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- Freed Betancourt makes radio broadcast to jungle hostages
- PARIS AFP — Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sent a radio message Sunday to all hostages still in the grips of FARC rebels, as she recovered in Paris from her six-year ordeal, her sister said. Freed from Marxist rebels in Colombia's jungle Wednesday, Betancourt went on Colombian radio to tell...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- Son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando dies: reports
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Christian Brando, the tormented son of late Hollywood acting legend Marlon Brando, has died in Los Angeles from pneumonia, his family and lawyers told US media Saturday. He was 49. Brando, who made headlines in 1990 for shooting dead his sister Cheyenne's lover Dag Drollet,...
- Research articles 2008-01-26
- Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah head 'Secret Life of Bees'
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson has signed to star in a movie adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's acclaimed 2003 novel "The Secret Life of Bees," entertainment industry press reported Thursday. Hudson, who won an Oscar earlier this year for "Dreamgirls", will play the friend of the film's...
- Research articles 2007-12-20
- Cops: Pair pimped underage Pa. girls
- Two South Jersey pimps posted photos of "Lushes" and "Vanilla Treat" in full frontal nudity on craigslist on the Internet, advertising rates of up to $200 an hour.The problem was, "Lushes" was only 14, and her sister, "Vanilla Treat," 16.The web posting described Lushes as "like[s] to fulfill fantasys [sic]"...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- Life just fine, even without the hoopla
- Life isn't always fair, and for the latest example of that, how about all the free publicity the new IKEA super furniture store received when it recently opened in Draper. It wasn't that IKEA didn't deserve the front-page newspaper stories and the video clips on every TV station...
- Research articles 2007-06-08
- 79-year-old Polish fighter to see family for first time in 64 years
- LONDON AFP — A 79-year-old Polish man who moved to Britain during the final days of World War II is preparing to fly to Krakow to see his family for the first time in 64 years, media reported. Aleks Szustakiewicz was taken to a Nazi slave labour camp on...
- Research articles 2007-03-14
- World champion Dovy fined 500 euros in doping case
- PERPIGNAN, France AFP — Lueyi Dovy, who was part of the French team which won the 2005 athletics world championships 4x100m relay gold, was on Thursday fined 500 euros after being found guilty of a doping charge. Prosecutors had wanted the athlete handed a six-month suspended prison sentence after...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Spain's Princess Letizia resumes duties after sister's death
- MADRID AFP — Spain's Princess Letizia, wife to heir to the throne Prince Felipe de Bourbon, resumed her official duties, one week after the death of her younger sister Erika Ortiz. Letizia, dressed in black, visited the new Madrid headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, which is charged with promoting...
- Research articles 2007-02-14
- Rainy royal goodbye in Spain
- MADRID AFP — Members of Spain's royal family paid a tearful goodbye to Erika Ortiz, younger sister of Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz, who died a day earlier aged 31. Fine arts graduate Erika Ortiz, the mother of a six-year-old girl, was widely reported to have taken her own life...
- Research articles 2007-02-08
- Shilpa–bashing scares Big Brother sponsor
- LONDON AFP — Alleged bullying and racist abuse of glamorous Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on "Celebrity Big Brother" may leave the British reality television programme without its big sponsor, the Times has reported. Britain's media watchdog Ofcom is probing thousands of complaints related to charges of racist bullying towards Shetty,...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Special Report: A young girl placed in the hands of danger wins a million–dollar award from DHS. Her mother awaits an apology.
- It was a victory, but to Vanessa, not a satisfying one. Sitting in a windowless federal courtroom at Sixth and Market Streets, the 41-year-old librarian quietly absorbed the news. The City of Philadelphia had agreed to pay her adopted daughter $1 million for the harm she'd suffered while under the...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Sister of ex-Colombia president murdered in kidnapping
- BOGOTA AFP — The sister of former Colombian president and Organization of American States chief Cesar Gaviria was murdered during a kidnapping attempt, President Alvaro Uribe said. Liliana Gaviria's body was found in an industrial area a few kilometers miles from her home near Pereira, 340 kilometers (210 miles)...
- Research articles 2006-04-28
- Queen was 'saddened and disappointed' at Diana funeral tribute
- LONDON AFP — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was said to have been "disappointed" and "saddened" by the oration delivered by the brother of Princess Diana at her 1997 funeral. Writer Gyles Brandreth, a former Conservative member of parliament who has written a number of biographies of the British royal...
- Research articles 2006-03-16
- Indonesia's capital braces for potential flood catastrophe
- JAKARTA AFP — Ade Subrayat, 55, points to the bench he has to tie down as part of his battle against the regular floods that engulf his riverside home in the Indonesian capital during the annual monsoon. "The water often rises at my home to 1.2 metres yards. Sometimes...
- Research articles 2006-02-22
- Serena Slam? Now it's the Serena Slump
- HONG KONG AFP — Not so long ago, sports fans were talking up the 'Serena Slam', when the younger Williams sister became only the fifth woman to hold all four Grand Slam titles at once. Now it's more like the Serena Slump. Williams' first ever defeat to Elena...
- Research articles 2006-01-04
- Sperm from dead man destroyed in Taiwan amid controversy
- TAIPEI AFP — A Taiwanese woman's controversial plan to bear the child of her dead fiance by using his conserved sperm has been thwarted when the sperm was destroyed on orders of his family. "We have made the decision to destroy although with much regret," said a sister of...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- You call them stars?
- After accusing Fox of false advertising last week, it's only fair to do the same to ABC this week. And, if anything, the whopper that ABC is foisting on the public is even bigger than the one Fox tried to sell. Quick, tell me who these...
- Research articles 2005-12-13
- Air Force pair wed via teleconference
- The nervous bride cried. The groom forgot the ring. In most ways, Courtney Reynolds' and Christopher Bowden's Friday wedding, with its mix of tender and lighthearted moments, was like any other. The difference was about 7,000 miles and 10 time zones. Staff Sgts. Reynolds...
- Research articles 2005-11-26
- Mass in Monaco's cathedral climax of enthronement of Prince Albert
- MONACO AFP — The enthronement of Monaco's Prince Albert II culminated in a mass in Saint Charles cathedral, adorned with white lilies and red roses in the territory's colors, in the presence of his two princess sisters and other royals from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The pontifical...
- Research articles 2005-11-18
- Tom Cruise drops sister as publicist following rough summer
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Superstar Tom Cruise has dropped his sister as his movie publicist and hired a top Hollywood flak after coming under intense media fire for publicly mixing his religious views with his movie-making. Cruise, 43, announced Monday that his sister Lee Anne DeVette would hand over...
- Research articles 2005-11-07
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