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Photographer Brian Duffy Dies of Lung Disease

Photographer Brian Duffy Dies of Lung Disease

Brian Duffy, one of the photographers whose images capture the spirit of the 1960′s, has died. He was 76 and had been suffering from lung disease. Known to friends and colleagues by his surname alone, Duffy was a rival of David Bailey and Terence Donovan throughout the 1960s. Film producer Lord Puttnam said Duffy helped [...]

Gary Coleman’s Parents Drop Burial Plans

Gary Coleman’s Parents Drop Burial Plans

Gary Coleman’s parents abandoned their effort to bury him in his native home of Illinois Friday after a Utah attorney revealed the actor named an executor in a 1999 will. “Of course it’s disappointing. We’d be inhuman if it wasn’t, but we’re not up for a fight,” Sue Coleman, said in an interview with The Associated [...]

Heavy Metal Icon Ronnie James Dio Dies At 67

Heavy Metal Icon Ronnie James Dio Dies At 67

One of Rock’s most powerful vocalists and the voice behind hit songs such as Rainbow In The Dark, Holy Diver, and The Last In Line, Ronnie James Dio passed away Sunday morning at 7:45am. Dio’s wife Wendy paid a loving tribute to her husband on his website, saying: “Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed [...]

Market Bomb, US Missiles Kill 20 In Pakistan

Market Bomb, US Missiles Kill 20 In Pakistan

A bomb attack and a US missile strike killed 20 people in north-west Pakistan as Islamabad raised fresh concerns about knock-on instability from a major US-led offensive in Afghanistan. The bomb exploded in a market controlled by Islamist militants in Khyber, which is part of a NATO supply route to troops in Afghanistan and has [...]

Coroner Releases New Details About Michael Jackson’s Death

Coroner Releases New Details About Michael Jackson’s Death

With Dr. Conrad Murray officially charged in Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles coroner has released the autopsy report that said it was a homicide. The 51-page report gives vivid detail supporting last August’s conclusion that Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication.” Murray told investigators he gave Jackson propofol, a powerful anesthetic, to help him [...]

Knicks’ Legend, Hall of Famer Dick McGuire Dies At 84

Knicks’ Legend, Hall of Famer Dick McGuire Dies At 84

Dick McGuire, part of a basketball Hall of Fame family and longtime member of the New York Knicks organization, died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 84. The Knicks said McGuire died at Huntington Hospital in Long Island. McGuire, whose brother Al coached Marquette to an NCAA title and is also in the Hall of [...]

Girls’ School In Pakistan Bombed

Girls’ School In Pakistan Bombed

Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday by a roadside bomb on a politically sensitive training mission in Pakistan’s turbulent border region. The soldiers, who were believed to have been special forces, died when their convoy was hit by a remote-controlled explosion as they travelled to the opening ceremony of a girls’ school that was renovated [...]


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