Saturday, August 18, 2012

Brazilian worker survives miraculous metal piercing

A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday. Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital, said doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite's skull during a five-hour...

Olympic Ring Tattoo

Missy Franklin's tattoo Michael Phelps, Brendan Hansen and Matt Grevers are among the participants in the just concluded 2012 Olympics who are known for carrying the Olympic ring tattoo in celebration of their participation in the game. However some other participants have just started...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Helen Gurley Brown dies

Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine has died at the age of 90.  She was credited for ushering the sexual revolution of the 60’s. Brown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization, Hearst CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr. said in a statement....

Meet Britain's second richest lottery winners

Adrian Bayford, 41, and wife Gillian, 40, of Haverhill, Suffolk scooped a staggering £148.6 million jackpot on Friday. Their windfall makes them Britain's second richest lottery winners and catapults them into the 1,000 richest people in the land. ...