Amy Winehouse has been taken to University College Hospital after suffering a "reaction to medication". There have long been concerns about the singer's health, and she received hospital treatment last month for traces of lung disease emphysema.
Amy Winehouse will stay in hospital overnight and a decision will be made whether to discharge her.
Three female suicide bombers targeted Shi'ite pilgrims in the city that have been killed at least 28 people and more than 90 wounded in Baghdad. Many more have been wounded in the wave of attacks in Baghdad and another explosion in Kirkuk.
Hollywood has just ridden to the most lucrative movie going weekend in film history on the cape of The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman sequel raked in $155 million between Friday and Sunday, outselling the previous top weekend grosser, 2007's Spider-Man 3, by more than $4 million and driving the movie business to a record $253 million weekend.
Radovan Karadzic 1st President of Republika Srpska is wanted for allegedly ordering civilian massacres that left thousands dead in wartime Bosnia. He has been arrested, according to a statement from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic.
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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama raised $52 million in June and more than double the $22 million raised by his Republican rival John McCain.
The Obama campaign raised the funds with an average donation of $68, a sign of his continued strength among small donors, campaign manager David Plouffe said in an e-mail to supporters. The Obama campaign has $72 million in the bank.
A hero's welcome was given to Five Lebanese militants who are released today from prison in Israel just hours after being awarded their freedom. They were freed in exchange for the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped two years ago. The deal is being viewed as a triumph by the Lebanese Shi'ite group.
A nine-day visit to Australia of Pope Benedict XVI has begun from where he is due to apologize for decades of sexual abuse of children by priests. As he began the longest foreign trip of his papacy, he said pedophilia was "incompatible" with being a priest.
SYDNEY, Australia - A massive Catholic youth celebration with an Australian G'Day and a welcoming text message from Pope Benedict XVI to the tens of thousands of pilgrims who have traveled here from around the world.
A 72-year-old woman Omkari Panwar has delivered twins - a boy and a girl, by Caesarean section last week to make her the world's oldest mother. Omkari Panwar has two children and five grandchildren.
A federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
Thomas Beatie, pregnant man the transgendered man who made headlines gave birth Sunday to a healthy baby girl at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, it was natural, according to a source, who added that reports that Beatie had had a Caesarean section are false. "She's really cute, really pretty.
Here is the story - According to state highway patrol reports, at approximately 1:45 p.m. last Halloween, Nikki Catsouras was traveling 100 mph on State Route 241, near Lake Forest, Calif., when she clipped another car and lost control, going across lanes over the median and slamming into a concrete tollbooth. She was killed instantly.
"Her head was more or less cut in two and sort of cleaved and then smashed. It's nothing that anyone should ever have to see," said Michael Fertik, the founder of ReputationDefender, a company that helps clients such as the Catsouras family remove items from the Internet. The Catsouras family was told they should never see the photos from the scene of the horrendous accident.
In her first British gig yesterday in 7 months, Whacked out singer Amy Winehouse appeared to lunge for an audience member in the pit. She also blasted headliner Jay-Z, saying he’s got some front to come here with tunes you don’t even remember," mumbled between songs and said her husband would be out of jail soon.
Sadako Yamamura - is the antagonist in Koji Suzuki's novel Ring and the 1998 film adaptation. She returns as the antagonist in Rasen, is the protagonist in Ring 0: Birthday, and appears in the Korean and American remakes of the Ring cycle films.
In the original novel, Sadako was portrayed with testicular feminization syndrome, meaning that she was anatomically male. In both the novels and movies, it is possible to infer that she is the daughter of some oceanic based entity, making her a quasi-oceanic demigod.
Her name combines the Japanese words for "chaste" (sada) and "child" (ko).
Sen. Barack Obama standing in front of four American flags, delivered a speech in the aptly named town of Independence, in an attempt to reassure voters about his patriotism.
