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Pakistan's Bhutto killed in attack |
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was
assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack. Her death threw the campaign for
critical Jan. 8 parliamentary elections into chaos and stoked fears of mass
protests and violence across the nuclear-armed nation, an important U.S. ally in
the war on terrorism.
At least 20 others were also killed in the attack on a campaign rally where
the 54-year-old Bhutto had just spoken.
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Grandpa Say It Ain't So!? Paris loses out: Hilton fortune pledged to charity |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
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  NEW YORK - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton's potential inheritance
dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on
Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity. That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the
recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp.
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Will Smith Blasts Gossip Sites for Misinterpreting Quote About Hitler |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
 LOS ANGELES — Will Smith is angry
over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent
remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was
quoted saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing
I can do today.'
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Seven Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe |
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Tuesday, 25 December 2007 |
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Reading in dim light won't damage
your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and
shaving your legs won't make the hair grow back faster. These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths"
exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally
carries light-hearted features in its Christmas edition.
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Tiger Escapes from San Francisco Zoo Goes On Rampage, Killing 1, Injuring 2 |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
 SAN FRANCISCO — A tiger escaped
from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day, killing one man and
injuring two others before police shot the cat dead, police said. The three men were all in their 20s; they were together and
were not zoo employees, San Francisco Police spokesman Steve Mannina said. They
were attacked just after the 5 p.m. closing time Tuesday outside the zoo's
Terrace Cafe, on the east end of the 1,000-acre zoo grounds.
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