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In Chitungwiza, a sprawling township about 30 kilometres south-east of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, a group of women and girls are lining up with tin cans to fetch water from a shallow well near a river.
It's a scene common in southern Africa but rare in urban areas, where piped water is usually available in homes or at a communal...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat a group of unarmed protestors Wednesday and detained a number of union leaders in the latest in a series of protests over crippling cash withdrawal limits that have rattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.
The police used batons to beat back a group of around 50 protestors that attempted to...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat a group of unarmed protestors Wednesday and detained a number of union leaders in the latest in a series of protests over crippling cash withdrawal limits that have rattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.
The police used batons to beat back a group of around 50 protestors that attempted to...
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A Cambodian father murdered two of his infant daughters and badly beat his pregnant wife before killing himself after he learned she was having a fifth girl, police said Monday.
Ou Em, the police chief of Siem Reap province, 300 kilometres north of the capital, said Youen Nil, a 37-year-old father of four daughters, became distraught...
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 Seven people, including a baby, have been hurt after a shooting incident occured at the New Orleans Mardi Gras in the United States. Police lining the parade route on historic St Charles Avenue heard the shots coming from the crowd at about 13:40 local time. The shootings happened just minutes after the final major parade of the...
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Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday made a surprise visit to banks in the capital Harare that were the scene of long queues resulting from cash shortages.
Some of those queuing temporarily forgot about the miseries as they cheered the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Others said they had been in...
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Two brothers were arrested in a scandal over contaminated baby milk in China, as a second infant died, state-run media said Monday.
Authorities said the number of babies who fell ill with kidney stones after being fed with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu rose to 580. Two infants died.
The brothers from...
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 How much do you think an offspring picture could worth? $1 million? No…try it again. 5? Give it another shot! $15 million? You’ve got it! The race for Brangelina twins’ pictures began. Who will be the fortunate to take the first pics of the ultimate million dollar babies? According to some estimates, the official snaps of Brangelina...
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On Sunday, an unfortunate crash
killed four people and blocked a few traffic lanes of Interstate 10 for several
hours. The California Highway Patrol reopened those about 12.30.
Heather Hoglund, CHP spokesperson
Officer, states access slopes on the westbound Santa Monica Freeway at Western Avenue carry
on being closed but the...
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 This morning at its spring media summit Nintendo announced the launch of a new Mario sports game. Mario Super Sluggers is to arrive in Japan sometime in June and everywhere else "later this year." Much like Nintendo’s arcade take on soccer with Mario Strikers Charged last year, the up-coming Mario Super Sluggers will give you a...
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 An Australian woman who had an apparently healthy baby with
her father pleaded for approval of the couple’s incestuous relationship. Both
father and daughter appeared on national television with their nine-old-month
child, Celeste. After going public, they are currently being monitored by
police and social services.
Jenny...
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 March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day,
a day dedicated to raising awareness of the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on
women and girls and to encouraging women and girls to take action. This day is
sponsored by the Office of Women’s Health.
According to 2004 data, women represented 26 percent of new
AIDS...
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 Sad to hear, within the first nine months of last year, 6,897 people in China died from HIV/AIDS-related issues. This is the country’s leading cause of death among infectious diseases for the first time ever, surpassing both rabies and tuberculosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that this HIV epidemic may only continue...
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Stuttgart, Germany - When a woman is unable to have a baby, a thyroid gland disorder may be to blame, noted Roland Gaertner, a medical doctor and professor at Munich University.
Writing in the Stuttgart-based Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, he advised women with a fertility problem to have their thyroid gland examined.
The...
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 A panel of experts has issued a report against the Food and Drug Administration, criticizing the agency for having overlooked significant evidence about bishpenol A safety."When we looked at the draft report, we felt that it was incomplete in a few very important aspects," said a member of the scientific advisory board, Dr....
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 According to a new study published in the journal Human Reproduction, depressed future moms are twice more likely than pregnant women who don’t suffer from depression to deliver preemies.In the study, researchers followed 791 San Francisco-area women during their pregnancy. The two fifths of participants who were suffering from serious...
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 Women who are depressed early in pregnancy may double the chances of delivering a baby earlier than 37 completed weeks of pregnancy, a new study suggests. Researchers followed 791 women during their pregnancy, the Human Reproduction journal said. The two fifths of participants in the study who were suffering from significant depression...
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 Mothers’ low vitamin D intake during their pregnancy endangers their babies as far as their teeth are concerned. A low level of the vitamin in women heavy with child leads to an increased risk of tooth decay early in the infant’s childhood, as well as a higher probability of developing cavities at an early age. Vitamin D levels in the...
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A transsexual who became
known as the 'pregnant man' has given birth to a baby girl, US
broadcaster ABC News reported Thursday. The natural birth took place at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, on Sunday, the broadcaster said quoting an unnamed source.
Thomas Beatie, 34, was born female, but underwent a hormonal sex change
and had...
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 Thomas Beatie was born a woman, named Tracy
Lagondino, but she went through a sex change, having chest reconstruction and
taking testosterone to develop masculine traits. Trcay kept her ovaries and
uterus.
After all these surgeries she became Thomas
Beatie, a transgender man with specific female organs which helped him to
become...
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Almost 100 California
residents are being harmed in hospitals in adverse events thought to be
preventable.
Records reveal the astonishing fact that during a 10-month
period doctors performed a wrong surgical procedure, on the wrong part of the
body or on the wrong patient 41 times. Moreover, for 145 times foreign objects such...
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 Xochitl Parra, a 17-year-old girl, who had
kept her pregnancy secret because she was afraid her parents would have turned
her out if they had known about it, gave birth to a healthy boy on Wednesday at
5.30 a.m. while she was having a shower.
When she felt the contractions were
starting, she sat down and pushed the baby out....
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 Photos with a transgender man who appears to be pregnant
were posted on The Advocate’s Web site, a magazine that fights for the gay
rights.
Tracy Lagondino was born a woman but she went through a sex
change, having chest reconstruction and taking testosterone to develop
masculine traits. She kept her ovaries and uterus....
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 A newborn baby has passed away at a Corpus Christi Hospital, Texas, after being applied an overdose of the blood thinner heparin, informed on Wednesday the local Caller-Times newspaper. Other 16 infants received an overdose. Allegedly, nurses used 10,000 units of the drug instead of 10.It is unknown if heparin had a contribution in the...
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 Seventeen babies at a Texas hospital had taken an overdose of the blood thinner drug. One has passed away, although it is not clear yet if heparin had a contribution in the infant’s death, reported CNN, which got the information from Corpus Christi Hospital officials. Nurses allegedly used 10,000 units of the medicine instead of 10, and...
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 Now it is easier to find out who your daddy or your baby is.
You can access the result online at your home computer in three or five days.
The new product of Meijer and Rite Aid stores is described
as the first over-the-counter DNA paternity test. How it works: the kit contains
cotton swabs for taking cells from inside the mouth of...
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 The Oscars have always captured the public’s attention.
However, this year’s 80th annual Academy Awards are thought to have low
ratings. The reason for this situation is the Writers Guild of America strike
and the primary political season which is the most interesting one in a
half-century.
Even though the strike is over, the...
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are finally parents. The
38-year-old Latin singer gave birth to a girl and a boy Friday in Long Island, New
York. According to People the girl was born at 12:12
a.m. with a 5lbs. 7oz weight, while the boy came to the world at 12:23 a.m.
weighing 6lbs.
Jennifer Lopez’s pregnancy was...
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 The US food and drink giant PepsiCo and the Pepsi Bottling Group announced on Thursday that they have reached a definitive agreement in order to buy a 75.53 percent stake of the juice business of Lebedyansky, the biggest fruit juice producer in Russia and the sixth in the world, for the amount of 1.4 billion dollars.The joint statement...
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 The Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis announced on Thursday that it has registered record profit sales of 12 billion dollars during the previous year.However, the company’s profit has fell by 42 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, collapsing to 931 million dollars, decreasing its after- tax profit for the entire year by 4...
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 India's Tata Motors at the ninth Auto Expo in Dehli on Thursday
unveiled the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest production car expected to
cost just 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars).
Company officials said the Nano is expected to spur a paradigm
shift in low-cost transportation by making the car affordable to
thousands of...
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 A new study has discovered that keeping a fan in the baby’s room lowers his risks of sudden infant death syndrome by 72%. The study also shows that the space where the baby sleeps is very important in the risk of SIDS. SIDS is the usual diagnose when a baby dies and his death can’t be explained by any other environmental...
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 You don’t need a license to perform an
abortion. Having this in her mind, Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, 48, performed abortions
and prescribed drugs while pretending to be a doctor at Clinica Medica de la
Mujer in Chula Vista.
According to prosecutors, the woman performed abortions at the clinic on in Chula Vista during
February and March...
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 The teenage pregnancy rate increased in US,
reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention show. On this
ground, a group of 17 girls attending the public high school in the seaside
town of Gloucester, Mass., made a pact to become pregnant and to
raise the children together. At the end of the school year, 17 teenage...
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California's
Senate passed a measure Thursday that would prevent the sale of plastic baby
bottles, training cups and formula cans. This products contain an estrogen-like
chemical called bisphenol A, suspected of disrupting normal human growth and
causing hyperactivity in children, as well as several other affections.
There...
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 A 9-year-old girl was taken to the hospital in central Greece
suffering from stomach pains. Doctors at Larissa hospital examined the girl and
surgically removed a growth they later discovered was her embryonic twin.
“They could see on the right side that her belly was
swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide...
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 Indonesian heath officials have just confirmed on Saturday
that a 31-year-old man from Sumatra
Island who died last week
was infected with bird flu, raising the toll in the worst-hit nation to 91.
Deaths from the H5N1 virus have been steadily rising in
archipelagic Indonesia
where the virus is now endemic across 31 of its 33...
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 Apple Inc.’s feedback to
Greenpeace’s recent report regarding the iPhone’s components’ toxicity has come
in just hours! It is normal for Apple to take action when such an important and
popular environmental organization as Greenpeace is claims such serious issues.
It is also obvious that the company has defended its baby, saying that...
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Even before facing daylight, baby crocodiles make a strange,
yet interesting noise.
The sounds the infant reptiles produce more than a week
before hatching may have two significant purposes, according to scientists:
firstly, they serve as a clue to their siblings in the clutch that it is time
to escape from their shells. On...
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 The results of a study performed by French biologists Amelie Vergne and Nicolas Mathevon of the Jean Monet University, shed some light on the reasons why baby crocodiles emit a specific sound before they hatch.Researchers divided the three-day-old eggs of a mother crocodile into three lots. When the time for them to hatch came, one lot...
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 The perfectly preserved skeleton of a new, very small
pterodactyl was found by scientists in north-eastern China, BBC reports.
The discovery was reported in The Proceedings of The
National Academy of Sciences, by Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and colleagues.The species has the size of a sparrow and has...
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 The Nuremberg Zoo’s highly
popular baby polar bear got herself a name. Finally. After receiving almost
50,000 name suggestions from different animal lovers and children, the
Nuremberg Zoo’s officials eventually decided to call their 6.5-pound (3-kilogram)
baby polar bear Flocke, which means (snow)flake in English. No surprise at...
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 Sad news is coming from the
Brookfield Zoo. One of the Amur tiger cubs that have been born in May at the
zoo has died on Sunday, while it was recovering from some injuries suffered a
month ago. The baby male tiger had been mauled by its own father late last
month and now it seems that it has not been able to recover.
The Chicago...
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 First impressions started pouring in on Britney Spears' last night performance in New Orleans, the first show of her "Circus" tour and most agree it's only fair to say Britney's back. Kicking off her first tour in five years Tuesday night, the radiant pop singer proved she's a "put on a show kind of girl" as she...
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 From costumes to stage sets, to dancing routines everything is ready for the pop singer's most important event in her career over the past five years, the Britney Spears Circus Tour, which is mere hours from its kickoff in New Orleans. "You can expect spectacular-ness," her manager Larry Rudolph said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM...
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 Britney goes step by step in releasing her sixth studio album. First, she released the single “Womanizer,” and made a video for it. Well, the video might create some discomfort to different channels because Britney is partly naked, but the single had its time to get into her fans’ hearts. Then, the 26-year-old singer released a statement...
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 Just as he promised, Jon Bon Jovi sang “nothin’ but the hits, baby, nothin’ but the hits” under the clear evening sky in the heart of Central Park. The free concert was a delight for tens of thousands of fans who sang along with the lyrics. Many of them had come from around the country six hours before the event. There were an estimated...
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 Bo Diddley, a key figure in the transition
from blues to rock’n’roll, died Monday at the age of 79 of a heart failure at
his home in Archer, Florida. On May 13, 2007, the singer had
suffered a stroke during a concert at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, and was hospitalized in Omaha, Nebraska.
In August 2007 he had a heart attack in...
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 Lyrics about love, lyrics about death, spirituality, racism;
Mariah Carey songs cover a wide range of themes and the singer’s voice is known
for being able to cover all the notes from the alto vocal range to those of a
coloratura soprano; most sources say she has a five-octave vocal range. Her
specific vocal quality is her ability to...
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 R&B diva Beyonce Knowles
will portray the legendary blues singer Etta James in the upcoming Sony BMG
Films project “Cadillac Records,” on the 1950s music business. The movie is about the founder of Chicago’s Chess Records
and his team of stars.
The cast includes Adrien Brody,
an Academy Award winner for “The Pianist” who...
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 Gwen Stefani and her hubby Gavin Rossdale are expecting
their second child, as Stefani’s father-in-law announced.
Douglas Rossdale, the soon-to-become grandfather again
expressed the enthusiasm of both the parents and the grandparents. “They and
the whole family are delighted. We are very much looking forward to...
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 Baby Spice has sprained her ankle in a Las Vegas gig and the
London fans eager to indulge themselves in the first concert the Spice Girls
were to deliver will have to wait a little longer.
On the last US
performance earlier this week Emma Bunton took a tumble on stage, which
resulted in her ankle injury. The UK
fans only found...
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 Tameka Foster, R&B singer Usher’s wife, gave birth to a baby boy at 9:30 pm on Monday, at the Atlanta hospital, his publicist confirmed on Tuesday.The baby is healthy and it weights seven pounds and nine ounces and is expected to head home with his parents on Wednesday, according to the People magazine.This is the Grammy winning...
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 Britney Spears tackles music industry after four years of
pause with a new album called “Blackout”, under the signature of Jive Records,
a unit of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The release date is set for November 12
internationally and for November 13 in US.
The title of the her album expresses optimism and the
pleasure of...
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A baby girl delivered by British doctors two days after her mother was declared clinically dead from a brain haemorrhage has been named Aya, which means miracle in Arabic, her father told a British newspaper Tuesday.
Doctors at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford kept the heart of 41-year-old Jayne Soliman beating for two days after...
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The first baby in Britain tested before conception for a genetic form of breast cancer has been born in a hospital in London, doctors said Friday.
The baby girl grew from an embryo screened to ensure that it did not contain the faulty BRCA 1 gene, which passes the risk of breast cancer down generations.
Any daughter born with the...
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Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday said people should build Nativity scenes for Christmas to help recreate the "mystery" of Jesus' birth on earth.
Benedict, speaking during his weekly general audience, was referring to the practice of using statuettes or carvings to represent the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem as celebrated by...
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A one-week-old conjoined twin has died in a London hospital following emergency surgery to separate her from her sister, Great Ormond Street hospital said Wednesday.
Hope Williams, whose sister Faith is said to be in a stable condition, died because her lungs failed her, leading surgeon Agostino Pierro said.
The twins were born on...
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A German court jailed a woman for three and a half years on Friday for killing her live baby by putting the newborn in a chest-style home freezer.
The woman, 21, sobbed as she claimed to the court in Rottweil, south-western Germany this week that she had not been aware she was pregnant and had wanted to make it seem as if the sudden...
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A zoo in Kaliningrad opened a contest this week to name it's newest recruit, a baby Giraffe from the Berlin zoo.
The only stipulation from Berlin was the name begin with an "I" to match the baby's mother Ida and sister Iva.
But the most popular submissions so far: To name the infant Giraffe after a Russian ballistic...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 77-year-old last president of the Soviet Union, has become a great-grandfather, with his granddaughter Xenia giving birth to a baby girl, a German hospital said Wednesday.
The 3.91-kilogram child was born at Agatharied in Bavaria state. Agatharied said mother and child were both well. The former president heads his...
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The last two further bodies were recovered Thursday from the crash site of the Spanair plane at Madrid airport, rescue officials said, bringing the search action at the site to a close.
Benjamin Olivares, head of the airport fire department, said the victims were those of an infant baby and an adult.
The find did nothing to change...
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 After numerous infanticide cases occurring in Germany in recent years, another shocking event was revealed Monday by police.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of having killed three of her babies.
The little bodies were discovered Sunday by two of the woman’s grown children, who were looking in the refrigerator...
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 A six-year-old boy who died when he was pushed from a hotel
balcony in Crete was unlawfully murdered, an inquest
ruled on Thursday. In 2006, Liam Hogan suffered fatal head injuries when he
fell from his fourth-floor room at the Petra Mare Hotel, with his two-year-old
sister and his father. His baby sister Mia survived the fall with...
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 The inquest into the death of
Princess Diana, and her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed continues, as new testimonies
have been released this week.
During a London court hearing, Dodi’s father, multimillionaire
Harrods owner Mohamed al Fayed said that Diana and Dodi were “murdered.” He
stated that he would not “make any allegations,”...
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 A female polar bear cub that has become Germany's latest animal
attraction has been named Flocke, or "flake" as in snow flake,
officials in the southern city of Nuremberg Friday.
Nearly 30,000 suggestions poured in to the town hall during a
week-long competition to find a name for the tiny animal, now around
five weeks...
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 Knut, Berlin's famous polar bear, had his first birthday
party today and about 700 visitors from all over Germany flocked to the zoo to
join in.
The bear they came to see was no longer the cuddly little
teddy bear romping with a soccer ball, but a 245-pound eating machine. But to
Berliners, he was still cute little Knut. Top of...
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 A Russian woman gave birth to a “little” girl this month
that weighed in at 7.75 kg (17.5 lbs), double the average newborn weight.
The girls name is Nadia, and she was delivered by Caesarean
section at a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia.
She is the woman’s twelfth child and her birth shocked the medical
staff and the...
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 Braving a crowd of people going "Aww," Oprah Winfrey introduced her new pet, a blonde Cocker Spaniel puppy named Sadie, during Fridays' Oprah Winfrey Show. "I'm a mom again!" a very emotional Oprah told the audience on Friday.Sporting an orange and pink polka-dotted jacket, the puppy was brought to the stage prompting...
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Although “The Cleaner” might apparently suggest the story of
a person whose job is to scrub dirty floors, the new A&E drama series
starting Tuesday evening at 10 portrays William Banks, played by Benjamin
Bratt, as God’s so-called missionary.
At first the plot may seem a bit far-fetched. However, the
series is based on the...
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 NBC’s show “The Baby Borrowers” features
five couples aged between 16 and 19; they have to take care for someone else’s
child over the course of three weeks. Although those who vote for the show say
that the reality show may have an influence on the rate of teen pregnancies
because this type of programming may be a lesson for...
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 American television is testing the American
endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed
well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the...
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 Nicole Richie, mother of a five-month-old baby and designer of a line of jewelry, got a guest starring role on the famous NBC comedy “Chuck.”
The former “Simple Life” star will play the role of Special Agent Sarah Walker’s archenemy. They haven’t seen each other for ten years, since they finished...
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 American television’s source of inspiration
for this summer is Japan,
Japanese game shows such as “Endurance,” “Hole in the Wall,” and “Human Tetris,”
to be more specific.
On Tuesday, ABC is airing premieres of “Wipeout”
and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” with a domestic edition of “Hole in the
Wall” coming this fall on Fox,...
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Ellen DeGeneres has won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy
for best talk show host a Hollywood ceremony,
on Friday night, at the 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The comic and
presenter outranked US TV veteran Regis Philbin in the same category, as well
as Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg, both hosts of The View show. She...
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 The sixth season of “Dancing With
the Stars” was announced during the finale of “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie
Ann.” The celebrity cast was announced by three former contestants of the
second season of “Dancing with the Stars”: tenth place finisher Kenny Mayne, fourth-place
finisher Lisa Rinna, and runner-up Jerry Rice. The show will...
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FOX is getting prepared to welcome a girly Prison Break, in
an attempt to boost its audience and to prove that women too have the capacity
of being behind bars and fight to get out.
Prison Break: Cherry Hill
sounds girlish enough, right? You might even expect to see pink bars and curly
hair… Luckily, Prison Break executive...
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 Fresh ads for the upcoming season of ABC’s daytime talk show "The View" have been unveiled revealing a well-fitting new co-host, Whoopi Goldberg. This year’s lineup, featuring a very pregnant Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and Joy Behar, all wearing black outfits resembles last year’s promo, except that...
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 Reggie Miller, the former Indiana Pacers shooting guard, has declined any posibility of an NBA comeback after he underwent two weeks of phisycal and fitness tests. According to the media reports, the all-star three point shooter had been considering a return in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.“That's it," the 42-year-old said on...
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 A recent analysis conducted by the nonprofit health advocacy group, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, has noted that tested baby products – such as shampoo, bubble baths and lotions – were contaminated with cancer-causing toxins.To be more specific, the toxins found in the analysis were formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, both of them considered...
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Former BSU player Kerry Thomas faces new charges for knowingly spreading the HIV virus. According to media reports, an Ada County, Idaho, grand jury on Tuesday returned an indictment charging Kerry Thomas with seven counts of knowingly transferring the HIV virus.These charges carry a maximum sentence of 15 years and a $50,000 fine....
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Los Angeles/Washington - The Obama family could be facing its first controversy of the presidency, and it's all to do with dolls.
The new first family has been fiercely protective of its adorable daughters, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, but the message apparently was never received by toy maker, Ty Inc. The maker of the once insanely-...
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A Canadian woman who gave birth to twins on a freezing street in Windsor, Ontario amidst snow and rain was in good condition and the newborns were expected to survive, it was reported Thursday.
Police officers on a routine patrol first thought they were at a crime scene when they saw a woman covered in blood screaming for help and...
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Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting their first child together, People magazine reported Wednesday.
"Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful," he told the celebrity magazine. "We are very much looking...
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 Thomas Beatie, 34, shocked the whole world when he announced he was pregnant. Nobody believed that the role that Arnold Schwarzenegger interpreted in Junior would become real, but last year thousands of photos appeared of a real man carrying a baby! The weird thing is that Beatie used to be a woman, who later underwent surgery to become...
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From Kenya to Kentucky, jubilant supporters of Barack Obama are naming their baby boys after the man who will become the leader of the free world on January 20.
These Obama mamas even have a good solution for naming their baby girls. Expect to see the names of Obama's wife Michelle, and two daughters Sasha and Malia, zoom up the...
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Michelle Obama, was born on January 17, 1964 and grew up in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side where her mother, a former secretary, still lives. Her late father was an employee at the city's water plant.
Sometimes compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, Michelle, 44, will bring her own style of charm and sophistication to the...
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 China Arnold, 28, killed her baby girl of only a month by burning her to death inside a microwave oven. The jury failed to reach a consensus when giving her the death penalty so they finally decided to sentence her to life in prison without parole. The prosecutors stated that the woman had voluntarily put the little baby in the...
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A couple accompanied by their 7-month-old daughter fled the New Orleans area in advance of Hurricane Gustav. But they suffered the biggest drama of their life by trying to escape the calamity. Kaitlynn Foret, their daughter, died on the way back home because of a rare genetic disease. The baby girl stopped breathing while they were at...
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 China Arnold was convicted on Friday after she had killed her daughter of only a month by cooking her in the microwave oven. Even if her attorneys say that there is evidence that someone else had done it, the 28-year-old woman bent her head when she heard the jury’s verdict. Relatives were shocked and started crying, as nobody believed...
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A SWAT team killed a man who wounded the mother of a 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for two hours at his house in Lynwood, California, but he didn’t harm the baby during this time, on Sunday, when the incident took place.People who responded to an emergency call in Monday found the wounded woman outside their...
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Amber Alert was issued in Detroit by the police after a two year old boy was reported missing. The worst thing is that the boy’s mother is also missing and they were last seen yesterday before midnight.Authorities believe that Rachell Latoshia Diggs together with her little baby were actually kidnapped by the child’s father, Akeem...
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 Yesterday afternoon, a possible gas blast roared through a Queens apartment building, leaving 17 people injured, including a 2-year-old baby and her father, who are both in critical condition.Firefighters who arrived at the seven-story building located in Flushing neighborhood didn't confirm reports of an explosion. However, City...
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New Hampshire was affected by a tornado on Thursday. It destroyed a lot of homes and took the life of an old lady in Northwood Lake. Storms came through central N.H. and 1,000 people in Alton-Barnstead-Strafford area ran out of electricity. 200 other in Ossippe, Effingham and Freedom and also 100 in Epsom and Pittsfield got the same...
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 A mother charged with constantly injecting her 4-month-old
son with salt water will be transported to a state mental hospital after a
psychiatrist confirmed on Thursday that the woman was severely depressed.
Judge Jeffrey Manning requested Amber Brewington, 21, of Duck River, Tenn., to
stay no more than 90 days at Mayview
State...
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 According to the police, the woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant teenager's uterus and stealing the baby has been charged with homicide and kidnapping.38-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus, of Wilkinsburg, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, aged 18, of McKeesport. The teenager’s body was found Friday in the Curry-Demus’s apartment...
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Caylee Marie Anthony, 2, from Florida, has been missing for more than a month. Her mother, Casey Anthony, waited all this time to report the disappearance of her child. She was charged with child neglect and lying to the police. Anthony is held under the Orange County police custody, in Florida, while her daughter is still...
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A Seattle-area woman is accused of first-degree murder and may get the death penalty because she stabbed and killed a pregnant woman, cutting her live baby from her womb, on Friday, in Columbia Park, Seattle. Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong claimed that the baby was hers. She allegedly killed the mother of the baby and hours later called...
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Neil Entwistle, 29, was found guilty of the murder of his
wife and 9-month-old daughter on Wednesday.
Although he had been telling the same story for more than 2
years, the jury decided that his defense was not sufficiently strong to protect
him from being convicted.
According to Entwistle’s narration of the facts...
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A police officer killed a 27-year-old man who punched and stomped a toddler to death on a dark country road, the authorities said, according to the New York Times.Investigators were trying to establish on Sunday the relationship between the man and the child, both of whom died Saturday night. According to the Stanislaus County coroner,...
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Authorities are currently investigating the death of a 10-month-old girl at a Pittsburgh daycare center. Marcia Poston was pronounced dead Friday at Children’s Hospital shortly before 1 p.m. after being transported from Bray’s Family Day Care at 5113 Dearborn St, the Associated Press reports.Poston’s autopsy is scheduled for Saturday.It...
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June 2 – British computer engineer Briton Neil Entwistle accused of deadly
shooting his American wife and baby daughter will be brought today against the Boston court in Massachusetts.
Two years have passed since his
27-year-old wife and baby Lilian Rose died in the family’s rented home in a Boston suburb. According
to...
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 A Canadian couple was arrested after trying to sell a
seven-day-old baby girl on Craiglist for $10,000, police said on Tuesday,
according to Reuters. It appears that a woman who saw the pair’s offer on the
popular website, called the police, who managed to track down the 23-year-old
mother and the 26-year-old father, as their...
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 Two black teenagers were arrested Thursday in
the assault on a young Jewish man, police said. The assault raised racial
tensions in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Besean Parker, 14, and Namor Clarke, 17,
will be charged as adults with robbery, according to police. Police also said
the assault on 16-year-old Alon Sherman was not...
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Police say a teenage boy was arrested Tuesday night after driving
without a license on a Brooklyn street and hitting
a nine-year-old boy with his vehicle.
16-year-old Shyquan Burns was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and
operating a motor vehicle without a license.
Authorities claimed it appeared to be a...
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The state’s highest court suspended a Baltimore County Judge
Tuesday for making uncivil and profane comments from the bench. According to
the Court of Appeals, District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin violated the state’s
judicial code of conduct. It accepted a judicial commission’s recommendation
that the judge be suspended for 30 days...
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 Cheryl Rowe is the driver that took the wrong way. Her mistake
killed herself and also an 8-month pregnant woman south of Roseburg on Interstate-5. Rowe from Albany was driving a 2002
white Pontiac Grand Am. She was going northbound in the southbound lanes when
she hit the car which had Chanthea Prak of Fresno the 20-year-old pregnant...
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Talk about responsibility! According to The
Associated Press, Krystal Rose Downes, 24, and Jhimy Alban Vintimilla, 28, left
their 2-month old baby in the car while they went to see the Kentucky Derby at
a New York off-track
betting parlor.
Town police say the baby was left
unattended for more than 20 minutes, in the parking lot...
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 Xochitl Parra is a 17-year-old girl from California who for the past nine
months has kept her pregnancy a secret. Furthermore, when the moment of birth
came the teenager was taking a bath, preparing herself to go to school. Xochitl
gave birth in her bathtub on Wednesday, but she still needed help as the baby
remained attached to her...
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 Chelsea M. Frazier’s boyfriend, Carlos Cruz, was arrested
Tuesday for staging the murder of his 18-year-old fiancé. Cruz was accused of
hiring his cousin, 25-year-old Devon Miller, to kill her. Apparently the couple
had some problems and they were arguing a lot lately. The two had a
one-year-old son, who during the assault was on the...
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 Authorities made a new discovery at the religious retreat
from Eldorado, Texas, where they continued investigations
to find evidence for the 16-year-old girl’s case. She is allegedly married with
Dale Barlow, 50, and they have a baby aged 8 month.
According to the Los Angeles Times it was discovered a bed
inside a towering...
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Stacy Lay, a 20-year-old woman, gave birth Saturday morning
in the toilet at the Quality Hotel and Suites in Niagara Falls. No one knew she was pregnant
although some colleagues suspected something when they saw her bulging belly.
“His eyes were closed, and he wasn’t breathing,” the person
who saw the baby lying...
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 A 14-year-old Texas
girl gave birth to a baby in a bathroom of her junior high school on Wednesday,
and then she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing the infant, police
officers said.
According to the autopsy, it appears that the baby was alive
when born at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown,
near Houston.
The Houston...
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 Russell Yates, the father of the five children who were
drowned in the bathtub by his former wife and their mother, is a daddy once again. His new wife,
Laura Arnold gave birth to a “healthy boy.” No further details were given, but
Yates told ABC News that the child as well as his mother, are perfectly fine. Arnold is not at her...
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 Identical triplets were born Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island – and such an event happens once in 200 million births.
According to the Washington Post, the three boys, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn were delivered by Doctor Victor Klein, a specialist in multiple births and high-risk pregnancies. This is...
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The body of an infant was found recently on the side of a road
in Galveston, the Texas state police launching a search for the baby’s father.
Investigators managed to identify the infant’s father and
are now searching for the 21-year-old man, who has been called “a person of
interest” in the investigation.
Police...
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 The tiger who killed a visitor at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day was the same animal that seriously injured a zookeeper in December
2006, media reports said Wednesday.
The 4-year-old tiger Tatiana severely injured two other visitors
before being shot to death by four police officers who had to distract
her from the last of...
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 An infant that died after falling down the eight-floor
stairwell in Arlington, Texas
had traces of cocaine in his system, according to an autopsy report.
The boy, Joshua Thorne, died just before his second
birthday, and although the baby had been exposed to the illegal narcotic, this
was not the cause of death, according to the...
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Detectives on the case investigating the death of an 11-year-old
boy suspect that the murderer himself is no older than the victim, as BBC
reported on Friday. The culprit is believed to be Caucasian, male, age 13, about
1.7 meters tall and was last seen wearing dark clothes with white trainers.
The 11-year-old victim, Rhys...
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Another Israeli soldier was killed overnight during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military confirmed Tuesday.
The soldier was killed late Monday, but his death had been under censorship until his family was informed, a military spokesman in Tel Aviv told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, adding the military was examining...
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Israel pressed on with both its air and ground assault in Gaza, rebuffing Tuesday an international push for an end to hostilities that includes another UN Security Council emergency session scheduled for later in the day.
At least 22 Palestinians were killed since midnight, raising the total Palestinian toll to at least 573 killed and...
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A rocket fired by Palestinian militants landed for the first time ever in the southern Israeli town of Gedera, lightly injuring a three-month-old baby, residents said.
The town of 18,000, north-east of the port city of Ashdod, is located over 40 kilometres from the northernmost tip of the Gaza Strip.
Some five Israelis were also...
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A public hospital in Hong Kong Tuesday said it had lost the body of a baby boy and had set up a committee to investigate how the blunder took place.
The city's Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital said the body of the infant had gone missing last Friday. Police and the Hospital Authority had been informed, a spokeswoman...
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Rescue workers in Ukraine had recovered three more bodies by Friday morning from the rubble of a block of flats that collapsed in an explosion on Christmas Eve, bringing the total number of dead in the accident to 27, the Interfax news agency reported.
No survivors were found during the night, when temperatures hovered around zero,...
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Police in Hong Kong Friday appealed for help to identify a baby boy found dead near Hong Kong International Airport on Christmas Day.
The clothed body of the boy, aged around one month, was found lying on a rock on coastline by a walker in Chek Lap Kok near the city's busy airport on Thursday afternoon.
A police spokesman said...
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Courts in northern China's Hebei province on Friday tried six people accused of crimes linked to melamine-tainted milk powder, which apparently led to the death of at least six infants.
The Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang city tried Zhang Yujun on charges of producing 775.6 tons of melamine-laced powder used to increase...
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A stockbroker in India's financial capital of Mumbai killed his pregnant wife before committing suicide due to the financial downturn, media reports said Wednesday.
Parag Tanna and his wife Neha were found dead by relatives in the city's Kandivali area Tuesday night, police told CNN-IBN network.
Police suspect that Tanna, who...
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Authorities in Bangladesh have warned against using milk powder imported from China after it confirmed the presence of melamine in one of three brands of baby formula available in Bangladesh, an official said Wednesday.
Local administrators have been asked to warn locals about the dangers of the Chinese adulterated baby foods, Ajmal...
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Chinese authorities found an industrial chemical contaminating 12 per cent of dairy samples in the latest of a series of tests it is conducting after tainted milk products began sickening babies, a news report said Wednesday.
The latest tests showed 31 of 265 batches of dairy products tested contained melamine, the official Xinhua...
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China's free trade agreement with New Zealand, in effect as of October
1, has Tuesday raised food safety worries following the recent tainted
milk scandal.
"Serious concerns have been raised about the safety of food
products from China, in light of the infant baby formula debacle and
concerns over melamine contamination of...
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 China started to check on all the milk products inside the country. The toxic milk scandal could affect the milk industry so the health officials announced that almost 50 Chinese brands were tested for any toxic substances and they contained no melamine. 47 brands of milk and yoghurt were checked up by specialists and no trace of...
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Pizza Hut Taiwan on Friday began an investigation into melamine found in its cheese packets after tests showed a high level of the toxic chemical melamine.
The investigation came amid reports of the first suspected case in Taiwan in which a child was recently diagnosed to have a kidney stone and four other suspected cases in which...
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China has approved Taiwan's request to send a delegation to investigate its tainted milk products and exports to Taiwan, officials said Thursday.
The team of health experts are ready to leave for Beijing on Sunday, they said.
The latest development came as Taiwan's Health Minister Lin Fang-yue resigned to take responsibility over...
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Taiwan's health authorities ordered all food and beverages using Chinese dairy ingredients be taken off the shelves by 10 pm (1400 GMT) Wednesday, in the latest fallout from China's tainted milk scandal.
"We have decided to adopt what could be the world's most stringent measure by imposing a sweeping, temporary ban on the...
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China's agriculture ministry on Tuesday launched measures designed to rein in "out of control" milk purchasing depots, after at least 53,000 infants fell ill from drinking powdered milk tainted with the chemical melamine.
The ministry issued a notice requiring all milk dealers to register with the government and ordering...
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Cambodia joined a growing list of countries that have banned Chinese milk powder and stepped up inspections, a senior official said Tuesday.
Secretary of State for the Commerce Ministry Chan Nora said Cambodia's quality control bureau also ramped up testing of imported products.
"We need to protect the public. This applies to...
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Chinese health inspectors have found the chemical melamine in liquid milk and yoghurt sold by three leading companies, following a scandal over tainted milk powder that has killed at least four infants, the government said Friday.
The inspectors found melamine contamination in 24 out of 1,202 batches of fresh milk, long-life milk and...
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Three babies have died, 158 children have developed "serious kidney problems" and 6,244 infants were made ill by baby formula spiked with a toxic chemical, Chinese officials said Wednesday.
The third baby to die from the melamine-contaminated formula was from south-eastern Zhejiang province, Health Minister Chen Zhu told a...
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At least 11 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a fresh outbreak of violent internecine clashes in the Gaza Strip, the worst in more than a month, security officials said.
The clashes erupted when Hamas police forces raided a neighbourhood in southern Gaza City before dawn, seeking to arrest members of a powerful local clan, the...
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New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra announced Tuesday that it had recalled a batch of prenatal milk sold in China under its brand and manufactured by its Chinese partner San Lu using contaminated local raw milk.
More than 1,250 babies are reported to have fallen ill after drinking baby milk produced by the San Lu Group, which is...
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As many as 1,253 babies had become ill with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu, authorities reported Monday.
The Chinese Health Ministry reported that 53 young children were in critical condition with kidney stones from drinking milk contaminated with the banned chemical melamine.
Of the 1,253 children...
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An Indian woman was lucky enough Wednesday to have not one but four doctors to help her deliver a baby boy on a flight between Hong Kong and Adelaide.
The plane made an unscheduled landing in the far-north Australian city of Darwin early Wednesday.
"There were four of us - one surgeon, one orthopaedic surgeon, one kidney...
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The Hong Kong government on Tuesday was urged to ease its border controls as a means of slowing the advance in the average age of its population amid a reluctance by young migrants from mainland China to move to the city.
The appeal from Catholic priest Franco Mella came as government figures showed that the proportion of young people...
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An orphaned baby whale that broke hearts in Australia when it tried to suckle the hull of a yacht is to be put down, officials said Thursday.
Animal lovers who had rigged up a makeshift feeding device to try and keep the month-old humpback alive have accepted that the calf can't be saved.
"He's taken a really serious turn for...
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One of the worst suicide attacks ever to strike the Afghan capital, as the Los Angeles Times reported, happened today and killed nearly 41 people, wounding 140 others, just outside the Indian Embassy.It all took place so quickly, that afterwards all became chaotic. Ambulances tried to rush to the place where the accident took place, but...
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 Rescuers on Friday were searching through rubble that buried a
passenger bus in the central Chinese province of Hubei with little hope
for the survival of 30 people believed to have been on board the
vehicle, officials and state media said.
The bus company in Enshi prefecture reported the bus missing
Wednesday, but its location...
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 The Chinese government was stunned to find out a couple came up with the symbol @ for their baby's name. The couple argued that the English "at" sounds like the Mandarin for "love him". However, the government's state language commission has disapproved of the unusual name. Now it's up to the Chinese police, which...
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 Voiced animation “Kung Fu Panda” managed to top the weekend
box-office with an earning of 60 million dollars, while the Adam Sadler’s
comedy “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” ranked No. 2 with 40 million dollars.
“Zohan” stars Adam Sandler as Zohan Dvir, an Israeli
anti-terrorism commando, who fakes his own death in order to...
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 Warner Bros. and New Line’s “Sex and the City” grossed an estimated $55.7 million, having the best opening ever for an R-rated comedy and beating “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” for the weekend crown, Variety reports.No romantic comedy opened to such numbers, prompting immediate talk of a sequel. “Women power,” head...
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 The fantasy-adventure “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull,” released by Paramount on Thursday, managed to earn an estimated
$101 million through Sunday and is expected to amass $25 million more on
Monday, according to the box-office-tracking company Media by Numbers.
“’Indiana Jones’ did incredibly well for a...
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 Disney blockbuster “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”
managed to dethrone “Iron Man” from the top of the U.S. and Canadian box
office, BBC News reports. It appears that the latest film adaptation of CS
Lewis’ Narnia books earned $56.6 million between Friday and Sunday.
Romantic comedy “What Happens in Vegas”, starring...
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 Iron Man managed to trample the competition for its second
straight week in a row, fending off newcomers “Speed Racer” and “What Happens
in Vegas” by a large margin. The movie brought in $50.5 million at the box office
with only a 49 percent drop from the previous week.
“‘Iron Man’ is basically pulling everybody’s audience....
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 Paramount's “Iron Man,” the
comic book-based movie that opened this weekend in the U.S. theaters,
was up to everyone’s expectations.
The film opened strong on Friday, earning $32,500,000 in
ticket sales after it was premiered in 4,105 theaters and, at the end of the
weekend, it occupies the first place in the Weekend...
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 This week-end opens another comedy, this time focusing on
the relationship of two women, “Baby Mama.”
The movie is both written and directed by Michael McCullers
and features “30 Rock’s” Tina Fey as the protagonist, Kate, a 37-year old
executive woman who suddenly acknowledges her desire to become a mother.
Apparently Kate heard...
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 Filmmaker Spike Lee teamed with Nokia in order to direct a movie made with cell phone footage from everyday people, Reuters reports. It appears that the film will have three acts, and an “assignment” for each act would be announced online.
“You are seeing first hand the democratization of film,” Lee declared in...
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 Madonna wrote and produced a documentary about orphans in Malawi, entitled
“I Am Because We Are,” which is one of the favorites at Tribeca Film Festival.
The title refers to a word describing an African worldview –
ubuntu – which translates “I am because you are” and symbolizes the fact that
individuals need other people to be...
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Chris Carter, the mind behind “The X-Files,” hinted there might
be soon a third Hollywood movie installment
based on the cult TV series, EW.com reported. The creator appeared at the Comic
Con convention in New York
Friday, and mentioned this summer’s sequel to the original 1998 “X-Files” movie
could ultimately be part of a...
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 “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?” is a documentary
film, produced, directed and starring Morgan Spurlock, an independent
filmmaker. The film is scheduled to hit theaters Friday, April 18 and its
promotional poster mimics the poster to the Indiana Jones movie “Raiders of the
Lost Ark.”
The director of “Super Size Me”...
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 After earning huge success with the “Spider-Man” trilogy,
Sam Raimi was determined to return to his roots and focus on a new horror
movie.
Given the fact that the present cinematographic craze
definitely doesn’t include the genre, a strategic resource might have been
someone in the cast to draw attention on the new production....
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 The beautiful Angelina Jolie, accompanied by the
equally handsome Brad Pitt, attended Saturday the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival, where she won "Performance of the Year" award for her role in “A Mighty Heart”, where she portrayed
Marianne Pearl, the wife of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.
Angelina...
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 “People” magazine’s 2005 sexiest man alive is now sexiest
soon-to-become dad alive, as Matthew McConaughey announced on his Web site that
he and his girlfriend are expecting a baby.
McConaughey and Brazilian model Camila Alves have been
together for a little more than a year and, as the actor stated on his Web
site, they had been...
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 It’s finally official and it’s finally happening to Nicole
Kidman!
As her reps confirmed, the 40-year old actress is pregnant
at last and she and her hubby, Keith Urban are thrilled about the news. Kidman
has been very open in confessing repeatedly that it was her great desire to
have a family with her husband, whom she married in...
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You know Jessica Alba, she’s sexy, yeah, we know. I don’t
know and probably don’t want to know the way you’ve been imagining her until
now, but now you should imagine her pregnant. Because she is.
The 26-year old Sin
City actress and her
on-off boyfriend Cash Warren are expecting their first child. Although the
couple broke...
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 The thriller No Country for Old Men kicks off the film awards season, as US critics named it the best movie of the year, in the first major film awards of the year.The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has named the dark thriller that was written and directed by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen to be the best movie of this year,...
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You might not have enough patience to take a storybook and
read a tale from beginning to the end, even though you could find it some
pleasurable experience. If reading doesn’t appeal to you, there’s a cinematographic
fairytale available.
“August Rush” is an extremely romantic depiction of love, with
a series of coincidences...
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 Executive producer of The Passions Of Christ and Braveheart,
Steve McEveety went on with another story that is meant to teach us an
essential lesson.
Starring former soap opera actor Eduardo Verastegui, Bella
targets to persuade us that the quintessential element in life is the life
itself, the movie intending to highlight the...
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 Affleck brothers make a good team together, and the result
of their professional collaboration materializes in “Gone Baby Gone”, a movie
based on a homonymic novel of Dennis Lehane.
Ben in the director’s chair and Casey in the protagonist
role, both Afflecks made a step forward in their careers. Ben moves behind the
camera and...
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 “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
is the revival of a legend depicted by a Western movie that takes all the time
it needs to illustrate the entire details that play a quintessential role in
the course of action.
The plot creates no suspense, as the action is revealed from
the title, but it narrates...
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 Ben Affleck is proud to be the latest addition to the cast of “He's
Just Not That into You,” a Baltimore-set
movie of interconnecting story arcs dealing with the challenges of reading or
misreading human behavior.
Ben Affleck and Kris Kristofferson are joining the all-star
cast already made up of Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett...
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 English writer-director Guy Ritchie apparently tries to prove his marriage with Madonna didn't totally kill off his talent. He signed up "300" star Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton and rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges for his "RocknRolla," Ritchie's latest attempt at the mob movie genre.After a...
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 Orson Welles' first feature film, Citizen Kane, is still holding on strong to the lead spot of the American Film Institute's top 100 movies, 10 years after the list was first compiled. The list is made upon the evaluations by a special jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians.The jury evaluates the movies based on their...
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 The US Preventive Services Task Force is strengthening advice on aspirin therapy for middle-aged men and women.The recommendation, published in the annals of Internal Medicine, says that men ages 45-79 should use aspirin to reduce their risk for heart attacks when the benefits outweigh the harms for potential gastrointestinal bleeding....
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 According to a recent study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, kid’s shampoos contain high levels of chemicals linked to cancer. The CSC tested 48 different name-brand kids' bath products for 1,4-dioxane; 28 of those items were also tested for formaldehyde.The report showed 61 percent of 28 products tested contained both chemicals....
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 I am sure new mommies think the very best for their newly-born children and they buy the “best” products to wash their delicate skin. Surprisingly, these products aren’t what they are supposed to be, according to a new analysis made by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetic Use.The analysis found that many baby and child care products contain...
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 House and Senate leaders introduced legislation on Friday
that would ban bisphenol A in all food and beverage containers amid growing concern
that the chemical would interfere with human development.
The authors of the bill were Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)
and Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Charles E. Schumer...
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 Six makers of baby bottles in the U.S. announced their decision to remove the controversial chemical from their products. The decision was taken after attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey sent letters last October to 11 companies, asking them to stop using the chemical, which can alter the normal activity of...
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 It seems that the multitude of studies on the negative
effects of bisphenol A on the human body and pressure from authorities have
finally had an echo among producers of baby bottles containing the
above-mentioned chemical. Six of them announced that they will stop selling
items containing bisphenol A.
The companies who stopped...
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 According to Connecticut’s attorney general, six companies have agreed to stop sales of baby-bottles that contain Bisphenol-A. The decision was taken after attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey sent letters last October to 11 companies, asking them to stop using the chemical, which mimics the hormonal activity of...
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 A boy or a girl? Blue Eyes? Brown hair? A Los Angeles fertility clinic that comes with a special offer of custom-designed babies has been at the center of a growing debate lately. Those who oppose the idea of creating a baby that would follow parents’ taste say that this idea will turn children into a doll, in the hands of doctors and...
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 A fertility clinic comes with an unusual offer: would-be moms and dads have the chance to choose between a wide variety of custom-designed babies. Doctors plan to let customers to choose their baby’s eye, hair and skin color. The offer is based on a lab technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. Preimplantation genetic...
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 U.S. researchers announced on Monday that the babies who are conceived by using in vitro fertilization are more likely to develop birth defects than those babies who are conceived through a natural way. The birth defects include cardiac problems which might act like a hole in the heart. Researchers led by epidemiologist Jennita Reefhuis...
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A premature baby girl who had shocked Israelis when she suddenly showed signs of life after spending more than five hours in a morgue refrigerator died early on Tuesday in the northern Israeli hospital were she was born.
A senior gynaecologist who had helped deliver the 610-gram baby, born on Monday in the fifth month of her mother's...
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they will hold a public meeting about the chemical found in baby bottles and other products. The meeting will be held next month and the environmental groups say that the chemical, known as bisphenol A, could hurt little children and animals.Still, the U.S. Food and Drug...
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A probe has been launched in
Hong Kong after a baby boy was given 10 times the required amount of
morphine, hospital officials said Monday. The two-week-old
boy was given 2.5 milligrams of morphine after being admitted to Queen
Elizabeth Hospital in the Kowloon district of the territory on July 18
with jaundice. Hospital...
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 Since the first test tube baby, more and more women desire to have children by IVF. In 1987 the science evolved so much that it could help in the birth of Louise Joy Brown. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe from Cambridge University helped in delivering baby Louise, who is now 30, on July 25, 1987, by Caesarean. The event served as hope...
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 Officials at a Corpus
Christi hospital announced that they intend to make an
autopsy on a newborn in order to conclude whether an overdose of the blood
thinner heparin may have been one of the reasons for the infant’s death.
Two members of the Christus Spohn Hospital South’s pharmacy
personnel have renounced voluntarily, in...
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 The issue of the effects that consuming foods and beverages packaged in polycarbonate containers made from the chemical bisphenol A has upon one’s health has long been debated in the media. BPA is most often found in the composition of baby bottles and water bottles, but many other edible products are packaged in containers of this...
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 The Alzheimer's Association has released yesterday its yearly report on the disease. The 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures details in 43 pages both current figures and forecasts. The Association has found that as many as 5.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, which now is the seventh-leading cause of death in...
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 A report issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
shows that cribs, high chairs, walkers and other nursery products were linked
to 66,400 injuries that sent children in hospitals in 2006, The Wall Street
Journal informs.
CPSC says there were 241 nursery products deaths in children
under five from 2002 to 2004. About 40...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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 Scientists report that pre-chewing the baby’s food is another way of transmitting AIDS to infants. As this is a frequent custom in the less developed countries, health officials warn the mothers who practice it that there are great chances for the baby to be infected.
Indeed, the infection is transmitted through blood, not...
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 A new research study found that baby shampoos,
lotions and powders contain chemicals that might cause reproductive and
endocrine abnormalities to infants. The chemicals, called phthalates, are found
in baby cosmetics, as well as in toys, vinyl flooring, shower curtains and
medical supplies. They are used by the manufacturers for...
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 Arthritic disease is the most common cause of disability in
the United States and now affects 46 million Americans, or more than 21 percent
of the adult population, a major new report finds.
That number is expected to rise even higher as baby boomers
age, so that by 2030, 40 percent of American adults will suffer from some form
of...
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 Concerns regarding whether a chemical called Bisphenol A and
whether it is harmful to humans are ever so growing considering the fact that
the chemical is used to harden plastic in consumer products including baby
bottles, food containers, cling wrap, toys, CDs, sunglasses, and thousands of
other products.
A number of...
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 As a result of his treatment one of the first children in
Britain developed leukemia after receiving pioneer gene therapy for an immune
system disorder.
The boy, 3, is the first gene therapy patient in Britain to
fall ill with leukemia, a known risk of the treatment. A similar gene therapy
programme in France has caused four cases...
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 Health experts have issued a warning over a body lotion
treating eczema and psoriasis which is unlicensed and contains steroids.
Osas, which has been found on sale in Asian and African
beauty shops all over London and on the internet, claims to contain natural
ingredients.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory...
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 According to the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy
and research organization, baby formula is often sold in cans lined with
the bisphenol-A, a chemical that has been linked to a host of health
problems. Formula makers and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledge
this fact, but say the amount of bisphenol-A (BPA) in...
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 According to researchers reports, pregnant women are being exposed to more than twice the amount of radiation from medical imaging scans than they were a decade ago, potentially placing themselves and their unborn babies at risk of future health woes.Although the average amount of radiation a woman received during any scan was well below...
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According to researchers, newly mothers who want to lose the
extra weight gained in pregnancy should try to solve the matter by getting more
sleep.
They found that mothers who slept five hours or less a day
when their babies were six months old were three times more likely than more
rested mothers to have kept on the extra...
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 According to researchers, an experimental malaria vaccine
tested in Africa is safe and effective in babies, who
are most at risk of dying of the disease. If all goes well, experts say the
drug could become available in the next few years to protect infants and young
children from the mosquito-borne illness.
Malaria kills more than...
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 According to recent research, men who suffer fertility
problems because of low sperm quality may be able to improve their chances of
fatherhood by having sex every day
While those trying for a baby are often told to refrain from
ejaculating too often to protect their sperm count, Australian scientists have
shown that this can be...
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 Until recently, it was believed that one cause for which very young children develop teeth problems such as cavities and tooth decay was breastfeeding.Although cavities affect one in four children, it was ruled out that breastfeeding was among the contributing factors alongside smoking during pregnancy, poverty, lifestyle and chosen...
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 According to the FDA, US Food and Drug Administration, the
apple flavored Baby's Bliss gripe water could possibly be contaminate with a
parasite that causes intestinal infection and thus strongly warns consumers to
stop using the product.
The gripe water carries the code 26952V and an expiration
date shown as 10/08 (for October...
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 Exactly one year after discovering E.coli infected spinach,
health control tested a package of Dole lettuce positive for the same virus.
E.coli is one of many species of bacteria living in the
lower intestines of mammals, known as gut flora.
The lettuce package from Dole's Hearts Delight salad mix was
sold at a store in...
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 Elijah Moulton, aged 8 months, survived a very difficult five organ transplant, which saw his liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach replaced in a seven-hour procedure on July 10 at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. He was suffering from a rare gastrointestinal malformation called total intestinal...
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 Aspirin has been found to hold yet another beneficial effect: possibly reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia, a condition that appears in pregnant women and can endanger both the mother and the baby.
A study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Sydney and published in The Lancet suggests that pre-eclampsia could be...
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 Little Emmanuel has finally been reunited with his mother, Clara Rojas, some three years after being separated from her.
Former vice presidential candidate Rojas, 44, was released by
rebels of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
last week, after almost six years in captivity.
Her son, Emmanuel, is now three...
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 DNA tests indicate that there is a high probability that a boy held in
a state child protection facility is the son of Clara Rojas, a hostage
of leftist rebels who gave birth to the boy in captivity, Colombian
Attorney General Mario Iguaran said Friday.
After meeting with other high government officials in the northern
Colombian...
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 Pope Benedict XVI came under attack for maintaining a strong position against abortion, which is considered murder in all major monotheistic religions. He naturally called for the exclusion of pro-abortionists from the Church communion, as they are not valid members of a pro-life church."Legislative action in favor of abortion is...
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 According to Esquire men magazine, actress Halle Berry is the Sexiest Woman Alive. Even if the 42-year-old actress has already a child, men all around the United States still consider her to be the sexiest woman they have ever seen. On Tuesday, an article from the magazine’s website showed Halle Berry in a parody of a 2000 cover...
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 After recently divorcing from hip-hop mogul, Russell
Simmons, Kimora Lee won sole custody of her two daughters, Ming, aged 8 and
Aoki, aged 5.
The papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on
Tuesday and apart from granting Kimora Lee exclusive custody of the two girls,
Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons was...
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 The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce released today the names of 25 2009 honorees to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The officials analyze hundreds of annual submissions, the final awardees being ratified by the Board of Directors.
Among the stars’ stars are Robert Downey Jr., Cameron Diaz, Shakira, disco band The...
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 The You Tube awards have become more and more popular. The
online prizes have reached their second year and they are very in style, all
the nominees being viewed about a quarter-billion times. This is for sure an
easy way to be promoted and to become famous.
This year, on the second annual You Tube Video Awards the
fans votes on...
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 Some people become famous after years of work. Some other,
just after a month of life.
This is the case of Max and Emme, the toddler twins of
singer/actress Jennifer Lopez and salsa singer Marc Anthony, whom very recently
made their media debut in the new issues of celebrity magazine “People” that
hits newsstands on...
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 Brian d’Arcy James is going to play the green ogre, Shrek,
in the stage adaption of the DreamWorks Animation property, “Shrek.” The show
is going to open on Broadway on December 14. According to The Associated Press,
Brian d’Arcy was recently seen in the musical “Next to Normal” where he had the role of a husband
fighting with his...
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 The Madden brothers are very busy boys, actually. Besides
spending time with his fiancée, Nicole Richie and daughter, Harlow (that would
be Joel Madden, of course) and partying with Paris Hilton (we’re making reference
to Benji), the two opened a store.
The official opening of the DCMA Collective on Melrose took place on
Friday...
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 Love is in the air for Paris
Hilton and Benji Madden, as the couple have begun to show up in public. The
rumors over the new romance were first heard at the weekend, when the hotel
heiress and Good Charlotte member were seen together at a DJ gig in St. Louis,
OK! Magazine reports.
Witnesses said that they hooked
up last...
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 The much-waited for first
encounter between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston has been postponed, Now
Magazine reports.
They were expected to meet at the
pre-Oscar party on Saturday at the Warner’s Night Before Party at the Beverly
Hills Hotel. The two actresses have never met face to face since Jennifer and
Brad broke up...
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 Former “Baywatch” babe Pamela Anderson spent this year’s
Valentine’s Day in Paris.
Anderson
campaigned for the protection of baby seals which are now endangered again by
ruthless hunt. The actress followed the steps of French actress Brigitte Bardot
campaigning for the protection of animals.
The 40-year old actress explained...
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 The father of the multi-talented
J. Lo told Escandalo TV, a Spanish language TV show, that his daughter is
pregnant with twins, People reports.
"Yes, twins. The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins,
so it's a hereditary thing," he added.
David Lopez is very eager to
welcome his grandchildren into the...
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 The 17-year-old American Idol hopeful became an American Idol on Wednesday night – not that it was unexpected.
Wednesday night’s two-hour results show was trying for many, as time slowly passed away up to the moment when, finally, Jordin Sparks was named this season’s American Idol.
Blake Lewis, while entertaining and appreciated by...
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 LaKisha Jones came a long way on “American Idol,” surviving for a full eight weeks. She has been sent home now; three brave contestants continue the competition.
Wednesday night was goodbye night for 27-year-old LaKisha Jones. She may have gotten her hopes up after last week’s non-characteristic appreciation from...
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According to recent studies on toxic chemicals found in children’s bath and personal care products, two chemical compounds – 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde – were found in more than half of these products. Formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane are considered probable carcinogens by the Environmental Protection Agency. Formaldehyde is a breakdown...
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 Many baby and child care products contain the chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, both of which have been blamed for cancer and various skin conditions but the labels don’t list them, according to a report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetic Use.According to the Environmental Protection Agency, both formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane are...
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 Researchers at the University of Southern California have
released a study showing that men who take a daily folic acid supplement have
an increased risk of developing prostate cancer, underlining once again the
idea that supplements don’t always have benefits on our health.
The findings appear in the March 10 online issue of...
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 A new study shows that mothers with
diabetes may have nearly twice the risk of experiencing depression during
pregnancy and post-partum depression compared with women without diabetes.
It appears that this type of depression
affects at least 10 to 12 percent of new mothers. Approximately 12 percent of
pregnancies are complicated...
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 Most of the doctors recommend moderate exercise for women during the time they are pregnant. Still, many pregnant women fail when it comes to workouts. But a new study may convince them that regular exercise helps them ease the pain from the moment they give birth.The study was published in the November issue of Reproductive Health...
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 Researchers have stated that if pregnant women get flu shots a month or more before giving birth, they might protect their babies too, in their first six months. Dr. Mark Steinhoff, a pediatrician with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that the study is about "immunize the mother and you protect...
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 The government and the FDA have released on Tuesday a list for all the consumers as to teach them how to reduce their exposure to BPA, a substance which is found in plastic baby bottles, metal cans and other food packaging. Even if the FDA stated that the chemical is safe, many sick people accused the BPA levels to be guilty of it.The...
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 The chemical used to make plastic for baby bottles and soda cans can really harm the fetuses and the baby children. The chemical needs to be studied better before it is concluded to be safe, as the U.S. government report said. The BPA, as the chemical’s scientific name is, had harmful effects on animals, the National Toxicology Program...
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 According to U.S. researchers, women who suffer from diabetes before getting pregnant are approximately three times as likely as other women to have a baby born with at least one deficiency.A range of distinct birth defects are linked to mothers who have type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes though it is not exclusively a...
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 A recent study suggests that children born prematurely are shyer and have fewer opportunities to get married and, therefore, have children.Researchers say they have just begun to understand how being born earlier than 37 weeks affects personality. Until 20 to 30 years ago, only a few newborns managed to survive. Even today, very small or...
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 According to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention study reported in the Journal of Safety Research, in 2005
approximately 8,000 deaths and 56,000 hospitalizations among older American
adults were caused by traumatic brain injuries produced by falls.
Dr. Ileana Arias, director of the CDC's National Center
for Injury...
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 Marijuana potency increased in 2007 to the
highest level in more than 30 years since scientific analysis of the drug
began, according to a report from the University of Mississippi’s
Potency Monitoring Project. The group funded through the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, has analyzed and compiled data on nearly 63,000 cannabis...
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 Researchers from Exeter and Oxford universities
discovered a link between calories and the new baby’s gender. A good breakfast,
with plenty of food has been found to increase dramatically a woman’s chances
of having boys instead of girls.
British scientists studied consumption patterns of 740 women who
were pregnant but didn’t...
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researchers found premature baby’s fate may be influenced by four factors beyond
gestational age. Based on all these factors, one may determine whether an
extremely premature baby will survive and grow up healthy or not.
Weight is the first factor which influences premature baby’s
life. Babies that weight more survived...
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 A recent study of the long-term consequences of premature
birth shows that infants born prematurely have higher death rates in childhood
and they are more likely to be childless in adulthood.
A full term pregnancy is defined as 38 weeks or longer. If a
baby is born prior to 37 weeks he/she is more exposed to neurological...
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 In a new scientific experiment, human
embryos that contain DNA from two women and one man have been created by
British scientists, who hope that this procedure might be used in the future to
create healthy embryos free of any inherited diseases, the Associated Press
reports.
The research, funded by the Muscular...
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 A new study showed that
breastfeeding seemed to be somehow linked to developing allergic asthma. At
least in baby mice’s case.
The baby lab mice that were
breastfed by their mommies appear to have been exposed to a certain allergen,
which they inherited and to which they later developed a certain tolerance.
Thanks to this...
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 According to two studies of children in Britain and New Zealand, the known link between higher IQ and being breast fed as a baby may be down to a gene variant likely to be present in 90 per cent of the population.The two studies are published in one paper in the November 5th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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 Researchers have identified a correlation between the time of year when a baby is conceived and their future development.
Dr Paul Winchester, a neonatal specialist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and his colleagues, studied more than 27 million live births in the U.S. between 1996 and 2002.
The team of researchers found...
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 Charlie Sheen, the CBS “Two and a Half Men” star and his wife Brooke Mueller welcomed their first children together – twin boys Bob and Max– on Saturday.Sheen is already the father of Sam (5) and Lola (3) with ex-wife Denise Richards and Cassandra (24) with ex-girlfriend Paula Profitt.His publicist Stan Rosenfield told People magazine...
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 An attorney for Howard K. Stern explains the longtime boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith will confront conspiracy charges made public on Thursday.California Attorney General Jerry Brown described Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-boyfriend as her “principal enabler” on Friday, referring to a conspiracy he had organized with two doctors in...
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 California Attorney General Jerry Brown described Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-boyfriend as her “principal enabler” on Friday, referring to a scheme he had planned with a couple of doctors in order to provide the “known addict” thousands of prescription pills just a few months before the actress died of an overdose.Howard K. Stern,...
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 Over two years since Anna Nicole Smith tragically died from a drug overdose, her former boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, and two other doctors have been charged Thursday with conspiring to give her prescription drugs. Stern, who was Smith's longtime partner, and even claimed to be the father of her baby girl, and doctors Sandeep...
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 Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, have canceled their engagement, Johnston announced on Wednesday, just a couple of months after the two had a baby together.The 19-year-old father informed The Associated Press that he and 18-year-old Bristol Palin commonly settled on the decision to call it quits...
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 The now famous octuplets mom has agreed to permit a foster nursing charity to provide care for her eight babies and six other children for at least half a year, television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw announced on Monday.Consistent with stipulations of the agreement between octomom Nadya Suleman and the philanthropic foundation Angels in...
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 Nadya Suleman, the California woman who rose to fame after giving birth to octuplets in late January, accepted a helping hand from a foster nursing charity that will provide care for her eight newborns and six older children for at least six months, television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw said on Monday.According to Dr. Phil McGraw, who...
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 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, gave birth to a boy on Thursday night. She and her husband, Pete Wentz, were extremely happy when they welcomed their son, Bronx Mowgli Wentz. The little baby boy weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 1/2 inches long. A spokesperson told People magazine that the three...
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 Actress Jennifer Aniston divorced Brad Pitt at the end of 2005. Rumors stated from the beginning that the main cause of their break up was Angelina Jolie, with whom Pitt had shot Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It seems that Pitt and Jolie fell in love and couldn’t stop it, as Jolie herself stated in an interview a year ago.The December issue of...
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 Jayden James Federline, Britney Spears’ youngest son, was rushed to Southwest Mississippi hospital on Sunday because he had suffered an allergic reaction. As a source told People magazine, the 2-year-old boy “had hives, was itchy and irritable.” Britney and her mother, Lynne Spears, spent the night in the hospital to take care of the...
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 Levi Stubbs Jr., lead singer for Four Tops, died at the age of 72. He had cancer and ended the fight with it at his home in Detroit. What made him give up his music and concerts was a stroke he suffered in 2000 and obliged him to remain inside the house. He left behind him his wife, Clineice, 48, and his five children to take care of his...
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 Has Angelina Jolie become a role model for mothers? More and more magazines have released a new trend based on celebrities’ babies. After the scandal with Jamie Lynn Spears breastfeeding her daughter, now Angelina Jolie has come with new pictures on the cover of W Brad Pitt has taken photos of his wife breastfeeding one of their twins...
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 The 17-year-old Britney Spears’ sister gave birth to Maddie Briann Aldridge on June 19, 2008. Still, Jamie Lynn Spears didn’t have the chance to marry the father, Casey Aldridge and they have also recently announced that they don’t hurry toward a future together so soon. They will remain engaged but without their vows made. “Zoey 101”...
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 A federal porno investigation has been started since some photos of Jamie Lynn Spears breast feeding her baby girl were stolen and posted on the Internet. Someone has stolen 12 photos in which Jamie Lynn feeds her baby, some of Britney Spears and some showing baby girl Maddie and her father, Casey Aldrige.In one of the pictures Jamie...
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 Do you remember that funny and sweet actress from “P.S. I Love You?” Beautiful Hilary Swank, two-times Oscar winner, suffered an operation to remove a benign tumor, as her manager reported on Thursday. Jason Weinberg, Hilary’s manager said that the 34-year-old actress was "experiencing some discomfort and went to see her doctor, who...
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 Beyonce Knowles gets a new album out for her fans! Her Columbia Records label, which is a unit of Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment Inc., said on Monday that the R&B singer releases her third solo album on November 18. The label added that the album is Beyonce’s "most personal, reflective and revelatory collection...
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 A VMA presser took place on Thursday, three days before the big show. Paramount Studios hosted the first press conference of the 2008 Video Music Awards and of course Russell Brand, the host of the show, was there to take the interviews and sustain the atmosphere.Dressed in a black vest and super-tight trousers, Russell Brand welcomed...
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 We’ve heard that Britney Spears’ sister sent baby gifts for Bristol Palin to show her that is not a shame to give birth so young. Jamie Lynn Spears is said to have given birth by mistake at only 17 years old, in spite of all the family’s saying that her relationship is serious. Still, Lynne Spears, the mother of the two troubled sisters,...
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 While Gwen Stefani, 38, was part of the band No Doubt she met her future husband, Bush guitarist and lead singer, Gavin Rossdale, in December 1995. The two got married on September 14, 2002 and had their wedding at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London. In 2004, the two found out that Rossdale already had a daughter from a previous...
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Matt Damon, on his real name Matthew Paige Damon, is an American screenwriter and an actor. For the screenwriting of “Good Will Hunting” he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Since 1997, he is one of the most popular actors in Hollywood.The film gained Matt Damon and Benn Affleck an Oscar for the best original...
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 In an interview with OK! Magazine, Britney Spears, 26, has revived the new happenings in her life. Even if she didn’t discuss her mental health problems she managed to be as opened as to give further information about her state.Britney Spears has recently shot an ad for the MTV VMA which starts on September 7 together with the host of...
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 Ethan Hawke’s wife has given birth to a baby
girl, Clementine Jane Hawke. The couple welcomed the beautiful girl on July 18
in New York City,
Hawke’s publicist, Mara Buxbaum said.
Ryan Shawhughes, 28, the former nanny of
the former couple Ethan Hawke-Uma Thurman, confirmed the pregnancy in January. The
37-year-old actor was...
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 James Brown possessions, ranging from his cans of hairspray to his medical bracelet, brought in $857,688 at an auction that took place Thursday. Enthusiastic fans packed a Christie's salesroom in Rockefeller Center to purchase most of the items put up for sale. Furniture, musical instruments, hair curlers and a poem Muhammad Ali wrote...
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 The 27-year-old actress gave birth to daughter Honor Marie on June 7 and compared this experience with "meditation."During the birth of her baby girl, she kept quiet, being convinced that a silence delivery room was the secret of suppressing her labor pains. She showed quiet strength during the birth and the experience she...
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 Following the trend of so many stars who appear on
magazines’ covers as soon as their babies are born, Jessica Alba can be admired
together with her baby girl Honor Marie Warren on the cover of OK! Magazine.
She also offered the magazine a few delicious details about
Honor Marie and her birth. For example, she gives us hope that an...
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 A South Carolina judge approved of an auction of James
Brown’s belongings in New York that will take place at a Christie’s auction
house next week.
The estate of the late “Godfather of Soul” will start
selling the musician’s colorful clothing, extravagant costumes and handwritten
lyrics on July 17. The sale of Brown’s possessions...
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 Gorgeous actress Angelina Jolie gave birth at Lenval hospital on the French Riviera to Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, the twins thanks to whom the Jolie-Pitt family counts 8 members. Maddox,6; Pax,4; Zahara,3 and Shiloh,2 - the four other kids of Brangelina, haven’t seen their new little sister and brother yet.The newborn twins were...
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 Oscar winner Jolie has given birth to twins at a hospital in France. The babies, a boy, Knox Lenox, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, were delivered via Cesarian section on Saturday evening.Dr Michel Sussmann told the Associated Press that the babies, mother and father “are doing marvelously well.” The actress is expected to remain...
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 Hundreds of items belonging to the late James Brown will be auctioned at Christie’s auction house in New York.Most of the memorabilia belonging to the Godfather of Soul are from his South Carolina home. Among the auction items will be the artist’s performance outfits, awards, platinum records, instruments, furniture, 83 pairs of...
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 Tom Cruise, along with his wife Katie Holmes, and his two
children with Nicole Kidman, Bella and Connor, has sent a present for newly
born Sunday Rose, People
magazine informs.
Although some reports said that Tom Cruise had sent his
ex-wife tons of flowers, the actor and his family actually sent a big baby
basket for Kidman and...
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 Tom Cruise sent a “room full of flowers” to ex-wife and new mother Nicole Kidman. “Tom was one of the first people to get in touch and sent her enough flowers to fill a room,” a source told the Daily Mirror. Cruise and Kidman split in 2000 after nearly 10 years of marriage. She also received a floral arrangement from Australia’s Prime...
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 The 17-year-old “Zoey 101” star Jamie Lynn
Spears “was blessed” with a “perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery,” as she
told OK! magazine. Party-girl Britney Spears plans to raise the baby with
boyfriend Casey Aldridge in their Mississippi
residence.
Jamie Lynn says she loves taking care of her
daughter. “It is so much fun. I...
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 The beautiful baby girl’s name, Sunday Rose
Kidman Urban, was inspired by an Australian arts patron, Sunday Reed. As for
Rose, it comes from Urban’s late grandmother name.
The unusual name, Sunday, chosen for Nicole
Kidman and Keith Urban’s daughter, who was born on July 7 in Nashville, “stuck me as being a nice name for
a woman,...
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 Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend, model Camila Alves,
became the parents of a baby boy on Monday evening, the actor’s rep Alan Nierob
told People.
McConaughey and his Brazilian girlfriend of two years
welcomed their 7-pound, 4-ounce son at 6:44 p.m, Nierob said.
The handsome actor told OK!Magazine that he and Alves were...
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 The Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and
her husband Keith Urban welcomed their first child, a beautiful baby girl and
they named her Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.
“Earlier this morning Nic gave birth to our
beautiful baby girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban,” country music star Keith Urban
announced on his Web site.
“We want to...
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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ wife, Kimora
Lee Simmons, is demanding $480,000 in child support each year for their two
daughters.
After nine years of marriage Russell
Simmons and Kimora Lee divorced this year. Kimora Lee, 33, filled for divorce
earlier this year, citing irreconcilable differences, and asked for primary
custody...
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 The pregnancy pact in the seaside town of Gloucester, Mass, made by 17 teenage pupils, who decided to get pregnant and to raise their babies together, was the result of a variety of factors linked to the age of the girls. In adolescence, everyone of us has some specific needs, such as the need to be loved – many teens want unconditional...
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 Britney Spears’ sister gave birth to a girl
in a Mississippi
hospital, according to People Magazine. The 17-year-old star of “Zoey 101” gave
birth to Maddie Briann on Thursday after a caesarean. Doctors advised Jamie to have
the caesarean because of the baby’s position; an ultrasound picture showed it
was in the breech position....
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 Jamie Lynn Spears is expected to have a caesarian after doctors advised her to choose this procedure. Some sources said Jamie Lynn had been experiencing some “health problems.” Is she doesn’t have the caesarian, her baby’s life could be in danger because of its position. An ultrasound picture showed the baby was in the breech position,...
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 Actress Jessica Alba, who married her longtime
boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to a baby girl,
according to US Weekly magazine. The same source reported the 27-year-old gave
birth at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, California,
over the weekend.
The magazine’s insider told that...
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 Oscar-winning director, writer and producer Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby,) should not have to serve time in prison for unlawfully having sex with a 13-year-old girl 30 years ago, the victim now says. Samantha Geimer, now 45 years old with three sons, said in an interview she wants the case resolved.“I don’t...
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 Actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently revealed that she and her
husband Chris Martin of Coldplay, may have another baby. She mentioned that she
is also open to the idea of adopting a child.
“I may force myself to do it one more time because the result is so worth
it,” Paltrow said, quoted by RTE.ie. On adopting a child, the actress...
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 Angelina Jolie’s manager dismissed the rumours claiming she has given birth to twins in the south of France. “Entertainment Tonight” first reported that Angelina Jolie gave birth on Sunday in France, citing sources saying that “Babies are great and so is mom.” Other reports claimed she had delivered two baby girls and named them Isla...
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 Clay Aiken is going to be a daddy, the
celebrity gossip site TMZ.com reports. Former “American Idol” contestant is expecting
a child, who is reportedly due in August.
The 29-year-old crooner donated sperm to
his best friend, Jaymes Foster, 50, a record producer. She produced several
Aiken CDs, the same source reports.
Foster...
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 A judge finally approved Madonna’s adoption
for a Malawian boy she met in an orphanage in 2006.
The 49-year-old pop star and her husband,
Guy Ritchie, “are perfect parents” for David, who will be 3 in November, Justice
Andrew Nyirenda said. Madonna was not present in the court for the ruling. Madonna
and Ritchie also have a son,...
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 Beautiful actress Eva Longoria Parker served up hamburgers
and milkshakes to several pleasantly surprised customers Tuesday at a Wendy’s in her hometown of
Corpus Christi, Texas in order to promote the fast-food chain’s forthcoming
Father’s day Frosty Weekend, E! online reports.
The “Desperate Housewives’” star surprised...
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 Jessica Alba was “taken.” The 27-year-old
actress married her longtime boyfriend Cash Warren on Monday. The couple, who
have a baby girl on the way, became engaged in late December.
They met on the set of the “The Fantastic
Four” in 2005, where Warren
worked as director’s assistant.
Jessica Alba, 27, and Cash Warren,...
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 With the new rumors of Paris Hilton being on her way of
taking the big step with lover Benji Madden, the question is whether she is
prepared to form a family, this also including a baby.
To begin with, let’s get something straight: Paris is not engaged! Recently
she showed up with an extremely sparkling diamond ring on her left...
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 Jackson William Leslie Jordan, the man who for the past two
years has been terrifying Uma Thurman’s family with letters, e-mails containing
threats of suicide, wanted to set something straight Friday when he took the
stand in a Manhattan
courtroom. The 37-year-old man said that he never intended to scare the actress
nor her family....
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 All of a sudden, you wake up one day and realize that nine months have gone by and you’ve hardly had time to buy all those toys and clothes which are necessary for a baby. For Jamie Lynn Spears there is no need to worry, because she has been buying a lot of clothes and toys for the baby girl who is due June 29, as a family insider...
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