R. Kelly Death Report a Hoax

R. Kelly Death Report a Hoax

 

You can rest easy — R. Kelly is alive and well and has not died in a jet ski accident in the Turks and Caicos islands.
Reports of Kelly’s death surfaced online early this morning, with various websites reporting it.  It wasn’t too long, though, before R. Kelly himself disproved the rumor by tweeting a photo of himself, with the note, “Glad I don’t even know how to jet ski.”
At this point, any report of a celebrity jet ski death in the Turks and Caicos is suspect.  In just the last year or so, celebrities who supposedly died in the exact same fashion include Brad Pitt, Chris Brown, Ja Rule, J. Cole, rockers Chad Kroeger and Bret Michaels and others.  The reports are generated by various “fake news” websites that allow users to plug a name into a pre-written story, which is then picked up by various news and gossip aggregator sites.

woman spills yogurt on Obama

President Barack Obama reacts to having frozen yogurt spilled on his pants by young women he was greeting outside The Sink, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

BOULDER, Colorado — Even the most powerful man in the world cannot avoid the occasional food spill.

President Barack Obama was meeting and greeting outside popular local restaurant The Sink, in Boulder, Colorado, on Tuesday night when a girl spilled yogurt on him, CBS News’ White House correspondent Mark Knoller reported.

“Ooops. A girl spilled yogurt on Pres Obama as he was shaking hands along a ropeline outside The Sink. She apologized,” Knoller wrote on Twitter.

“Getting yogurt on the president — you’ve got a story to tell,” Obama told the girl, who replied, “I’m very embarrassed,” according to Knoller.

In a photo posted on picture-sharing site Instagram, another woman at the event — user “madloid55” — showed herself posing with Obama. The accompanying caption read “Just met Obama at the Sink.”
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It was not known if the photo was taken before or after the yogurt spill. There were no telltale signs of the dairy product on the president’s shirt or pants in the picture.

Obama stopped by the eatery on his way to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he was giving a speech as part of a three-state swing to push for action on interest rate increases.

Boy awaiting heart transplant abducted from St. Louis hospital

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A child-abduction alert was issued on Tuesday in St. Louis for a 5-year-old boy who police said was on a waiting list for a heart transplant and is believed to have been taken by his father.

Porter Stone was reported missing from Children's Hospital at 4:20 p.m. local time after his father, with whom he left, called the boy's mother to tell her "he was taking his son," said officer Sherri Bruns of the St. Louis Police Department.

The couple reportedly has been embroiled in a custody dispute over the boy, she said.

The boy was carrying a backpack with a medical intravenous pump and medication that will last 48 hours, Bruns said. He was at the hospital awaiting a transplant, she said, adding, "He is next on the list."
Porter Stone is described as 3-foot-10-inches tall, weighing 44 lbs (20 kg), wearing with a Mohawk-style haircut and dressed in a gray shirt and black-and-white shorts and Spiderman shoes.

Police said the father, Jeffrey Stone, 33, may be driving a black or silver Toyota Corolla with California plates.

Beyonce named People's most beautiful woman

NEW YORK (AP) — People magazine has named Beyonce as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012.

The 30-year-old singer tops the magazine's annual list of the "World's Most Beautiful" in a special double issue. The announcement was made Wednesday.

Commenting on her selection, Beyonce tells People: "I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this Earth."

Beyonce, who is married to rapper Jay-Z, gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, in January.

"She's just the cutest thing," says the Grammy winner, who sings to her daughter and claims to "love" changing diapers.

Does Blue resemble mom or dad?
"She looks like Blue," the singer says. "She's her own person."
"The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy," she adds. "The word 'love' means something completely different now."

Other celebrities on the list include Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Jessica Pare of "Mad Men."

John Terry apologises to Chelsea's fans after dismissal

Chelsea captain John Terry apologised to fans after the red card against Barcelona which rules him out of the Champions League final.

Terry was sent off for violent conduct after driving a knee into Barca's Alexis Sanchez off the ball.
Chelsea overcame Terry's loss to win 3-2 on aggregate and book a final date with Bayern Munich or Real Madrid.
"I feel I've let them (team-mates) down, I've apologised and I apologise to the fans," said Terry.
Terry was sent off in the 37th minute when the score was 1-0 to Barcelona on the night and 1-1 on aggregate.

John Terry's red card against Barcelona was his first at club level since he was sent off in a 2-1 defeat at Tottenham in April 2010

Yet Roberto di Matteo's side regrouped to stage a dramatic fightback and reach the final for the second time in five seasons .

"It does look bad on the replay," Terry told Sky Sports. "I raised my knee but hopefully the people out there who know me, know I'm not that kind of player.
"At the time I was bewildered, but looking at the replay it looks a red card. On a personal note, of course (it hurts I miss the final). But we deserve to be in the Champions League final.
"I really hope that doesn't take away from this win."
Interim Chelsea head coach Di Matteo refused to condemn Terry for leaving his team a man down.
"He's fantastic leader of this group," said the Italian.

"He's the captain of our club. Everybody can make a mistake in life. We're just so happy that this group has managed to go to the final."
Asked if he was angry with his skipper, Di Matteo added: "No, I'm not. We're all human beings. We're under a lot of pressure as players."
Chelsea will also be without Ramires, Branislav Ivanovic and Raul Meireles for the final after the trio all picked up bookings at the Nou Camp.
In addition, Gary Cahill suffered a hamstring injury while David Luiz is still on the sidelines with a similar injury, leaving Chelsea without a fit experienced central defender.

Chelsea's Champions League final selection headache

• Definitely out (suspensions) - John Terry, Branislav Ivanovic, Ramires and Raul Meireles.
• Need fitness test: Gary Cahill and David Luiz
• Midfield options: Florent Maldouda, Michael Essien and Salomon Kalou

Cahill left the field with a hamstring injury early in the first half, but remained hopeful he would recover before the final.

"To come off so early, I was absolutely devastated," he said.
"They [the medical team] tell me because it's so high up, it won't be as bad as first feared. I just pray the scan's all right."
Ramires and Meireles' absences means Di Matteo is lacking midfield options with Florent Maldouda, Michael Essien and Salomon Kalou - three players who have struggled with either injuries or indifferent form - in line for a start.
However, Di Matteo refused to be drawn on the players Chelsea will be missing through suspension for the final.
"When it is the right time we will think about the final," he said.

James Murdoch grilled over UK phone hacking

LONDON (AP) — James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's scandal-tarred British newspaper unit before a U.K. inquiry Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.

Speaking under oath at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into media ethics, Murdoch repeated allegations that the tabloid's then-editor Colin Myler and the company's former in-house lawyer Tom Crone misled him about the scale of illegal behavior at the newspaper.
Leveson asked Murdoch: "Can you think of a reason why Mr. Myler or Mr. Crone should keep this information from you? Was your relationship with them such that they may think: 'Well we needn't bother him with that' or 'We better keep it from it because he'll ask to cut out the cancer'?"
"That must be it," Murdoch said. "I would say: 'Cut out the cancer,' and there was some desire to not do that."
The 39-year-old Murdoch said that at the time he had no reason to doubt his subordinates when he took over at News International, which published the News of the World, saying he had repeatedly been told that nothing was amiss.
"I was given assurances by them, which proved to be wrong," he said.
Revelations that reporters at the News of the World had hacked into the phones of hundreds of high-profile people, including a teenage murder victim, pushed Murdoch's father Rupert to close the 168-year-old newspaper, triggered three U.K. police investigations, led to more than 100 lawsuits, and launched Leveson's inquiry into media practices.
James Murdoch has found himself sucked into the center of scandal, with critics saying that he should have found out about the wrongdoing once he took over at News International in December 2007.
The uproar over illegal behavior at the News of the World has already scuttled Murdoch's multibillion pound (dollar) bid for full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. He resigned from his post as chairman earlier this month "to avoid being a lightning rod," he said.
Murdoch's relationship with politicians also came under scrutiny Tuesday.
The American-born News Corp. executive revealed that he'd told Conservative leader David Cameron that The Sun newspaper would endorse the Tories' election bid at a meeting at the George club in London on Sept. 10, 2009.
The top-selling paper's endorsement of Cameron's Conservatives was a blow to Britain's Labour Party — and critics claim that it helped secure Tory approval for the potentially lucrative BSkyB bid after they won the election in 2010.
Murdoch denied the charge Tuesday.
"I would never have made that kind of a crass calculation," Murdoch said. "It just wouldn't occur to me."
Murdoch acknowledged talking to Cameron about it at a Christmas dinner in 2010 — after the Tory leader had been elected prime minister — but said it was "a tiny side conversation ahead of a dinner."
"It wasn't really a discussion, if you will," Murdoch said.
Rupert Murdoch, who is still chairman and chief executive of News International's parent company News Corp., is scheduled to appear before the inquiry on Wednesday.

Breaking news- Obama takes on college costs, eyes young voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wooing young voters, President Barack Obama is on a blitz to keep the cost of college loans from soaring for millions of students, taking his message to three states strategically important to his re-election bid. By taking on student debt, Obama is speaking to middle-class America and targeting an enormous burden that threatens the economic recovery.

Before Obama got his road trip under way, Republican opponent Mitt Romney found a way to steal some thunder from the president's campaign argument: He agreed with it.
The competitors are now on record for freezing the current interest rates on a popular federal loan for poorer and middle-class students. The issue is looming because the rate will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 without intervention by Congress, an expiration date chosen in 2007 when a Democratic Congress voted to chop the rate in half.
Obama is heading to campuses in the South, West and Midwest to sell his message to colleges audiences bound to support it. As he pressures Republicans in Congress to act, he will also be trying to energize the young people essential to his campaign — those who voted for him last time and the many more who have turned voting age since then.
The president speaks Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and then the University of Iowa on Wednesday. All three universities are in states that Obama carried in 2008, and all three states are considered among the several that could swing to Obama or Romney and help decide a close 2012 election.
Both campaigns are fighting for the support of voters buried in college debt. The national debt amassed on student loans is higher than that for credit cards or auto loans.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has estimated about 15 percent of Americans, or 37 million people, have outstanding student loan debt. The banks put the total at $870 billion, though other estimates have reached $1 trillion. About two-thirds of student loan debt is held by people under 30.
Obama, previewing the message he will give at all three colleges, said over the weekend that allowing the interest rates to double this summer would hurt more than 7 million students. The White House said it would cost students $1,000, based on the average amount borrowed a year ($4,200) and the average time it takes to pay the loan (12 years).
"That would be a tremendous blow," Obama said. "And it's completely preventable."
Romney agreed with that conclusion even in the midst of blasting Obama's economic leadership. "Given the bleak job prospects that young Americans coming out of college face today, I encourage Congress to temporarily extend the low rate," Romney said in a statement.
Obama and Romney are championing what amounts to a one-year, election-year fix at a cost of roughly $6 billion. Congress seems headed that way. Members of both parties are assessing ways to cover the costs and win the votes in the House and Senate, which is far from a political certainty. All parties involved have political incentive to keep the rates as they are.
Obama carried voters between the ages of 18-29 by a margin of about 2-to-1 in 2008, but many recent college graduates have faced high levels of unemployment. That raises concerns for the president about whether they will vote and volunteer for him in such large numbers again.

Jamaicans pack a park to watch Marley documentary

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousand reggae fans crowded a Kingston park late Thursday to watch a screening of a documentary about Bob Marley, the charismatic icon of reggae music who brought the Jamaican musical genre to every corner of the globe.

"Marley," which will be released worldwide on Friday, premiered in his Caribbean homeland to high praise from Jamaicans who marveled at footage showing the late singer's impassioned interviews, family life and loose-limbed stage presence.

Drummers with their long dreadlocks tucked into crocheted caps performed traditional rhythms and chants before the film in homage to Marley's Rastafarian faith, the homegrown religion that reveres Ethiopia's deceased Emperor Haile Selassie as a god and considers black people living outside Africa as captives in a foreign land.

Alvin "Seeco" Patterson was one of several reggae luminaries who sat in a VIP section with former prime ministers, ambassadors, and businessmen before a big movie screen in Kingston's Emancipation Park. Marley's widow, Rita, and other family members also joined the celebration.
"We started the music together. As he got bigger, he didn't change that much. Always stayed a very nice guy," said Patterson, a close friend of the singer's and a longtime percussionist in Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Others spoke in reverential tones about Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36.

"Bob Marley was one of the greatest human beings who ever walked the earth," Lisa Hanna, Jamaica's minister of youth and culture, told the crowd to applause before the film started.

The documentary, a long-in-the-works project authorized by the Marley family, takes a linear, biographic approach that takes nearly 2 1/2 hours to tell the Jamaican songwriter's life story through friends and relatives.

Born in rural St. Ann parish in 1945, Marley rose from the gritty Kingston slum of Trench Town to global stardom in the 1970s with hits like "No Woman, No Cry," ''Get Up, Stand Up," and "I Shot the Sheriff." His lyrics promoting social justice and African unity made him an icon in Jamaica and other developing countries.
Some even consider the musician a prophet, saying his lyrics promoting peace, "one love" and social justice have resonance today as Jamaica continues to struggle with violent crime and poverty.
In Jamaica, the lore surrounding Marley is rooted in the state-sponsored political violence of the 1970s, when Jamaica's leaders used street gangs to sway voters.

Under pressure to choose between Michael Manley's People's National Party and Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party, most reggae stars remained neutral. They moved among Kingston's chessboard of warring communities and chronicled the suffering.

Following a deadly 1978 military ambush of gang members allied to the opposition, Jamaica's reggae stars took the stage at a Kingston concert to support peace. But the concert's highlight — a moment that has become immortalized in Jamaican consciousness — was when Marley made Seaga and Manley clasp hands over his head and promise an end to the violence.

It didn't, and Jamaica saw years more of political violence.

But Marley is celebrated as a musical visionary and a man of conviction in Jamaica. Schoolchildren know his "One Love" hit by heart.

"I learned he was a good man in school," said 11-year-old Oneal Harris, who attended the screening with his mother.