Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones back together as actress moves into their New York apartment again

Separated superstar couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are back together and on the “up and up”.

The American star actor and Welsh wife Catherine have worked through their issues after almost six months apart.

She is back in their Central Park West apartment, and the duo are fighting hard to keep the marriage alive.

A US report claims Douglas, wearing his wedding ring at the premiere of new movie Last Vegas, confessed his good news to friends.

Oscar winning star Catherine also called her husband while he walked the red carpet at the Sin City bash.

The report said “He’s back with estranged wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and he couldn’t be happier.

“He was overheard telling pals that the two have reconciled.

The source claimed Douglas held up reporters at the Ziegfeld Theatre to answer a “very important call” from Catherine.

One event goer added: “She called to wish him good luck and he said, ‘Thanks honey,’. Douglas hung up with a smile and continued down the press line.”

Michael Douglas (L) and Catherine Zeta Jones attend the 40th Anniversary Chaplin Award Gala at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Later that night, he hit ‘21,’ where he huddled with friends at the top-secret after-party and talked about Zeta-Jones for most of the evening, another source said.

“He was sitting in the corner with friends and people kept asking what’s going on with Catherine.

“Michael said, ‘We are doing great, she’s better than ever,’ and said their kids are doing great.”

The source continued: “They know they have some problems, but are speaking every day and are scheduling future projects with each other in mind,.

“Both of them are wearing their rings; what more is there to say?”

Michael, 69, hopes to spend the American Thanksgiving holiday with his 44-year-old actress wife and their two kids.

This week on TV Michael confessed to Jay Leno on his NBC show: “’I’m very hopeful”

When Leno asked Michael how things were going with Catherine, the Oscar winner replied: “Good I hope. I’ve been away for a while but everything should hopefully be on the up and up.

“Sometimes people take a little bit of a break, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the end. I’m very hopeful.’”




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Ten-year-old Chinese pupil jumps to his death from 30th floor window ‘on teacher’s orders’ because he had not written an apology for talking in class

A ten-year-old boy has died after a teacher 'told him' to jump from a building.

The Chinese youngster, named as Jun Jun, fell 30 floors to his death after failing to write a self-criticism letter demanded by his teacher.

The fifth-grade primary school student had been told to write a 1,000-character apology by his teacher, Miss Chen, for talking in class.

His devastated parents have now launched a campaign against the extreme pressure put on Chinese students.





Devastated: The parents of ten-year-old Jun Jun who jumped to his death from a 30-storey building in China. The parents left devastated by the loss of their son have now started a campaign against the pressure students are put under in Chinese schools and are demanding that the teacher be sacked







Tragic: Jun Jun jumped from the 30th floor of a building and landed on a parked car outside the family home at a residential building in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in southwest China







Jun Jun wrote 'teacher, I can't do it' in his textbook. He also wrote 'I flinched several time when I tried to jump from the building'

Neighbours say the 30-year-old teacher told him to jump out of a building after he didn't do the task.

'Teacher, I can't do it,' was found written in one of his textbooks, along with 'I flinched several times when I tried to jump from the building.'

The child smashed into a parked car beneath the flat where his family live in Jinjiang district.

Due to China's strict one-child policy, it is likely Jun Jun was the couple's only child.

His family have posted a banner outside the school in the southwestern city of Chengdu saying 'The teacher forced our kid to jump off the building'.


'The police investigation is still under way,' an official in Jinjiang district said, refusing to comment further, the Hindustan Times reported.

The boy's school said today on its verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, that the child and some of his classmates had been ordered to write reviews of their behaviour after they disturbed a speaking competition.


He died 'by accident', it said.


Strict discipline is an essential part of China's education system and culture, and tradition demands deference to authority, putting children under pressure to obey instructions.



Campaign: A banner outside Jun Jun's school was put up by his heartbroken relatives. He was reportedly told to jump from a building by his teacher Miss Chen as punishment for not completing a task he was set





Fired: Jun Jun's parents are calling for the teacher that allegedly told him to jump from a building to be sacked




Messages: Photographs of the boy's study book pasted around the school by his parents showed that he had written several times that he had tried to jump from a building




School: The school is based in the southwestern city of Chengdu (pictured here)






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Couple found buried in their back garden after vanishing 15 years ago 'had been shot' as their daughter is arrested on suspicion of murder

An elderly couple found buried in the back garden of their home were both shot, police have said.

The remains are believed to be William and Patricia Wycherley who have not been seen since 1998.

The bodies were found in the garden of a house in Forest Town, Mansfield, on October 9.
It has been reported the couple's daughter Susan Edwards, 55, and her husband Christopher, 57, were arrested on suspicion of murder at St Pancras International railway station in London on Wednesday.




Police have said an elderly couple found in this garden in Forest Town, Mansfield, were both shot


Macabre find: Nottinghamshire Police are still waiting for forensic tests to confirm the remains are those of the Wycherleys, but detectives are 'confident' the skeletons discovered in the back garden belong to the pair

They continue to be questioned by detectives in relation to the deaths as police revealed the cause of death had now been determined.

Mr and Mrs Wycherley disappeared from the house in 1998, according to neighbours.

A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire Police said: ‘Following an examination of the remains, discovered in the back garden of a house in Blenheim Close, Forest Town, on Wednesday 9 October 2013, a Home Office pathologist has determined that both people died as a result of being shot.’



Murder inquiry: The outside of the semi-detached house in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where police three weeks ago found the remains of William and Patricia Wycherley buried in the back garden after a tip-off

Mr and Mrs Wycherley moved into the house in 1987.


A murder inquiry was launched after the bodies were unearthed in the back garden of the semi-detached house following a tip-off to the police.

Neighbours said Mr Wycherley, a former merchant sailor who would now be 100, and his wife, who would now be 79, ‘disappeared’ from the property in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in the late 1990s.

Rumours later circulated locally and within their extended family that the couple had moved to either Ireland or to the Lancashire coast.



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Ethiopian tribe where men compete to be the fattest in the village by drinking a gruesome mixture of blood and milk while living in isolation for SIX months

• Men from the Bodi tribe compete to become the fattest during the new year or Ka'el ceremony
• They spend six months guzzling a mixture of blood and milk in a bid to fatten up as fast as they can
• The winning fat man doesn't get a prize but is feted as a hero for life by the rest of the tribe
• Bodi want to retain their traditions but they are threatened by government resettlement plans

 

 

 

 

 

Slim might be in elsewhere but for Ethiopia's Bodi or Me'en people, bigger is always better. The tribe, which lives in a remote corner of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, is home to an unusual ritual which sees young men gorge on cow's blood and milk in a bid to be crowned the fattest man.

 

Six months after starting the regime, the men emerge to show off their newly engorged physiques and for a winner to be chosen. The champion fat man is then feted as a hero for the rest of his life.

 

 

Now the little known rite is the subject of incredible photos taken by French shutterbug Eric Lafforgue - who spent time with the Bodi while travelling through south-western Ethiopia during the run up to the Bodi New Year or Ka'el ceremony.

 

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The contest begins six months before the ceremony. Every family is allowed to present an unmarried man for the challenge, who, after being chosen, retires to his hut and must not move or have sex for the duration.

 

Food comes in the form of a cow's blood and milk mixture, served regularly to the men by women from the village. 'The cows are sacred to the Bodi tribe so they are not killed,' explains Lafforgue. 'The blood is taken by making a hole in a vein with a spear or an axe, and after that, they close it with clay.'

 

Because of the scorching temperatures, the men have to drink the two-litre bowl of blood and milk quickly before it coagulates but as Lafforgue reveals, not everyone can handle drinking so much at speed.

 

'The fat men drink milk and blood all day long,' he says. 'The first bowl of blood is drunk at sunrise. The place is invaded by flies. The man must drink it quickly before it coagulates but some cannot drink everything and vomit it.'

 

On the day itself, the men cover their bodies with clay and ashes before emerging from their huts for the walk to the spot where the ceremony will take place.

 

  

 

 

 

 

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SHOCKING: Woman Caught With Dead New Born Baby Inside Sack (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

40-year old widow, known as Mujidat, was caught on Wednesday with a dead day old baby hidden in a sack around her home at 2, Reverend Alimi street, NEPA phase 1, Ijagemo in Iba local council development area of Lagos state. The baby was believed to be no more than one day old.

According to PM News, a neighbour raised the alarm after spotting the mother-of-seven behaving suspiciously.

High chief Babatunde Balogun said that when he asked her about the contents of the sack, she claimed they were household items from the market.

But Balogun opened the sack and found the baby's body inside.

It was gathered that different men have been visiting her home after the death of her husband three years ago.

When asked if she planned to throw away the baby because of an alleged paternity mess, she denied, claiming that a welder turned block maker near her residence was responsible for the pregnancy that resulted in the birth of the dead baby she was caught with. .

Mujidat said that she delivered the child herself because she found it easy. She did not reveal the circumstances surrounding the baby's death.

A picture taken at the scene shows Mujidat holding the naked and blooded baby in her lap.

She remains in police custody.



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