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Iron Maiden's first drummer, Clive Burr, has passed away in his sleep at the age of 56. The iconic British heavy metal band were in mourning on Wednesday as they announced the news to fans via their Facebook page. Burr, who was part of the line-up from 1979-1982, passed away during his sleep at his home on Tuesday after suffering with Multiple Sclerosis. Scroll down for video Rock icon: Clive Burr, who was the original drummer for Iron Maiden, has passed away in his sleep at the age of 56 The drummer had battled the disease for years, and was left severely in debt thanks to his medical bills. His former band had rallied around him during his illness, staging concerts to raise funds for the Clive Burr MS Trust Fund. 'This is terribly sad news. Clive was a very old friend of all of us. He was a wonderful person and an amazing drummer who made a valuable contribution to Maiden in the early days when we were starting out,' wrote the band. Original line-up: Burr was the band

600-year-old coin found is making world headlines today, as The Epoch News reported this Wednesday, March 13, that the discovery of a 600-year-old Chinese coin deep in a Kenyan island has revealed that there may have been more trade between Africa and China before the arrival of Europeans than previously known. 600-year-old coin found Under the headline, “600-year-old coin found: Chinese coin is discovered in Kenya”, sources report that some relatively surprising news in world history may be made this week, as the discovery of this ancient coin suggests that there may have been some sort of trade relationship between China and Africa over six centuries ago. The coin itself is very small and made out of silver and copper, bearing a square hole in the center. The coins themselves were called “Yongle Tongbao”, added the report, and named after the Dynasty Emperor of the time, Emperor Yongle. His rule lasted between 1403 and 1425 in China. He w

The “Storage Wars” lawsuit heatedly continues this week, as Yahoo! TV News reported this Tuesday, March 12, that “Storage Wars” and the A&E Network has won the first round in a legal battle against Dave Hester, who argued in his lawsuit that the popular reality show is actually staged. 'Storage Wars' lawsuit In yesterday’s ruling, Judge Michael Johnson took sides with A&E’s “Storage Wars” on several key points, first dismissing Dave Hester’s argument that the Unfair Business Practices was violated by the network. Johnson similarly agreed with the show in the “Storage Wars” lawsuit for the ruling that any injunction against the TV series would in turn violate the First Amendment rights of A&E. Dave Hester first filed the “Storage Wars” lawsuit back in Dec. 2012. He claimed that he’d been fired from the show after alleging that the entire TV series was staged. What’s more, said Hester, is that the producers of

The "Price is Right" lawsuit victory by former model Brandi Cochran was stripped from her. According to Today.com on March 13, Cochran was awarded nearly $8.5 million by a jury in a lawsuit against the game show, and the judge took it away. A former model on "The Price Is Right" game show filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging wrongful termination and sexual harassment by producers who continually humiliated and berated her, The lawsuit was based on accusations by the 41-year-old model that she was wrongfully terminated after seven years on the show because she left for maternity leave. The victory was for $7.7 million in puni

The newest pope has one lung, making Pope Francis I the first ever to have that distinction. Add to that fact he is the first named Francis, or the first from South America, and it gives him plenty of firsts for the head of the Catholic Church. On Wednesday, the brand new Pope was seen via live breaking news reports on all major TV stations around the world. As he was revealed, more information came up including the fact he had just one lung. A report from Time.com via Yahoo! News on March 13 indicates that when he was a teenager, the new Pope had one of his lungs removed, but they don't give the exact reasons for it's removal. It's speculated he had this done due to an infection, back in a time when antibiotics were not as prevalent when it came to treating such infections. So in order to keep him healthy, his lung was removed as to keep the infection from spreading further. Newly elected Pope Francis I appears on the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica on Marc

Student Brings $20K to School, Police are investigating an incident involving a 12-year-old girl and a backpack full of cash. On Monday, the female student brought $20,000 cash in her backpack to the 6th Grade Academy Building in Taylor. Taylor School District became aware of the problem after the female student began passing the cash out to others. She reportedly gave one student $200 and another $500.....wxyz The school principal notified police.The girl told the police she got it from a friend across the street in her neighborhood. Police have the money now and they're holding on to it until the family who says it's their cash can provide them with a reasonable explanation of where it came from and what it was to be used for. youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ABCbfe_ifVI

Unable to trade Brennan Boesch this spring, the Detroit Tigers gave him his unconditional release this morning. “I think, sometimes, we throw that term ‘change of scenery’ around too loose, but I think this is a case where it’s probably a great thing. I truly believe that,” manager Jim Leyland said today. “I still think there’s potential there. It wasn’t going to fit with our club this particular year. Hopefully, Brennan will move forward, and things will work out for him like we hoped they would have here. Just didn’t work, and I’ll leave it at that.” By releasing Boesch now, the Tigers owe him one-sixth of the $2.3-million salary they tendered him in January -- about $400,000. Tigers president/general manager Dave Dombrowski told reporters this morning, before the Tigers played Florida Southern College at Joker Marchant Stadium, that Andy Dirks will be the team’s primary leftfielder, and there was no need for another left-handed-hitting outfielder. It didn’t help Boesch that he miss

Is a Hillary-Michelle dream ticket coming together in 2016? Though Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she wants to run for president in 2016 and Michelle Obama has never mentioned any intentions to keep living in the White House, Democrats are buzzing about the thought of an all-woman Hillary-Michelle ticket for the next election cycle. “All due respect for President Obama and Vice President Biden, but that would truly be a dream team for America,”  former Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney told the Washington Examiner. “Both women are proven effective leaders who’ve raise children, so dealing with Congress would be a snap!” After the election of Barack Obama opened up the White House to candidates outside the norm of older white men, some have grown excited at shattering the glass ceiling with a Hillary-Michelle White House in 2016. Polling evidence would seem to suggest that a Hillary-Michelle ticket would be very popular with voters. A recent poll from Quinnipiac Univers

The 6th grader brings $20K to school is one top news headline that has caught quite a bit of the public’s attention this week, as Belge Info reported this March 13, 2013, that a middle school student brought almost $20,000 to school this week, while police are currently investigating how the cash was found by the young female. Under the news headline, “6th grader brings $20K to school”, sources report that officials from a Taylor, Michigan school are looking into the case of a 12-year-old girl bringing nearly $20,000 in cash in her backpack to class. The Taylor School District became aware that the middle school girl had brought the money to school after teachers saw the student handing out money to her peers. She reportedly gave one of her friends $200, and another $500, says the report. When a 6th grader brings $20K to school, it certainly raises many eyebrows, and the girl who’d brought the money in her backpack was soon brought in for questioning, added the report. The student sai

A U.S. Airways flight early Tuesday morning had to make a stop in Honolulu when some issues on the plane were discovered. The Maui flight diverted after crew members discovered an issue with the pressurization and air conditioning kit. KITV shared the details on March 12. The redeye left Maui for Phoenix, but did not get very far when the problem was discovered and the Maui flight was diverted. The plane has two of the kits, and one was not functioning properly. The flight had 166 passengers on-board, and about half rebooked onto other flights while the other half were headed back out on a new flight Tuesday night. The airline says that turning the flight around was a cautionary decision by the crew, and luckily there were no significant worries in this case. The passengers may have been inconvenienced by a few hours or up to a day, but given the length of the flight, many were surely appreciative of the Maui flight diversion if the crew was concerned about the plane's performance

Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Hillary Clinton hasn’t stepped into the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries yet and there’s already buzz growing for the ultimate grrl power ticket: Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama. “All due respect for President Obama and Vice President Biden, but that would truly be a dream team for America,” said former Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney. “Both women are proven effective leaders who’ve raise children, so dealing with Congress would be a snap!” added Finney, also a former Democratic Party spokeswoman. “More than anything else, this reflects the growing awareness that it is time for the glass ceiling of the last old boys club to be firmly shattered,” added Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. It’s not just talk. Bumper stickers reading “2016-Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama,” and “Hillary-Michelle 2016 First First Lady Ticket For President” are popping up. “I look forward to the day when a woman can run fo

'Killer Dolphins' Escape, is the Russian news agency RIA Novosti had quite a scoop Tuesday: "Three of the Ukrainian navy's 'killer' dolphins" have escaped their handlers during a training exercise, probably to go look for a mate. The source for this news of escaped military dolphins was "Ukrainian media," and RIA Novosti dutifully reports that "Ukraine's Defense Ministry denied the reports," but the dolphins-on-the-prowl story was mostly a set-up for the kicker........theweek. A reminder of RIA Novosti's sensational article from last fall that the Ukrainian navy's dolphins have been "trained to attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads." The American and British media ran with it. "Killer secret-agent dolphins go AWOL in Ukraine," said the New York Daily News. "3 commando dolphins go AWOL in Crimea," reported USA Today. "Ukrainian 'killer&#

Shockingly, a hero grandpa fired by a charity was sacked for wrestling a shark away from swimmers. According to a March 13 top news report by Gawker, Paul Marshallsea learned days ago that he and his wife were sacked from the charity they worked for over 10 years, apparently because they were supposed to be on sick leave. Marshallsea, 62, and his 56-year-old wife took an approved two-month medical leave from the Pant and Dowlais Boys and Girls Club. Apparently, their doctor advised them to take a break from their fast-paced roles to treat stress-related conditions. However, the grandma and grandpa were fired after they returned from a fun-filled vacation in Australia. During the British couple's time off, they took to an Aussie beach. At some point, a commotion started up over a large shark swimming in the shallows. Once he realized the predator was within reach of children, Marshallsea jumped into action, grabbed the dusky shark by the tail and wrestled it away from the bathers.

4 killed in shooting spree Police SWAT teams converged on a jewelry store in one of two upstate New York villages where four people were killed and at least two others wounded in separate shootings. Authorities have identified the suspect as Kurt Meyers, 64, of Mohawk. He is considered armed and dangerous and still on the loose in Herkimer, police say. Officials say guns and ammunition were found inside his apartment after emergency crews were sent to a fire there Wednesday morning. The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports that police are focusing on Freddy's Jewelers on Main Street in Herkimer, where two people were fatally shot at a car wash and oil change business. The newspaper reports that officials in the neighboring village of Mohawk, where two other people were killed in a barbershop, seem to think Meyers is still on foot somewhere. Other reports suggest he may have been picked up by a taxi. The two villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse, on opposite sides of the Moha

Andy Rubin, Google's former senior vice president of mobile. Andy Rubin is out as the leader of Google's Android efforts. "Andy's decided it's time to hand over the reins and start a new chapter at Google. Andy, more moonshots please!," CEO Larry Page wrote in a blog post this morning. Rubin in handing the reins to Sundar Pichai, a nine-year Google veteran who is the senior vice president for Chrome and Apps. This move may be an indication that Android and Chrome will grow closer together, as they compete with Apple's iOS and Mac OS. Sindar Pichai, Google's senior vice president of engineering in charge of Chrome and the Google Apps, and now Android. Rubin came to Google in August 2005 , when the company acquired his mobile software startup, Android, Inc. Following is the full release from Page: Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning standards around an

WASHINGTON – President Obama headed back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday in his new campaign to win over his loudest critics in Congress: the restless and resistant House Republican majority. After his session Tuesday with Senate Democrats, the president was to spend an hour with Speaker John A. Boehner and the 231 other House Republicans, who have regularly tangled with the White House and Senate Democrats over tax and spending policy. The fight is being renewed this week as House Republicans unveiled their budget, calling for a repeal of the new health care law and a major overhaul of Medicare, while Senate Democrats prepared to release a plan that would raise new revenues through tax increases and call for new public investment. Those competing budget plans and the Republican refusal to entertain additional tax revenues seemed to raise new questions in the president’s mind about whether a broad budget deal was achievable, even before his talk with the House Republicans. “Ultimately, i

When a 6th grader student brings $20,000 to school, it makes top news headlines. Monday, a 6th grade girl in Taylor brought a backpack full of cash to school and began handing out $100 bills to classmates, according to a March 13 WXYZ report. There's been "Secret Santas" and even times in which Christmas came early for many people, but the story about a 6th grade student giving out $20,000 from a loaded backup tops them all. According to Taylor Police Department, it received a call from Taylor School District about the matter Monday. Upon arrival, they learned a student at the school was causing a big distraction by handing out hundreds of dollars to her classmates at the 6th Grade Academy Building. Reportedly, one student received a $100, while two others received $200 and $500 respectively. Police say the Michigan student told them she got the money from a neighbor across the street from her home. Imagine that? On the surface, it looks like there's a lot more to th

Kelsey Grammer Kelsey Grammer has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in windmills. The former 'Frasier' star expected his investment to be ''lucrative'' but the venture flopped, leaving him worse off financially. Asked by TMZ for his worst ever investment, he said: ''Investing in windmills. You'd think it would be lucrative, but it's not really a friendly environment for new technology, it really isn't. ''Big wind is doing OK but small wind isn't and it cost me a lot of money - it's got six figures.'' Though Kelsey insists his finances are still ''OK'', he admits there is no chance of recouping his original investment. He added: ''I'm OK, but I didn't make up for it, it's one of those things that's just a straight loss.'' And windmills isn't the only area where the 57-year-old star is losing money as he recently slashed the asking price for his Bever

When a student brings $20,000 to school, it makes top news headlines. Monday, a 6th grade girl in Taylor brought a backpack full of cash to school and began handing out $100 bills to classmates, according to a March 13 WXYZ report. There's been "Secret Santas" and even times in which Christmas came early for many people, but the story about a 6th grade student giving out $20,000 from a loaded backup tops them all. According to Taylor Police Department, it received a call from Taylor School District about the matter Monday. Upon arrival, they learned a student at the school was causing a big distraction by handing out hundreds of dollars to her classmates at the 6th Grade Academy Building. Reportedly, one student received a $100, while two others received $200 and $500 respectively. Police say the Michigan student told them she got the money from a neighbor across the street from her home. Imagine that? On the surface, it looks like there's a lot more to this story an

Moonshiners star charged Associated Press - This image provided by the Danville Virginia Police Department, shows the booking photo of Steven Ray Tickle, a star on the TV show “Moonshiners” who was arrested for public intoxication Thursday March, 7, 2013 in Danville, Va. Police arrested Steven Ray Tickle, known on the show as “Tickle” at a convenience store and was released from the Danville City Jail later that day.

Ed Asner hospitalized GARY, Ind. — Ed Asner's publicist says the 83-year-old actor, who has been touring the country performing a one-man show for more than three years, has been hospitalized with exhaustion. Publicist Charles Sherman tells The Associated Press that Asner was taken off stage at the Marquette Pavilion in Gary, Ind., on Tuesday night. Sherman says Asner was taken by ambulance to a Chicago-area hospital where he is "resting comfortably" and is expected to be released later Wednesday. He says the actor, best known for his roles in TV's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Lou Grant," has been touring the nation portraying President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "FDR" for 3 1/2 years.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Right now, Sammy Hagar is looking for a new place to open a beach bar. The former Van Halen singer, who now fronts the band Chickenfoot, says on his website he couldn't reach a deal with the casino company that owns a bar that had been known as Sammy's Beach Bar for the past three years. "Following months of ongoing discussions, Sammy Hagar has regretfully been unable to come to terms with Caesars Entertainment on the rebuilding of the Sammy Beach Bar & Grill at Bally's Atlantic City Hotel and Casino," the rocker wrote on his web site. "Since opening in May 2010, the restaurant had been a popular boardwalk destination until it was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy." Katie Dougherty, a spokeswoman for Caesars Entertainment, said the bar was damaged by the Oct. 29 storm but was not destroyed. It will be open in May under the name Bally's Beach Bar. "While Bally's has enjoyed the partnership with Sammy Hagar, the deci

28 elephants killed Sadly, poachers in the Nki and Lobeke national parks located in Cameroon have left 28 elephants killed over the past few weeks. Reuters shared the details of this news on March 13, and it has many animal lovers outraged. Poachers are quite active in Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo as they are looking for ivory. Officials indicate that over the past few weeks the conservation organization WWF has found 28 elephants killed and stripped of their tusks in the national parks. Sadly the poachers are using AK-47s and other automatic weapons on the elephants, and this poses an enormous risk to the population of endangered elephants in the area. The price of ivory in Asia is quite high these days, sparking increased activity from the poachers. Last year around 200 elephants in the Bouba Ndjida National Park were slaughtered by poachers. The country is trying to protect the park and the elephants, but given the rate this is happening, it seems a di

Student in Taylor, Michigan, has brought a small fortune to school, and nobody seems to know how she has come in possession of the money. The 12-year-old student, whose name has not been released at this point, showed up at the local 6th Grade Academy with $20k (€15.4k) in cash. According to a statement by Taylor Police Chief Mary Sclabassi, relayed by Click on Detroit, she had "large bills, $100 (€77) bills" in her backpack. Sclabassi described that the school principal found out about the fact that she had the large amount of cash on her because she was spreading it around. Students received hundreds of dollars from their giving classmate, some being awarded $500 (€385). "The principal became aware of this when the girl started distributing some of the cash to some fellow students. As high as $500 (€385) to some students. Some got as much as $200 (€154)," the Police Chief details. Taylor School District assistant superintendent Teresa D. Winnie has put out a stat

 The killings took place at a car wash and a barber shop in Herkimer county. Police in upstate New York's Herkimer County are looking for a suspect wanted for killing four people and injuring two in a shooting spree in the villages of Herkimer and Mohawk. The Herkimer Telegram reported that firefighters were battling a blaze at a building in Mohawk where the suspect apparently lived. He was described as a slender white male, aged 50 to 60, sporting a white beard and wearing a flannel shirt. Herkimer, N.Y. He is believed to have abandoned his maroon vehicle, possibly a Jeep, that was spotted at the scene of the two shootings. The suspect was believed to be armed with a long gun used in the killings, the Telegram reported. Observer-Dispatch(uticaod.com) reported that SWAT teams and a police helicopter converged on jewelry store on Main Street in Herkimer where the suspect may have taken refuge. The Associated Press reported that two people were shot and killed initially at a car was

Student brings $20k to school? Police are investigating a bizarre case in which a sixth grade student brought a backpack full of money to class with her. And the cash totaled $20,000. Police still don’t know what to make of the cash, although the girl who brought the money to school claims she found it in her neighborhood. The situation turned into a problem when the student not only brought the $20k to school, but started passing the money around class. In fact, the young student is said to have handed out hundreds of dollars to her fellow students. At the moment, its not yet known if the young girl did this to be generous to her classmates, or if it was an effort to brag about the money she had just found. Police have of course seized the money from the student. They are now hoping that someone can come forward to not only claim the money, but explain how they acquired it in the first place.

Carcasses of elephants slaughtered by poachers in Boubou Ndjida National Park, Cameroon, Feb. 16, 2012 YAOUNDE — Poachers have killed 28 endangered forest elephants in the Nki and Lobeke national parks in southeast Cameroon in recent weeks, the conservation organization WWF said on Wednesday. With demand for ivory rising from Asia, poachers have reduced the population of Africa's forest elephants by 62 percent over the last decade, putting the species on track for extinction, conservationists say. The parks of southeast Cameroon, along with parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, have some of the last significant populations of forest elephants. "Elephants in these two protected areas in the Congo Basin are facing a threat to their existence," said Zacharie Nzooh, WWF Cameroon representative in the East Region. Nzooh said that between Feb. 10 and March 1, WWF found the carcasses of 23 elephants, stripped of their tusks, deep in the Nk

Reggie Bush and Cliff Avril are two of the hottest free agents heading into the NFL's official signing period on Tuesday, March 12 at 4 p.m. ET, and we've got the latest scoop on both of these stars. It's important to take all these rumors with a grain of salt, though. According to Indianapolis Colts' beat writer Mike Chappell: Still, it's fun to believe that your favorite team has a shot at one of the league's top players, no matter how far-fetched an idea it may be. With that in mind, here are the latest rumors regarding some of the hottest free agents on the market. Reggie Bush Would Be a Dangerous Weapon with the Detroit Lions The Arizona Cardinals are in hot pursuit of Bush, but so are the Lions, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport: DetroitLions.com's Tim Twentyman confirms the team's interest, and he believes that Detroit push harder for Bush than any other free agent this year. Bush isn't a dominant, inside-the-tackles ru

Five U.S. military personnel were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, although there were no immediate details about the cause of the crash. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said the crash occurred on Monday. It happened on the same day that two U.S. troops and five Afghan police and soldiers were killed by a person in an Afghan military uniform in the restive east of the country. "The cause of the crash is under investigation, however initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the incident," ISAF said in a statement. The Pentagon said all five killed in the crash were Americans. New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel left Afghanistan earlier on Monday after a difficult first trip to Kabul. His visit was marred by a suicide bomb attack near where he was holding a meeting, and differences with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who accused the United States of col

Miley Cyurs and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly 'over,' according to a New York Post source. Here, the attend the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2012. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly "over," according to a new report from the New York Post. Multiple sources allegedly told the Post's Page Six that Cyrus and Hemsworth have split. “Miley and Liam are done; it’s over," the source said. "She likes to party really hard and can be pretty wild. It became a problem for him.” This is apparently not the first time the singer and her "Hunger Games" hunk have parted ways. “They have broken up before, and are broken up again now. There was drama because she suspected he had a wandering eye. And she recently tweeted a denial that he cheated," another source told Page Six. “While Miley has insisted they are still together, right now they are very, very much apart." Although the "Decisions" singe

Five U.S. troops fighting Islamist insurgents in southern Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather, the coalition and provincial authorities said on Tuesday. Police in the province of Kandahar said the Black Hawk helicopter came down late on Monday during a heavy rainstorm in Daman district. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does not release the nationality of casualties, but a Western military official who declined to be named confirmed that the victims were all U.S. forces personnel. “The cause of the crash is under investigation. However, initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time,” ISAF said in a statement. A spokesman said that all on board the helicopter had died in the crash. A Taliban representative in Kandahar said the militants had brought down the aircraft, although the group often makes false claims of responsibility for incidents in which Nato troops die. Helicopter crashes are fairly frequ

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were beheaded on Wednesday, according to the country’s official news agency, more than a week after their families and a rights group appealed to the king for clemency. The executions took place in Abha, a city in the southern region of Asir, the Saudi Press Agency said. The south has been marginalized and suffered discrimination by the powerful central region where the capital, Riyadh, and the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina are located. The seven were arrested in 2006 and received death sentences in 2009, a Saudi newspaper reported at the time. The case was back in focus after Human Rights Watch earlier this month called for the sentences to be canceled because the men were juveniles at the time of their arrest. One of the men told The Associated Press in early March that he was only 15 when he was arrested as part of a ring that stole jewelry in 2004 and 2005. Nasser al-Qahtani said he was torture

Judge Judy Sheindlin is now on the other side of the bench: The TV judge is being sued by a woman who claims Sheindlin owes her money for fine china, TMZ.com reports. TV Scorecard: Renewed or canceled? Patric Jones claims her former husband Randy Douthit, a producer on Judge Judy, sold Sheindlin the couple's expensive Christofle tableware for $50,000, even though Jones claims it's worth $514,421.14. Because the sale was done without Jones' consent, she now claims Sheindlin should return the china or pay the rest of what she believes she's owed. Jones is also seeking punitive damages, claiming that Douthit agreed to reduce his profit participation on Judge Judy so he wouldn't have to give Jones as much money in the divorce settlement. "I have not seen any complaint by the former Mrs. Douthit, however, I don't owe this lady a cent," Sheindlin told TMZ. "And if this 50-year-old woman would spend her time more productively at trying to find a job, in

Oscar Pistorius might be on the verge of suicide, according to a friend of his who blabbed about his mental state to the media. (Ah, with friends like that ...) The pal, Mike Azzi, says of the Olympian accused of killing his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp: "He’s just like someone walking around in circles. He doesn’t know where he is going. I would say that, just by speaking to him, he is a broken man. I’d go as far as to say he would be on the verge of suicide." No doubt we already saw much of this "broken man" in court. Oscar wept copiously all throughout his hearings. Is this a man who truly did commit a horrible accident? Or a man who truly regrets his moment of murderous rage? And could that rage have been triggered by ... jealousy? Most killers you see in court are emotionally static. They have no facial expression, they certainly don't cry. So Oscar is either the Paralympian Robert De Niro or he truly is sorry for his actions. But does he regret them

Charred remains of a fatal wreck, March 11, 2013, between a tanker loaded with fuel and a car with five teens near Dumas, Texas. The deaths of five teenagers in a fiery wreck after their vehicle ran a stop sign and collided with a tanker loaded with fuel affected families throughout the Texas Panhandle, a local official said Tuesday. "It's had a big effect on the whole area, and I think it always seems more tragic when you have a loss of life when people are so young," said Dr. David Bonner, the mayor pro tem of Dumas. Two of the teens were sisters from Dumas, a town of about 15,000. The others were from a nearby small town. Authorities say the teens died at the scene. The truck driver, Ezequiel Garcia, was in critical condition Tuesday with burns over 90 percent of his body. The collision occurred Sunday near Dumas, about 45 miles north of Amarillo. Preliminary reports indicate that alcohol was not a factor, authorities said. Authorities say Jacob Paul Stipe, 16, of

Model Reeva Steenkamp met her ex-boyfriend two days before she was gunned down, it will be claimed in a television show to be aired tonight. Olympic hero Oscar Pistorius - who is currently on bail after being charged with her murder - reportedly twice interrupted the meeting between the model and the man she went out with for five years, Warren Lahoud. Miss Steenkamp, 29, was shot through the toilet door by Pistorius, in the early hours of St Valentines Day. He claims he had thought she was an intruder. Oscar Pistorius - who is currently on bail after being charged with murder - reportedly twice interrupted the meeting between model Reeva Steenkamp (right) and the man she went out with for five years, Warren Lahoud (left) Mr Lahoud, who runs a South African vegetable exporting business, said he met his former girlfriend for a coffee in innocent circumstances. But he reveals in BBC Three’s documentary 'Oscar Pistorius…What really Happened?' - due to be aired at 9pm