Archive for: January, 2012

Simon Cowell Cancels Wedding Plans

Simon Cowell Cancels Wedding Plans

Simon Cowell’s trip down the aisle is getting postponed.In an interview with UK newspaper the Daily Mirror, the X Factor judge reveals that he and his fiancee, Mezhgan Hussainy, are taking a break from both their relationship and their wedding plans. “It’s quite a complicated relationship. We have had a break from each other, and we are still […]

Group Settings Can Lower IQ, Especially Among Women

Group Settings Can Lower IQ, Especially Among Women

Research led by scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that small-group dynamics — such as jury deliberations, collective bargaining sessions, and cocktail parties — can alter the expression of IQ in some susceptible people. The scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how the brain processes information about social status […]

Legendary Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Passes Away At 85

Legendary Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Passes Away At 85

Other than family, football was everything to Joe Paterno. “Right now, I’m not the coach. And I’ve got to get used to that,” Paterno said after the Penn State Board of Trustees fired him at the height of a child sex abuse scandal. Paterno, a sainted figure at Penn State for almost half a century but scarred forever by the […]

Supermodel Heidi Klum & Seal Filing For Divorce

Supermodel Heidi Klum & Seal Filing For Divorce

Disheartening news out of Hollywood today as TMZ.com reported Supermodel and host of Project Runway Heidi Klum will file for divorce from singer Seal due to “irreconcilable differences.” The venerable celebrity power-duo Heidi Klum and Seal are on the verge of splitting up citing “sources with direct knowledge” of the matter, the website reported that Klum would file divorce papers in Los Angeles […]

World’s Most Popular Landmarks

 The verdict is according to Travel + Leisure’s first-ever landmarks survey, in which they asked readers to determine which landmarks they’ve traveled to see. They used the results to determine the world’s most popular landmarks, a revealing list of longtime favorites and buzzed-about newcomers like the High Line. These famous places are just the beginning–see which other […]

New York Priest Who Secretly Fathered A Child Removed From Parish

New York Priest Who Secretly Fathered A Child Removed From Parish

A newly selected Roman Catholic priest has been removed from his suburban New York parish after church officials on Thursday said he secretly fathered a child while attending the seminary. The removal of Reverend Casmir Mung’aho, 34, from his post at St. Stephen the First Martyr Church in the Orange County town of Warwick, New York, just two weeks after the resignation of […]

American Idol Premiere Flops in Ratings

American Idol Premiere Flops in Ratings

The audience for “American Idol”, the reality singing competition,  dropped by some 18 percent to 21.6 million viewers when the TV singing contest returned for its 11th season, according to early ratings figures on Thursday. The drop was even bigger — about 27 percent — with viewers ranging from 18 to 49-year-olds, the audience group […]

Media Supports Wikipedia Protest To SOPA And PIPA

Media Supports Wikipedia Protest To SOPA And PIPA

Wikipedia and several other websites went dark for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. legislation to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the related PROTECTIP Act (PIPA)–they argue would effectively censor the free and open Internet. Visitors to U.S. Wikipedia pages are being redirected to a page that explains the blackout, and invites users to […]

Chef Paula Deen Reveals Diabetes , Continues Southern Cooking

Chef Paula Deen Reveals Diabetes , Continues Southern Cooking

Paula Deen, the Southern belle Chef who expressed her love of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to publicly disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV. She said she isn’t changing the comfort cooking that made her a star, though it isn’t clear […]

African Swimmer Killed By Shark

African Swimmer Killed By Shark

In Johannesburg, South Africa, a man died after being bitten by a shark on the weekend while swimming at Second Beach in the rural Eastern Cape, one of the world’s deadliest spots for attacks, officials said Monday. Lungisani Msungubana, 25, from the Transkei region, was bathing in waist-deep water amongst a crowd of swimmers when […]

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