Whitney Houston’s daughter has confirmed she’s engaged to her “adopted brother” while lashing out at critics. Bobbi Kristina Brown, the late singer’s daughter with former pop star Bobby Brown, was linked to Nick Gordon shortly after her mother’s February 2012 death
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The Almighty Johnsons resurrect
The Norse god of resurrection has come to the party. Last September, it looked like The Almighty Johnsons had run its course after just two seasons.
Durham suffers brain haemorrhage
The Seekers frontwoman Judith Durham is in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage soon after performing as part of the band’s 50th anniversary tour.
Fired news anchor milks mishap
A North Dakota news anchor whose profanity-laced television debut got him fired after one broadcast is already getting job offers. A.J.
Convivial pub format keeps MPs civil
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It Won the Confidence Vote, but Greece’s Government Still Has Everything to Lose
For Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, winning the vote of confidence in Parliament was the easy part. His ruling Socialists hold a slim majority, and last week’s cabinet reshuffle elevated party hardliners to keep rogue deputies in line
For Joplin, Nothing Is Certain in Tornado’s Wake
On Wednesday morning, residents of Joplin are as uncertain about the fate of their loved ones as officials are about just how many people are dead after the 8th deadliest tornado in U.S.
Syria: Has the Regime Turned a Corner Against the Protests?
As bright spring days gradually turn hot and muggy, the consensus in Damascus is that the protest movement has been badly burnt. The activist Facebook group Syrian Revolution 2011 put out an order for a general strike across Syria on Wednesday calling for “mass protests” and the closure of all schools, universities, shops and restaurants, “not even taxis.” But there was no apparent strike on Wednesday morning in central Damascus.
Birth Control for Kids?
When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11, the response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids.
The Alabama Tornado: An Eyewitness Account from Tuscaloosa
As the sky grew darker and the winds reached furious levels, my family and I huddled in our small laundry room, watching on my laptop a local television station broadcast images of the tornado bearing down on us. By way of a camera on top of the county courthouse, we saw the massive twister cut a path of destruction through the middle of Tuscaloosa, Ala.