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Double Formula One world champion Mika Hakkinen sent his longtime rival on the racetrack Michael Schumacher wishes for a full recovery from a serious ski accident, a German newspaper reported Sunday. The Finnish driver, like Schumacher 45 years old,…

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher remained in critical condition Sunday a week after his skiing accident in the French Alps, which a German eyewitness said he inadvertently caught on his smartphone. Investigators are focusing on the retired racer…

Known as the “Black Panther” or simply “the King”, football legend Eusebio, who has died at the age of 71, reigned over Portuguese football in the 1960s, bringing glory to both his club Benfica and his country. The top scorer in the 1966 World Cup and…

The music world paid tribute on Saturday to Phil Everly, half of the famed 1950s and ’60s pop duo the Everly Brothers, who has died at the age of 74. Everly, a longtime smoker, died on Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California due to complications…

Michael Schumacher was skiing at a moderate pace at the moment of the accident which has left him in coma, news magazine Der Spiegel reported on its website Saturday, citing a video filmed by a German witness. The witness, a 35-year-old steward, said…

Michael Schumacher remains in a “critical but stable” condition, his spokeswoman said on Saturday, as French investigators hoped a helmet-mounted camera he was wearing at the moment of his ski accident could answer a raft of questions. A spokeswoman…

On January 3, 2014Barnaby Jack, a famous hacker who once publicly demoed how to make an ATM machine spit out cash, died six months ago. His cause of death was originally unknown, but an autopsy report now shows he died of a drug overdose. [Source: Mashable…

US President Barack Obama played golf with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Hawaii, in a rare vacation encounter with a foreign official. The statesmen hit the green at a US Marine Corps base on the northeastern coast of the island of Oahu. Obama…

US actor James Avery, most famous as Uncle Phil in hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” died on New Year’s Eve aged 68, his publicist said. With a deep baritone voice, Avery regularly played judges, professors or doctors in TV shows in the…

Michael Schumacher’s family hailed the Formula One legend as a fighter “who will not give up”, as he spent his 45th birthday on Friday lying in a coma in a French hospital following a skiing accident. The retired seven-time world champion slammed his…

Britney Spears, in the heels of such performers as Celine Dion and Elton John, late Friday opened a two-year sojourn in Sin City with a dazzling performance to a crowd of adoring fans. The former enfant terrible of US pop wowed some 4,600 fans with…

It’s not hard to imagine the stress and strain Brittany Spears is under. For the past four months, the onetime queen of teen pop has been laboring on her new stage show, Britney: Piece of Me, a two-year, 98-gig residency that kicked off Friday at the…

Teen pop megastar Justin Bieber has set Twitter ablaze with a message suggesting he may be stepping away from the stage — just as his new movie hits theaters on Christmas Day. “My beloved beliebers I’m officially retiring,” the 19-year-old Bieber said…

British rock singer Ian Watkins, the former Lostprophets frontman, was jailed for 35 years on Wednesday for the attempted rape of a baby and several other “incomprehensible” child sex offences. Watkins, who admitted 13 offences at Cardiff Crown Court…

Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who rose to fame during Hollywood’s golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitchcock classics, died on Sunday aged 96, US media reports said. The Hollywood Reporter cited Fontaine’s assistant Susan Pfeiffer as…

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo officially opened a museum dedicated to his own achievements in his birthplace of Madeira, Portgual on Sunday. The museum contains a number of trophies, medals and memorabilia from throughout the 28-year-old’s career…