Articles Archive for August 2008
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Pop star Jessica Simpson has spoken out against country singer Carrie Underwood’s claims that Underwood still keeps in touch with Tony Romo.
Underwood admitted she was having a hard time moving on after her split from Romo in 2006, when the pair broke it off and he moved on to Simpson.<... read more
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After just eight weeks of marriage, “Saturday Night Live” funnyman Chris Kattan and his wife Sunshine Tutt have have called it quits.
But Kattan, 37, and his model wife, 31, are... read more
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A man who was believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the tender age of 138.
Habib Mian passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness at his home in the Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.
He outlived his wife by 70 years and had been claiming his pension since 1938.
Hi... read more
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Actor Matt Damon and his wife Luciana have become parents of a second baby girl.
Their daughter, named Gia Zavala, was born on Wednesday, the Oscar winner’s spokeswoman was quoted as saying by the US entertainment magazine People.
“Everyone is doing great,” she said.<... read more
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Gene Upshaw, the Hall of Fame guard who during a quarter century as union head helped get NFL players free agency and the riches that came with it, has died. He was 63.
Upshaw died Wednesday night at his home in Lake Tahoe, Calif., of pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed only last Sunday, t... read more
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.
Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights on Tu... read more
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke the world record by winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds Wednesday night, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at an Olympics.
Bolt is the first man ever to break the world marks in both sprints at an Olympics. Not... read more
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Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.
Moore died at Hollywo... read more
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At least twice a week, Wu Ying goes to a local gym in western Beijing to work out. She joins a group of girlfriends and the occasional guy, and for a couple of hours they train with a dance instructor in a glass-walled room surrounded by treadmills and step machines.
The whole scene – som... read more
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“Samantha Who?” star Christina Applegate, 36, is free of cancer after having both breasts removed to combat the disease, the actress told a U.S. television news show on Tuesday.
Applegate, who revealed her diagnosis for breast cancer earlier this month, had the double mastectomy p... read more
