There's a new royal baby! Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall welcome daughter

32-year-old Zara Phillips  and husband Mike Tindall welcomed their new daughter at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

The baby girl, the Queen's fourth great-grandchild, weighed 7lbs 12oz, a spokesman said.

New dad and former England rugby star Tindall was present at the birth of his daughter, who is 16th in line to the throne.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, Captain Mark Phillips and Mike's parents, Mr Phillip and Mrs Linda Tindall, have been informed and are delighted with the news.

"The baby's name will be confirmed in due course."

Godmother: Zara was the only royal chosen to be Prince George's godparent



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List of All of the Oscar Nominations

The Oscar nominations was announced at the crack of dawn local time in Los Angeles.

U2, Michael Fassbender and the film Philomena are among the Irish interests this year, while American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave lead the nominations.

Here are the nominees in the main categories:
Best supporting actor :
Barkhad Abdi
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Bradley Cooper
AMERICAN HUSTLE
Michael Fassbender
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Jonah Hill
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Jared Leto
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Best supporting actress:
Sally Hawkins
BLUE JASMINE
Jennifer Lawrence
AMERICAN HUSTLE
Lupita Nyong’o
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Julia Roberts
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
June Squibb
NEBRASKA

Best Actor:
Christian Bale
AMERICAN HUSTLE
Bruce Dern
NEBRASKA
Leonardo DiCaprio
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Matthew McConaughey
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Best Actress:
Amy Adams
AMERICAN HUSTLE
Cate Blanchett
BLUE JASMINE
Sandra Bullock
GRAVITY
Judi Dench
PHILOMENA
Meryl Streep
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Before Midnight 
Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan
Hawke
Captain Phillips 
Screenplay by Billy Ray
Philomena
Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave
Screenplay by John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street
Screenplay by Terence Winter

Best Original Screenplay:
American Hustle
Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine
Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club
Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Her
Written by Spike Jonze
Nebraska
Written by Bob Nelson

Best Documentary Feature:
The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars 
Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
The Square
Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom
Nominees to be determined

Best Film:
American Hustle 
Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison
and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Captain Phillips
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca,
Producers
Dallas Buyers Club
Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
Her
Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay,
Producers
Nebraska 
Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
Philomena
Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey
Seaward, Producers
12 Years a Slave
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve
McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
The Wolf of Wall Street 

Best Animated Feature:
The Croods 
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
Despicable Me 2
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
Ernest and Celestine
Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
Frozen
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
The Wind Rises 
Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Best Director:
American Hustle
David O. Russell
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
Nebraska 
Alexander Payne
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorcese

Achievement in Costume Design:
American Hustle
Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster
William Chang Suk Ping
The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman 
Michael O’Connor
12 Years a Slave 
Patricia Norris

Achievement in Cinematography:
The Grandmaster
Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity
Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis
Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska
Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners 
Roger A. Deakins

Best Documentary Short:

Cavedigger
Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear
Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls
Sara Ishaq
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Edgar Barens

Any predictions for who’s going to take home the Academy Awards?







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‘Schumacher will not be Schumacher – even if he emerges from coma’ - neurologist

 

Michael Schumacher

Sports fans across the world were shocked just before New Year with the news that Michael Schumacher was in a coma after a serious skiing accident.

Schumacher, who turned 45 while in hospital in Grenoble, hit a rock while skiing off piste, and landed head-first on a boulder.

He has been fighting for life ever since, with doctors reporting his condition as "critical, but stable".

The media have ceased reporting on a daily basis from the hospital following a plea by Schumacher's wife - but fans around the world continue to fear for the wellbeing of the seven-times F1 champion.

And according to one of Britain's top neurosurgeons, those fears are justified - since the future that awaits Schumacher if and when he awakes from his coma will be very different from anything that he could have imagined.

Richard Greenwood, a consultant neurologist at London's Homerton Hospital and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, says that Schumacher will be a very different man when he regains consciousness - and that he is likely to be a regular Joe Bloggs rather than a man with a superstar mentality.

"If Schumacher survives he will not be Schumacher. He will be Bloggs. And his rehabilitation will only be effective if he comes to terms with being Bloggs - and fulfils what Bloggs can do," Greenwood told a group of doctors and reporters as he gave the results of a major new study into the long-term effects of brain trauma.

"That's a very, very difficult process to take people through - and many people don't achieve it."

The study, which has been published in the American Medical Association's JAMA Psychiatry Journal - looked at nearly a quarter of a million survivors of traumatic brain injury going back over 40 years, and it offers a chilling and disturbing long-term prognosis.

Survivors of brain injuries are three times more likely to die prematurely than the general population, according to the findings, with doctors speculating that damage to the parts of the brain responsible for judgment, decision-making and risk-taking is to blame.

Experts in Germany speaking this week raised fears of an even more worrying scenario: that Schumacher may never again recover consciousness.

Germany's Bild newspaper and Focus magazine reported that many doctors now believe Schumacher's injuries may have been worse than initially hoped, and that the danger of a brain haemorrhage remains high

"There may have been complications," neurosurgeon Andreas Zieger of the University of Oldenburg told Focus.

"We should not speculate here. Ultimately, we are talking about life and death. A coma can in theory be maintained for a lifetime. It won’t hurt the human brain.

"Brain injuries are among the most complicated that can happen to the human body.

"Predictions about how long a person might be in a coma, or potential complications, are seldom reliable."

 

So sad!

 

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Singer Sade Adu Turns 55 Today!

 

Happy birthday to singer Sade Adu who turned 55 today!

 

Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents. Later on Sade and her brother lived with their grandparents just outside Colchester, Essex. When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex to live with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art.
While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals. Her solo performances of the song "Smooth Operator" attracted the attention of record companies and in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic Records taking three members of the band, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, with her. Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums. Their debut album Diamond Life appeared in 1984. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide.
In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot Organization's Red Hot and Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti. She recorded a remix of her hit single, "By Your Side", for the album and was billed as a co-producer.

Personal life

She squatted in Tottenham in the 1980s, with her then-boyfriend Robert Elms. In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos Pliego. Their marriage ended in 1995. She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu (who studied at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire), in 1995 after a relationship with Jamaican music producer Bob Morgan. (She moved briefly to the Caribbean to live with him in the late 1990s, but they later separated and she returned to England.) In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to popular music. She lives in the English countryside and, prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as "famously reclusive".

 

 

 

 

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Nollywood actress beaten, arrested for theft in Lagos again

An upcoming Actress, Yewande Akilapa who was recently bailed after being imprisoned for theft, has been arrested again.

Recall that in February, 2013, she was arrested and detained for stealing a bunch of master keys in Somolu area of Lagos State.

She was sent to the Kirikiri prison and after a few months there, she regained her freedom, precisely in November, 2013.

Two days ago, she was caught red-handed with another bunch of master keys, beaten by angry residents and arrested again.

According to Stella Dimokokorkus, she was caught stealing again in Magodo Phase 2, No 15, Ibitayo street. While trying to escape, the angry residents ran after her, caught her and beat her black and blue.

Narrating the incident, Stella said “She was escorted back to number 15 Ibitayo street where she had been caught inside the master bedroom with a bunch of master keys hidden in her brassieres.

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