US country music star Randy Travis is in critical condition in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalised with viral cardiomyopathy.
Randy Travis in critical condition
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The Legend of Will Smith
Will Smith plots his strategy for world domination from the head of the kingly wooden dining table in his sweeping Calabasas, Calif., home.
Viewpoint: A Soldier’s Reflection for Memorial Day
It is the early days of January 2010 and the Company forms to the front of the memorial display at the chapel of the forward operating base in Afghanistan, the backdrop for the small shrine the crossed staffs of an American flag and the regimental colors. An M4 rifle stands upright, its bayonet lodged into a felt covered wooden desk in front of the flags; the pistol grip facing the audience
Asia’s Drug Zone Gets Up to Speed
It is easy to miss the spirit gate that guards the entrance to Phiyer, a remote village in northern Laos. Half submerged in weeds beside a field of towering sugarcane, the simple wooden structure resembles a set of miniature rustic goalposts
Medicine: Bowditch Legs
Legless women excited Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch to pity. In 1860 he gave $5,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the purchase of wooden legs.
How Eating Grass-Fed Beef Could Help Fight Climate Change
On a farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it’s little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it’s finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep
Japan Nuclear Threat Level Raised, and Exodus Continues
The five Buddhist monks hurried toward the gleaming bullet train, their wooden sandals click-clacking on the platform, their pale gray robes fluttering in their wake.
Postcard from Dubai
I want to see the world,” I told a boatman in Dubai Creek, and pulled out my map. He waved me on board his little wooden boat with no hesitation
Three charged with murder in beating death of Chicago teen
Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old boy whose beating was captured on amateur video. Nineteen-year-old Silvanus Shannon, 16-year-old Eric Carson and 18-year-old Eugene Riley were charged as adults with first degree felony murder, said Tandra Simonton, spokesperson for the Cook County States Attorney.