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 Miriam Makeba went to Italy to perform during a concert against organized crime. But it was the last thing she got to do because on early Monday she found her end in the emergency room of the Pineta Grande Clinic in Italy, near the Naples. She died after she was brought there and after she had suffered a heart attack.Makeba was...
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 Just as she was preparing for a comeback, country music star
Mindy McCready suffered a nervous breakdown and is now seeking treatment.
The troubled singer went to an emergency room in a Tennessee
hospital and then entered rehab Tuesday night.
Her rep told People magazine that McCready “did receive
emergency care at Vanderbilt...
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 Actress Heather Locklear, famous for her roles in television
soap operas such as “Dynasty” and “Melrose Place” is seeking treatment for
anxiety and depression and has checked herself into a psychological treatment facility
in Arizona, her publicist Sarah Fuller said Saturday in a statement.
Fuller said the blonde actress had been...
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 The ongoing custody battle between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards continues with another episode. After Sheen, star of “Two and a Half Men,” apologized for the inappropriate words he used in two voicemails he sent to his ex-wife, it was time for Denise Richards to go back to court. She did that on Friday morning in Los Angeles for an...
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Hip-Hop singer Wyclef Jean launched a new initiative in
order to help Haiti
following last month’s deadly food riots, Reuters reports. “Together For Haiti”
is aimed at raising $48 million over the next six months to fund expanded food
distribution, job creation and assistance for farmers in the poorest country in
the...
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 Supermodel Naomi Campbell almost made a good cause gesture
in Rio in the fight against a dengue fever
epidemic.
Campbell
offered to donate blood, but her offer was declined due to the fact that she
had undergone surgery too recently. At the end of February, the British model
traveled to Brazilian city of Sao
Paulo to have an...
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 Jerry Seinfeld was involved in a harrowing car accident, but
was unhurt and managed to avoid making any other victims.
Coming from the funnyman, we might be tempted to think that
it was a joke, but it was unfortunately real. The brakes on his vintage car
stopped working while he was driving in East Hampton
on Saturday evening....
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Singer Sean Levert passed away after he was rushed to the
hospital, following a medical emergency in jail.
The 39-year old artist left the Cuyahoga
County jail at around 11 p.m. on
Sunday and headed to the Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland,
according to the coroner’s office. Unfortunately he died in less than an hour
at the medical...
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 When you a precious puppy, you
should be aware of the fact that you are an easy prey for kidnappers and thieves.
Fortunately, the Pomeranian puppy that had been stolen from a pet shop in Naperville was lucky
enough to be returned unharmed to the store.
The lucky puppy is 2 months old
and it was stolen from the store on Friday...
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 A jury concluded on Friday that two doctors accused of
malpractice in the tragic death of actor John Ritter were innocent.
Ritter’s wife, Amy Yasbeck filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles area
cardiologist Dr. Joseph Lee and radiologist Dr. Matthew Lotysch, seeking
damages of $67 million. However, a Glendale
jury decided in favor of...
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 British supermodel Naomi Campbell left on Friday the
Brazilian hospital where she was admitted in order to undergo an emergency
surgery.
The frequent visitor of Brazil had a small cyst removed
from her abdomen on Monday. She was admitted to Sirio Libanes
Hospital, a renowned
medical center. Even though extensive details haven’t...
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 Britney Spears changed lawyers, but wasn’t able to alter her
mother-without-any-rights over her two sons status.
The pop singer has lost any visitation rights her two
children Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1 since her high profile meltdown
on January 3. Back then she refused to hand down her babies to one of...
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 Apparently Britney Spears is a good girl after all.
The pop star finally made it to a deposition on the same
date it was scheduled and on the same time it was set. Way to go, hurray!
Spears and her manager Sam Lutfi drove to the Century City offices of Mark Vincent Kaplan,
Kevin Federline’s attorney. They arrived there at...
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 Enough with the fancy clothed-people and parties in lush
clubs for Lindsay Lohan! Now she is set
for something else, which is totally different.
Well, we cannot say
that it was her who has taken the decision for herself, but we can certainly
hope the experience would help her. Lindsay Lohan, 21, is going to spend two
days in a...
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 Surprise, surprise! Santa Claus doesn’t really exist, but he
usually comes to us every year, on the other hand, Britney Spears, without
doubt exists, but she does show up virtually never in court lately.
Well, this is what has happened since December, when the pop
tart/queen stopped visiting the court in the bitter custody case...
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 One of the famous twin sisters, Mary-Kate Olsen entered the emergency
room of a New York
hospital on Monday.
The 21-year actress, who has just finalized a guest stint on
“Weeds” was diagnosed with a kidney infection and remained in hospital.
According to her rep, she is feeling fine resting and she is expected to make a
full...
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 A new emergency hearing in the custody case disputed between
ex-couple Britney Spears – Kevin Federline brought a new turn, Spears being
bared from driving with her children in the car.
The decision taken by Court Commissioner Scott M. Gordon
was actually sealed and none of the parties confirmed it, but TMZ.com reports
that from...
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 Oprah Winfrey responds to alleged abuses in the South
African school she founded in January with much hype by apologizing profusely.
At an emergency meeting with the parents of the girls that
she personally interviewed for the school admission, Oprah expressed her
disappointment of what happened and the fact that she felt...
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 Britney Spears is really going for the better, with her musical
career on the verge of re-launching and her recent make up with her mother and
younger sister. And for the moment, “the better” means that she was granted
more lenient custody conditions, ten days after she lost legal and physical
custody of her toddler sons.
Spears...
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 New pictures of actor Owen Wilson revealing his wrists have raised suspicion over his apparent suicide attempt two weekends ago. Just days after being released from the hospital, Wilson was spotted by paparazzi as he left his brother Luke’s house in Santa Monica, with no bandages on his supposed slit writs, even sporting a watch on his...
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 As it was earlier reported, actor Owen Wilson attempted suicide Sunday, by slitting his writs and overdosing on pills, police logs confirmed. According to 911 call records, police responded an emergency call made from Owen Wilson’s home on August 26, at 12:08 p.m., classified as "attempted suicide," Extra reported. The call was...
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 Just little before Lindsay Lohan got arrested, the actress’ former assistant’s mom made an emergency call to police, frantically asking for help over a mysterious SUV following her, unaware that Lindsay was driving it. According to police reports, the assistant had just quit her job, several hours before the arrest. "We were just...
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 US comedian Dave Chappelle, who was checked into an emergency room for exhaustion on Saturday, is reportedly doing OK. Chappelle was hospitalized over the weekend for exhaustion, but he was released several hours later, his representative, Carla Sims, said in a press release. "It was exhaustion; he had been traveling," she...
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 Television comedy talk-show host, comedian and producer James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel required an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday night in L.A., TMZ reports. His rep told them Jimmy "is resting comfortably and is looking forward to getting back to work.""The rest of this week's tapings of Jimmy Kimmel Live...
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 Paula Abdul claims in a new interview that she has a “profound way of touching people” and that she absolutely does not consume drugs or alcohol.
The singer/choreographer and now “American Idol” judge has been plagued for some years with speculation about her bizarre behavior. She has repeatedly denied rumors...
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 Carpenter Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington was sentenced to 36 months probation, fined $1,500 and ordered to attend a 90-day alcohol education program after pleading no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol. "I'm happy to bring closure to my recent court proceedings," Pennington said in a...
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 Carpenter Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington was arrested over the last weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. TMZ reported he was arrested at 12:35 AM Saturday morning in Los Angeles. He was released two hours later after posting $5000 bail and is due back in court on June 4."I made an error...
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 Amazon.com has decided to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties and fasteners that drive consumers crazy by a Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. In 2006, tech billionaire Mark Cuban sliced his hand trying to open a hard plastic packaging. Retailers got the message a bit later and companies like Apple, Johnson & Johnson,...
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 On Thursday, Google launched its GMail Labs application, that puts together a series of experimental features. According to Google product manager, Keith Coleman, users are allowed to choose which features they want to keep through Gmail's Settings page. After a while, the ones that turn out to be the most popular will be incorporated in...
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 In a remote action of fighting poverty, the United Nations, along with Google INC. and Cisco Systems, has made efforts in order to launch a new Web site that that will track the progress and the global efforts toward decreasing global poverty by 2015, in order to meet UN development goals.The Millennium Development Goals for 2015 were...
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Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
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Lehman Brothers' collapse rattled European markets just as the continent struggles to avoid recession and the US-spawned credit crisis shows no sign of ending.
While investors awaited the 158-year-old US investment bank's bankruptcy Monday, Germany's main stock index hit a nearly two-year low. The European Central Bank and the Bank of...
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Monday's emergency EU summit meeting in Brussels on how to respond to Russia's recognition of the Georgian breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could be instrumental in confirming the European Union as a major international peacemaker.
With the United States taking a diplomatic back seat on the crisis and the swift...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
After an emergency meeting of the house, lawmakers issued a statement to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from Georgia.
The statement said...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
In an emergency meeting of the Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
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 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey fired three paramedics after cell phone camera images emerged showing two paramedic trainees from the University Hospital in Newark wearing outfits resembling Ku Klux Klan garments.The trainees wore draped white robes and clutched a makeshift cross made of wood and assembled with...
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Hospitals across Nepal shut
down Thursday after doctors expanded their strike to cover the entire
nation to protest against assaults and threats against them.
The Nepal Medical Association, a doctors' umbrella organization, said
hundreds of hospitals as well as thousands of private clinics and
nursing homes had heeded its calls to...
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A woman suffering from a psychiatric disease died on the
floor, inside Kings County Hospital
Center in Brooklyn,
on June 19. A video tape that recorded the tragic event was handed over to the
attorneys of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The death of Esman Green, 49, was graphically revealed
yesterday when the...
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 The United Nations agency chiefs and the World Bank's representatives decided on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle the rise in global food prices which is threatening poor countries, which are the world's most vulnerable areas. The United Nations said in a statement the crisis has evolved into “an unprecedented challenge of...
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 Baghdad witnessed Friday the worst bomb
attack in months. Two bombs exploded in two pet bazaars in the center of the
Iraqi capital, killing approximately 50 people, reports say. One bomb exploded in
Ghazil pet market and the other one a few minutes later, in New Baghdad pet
market. This is the most serious explosion since August 1,...
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 In recent events, a UN human rights envoy today visited a
prison for political prisoners at the start of an investigation into the number
of people killed and detained when the Burmese junta crushed pro-democracy
protests.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN's independent rights
investigator for Burma,
spent at least two hours at...
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 According to local media, at least nine Turkish soldiers
were killed in fighting with Kurdish militants after midnight on Sunday, and
more soldiers were reported missing forcing Turkey’s prime minister to call an
emergency security summit The deaths dramatically increase the pressure on the
government to launch a military offensive...
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 Two major forest fires in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece have killed more than 15 people. The exact death toll is unknown because officials were unable to enter some danger areas to confirm all those presumed dead. Most of the casualties were burned to death but there were other types of deaths related to the fires. One of these was...
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 A terrorist attack is the presumed cause of the derailment
of a train that was travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg that caused the
injury of 60 people. The incident took place on Monday, at 9:38 p.m. (local
hour) at the 179th kilometer from Moscow of the Oktyabrskaya Railway
near Malaya Vishera, according to Viktor Beltsov, the...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plane made an emergency landing at the Cumbica air base on Tuesday after a light indicated that the cargo hatch wasn't closed securely.
Lula was travelling from Sao Paulo to the northeastern city of Salvador.
According to Brazilian state news agency ABR, the presidential plane took...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 The 2000-year dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles into the Andean sky on Tuesday. As a result, the government ordered the evacuation of everyone living within a 30-mile radius of it. The military, navy and police helped to the evacuation process of thousands of people living in the neighbourhood of the volcano’s base....
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An ATR 42-300 plane, belonging to
Santa Barbara Airlines, with 46 passengers on board is missing after it took
off Thursday, at 4:59 p. m. local time from the Venezuelan city of Merida, heading to Simon
Bolivar International
Airport, near Caracas.
According to AFP, the plane has
allegedly crashed in the Coyado del...
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 Several strong aftershocks shook northern Chile Thursday, one day after
a powerful earthquake hit the same area leaving at least 2 dead and
damaging property of 15,000 people.
The US Geological Survey in Washington reported quakes measuring
6.8, 6.2 and 5.6 on the Richter scale within minutes of each other on
Thursday...
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 According to local officials the toll raises to 16 people assumed dead after being buried under a massive wave of mud and water that swept through a Mexican village on Monday. During this event caused by nature, elsewhere, rescuers elsewhere worked furiously to deliver aid to victims of flooding in Southern Mexico.More than a week after...
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 After three months of disappearance of the TV screen, Fidel
Castro returns in an interview ending speculation that he had died or suffered
a major relapse.
Fidel, age 81, has not been seen in public since July of
last year when he underwent emergency intestinal surgery. His last appearance
be it of official photographs or...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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 Two trains collided on Thursday killing eight people and injuring more than 80 others near Rio de Janeiro.
A speeding train carrying commuters hit the back end of another train as it was changing tracks.
The commuter train was traveling at speeds well over 100 km/h (60
mile) when it hit the train in front of it, which was slowly...
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 A powerful earthquake rattled Guatemala and parts of El Salvador Wednesday sending terrified residents rushing into the streets for safety and causing traffic chaos in Guatemala City.Land slides were reported in the southwest province of Escuintla and phone service was interrupted in some areas According to the U.S. Geological Survey the...
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 “Mad Men” reached the end of its second season, but producers say they will take a break for the moment. The men of Sterling Cooper, who are in between the threat of nuclear annihilation and social insurrection, will slow down a bit with their happenings. It seems that “Meditations in an Emergency” by Frank O’Hara has been a real source...
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 Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow was shortly hospitalized, as
media reported on Tuesday.
The actress was admitted to Mont
Sinai Hospital
in New York
on Moday afternoon, suffering from an undisclosed ailment. She was released the
next day and she was reported to be feeling fine.
“Yes she was at the hospital and is fine and now at...
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 Microsoft will release an emergency security patch for Windows users on Tuesday. The company hasn’t said that much about the reason for its release of the software update, which is rated critical for users of Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It would seem it’s a flaw that can be exploited by online attackers in order to...
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila has sacked his military chief of staff in the wake of rebel gains in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
State television late Monday night said that General Didier Etumba Longomba, the navy chief, would take over from General Dieudonne Kayembe.
Rebel Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda's...
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Emergency aid is not reaching many of the tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Wednesday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has provided food to the displaced living in refugee camps around Goma, the...
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African leaders attending an emergency summit in Nairobi on the conflict currently engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have urged an immediate ceasefire and the extension of UN peacekeeping powers in the country.
The summit also called for the creation of humanitarian corridors to help the hundreds of thousands of...
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Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said Monday its leader Morgan Tsvangirai would not travel to Swaziland for a regional security meeting on the impasse in Zimbabwe and demanded instead a full regional crisis summit on the issue.
Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe were expected in Swaziland on Monday to explain the...
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Pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks off the coast of Somalia, a maritime official said Friday.
"The ship was grabbed yesterday evening as it sailed to (the Kenyan port of) Mombasa," Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"It...
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The European Union on Friday allocated an extra 21 million euros (32.4 million dollars) in emergency aid to Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, officials said.
"The challenges in the Horn of Africa are huge and multi- dimensional ... Humanitarian aid is an expression of Europe's solidarity with those who are the most vulnerable,"...
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The Red Cross on Wednesday issued an emergency
appeal to donors for 26.6 million dollars for food aid to Zimbabwe,
saying millions in the politically and economically unstable country
faced hunger. The International Federation of the Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva the funds would help those
already in need...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe downplayed
the suspension of talks between his party and the opposition on a unity
government, echoing South African President Mbeki in assuring the
negotiations were going 'well.' 'We are still negotiating and
want success... Some areas are debatable but we debate. It is not easy
but I hear...
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 At least 29 people were killed inside a Sudan Airways burning plane, while
171 managed to escape, said Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel
Hafez Abdel Rahim Mahmoud, according to The Press Association.
Authorities are currently examining the wreckage in order to determine the
cause of the crash, police spokesman Major...
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 Rival politicians traded accusations of inciting violence Wednesday, as
unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls continued across Kenya,
leaving at least 300 people dead.
President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition candidate Raila
Odinga blamed each other for the brutal violence that has seen nearly
300 people killed since...
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 Boeing 737-200s being operated by one of South Africa's airlines have
been temporarily grounded to allow for safety checks following an
incident in which the engine fell off one of the aeroplanes earlier in
the week, reports said.
The Nationwide Airline Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency
landing Wednesday after the engine...
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 A Boeing 737 of the Angolan TAAG airline crashed Thursday in the city of M'banza-Congo while it was attempting to make an emergency landing, six passengers being killed in the incident, the ANGOP news agency reported.The plane with 78 people on board plus crew members took of from the Luanda airport, but experienced unknown difficulties...
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 John McCain had canceled his arrival to “Late Show with David Letterman” because the senator had to go back to Washington to take part in the congressional efforts to make up an emergency bailout package to help the financial industry. Because of this, McCain had to suspend his presidential campaign too. But he appeared on the show and...
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 John McCain, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee, finally made some time to come to David Letterman’s show. Between his campaign and his fight against the Democratic Party, the Arizona senator decided to show up on Thursday at CBS “Late Show” three weeks after he rescheduled his live appearance.At the time, the senator said that he...
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