Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
BY NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com April 4, 2013 2:32PM

The Chicago Sun Times - where Ebert was a contributor for 46 years - has a good obituary detailing his myriad accomplishments (he was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize!), but scores of people who aren't mega movie buffs also ( Read more... )

She was 23, with a marriage just months away. But two weeks ago, she was gang raped by six men, savagely beaten and thrown out of a moving bus in Delhi. This week, the still unnamed woman who has become “India’s daughter”, died of her injuries in hospital

Namita Bhandare knows the constant fear that goes with living in Delhi, nicknamed India’s “ ( Read more... )

The artist, Zurab Tsereteli, was in his home in Moscow on the morning of September 11th. The television was on as he was getting ready for work and Zurab, like the rest of the world, was glued to coverage of the attacks on the Twin Towers. He watched the towers collapse on TV and was moved to tears...


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Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda," is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, ( Read more... )

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Nation's Largest Cancer Charity, Caves To Right Wing Pressure & Ends Relationship With Planned Parenthood

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the country’s best-known and best-funded breast cancer organization. Known for it’s iconic pink ribbon and annual Race for the Cure event, the organization has invested nearly $2 ( Read more... )

Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Los Angeles jury in the singer's 2009 death.

Verdict reached in Conrad Murray trial

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""A bill was just passed to allow bullying of any kind in Michigan. The bill just passed states that bullying is non punishable by law if it is shown that the bully has a strong moral conviction. This exempts bullying on basis of ANYTHING, at all, race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, ANYTHING at all, is not only allowed but basically ( Read more... )

LOS ANGELES - Defence attorneys for the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson began their case Monday, targeting Jackson as the architect of his own demise by seeking to cure his insomnia with an intravenous drug, even when he was warned it was dangerous.

With the testimony of a doctor and a nurse practitioner, the lawyers showed that Jackson ( Read more... )

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