By Maria Golovnina LONDON | Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:03am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – She was supposed to be the gentler face of a would-be reformist regime. Now Asma al-Assad has become a hate figure for many. Syria’s London-born first lady, once breathlessly described as a “rose in the desert”, is ensconced at the heart [...]
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES | Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:53pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Gallagher, the stand-up comedian famous for smashing watermelons, has suffered a heart attack and is recovering in a Texas hospital, a representative for the comic said on Thursday. Gallagher, 65, was set to perform on Wednesday night at Coach [...]
BANGKOK | Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:35am EDT BANGKOK (Reuters) – Chaleo Yoovidhya, who rose from poverty to become one of the world’s richest men thanks to astute marketing of the “Red Bull” energy drink, has died in his native Thailand. Local media said he had died of natural causes in hospital in Bangkok on [...]
By Kevin Fogarty WASHINGTON | Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:17pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of U.S. lawmakers and film star George Clooney were arrested at Sudan’s embassy in Washington on Friday in a protest at which activists accused Khartoum of blocking humanitarian aid from reaching a volatile border region where hundreds of thousands [...]
LOS ANGELES | Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:04pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Meghan McCain, daughter of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, always has been outspoken and with her partying ways and sometimes daring clothes, she admits she would have been a crazy U.S. first daughter. In an interview with men’s magazine Playboy released [...]
