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.
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Diplomacy: The Party Line
Above the clink of crystal goblets and the beat of a twist tune wafted shreds and snippets of conversation. “Looks like Pierre made a party on the way.” “No, darling, these models don't have a thing on underneath
The Crusaders of Meth: Mexico’s Deadly Knights Templar
At first, the amateur video shows a normal evening in the seething valley town of Apatzingn, in Mexico’s western Michoacn state.
Daddy’s Little Girl
All happy families are alike, wrote Tolstoy, but unhappy ones are unhappy in their own way. Perhaps none was unhappier last Thursday than the family of Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, who took the stand in municipal court in Redwood City, Calif., to accuse her father, George Franklin Sr., of sexually molesting and then beating to death her best friend, Susan Nason, in her presence more than 20 years ago.
Businessman Adnan Khashoggi’s High-Flying Realm
High above the clouds, at 35,000 ft., Adnan Khashoggi’s DC-8 is cruising noiselessly toward his estate in Marbella, Spain.
NASA Telescope Sees Crystal Rain on an Infant Star
Astronomy may be hard science, but there’s always been a whiff of Disney about it too. What else beyond enchantment could explain the ice volcanoes on Neptune’s moon Triton, the helium rain in the atmosphere of Jupiter, the beads of colored glass scattered across the surface of the moon
Races: Revolt of the Mexicans
In the central square of Crystal City stands a statue of Popeye, a symbol of the town's claim that it is “the spinach capital of the world.” Otherwise, Crystal City is like a lot of other farm towns in South Texas. Mexican-Americans outnumber Anglo-Americans four to one, but the Anglos run the place.Last week, with Texas Rangers standing by to keep order, hundreds of Crystal City Mexicans gathered round the statue of Popeye
Agassi admits using crystal meth
American tennis legend Andre Agassi has admitted using crystal methamphetamine a year before he won the French Open in 1998, and that he lied to the sport’s governing bodies in the same period about a positive drugs test to avoid a ban.
‘Night at the Museum’ opens with $70 mil
Ben Stiller had no problem handling Christian Bale and an army of robots this Memorial Day weekend.