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Loleatta Holloway Dies Aged 64

by Eric Taw 22 March 2011

Soul singer and disco favorite, Loleatta Holloway died yesterday after suffering from a short illness that then complicated, sending her into a coma. The soul legend’s agent, Ron Richardson, announced to the press that she had subsequently died from heart failure. The singer was 64 years old. Loleatta started her career singing gospel in the [...]

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Rapper Soulja Boy’s Brother Killed in Auto Wreck

by Eric Taw 21 March 2011

Star rapper Soulja Boy today announced to the word via Twitter that his half brother had been killed in a car wreck. The Chicago born, raised in Atlanta producer and rapper, famous for songs like ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy)’, and recent releaser of the album ‘The DeAndre Way’, tweeted to his fans “at home crying [...]

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Obama to Pay a Visit to His Irish Heritage

by Eric Taw 17 March 2011

Barack Obama has planned a visit to his forefathers’ village during his scheduled tour to Ireland in May. The American President made the announcement on St Patrick’s Day in the presence of recently-appointed Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who was at the White House for the yearly ceremony of Irish-American unity. Before his meeting with [...]

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Microsoft to Stop Making New Zune Versions

by Eric Taw 15 March 2011

According to an unnamed source close to the decision-making process, Microsoft is about to announce that it will not be releasing any new models of Zune media player because of its lackadaisical demand among customers. Instead, it will turn its attention to other hardware, although Zune software would still be available on MS Windows-powered mobile [...]

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Magical Stamp Collection Added By Royal Mail

by Eric Taw 9 March 2011

The UK Royal Mail has revealed its latest stamp offering. The mint is to press stamp images of the best that Britain has to offer in the realm of magical characters through the ages. Starting out with the Harry Potter legend, the first two stamps will show the formidable, sometimes laughable character of Dumbledore and [...]

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Only One and a Half Men Left – Sheen Fired

by Eric Taw 7 March 2011

Charlie Sheen has been dramatically fired from his role on ‘Two and a Half Men’. The troubled star who has been increasingly in the headlines recently for his erratic lifestyle, had been suspended from the show, but now Warner Brothers have said it is all over – effective immediately. Charlie is his stage name. His [...]

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WordPress.com Still Recovering From DDOS Attack

by Eric Taw 4 March 2011

WordPress.com’s network servers were attacked in a Distributed Denial of Service attack earlier this week and the company says it is still in recovery mode. This form of mass attack is similar to a traditional DOS attack but on a larger scale and by multiple integrated systems. The attacks are intended to render the data [...]

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Doped Cakes Burglar Finally Arrested in Paris

by Eric Taw 3 March 2011

French police have arrested a man, aged 64, for allegedly robbing people after first doping them with drug-laced cakes. The crimes have been going on for about three years and it is believed that his first victim was drugged by a spiked bottle of wine. Police already had a description of the burglar whom they [...]

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Great War Veteran Frank Buckles Dies Aged 110

by Eric Taw 28 February 2011

The last remaining American serving veteran from World War 1 has died today at the ripe old age of 110. Frank Buckles, who was born in Missouri in 1901 before being raised in Oklahoma, had been the last remaining US veteran of the Great War since back in 2008. Even back then, there were only two [...]

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Firefly Fansite Mounting Campaign to Buy Rights to Show

by Eric Taw 24 February 2011

Sci-Fi fans of the series Firefly, also known as Serenity in some countries, are hoping that a tongue-in-cheek comment by one of the show’s stars, Nathan Fillion, could lead to a revival of the award-winning cult hit show. Nathan apparently joked recently that if he managed to win $300 million on the lottery, he would [...]

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