Ah, the joys of the Easter getaway. I’ve just come back from a week-long skiing trip in Montana with my family, catching the last of the famous Rocky Mountains’ spring powder before everything turned to slush. We booked our flights, drove to the airport and got on the plane: no fuss, no mandatory Covid tests … Read more
TOM LEONARD: After 18 hours of surgery, there was silence in the blood-drenched theatre as two exhausted medical teams waited for the patient, a male macaque monkey, to wake up.
Last Friday at 8am, a computer operator at a water treatment plant in Florida noticed the cursor moving across his screen as if being controlled by an invisible hand. The operator assumed that, as often happened at the plant, which provides drinking water to the small city of Oldsmar (population 14,600), it was just his … Read more
The scene was Madonna’s glittering post-Oscars party last year in Los Angeles. The champagne was flowing and the paparazzi snapping as Hollywood’s biggest stars celebrated their success. Amid the revellers could be seen a somewhat diffident-looking man, standing rather awkwardly with a curvy, dark-haired woman, his bald head glistening under the hot lights. He was, as … Read more
With I Love Lucy, she became the biggest star in television history with a sitcom in which she and her real-life husband, Cuban band leader Desi Arnaz, played out a happy if chaotic marriage to a hooked audience of tens of millions From her dyed orange hair to her image as America’s most adorable housewife, … Read more
Back in November 1955, a Soviet train was crawling out of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, when someone burst into one of the carriages, claiming he had seen a ‘flying saucer’ in the twilight sky. ‘We turned off the light as quickly as possible,’ said a witness. ‘I saw a shadowy form above the horizon … Read more
Labour’s leader in Scotland Richard Leonard QUITS ahead of Holyrood elections in which party was expected to trail THIRD behind SNP and Tories By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:10 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 16:28 GMT, 14 January 2021 The Leader of Scottish Labour quit today just months before he was … Read more
She recently found herself at the center of a scandal concerning a television show she completed a decade ago. But Ali Larter was all smiles on Friday, while she took a Christmas Day walk with her mother and two children in Santa Monica, California. The Legally Blonde star, 44, wore a holiday appropriate knit red … Read more
The crime for which Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death is about as horrific as one can imagine. In December 2004, she strangled a pregnant dog breeder, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, having pretended to be interested in buying one of her puppies, and used a kitchen knife to cut her baby out of her belly, whom she … Read more
Ali Larter issued a half-apology to her Heroes onscreen husband Leonard Roberts on Wednesday following accusations she had him written off their NBC series after only one season in 2007. ‘I am deeply saddened to hear about Leonard Roberts’ experience on Heroes and I am heartbroken reading his perception of our relationship, which absolutely doesn’t … Read more