People who sleep less than six hours per night or more than eight are more likely to suffer heart problems than people who sleep between six and eight hours, according to a US study. The findings confirm those in previous, smaller studies, but are based on what researchers described as…
The Westboro Baptist Church announced that it planned to picket the funeral of Oscar-winning actress and anti-AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor after she died Wednesday at age 79. Taylor, arguably the last great star of Hollywood’s golden era, died six weeks after being admitted to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital with congestive…
Arthur Penn, director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ ‘Little Big Man,’ other films dies Director Arthur Penn, a myth-maker and myth-breaker who in such classics as “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Little Big Man” refashioned movie and American history and sealed a generation’s affinity for outsiders, died Tuesday night, a day after…
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US vice president Dick Cheney had a new heart device implanted when he was operated on last week, he said in a statement on Wednesday. Doctors implanted a pump that improves heart function in the 69-year-old Cheney at a hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, in the Washington…