In an interview with this month’s Glamour, Giuliana Rancic says her cancer battle has not changed her as a person.
E! News host Giuliana Rancic, 37, revealed her love of fashion and celebrity gossip is still what makes her tick.
However, she adds she is grateful for her celebrity platform, which enables he to spread awareness about her illness.
Giuliana Rancic returned to her presenting duties two weeks after her double mastectomy operation – and says she was keen to get back to normal life.
During the worst part of her illness, Giuliana Rancic said she thought she may lose the passion for her job as her perspective on life might change.
“I’ll be totally honest. While I was recovering, I was thinking, I’m really going to be asking people what they’re wearing? I didn’t know if I could find the joy in it again. But it didn’t take long.”
Recalling her first day back at the studio, Giuliana Rancic said: “It was like, <<Hey, guys, cut the bulls***>>. I’m the exact same person I was before.
“I’m still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me. They were like, <<Thank God>>.”
In an interview with this month's Glamour, Giuliana Rancic says her cancer battle has not changed her as a person
Despite her brave face in the wake of her surgery, Giuliana Rancic – who is also a panellist on Fashion Police – admitted she struggled to look at herself in the mirror.
Talking about her self-image, Giuliana Rancic said: “At first I didn’t want to look in the mirror, because I felt like, I’m getting better every day and this is about my health, so I shouldn’t get bogged down by what I see in the mirror.
“I knew I wasn’t going to look like a bikini model, so why look? Why even put the image in my head?”
Giuliana Rancic’s husband Bill, 40, also opened up about how he coped with his wife’s illness, revealing he felt helpless at times.
Bill Rancic said: “As a husband and as a man, you wish you could trade places with your wife, but you can’t, and it sucks. I of course had my moments.”
He went on: “But you know, you’ve got to be strong; I would never break down in front of her. I wasn’t curled up in a fetal position in the shower, but there were moments when it was like, <<It’s not fair. Why does she have to go through this?>> There was anger.”
Giuliana Rancic now says she is grateful to have the platform she does to talk about breast cancer and spread awareness.
She said: “We’ve been given this incredible platform, and we think it was for a reason. I truly believe that. When I got my job at E!, I was the thirty-ninth person who auditioned.
“I wasn’t the prettiest, I wasn’t the smartest, I wasn’t the most talented. And I always wondered why I got the job. Now I think God knew I wouldn’t be a selfish little cow with this platform, and I’d actually try to do something good with it.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai accuses the US of not fully co-operating with a probe into the Kandahar massacre of 16 civilians by an American soldier.
The US soldier accused of the Kandahar massacre is on his way to the US from Kuwait, where he was being held, and is expected to face a military tribunal there.
Afghan MP’s had demanded the soldier be tried in public in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai earlier met relatives of the dead, who demanded justice.
Men, women and children were shot and killed at close range as the US soldier apparently went on a rampage in villages close to a NATO base in the remote Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province.
Hamid Karzai told reporters that the chief of the official investigation into those killings had not received the co-operation it expected from the US.
He also said the problem of civilian casualties at the hands of NATO forces had “gone on for too long”
“This is by all means the end of the rope here,” Hamid Karzai said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai accuses the US of not fully co-operating with a probe into the Kandahar massacre of 16 civilians by an American soldier
On Wednesday Hamid Karzai told the US that it must pull back its troops from village areas and allow Afghan security forces to take the lead, in an effort to reduce such civilian deaths.
The Taliban also called off peace talks in the wake of the killings although they made no mention of the massacre in their statement.
Earlier, the president met relatives of those who had been killed last Sunday. The assembled villagers berated him and urged him to seek justice.
Some of the villagers believe there was more than one gunman, an allegation that has repeatedly contradicted the official version since Sunday when the shootings took place. He assured villagers that he would pursue that allegation.
Hamid Karzai listened as surviving family members from the Kandahar massacre gave their versions of the murders during a meeting in a grand hall in the presidential palace.
“Why did this happen?” demanded one man who lost nine members of his family. “Do you have answers, Mr. President?”
“No, I do not,” responded a tired-looking Hamid Karzai.
The president’s strong public condemnation of his most important ally is certain to frustrate the US which has been trying to limit the damage from these latest incidents as they deal with an unpredictable president.
Some details about the alleged killer also emerged from John Henry Browne, the lawyer who said he represented him.
John Henry Browne said the soldier – who has not been named – had received body and brain injuries while serving in Iraq and had been unhappy about doing another tour of duty.
Speaking in Seattle, where the accused soldier is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, John Henry Browne denied reports that the accused had problems either with alcohol or his marriage.
Earlier on Friday, a NATO helicopter carrying Turkish troops crashed into a house on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, killing at least 12 soldiers and two children on the ground.
The death toll is the heaviest single loss of life so far for Turkish troops in Afghanistan, of whom there are currently more than 1,800.
Despite the recent string of setbacks, such as the suspension of peace talks by the Taliban, the US has stressed that it remains committed to Afghan reconciliation.
Multituberculates, a group of rodent-like mammals that existed for approximately 120 million years, survived after dinosaur extinction because they were adapted to eating flowering plants, say scientists.
The “mass extinction event” which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is thought to have been caused by an asteroid or volcanic activity.
Once the dinosaurs were no more, the rodent-like multituberculates continued to prosper.
Now scientists have learned the secret of multituberculates’ success.
The mammals were adapted to eating angiosperms, flowering plants that only started to appear around 140 million years ago.
After the arrival of angiosperms, the multituberculates evolved into a diverse group of animals ranging in size from that of a mouse to a beaver.
They only eventually vanished from the Earth some 34 million years ago after losing out to other mammals such as primates, hoofed species and rodents.
Multituberculates were distributed across the world and more than two hundred species are known, some as small as the tiniest of mice and the largest the size of beavers.
Some, such as Lambdopsalis from China, lived in burrows like prairie dogs while others, such as the North American Ptilodus, climbed trees as squirrels do today.
Multituberculates are the only major branch of mammals to have become completely extinct, and have no living descendants.
Although not known to many people, they have a 100 million-year fossil history, the longest of any mammalian lineage.
Multituberculates are the only major branch of mammals to have become completely extinct, and have no living descendants
The narrow shape of their pelvis suggests that, like marsupials, multituberculates gave birth to tiny, undeveloped pups that were dependent on their mother for a long time before they matured.
Although there are some spectacular multituberculate specimens from Mongolia, many of these unique teeth have been found in North America.
Scientists examined teeth from 41 multituberculates kept in fossil collections around the world.
Computed tomography (CT) scanning similar to that used in hospitals was used to create high resolution 3D images which were then analyzed.
The researchers found the multituberculates had a complex array of teeth. Those at the front were sharp and blade-like, while the back teeth developed numerous bumps and cusps ideal for crushing plant material.
“These mammals were able to radiate in terms of numbers of species, body size and shapes of their teeth, which influenced what they ate,” said Dr. Gregory Wilson, from the University of Washington, who led the research published online in the journal Nature.
“If you look at the complexity of teeth, it will tell you information about the diet. Multituberculates seem to be developing more cusps on their back teeth, and the blade-like tooth at the front is becoming less important as they develop these bumps to break down plant material.”
The research involved determining which direction various patches of tooth surface were facing. More complex teeth have more patches.
Carnivores have relatively simple teeth with perhaps 110 patches per tooth row because their food is easily broken down.
In contrast, some multituberculates had up to 348 patches per tooth row.
Ray J, Whitney Houston’s boyfriend, is reportedly seeking counseling to help him cope with the singer’s recent death.
Ray J, 31, is heartbroken after Whitney Houston, 48, died last month and his sister Brandy has urged him to seek professional help to manage his grief.
A source told RadarOnline.com: ”Ray J is obviously absolutely devastated by the loss of Whitney, who he says was the love of his life. Even though a month has passed since she died, Ray still can’t believe that Whitney is gone. He has saved voicemail messages on his cell phone from her that he has been listening to. His sister Brandy has urged him to go to counseling to deal with this loss, and he has finally agreed.
”Brandy and her brother are extremely close, and she has been a rock for him in the weeks since Whitney died. However, Brandy is also dealing with a huge loss, as she worked with Whitney professionally, and loved her like an older sister. Brandy recognizes that she can only help her brother so much. Ray has promised Brandy he will see someone.”
Ray J, Whitney Houston's boyfriend, is reportedly seeking counseling to help him cope with the singer's recent death
Ray J has also told friends he is so upset by Whitney’s death that he can’t even listen to her music anymore.
The source added: ”Ray has told his family he doesn’t know if he will ever be able to listen to Whitney’s version of <<I Will Always Love You>> ever again. He is surrounded by his family and just trying to get through the pain. What people don’t realize is how much Ray loves Whitney, he never refers to her in the past tense. He just doesn’t know what to do with the huge void in his life.”
George Clooney has been arrested for civil disobedience at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
George Clooney, 50, was taking part in a protest to warn of a humanitarian crisis in the volatile border area between Sudan and South Sudan.
The actor, his father Nick and a number of other protesters had been given three verbal warnings by police not to cross a police line outside the embassy before being taken into custody.
The protesters had accused Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the county’s border region with South Sudan.
“We are here really to ask two very simple questions,” George Clooney had said shortly before his arrest, according a report on CNN.
“The first question is something immediate – and immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.”
George Clooney has been arrested for civil disobedience at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington
George Clooney added that the second thing he was there “is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. Stop raping them and stop starving them”.
Others protestors, including Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia and NAACP President Ben Jealous, were also arrested.
They were all handcuffed and placed into a U.S. Secret Service van.
The group held a sign that read: “Sudan: Stop Weapons of Mass Starvation.”
George Clooney said that he hopes to draw more attention to the issue and is impressed with President Barack Obama’s personal engagement on it.
The actor also said that if action is not taken in the next three to four months “we’re going to have a real humanitarian disaster”.
Secret Service spokesman George Oglivie said: “George Clooney was arrested for crossing a police line at the Sudan embassy and he’ll be transported to the Metropolitan police department second district.”
Also arrested were Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights leader; Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern; Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Ben Jealous, said George Oglivie.
George Clooney’s arrest comes a day after he met President Barack Obama at the White House to discuss the Sudan situation.
The actor recently secretly travelled across the border to the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, where his group apparently witnessed a rocket attack.
George Clooney told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week that what was happening in the region was “ominously similar” to the violence in Darfur.
The UN estimates that nearly 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million been displaced since the Darfur conflict broke out in 2003.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was spotted this week stepping out in public for the first time with her “adopted” brother, the man who is healing her broken heart in the wake of her mother’s death.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, who was sporting a ring on her wedding finger, is rumored to be secretly engaged to Nick Gordon, 22.
Their union, however, is causing concern for some – with Bobbi kristina’s grandmother Cissy Houston having apparently branded their relationship incestuous.
Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon were spotted on Tuesday visiting Romeo’s Pizza restaurant in their hometown on Atlanta, Georgia.
In a public declaration of their love, Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon were seen kissing and holding hands as they put on a tactile display.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was also wearing a large ring on her engagement finger amid reports they have secretly got engaged.
Despite the pair not actually being blood relatives, Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon grew up together after Whitney Houston took him in at the age of 12 when his father went to prison and his mother was unable to take care of him.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was wearing a large ring on her engagement finger amid reports she and Nick Gordon have secretly got engaged
However, Cissy Houston said that Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon’s romance still constitutes wrongdoing, telling TMZ.com: “What they’re doing is incestuous.”
Cissy Houston is also quoted as telling the website that she believes Nick Gordon is taking advantage of Bobbi Kristina and her issues.
It was also claimed that Cissy Houston has even requested that the Whitney Houston Estate get involved in an attempt to get him evicted from Whitney’s $1.2 million Atlanta townhouse, where he is apparently currently living alongside Bobbi Kristina.
Meanwhile TMZ reports that Bobbi Kristina is not listening to her grandmother and the website reports she is telling friends she doesn’t care what her family thinks.
A source told TMZ that Bobbi Kristina: “Can’t please everyone, so she is going to please herself by doing what she wants to do for once.”
A family friend told this week’s Star magazine how Nick Gordon proposed to Bobbi Kristina over the weekend.
“Nick proposed to Krissy on March 10, and she said yes,” the family relative confirmed.
“Krissy said Nick is the only person she trusts in the world. They have a very deep connection.”
TMZ also claims friends of the couple believe they are heading to Las Vegas soon – although whether they plan to get married there is not clear.
Star magazine says Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon are keeping the news quiet for now – but quotes other sources expressing concern and suspicion at the time of the proposal.
Bobbi Kristina Brown isn’t fazed by her grandmother’s accusations she is committing incest by hooking up with her “adopted” brother Nick Gordon.
Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, was reportedly telling friends she is gonna do what she wants, no matter what.
Sources close to Bobbi Kristina Brown told TMZ that she finally “fessed up to her close buddies” she and Nick Gordon are dating, ten years after Whitney Houston unofficially adopted the boy because he was having problems at home.
Cissy Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown’s grandmother, was reportedly saying after she saw the video and pictures showing Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon holding hands and kissing on a lunch run in Atlanta this week: “What [Bobbi and Nick] are doing is incestuous.”
Bobbi Kristina Brown isn't fazed by Cissy Houston's accusations she is committing incest by hooking up with her “adopted” brother Nick Gordon
But Bobbi Kristina Brown couldn’t care less, telling friends she doesn’t give a damn about what Cissy Houston thinks about her controversial relationship and because Nick Gordon is not her blood brother, she definitely doesn’t consider it incest.
As one source put it, Bobbi Kristina “can’t please everyone, so she is going to please herself by doing what she wants to do for once.”
As for the maybe engagement ring Bobbi Kristina was wearing, TMZ has been told she was wearing her mother’s on what it means, but cryptically told friends, she and Nick Gordon are planning a trip to Las Vegas in the near future.
More than 750 gadget fans spent hours of waiting in line outside Apple’s flagship store in New York to get their hands on the new iPad, which went on sale at 8:00 a.m. today.
The lines outside the Fifth Avenue store were even longer than experts expected, with people huddling together in sleeping bags – and others making money off their places in the line.
Amanda Foote, who camped for nearly 48 hours, received an offer of $1,000 for her spot, behind only two other customers – but was hoping to collect even more for the coveted position.
The queues through the night – across the United States and the nine other countries where the iPad was launched – came despite Apple accepting online orders a week ago.
According to experts, the lines through city centres are worth $700 million to Apple. Not only are customers forking out $499 for an iPad, but they are giving Apple millions in free publicity.
Analysts told SmartMoney that the coverage is worth more than Apple’s worldwide marketing budget, which was nearly $700 million in 2010.
“The Apple lines have become a cultural phenomenon,” social psychologist Matt Wallaert said.
“You couldn’t advertise your way into the images of adoring fans that led to Beatlemania. Apple has achieved exactly that.”
Patient customers across the country said the product was well worth the wait.
“The screen resolution is amazing,” Robby Grossman told the Boston Globe. Tech reviewer Daniel Romero added: “After an hour of use I can say it was worth spending $500 and waiting in line for.”
More than 750 gadget fans spent hours of waiting in line outside Apple's flagship store in New York to get their hands on the new iPad
Others were battling the queues to make a profit.
Dan Krolikowski, 34, was first in line at a Madison, Wisconsin mall after arriving 14 hours early.
“Last year I sold one on eBay and made over $500 in profit,” Dan Krolikowski said from his reclining chair at the head of the line.
“I’m hoping to do that again this year.”
At the flagship Apple Store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, the way many customers were paying for two iPads each suggested many of the tablets were destined to be resold abroad.
“My buddy’s paying me $120 to wait in line for him,” he said.
“He’s going to come over here at eight and pay for the iPads – he’s buying two of them.”
The line-up of fanatics at the store was comprised of many people who turned out for the launch of the iPad 2 last year, according to Russian Michael Sochin, 29.
When asked why he felt the need to get the iPad on the day of its release, rather than skipping the queues and waiting for a week, Michael Sochin said: “I don’t know… it’s like a drug.”
Reviewers are gushing over the new iPad 3.1million pixel screen, comparing the experience to that first moment of putting on prescription glasses after years of poor eyesight
A queue has already formed outside the flagship Apple store on London’s Regent Street as people wait to snap up the gadget when it goes on sale.
Zohaib Ali, 21, of Uxbridge, who is the first in line after queuing for five days, said: “The iPad is the best product of the year and there won’t be any more until 2013 so I am happy to queue. I love Apple products.”
Zohaib Ali suffers from autism and his mother, Rahat Ali, believes that Apple products have helped him overcome his disability.
Rahat Ali said: “Apple products are very good for autism. They are very easy to use and he is relaxed when he is using them. Usually he doesn’t want to go out in a crowd but he is very happy queuing here.”
The tablet computer, which has a higher resolution screen than previous models and a five megapixel camera with auto focus and auto exposure, ranges in price from £399 ($630) to £659 ($1,040) in UK.
Despite competition from cheaper rivals the iPad remains the most popular tablet computer. Apple has sold more than 55 million iPads since its launch in 2010, including 40 million last year.
Zohaib Ali’s friend, Ali Tarighi, 18, of Acton, has been queuing with him since Saturday morning. He said of the new iPad: “I wanted to be one of the first to get my hands on it really.”
Ali Tarighi added: “It can be hard at times, especially at nights. It gets really cold but it’s going to feel great when I hold the iPad up in triumph.”
Those waiting were handed free food and drink by companies they had contacted through Twitter.
Harry Barrington-Mountford, 22, of Upminster queued to buy the iPad 2 with his girlfriend Fenella Barnes, 30, and is now waiting for the newest model.
He said: “We had such a great time queuing last time that we decided to do it again. People always stop to talk to us. I am exhausted though, I have only had about 45 minutes of sleep.”
Fenella Barnes is not intending to buy an iPad for herself but is queuing up to buy one for a friend. She said: “I have been tempted to get one but I haven’t been tempted enough. If I had a spare £500 [$790] then maybe I would consider it!”
Customers have also been queueing overnight in other countries including France and Singapore.
The very first customer in the world to buy the new device was 34-year-old construction manager David Tarasenko, who grabbed one at the stroke of midnight at a Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia.
While the new pad is more of an evolution than a revolution in most areas, it is not hyperbole to refer to the display as a revolutionary jump, and it appears to be love at first sight for every single person who gets a glimpse.
Reviewers are gushing over the 3.1million pixel screen, comparing the experience to that first moment of putting on prescription glasses after years of poor eyesight.
While Apple are notoriously clever at pre-launch PR, and cherry-pick their review outlets, even the most unbiased of reviewers, such as the highly-regarded Walt Mossberg of AllThingsDigital, can’t help but fall in love with the crystal-clear display.
Belgium is holding a day of national mourning by coming to a standstill for a minute’s silence at 11:00 a.m. and with flags being flown at half mast to remember the 28 victims of the Switzerland coach crash.
After the minute’s silence, church bells rang out.
Two planes carrying the bodies of those killed have landed at Melsbroek military airport in Belgium.
The C130 planes left Switzerland following a memorial ceremony.
Twenty-two of those killed when the coach struck the wall of a tunnel on the way back from a school skiing trip were children.
Eight of the injured children were flown home on Thursday, but many survivors are still in hospital.
It has emerged that one of the victims was an 11-year-old British boy who had been a pupil at St. Lambertus School in Heverlee.
Sebastian Bowles’s parents Edward and Ann flew to Brussels on Thursday night after identifying their son’s body in Switzerland, a school spokesman confirmed.
The four most seriously injured children are being treated at hospitals in Lausanne and Bern.
Belgium is holding a day of national mourning to remember the 28 victims of the Switzerland coach crash
Family members of the dead children who had travelled to Switzerland visited the crash site on Thursday, some laying flowers in the tunnel.
They also faced the daunting task of identifying their children’s bodies.
Most of the victims of Tuesday night’s disaster were around 12 years old. In addition to the British boy, six of the dead children had Dutch nationality; the others were Belgian.
The authorities have refused to comment on suggestions in Swiss and Belgian media that the coach driver may have been changing a DVD at the time of the crash.
Swiss police spokesman Renato Kalbermatten said CCTV from the tunnel did not confirm the disk theory, which he described as “pure speculation at this stage”.
All the adults on board the coach were killed in the crash.
The group had spent a week skiing in Val d’Anniviers in the Swiss Alps and were travelling home on one of three buses hired by a Christian group. The other two coaches reached Belgium safely.
Those on board the bus that crashed were from the Stekske primary school in Lommel, near the Dutch border, and from St. Lambertus in Heverlee, near Leuven (Louvain).
A memorial service was held in Lommel on Thursday evening.
Police there said 2,500 people attended the service, at St Joseph’s Catholic church next to the school, AFP reports.
Rows of chairs were set up outside the church for residents to watch the service on a large screen.
A message of condolence from Pope Benedict XVI was read out.
A Vatican statement said the Pope was praying for the bereaved families and expressed his deepest sympathy for the injured and the emergency workers. He had conferred a special apostolic blessing on all affected by the tragedy.
North Korea has announced the launch of a satellite mounted on a rocket to mark the 100th birthday of its late former President Kim Il-Sung.
The rocket launch will take place between 12 and 16 April, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said.
South Korea said the launch would be a “grave provocation” and Japan urged the North to “exercise restraint”.
The move is seen as violating UN Security Council resolutions passed after a similar launch in 2009.
Japan is particularly concerned as North Korea’s April 2009 rocket was launched over the country.
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Osamu Fujimura, told a news conference on Friday that his country had set up a crisis management taskforce to monitor the situation and was co-operating with the US and South Korea.
“We believe a launch would be a move to interfere with our effort toward a dialogue, and we strongly urge North Korea not to carry out a satellite launch,” Osamu Fujimura said.
North Korea plans of launching a rocket in April is seen as violating UN Security Council resolutions passed after a similar launch in 2009
South Korea’s foreign ministry said such a move would be a “clear violation” of UN Security Council Resolutions.
“It would be a grave provocation threatening the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and north-east Asia,” the ministry said in a statement.
Last month, Pyongyang agreed to suspend long-range missile tests.
The agreement was part of a deal for the United States to supply 240,000 tons of food aid to North Korea.
In the 2009 launch, Pyongyang said the satellite made it into orbit and characterized it as a test of its satellite technology.
The move drew condemnation from the US and South Korea and led to the UN resolutions prohibiting the North from nuclear and ballistic missile activity.
Foreign officials said there were no indications that a satellite had reached space and that the launch was a cover for Pyongyang to test long-range missile technology.
The launch next month of a ”working satellite”, the Kwangmyongsong-3, is an opportunity for ”putting the country’s technology of space use for peaceful purposes on a higher stage”, said a North Korean spokesman.
The rocket would be launched from the Solace Satellite Launching Station in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province on the country’s west coast.
State media also reported that the North has already launched two experimental satellites.
The US soldier accused of the Afghan massacre on Sunday, when he shot dead 16 civilians, had received body and brain injuries while serving in Iraq and was unhappy about going for another tour of duty, his lawyer John Henry Browne says.
John Henry Browne said the soldier – who has not been named – had already completed three tours in Iraq.
The lawyer also said the accused had witnessed his friend’s leg blown off the day before the killings.
Sunday’s shootings have placed new strains on the US in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a NATO helicopter carrying Turkish troops has crashed into a house on the outskirts of the capital Kabul killing at least 12 soldiers and two children on the ground.
The death toll is the heaviest single loss of life so far for Turkish troops in Afghanistan, of whom there are currently more than 1,800.
A technical fault was to blame, according to police.
The Taliban called off peace talks in the wake of the deadly rampage – in which men, women and children were shot and killed at close range – although they made no mention of the massacre in the statement.
However, the US later stressed it remained committed to Afghan reconciliation despite the move by the Taliban.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has also told the US that it must pull back its troops from village areas and allow Afghan security forces to take the lead in an effort to reduce civilian deaths.
Speaking in Seattle, where the accused soldier is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, John Henry Browne said his new client was a "mild-mannered" man who bore no antipathy towards Muslims
Speaking in Seattle, where the accused soldier is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, John Henry Browne said his new client was a “mild-mannered” man who bore no antipathy towards Muslims.
The lawyer described the US soldier as “a decorated soldier” with an exemplary record before the shooting.
He also suggested the soldier was not fit to serve in Afghanistan because of injuries he had suffered on previous tours of duty.
“I think it’s of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplary record, a decorated soldier who was injured in Iraq, to his brain and to his body and then despite that was sent back,” John Henry Browne said.
John Henry Browne, who has represented a number of high-profile clients including serial killer Ted Bundy and a teenage thief known as the Barefoot Bandit, said his client was a happily married man with two children, aged three and four.
He denied reports that the accused had problems either with alcohol or his marriage, which John Henry Browne described as “fantastic”.
The US military has not yet charged the soldier, and Jonh Henry Browne said he would not release the accused’s name until it was made public by officials.
However, despite the shock of the killings, John Henry Browne called for calm and for the soldier to receive a fair hearing.
“It’s a tragedy all the way round, there’s no question about that.
“I think the message for the public in general is that he’s one of our boys and they need to treat him fairly.”
Separately, an un-named US military official told the New York Times that the suspect had simply “snapped”, and confirmed that he was on his fourth combat tour.
“When it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues – he just snapped,” the official said.
The soldier was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday and taken to a US military base in Kuwait.
According to the New York Times, the soldier may be moved to a US facility, such as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as early as Friday.
The newspaper said Kuwaiti protests over the presence of the accused soldier within their borders had prompted the US to move him quickly.
The attack, in Kandahar province, was the latest in a string of damaging incidents involving US troops in Afghanistan.
Last month, the burning of Korans by troops sparked a string of violent protests in several areas.
The latest attack has also caused uproar, with about 2,000 people demonstrating in the southern province of Zabul on Thursday, the second major protest outside Kandahar this week.
At least 12 Turkish soldiers and two children have been killed after a NATO helicopter has fallen on a house in Kabul, Afghan officials say.
The Turkish helicopter crashed into a house in Bagrami, a suburb of the Afghan capital, after developing technical problems, a police source told Reuters.
According to a NATO official, there were no reports of insurgent activity.
At least 12 Turkish soldiers and two children have been killed after a NATO helicopter has fallen on a house in Kabul
Turkey, the only Muslim-majority member of NATO, currently has 1,845 soldiers serving as peacekeepers in Afghanistan.
Its soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are limited to patrols and do not take part in combat operations.
A diplomat at the Turkish foreign ministry in Ankara confirmed for AFP news agency that a Turkish helicopter had crashed in Kabul.
Scientists have discovered that male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have mated freely.
Published in Science, the study suggests that alcohol stimulates the flies’ brains as a “reward” in a similar way to sexual conquest.
The work points to a brain chemical called neuropeptide F, which seems to be regulated by the flies’ behavior.
Human brains have a similar chemical, which may react in a similar way.
The connection between alcohol and this chemical, which in humans is known as neuropeptide Y, has already been noted in studies involving hard-drinking mice.
The new work explores the link between such reward-seeking and the study of social interactions, said the lead author of the report Galit Shohat-Ophir, now of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, US.
“It is thought that reward systems evolved to reinforce behaviors that are important for the survival of both individuals and species, like food consumption and mating,” said Dr. Galit Shohat-Ophir.
“Drugs of abuse kind of hijack the same neural pathways used by natural rewards, so we wanted to use alcohol – which is an extreme example of a compound that can affect the reward system – to get into the mechanism of what makes social interaction rewarding for animals.”
Working in the laboratory of Ulrike Heberlein at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Galit Shohat-Ophir and colleagues subjected a number of flies to a wide variety of fates.
In one set of experiments, male flies were put in a box with five virgin females, which were receptive to the males’ advances. In another, males were locked up with females that had already mated and which thus roundly rejected the males’ attempts at sex.
Offered either their normal food slurry or a version charged with 15% alcohol, the mated males avoided the alcohol, whereas the sexually deprived males went on a comparative bender.
The team then went on a hunt for a chemical that could tie the two parts of this story together, hitting on neuropeptide F (NPF).
Scientists found that the heavy-drinking rejected males had a lowered level of the chemical, and sated, mated males had an elevated level.
“What we think is that these NPF levels are some kind of <<molecular signature>> to the experience,” Dr. Galit Shohat-Ophir explained.
To show that the NPF is actually responsible for the change rather than just associated with it, the researchers actively manipulated just how much NPF was in the flies’ brains.
Those with depressed levels acted like the rejected males, and those with elevated levels behaved like the mated males.
“What this leads us to think is that the fly brain – and presumably also other animals’ and human brains – have some kind of a system to control their level of internal reward, that once the internal reward level is down-regulated it will be followed by behavior that will restore it back,” Dr. Galit Shohat-Ophir said.
It is tempting, given that humans share a similar brain chemical, to imagine that NPF drives human behavior as well.
However, in an accompanying article in Science, Troy Zars of the University of Missouri wrote that “anthropomorphizing the results from flies is difficult to suppress, but the relevance to human behavior is obviously not yet established”.
Nevertheless, he suggested, “links a rewarding social interaction with a lasting change in behavior”.
“Identifying the NPF system as critical in this linkage offers exciting prospects for determining the molecular and genetic mechanisms of reward and could potentially influence our understanding of the mechanisms of drugs of abuse.”
When security forces of a Canadian mining company brutally evicted Mayan families from their villages in Guatemala, eleven women were raped, a community leader was killed, and a young man paralyzed. Now villagers are standing up and suing HudBay Minerals for these horrific crimes — but they need our help to match the corporate legal firepower and win their case!
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The American soldier who shot dead 16 civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan on Sunday has been flown to Kuwait, US officials say.
Afghan MPs have demanded that the man be tried in Afghanistan, but the scenario is very unlikely.
Meanwhile an Afghan man who crashed a lorry at an airfield as the US defense secretary’s plane was arriving has died of his injuries, officials say.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was not at risk at any time, US officials said.
Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti said the man had apparently tried to ram the stolen vehicle into a group of US Marines at Camp Bastion in Helmand.
Leon Panetta was in Helmand to address US troops, as fears mount that they could be the target of a backlash against foreign forces.
He also met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an effort to rebuild relations rocked by incidents such as the massacre in Kandahar and the burnings of Korans at a US military base last month.
The attack in Kandahar province has caused outrage across Afghanistan and protests in several areas. On Thursday about 2,000 people demonstrated in the southern Afghan province of Zabul, the second major protest outside Kandahar this week.
NATO has insisted that the detained man carried out the killings on his own.
But the head of an Afghan parliamentary delegation said he has heard evidence from local villagers which suggests as many as 20 US soldiers were involved.
About 2,000 people demonstrated in the southern Afghan province of Zabul after the US soldier shot dead 16 civilians in Kandahar
Sayed Ishaq Gillani, a leading Afghan MP, also claims that helicopters were heard overhead, and that they were seen dropping chaff – a measure designed to protect aircraft from ground attack.
Sayed Ishaq Gillani said local people believe the killings were carried out in revenge for an attack a week earlier in which several US troops were hurt.
The victims were shot in their homes in the remote Panjwai district of Kandahar, which is also the spiritual homeland of the Taliban.
According to the NATO version of events, the staff sergeant, who has not been named or charged, allegedly left his base in southern Afghanistan before dawn on Sunday, entered several houses in the area and shot men, women and children at close range.
The soldier was held by the US military in Kandahar until Wednesday evening, when he was flown out of the country “based on legal recommendation”, a Pentagon spokesman, Captain John Kirby said.
“We do not have appropriate detention facilities in Afghanistan,” Captain John Kirby said.
A NATO official later confirmed that the suspect had been flown to Kuwait.
Members of the Afghan parliament had demanded that he should be put on trial in their country.
But this was never going to happen. The US has always insisted that charges of wrongdoing by its soldiers be dealt with within the American military legal system.
US officials say the soldier handed himself in. Leon Panetta has said that if found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
Officials said the soldier had completed several tours in Iraq but was on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan.
NATO and the US administration have insisted that there will be no change of strategy in Afghanistan. The issue has been at the top of the agenda as the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron makes a state visit to Washington.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) plans to withdraw all of its combat forces by the end of 2014. American troops are also following that timetable.
The late literary agent Charles Pick’s memoirs revealed why Wallis Simpson hated Marilyn Monroe alongside other encounters with 20th century icons, including the Duke of Windsor and the Queen, that he racked up over the course of his career.
The memoirs, Charles Pick’s diaries, letters and photographs are available to view for the first time at the University of East Anglia, after the agent’s son Martin donated them.
Charles Pick, who died in 2000 aged 82, had a star-studded client list; John Steinbeck, JB Priestley, Roald Dahl, John Le Carré and Catherine Cookson were just a smattering of authors he represented.
He had been summoned to Paris by Wallis Simpson to discuss her 1956 autobiography The Heart Has Its Reasons.
Instead of greeting Charles Pick, Wallis Simpson’s first remark as she rose from her chaise longue, “a large, round box of Charbonnel et Walker chocolates” placed within arms reach, was about Marilyn Monroe.
“Can you please tell me who Marilyn Monroe’s publicity agent is?” Wallis Simpson asked.
Charles Pick said he had to confess he had no idea and asked why she wanted to know.
“Look, I have all the newspapers each day and I was generally on the front page. But now I see that Marilyn Monroe is on the front page. Well, somebody has pushed me off!” said Wallis Simpson.
“I could see I was in for a difficult time, but I explained that I wasn’t in any way able to help her in displacing Marilyn Monroe in her favor,” Charles Pick wrote.
Charles Pick's memoirs reveal Wallis Simpson was furious when Marilyn Monroe started to appear on newspaper front pages in place of her
The memoir offers a unique insight into a different age. Charles Pick mentions the time Out of Africa author Karen Blixen checked in for her Pan Am flight with a bottle of Moet et Chandon and a dozen oysters, so appalled was she by the airline’s “plastic” food.
Charles Pick also recalls accompanying The Grapes of Wrath author John Steinbeck, to his Nobel Prize dinner and noted he had “given up hard liquor and was just drinking beer” that evening.
He drank vermouths with Graham Greene in Antibes and was fed seconds of steak and kidney pie by author Catherine Cookson.
Charles Pick started his career as an office boy for Victor Gallancz in 1933 before moving into sales.
Two years later he went to a Hampstead bookshop and tried to sell copies of a “marvellous new book” called Burmese Days by a young lad named George Orwell.
An Eric Blair was behind the counter that day and said he knew George Orwell very well – of course, it was Orwell himself working as a part-time assistant using his real name.
After stints at Gallancz and Michael Joseph, Charles Pick moved to Heinemann where he eventually became chairman. After his retirement in 1984 he remained a literary consultant to Wilbur Smith, one of many authors he discovered.
Charles Pick had close friendships with his writers, but feared the loyalty he had enjoyed was becoming a thing of the past as authors would “go off to cheque book publishers and be snapped up if they were successful”.
He was proved right of course, but what he would make of today’s burgeoning self publishing industry we’ll never know.
President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after 16 civilians were shot dead by a U.S. soldier.
In a near-simultaneous announcement, the Afghan Taliban said it was suspending nascent peace talks with the United States seen as a strong chance to end the country’s decade-long conflict, blaming “shaky, erratic and vague” U.S. statements.
Hamid Karzai, in a statement after meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kabul, said as a consequence of the weekend massacre, “international security forces have to be taken out of Afghan village outposts and return to (larger) bases”.
In advance of his visit an Afghan man who apparently targeted U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in a suicide attack at Britain’s main base in Afghanistan died of his injuries.
The civilian had sustained severe burns after driving on to a runway at Camp Bastion at the same time as Leon Panetta was landing for a visit to U.S. troops and local political leaders.
International security forces have to be taken out of Afghan villages, said President Hamid Karzai after meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kabul
The US soldier accused of carrying out the shooting was attached to a small special forces compound similar to others around the country which underpin NATO’s anti-insurgent strategy ahead of a 2014 deadline for Western combat forces to pull out.
The incident has harmed relations between Afghanistan and the United States and “all efforts have to be done to avoid such incident in the future”, Hamid Karzai said on Thursday, warning it also had hurt the trust Afghans had in foreign forces.
The Sunday killings in Kandahar province on Sunday have raised questions about Western strategy in Afghanistan and intensified calls for the withdrawal of foreign combat troops.
The Taliban decision to suspend the talks was a blow to NATO hopes of a negotiated settlement to the war, which has cost the United States $510 billion and the lives of over 1,900 soldiers.
In a drastic makeover for the search engine, Google search will soon “answer questions” instead of just hunting words.
Google searches will no longer throw up a simple list of blue links – a huge change for the page that forms the world’s “doorway” to the web.
Within few months, the top of the Results page will be dotted with information that “answers questions” posed in Search.
The move echoes what Microsoft has done with its Bing search engine.
Bing is the second most-popular search engine in the U.S. – and built to deliver answers to questions.
“People today expect more than 10 blue links on a page,” says Microsoft.
Google has quietly amassed information on 200 million of “entities” – people, places, products – and the new version of search will feed users information about the “entity” they are searching for.
In a drastic makeover for the search engine, Google search will soon “answer questions” instead of just hunting words
Instead of relying on Wikipedia, for instance, to provide facts and figures, Google will provide this information itself.
In 2010, Google acquired FreeBase, a “knowledge graph” company – and has expanded its database of “entities” from 12 million to 200 million today.
Unnamed sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal said that the change – a dramatic shift for Google – would start to appear over the next few months.
Amit Singhal, a senior vice president at Google said in a recent interview that most searches rely on other sites to provide an answer – not Google itself.
“We cross our fingers and hope there’s a Web page out there with the answer,” says Amit Singhal.
Amit Singhal claims that the changes are part of an ongoing process which could take years.
The Wall Street Journal claims that the process will be much more rapid.
The new version of search will use what’s called “semantic search”, which attempts to understand the meaning of searches, rather than simply hunting for words.
Google still accounts for roughly 66% of the search market worldwide.
But the new, beefed-up version of search could keep the giant ahead of competitors such as Microsoft’s Bing, and enable the search engine to compete with Facebook, if the social network ever unveils its own search engine.
Yoda, the “world’s ugliest dog”, has died at 15, her owner announced today.
Yoda, a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix, shot to fame in 2011 when she won the World’s Ugliest Dog contest in California.
When Terry Schumacher found Yoda she initially mistook the abandoned dog for a rat, but the animal went on to win a $1000 prize for her looks.
Yoda had short tufts of hair, a protruding tongue and skinny bald legs.
Yoda, the "world's ugliest dog", has died at 15
The dog, which died in her sleep on Saturday, only weighed 1.8 lbs (0.8kg) and lived a rough life before she was found behind an apartment building.
After the competition Yoda appeared on television and even featured in makeover show.
Terry Schumacher says she will miss “her funny little ways” but she is “comforted knowing she will be joining my Mom and Dad who loved her so much. Her memories will live on forever.”
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have suspended preliminary peace negotiations with the United States.
The militants blamed the Americans’ “ever-changing position”. One key stumbling block was reported to be US efforts to involve the Afghan authorities.
The group has objected to this, as they regard the Kabul government as illegitimate.
Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai has called on NATO forces to leave Afghan villages after a US soldier killed 16 civilians.
According to officials, the priority for Afghan government was to avoid civilian casualties at any cost.
President Hamid Karzai told the visiting US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that Afghan troops should take the lead for nationwide security in 2013.
President Hamid Karzai has called on NATO forces to leave Afghan villages after a US soldier killed 16 civilians
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Taliban said the talks should focus on a political office being established in Qatar and on a prisoner exchange.
They said they were suspending the talks because of “the shaky, erratic and vague standpoint of the Americans”.
US diplomatic sources say the Taliban were told by US negotiators that the Afghan government had to be a part of any negotiations.
The Taliban statement reiterated that the group “considers talking with the Kabul administration as pointless.”
Other conditions reportedly set by the US in the talks include accepting of the Afghan constitution – which the Taliban have rejected – and publicly denouncing al-Qaeda.
The Taliban’s suspension of the talks is a significant setback for efforts to begin peace talks with the insurgents.
It was thought that a deal to exchange five Taliban fighters currently held at Guantanamo Bay for a kidnapped American soldier was only weeks away.
The Costa Concordia’s bell is reported to have gone missing, two months after the ship ran aground off Italy.
An investigation has been launched into the disappearance, the Italian news agency Ansa reports.
The images of the Costa Concordia’s bell, taken underwater by divers soon after the vessel sank, became a well-known image associated with the disaster.
At least 30 people are believed to have died when the ship struck rocks near the Tuscan coast in January.
Soon after the Costa Concordia capsized, images taken by divers showed the bell still hanging in position on the wreck, but several metres under water.
The location of the wreck, off the island of Giglio, is considered a crime scene and is continually patrolled by coastguard launches.
This would make it almost impossible for any diver intending to loot the wreck to enter and steal the bell.
The images of the Costa Concordia’s bell, taken underwater by divers soon after the vessel sank, became a well-known image associated with the disaster
It is likely that if the bell’s disappearance is confirmed, suspicion will focus on the search-and-rescue teams, who have constant access to the wreck.
It would have been difficult to get the large, heavy and gleaming bell onto the shore unnoticed – and it is possible that it has simply dislodged itself, he adds.
The Costa Concordia lies half-submerged in a precarious position on an underwater slope, and is considered to be at risk of slipping further into the depths.
Costa Concordia’s captain, Francesco Schettino, denies accusations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all those aboard were evacuated.
Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard, one of the biggest box office hits of the 1990’s returns to movie theaters this month celebrating its 20th anniversary in a special one-night in-theater event on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. local time.
Starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard became one of the most popular hits of 1992, marking Houston’s acting debut.
Additionally, The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album went on to become the No. 1 best-selling soundtrack of all time with nearly 12 million copies sold in the U.S., and the sixth best-selling album overall in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Featuring the hugely successful cover of “I Will Always Love You,” the album also launched four other hit singles for Houston: “I’m Every Woman,” “Queen of the Night,” and two Oscar nominated songs, “I Have Nothing” and “Run to You.”
Tickets for The 20th Anniversary of The Bodyguard event are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the NCM Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
Presented by NCM Fathom Events and Warner Bros., The 20th Anniversary of The Bodyguard event will be broadcast to more than 400 select movie theaters across the country through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.
Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard returns to movie theaters to celebrate its 20th anniversary in a special one-night in-theater event on Wednesday, March 28
“When originally released, the story and unforgettable songs of The Bodyguard, captured the hearts of audiences everywhere,” said Shelly Maxwell, executive vice president of NCM Fathom Events.
“Through this special anniversary presentation, fans will be able to come together for one night and see it once more on the big screen.”
Directed by Mick Jackson, Kevin Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent-turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston’s character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. The bodyguard ruffles the singer’s feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.
Warner Bros. will release The Bodyguard 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray™ on March 27. Special features include Whitney Houston’s well-known “I Will Always Love You” music video and “Memories of The Bodyguard,” a making-of documentary. Featuring director Mick Jackson, writer/producer Lawrence Kasdan, actors Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and others, the cast and crew will discuss the story’s 17-year path to the screen, reworks of the script, how Jackson and Houston joined the production and more.
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother, has reacted fiercely to the pictures and video showing granddaughter Bobbi Kristina Brown and Whitney’s “adopted” son Nick Gordon in a romantic grip, and then kissing.
Cissy Houston, 78, told a close friend: “What they’re doing is incestuous.”
Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother feels her granddaughter has problems and Nick Gordon is taking advantage of her.
Cissy Houston has reacted fiercely to the pictures and video showing granddaughter Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon in a romantic grip
Although Whitney Houston never formally adopted Nick Gordon, she considered him her son and Bobbi Kristina called him her brother. For his part, Nick Gordon called Bobbi Kristina his sister.
Cissy Houston is so concerned that Bobbi Kristina has become impressionable and therefore an easy target for Nick Gordon, she’s asking the Whitney Houston Estate to take legal steps to get him evicted from Whitney’s home in Atlanta, where Bobbi Kristina is also living.
Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon were seen showing some heavy PDA in Atlanta on March 13
Even though they have denied their romance, Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon definitely are still getting hot and heavy, they can’t deny the passion.
New pictures and video show Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, 19, engaged in heavy PDA with her pseudo-adopted brother Nick Gordon, 22.
Bobbi Kristina was seen in a full-on lip-lock with Nick Gordon during a lunch run in Atlanta on Tuesday, confirming suspicions the two are romantically involved.
Nicholas Gordon has denied a relationship with Bobbi Kristina Brown, but the pair was just spotted making out and canoodling again in Atlanta
Nicholas Gordon has denied a relationship with Bobbi Kristina Brown, but the pair was just spotted making out and canoodling again in Atlanta.
Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon were seen showing some heavy PDA in Atlanta on March 13, TMZ reports.
According to HollywoodLife.com, Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon were spotted at Romeo’s New York Pizza in John’s Creek, Georgia.
Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon were seen showing some heavy PDA in Atlanta on March 13
Their lunch date was super-romantic, according to a source inside the restaurant, who also confirmed that they frequent the pizza place and are often seen around town.
“A few of my friends went to school with Bobbi and they definitely know her around here,” the source said.
“They were here Tuesday and Monday and they’re in here a lot.”
Furthermore, the source said that they do not hide their PDA at all.
“They’re always all over each other,” the source said.
“They don’t try to hide it at all. I’m surprised they’re saying that they’re not together.”
Whitney Houston unofficially “adopted” Nick Gordon into the family roughly 10 years ago after learning he was having problems at home. He’s been living with the Houstons ever since.
HBO has decided to cancel TV horse-racing drama Luck, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, after a third animal was injured and put down during production.
The series was filming its second season when the incident happened.
In a statement, HBO said it was “with heartbreak” that it was ceasing “all future production” on Luck.
Produced by Michael Mann and David Milch, the series looks at the seedy side of life in US horse-racing.
It sees Dustin Hoffman play a crime kingpin scheming to gain control of a racetrack and introduce casino gambling.
Luck debuted in the US in January and will see its first season finale broadcast on 25 March.
It is currently being shown in the UK on the Sky Atlantic channel.
HBO has decided to cancel TV horse-racing drama Luck, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, after a third animal was injured and put down during production
The decision to cancel the entire series came one day after filming was suspended pending an investigation into the horse’s death.
“It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series <<Luck>>,” HBO said in its statement.
“While we maintained the highest safety standards possible, accidents unfortunately happen and it is impossible to guarantee they won’t in the future. Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision.”
On Tuesday the American Humane Association (AHA) issued the suspension order, pending a “thorough and comprehensive investigation”.
HBO said the horse was being led to a stable by a groom when it reared and fell back, suffering a head injury.
The animal was put down at the track in suburban Arcadia, California, where Luck was filming.
Although the AHA – which oversees Hollywood productions – noted the accident did not occur during filming or racing, it issued the demand “that all production involving horses shut down”.
On Tuesday, California Horse Racing Board vet Dr. Gary Beck said he had just examined the horse as part of routine health and safety procedures before it was to race later in the day.
“The horse was on her way back to the stall when she reared, flipped over backwards, and struck her head on the ground,” Dr. Gary Beck said in a statement.
A second vet determined that euthanasia was appropriate, he added.
Dr. Rick Arthur, medical director of the state racing board, said such injuries occurred in stable areas every year and were more common than thought.
During filming of the first series in 2010 and 2011, two horses were hurt during racing scenes and were subsequently put down.
The AHA called for a production halt at the Santa Anita Racetrack after the second horse’s death, and racing resumed in February after new protocols were put in place.
The first two horse deaths drew criticism from animal rights group PETA, which said the safety guidelines were “clearly inadequate” as they failed to prevent the deaths.
On Tuesday, PETA vice-president Kathy Guillermo said: “Three horses have now died and all the evidence we have gathered points to sloppy oversight, the use of unfit, injured horses, and disregard for the treatment of thoroughbreds.”
