointed participants .
Many competitors still raced on Sunday in unofficial shadow marathon .
One runner-volunteer said: 'If you're from the city, you can run anytime... and should be out helping your fellow New Yorkers' |
223d153981f896c27d22269ee01c5d0475dc8897 | By . Steve Hopkins . An angry schoolboy wrote to his mother’s killer to tell him he had ruined his life. David Wilder was jailed for life for murdering his former girlfriend Kerry Power in December 2013 . A court heard 10-year-old Olly Power sent the letter to David Wilder who choked his mother to death as he slept in ... | Olly Power told David Wilder that he had 'ruined my life and my family's life'
Wilder murdered Kerry Power after she ended their two year relationship .
The bus driver had a history of violence against women . |
223ec941d817e3cf0d09805cc0fb69bcf239b12f | (CNN) -- After the inquisition, the exhibition -- or an exhibition game at the very least. At the Stade de France in Paris, those who once ruled the world took their first steps towards redemption. Call it pigeon steps but this was more evolution rather than revolution. While a new generation of Spanish players may hav... | France defeats Spain 1-0 in Paris .
Loic Remy scores only goal of the game .
Italy defeats Netherlands 2-0 in Bari .
Zlatan Ibrahimovic becomes Sweden's record goalscorer . |
223f76c16de22d8f8defa1f8b5994c168cd4ac40 | Officials evicted several people from the opening match of the cricket World Cup at Hagley Oval on Saturday after they were suspected of being involved in illicit gambling. The people were all evicted for the practice known as 'courtsiding', New Zealand Police said in a statement. Courtsiding involves people at a game ... | New Zealand won the opening World Cup game against Sri Lanka .
But several people evicted for 'courtsiding', New Zealand Police said .
The people had been in breach of the ticketing regulations . |
22413d26465fe4d9b04ca180eb71d6aaf7a52b00 | (CNN) -- Greeted by streets packed with well-wishers, Barack Obama arrived in Myanmar on Monday for a historic visit that hopes to encourage the once repressive regime to continue with its "remarkable journey." The first sitting U.S. president to visit the country, Obama will urge its leaders, which have embarked on a ... | NEW: Obama arrives in Myanmar for historic trip .
NEW: Will encourage leaders to continue "remarkable journey"
The trip is billed as an effort to boost economic and political ties with Asia .
Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar, also known as Burma . |
22416c3967407376c9e0be7ee61f75ac13ca7084 | By . Emma Glanfield . For some it’s a hard trot life, but not for this 15-month-old micro pig who, with a diamante collar and selection of miniature t-shirts, could be Britain’s most spoiled porker. Dotty, who weighs two stone and is the same size as a small dog, sports a pink collar encrusted with diamantes spelling o... | 15-month-old micro pig is beloved pet of Kelly and Roger Dommett .
The black and white porker weighs two stone and is the size of a small dog .
Animal has become somewhat of a local celebrity in Pontypridd, South Wales . |
2241bc0584c9584c584d79a1a87e7a61f81ad3c4 | Flaunting her red-hot body in her one-piece bathing suit, Yasmine Bleeth was one of the hottest babes on Baywatch, the hugely popular TV show in the 90's also starring David Hasselhof and Pamela Anderson. The 46-year-old actress posed for a Got Milk? ad in 2010, but she's been out of the public eye for a decade, soon a... | The former Baywatch star made an appearance to cheer on her husband as he took the Penguin Plunge in the chilly Pacific on New Year's Day .
Yasmine hasn't been photographed out in public in a decade .
No one recognized the actress, who was fired from Baywatch because of drug use .
She checked herself into Promises reha... |
22420703092bbedf9c8f624c9dcb1cb21e261562 | The segregated water fountains and signs pointing African-Americans to the back entrances of movie theaters have long disappeared from the streets of the South. But in one small South Carolina city there still sits a war memorial that lists fallen World War I and II soldiers in two categories: 'white' and 'colored'. Gr... | Monument in Greenwood, South Carolina, lists fallen of both world wars .
Mayor Welborn Adams raised $15,000 in private donations to replace plaques on Martin Luther King Jr. Day .
State's Confederate flag law forbids historical monuments from being altered without two-thirds vote from lawmakers .
Historians argue chang... |
22421780bbad94ac2030635975bd440352040848 | (CNN) -- Looking for that perfect book that takes you from your reading chair to the high seas of adventure? Look no further than our list of some of the best sea stories of all time. Whether you want a classic tale of survival against the odds, or to be taken on a journey to find secret treasure, this list has got you... | We look at some of the best stories of the sea of all time .
The list features works from Hemingway and Melville .
Tell us what your favorite seas story is . |
22421a31826d3f9d58a3ccc6336fce67b48abe4c | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:01 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:18 EST, 8 December 2013 . When faced with a dead end, some motorists apparently just don't know when they are beaten. Instead of turning around and looking for another way across a raging river with no bridge nearby, a group of adven... | No bridge in sight so group of adventurous Russians hoist car onto wires to get across racing waters .
Vehicle hung by just four chords but made it to the other side in one piece . |
224240a3a6a575768585d556fb836f2ac6a06e93 | Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenya's president declared two days of national mourning Wednesday for Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, who died Monday after a battle with cancer. The announcement by President Mwai Kibaki also said a state funeral would be held for Maathai. No date was... | Kenya announces two days of mourning for Wangari Maathai .
A state funeral will be held for the environmental activist who died this week .
She was the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize . |
224417c36a1b775286fc5985fb9b1872024b305c | (CNN) -- What if everything you thought you knew about education was wrong? What if students learn more quickly on their own, working in teams, than in a classroom with a teacher? What if tests and discipline get in the way of the learning process rather than accelerate it? Those are the questions Sugata Mitra has been... | Education expert Sugata Mitra received $1 million TED Prize .
Mitra says his research shows the learning power of self-organized student teams .
He says instruction need not be top down and the role of teachers is shifting .
He hopes to use prize money to build a lab to test his ideas about learning . |
2244a269de367647df0d17c44d527753809b60c7 | New York (CNN) -- New York police arrested 50 protesters Saturday on what organizers from Occupy Wall Street were dubbing a day to "re-occupy," coinciding with the movement's three-month anniversary. Those arrested were charged with trespassing after they attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church in lower Manhat... | Those arrested attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church, NYPD spokesman says .
The arrests "may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides," police say .
Church rector says the lot is un-equipped for a winter encampment .
Occupy spokesman expresses disappointment with the church's position . |
224682b6529cd9f1eb10a2b38a6d67a48fd2a915 | (CNN) -- Actress Molly Glynn, who played an emergency room doctor on several "Chicago Fire" episodes, died from injuries after a tree fell on her during a storm, her husband said. Glynn, 46, was on a bike ride on a suburban Chicago trail with her husband, Joe Foust, when the accident happened, Foust said in a Facebook ... | Most of Molly Glynn's acting career was spent on the stages of Chicago .
"Molly got hit by a falling tree while we were biking," her husband said on Facebook .
"I couldn't save her. She's gone," he wrote Saturday . |
22474143156d6a7680d0d80e75952df056d65d05 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 03:35 EST, 20 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:50 EST, 25 October 2012 . A fireworks organiser has been charged with manslaughter over a crash on the M5 motorway described as one of the worst on British roads. Geoffrey Counsell, 50, from Somerset, will appear at Bristol Magistrat... | Geoffrey Counsell, 50, from Somerset, will appear at Bristol Magistrates Court next month accused of seven counts of manslaughter .
Counsell was operating fireworks display at Taunton Rugby Club at the time of the smash on the M5 last November .
Collision described as one of the worst British motorway crashes in memory... |
2248f83a74fa37a747983fb8fa5972ddbbbc685c | (CNN) -- California's vote on a controversial cigarette tax remained too close to call Wednesday morning, although votes counted so far suggest it was narrowly rejected. With all precincts reporting, the tally was 50.8% against the proposal and 49.2% in support of it, according to the California Secretary of State webs... | NEW: The vote is a "close contest," the California secretary of state's office says .
NEW: Counties have 28 days to count mail-in, provisional, and damaged ballots .
Votes from precincts were 50.8% against and 49.2% in support .
The law would add $1 to California's 87-cent tax on each pack of cigarettes . |
2249b25dd9aae74825dfb0af2ef889beac08d24b | The accusation has come after the alleged Jimmy Savile sex-abuse scandal . A British TV celebrity has been accused of sexually abusing a woman. An alleged victim has come forward after the ITV . documentary that claimed Jimmy Savile molested underage girls to tell producers that she was abused by a . well-known media f... | Woman has come forward to make claim after watching documentary about Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims . |
224aae51f718d7dff810aea1041c34935589bb8b | Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, have been put on today for alleged tax evasion. The investigation of the duo, who count pop star Madonna and model Naomi Campbell among their clients, is one of the most prominent tax cases involving celebrities in Italy. The designers, who deny any wrongdoing . and... | Designers strongly deny any wrong-doing over tax evasion charges .
Duo did not appear in court to defend claims they set up holding company abroad to avoid Italy's high tax rates .
One of many high-profile cases as Italy stamps down on tax dodgers . |
224b0810c4d8373c174b28933044b9f0276472a3 | (CNN) -- A mass grave unearthed Tuesday in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, is believed to contain bodies from an epidemic of yellow fever that swept the city in the 1870s, police said. Two buildings from the 1940s were torn down at the site, and maintenance workers grading the land in preparation for the construction of... | The mass grave was unearthed Tuesday in downtown Montgomery, Alabama .
Workers preparing land for construction of a new building uncovered the remains .
Historical records indicate bodies could be from yellow fever outbreak .
It was not immediately known how many bodies might be buried at the site . |
224e198b44269d16e40a73c49602204091d64a5f | (CNN) -- When people want to give back to their community, they typically pull out their checkbooks. Jayson Black decided to pull out his running shoes. The 28-year-old IT consultant pledged to run 26.2 miles a day for 26 days -- a total of 681.2 miles -- to raise money and awareness for the Three Square Food Bank of S... | Jayson Black, 28, ran a total of 681.2 miles to raise money for Three Square Food Bank .
He suffered a shin injury and a stress fracture during the challenge .
His goal is to raise awareness about hunger and motivate people to give back . |
224e484bf7abf20692bb8e53ee1ea3c2084f3968 | Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro initially rejected a colostomy procedure when he fell ill in 2006, putting his own life at risk, according to an unnamed medical source quoted by U.S. diplomats in cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables were made available by the Spanish newspaper El Pais Thursda... | The decision risked Castro's life, the cables say .
The cables were published by WikiLeaks .
A colostomy is sometimes recommended to treat diverticulitis . |
224eb179f79c0ca4859028c2edd427ba840b7c17 | The husband who shot himself dead at a shooting range after his model wife was pictured cozying up to Leonardo DiCaprio was 'devastated' when his marriage to the 'love of his life' fell apart, a friend has revealed. Katie . Cleary was pictured cuddling up to DiCaprio and Entourage star Adrian . Grenier last month in Ca... | Andrew Stern, 40, the entrepreneur husband of model Katie Cleary, 32, shot himself in the head at a shooting range on Sunday .
Friends claim that he spiraled into deep depression after suddenly stopping using hormone-replacement therapy to boost libido .
They call Cleary the 'love of his life' who sent him further into... |
224f28052766aba968e5ef9378b66dbd8823e941 | Two suspected burglars were arrested after DJ Sara Cox tweeted CCTV pictures allegedly showing them breaking into her brother's house. After two men were seen on artist Robert Cox's CCTV cameras outside his home on Thursday, his sister, the BBC Radio 2 DJ, asked her Twitter followers to help identify them. Within 24 ho... | DJ Sara Cox tweeted pictures of two men allegedly raiding brother's home .
More than 4,000 people retweeted her plea for help in tracking down men .
Ms Cox, 40, thanked her 'brilliant' followers after two men were arrested .
Brothers Barry and Gary Foulkes charged with burglary and in court today . |
224f39c33495ae8f555d88af8d532389a5dd2da1 | By . Alex Gore . PUBLISHED: . 09:32 EST, 25 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:14 EST, 25 March 2013 . Most people like to take a back seat . after retiring, but passionate pilot Gordon Jones is still climbing into . the cockpit having just celebrated his 90th birthday. The great grandfather is one of the world's oldest pi... | Great grandfather Gordon Jones first flew with Canadian Air Force in 1941 .
He bought a Tiger Moth in 1992 and realised he had flown it 10 times before .
The airport access road in his hometown is being renamed after him . |
224f7e08b4a7ffecba1a96da61cad2c9928d716c | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 22:34 EST, 25 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:50 EST, 26 December 2013 . The Ezell family are already looking forward to next Christmas, when Santa should only have to make one stop. Owen and Emmett were born in July joined from the chest to the belly button, with shared intest... | Owen and Emmett Ezell, from Dallas, Texas, shared a liver and intestines when they were born .
They underwent lengthy separation surgery in August and it was successful .
Boys have remained at Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, Texas and will for several more months .
Their parents, Jenni and David Ezell, pull... |
22506373ab9bbf99299a5044a72ac6e4022cd8ae | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 23:35 EST, 1 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:54 EST, 2 July 2013 . The Duchess of Cornwall has hosted a tea party for seriously ill children as part of a week long annual visit to Wales with Prince Charles. Camilla chatted with the youngsters - most of whom were battling life threateni... | Camilla met with youngsters who were battling life threatening illnesses .
The bash held at converted barn .
on royal couple's Llwynywermod estate .
Part of Prince Charles's week-long annual visit to Wales . |
22524b96f714e015ba7ef89dcc3a1034433ed784 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . The filming of a race scene in the latest Fast and Furious film was cancelled by studio bosses because it was too dangerous, it has been reported. The scene was reportedly due to feature a modified yellow Chevelle performing a wheelie while racing another car with cheering bystanders by the s... | Scene was reportedly due to feature yellow Chevelle performing wheelie while racing another car .
Studio bosses however cancelled shooting at track near Palmdale, California .
Bosses reportedly thought the scene was too dangerous . |
22526f69d58d4f7faed4b1400213e74bfb98e3b4 | (CNN)She looks every inch a Bond girl, reclining in the Caribbean shallows, the breakwater washing over her bronzed body as she runs her fingers through her long, lustrous tawny locks. Slim, toned with rock-hard abs, she has a physique that 007 himself would probably kill for. "It's important to accept your body for wh... | Alex Morgan is the star striker of the USWNT, scoring 50 goals for her country so far .
The 25-year-old has twice modeled for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition .
Morgan is proud of the body she has worked for and hopes to inspire confidence in younger girls . |
2252dabd3f0af5aaa7889ec2b169ccdbbadd8e4b | By . Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 12:37 EST, 24 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:55 EST, 24 February 2014 . An ancient British tumble dryer running for over three decades is still going strong. When Howard Lunn's old Creda model finally let him down he feared the worst in trying to get a replacement part for the relic. Ins... | Howard Lunn's sturdy appliance has been drying clothes since 1984 .
Recently it broke down but the manufacturer tracked down a spare part .
He said the British-built machine was 'definitely built to last' |
225441bb4dd046d67466717672f82e913ceb3ae5 | (CNN) -- Nearly 12 years after Congress debated and subsequently voted for American military action in Iraq, another debate over that Middle Eastern country is roiling Washington. This debate is not taking place on the floors of the House or Senate; it is taking place in the media. Members of Congress and even the form... | Sen. Dianne Feinstein said intelligence wasn't fully aware of the swift capabilities of ISIS.
Rep. Mike Rogers said intelligence isn't to blame, policy is.
Former VP Dick Cheney said Obama is "dead wrong" on Iraq .
Sen. Rand Paul blamed the Iraq War for creating chaos in the region . |
2256b7ae3afb791c6286fa19153e257c258ad19b | By . Mike Jaccarino . PUBLISHED: . 21:09 EST, 1 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 21:57 EST, 1 September 2012 . A military father has spoken of his fury at a video of his sergeant son being bludgeoned in the stomach by his superior officer as part of a bizarre hazing initiation. Ken Roach, from Michigan, even wrote to Ba... | Video shows newly-minted sergeant hazed by superior officer .
Distraught dad has fired off a letter to President Obama over incident . |
225736e3630013b20dcf0ea3c16d5a7c9e9a1abe | By . Aaron Sharp . PUBLISHED: . 12:51 EST, 20 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:35 EST, 20 September 2013 . An 11-year-old boy has been killed after the car he was travelling to school in was involved in a head on collision with a sports car. Flynn Morrissey was being taken to his new secondry school by his mother in ... | Flynn Morrissey was being driven to school when the collision happened .
His elder brother Dylan, 15, and mother survived .
Family say in statement: 'our beautiful boy has fallen asleep' |
22575277dba725115404758d79a9ce3cba895d68 | Weighing about the same as a three-year-old child and containing 12,000 calories this dinner could feed a whole family at Christmas... but is meant to be for just one person. The seven-kilogramme meal consists of a turkey crown filled with pork and orange stuffing, a whole chicken, whole duck, four Yorkshire puddings a... | Real 3-Bird Challenge served at The Black Bull, Wakefield, West Yorkshire .
Dinner weighs 7kg and has turkey, chicken and duck plus all the trimmings .
Disclaimer warns those with heart conditions about dangers of the meal . |
2258cb5afc7b74585f5b621e90abf367b25d7838 | Incheon, South Korea (CNN) -- The number of crew members charged is rising, and so is the anger that families feel. But there's one crew member they are leaving out: Park Jee Young, 22, who by witness accounts helped passengers escape and distributed life jackets -- one after the other to students -- as the stricken fe... | More crew members have been charged in the Sewol sinking incident .
But survivors tell of a young crew member who helped students get life jackets .
She refused one herself, witnesses tell South Korean media .
Students weep outside Danwon High School, where many remain missing . |
22595c54bcf59f808b6572e718878784d199ccf5 | By . Jenny Hope . PUBLISHED: . 09:47 EST, 16 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:17 EST, 17 October 2013 . Doctors should not blame patients for being fat, according to new NHS guidance. It urges GPs to be more sensitive when dealing with obese patients, using a ‘respectful’ and non-judgmental tone. The approach is design... | Health watchdog Nice has .
issued guidance to tackle soaring obesity levels .
Says medical staff must be 'respectful' and 'non-blaming' to obese patients .
Patients who feel bullied or stigmatised may suffer mental health problems .
Guidance also includes referring more obese people to weight loss classes . |
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