According to police in Houston, Texas, shots were fired at the city's international airport on Thursday later afternoon. Police said that the man who opened fire died from self-inflicting injuries, breaking news reports coming out of Houston this afternoon reported.
Houston police told Houston's (...)
Woods tied a PGA Tour record Monday by winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the eighth time, and this one had some extra significance. It returned him to the top of the world ranking for the first time since the final week of October 2010, the longest spell of his career.
Woods never let (...)
Former President George H.W. Bush's condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said.
"President Bush's condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital (...)
Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering "a series of setbacks," including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said.
In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman in Houston, said the 88-year-old former leader had (...)
طُرح دويتو الراحلة ويتنى هيوستين وأر كيلى 'I Look To You' على الإنترنت، والذي جهزه كيلى لألبوم هيوستين عام 2009
الأغنية ستكون ضمن ألبوم أفضل أغانى ويتنى الذي يحمل اسم I Will Always Love You - The Best of Whitney Houston والمقرر إطلاقه في 13 نوفمبر.
يذكر أن أر كيلى صرح أثناء عمله مع هيوستين على (...)
Tanzania plans to raise royalties on gas and demand signature bonuses for energy contracts as the east African nation tries to secure bigger benefits from major offshore discoveries.
Tanzania recently tripled its estimated gas reserves and is fast becoming a regional energy hub after finds by (...)
A study on contamination levels in hotel rooms led by the University of Houston, presented on Sunday at the American Society of Microbiology, reported that two of the most contaminated items were TV remote controls and bedside lamp switches.
Just as badly contaminated were surfaces more likely to (...)
ARLINGTON - Japanese right-hander Yu Darvish and the Rangers offense broke out of slumps to thump the Houston Astros 6-2 in the opening game of their Texas derby in Arlington.
Darvish, who enjoyed a sensational 6-1 start to his Major League Baseball career but hit a rough patch that dimmed his (...)
It emerged that hackers were working to “crack" a list of 6.5 million out of 150 million LinkedIn profiles.Web security experts galore quickly warned users to change their passwords for other services if they had reused the same one across the web as the hackers took control. And still LinkedIn's (...)
Whitney Houston's mother, former gospel singer Cissy Houston, is writing a book about her daughter's life, career and death, publisher HarperCollins said on Tuesday.
The currently untitled memoir, due next February, is being billed as "the definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing (...)
Drug paraphernalia and a white powdery substance were discovered in Whitney Houston's hotel room on the day she died, according to a coroner.
The full report says the 48-year-old was found on 11 February lying face down in an overflowing hotel bathtub.
Investigators said they recovered a rolled-up (...)
هشام الصباحي يكتب: الإنتقال من الثورة الجمعية إلى الثورة الفردية
هشام الصباحي
حتى لانتحول إلى قتله أو منتحريين ...حتى لانختار الموت بديلا عن الحياة...حتى لانختار العزلة بديلا عن الاندماج ..لابد أن نتحول فى هذه اللحظة من الثورة الجمعية إلى الثورة الفردية ،ربما يكون الوقت مناسب الآن للحديث عن (...)
لاتزال الإنجليزية أديل تستأثر بموقع الصدارة في سباق بيلبورد الأسبوعي بألبومها غير التقليدي "21" الذي نال مبيعات بلغت 247 ألف نسخة هذا الأسبوع، ليصبح هذا الأسبوع الثالث والعشرين له على القمة منذ إطلاقه العام الماضي. كادت أديل بذلك أن تحطم رقما سجله مغني الروك الأمريكي برنس بألبومه "Purple Rain" الذي (...)
After an opening number by Bruce Springsteen, the 54th Grammy Awards addressed what was on every viewers mind: the death of Whitney Houston the day before.
"There is no way around this," host LL Cool J said at the top of his monologue. "We've had a death in our family. At least for me, the only (...)
SALEM, Massachusetts (AP) — Salem — the very name conjures witches. Witches hanged in the notorious trials of 1692, witch houses and covens, a Salem Witch Museum and the Witch Dungeon Museum. This city of 41,000 souls is so closely identified with its witch history that flying witch logos adorn (...)
There are a number of reasons that a woman's surgery for breast cancer might be delayed. She might want to get a second opinion, for example, or her doctors may need to make sure any other medical conditions are under control and she's healthy enough for surgery.
But whether those short-term (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: On the eve of the next-to-last space shuttle launch, thousands of people streamed to the region for a chance to watch Friday's fiery spectacle. Adding to the fever-pitch excitement: The first-ever visit by an entire presidential family.
Also watching Endeavour's final (...)
So it is December again and we are 17 days away from Christmas. First of all let me be the first to wish you a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year as well. In seasons like this, the media usually focuses on everything related to the occasion.
For instance, in Valentine's Day all movies (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space is about to get its first humanoid from planet Earth. Robonaut 2 — affectionately known as R2 — is hitching a one-way ride to the International Space Station this week aboard the final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
It's the first humanoid robot ever bound for (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla: How would you look after 120 million miles?
Atlantis might appear a little scuffed up to outsiders as it heads into retirement after a quarter-century of spaceflight.
But to the trained eyes of NASA engineers, the ship is still in its prime — a fact that adds to wistful (...)
TAIPEI: As a younger man, Taiwan s Lin Yu-chun sang for hours on end, trying to get his mind off the sneers he endured because of his portly figure.
The round-faced soprano with the bowl haircut never imagined his voice would one day transform him into an international sensation.
But now, he (...)
The NFL season is in full gear and here we go again with some picks. Bring on the comments folks, as we are ready to do some battle in the next day before the games kickoff. Good times.
STEELERS (-5) over Viqueens: honestly I think this spread is absurd. The steelers are 1-5 against the spread (...)
Patients suffering from obsessive, distressing thoughts have a new treatment option: a pacemaker-like device that relieves anxiety with electrical jolts to the brain.
The American Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Medtronic s Reclaim device as the first implant to treat (...)
Pregnant women who develop breast cancer do not have worse odds of death or of cancer returning than other young breast cancer patients, a new study has found.
The study is one of the largest to look at whether breast cancer hits pregnant and recently pregnant women harder than other women. It (...)
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I m starting to think there s a backlash against traveling families.
First there was the nursing mother who was told to get off the plane. Then there was the mother who was stopped because her toddler had a sippy cup full of water as they went through security. (Yeah, yeah, I (...)