Archive for: January, 2012

Kim Kardashian Replaced By A Dog In Super Bowl Ad

Kim Kardashian Replaced By A Dog In Super Bowl Ad

The reality TV star is being booted for a Skechers advertisement and will now be replaced by a dog for the ad this year. Kim Kardashian’s Super Bowl ad for Skechers’ Shape-Up shoe in 2011 won’t be featured again for the footwear company this year. Instead, Skechers is going with a spot featuring a French bulldog. […]

Woman Sues Hotel Staff Who Gave Drunken Man Her Room Key

Woman Sues Hotel Staff Who Gave Drunken Man Her Room Key

Alison Fournier, A New York business woman is suing Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide claiming a staff at one of their hotels gave her room key to a drunken man who allegedly sexually assaulted her in her bed. Fournier announced the suit today at a news conference with women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred, is suing the company for negligence […]

Queen’s Researchers Found New Discovery On How Children Learn To Speak

Queen's Researchers Found New Discovery On How Children Learn To Speak

Researchers have discovered that children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought. During the study at Queen’s University, the researchers changed the vowel sounds that the participants heard over headphones as they talked. They found that while the adults and young children changed their vowel sounds in response […]

Rapper Jay-Z Welcomes Newborn Daughter With Beyonce Via A Rap Song

Rapper Jay-Z Welcomes Newborn Daughter With Beyonce Via A Rap Song

Rapper and New Daddy Jay-Z has confirmed through a rap verse the birth of “the most beautiful” girl in the world – his newborn daughter. The song “Glory” made its debut on his social website LifeandTimes.com on Monday – two days after his wife Beyonce gave birth to daughter, Blue Ivy. An official statement from the couple […]

Indian Muslims Demand To Ban Infamous Rushdie’s Entry To Country

Indian Muslims Demand To Ban Infamous Rushdie's Entry To Country

Muslim leaders have demanded on India to ban Salman Rushdie from entering the country to attend a literary festival, Rushdie is due to attend Asia’s largest literary festival in historic Jaipur city from January 20-24. The visit of Rushdie re-ignited a decades-old blow about the Booker prize-winning author’s works. Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” was considered blasphemous by many […]

Risk of Heart Attack Increases With Loss Of Loved One

Risk of Heart Attack Increases With Loss Of Loved One

A person’s risk of suffering a heart attack increases by approximately 21 times in the first 24 hours after losing a loved one, according to a study lead by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The study published January 9 online in the journal Circulation found the risk of heart attack remained eight times above normal […]

12-year old “Facebook Face for Cancer” dies

12-year old “Facebook Face for Cancer” dies

Jessica Joy Rees, A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. She was only 12 years old. The Orange County seventh-grader, called “Jessie” by family and friends, began her blog and Facebook  page after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in March. A […]

Mexico goalkeeper arrested for suspected kidnapping

Mexico goalkeeper arrested for suspected kidnapping

Former international soccer goalkeeper Omar Ortiz was arrested on suspicion of working for a gang of kidnappers. The 35-year-old Ortiz admitted helping to pick out two rich victims for the kidnappers. The gang, who said they belonged to a drug interest group, sought an average of 1 million pesos ($73,000) per victim, of which Ortiz received a […]

Court Denies Conviction In Alleged Super Bowl Massacre

Court denies conviction in alleged Super Bowl Massacre

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has denied the appeal to reinstate the conviction of an Arizona man, Kurt Havelock accused of planning a Super Bowl massacre, saying his rambling did not constitute a threat to people. Kurt Havelock, who did not attack, was convicted in 2008 of mailing threatening messages after he sent a […]

Skin-Care Resolutions to Make This Year

Skin-Care Resolutions to Make This Year

In the spirit of the New Year, we gathered the best advice for the best skin for 2012. Moisturize After Showering We all know a warm shower strips skin of oils.  One easy fix: Keep body lotion  right in the shower, seeing it will remind you to apply it when your skin is damp, within ten […]

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