President Barack Obama has vowed to “use any means necessary” to free the actor Paul Walker from the Fast and the Furious franchise.
Speaking at a White House press conference, he said: “The time has come for the two studios responsible to decide whether they are going to hand this young American back, or to continue breaching his human rights, ie subjecting him to Vin Diesel’s acting.”
9) St George’s Day. Americans mark July 4 with an orgy of national jubilation, barbecues, parades and fireworks. English people only realise it’s St George’s Day if they drive past a local watering hole called Bar Fusion and notice some bunting.
Former prime minister Baroness Thatcher’s dying request was that members of the Lion King musical “blew the bloody doors off” at her funeral, it has been revealed.
Performers from the West End show have already been contacted about staging a “freewheeling celebration in full African dress all the way into St Paul’s Cathedral,” David Cameron said last night.
Malnutrition, dirty clothing and chronic
dehydration – it’s disgusting how some patients let themselves go.
Thankfully, to solve this the government today announced that new nurses will
spend their first year devoting themselves to basic nursing care. Here The
Daily News looks at what a typical day in hospital will look like for nurses in training.
0630. Check your elderly patients. If
any appear to be unresponsive, test their cognitive
skills, eg hold up the front page of the Express and see if they shout
something angrily. If they don’t they are possibly dead. Cover with a sheet and
move on. This is called triage.
Singing star Adele has caught up with the pavement she has been chasing since 2008, her agent has confirmed.
Police were called to a residential street in Cirencester at 3am today after reports that a young woman was tussling with an 8ft x 3ft strip of concrete.
Welcome to our new series in which we guess what will happen in a new film or TV show, based entirely on a quick look at the poster...
Kinty Tamble (Mary McDonnell) is the go-getting head of Detroit’s
Murders, Manslaughter and Prank Phone Calls Department. She’s as comfortable in
heels as in a blood-caked forensics outfit, or so it says on her match.com
profile. Permanently stoned on Oxycontin, Rohypnol and Lysterine. “It’s the
only way I can relax,” she says in episode one. “That and red-hot lesbian
sex.” Doesn’t like to talk about her sexuality, as she explained in the Crime
Scene Now Magazine article: “101 Reasons Why I Am A Lesbian”. Season two
tagline: “If you think her private life’s a mess, you should see her
Brazilian.”
9) Shark attack. Last year, 15 people were killed by sharks off the UK
coast, and a further six inland. The figures are massively down on the 1961 high
of 355 but are still tragically tragic.
As HRH is treated for gastroenteritis (get well soon, ma'am), we look at some of the
indignities she will have to put up with while the Queen is in hospital.
1) Having to endure Prince Harry and mates dressing up as “Nigerian
doctors” and playing pranks on other patients.
2) Popping down to Costa for a crafty capuccino and then discovering
they want something called “money”.