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Marine Le Pen plays down spine injury after swimming pool accident
Marine Le Pen has rushed to reassure party activists and supporters of the far-right Front National that she is fine after her father sparked a wave of concern by revealing she had fractured her back falling into an empty swimming pool. On Sunday, party officials joined in the chorus to play down the accident in...
guardian.co.uk (3 minutes ago)
EU ridiculed for banning olive oil jugs from restaurants
EU bureaucrats have been ridiculed for shifting their focus from fighting the eurozone's debt crisis to impose strict rules on how restaurants serve olive oil. From 1 January eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls and forced instead to use pre-sealed, non-refillable...
guardian.co.uk (4 minutes ago)
Coronation Street Cleans Up At Soap Awards
The ITV show won half the prizes, including Best Soap and Best Actor, while EastEnders left almost empty-handed.
sky.com (3 hours ago)
The King Of Marvin Gardens shows the last gasp of a crumbling America
In Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens, the Atlantic City of 1972 becomes the anteroom to Paradise for two brothers: one a depressive talk-radio host, the other a manic huckster. Played by Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern respectively, David and Jason Staebler are the last gasp of an America that is visibly dying...
guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Longmont woman, Evans man arrested on warrants, illegal gun possesion
LONGMONT -- Police arrested a 34-year-old Evans man and a 33-year-old Longmont woman Friday night after investigating a report that a man with a gun in his waistband had made a shooting gesture, with his empty hand, at a family that was inside a car at a convenience store parking lot on the 800 block of Lashley Street.
timescall.com (8 hours ago)
Yankees Insider: Bombers add Brignac, Hal not worried about empty seats
The Yankees increased their infield flexibility late Friday night, making a trade with Colorado to acquire utility man Reid Brignac for cash considerations, GM Brian Cashman said. Brignac was designated for assignment by the Rockies Thursday after hitting .250 with one home run and six RBI in 29 games. Joe Girardi...
nydailynews.com (10 hours ago)
School choice advocates come up empty in 2013 Legislature but vow to keep fighting
HELENA – While advocates of school choice struck out again this year in Montana, failing to enact a bill providing tax credits or any public money for private or charter schools, they say they…
missoulian.com (10 hours ago)
Radio Titans trio gaining audience online
HOLLYWOOD -- The door at the Radio Titans studio has a large crack in its window, and there's no doorknob, just an empty hole, so it's not soundproofed.
pasadenastarnews.com (11 hours ago)
Final answer? Quiz show couple win £26k after Channel 4 admits it bungled the answers
Carlyn Coyle and Scott Carwood (pictured) from Glasgow went away empty-handed from Davina McCall’s teatime quiz Five Minutes To A Fortune only to realise later that producers had in fact bungled the answers.
dailymail.co.uk (12 hours ago)
Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen is seriously injured after fracturing her spine in...
The leader of France's far-right Front National party, Marine Le Pen (pictured), has fractured her spine after falling into an empty swimming pool, it emerged tonight.
dailymail.co.uk (12 hours ago)
Chloe Johnson: Devastated mum feels empty inside after girl, 5, drowns on holiday in Egypt
She claimed there were NO lifeguards and staff made NO attempt to resuscitate her, leaving dad to desperately try mouth-to-mouth
mirror.co.uk (13 hours ago)
Man charged with DUI, said he doesn't recall accident
A Gainesville man found with empty beer cans, gas cartridges and compressed air containers was arrested on a DUI charge after getting into an accident that he didn't remember, Gainesville police reported.
gainesville.com (13 hours ago)
Bayern Munich are a wounded giant eager to win the Champions League | Barney Ronay
There is a vague sense of something missing in the otherwise bounteously stocked Bayern Munich club museum. Opened last year immediately after – and right upstairs from – Bayern's hometown Champions League final, the museum can absorb a full half-hour of goggling at its stirring display of historical Bayern power...
guardian.co.uk (15 hours ago)
PUNISHMENT? The World's Best Punner Gets This Trophy
Usually, people who enjoy peppering their conversations with wordplay get the "punaround" from their friends and colleagues. But on May 18, the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championship in Austin, Texas, those who enjoy "punning off at the mouth" have a safe haven to do it without feeling ashamed. Just ask organizer Gary...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
Missing boater found alive; empty boat washes ashore
FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (WPRI) -- The search for a missing boater in Fairhaven is over. The U.S. Coast Guard said Gary Alves, 57, of East Freetown was found alive just before 6 a.m. Saturday. Officials say he was found walking on a beach near Hoppy's Landing -- not far from where he originally set sail. Alves told...
providencejournal.com (23 hours ago)
Civil servants to be told: 'Empty bedpans, push hospital trolleys and clean floors if you want to...
The plans, to be unveiled on Monday by Jeremy Hunt, will require top Whitehall officials to perform roles such as GP receptionist and hospital porter for a total of four weeks a year for six years.
dailymail.co.uk (1 day ago)
Wisconsin Marine, dog reunited in surprise ceremony (video, photos)
Returning soldier surprises daughter after she tosses first pitch at Tampa Bay Rays baseball game Developers unveil 180-unit riverfront plans for Appleton Houdini Plaza renovation nears conclusion Empty chairs show impact of suicide, raise awareness What would you do with $600 million? Sinkhole swallows road west of...
postcrescent.com (1 day ago)
Gay marriage not on front burner in Wisconsin
Empty chairs show impact of suicide, raise awareness Spring blooms in the Fox Valley, part 8 Rob Schneider dishes on Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon and standup comedy in advance of Fox Cities appearance Deer takes ride on bus after smashing window Sinkhole swallows road west of Appleton A glimpse into Neenah's Project...
postcrescent.com (1 day ago)
Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
Consider this curious item of furniture, which belongs to the Geffrye Museum in London and appears at Turner Contemporary, Margate, as part of Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing. The object in question, at once austere and elaborate, is a cabinet of intricately carved ebony that stands on eight slender legs...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Experience: I dreamed a symphony, then composed it
I grew up being told I had all the musicality of a brick. I couldn't read or write a single note; music just didn't feature in my early years. Instead, my life followed a traditional path – I married my wife, Jo, at 21 and our daughter Emma soon came along. We were expecting another baby when things took an awful...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Northfield to add two traffic lights on Route 8 to handle racino traffic
Northfield Village will add a couple of traffic lights to state Route 8 to handle the thousands of new motorists expected when the Hard Rock Rocksino opens later this year. Lights will be added at Vincent Avenue and Filly Lane, both of which empty onto Route 8 (Northfield Road) across from the Northfield Park...
ohio.com (1 day ago)
NASA Designs the Scientifically Perfect Space Meal
After being strapped onto the front of a 15-story controlled explosion and launched clear out of the atmosphere to live in an experimental laboratory orbiting around the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, the least NASA can do is give you a good meal. Feeding the crew of the ISS and other manned excursions is...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson
After the current series of Doctor Who ends tonight, how can fans while away those empty summer months till Matt...
thetimes.co.uk (1 day ago)
Bedpan duty will be step up the career path for civil servants
Senior civil servants at the Department of Health will have to empty bedpans, push trolleys and clean hospital floors before...
thetimes.co.uk (1 day ago)
Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire: A brief stillness before the damselfly's short life on the...
Three damselflies rose as one from the pond on their maiden flights, wings flickering, twirling and glistening with amber transparency. They did not make it beyond the garden fence. Their second birth into a world of wind and air announced, they veered off to land. One dropped on to a fading cowslip, the flower head...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Man, 75, hurt in gas tank explosion
Wesley Baes, 75, was using a torch in an attempt to patch a hole in a 200-gallon gas tank late Friday morning. The tank was empty, but vapors ignited and caused an explosion.
democratandchronicle.com (1 day ago)
Oxnard residents have until Monday to register for a special election
Oxnard residents have until Monday to register to vote in the upcoming special election. On June 4, voters will choose from among 13 candidates to fill the empty fifth City Council seat.
vcstar.com (1 day ago)
Departures Magazine: Airports You May Never Want to Leave
Some would say that most airport experiences are, unfortunately, less than pleasant. But there are hubs out there that strive to make travelers feel cared for and cosseted, serving gourmet food instead of overpriced to-go sandwiches and making a concerted effort to cut down on wait times in security lines. The best...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?
So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies. One little constraint Since we can't predict the future, or even...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Make your own trash art project
Noah Williams likes to make masks that stare back at you through bottle-cap eyes. Try to make a mask like that yourself. Start with an old, empty cereal box. (Don’t break the box down.) Glue or tape newspaper over the box. Glue old buttons or bottle caps on the mask for eyes, remembering, Williams said, that the...
washingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
