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Good run for your money in London: What to see in and around the city
If you’re heading for the city to watch tomorrow’s marathon, here are capital ideas on and off the route to make your day a winner. EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System at the Natural History Museum is a must. You’ll learn all about six decades of space exploration through stunning...
Romania expelled from Eurovision Song Contest
Romania has been expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest after its national broadcaster failed to pay outstanding debts dating back to 2007. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) claimed the Romanian public service broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) owes 16 million Swiss francs. The EBU described the action to exclude...
Prince death: ‘No sign’ it was suicide, sheriff says
There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had his home has said after a post-mortem examination. There was no sign of trauma on the body, Sheriff Jim Olson said, suggesting the singer had died alone. Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on...
America’s favourite Brit: James Corden beat the odds with his US show
IT WAS the biggest gamble of his career taking over a US chat show but James Corden has proved as popular with TV viewers as his A-list celebrity guests. When Gwyneth Paltrow gamely played along with James Corden in a skit earlier this week she became the latest A-lister to eat out of the chat show host’s hands. Sporting...
Europe’s best work-and-play city
Take a look at the city staking a claim to the title comeback king, with start-ups, surf and sunshine. A city still getting back on its feet after the Eurozone crisis which battered the national economy, Lisbon's working hard to support home-grown businesses and attract fledgling entrepreneurs from around the globe. Over...
Photo of new lover of Denis Matrosov shocked fans
The actor and his fiancee Olga Golovin preparing to become parents. We already know that they will have a son. The couple began dating in...
PAPARAZZI figured out who is the guy of Pelagia
29-year-old singer Pelagaya was caught in the company of 24-year-old hockey player from CSKA Ivan Telegin. The paparazzi managed to shoot a couple on the video when they were together in one of the Moscow restaurants at the night time. At the same time photographers noticed the ring on the ring finger of the...
Chyna, WWE legend and women’s pro wrestling icon, dies at 45
WWE legend Chyna, real name Joanie Laurer, died Wednesday, her official Twitter page announced. She was 45. The Los Angeles Times, citing Chyna’s manager and police, reports that she was found dead inside her Redondo Beach home. A cause of death had yet to be determined. “The Redondo Beach Police received a 911 call...
Oh la la! French voted the world’s sexiest language
BRITONS believe French is the world's sexiest language, a new study reveals. A French accent attracts one in five, followed by Italian (16 per cent), English (13 per cent), Irish (11 per cent) and Spanish (six per cent). French is clearly the language of love but, according to researchers, the sexiest French-speaking...
Queen Elizabeth II marks 90th birthday on Thursday
You would think that upon reaching the age of 90 on Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II would sit back and put her feet up in her castle with a cuppa and a corgi. But not this nonagenarian sovereign. The queen, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, who turns 95 in June, will be working on her birthday, just as she has worked on...
Queen has been ‘rock of strength for our nation’, says PM
The Queen has been "a rock of strength for our nation" and the Commonwealth, Prime Minister David Cameron has said in a tribute to mark her 90th birthday. The Prince of Wales has recorded a special radio broadcast for the day, in which he reads an edited passage from William Shakespeare's Henry VIII....
A Goodbye Letter to My Babies
Today marks the bittersweet end of an era. Today, I’m closing a chapter in my life that has lasted six years and yielded me four precious little beings — little bodies that I harbored safely within my own for a combined 160 weeks. Perfect little people that share my eyes, their dad’s nose, and have brought me...