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Angelina Jolie pays tribute to her late mother

Angelina Jolie pays tribute to her late mother

Angelina Jolie has paid a tearful tribute to her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
Asking about her mother Bertrand, who died in 2007, was the “softest, most gentle woman in the world,” she said at a press conference.
Jolie, 33, fought back tears as she told journalists in London that her mother had also had “that elegance and strength for knowing what was …

Mills complains against press

Mills complains against press

Heather Mills has lodged complaints against press for wrong  reporting and invasion of privacy. The media includes both national and local newspapers.
A spokesman for the Press Complaints Commission confirmed that it had received complaints surrounding “various issues including privacy and accuracy”.
It’s said in a report Mills’s grievances are against the Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sun and London Lite, reports the …

Organ donation: Hopes rise

Organ donation: Hopes rise

Hopes rise for organ donation in UK.
The UK Organ Donation Task Force said that moving to a system where people are presumed to give consent to their organs being used for transplant risked damaging the “vital relationship of trust” between doctors and patients at the end of life.
Gordon Brown, the prime minister, said he was “not ruling out a further …

Needlestick blood borne diseases are common!

Needlestick blood borne diseases are common!

According to a new study, needlestick blood borne diseases are more dangerous than any other diseases.
RCN’s Needlestick injury in 2008 survey says, nearly one-half of respondents had been stuck by a needle.
Overall, the survey reveals falling confidence among nurses in their employers’ level of support after a sharps incident.
Just under 70% felt their employer offered them adequate support compared with …

I’m a normal girl, says Dupre

I’m a normal girl, says Dupre

Ashley Alexandra Dupre says that she’s just a “normal girl.”
Dupre, the 23-year-old high end hooker told to People magazine, “Everyone knows me as ‘that girl,’ but I’m not just ‘that girl,’
Dupre claims she didn’t know who Spitzer was until she saw him apologizing to his family on national TV in March.
Dupre became an overnight tabloid sensation in March after the …

Warwick Prize: Librarian among 20 final nominees

Warwick Prize: Librarian among 20 final nominees

 Inauguration of Warwick Prize for literature in Britain is round the corner.
The librarian JOHN HUGHE at Sydney Grammar School, is among the final 20 nominees the camp.
Nominated for his collection of fictional essays, Someone Else, he is competing for the award against writers from around the world.
In Someone Else Hughes brings 21 artists, writers and musicians, including Franz Kafka, Marcel …

Kidman and coffee date!

Kidman and coffee date!

She’s one of Sydney’s most eligible women.
It’s not Nicole Kidman, but her sister Antonia who has stole some of the focus with her own dating adventures.
The body language between the pair mirrored her most recent public courtship, with Australia’s horse wrangler Craig Emerton.
At the same time Kidman has made it clear to friends she wants to protect her private life …

Australia world premiere: Nicole Kidman shines

Australia world premiere: Nicole Kidman shines

Nicole Kidman kept up appearances as Australia’s leading lady of style at Australia world premiere.
Kidman and the other A-listers had to be handed umbrellas to make their way up the red carpet, due to rain.
Kidman set the scene for her red carpet turn with a glamorous showing at a press conference for the movie: white hot in a L’Wren Scott …

Obama to change stem cell policy

Obama to change stem cell policy

PARIS: President-elect Barack Obama may reverse the Bush Administration’s restrictions on stem cell research, which has been contentious in some European countries, too.
According to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet, physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion …

Beverly hospital to continue natural birthing center

Beverly hospital to continue natural birthing center

Beverly Hospital trustees yesterday said that they would continue the hospital’s natural birthing center, one of only two such facilities in the state. The declaration made in a statement.
At the same time the statements also made it clear that the center’s future is still very much in question.
Last week, the hospital management said the birth center’s future was being scrutinized …