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Photo credit: Instagram From Cosmopolitan A woman was killed and five others were injured when a large eucalyptus tree fell on a wedding party taking photographs at a Southern California park Saturday, authorities said. Several people were trapped under the tree at Whittier's Penn Park, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. Video from the scene showed fire crews using chain saws to cut through the downed branches. Four of the injured suffered scrapes and bruises, officials said. A 4-year-old girl was listed in critical condition due to head trauma, the Los Angeles Times reported. Witnesses described hearing a loud crack and seeing people run from the area. The tree could have been weakened by California's ongoing drought and recent heavy rain could have contributed to its fall, officials said. An arborist will assess the area Sunday, officials said. Update 12/19, 11:00 p.m.: A relative has confirmed Monday that the woman killed by a fallin...

In her last solo interview as first lady, Michelle Obama spoke candidly with Oprah Winfrey about life in the White House, the legacy she’ll leave and her immediate plans. Here are five takeaways from the wide-ranging conversation, which aired Monday night on CBS. Responsibilities of Her Role In discussing her biggest sacrifices as first lady, Obama said losing her ability to be anonymous topped her list. "There's nowhere I can go in the world and just sit at a table and have a cup of coffee and watch the world," she said. She also spoke of the immense pressures that she and President Barack Obama felt during his time in office, saying its responsibilities brought "a weight that is indescribable." "There's no way to describe what it feels like to open up the paper every day and know that almost every headline is your husband's responsibility at some level," she said. "Anywhere in the world, any major problem, any maj...

Photo credit: GoFundMe From Cosmopolitan A 36-year-old mother and her 3-month-old son were found dead with their throats slit at the family's home in Forth Worth, Texas, on Thursday night. According to People , the bodies of Shanna Riddle Vandewege and her infant child, Diederick, were both discovered by the 36-year-old victim's husband, Craig Vandewege, after he came home from work Thursday. He immediately called the police, who have since ruled the deaths as homicides. A GoFundMe page created to help the family pay for funeral expenses claims that the couple recently moved to Texas from Colorado before their child was born. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Vandewage worked as a registered nurse and was on maternity leave at the time of her death. "They tried so long to have a baby. She had three miscarriages prior to having one," Mark Riddle, Vandewege's father, told WFAA . "A new mother, a three-month-old baby ... why? W...

View photos Long-lost swear words used centuries ago have been revealed - and some prove to be a lot tamer than the ones we are used to today. Among the list of insults are such gems as ‘nippy’, ‘cucumber’ and ‘bald-a***’. The swear words were uncovered by Dr Todd Gray MBE, who spent years trawling through a staggering 40,000 documents from the church and state courts in the 1500s and 1600s. His results are presented in the book ‘How to Swear Like an Elizabethan in Devon’ and the monograph ‘Strumpets and Ninnycocks: Name calling in Devon, 1540-1640’. ‘Wittol’ means a husband complicit in his wife’s adultery, ‘cucumber’ was used to describe a husband of a woman having an affair, while ‘tarse’ literally means ‘penis’. View photos Research: Dr Gray went through thousands of documents to find the swear words (SWNS) The documents Dr Gray found related to slander cases where people had complained about being insulted in person. He explained: “At the very...

If you want to lose weight and keep it off, don't skip meals, and definitely don't skip breakfast! This is the best time to start loading up on carbs and protein so you have energy for the day and time to burn off those calories. Nutritionists Stephanie Clarke, RD, and Willow Jarosh, RD, of C&J Nutrition have shared the perfect equation for how to make a satisfying breakfast that will also help you lose weight. Aim for: Calories: 300 to 400 Fats: 10 to 15 grams Carbs: 30 to 55 grams Fibre: at least 6 grams Sugars: no more than 36 grams Protein: 13 to 20 grams So what can you eat? Certified dietitian Leslie Langevin, MS, RD, CD, of Whole Health Nutrition shared these basic, easy, and satisfying recommendations: Steel-Cut Oatmeal 50 grams steel-cut oats 3 tablespoons almond meal (ground almonds; or use 10 chopped raw almonds) 1 tablespoon maple syrup 1/4 banana Calories: 366 Fat: 14 grams Carbs: 51 grams Fibre:...

Grime music star Kano and soul singer Laura Mvula are leading the pack for the Mobo Awards, each receiving four nominations. Kano is up for Best Male, Best Album for Made In The Manor, Best Song and Best Grime Act. Singer-songwriter Laura has nods for Best Album for The Dreaming Room, Best R&B/Soul Act and Best Video. She will also battle it out with Lady Leshurr, Little Simz, Katy B and Nao for the coveted Best Female prize. View photos Laura Mvula (Tabatha Fireman / PA ) Fresh from his Mercury Prize win, Skepta has picked up nominations for Best Male, Best Grime Act and Best Album for Konnichiwa. Skepta and Kano will face AJ Tracey, Chip and Stormzy in the Grime category. Garage superstar Craig David, who was first recognised by the Mobos when he clinched the Best Newcomer trophy in 2000, is continuing with his triumphant return to music by earning nods for Best Male and Best Song, for When The Bassline Drops (featu...

[Photo: Getty] Bad skin sucks. And it’s only getting worse. Rather depressingly, rates of adult acne have gone up 200 per cent in the last year alone. And not just young adults. According to recent research, more than a third of people seeking treatment for acne are over the age of 35.  Some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Victoria Beckham, Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry, have talked about their struggle with spots. It’s not just us ‘normal’ people that are plagued with break outs.  With around 50 per cent of adults suffering from acne at some point, and with 80 per cent of those being women, it’s important to understand what’s really going on when it comes to problem skin. What causes adult acne? Acne is directly caused when follicles become blocked due to an over production of sebum - that’s the oil content in the skin on your face. The excess sebum mixes with dead skin cells and debris, clogging up the follicles and, in turn...

View photos   BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels and pro-government forces battled each other on major frontlines near Aleppo and Hama, and air strikes reportedly killed a dozen people including four medical workers, as a ceasefire appeared to have completely unravelled. The renewed battles demonstrated the thin prospects for reviving a truce that collapsed into fresh fighting and bombardments on Monday, including an attack on an aid convoy which U.S. officials believe was carried out by Russian jets. Moscow denies involvement. The U.N. Security Council was due to hold a high-level meeting on Syria later on Wednesday. Despite accusing Moscow of being behind the bombing of the aid convoy, the United States says the ceasefire agreement it sponsored jointly with Russia is "not dead". But the deal, probably the final hope of reaching a settlement on Syria before the administration of President Barack Obama leaves office, is fo...

Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that -- rumors. None of this has been confirmed as legitimate news or fact, it's just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. Remember, take it all with a grain of salt. Rumors for the Day: The new plan for the Universal championship could be to have Seth Rollins win and go into the same rumored plans they had prior, with matches against Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho down the road. Randy Orton was kept off weekend house shows as a precautionary measure after he was cut so bad in the match with Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam . Rumors have been going around for days that Bo Dallas w...

Some 323 wild reindeer lie dead after being struck by lightning on a hill side on Hardangervidda mountain plateau in southern Norway on August 27, 2016 (AFP Photo/Haavard Kjontvedt) Oslo (AFP) - More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, officials said Monday, in the largest such incident known to date. The 323 reindeer, including 70 young, were found on Friday by a gamekeeper on the Hardangervidda plateau, a national park where Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer roam freely. Television footage showed the animals' dead bodies lying close together on the ground. "There were very strong storms in the area on Friday. The animals stay close together in bad weather and these ones were hit by lightning," an official from the Norwegian Environment Agency, Kjartan Knutsen, told AFP. Reindeer are social creatures and usually move in packs. "It's u...

Maize , scientific name Zea mays , also known as corn or mielie/mealie , is one of the most extensively cultivated cereal crops on Earth. More maize is produced, by weight, than any other grain, and almost every country on Earth cultivates maize commercially for a variety of uses. The abundant cultivation of maize globally has led to concerns about monocropping and biodiversity, especially since genetic evidence suggests that maize is radically less diverse than it was originally. In addition, maize is heavily genetically modified, and the crop has been used as a rallying point by the anti-Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) community. The exact domestication point for maize is unknown, but it is estimated that the crop is at least 5,000 years old. The plant was originally domesticated in Mesoamerica, and appears to be related to species of wild grass which still exist in Central American today. People in many English...