Los Angeles might seem to be the nation's capital for gridlock, but according to Inrix, a provider of traffic data and information, the City Of Angels doesn't have the worst traffic in the United States. Inrix says that the city of Honolulu wins that dubious honor, with drivers wasting 58 hours a year on average on congested roads. The Inrix study shows that drivers in other major cities are still spending a fair number of hours stuck in traffic, too. While Los Angeles ranked a close second to Honolulu, those in San Francisco spent almost 48 additional hours in the car because of traffic. The news wasn't all bad, though. Inrix says overall congestion was down 30 percent in 2011 from the year before, and notes that of the 100 cities it surveyed, 70 of them logged lower rates of congestion year over year. These cities had the worst traffic in 2011, according to Inrix, which lists the average hours wasted per driver after each city: 10) Chicago – 32.8 hours 9) Boston - 35 hours 8) Austin – 30 hours 7) Seattle – 33 hours 6) Washington, D.C. – 45 hours 5) Bridgeport, CT – 42 hours 4) New York – 57 hours 3) San Francisco – 48 hours 2) Los Angeles – 56 hours 1) Honolulu – 58 hours The study also finds that, nationally, the worst morning commute occurs on Tuesday, while the worst evening commute is on Friday. Inrix also says some of the worst traffic corridors in the country include the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, from the 105 to Getty Center; a 16-mile stretch of the Long Island Expressway in New York; and three miles of the Penn Lincoln Parkway in Pittsburgh.

A Muslim Brotherhood official said on Friday the group's candidate in the first free presidential election in Egypt would enter a run-off vote next month with the last prime minister to serve Hosni Mubarak before he was ousted in a popular uprising. The vote marks the final step in a messy and often bloody transition to democracy, overseen by a military council that has pledged to hand over power to a new president by July 1. "It is clear that the run-off will be between (the Brotherhood's) Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq," the official told Reuters. The group's governing body was meeting to determine campaign strategy for the run-off, scheduled for June 16 and 17, he said. Official results are not due to be announced until next week, but representatives of the candidates are allowed to watch the count enabling them to compile their own tally. The Brotherhood official said that with votes counted from about 12,800 of the roughly 13,100 polling stations, Mursi had 25 percent, Shafiq 23 percent, a rival Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh 20 percent and leftist Hamdeen Sabahy 19 percent. (Reporting by Marwa Awad; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Iran’s Basij Press is claiming that a version of the Gospel of Barnabas, found in 2000, will prove that Islam is the final and righteous religion and the revelation will cause the collapse worldwide of Christianity. Turkey confiscated a leather-bound text, written on animal hide, in an anti-smuggling operation in 2000. Turkish authorities believe the text could be an authentic version of the Gospel of Barnabas, one of Jesus’ apostles and an associate of the apostle Paul. This version of the Barnabas Gospel was written in the 5th or 6th century and it predicted the coming of the Prophet Mohammad and the religion of Islam, the Basij Press claims. The Christian world, it says, denies the existence of such a gospel. However, religious scholars have said another version of the Barnabas Gospel, discovered a century ago, was written less than 500 years ago, which would post-date Mohammad. In Chapter 41 of the Barnabas Gospel, Basij claims, is this statement: “God has hidden himself as Archangel Michael ran them (Adam and Eve) out of heaven, (and) when Adam turned, he noticed that at top of the gateway to heaven, it was written ‘La elah ela Allah, Mohamad rasool Allah,’” meaning Allah is the only God and Mohammad his prophet. The Turkish army has taken possession of the Barnabas Gospel because the “Zionists” and the governments of the West are trying to suppress its contents, Basij Press claims. According to the Barnabas Gospel in Turkey’s hands, Basij Press says, Jesus was never crucified and that not only is He not the son of God, but that He himself predicted the coming of the Prophet Mohammad. The book even predicts the coming of the last Islamic messiah, the report says. “The discovery of the original Barnabas Bible will now undermine the Christian Church and its authority and will revolutionize the religion in the world,” the Basij report says. “The most significant fact, though, is that this Bible has predicted the coming of Prophet Mohammad and in itself has verified the religion of Islam, and this alone will unbalance the powers of the world and create instability in the Christian world.” The Basij report concludes that the discovery is so immense that it will affect the world’s politics and that the world powers are aware of the coming effects of this event. Turkey plans to put the Bible on public display. Though Turkish authorities believe this could be an authentic version of the Gospel of Barnabas, others believe it only goes back to the 16th century and is a fake because it would have been written centuries after Mohammad’s life. “The Iranian regime is committed to stamping out Christianity by any means necessary, whether that means executing Christian converts, burning Bibles or raiding underground churches,” said Erick Stakelbeck, host of the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “Stakelbeck on Terror” show and a close observer of Iranian affairs. “In promoting the so-called Barnabas Bible – which was likely written sometime in the 16th century and is not accepted by any mainstream Christian denomination – the regime is once again attempting to discredit the Christian faith. Record numbers of young Iranians are leaving Islam and embracing Christ, and the mullahs see Christianity as a growing threat to their authority.”

The Holy See was directly involved in the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi in 1983, according to a contentious accusation by the Catholic Church's leading exorcist. The Rev. Gabriele Amorth claimed that the girl's kidnapping was a "crime of a sexual nature." "Parties were organized, with a Vatican gendarme acting as the 'recruiter' of the girls," Amorth told La Stampa, according to a translation by The Telegraph. "The network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle." Amorth, who was appointed by Pope John Paul II and has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms, is no stranger to controversial public statements; according to The Sun, the exorcist has called Harry Potter the "work of the devil," and has claimed "the devil was at work in the Vatican" when discussing the Catholic Church's sex scandals. Clues to the missing girl's whereabouts had pointed in several directions, including toward a Turkish gunman who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II, The Telegraph reports. On May 14, one rumor led Italian police to exhume the grave of Enrico De Pedis, a member of Rome's Magliana mob who was killed in 1990, the Associated Press reports. A one-time girlfriend previously said De Pedis committed the kidnapping, and an anonymous call to a television show in 2005 suggested clues on Orlandi's fate lay in the dead mobster's tomb in Basilica of Sant’Apollinaire. A set of bones not belonging to De Pedis were found, but the identity of the remains has yet to be released. The Vatican insists it has done everything in its power to help solve the mystery of the missing girl.

I don’t mean that as a criticism. Hollywood’s been trying for 90 years to get the tone of the novel right and pretty clearly they’re never going to nail it — even Coppola’s treatment couldn’t produce a film worthy of the source — so why not stop trying and go crazy with the Cheez Whiz? Visual Cheez Whiz is, after all, what a Baz Luhrmann movie is all about. You don’t go to see this because you’re interested in an elegy for the Jazz Age. You see it because you’re 16 and Leo’s in it and Peter Parker’s his sidekick and there’s a romance and the art deco looks slick and, well, there’s just a lot of Cheez Whiz onscreen. And that soundtrack. Exit question: Is America ready for a story about a man with a shadowy past and invented identity who saw his wildest dreams come true, only to have it all come crashing down around him?

Actor Michael McKean was hit by a car while walking along a New York City street on Tuesday, suffering a broken leg, the New York Post reports. Harriet Sternberg, his manager, told the Post McKean was being checked out at St. Luke's Hospital. “He has sustained multiple injures and we are trying to find out the extent of other injuries,” the Post quoted her as saying. McKean, 64, played the lead singer for the band Spinal Tap in the movie "This is Spinal Tap" among numerous other roles. He was to have performed on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man” on Tuesday night, the New York Daily News reported. “It’s the first time he will have ever missed a curtain in his entire life,” Sternberg told the Daily News. “He’s never missed stage, screens in film or television. His understudy has never gone on in 40-plus years.”

Kate Gosselin has made it no secret that she wants to return to TV, following the cancellation of her TLC series "Kate Plus 8." However, landing a new gig is proving to be much harder than she thought. “Kate had no idea it would be this difficult to sell another show based around her and her family,” one TV executive tells me. “It’s hard to be on the cover of magazines one week and just a few months later not have people return your calls.” On Monday morning, Kate revealed on the "Today" show that her kids are doing great, but admitted they do miss filming. “They’ve recently been saying, ‘When are we going to go here or there? We miss the crew,'" Kate said. "We’re hoping our TLC contract is over -- so we’re hoping to move forward and do more fun projects. Fans are begging, 'They’ve grown up, they’ve turned eight, what are you doing?’ and so we’re hoping to put that out there for them.” Unfortunately for Kate, fans don't green-light TV shows, network executives do. “Once you have a show canceled, it's almost impossible to sell the same idea to another network,” a TV insider tells me. “TLC is the non-Hollywood network and the perfect home for her. If they no longer want her, I’m not sure which other network will.”

Park officials say a man died Tuesday after falling over the edge of the Grand Canyon's South Rim. Rangers rappelled down and located his body about 600 feet below the rim, according to Shannan Marcak, a Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman. On Tuesday evening, crews were using a rope mechanical advantage system to raise the body, Marcak said. About 12:20 p.m., witnesses reportedly notified canyon officials that a man had fallen over the edge at Pipe Creek Vista, about one mile east of the Desert View Drive and South Entrance Road junction. The National Park Service is investigating the incident. The man's body will be turned over to the Coconino County Medical Examiner's office, Marcak said. No additional information was immediately available. Check back with azcentral.com for updates.

A Hawaii official sent Bennett's office verification of birth for President Obama on Tuesday, according to both Bennett and Hawaii officials. Bennett said the issue is now resolved from his point of view. He has cancelled a planned Wednesday news conference where he was expected to discuss the issue. "I'm happy that we got what we asked for and that's what I was expecting all along," Bennett said Tuesday night. Bennett made national news earlier this month when he asked Hawaii to verify Obama's birthplace to ensure the President is eligible to appear on Arizona's November ballot. His decision reignited the simmering birther movement, though Bennett has said he doesn't associate with the birthers. On Tuesday Joshua A. Wisch, special assistant to the attorney general in Hawaii, said the matter had been resolved. "We have received information from Secretary Bennett that satisfied our requirement and has therefore provided his office with a verification of birth for President Obama," Wisch wrote in an email. Read more:

It's been exactly two years since the series finale of "Lost" and you probably still love it/hate it as much as you did that night. No matter your stance on "Lost's" mystical ending, the fact that a series could polarize fans so instantly means that it did its job -- even if you didn't get all the answers you wanted. The "Lost" series finale will go down as one of the most controversial in TV history, and that's saying a lot. But was it one of the best series finales? With the "Lost" anniversary and "House" and "Desperate Housewives" both recently being laid to rest, HuffPost TV thought it'd be a good time to round up the most iconic, hilarious, touching and perfect series finales of all time -- click through our gallery to see what we deemed the top 14. Then, share your thoughts in the comments.

College grads who majored in actuarial science or astrophysics have a practically nonexistent unemployment rate. Actuary job in hand, before the degree Courtesy: Drake UniversityBette Wiebke Majored in Actuarial Science, Class of `12 Drake University Why become an actuary? My parents kind of planted the idea in my head from an early age, because math was always my favorite subject in school. Plus, they knew it would be a lucrative profession. An actuary is basically supposed to predict the future, estimating future risks and costs. Being able to do that well is so valuable to a company. This weekend, I graduated with my bachelor's in actuarial science. I've already had a job lined up since September, and I would say the same is true for the majority of my classmates, who have also had job offers for a long time. I'll be working at Travelers Insurance in St. Paul, Minn., in their property and casualty business. Overall, 0% unemployment in our field may be a bit of an overstatement. I know a couple students who haven't decided what they're doing yet. But the fact that most of us can get jobs coming straight out of college, definitely says something good about the occupation. No shortage of options in astrophysics Courtesy: Matt BenjaminMatt Benjamin Astrophysics, Class of `05 University of Colorado Boulder I was a business major when I started college, and science was a hobby more than anything else. But after I took two semesters of astronomy, I was hooked. Learning about business at that point almost felt as boring as learning about cardboard. I studied astrophysics and planetary science, and worked in the planetarium as a student employee. I had thought about going to grad school afterward, but when my boss decided to leave, I took this job. I now run the planetarium and its education programs. My job is to take complex science and information and put it in the public vernacular. It goes against the idea that to be part of science you need a Ph.D. That's a gross misconception. I think you can have a 0% unemployment rate in astrophysics, because it's constantly evolving. The universe is huge and there just aren't enough eyes to study it. There's really never going to be a shortage of jobs.

Authorities in Louisiana are searching for a college student who disappeared while bicycling Saturday. Michaela "Mickey" Shunick, a 22-year-old senior anthropology major at the University of Louisiana, was last seen at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday, when she left a friend's home on Ryan Street in Lafayette. Shunick was cycling to her home on Governor Miro Drive, a distance of about four miles, when she vanished without a trace, the Lafayette Police Department said. Shunick is an avid cyclist and had regularly made the trip, her mother, Nancy Shunick, told The Huffington Post. "She has a car but she likes to rides her bike," Nancy Shunick said. "She rides her bicycle everywhere, and the route she would have taken Saturday is not a bad area. It is one residential neighborhood after another." Family members reported Mickey Shunick missing Saturday. They told police it was "uncharacteristic" of her to be out of contact with them. Shunick was also a no-show at her younger brother's high school graduation Saturday, an event her family said she was looking forward to attending. "She is just a nice, normal kid. She has hung out with the same group of friends since kindergarten," Nancy Shunick said. "She works teaching horse-riding lessons to little kids and she attends school."

There have been plenty of stories recently about lost pets reunited with their owners thanks to microchips. But in this case, it wasn’t only the dog who was returned. The microchip implanted in a South Carolina dog helped police return the 3-year-old girl who was with him to their family as well, WJBF News reported. While her parents slept, the child apparently followed their newly adopted dog, Angel, outside. A resident in a nearby apartment complex spotted the pair and called the police. But when the girl wasn’t able to tell them where she lived, the authorities used a scanner to check the dog for a microchip. The chip gave the officers information on how to get the owner’s name, address and phone number, and they were able to return the girl and her faithful companion to their home. The girl’s parents wanted to protect their daughter’s identity and didn’t give reporters her name or theirs — but they did want everyone to meet the canine they called a “hero dog.” Even though he’s been a member of the family for only a week, the girl’s mother said Angel kept the child in his sight the whole time. A police officer said Angel didn’t even want to get into a separate police car from the girl for the ride home.

In Chicago, three bakery workers claim they're owed dough--their fair share of $118 million in winnings from the Illinois State Lottery. They say they were part of a betting pool at the Pita Pan Old World Bakery in Chicago Heights that won the windfall in a May 4 drawing. "What happened was this," says attorney Michael LaMonica of Fisher & LaMonica, the law firm representing Jose Franco and Marco Medina, two of the three claimants. "This group had been running a pool since 2011. Normally, they collected money for the pool on Mondays and Thursdays." His clients, he says, contributed to the pool for a May 1 drawing. The group's ticket won $9, and the modest winnings were re-invested in the drawing for May 4. "The collector came around again," says LaMonica. "But because some auditing was going on at the bakery, he switched the day of his collection to a Wednesday. For whatever reason, he didn't ask my clients for any additional money." The ticket that the contributors bought won $118 million on May 4. Now Franco and Medina say their co-workers are refusing to give them their fair share. Why do they feel they deserve part of the windfall? They paid into the ticket that won $9. And, since the $9 went into the purchase of the next ticket, they had an ownership stake in the $118 million winner. The pool, they contend, had a standing agreement to divide its winnings equally. They say that if they'd been asked to contribute their customary share for the purchase of the winning ticket, they would have. Only nobody asked them for their money. A third claimant, J. Santos Bello, is represented by Chicago attorney Steven J. Seidman. A colleague of Seidman's told ABC News that Bello did not want to discuss the suit and had instructed his lawyers not to comment. His complaint, however, tells virtually the same story as the one filed by Franco and Medina.

MTV reality star Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio may have won the last two installments of "The Challenge," but he lost his defamation lawsuit against HBO, Time Warner and "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin, which the New York Superior Court threw out last week. "Johnny Bananas" had hired Lindsay Lohan's former attorney, Stephanie Ovadia, and alleged that Johnny Drama's "Entourage" cartoon, titled "Johnny's Bananas," infringed on his nickname, constituted defamation, and had caused him both emotional distress and financial harm. HuffPost TV talked to a dejected, but resolute "Johnny Bananas" about how he was dealing with the legal setback, and tried to understand why he went forward with the lawsuit in the first place. Sorry to hear about the lawsuit getting thrown out. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer, man. But it's kind of the risk you run ... you're kind of taking a chance when you go into the legal realm. We always knew it was a possibility ... I see it more as a hurdle or roadblock that we're gonna have to figure a way around. So why did you file the lawsuit? What about the Johnny Bananas "Entourage" character felt like a personal attack? It's a situation where I've spent six years of my life creating a brand, and becoming a public figure being known by that name. So then for a show like "Entourage" to come along, who basically appeals to the same viewing audience as my show does, and turn my character into a cartoon monkey, that just didn't sit right with me. The example I use is they have their own characters on that show. What would HBO do if I went on my show and started calling myself Johnny Drama? ... I'm sure HBO would have had a problem with that if it was the other way around. Do you think they would have sued? I have no idea. They probably would have threatened to. Did the "Entourage" character actually cause you any financial harm? Basically what this is about is I make a large part of my living doing appearances, just being at bars and clubs and colleges at different events. The problem that this posed is that there started to be confusion, where people started saying, "Well, who are we booking? Are we booking you, or are we booking the Johnny Drama character? Are people gonna know it's you?" I've been to clubs before, and people have been like, "Where's Kevin Dillon at? We thought he was appearing here." That's basically what the basis of our law suit was: This has the ability to cause me harm financially and create confusion.

According to TMZ, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones was arrested for DUI during the early hours of May 19, after crashing his Bentley into a pole in Binghamton, NY. Jones wasn't seriously hurt in the accident, but he was taken into custody by officers who arrived at the scene. He made bail a few hours later. "I can confirm that Jon Jones was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI," Jones' manager, Malki Kawa, said in a statement. "While the facts of this situation are still being gathered and situated, First Round Management fully supports Jon and we are asking for fans and media to respect the privacy of Jon and his family during this time." The youngest champion in the history of the UFC, Jones has always kept a squeaky clean image, so it's a little shocking to see him get in any kind of trouble. Given the fact this will be Jones' first brush with the law, the chances of him serving jail time are pretty low, and he'll probably get off with a fine and possibly probation. Still, UFC president Dana White will have some work to do, to preserve the image of a young man many consider to be the future of MMA. Jones isn't the first UFC fighter to be arrested for DUI, and it's highly unlikely that his current situation will have any serious effects on his MMA career. At only 24 years old, Jones will get some leeway from the fans, and I'm pretty sure the UFC will stand firmly behind him. Jones is currently scheduled to defend his light-heavyweight title against Dan Henderson at UFC 151, set for Sept. 1 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. He'll probably still be dealing with the fallout of his legal trouble when the fight takes place, and it'll be interesting to see how he deals with the extra pressure heading into his showdown against the former Strikeforce champion.

The New York Times' Howard Beck, on his way from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City to cover Monday's Game 5 between the Lakers and Thunder, uncovered this rather shady T-shirt design on Sunday. The Thunder aren't exactly giving these rags out at the door, but that didn't stop our initial post on the T-shirts on Monday morning from inspiring a world of outrage on Twitter, and apparent death threats sent the way of Warpaint Clothing, the company that humorlessly put the duds together -- utilizing the former Seattle SuperSonics logo along the way. Rightfully, just one Thunder fan deciding to purchase this and pull it over their head is enough for us to break out the Patented BDL Tsk-Tsk Geiger Counter -- and as a result Warpaint has decided to stop selling the shirts because of death threats sent its way in reaction. To reiterate, Oklahoma City didn't wrest its current team out of Seattle because 37 selected fans and civic leaders won a free-throw shooting contest. It didn't "win" the team by being the quickest to press buttons in some trivia contest at a local chicken wing joint ("PRESS 'B!' It's 'Romancing the Stone!' Hurry!"), and the presiding genius of GM Sam Presti is no reflection on either level of fandom emanating from either Oklahoma City or Seattle. No, the current Oklahoma City Thunder are not the former Seattle SuperSonics mainly because former owner (and current Guy That Bilks You Out of Money Every Day For Your Starbucks Fix, You Silly Twit) Howard Schultz didn't think twice before selling a basketball team needing a new stadium to an ownership group from a city that had already proven it could be a fantastic host for an NBA team, with a new stadium at its disposal. We don't think much of the Thunder owners, but we really don't think much of Howard Schultz, who completely betrayed the community that helped make him billions, all because he didn't know anything about how to run an NBA team, and because he couldn't wait an extra couple of months to find a suitable buyer that obviously wouldn't move the team from Seattle. Current Oklahoma City Thunder fans? The city of Seattle, and former SuperSonic fans, did absolutely nothing to deserve this. In the midst of what could be a championship season, diverting attention from the franchise's ultimate goal to take a needless shot at a city and fan base that is clearly still hurting is the ultimate prick move, and we heartily encourage any mindful Thunder fans to take Twitter pictures and send them our way during Monday's Game 5; so that we can band together to shame however many morons that decide to sport these shirts. Warpaint, through its Twitter feed, didn't exactly acquit itself well in attempting to defend the shirts it decided to print. From KIRO TV:

Martha Payne, 9-year-old food critic and school lunch reformer. (Rex Photos/AP)Jamie Oliver and Michelle Obama may be commanders of a healthy school lunch revolution. But a 9-year-old girl is on the front lines. A Scottish grade school student named Martha Payne has launched her own revolution in school lunch reform. It all started with a simple idea. What if food critics reviewed school lunches? Cafeterias would probably do a lot more to satisfy their customers. First Lady makes big changes to school lunches. That's what Martha discovered two weeks ago, when she started the blog NeverSeconds, a daily review of her flimsy cafeteria lunches. With help from her dad, Dave, the Argyle-based student, photographed her sparse lunch tray daily and offered a Zagat-style rating system based on the following criteria: food-o-meter (or overall taste), mouthfuls (or portions), health, courses and pieces of hair. So far there's been one or two hairs on her lunch tray, but not much else. One of the first lunches she reviewed included a dried-out rectangular piece of pizza, a fried mozzarella stick, some corn droppings and a mini muffin. Another tray featured a slim, grayish burger, two fried cheese sticks, an ice pop and three thin cucumber slices. Overall, Martha gives the soups at her school high marks, particularly the carrot and coriander recipe. "The soup was brilliant," she raved. Then, on May 14, a day of sausages, vegetable soup ("it tasted mainly of carrot") and roasted potatoes ("a bit small") the inevitable happened. Nestled under three cucumber slices was a single strand of hair. Martha doesn't speculate where it came from, but there's a fair chance it wasn't from her own head. Generously, she gave that meal a "food-o-meter" rating of 8, despite the small portion and the unappetizing surprise. [(Martha Payne/NeverSeconds)] (Martha Payne/NeverSeconds) "The good thing about this blog is Dad understands why I am hungry when I get home," writes Martha. Dad did more than sympathize; he got the attention of Food Revolution general, Jamie Oliver, via Twitter. After Oliver tweeted the blog to his followers describing it as "shocking but inspirational," Martha's page views reached nearly half a million. (As of Monday, NeverSeconds is closing in on 700,000 page views and counting.) Jamie Oliver's rules for healthy family meals In less than two weeks since launching the site, her school seems to be instituting healthy reforms, thanks to Martha, Dave, and some pressure from local media. By Thursday of last week, Martha blogged good news: "It's official that we are allowed unlimited salads, fruit and bread! I'm really happy that all of my friends can help themselves to good stuff." USDA defends pink slime in school lunches Now Martha is asking students reading her blog to submit their own school lunch photos and ratings. (Martha Payne/NeverSeconds)(Martha Payne/NeverSeconds) As much impact as policy makers and advocates, like the first lady, have had on improving school lunches, student voices have been largely absent from the debate. They are, after all, the ones eating the food.

Greendale Community College has a new pair of headmasters. Just Shoot Me! alums Moses Port and David Guarascio have been tapped to step in and replace Dan Harmon as the new showrunners of NBC's Community. Harmon has been given a consulting producer title, but that doesn't mean he'll be actively involved on the show. Even though NBC pleased fans by giving Community a 13-episode renewal last week, Harmon hadn't yet struck a deal with producer Sony Pictures TV to return as showrunner next season. That's because Sony had been looking to make a change at the top. Initially, Port and Guarascio (who more recently consulted on Happy Endings) turned the offer down — but Sony came back and sweetened the pot. The duo's credits also include Aliens in America; this season they wrote the Fox pilot El Jefe. According to insiders, Harmon signed just a one-year deal last year, with no option that would force his return this season. With no new deal on the horizon, Harmon prepared a farewell message to run as a vanity production card during Community's season ender, but the idea was later nixed. NBC Boss Says Community May Get New Showrunner Sony is said to be looking at ways to broaden Community and attempt to extend the show's life on NBC — and it's no secret that studio and network execs have clashed with Harmon in the past. Insiders warn that Harmon is so closely identified with Community that squeezing him completely might alienate the show's small but fiercely loyal fan base. Not to mention most of the show's cast: "Dan's the creator of the show, the voice of the show, so I don't know how that would work without him," says star Joel McHale. On Sunday, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said that he expected "Dan's voice to be a part of this show somehow. I'm just not sure if that means him running it day to day or consulting on it." (Harmon himself has said he's not interested in a consulting role.) The decision to tap outside producers to join the show was also borne out of necessity, as Harmon's key producing partners are all exiting the show. Former exec producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan (who signed a deal at 20th Century Fox TV to create new shows) have already been hired to run Fox's Ben and Kate, while coexecutive producer Chris McKenna has set up a deal at Universal TV to develop new shows — and insiders said he wouldn't have taken the showrunner job without Harmon's involvement. The seeds of this week's showdown were planted long before Harmon's public feud with star Chevy Chase, but it likely didn't help. "It's hard to imagine that Dan will be back on the show," one source said earlier this week. "And it's hard to imagine that Dan won't be back on the show."

Little Dude likes to say, "I love you." I don't know if he understands the importance of the words, or if he just likes the reaction he gets, but he uses the phrase easily and often. He loves his friends, his family, his teachers and his favorite toys. Lately, he likes to sidle up to me with a stealthy look and whisper, "I love you," in my ear. I respond with hugs and kisses and an "I love you more" in return. He smiles and says, "Couldn't be possible." I remember the first time he said he loved me, even though the words were mangled and mushy and sounded something like "wuv wu." It didn't matter one bit. "I love you" may be the most powerful sentence I know. But although it is heady and profound to hear (and say) "I love you," it is only a microscopic part of parenting. The words are important, but they aren't enough. In fact, they pale in comparison to the ways we show our children we love them. That old cliché, "Actions speak louder than words" is the core of what we do as parents every day. I learned this gradually. I'm a stepmom and a mom. My boys are sixteen and four. I love them both, but they are different people and they show and receive affection differently. Little Dude is a snuggler, a hugger, a kisser. He wants to be around his dad and me all the time. My stepson is a teenager, and I'm sure the idea of snuggling with his parents horrifies him. He is bright, funny, kind and decent, but he is sixteen after all. I tell them both I love them, but while Little Dude might hear it twenty times a day, I say it less often to my fabulous stepson. Not because I love him less, but because he's not a preschooler. I used to worry that he might not know how much I care about him because I say those three magic words less often, until a friend reminded me that affection isn't limited to things we say. Because this affirmation came from a woman with two kids who works a demanding job outside her home, gets to school plays and tae kwon do lessons and knits her children new sweaters every year with their ages on them, I paid attention. Besides, she's sort of kickass wise. Her insight dovetailed with something an old friend once told me. She said that peace isn't a noun, it's a verb. Meaning, peace isn't a state of being, it's an action -- a choice that requires constant tending. Seems to me, love is an action too.

My first question when my parents separated (I was 11) was, "Can we just not tell anyone?" There was something about the dismantling that felt too public. To split seemed shameful. So I consider it a matter of some pride that in my own breakups, I haven't had the impulse to conceal the end, including the most recent. We'd been together three years, albeit rocky ones. We thought that when it came to what mattered, we wanted similar things: a wedding, babies, eventually a home and careers outside New York, to be near our parents and care for them as they got older. For all of the bad times, there were so many good. We surprised each other. We danced spontaneously in our living room. It's a cliché, but I tell you, each of us could, with a certain glance, leave the other breathless. And then it crumbled. She wasn't sure she wanted this anymore; she needed to figure out who she was without me; she thought there might be something, someone better for her. I told pretty much everyone, immediately. I was no longer that shame-riddled 11-year-old. More importantly, I needed support. I needed to know that I was not inherently unloveable. I needed people to agree that she was a colossal idiot. There's only one person I couldn't tell, someone I know very little and who knows me very little. Mo, the proprietor of my exceptional neighborhood deli, knows how to do a yuppy bodega right: artisanal jam, organic meat, speck and prosciutto and several different brands of brie. A wide selection of organic soap and paraben-free sunscreen. I get dinner from Mo's counter several times a week, and stop in other times for overpriced fruit or a copy of the Economist. It's not surprising, then, that Mo knows things about me. He knows, for instance, what brand of tampons I buy and that I'm slowly killing myself with diet hot chocolate. His eyes are always scanning the surveillance screens fed from cameras around the store, and sometimes when I'm in the back aisles picking out coffee or standing in front of the freezer section wondering if I should go gluten-free for a week, it occurs to me that he may be witness to my all my neuroses. Instead of feeling creeped out by this, I find it oddly comforting. In a world we all enter and leave alone, I've got Mo watching over me. He knew things about Us, too. She liked pickles and jerky and licorice. I bought caffeine and yogurt in quantities that suggested preparation for the apocalypse. He knew that we sometimes -- okay, often -- wore each other's clothes, and what we were like when we'd been ever so slightly over-served at a bar earlier in the evening. He recognized that she had an easier time with people. When we traipsed in after a night out, the two of them flirted -- Mo has a black belt in the art of banter with customers, especially women. "How's it going?" I'd ask, the way you do in civil society. "Better now," he'd say, looking to her. "Oh, you missed me," she'd say. "I'm not missing anything now," he'd answer. Each time, I'd smile and shake my head at their antics, the faux-intimacy putting me a little on edge, and let her play for both of us.

When Phil and I were dating, we took a trip down the Mississippi on the Delta Queen. On board was a small band of elderly men playing Dixieland Jazz. They were all very good, but the clarinet player was in his own world -- completely consumed by the music. "Are you watching the clarinet player?" Phil whispered to me. I whispered back, "I can't take my eyes off of him!" And to this day, that remains a little code for us: Whenever we see someone who is truly in the zone -- in the moment -- we say to each other "He's a real clarinet player." Today, Phil and I will celebrate 32 years of our own duet on the clarinet. And all these years later, I'm happy to say, we're still in the zone. wedding May 21st is our anniversary date, and it's hard to believe that so many years have flown by. It's especially surprising for me since I was very wary of marriage when I was younger. I always thought of it as a confining place for women -- a place where only one person could reach for their dreams, while the other was a kind of support system. But then I met someone who showed me that marriage could be a roomy place for two people -- and, more important, two people's dreams. And here we are, Phil and me, celebrating more than three decades of love, trust and friendship. Of course, every marriage has its waves of ups and downs -- and ours is no different. And it's not made any easier when there are two careers in the family. Then throw in living in the public eye -- that just adds to the challenge. But every couple has their own unique set of challenges, and all of them have to find their own way to keep their marriage strong and the romance alive. I can't speak for anyone else, but I can tell you that for Phil and me, the most important thing is making time for each other -- and of course, keeping the laughter coming. Laughter is the cushion of life -- and certainly of a marriage. I'm a big believer in romance and I think it has its best chance of surviving if both people are invested in keeping it alive. Like the tango, it takes two. So in celebration of romance and commitment, here's a look at some of Phil's and my personal photos, as well as a collection of celebrity couples who have defied the odds and stayed in the zone.

Eating a healthy, calorie-controlled diet during pregnancy can help prevent excessive weight gain and cut the risk of obstetric complications, researchers report. In Europe and the United States, up to 40 percent of women gain more than the recommended weight during pregnancy and this excess weight is associated with a number of major health problems, according to background information in the study published online May 17 in the BMJ. In the report, an international team of researchers reviewed the findings of 44 studies that included more than 7,200 women and found that dietary intervention resulted in an average reduction in weight gain during pregnancy of nearly 8.8 pounds, compared with 1.5 pounds for exercise, and 2.2 pounds for exercise and diet combined. Dietary intervention alone also provided the most benefit in preventing serious pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia (a sudden spike in the mother's blood pressure after the 20th week of pregnancy), diabetes and premature birth, according to lead researcher Dr. Shakila Thangaratinam from Queen Mary, University of London, and colleagues. The study authors concluded that dietary and lifestyle interventions in pregnancy improve outcomes for both mother and baby. However, an accompanying editorial suggested that there is not enough evidence to support dietary or any other type of intervention.

The Los Angeles Lakers trudged off the Staples Center floor late Saturday, a single loss now separating them from season's end, another fourth-quarter collapse once again causing their undoing. They didn't show much poise in the locker room, either, with Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum pointing blame at others for allowing the Oklahoma City Thunder to steal their second victory in three games. Bryant missed eight of his 10 shots in the final quarter, but shrugged off his struggles by saying his teammates' lack of aggressiveness "forced" him to take tough shots. He also left no question which teammate deserved the most blame for the 103-100 loss in Game 4. Bryant faulted Gasol for not playing aggressive enough. It was also Gasol's turnover that led to Kevin Durant making the winning 3-pointer with 13.7 seconds left. "Pau's got to be more assertive," Bryant said. "He's the guy they're leaving [open]. When he's catching the ball, he's looking to pass. He's got to be aggressive. He's got to shoot the ball or drive the ball to the basket. He will be next game." Pau Gasol had 10 points and five rebounds in the Lakers' loss. (AP)Bryant has periodically targeted Gasol with his public criticism, hoping to motivate him to lift his performance. But with the Lakers now down 3-1 in the series and facing Game 5 on Monday in Oklahoma City, Bryant's patience has been exhausted. Gasol's inconsistency has been a problem for the Lakers throughout the season, and he never seemed to recover after the team tried to trade him in December to the Houston Rockets in a deal with the New Orleans Hornets for Chris Paul. NBA commissioner David Stern blocked the trade, and Gasol has admitted his tenuous status with the franchise has bothered him. Gasol totaled just 10 points and five rebounds in Game 4. Most recently, Bryant criticized both Gasol and Andrew Bynum after a listless performance in a Game 6 loss to the Denver Nuggets in the first round. Gasol responded with 23 points and 17 rebounds in the Lakers' clinching Game 7 victory. After a dominant first half by Andrew Bynum on Saturday, the Thunder began fronting the Lakers' center with Kendrick Perkins. Bryant thought Gasol didn't attack enough when Serge Ibaka left him to help Perkins. "He's looking to swing the ball too much," Bryant said. "He's got to take his shot." That was the case on the game's most critical possession. After a steal by Steve Blake, Gasol tried to pass to Metta World Peace only to have Durant knock the ball away with 33.9 seconds left. Durant followed with the 3-pointer. "Just a bad read on Pau's part," Bryant said. "It's one play, one mistake," Gasol said. "There were a lot of mistakes in that fourth quarter, a lot of mistakes throughout the game. So, obviously, if I could have gone back, maybe I could have shot it and I would have. It's one play, obviously, at a critical time, but I don't feel like we lost the game because of one turnover." Indeed, Bynum faulted the Lakers from going away from what was working. He had 14 points and seven rebounds as L.A. built a 10-point lead at halftime. With the Thunder increasingly fronting him, Bynum took just four shots in the second half, two in the fourth quarter when the Thunder erased a 13-point deficit over the final eight minutes. "I didn't touch the ball, so the game started speeding up, speeding up, speeding up, speeding up," Bynum said. "They beat us in transition at the end.

The film, which Comcast unit Universal has said cost $209 million to produce, generated $23.4 million in ticket sales at theaters in the U.S. and Canada during its opening weekend, according to figures compiled by Hollywood.com. It had been projected by tracking services used by Hollywood studios to have ticket sales of between $35 million and $40 million. The movie, which stars Liam Neeson and the singer Rihanna, finished the weekend second to Walt Disney's superhero blockbuster "The Avengers," which led the box office for the third weekend with $55.1 million in ticket sales. "It is not quite the epic disaster of 'John Carter,' but this will put a dent in Comcast's quarter," said Matthew Harrigan of Wunderlich Securities, who follows Comcast. He did not quantify how much he expected the film to lose. "John Carter," which sold $30.2 million during its opening weekend in March, saddled Disney with a $200 million loss, the company said. That film cost more than $250 million to produce. Based on the "John Carter" performance, Universal will lose $100 million to $200 million, estimates Michael Morris of Davenport & Co., who does not follow Comcast, but follows Disney, News Corp. and Time Warner, which also have studio units. A Universal spokeswoman would not comment. Comcast officials were not immediately available for comment. The studio is estimated to have spent more than $100 million to market the film, standard for large budget films. "Battleship" has sold more than $220 million in overseas tickets, Universal has said. It is forecast to reach $250 million in foreign sales. Movie studios generally receive about half of the revenues from ticket sales in North America and less in foreign markets. The film needed to generate more than $50 million in weekend ticket sales to break even, said analyst Tony Wible, a managing director at Janney Montgomery Scott who compiles a data base on film performances. He does not follow Comcast. Last week, Disney's superhero franchise-builder surprised experts by cutting into the expected weekend ticket sales of "Dark Shadows," starring Johnny Depp, which took in just $29.7 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

Will Smith's international publicity tour for "Men In Black III" already produced one moment of viral video goodness when Smith slapped a European reporter who tried to kiss him at a red carpet. But Smith topped that Saturday night on BBC One's "The Graham Norton Show," when he rapped "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song along with the entire studio audience in a moment rife with TV nostalgia. Smith also spoke fondly of the classic sitcom, and marveled at its lasting impact. "Listen, every country in the world, that is the thing that I am most known for. No matter how big the movies get, it's just 'Fresh Prince' everywhere ... As long as they're shouting 'Will!' it's cool," he joked. "It is so funny that that many people recognize that theme song," Smith continued. "There's something about TV that's different than movies or music. There's something about television that ... it's like, you're in your underwear at the house, you don't get dressed up to go, it's like people come into your house. Television really attaches you to people in a way that is extremely powerful, and it's humbling. Thank you," Smith said to the audience, who had rapped along with him. SOURCE

Yahoo! announced today it has reached an agreement with Alibaba Group on a staged and comprehensive plan to unlock the Yahoo's investment in the Alibaba. The plan, which was announced in a release, includes a transaction this year where Alibaba will purchase up to one-half of Yahoo's current stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The transaction could generate more than $7 billion in proceeds should Alibaba buy the full amount. Both companies also set up a framework where Yahoo! can monetize the remaining interest in the Chinese company in stages. First at the time of an initial public offering in the future, Alibaba will be required to either repurchase one-half of Yahoo's remaining stake at the IPO price or allow Yahoo! to sell those shares at the IPO. Also, following an Alibaba IPO, Yahoo! has the option to sell the remaining share at any time it chooses. "Today's agreement provides clarity for our shareholders on a substantial component of Yahoo!'s value and reaffirms the significance of our relationship with Alibaba," said Ross Levinsohn, Interim CEO of Yahoo! said in the release. "We look forward to continued collaboration with the Alibaba team on business initiatives as we explore joint opportunities for growth and benefit from Alibaba's future. I want to thank Jack Ma, Joe Tsai and the Alibaba team, as well as Tim Morse, Michael Callahan and our Yahoo! team for their dedication in achieving this successful outcome." "This transaction opens a new chapter in our relationship with Yahoo!," said Jack Ma, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group stated in the media release. "I look forward to working with Ross Levinsohn and the Yahoo! team as Alibaba builds China's leading e-commerce company. Yahoo!'s global audience reach will provide attractive partnership opportunities for Alibaba to explore markets outside of China. The transaction will establish a balanced ownership structure that enables Alibaba to take our business to the next level as a public company in the future." The announcement comes a week after Scott Thompson departed as CEO of Yahoo! and Levinsohn was named interim CEO of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based digital media company. Thompson left the company after inaccuracies were revealed in an official bio. READ MORE

This week in wardrobe malfunctions (and close calls) is notable for bringing us the riskiest dress ever -- Micaela Schaefer's dress of VHS tape horrors. There were some other celebs who we feared would make a huge wardrobe blunder this week. Check out the slideshow to see our picks for who came closest to a nip slip, a sheer dress fail and other blushworthy outfit foibles!

I'd seen the billboards advertising CoolSculpting and I was skeptical. In a country consumed with weight loss and get-thin-quick gimmicks, it's sometimes hard to tell what's legit and what isn't. But I wanted to be impartial, so I went into Dr. Gordon Sasaki's office with an open mind. What I learned surprised me. I expected a hardcore sales pitch from Dr. Sasaki and the CoolSculpting reps. Instead I got a no-nonsense discussion about science and the physiology behind weight loss and fat loss. CoolSculpting isn't a process they recommend for everyone. And it's not so much about overall weight loss as it is focused on fat loss — getting rid of that stubborn fat that even fit, healthy people have lingering around their midsection. This was certainly refreshing. Where were the miracle claims? Where were the obviously altered before and after photos that strained credulity? Dr Sasaki has undergone the procedure himself.Dr Sasaki has undergone the procedure himself. Troy is a guy many men can relate to. Athletic, married with kids, his weight has fluctuated over the years. Overall he stays pretty healthy, but he's got some love handles that he just can't seem to break up with. According to Dr. Sasaki, that's a common problem. Once weight is gained and then lost in an area, those fat cells are still there, albeit smaller than before. Traditionally, the surgical method to get rid of that fat meant liposuction, an invasive technique with plenty of risk and plenty of pain. CoolSculpting was a perfect alternative for Troy. He spends an hour in the chair, dealing with a cold application that's numbing but not painful, and that's it. Over the next few weeks his body works to eliminate the newly destroyed fat cells. The infamous tummy shot that got Troy to try CoolSculpting.The infamous tummy shot that got Troy to try CoolSculpting. Seeing the process firsthand was helpful. I learned that CoolSculpting isn't a miracle cure designed to eradicate the negative effects of a lifetime of bad habits,. Rather, it's a bit like teeth whitening to get rid of stubborn stains. It helps patients get over that last hurdle. Looking better, feeling better, and without having to go under the knife. Turns out CoolSculpting might be kinda cool after all.

Will Smith and his son Jaden recently had a close encounter of the presidential kind. While the Smiths were visiting President Barack Obama as part of Easter celebrations in April, Jaden, now 13, could not withhold a pressing question he had for the leader of the free world. Will Smith, who stars in "Men in Black 3" (in theaters May 25), explained during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1: "I was at the White House with my family and we were getting a tour and, you know, Barack and Michelle and Sasha and Malia... And it's me, Jada and the kids and we're walking through the White House. And the night before Jaden had said to me, 'Dad, I got to ask the president about the aliens.' I was like, 'Dude, no.' It's not cool. It's not cool. It's embarrassing." The Obamas led the Smiths to the Situation Room -- the White House's "nerve center" where Obama and his senior security team famously observed real-time updates during the U.S. mission that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Apparently the room inspired Jaden to strike out against his father's wishes: "...Jaden gets the look in his eyes and he leans over and says, 'Dad, what's my punishment?' And I was like, 'Jaden, do not.' And you know, Barack is talking about the Situation Room and Jaden says, 'Excuse me, Mr. President.' I was like, 'Hey, Barack, man…' And Barack said, 'Don't tell me.' And in perfect form, and this is why he's the president, and he stopped and looked at Jaden said, 'The aliens, right?'" The president went on, according to Smith, saying: "'I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials, but I can tell you if there had been a top-secret meeting and if there would have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.'" Incidentally, the White House weighed in on the whole alien thing in September, saying in an official statement: The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye.

Music icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Darlene Love, who was Whitney Houston’s godmother, has real concerns for the late star's daughter, Bobbi Kristina. “I met Whitney when she was 8-years-old and I was pregnant with my last child," Darlene tells me on the set of "New York Live." "I was working with Dionne Warwick and Cissy Houston, and I was staying at Cissy's house and Whitney would just take care of me. 'What do you want, auntie?' Whitney would always call me auntie. And I said, I’m going to make you my goddaughter and that’s how it started and it stuck." Darlene said she has not seen Whitney’s daughter, Bobbi, since the funeral and only found out about the family's forthcoming reality show from the media. “Everyone is doing good. I saw Cissy on Saturday, she’s doing good," Darlene says. "I heard that they are going to do a reality show and Cissy hasn’t said anything to me about them doing it, so I just kind of wait. I told Cissy I know Whitney had a 12-carat diamond ring she wore on her hand and one day, I saw a picture of Krissie [Bobbi Kristina] with it on her finger coming out of Starbucks and I went 'That’s not good.' They tell me Tyler Perry is taking her under his wing, so I’m just praying and hoping she stays on the right track.”

Donna Summer died Thursday morning after a battle with lung cancer. Lovingly named the "Queen of Disco," the 63-year-old was in Florida at the time of her death, according to TMZ. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, the 5-time Grammy award winner rose to fame in the '70s with hits like "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and "Love to Love You Baby." Following the news of Summer's passing, the singer's family released a statement saying that they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy." TMZ also reports that Summer was working on a forthcoming album at the time of her death. "RIP #DonnaSummer - dined with her a few months ago, and she sang Amazing Grace to guests with stunning power. Great lady, wonderful talent," Piers Morgan tweeted about the late singer. Summer is survived by her husband, Brooklyn Dreams co-founder Bruce Sudano, their two children -- Brooklyn and Amanda -- and her daughter, Mimi, from a previous marriage.

Jimmy Kimmel ripped everyone from President Obama to Rupert Murdoch at last month's White House Correspondents Dinner, but not everyone received the full force of Kimmel's wit. During an interview on Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, Kimmel revealed that while no WHCD officials asked to review his material before he spoke, he did cut jokes based on feedback from ABC News’ Jake Tapper and other reporters. He provided one example of a joke about then-GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum that was cut because Tapper thought it wouldn't be well received. In the transcript below, Kimmel explains the joke which alludes to how Santorum handled the passing of his infant son in 1996: KIMMEL: I had some jokes about — like Rick Santorum. I said something like — well, I didn’t say it, but: Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids. STERN: You didn’t want any abortion jokes? KIMMEL: People went like, uh-oh. I ran it by people who go to this thing. Tapper confirmed that he suggested Kimmel take out the joke, even going as far as to say there'd be a "tar and feather" incident in the Hilton if it was said aloud (Santorum was also in attendance at the dinner). Kimmel also joked to Stern about censoring himself when it came to mocking President Obama, saying "I decided right off the bat that the N word was out."

अपने 365 दिनों के आखिरी घंटों में पहुंच चुके 2008 में कई ऐसी हस्तियां हमसे हमेशा के लिए दूर चली गई, जिन्हें कभी नहीं भुलाया जा सकता। इतिहास के पन्नों पर इनके अमिट हस्ताक्षर दर्ज हैं और पीछे रह गई हैं सिर्फ यादें ़ ़ ़
एवरेस्ट के प्रथम विजेता सर एडमंड हिलेरी का इस साल 12 जनवरी को 88 वर्ष की उम्र में निधन हो गया। न्यूजीलैंड का यह पर्वतारोही 29 मई 1953 को 33 साल की उम्र में शेरपा पर्वतारोही तेनजिंग नोरगे के साथ माउंट एवरेस्ट पर चढ़ने वाला पहला व्यक्ति बन गया था।
27 जनवरी को इंडोनेशिया के पूर्व तानाशाह सुहार्तो का 86 साल की उम्र में निधन हो गया। 1967 से 1998 तक इंडोनेशिया के राष्ट्रपति रहे सुहार्तो को 20 वीं सदी के सर्वाधिक भ्रष्ट और क्रूर शासकों में से एक माना जाता था।
वर्ष 1955 से ट्रांसडेंशल मेडिटेशन तकनीक की शुरूआत कर दुनिया के विभिन्न देशों में इसका प्रसार करने वाले आध्यात्मिक गुरू महर्षि महेश योगी का छह फरवरी को 91 वर्ष की उम्र में नीदरलैंड में निधन हो गया।
टिहरी आंदोलन की जान समझे जाने वाले सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और गांधीवादी बाबा आम्टे ने नौ फरवरी को महाराष्ट्र के चंद्रपुर जिले में आनंदवन आश्रम में 94 वर्ष की उम्र में अंतिम सांस ली। उन्होंने 1985 में कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक और 1988 में असम तथा गुजरात में भारत जोड़ो आंदोलन चलाया था।
एक मई को वयोवृद्ध गांधीवादी निर्मला देशपांडे का 79 वर्ष की उम्र में नई दिल्ली में देहांत हो गया। निर्मला गांधीवादी मूल्यों को लोकतांत्रिक समाज का एकमात्र रास्ता मानती थीं।
शांतता कोर्ट चालू आहे घासीराम कोतवाल और सखाराम बाइंडर जैसे लोकप्रिय एवं बहुचर्चित नाटक लिखने वाले प्रख्यात मराठी नाटककार और लेखक विजय तेंदुलकर ने 19 मई को पुणे में इस दुनिया के रंगमंच को विदा कह दिया। घासीराम कोतवाल का 6000 से अधिक बार मंचन हो चुका है।
इस साल 27 जून को पूर्व सेना प्रमुख और 1971 के भारत-पाक युद्ध के महानायक फील्ड मार्शल सैम मानेकशा का तमिलनाडु के एक सैन्य अस्पताल में निधन हो गया। इसी युद्ध में पाकिस्तान के 90000 सैनिकों ने आत्मसमर्पण किया था और बांग्लादेश का उदय हुआ था। पद्म विभूषण तथा मिलिट्री क्रास अवार्ड से सम्मानित मानेकशा को 1973 में फील्ड मार्शल का सम्मान दिया गया था।
नई दिल्ली में एक अगस्त को वयोवृद्ध मा‌र्क्सवादी नेता हरकिशन सिंह सुरजीत ने लंबी बीमारी के बाद अंतिम सांस ली। 1990 के दशक में भाजपा विरोधी गठबंधन बनाने में तथा वर्तमान संप्रग सरकार को वाम दलों का समर्थन दिलाने में उनकी अहम भूमिका थी।
सोवियत संघ के जबरिया मजदूर शिविरों की दास्तान गुलाग के रूप में दुनिया के सामने रखने के कारण 1970 में देश से निष्कासित किए गए रुसी लेखक और असंतुष्ट अलैक्सांद्र सोल्झेनित्सन का 89 साल की उम्र में तीन अगस्त को मास्को में दिल का दौरा पड़ने से निधन हो गया। उन्हें 1970 में साहित्य का नोबेल पुरस्कार दिया गया था।
30 अगस्त को भारतीय उद्योग जगत का एक मजबूत स्तंभ ढह गया, जब प्रख्यात उद्योगपति और राज्यसभा के पूर्व सदस्य के के बिड़ला ने संक्षिप्त बीमारी के बाद कोलकाता में अंतिम सांस ली। 90 वर्षीय बिड़ला जीवनपर्यंत समाजसेवा से जुड़े रहे।
दुनिया भर में मशहूर जूता कंपनी बाटा के मालिक थामस बाटा का कनाडा में एक सितंबर को निधन हो गया। वे 93 वर्ष के थे। चेक गणराज्य में जन्मे बाटा ने टोरंटो के एक अस्पताल में अंतिम सांस ली।
हमराज, गुमराह, धूल का फूल, वक्त और धुंध जैसी फिल्मों में यादगार गीतों तथा लोकप्रिय टीवी धारावाहिक महाभारत के शीर्षक गीत को स्वर देने वाले प्रख्यात पा‌र्श्व गायक महेंद्र कपूर का 27 सितंबर को मुंबई में दिल का दौरा पड़ने से निधन हो गया।
लीक से हट कर सामाजिक विषयों पर नया दौर, कानून, गुमराह, हमराज जैसी फिल्में बनाने वाले मशहूर फिल्म निर्माता बलदेव राज चोपड़ा का मुंबई में पांच नवंबर को निधन हो गया। छोटे पर्दे के लिए महाभारत सीरियल बनाने वाले 94 वर्षीय चोपड़ा को 1998 में दादा साहेब फाल्के अवार्ड से सम्मानित किया गया था।
वर्ष 1989 में राजीव गांधी की सरकार को सत्ता से बेदखल कर गैर कांग्रेसी गठबंधन सरकार बनाने वाले और आरक्षण लागू कर सोशल इंजीनियरिंग के जरिये देश का राजनीतिक परिदृश्य बदल देने वाले पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री विश्वनाथ प्रताप सिंह का 27 नवंबर को नई दिल्ली में निधन हो गया। मांडा के राजा के तौर पर चर्चित 77 वर्षीय सिंह पिछले 17 साल से रक्त कैंसर से पीडि़त थे।
भारतीय पेंटिंग परिदृश्य में रंगों के साहसिक इस्तेमाल से क्रांति लाने वाले प्रसिद्ध चित्रकार मंजीत बावा ने नई दिल्ली में 29 दिसंबर को अंतिम सांस ली। 67 वर्षीय बावा मस्तिष्काघात के बाद पिछले तीन वर्षों से कोमा में थे। वह पहले चित्रकार थे जिन्होंने पाश्चात्य कला में बहुलता रखने वाले भूरे और धूसर रंगों का वर्चस्व खत्म करके उसकी जगह लाल और बैंगनी जैसे भारतीय रंगों को चुना।

Here’s Anne Hathaway making her first second bikini debut on The Superficial which I’m sure will be the crowning achievement of her respectable career. “Eh, working with Christopher Nolan was okay, I guess,” I imagine her saying as I realize I picked the wrong moment to walk out of our hotel room bathroom wearing nothing but Batman’s cape and cowl and a smile. SEE MORE PHOTOS

Madonna’s Hairy Spic Hipster daughter’s little teen tits are spilling out of her American Apparel shirt and I like it….partially because I am a pervert who likes all tits spilling out of shirts….but mainly because I like little rich cunt who aren’t quite 18 in general….Not only is their style pretty fucking racy cuz they aren’t scared to show off what the hormones in the food makes that made them hit puberty at 7 has done to them, rocking better teen bodies than ever, dressed in clothes that showcase that fact better than ever, to the point where leaving the house makes you feel like a sex offender…..but they attend sex parties where they lick each other’s assholes….at least according to Oprah…that pervert…. Either way, here’s some hipster spic hotness….

Here’s Rachel McAdams in Brian de Palma’s Passion. It looks good judging by the picture up top but would look even better if she spread her legs a little. C’mon. Quit being such a prude. (via Facebook) Haha, You Suck Kim Kardashian’s IMDB profile was very honest up until a couple days ago when they decided to take out the part about her being emblematic of the shallowness of American culture. The New York Times teaches you how to look like a jackass on a skateboard (via Vice) What Was That? Matthew McConaughey tells The Advocate that he’s all “for gay power.” He does not clarify whether he’s pro power top or pro power bottom. Mariah Carey doesn’t give a damn about Britney Spears on X Factor. In fact, this interview is close to being over unless we can get back on the subject of Mariah Carey. Robert Pattinson’s shoot for Premiere to promote Cosmopolis turned out really fun what with a hot topless blonde snaking herself around his body, nibbling his earlobes and kissing his face and neck. But after the blonde licked his nipples, he made a call to get those out of the mag. What a tease. Khloe Kardashian thinks she’s pretty hot. Apparently, if you keep saying it, it eventually becomes true. Hi, Ladies Miranda Kerr showed up for Woman of Style and made every other girl jealous. Courtney Stodden does her best impression of Bo Derek which has been affectionately termed Ho Derek. Sounds about right. Oh, just Larissa Riquelme getting naked (NSFW). Bright Futures Rachel Uchitel gave birth to a kid who’ll eventually find out she whored herself around Hollywood like a tray of coke. Watch When a security guard asks you to throwdown, it’s best to just walk away. Someone get this guy a KIA because it doesn’t look like he can handle the power of a Lambo Gallardo. SOIRCE

f you thought Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian looked like their sister Kim, think again. We've found someone who bears an even stronger resemblance to the reality star -- but apparently even sexier. Meet Georgia Salpa. She's a Greek-Irish model living in the England and she is most famous for her appearance on the UK's "Celebrity Big Brother." Oh, and for being really good-looking. Salpa ranked #5 on FHM's all-important 100 Sexiest Women In The World list in 2012. Her FHM pictures are predictably sexy, featuring the classic laying-on-the-bed pose and the see-my-sexy-armpit pose. But we weren't noticing anything beyond how identical she looks to Kim Kardashian. We're not exaggerating -- with the hair color, the deep tan, the oval face, the pillowy lips... these two look like long-lost twins, non? There's just one difference: while Georgia ranked #5 on the latest FHM Sexiest Women list... Kim Kardashian was ranked #65. Oof. Everyone, we'd like to introduce you to Kim Kardashian's (arguably) sexier twin. Do you see the resemblance?

It's hard to imagine the fashion world without Tyra Banks. We would have never seen her signature runway walk, been obsessed with "America's Next Top Model" or learned how to smize. But that could have been the sad reality according to Tyra, who penned an open letter to "models around the world," mothers of models and women everywhere struggling with body image issues. "If I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would’ve been considered too heavy. In my time, the average model’s size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero. When I started out, I didn’t know such a size even existed," Tyra writes in her letter posted on The Daily Beast. In the letter, Tyra talks about her tales of working with unhealthy looking models who often prescribed to the motto “there’s no such thing as being too thin, as long as you don’t pass out" and taking late-night calls to console girls that are literally starving themselves to fit into sample size clothing. But thanks to the major announcement that all 19 editors of Vogue have vowed not to work with models under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder, progress is being made. "This calls for a toast over some barbecue and burgers!" Tyra writes. She goes on to say: "Vogue is stepping up, doing the right thing, and protecting that girl. Perhaps that girl is you!" The letter is written in the wake of tons of news surrounding ideals of beauty and how they are marketed.There's been a crackdown on thinspo websites and a 13-year-old taking up the charge against airbrushing in Seventeen magazine. The model-turned-mogul also opens up in the letter about being banned by a list of designers once she started developing the voluptuous body she flaunts so fabulously. But being the smart gal that she is -- even before graduating from Harvard -- Tyra and her mom devised a plan (over pizza, of course) how to turn her "curves into a curveball."

As most 18-year-olds are preparing to head off to college, Justin Bieber is raking in $55 million a year, collects seriously fancy cars and just bought his first multimillion dollar home in Calabasas, Calif. For all intents and purposes Bieber lives a very adult life, but 18-year-old boys are not known for their maturity. For months the singer has been talking about growing with his fans, creating good music and becoming a "mature" artist, but as GQ recently found out, Bieber behaves just like most kids his age, he's just not allowed to show it. So when GQ set out to make a man out of Bieber, proposing a number of "insane ideas" that might make for a good profile, his people preemptively shot down their prime directive, which was to get the kid good and drunk. Neither Bieber nor his handlers were interested in GQ's "manly ideas" and later when they finally were able to get face time with the pop star (in what apparently was the first time that Bieber had ever been left alone with a reporter), he said he really wasn't a fan of alcohol. "For me, it's just like, I like to be in control of myself. I mean, I've had a beer, like, before.... But I never get out of control," he told GQ. Wanting to be in control makes sense, since Bieber has a lot of trust issues. "I mean, I keep my guard up a lot, because you know, you can't trust anyone in this business," Bieber said. "That's what's sad. You can't trust anybody. I learned the hard way." No one can dispute that Bieber's image is carefully controlled -- he's charming, a prankster, charitable and most of all a nonthreatening personality who makes mothers happy that their teenage daughters are crushing on him. It's hard to get a sense of who Justin Bieber really is. But then, as GQ describes, his brand-new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van, tricked out by West Coast Customs arrives and the first peek of Bieber emerges. Gathering around his new toy, Bieber seems "euphoric" and so excited that he pledges his loyalty to West Coast Customs and dismisses its rival, Platinum Motorsport. "F*** Platinum," he said. "Platinum can suck a dick, man. West Coast all day." Bieber really is all about loyalty. When he overhears one of his business advisers trashing his pal Kim Kardashian, Bieber pipes up. "You guys are so mean, bro ... People say she doesn't do anything; she actually does do stuff ... she works hard," he says defending Kardashian, with whom he tweets and has collaborated on a photo shoot.

Chuck Brown, the legendary "Godfather of Go-Go," has died, according to Washington City Paper and other media reports. The local D.C. musical giant, born in Gaston, N.C., and known for his group's 1979 chart-topping hit "Bustin' Loose," was 75. Earlier this month, Brown's family revealed that he had pneumonia. He had canceled a planned performance at the newly reopened Howard Theatre in April due to health concerns. According to the Associated Press, Brown died at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. From The Washington Post's obituary: Known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” the performer, singer, guitarist and songwriter developed his commanding brand of funk in the mid-1970s to compete with the dominance of disco. Like a DJ blending records, Mr. Brown used nonstop percussion to stitch songs together and keep the crowd on the dance floor, resulting in marathon performances that went deep into the night. Mr. Brown said the style got its name because “the music just goes and goes.” As NPR reported, "the name Chuck Brown might not mean a whole lot to people outside the Washington, D.C., area. That would be their loss." No one in D.C. can really explain why go-go hasn't traveled beyond the city's environs — we love it here, it's all over our commercial R&B and hip-hop radio stations and, at least when I was in high school, a go-go in a school's gym was the most packed party of the weekend. Chuck Brown is a local hero. A few days after he played our offices, Brown and his whole band played at the Redskins' stadium for the halftime show. The news of Brown's death circulated around the nation's capital Wednesday afternoon, prompting tributes. District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray said in a statement: "Go-go is D.C.'s very own unique contribution to the world of pop music, and Chuck Brown was regarded as Go-go's creator and, arguably, its most legendary artist,” Mayor Gray said. "Today is a very sad day for music lovers the world over, but especially in the District of Columbia. Without Chuck Brown, the world –- and our city –- will be a different place. What a loss! I am thankful that I had so many opportunities to witness Chuck's singular talent in person, and I enjoyed each performance immensely. My heart, my thoughts and my prayers go out to his family."

In the June issue of GQ, 18-year-old Justin Bieber admits occasionally drinking alcohol, despite being underage. "For me, it's just like, I like to be in control of myself. I mean, I've had a beer, like, before. . . But I never get out of control." A large part of that decision stems from not wanting to disappoint his fans -- or his tight-knit team. Scooter Braun, Bieber's manager, says the "Boyfriend" singer "knows that I hold him to a high standard. He doesn't want to blow it." PHOTOS: Justin Bieber shows off his workout routine Explains Bieber: "I mean, I keep my guard up a lot, because you know, you can't trust anyone in this business. That's what's sad. You can't trust anybody. I learned the hard way." The Canadian pop star -- who tells GQ he's "never made a bad song" -- also defends reality star and longtime pal Kim Kardashian, 31, after a member of his entourage says the "bitch should never wear white in public again." "You guys are so mean, bro," Bieber tells his tour manager Allison Kaye. "People say she doesn't do anything; she actually does do stuff. She works hard." This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Justin Bieber, 18: "I've Had a Beer"

The previews for the upcoming film "Snow White and the Huntsman" show a world that's much darker than Disney's 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." There's no sign of singing dwarfs, and especially no prim princess wearing a sweet little frock. This Snow White gallops on horses while wearing armor, and if she has to wear a dress, it's going to be dark. So as director Rupert Sanders explains, one young actress, known for her slightly rebellious attitude, was a perfect fit for the role: "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart. "[This Snow White's] not a damsel in distress relying on the handsome prince to save her," Sanders reveals to Elle in a new interview with Stewart, 22. "She's someone who bonds the men together to reclaim the kingdom. And Kristen was exactly what she personified: tough, independent, resilient." See Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett Transformation Stewart, who's also fiercely private, particularly about her romantic relationship with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson, has been acting for more than a decade. Audiences first took notice of her in 2002's "The Panic Room," where she played Jodie Foster's daughter. And while she's pretty open about her dislike of the fame that comes along with her profession, she still really loves her craft. "Laurence Olivier was asked, 'Actors, what's the impulse? Why?' And he was just like, 'Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me....' That was his answer. But at the same time it's like, 'Nooo, don't look at me. Look at some version that I'm going to present to you. Let me control it.'" Go Behind-the-Scenes of Kristen Stewart's Photo Shoot The image Stewart chooses to present in the Elle photo shoot, which was done by Tom Munro, is that of both a glam Hollywood siren (think Angelina) and a dapper leading man. She posed in designs from high-fashion brands like Gucci, Prabal Gurung, Balenciaga, and Tom Ford. However, one of her accessories was noticeably missing. It was the gold ring she's been spotted wearing on her index finger that's rumored to be from R.Pattz. "Everyone wants to know," she says of the ring. "Everyone knows already — it's ridiculous."

At one time it seemed that "American Idol" Season 11's arguably two most technically proficient singers, Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez, were destined to make it to the finale. But based on this Wednesday's crucial top three performance show, only half of that prediction is about to come true. While Joshua unsurprisingly delivered the standout vocal performance of Wednesday night with his fiery Mary J. Blige cover, the usually flawless Jessica rather surprisingly stumbled on all three of her songs, and she even received some tough criticism from her biggest fan on the judging panel, Randy Jackson. (He dismissed her final performance of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" with "I liked it, but I didn't love it," and griped that she really never had a "moment moment.") It's possible that this was because of her sore throat, or because of some song choices that were unfortunately out of her control. But whatever the reason, this development of course cleared the way for the already unstoppable Phillip Phillips, who, granted, received some really harsh comments for his second song--but memorably closed the night with what Randy actually said was the best Phillip performance yet. [PHOTOS: "Idol" Season 11 performances] Phillip's seemingly in-the-bag advancement to next week's finale, and Jessica's probable third-place defeat, will likely reinvigorate debate over whether female contestants are doomed on "Idol" and whether anyone other than a "WGWG" (white guy with guitar) will ever win this show again--a debate in which I've heartily partaken, many times. But let's put the conspiracy-theorizing aside for a second: The simple fact of the matter is, Jessica, as talented as she may be, just was n0t at her best this week, when it counted most. However, regardless of what happens, she should still be proud that she went further than any other Judges' Save recipient in "Idol" history...and if Jimmy Iovine makes good on his earlier promises, she'll probably land a record deal anyway. She certainly deserves one. And as for that whole WGWG thing? Well, Joshua Ledet should not be counted out just yet. Even if "Idol" remains a man's, man's, man's world...we still don't know which man will win Season 11. So Wednesday, each contestant sang three songs: one picked by the judges, one of their own choosing, and one selected by in-house mentor Iovine. And here's how everyone, including Jessica, did...

Kendra Wilkinson has always been open about her body, but it seems like lately, her assets are giving her trouble. "I think my right butt cheek is bigger than my left butt cheek," the Kendra star tweeted Tuesday to her 1.8 million Twitter followers. "Oh and my right boob is sooo much bigger than my left boob. I'm so off. Lolol," she added in another tweet. But despite her willingness to bare it all, the 26-year-old (who is married to NFL free agent Hank Baskett, with whom she shares 2-year-old son Hank Jr.) admits that there have been certain moments where her modest, more conservative side takes over. PHOTOS: Aw! Baby Hank's cutest moments "To tell you the truth, whenever I used to pose for Playboy I used to get so, so scared and I used to cover up and I'd be like 'hurry up!'" the former Girls Next Door star said in an interview with news.com.au in October. "I was very proud, but at the same time I never got used to being naked. I never did and I will never do it again."

Have you ever been sent a text message with a link? Be careful! Identity Theft Expert and Consultant Robert Siciliano says it could be an ID theft scam known as “smishing.” The term “smishing” refers to winning a fake prize. A link often appears in the body of an email or phone text telling you to “click here” for your prize. If you click on the infected link, it downloads malware, which compromises your device. If you click on the infected link, the downloaded software allows a “bad guy” to remotely control your phone -- from anywhere in the world. That scammer can even use your phone to access your banking information and even monitor ambient sounds around you. How do you avoid “smishing”? Robert says: 1) Protect your cell phone and computer with anti-malware products, such as McAfee 2) Avoid clicking on links you are not familiar with. On “Anderson,” Robert shares the top 10 identity theft scams to watch out for. Along with “smishing” another top scam is disguised phone calls. A “bad guy” will use your social networking page, such as Facebook, to retrieve personal information from you before placing a call to a victim’s family member or friend, asking for money. Robert also reveals that a thief can easily change a caller ID. Just because the caller ID says it’s your friend, it doesn’t mean it is. How do you avoid the disguised phone call scam? Robert recommends turning on privacy settings on your Facebook account. Robert urges you to never trust a caller ID -- thieves can easily change their numbers to make it seem like a friend or family number. Never reveal personal information on your Facebook page. “Skimming” is a credit and debit card scam in which crooks tamper with debit-card processing equipment at the point of sale -- inserting a tiny device into the store equipment that enables them to read the magnetic strip as it is swiped. Tami Nealy, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at LifeLock, says the best way to avoid skimming is to be vigilant at the gas station pump, or wherever you use your debit card. Look for anything out of place. Any wires exposed? Tape evident? Hardware loose?