Sunday, February 12, 2012

Death of an American icon


Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, died on Saturday afternoon. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster confirmed that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear.

She died at the Beverly Hilton hotel. She was apparently found by her bodyguard in her hotel room.
A spokesman for the local police department said that emergency services had been called to the hotel at 3.43pm on Saturday, arriving minutes later.

Officials rushed to the room on the fourth floor where she was staying as a guest, where they found security staff and firemen attempting to revive her using CPR
Life-saving attempts proved unsuccessful after 20 minutes, and she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm.


Authorities are currently trying to determine a cause of death, according to the spokesman. He said there were 'no obvious signs of foul play and no obvious signs of a cause of death'.
It was initially unclear whether or not her death was drug-related, as has been speculated by some.

Some reports said that Houston had been found by her on-off boyfriend Ray J, but that turned out to be mistaken.

The star 'partied heavily' with friends in the hotel bar on Friday night, according to TMZ.
Her ex-husband Bobby Brown was said to be 'in and out of crying fits' upon hearing the news - but was still planning to appear on stage on Saturday with his band New Edition.

A relative of Brown said Houston’s former husband is struggle to cope with the news.
‘He was sobbing, and by the end of the call, I was sobbing, too,’ the family member told People magazine. ‘He's beside himself right now.’


Singer Johnny Gill, one of Brown's New Edition bandmates, is on tour in Memphis with the star. ‘Bobby is struggling and he's devastated,’ he told CNN.

Houston's mother Cissie apparently spoke to her daughter just half an hour before her death, and did not think anything was wrong.





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Wife induces labor two weeks early so dying husband can hold newborn before he passes away


It should have been one of the happiest days of their lives.
But for the Aulger family from The Colony, Texas, the birth of their fifth child was racked with sadness - as they knew the baby's father had less than a week to live.

On discovering her husband was suffering from a fatal lung disease, Diane Aulger, 31, had her labour induced two weeks early so he could meet his newborn daughter.
Mark Aulger, 52, had been told just before Christmas that he had beaten cancer. But on January 3, he was admitted to hospital, unable to breathe.

Doctors discovered that the eight months of chemotherapy had destroyed his lungs. He was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe.
The family thought he could start taking steroids and would live for years - but on January 16 he was told he had just one week left, ABC News reported.

'He was awake and alert,' Mrs Aulger told the news channel. 'I really didn't believe the doctor. The next day his doctor came in and said:" When are you going to have this baby?"'
They decided to induce the pregnant mother, and baby Savannah was born on January 18. But it was a day laced with sadness.

'He held her for 45 minutes,' Mrs Aulger said, recounting that he had been the first to hold her. 'Him and I just cried that whole time.'


The next day, her husband was only able to hold Savannah for a minute before he slipped into a coma.
Sobbing as she held her newborn daughter and speaking to ABC News, Mrs Aulger remembered the pain of telling her four other children about their father's battle.

'My 10-year-old says, "Is dad asleep?" and I said, "No, he's in a coma".
'He said, "Is he going to make it?" and I said, "No" and he screamed. And my eight-year-old screamed and cried, "I'm not going to have a daddy".'
She added that despite his being in a coma, her husband was aware of the new baby.

'If she cried, he would shake his head and moan,' Mrs Aulger said. 'I put her on him when he was in the coma a few times and his hand would move toward her.'

On January 23, Mr Aulger died in his hospital bed - with his wife and four children at his side and newborn daughter in his arms.

'His heart rate started to drop and his breathing started to drop, so I put her in his arms and held his hand until he died,' his wife said.
'It was like his lungs were soaked in concrete. They couldn't inhale, they couldn't pass oxygen to the rest of his body. So he in essence suffocated to death.'


The only picture of the family shows Mark hooked up to an oxygen mask on the day of the birth, surrounded by his children and hospital equipment.
Mrs Aulger told ABC News how excited her husband had been for the impending birth of their daughter, who she called 'the ray of sunshine in our sorrow'.

'He would talk to my stomach when I was pregnant,' Mrs Aulger said.'He was so excited for her... He would have been a wonderful daddy to Savannah.'







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Macaulay Culkin [pelakon Home Alone], kini....


Dia pernah menjadi seorang bintang, seorang pelakon yang sangat berjaya, ketika masih kecil bersama 'Home Alone'. Walau bagaimanapun, Macaulay Culkin, kini 31, muncul tidak terurus dan kurus ketika ditemui oleh peminat di New York pada hari Rabu.

Dengan janggut yang serabut dan rambut yang tidak tersikat, dia kelihatan cengkung sambil menghirup minuman tenaga. Tetapi jurucakapnya menegaskan tidak ada perlu bimbang, berkata dalam satu kenyataan: 'Macaulay Culkin dalam kesihatan yang sempurna baik.'

Kemunculannya adalah jauh berbeza daripada anak muda comel yang dikenali masyarakat antarabangsa dengan kemasyhurannya sebagai Kevin McCallister dalam Home Alone pada 1990.
Culkin pernah menjadi bintang kanak-kanak paling popular di Hollywood, menguasai £4million dalam filem ketika dia membintangi Richie Rich pada 1994.

Tetapi pelakon muda itu dilanda masalah dan telah mengharungi beberapa tragedi peribadi, termasuk kematian kakaknya Dakota dalam kemalangan kereta dan kakak tirinya, Jennifer Adamson akibat terlebih dos dadah.

Kerjayanya kemudian terhenti selepas dia terbabit dalam pertikaian kewangan antara ibu bapanya Christopher Culkin dan Brentup Patricia kemas. Pada tahun 1998 seorang hakim memecat bapanya yang merupakan pengurusnya. Setelah berehat, Culkin kembali kepada filem pada tahun 2000.

Walau bagaimanapun, tiada filem dapat menandingi kejayaan siri Home Alone.

Pada 2004, beliau telah ditangkap selepas polis menahan sebuah kereta di mana beliau adalah penumpang dan mendapati lebih daripada setengah auns ganja dan beberapa pil Xanax, preskripsi ubat yang digunakan untuk merawat kemurungan dan gangguan panik.

Dia mengaku bersalah terhadap tuduhan pelanggaran undang-undang pemilikan ubat tanpa preskripsi dan ganja.

Pelakon itu berkahwin dengan pelakon Rachel Miner pada tahun 1998 tetapi mereka bercerai pada tahun 2002. Dia juga mengadakan hubungan cinta dengan bintang Black Swan, Mila Kunis selama lapan tahun sebelum pasangan itu berpisah pada tahun 2010.


Dia mempunyai hubungan yang terkenal rapat dengan Michael Jackson semasa mudanya, dan juga memberi keterangan untuk membela penyanyi itu dalam perbicaraan mencabul kanak-kanak pada tahun 2005.
Dia telah mengambil pendirian dan tegas menafikan apa-apa kelakuan yang tidak sopan atau menyentuh pada zamannya ketika tidur di Neverland Ranch Jackson.






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Cuaca sejuk di Eropah semakin buruk


Sebanyak 13 orang lagi dilaporkan terbunuh di Romania dan beribu-ribu terputus hubungan ketika cuaca sejuk melampau yang melanda Eropah berterusan.
Pihak berkuasa berkata, lebih 20,000 orang terperangkap di timur negara ini, manakala beratus-ratus orang gelandangan dipindahkan ke pusat perlindungan ekoran suhu menurun ke 20 darjah celsius di bawah paras beku.

Kematian 13 orang itu dilaporkan berlaku kelmarin dan semalam, sekali gus meletakkan jumlah kematian keseluruhan di Romania meningkat kepada 57 orang.
Jumlah keseluruhan mereka yang terbunuh akibat cuaca sejuk melampau di seluruh Eropah pula dilaporkan telah melebihi 540 orang.

Hungary terpaksa menutup sungai Danube, yang merupakan antara laluan kapal tersibuk di Eropah, selepas air sungai membeku.

Sungai Danube sepanjang 2,860 kilometer yang merentasi 10 negara itu menjadi medium utama kepada pengangkutan air, perikanan dan industri pengairan.
Di Ukraine, korban akibat cuaca sejuk mencecah 130 orang dan menyebabkan tanaman bijirin di selatan dan timur negara itu musnah.

Lebih 60 kapal hanyut dalam aliran ais atau terkandas akibat air yang membeku.
Helikopter turut digunakan di Serbia untuk menghantar bekalan makanan ke kawasan pedalaman di bahagian barat daya negara itu ekoran dilanda salji tebal beberapa hari.

Cuaca sejuk di Turki dan salji tebal turut menyukarkan kehidupan lebih 140,000 mangsa gempa bumi yang terselamat dan yang tinggal di khemah-khemah sementara.





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Seorang maut, 3 parah kereta bergesel lori

Seorang maut manakala tiga yang lain cedera parah apabila kereta yang mereka naiki terbabas selepas bergesel dengan sebuah lori di Kilometer 12, Jalan Lahad Datu-Sandakan tengah hari semalam.

Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah Lahad Datu, Asisten Suprintenden Bong Kuet Khiun berkata, dalam kemalangan 12.50 tengah hari itu, Mail Taha, 45, yang memandu kereta berkenaan meninggal dunia dalam perjalanan ke Hospital Lahad Datu.

Katanya, tiga penumpang yang cedera parah itu turut dirawat di hospital berkenaan.

Kuet Khiun berkata, siasatan awal mendapati treler tersebut yang datang dari arah Sandakan dikatakan cuba memotong sebuah kenderaan, namun bergesel dengan kereta Kancil mangsa yang datang dari arah bertentangan menyebabkan kereka mangsa gagal dikawal lalu terbabas.





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Sedia saman pemilik twitter


Pemilik butik, Nur Eilunie Natasha Nazri, 21, atau Leuniey yang didakwa menjalin hubungan dengan penjaga gol kebangsaan, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat atau Apek bersedia untuk menyaman pemilik laman sosial twitter, @MahSiH2 yang telah mencetuskan kontroversi tersebut.

Leuniey (gambar) ketika dihubungi berkata, tindakan pemilik twitter tersebut telah memburukkan namanya dan keluarga kerana dia langsung tidak mempunyai hubungan istimewa dengan Apek yang juga selebriti sukan tanah air.

"Saya tidak tahu dan tidak kenal siapa pemilik twitter itu. Saya dan keluarga masih tercari-cari siapa dia dan kalau jumpa memang kami mahu saman kerana telah memburukkan nama saya dan keluarga.

"Memang secara peribadi pun saya tidak melenting dan tidak melayan sangat kerana semua benda itu tidak betul, tetapi takkanlah apabila dia sudah memburukkan nama macam itu, saya mahu mendiamkan diri pula," katanya.

Leuniey dalam satu sidang akhbar baru-baru ini menafikan dia mempunyai hubungan dengan Apek dan turut menafikan sekeras-kerasnya bahawa tonggak utama pasukan bola sepak Kelantan itu menjadi punca dia memutuskan ikatan pertunangan dengan anak seorang usahawan batik di negeri ini.

Sebelum ini, sebuah portal berita detikperubahan.com melaporkan Khairul Fahmi kini dikatakan asyik bercinta dengan gadis manis bernama Leuniey.

Kontroversi itu tercetus setelah pemilik laman sosial Twitter, @MahSiH2 mendakwa Apek yang merupakan seorang player telah memutuskan hubungan dengan kekasihnya sebelum ini, Dahlia Teck dan menjalin hubungan dengan seorang gadis bernama Leuniey.

Sementara itu, Leuniey sekali lagi menegaskan dia tidak pernah berkawan dengan Apek dan hanya bapanya, Nazri Adnan, 43, yang berhubung dengan penjaga gol itu kerana urusan perniagaan.

"Saya memang tidak berkawan dengan dia, cuma bapa saya ada bisnes yang berkaitan dengan kelab penyokong Apek, jadi saya tidak pernah terlibat.

"Cuma kalau pernah jumpa pun hanya berselisih dan ketika itu Apek datang bersama seorang pakcik saya ke rumah sebab ada urusan dan kebetulan pada waktu itu saya hendak keluar rumah untuk bersolek," katanya.





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[GAMBAR] Blue Ivy Carter, anak Beyonce dan Jay-Z


Menimbulkan sensasi sejak bayi perempuan ini dilahirkan, akhirnya Blue Ivy telah memperlihatkan dirinya di khalayak umum.


Lima keping gambarnya berusia satu bulan telah disiarkan oleh ibu bapanya - Beyonce dan Jay-Z - pada halaman blog Tumblr.
Gambar-gambar yang terdapat di blog itu termasuklah gambar jarak dekat bayi dan gambar kedua ibu bapanya sedang memegangnya.





Seterusnya terdapat kenyataan terhadap gambar tersebut yang berbunyi:

"Kami mengalu-alukan anda untuk berkongsi kegembiraan kami."


Pasangan itu turut mengucapkan terima kasih kepada orang ramai kerana menghormati privasi mereka.

Biru Ivy merupakan anak pertama pasangan superstar ini.







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