Brazilian police are investigating the fatal haemorrhage suffered by Pamela Baris do Nascimento following claims that her liver could have been punctured during the procedure on October 19.
It was the third time the actress, who was also studying biomedicine, had undergone liposuction.
Concerns were also raised when it emerged that her death at the Green Hill Hospital in Sao Paulo was not registered until 10 days later.
Pamela Baris do Nascimento’s aunt reported the case to police in Ipiranga, in the city’s Zona Sul.
The lawyer acting for the family told Brazilian press he believed Pamela do Nascimento’s death may have been caused by medical malpractice.
He added Júlio César Yoshimura, the surgeon who carried out the operation, could face manslaughter charges.
Officers investigating the death will ask authorities to exhume her body for tests.
Pamela Baris do Nascimento dies after liposuction operation aged 27
Pamela Baris do Nascimento, 27, who was originally from Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, had been living in Sao Paulo. She was raised by her aunt after her mother died when she was six.
The presenter had appeared on TV programmes including Brazilian variety show O Melhor do Brasil.
Evandro Luiz de Melo Lemos, the officer responsible for the case, said: “Everything suggests that the procedure was correct. But normally, in the case of an accident, it should have been reported to the police.”
In a statement, the hospital said it had launched an internal inquiry.
It said Dr. Júlio César Yoshimuro was licensed to practice and had rented operating rooms at the private clinic.
“The hospital provided all the necessary resources for the adequate treatment of Pamela Baris Nascimento. However, it is with great sadness that this occurred,” the statement said.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West decided to take inspiration from The Dark Knight Rises and Batman Returns for their Halloween costumes on Wednesday evening.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrived at LIV at Fountainebleau Miami Beach to celebrate Kim’s Halloween birthday bash.
The reality star looked pretty amazing in her replica Catwoman suit as she copied the Michelle Pfeiffer incarnation rather than the more recent Anne Hathaway version.
The 32-year-old slipped her curves into the tight black PVC outfit and highlighted her pout with rouge lipstick.
Feeling fully in character, she clawed at the camera several times as she imitated a cat and struck some seductive feline poses.
With her leather boots on, Kim Kardashian arrived in style as she emerged from a gold Lamborghini with her rapper boyfriend dressed up as Batman.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrived at LIV at Fountainebleau Miami Beach to celebrate Kim’s Halloween birthday bash
Kanye West, 35,who designs his own fashion range, could not compete with his famous girlfriend as he wore a simple Batman mask over a balaclava to hide his face.
It wasn’t just Kim Kardashian and Kanye West who were part of the comic book theme as Scott Disick, Kourtney Kardashian and Jonathan Cheban got in on the act too.
Scott Disick was dressed as a less than convincing Robin, in the classic red and green suit, but he didn’t wear a mask and completed the outfit with red trainers.
His partner Kourtney Kardashian faired better as Batgirl as she showed off her post baby body in the black Lycra costume.
Kim Kardashian’s good friend Jonathan Cheban was the villain of the night as he dressed up as the Riddler and sprayed his hair red.
Other guests at the party included Hulk Hogan who wore a bright yellow and orange feathered boa, seemingly attending as himself.
Leukemia drug alemtuzumab appears to be the “most effective” treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), say British researchers.
During MS the body’s immune system turns on its own nerves causing debilitating muscle problems.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge say a cancer drug, which wipes out and resets the immune system, has better results than other options.
However, there is concern that a drugs company is about to increase the cost of the drug as a result.
Around 100,000 people in the UK have multiple sclerosis. When the condition is diagnosed most will have a form of the disease know as relapsing-remitting MS, in which the symptoms can almost disappear for a time, before suddenly returning.
The researchers tested a leukaemia drug, alemtuzumab, which had shown benefits for MS in small studies.
In leukaemia, a blood cancer, it controls the excess production of white blood cells. In MS patients, the dose eliminates the immune cells entirely, forcing a new immune system to be built from scratch which should not attack the nerves.
Two trials, published in the Lancet medical journal, compared the effectiveness of alemtuzumab with a first-choice drug, interferon beta-1a.
One compared the effectiveness in patients given the drug after being diagnosed, the other looked at patients given the drug after other treatments had failed.
Both showed the drug was around 50% more effective at preventing relapses and patients had less disability at the end of the study than when they started.
Leukemia drug alemtuzumab appears to be the “most effective” treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Dr. Alasdair Coles, from the University of Cambridge, said: “Although other MS drugs have emerged over the last year, which is certainly good news for patients, none has shown superior effects on disability when compared to interferon except alemtuzumab.
“No other treatment has led to improvements in disability.”
He said: “It is certainly the most effective MS drug, based on these clinical trials, but this is definitely not a cure.”
However, he warned there were side-effects such as the risk of infection from a depleted immune system which meant the drug would not be suitable for everyone.
Dr. Alasdair Coles said he thought the drug would be most useful for patients for whom standard treatment had failed and in a “minority” of patients as a first-choice drug.
Eventually relapsing-remitting MS can become progressive MS as the good spells become shorter and less frequent. The drug will have no effect on this form of the disease.
The drug has been withdrawn from the market in Europe and the US as the manufacturer, Genzyme, intends to have it licensed as a treatment for MS.
A Lancet editorial warns: “There is concern that with a licence for multiple sclerosis, the cost of alemtuzumab could rise and might become too expensive for many patients and health systems.
“Finding promising treatments such as alemtuzumab is important. But so is keeping alemtuzumab accessible and affordable.”
Dr. Doug Brown, head of biomedical research at the MS Society, said: “These results are great news for people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
“Alemtuzumab has been found to be an effective treatment for people with MS – but it’s only useful to them if it’s available on the NHS.
“We urge Genzyme to price the treatment responsibly so that if it’s licensed, it’s deemed cost-effective on the NHS.”
Genzyme said it would not come up with a price for the drug “until it is approved by regulatory authorities” and that it would “engage constructively” with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which evaluates the cost-effectiveness of drugs for use in the NHS.
Ten of lesser-spotted things about American presidential politics and about 2012 campaign.
1. Why is Election Day always a Tuesday?
Even though America’s voter turnout is among the lowest in mature democracies and more than a quarter of people who do not vote claim they are too busy, efforts to move elections to weekends have failed.
The Tuesday after the first Monday in November was set as presidential Election Day in 1845.
In the mid-19th Century, the US was an agrarian nation and it simply took a lot of time for farmers to drive the horse and buggy to the nearest polling place.
Saturday was a workday on the farm, travel on Sunday was out, and Wednesday was a market day. That left Tuesday.
2. The sunglasses thing
Politicians are almost never photographed wearing sunglasses, especially during election campaigns and even at leisure.
Barack Obama plays golf with the sun glaring in his eyes, and this summer, Mitt Romney was photographed on the back of a jet ski on a lake in New Hampshire, bare-eyed though his wife Ann wore sunglasses.
If a person’s eyes are hidden, people trust them less, says Parker Geiger, an Atlanta executive image consultant.
“You just don’t get a sense of the individual,” he says.
“There’s no eye contact – that’s how you build trust. Sunglasses put a barrier between you and the other person. They say eyes are the windows of the soul, and if I can’t see your soul how can I trust you?”
3. In Nevada, you can vote for “none of the above”
The US state of Nevada allows voters to mark “None of these candidates” on the ballot.
The option has been on the ballot since 1976 and plenty of voters have used it.
In 2010 after a particularly brutish campaign for a US Senate seat, 2.25% of voters chose “None” rather than pick incumbent Democrat Harry Reid or Republican challenger Sharon Angle. Harry Reid won.
4. Thumb jab
Featured in the three presidential debates were Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and… Obama’s thumb.
At the debates, the president frequently jabbed his hand, with his thumb resting atop a loosely curled fist, to emphasize a point.
The gesture – which might appear unnatural in normal communication – was probably coached into Barack Obama to make him appear more forceful, says body language expert Patti Wood.
“It’s a symbolic weapon,” says Patti Wood, author of Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma.
“Speakers are coached to do it to look strong and mighty and to grab the attention of their audience, and in a political speech to emphasize strong points and to look like you are powerful.”
And on a subconscious level it’s phallic, she says. “It’s sexually male. Men put out their thumb and it says <<I am a man>>.”
Ten of lesser-spotted things about American presidential politics and about 2012 campaign
5. Job titles are for life
Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts for four years – and he left office almost six years ago. Yet he is still addressed as Governor Mitt Romney, as if that were a title of nobility rather than a political office.
The US has only one president at a time, but Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are always referred to as President Clinton and President Bush – even in the same sentence as Barack Obama.
And during the Republican primary campaign, Newt Gingrich was routinely referred to as Mr. Speaker – even though he was the Speaker of the House for four years and left that post nearly 14 years ago.
As odd as it sounds to hear “Presidents Clinton and Obama” from a news presenter’s mouth, the perma-title is acceptable, traditional and appropriate, says Daniel Post Senning, author and spokesman for etiquette arbiter Emily Post Institute.
“It really shows the esteem that we hold those offices in – that this is a democracy, and those are such important positions that it becomes like a professional title,” he says.
“I liken it to when a judge or a doctor retires. They’ve invested a lot in their professional identity and many retain the use of their professional title.”
6. Election loser can still win the White House
Four times in American history, the candidate with fewer votes has wound up with the presidency.
That is because the winner of the presidential election needs to capture a majority of electoral votes, which are apportioned to the states by population and for the most part awarded in winner-take-all state contests.
The national presidential election is effectively 51 separate contests (50 states and Washington DC), with the winner of 270 electoral votes taking the presidency.
Most recently, in 2000 George Bush won half a million votes less than Al Gore but took 271 electoral votes for the victory.
It is entirely conceivable that the person sworn into the White House in January will once again be the man with fewer votes.
One scenario envisioned by analysts – Barack Obama could piece together enough states to win the electoral college and hence the presidency, while Mitt Romney wins populous conservative states like Texas and Georgia by a wide enough margin to take the national popular vote.
7. It could be a dead-heat – with a President Mitt Romney and VP Joe Biden
American politics is at its most partisan and polarized in more than a century, many analysts say. But it could get much, much worse – Mitt Romney could be elected president and Joe Biden re-elected vice-president.
Under the US constitution, if the electoral college (the sum of delegates from each state – 270 and you’re president) ends in a tie – and there are several scenarios under which this could occur – the election is sent to the 435-member House of Representatives.
This is currently Republican-controlled and is unlikely to change hands, so they would choose Mitt Romney.
But under the same clause, the Democrat-led Senate would choose the vice-president – Joe Biden.
Joe Biden might then be tempted to undermine Mitt Romney at every turn.
“A historic tie, which would spur demonstrations that would make the healthcare battle look like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, seems a logical conclusion of the bitter partisan paralysis here and the bottom-feeding campaign,” wrote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Tuesday.
8. Why the obsession with “folks”?
“Folks here in Iowa understand this – you cannot grow this economy from the top down”- Barack Obama, 17 October.
“I know that a lot of folks are struggling” – Mitt Romney, 10 October
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney use the word “folks” far more often than the word is typically heard from the lips of men with their socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
The word, which finds its origins in the Old English, is in the US historically associated with the South. That’s a stereotypically less-pretentious region that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are from.
The word used as such is roughly the same as “people”, but warmer and more inclusive, says Grant Barrett, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang.
“American politics is a southerner’s game,” says Grant Barrett.
“It’s a talker’s game and Southerners are talkers. At the national level we have often been dominated by Southerners.”
9. Only a third of the US matters
On 6 November, the election will effectively be decided by less than a third of the US population.
Most of the states in America, including four of the five most populous, are so solid in their support for the Republicans or the Democrats that the candidates do not bother campaigning there.
Instead, each side chalks up those safe states in their tally and fights over the remaining handful of swing states on their path to 270 electoral votes.
The election is thus decided by the roughly 30% of the US population which lives in the swing states.
For the 70% of Americans who live in California, Texas, Georgia, New York, Illinois and the 35 other safe states, their votes count toward the electoral college total, but they cannot be said to be relevant in deciding the election.
10. In North Dakota, you can vote without registering to vote
The only state where it is not necessary to register in order to vote is North Dakota.
Although it was one of the first states to adopt voter registration in the 19th Century, it abolished it in 1951. The North Dakota State Government website says the move can be explained by the state’s close-knit, rural communities.
“North Dakota’s system of voting, and lack of voter registration, is rooted in its rural character by providing small precincts.
“Establishing relatively small precincts is intended to ensure that election boards know the voters who come to the polls to vote on Election Day and can easily detect those who should not be voting in the precinct.”
People coming to vote must be US citizens over the age of 18, who have lived in the precinct for at least 30 days, says Al Jaeger, the North Dakota Secretary of State. And people still need to produce identification, if they are not known to officials.
“I don’t see any difference with any other states, except that we don’t have voter registration, but it’s the same result. It might be an oddity but it has the same purpose. Our elections have a great deal of integrity.”
President Barack Obama is to resume election campaign which was suspended in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Barack Obama visited areas of New Jersey struck by the storm on Wednesday.
His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has been holding rallies after halting his campaign earlier in the week.
Superstorm Sandy left at least 64 people dead in the US, cut power from millions of homes and paralyzed transport on much of the eastern US seaboard.
The hurricane made landfall on Monday night in New Jersey, where some 20,000 people remain trapped in their homes by sewage-contaminated floodwater.
In New York City, the storm brought a record tidal surge that swamped the subway system and caused widespread blackouts.
Earlier, it killed nearly 70 people in the Caribbean and caused extensive crop destruction in impoverished Haiti.
Barack Obama has planned campaign stops on Thursday in Nevada, Colorado and Wisconsin.
On Wednesday, he toured parts of New Jersey struck by the storm with Republican Governor Chris Christie.
“You guys are in my thoughts and prayers,” the president said during a visit to an emergency shelter in Atlantic City.
“We are going to be here for the long haul.”
Barack Obama toured parts of New Jersey struck by the storm with Republican Governor Chris Christie
Of more than six million homes and businesses across the north-east that still have no electricity, a third of them are in New Jersey.
In the New Jersey city of Hoboken, across the Hudson River from New York City, the National Guard has arrived to evacuate about 20,000 people and distribute meals.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, usually one of barack Obama’s fiercest critics, spoke of his “great working relationship” with the Democratic president.
“I cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion for the people of our state,” said Chris Christie.
Mitt Romney held two rallies in Florida on Wednesday, where his campaign said he tried to strike a “positive tone”.
Election Day is on 6 November, and polls suggest the candidates are running neck and neck.
Eight out of ten voters in a Washington Post/ABC poll gave Barack Obama an “excellent” or “good” rating for his handling of the emergency.
New York began a slow recovery from the storm on Wednesday.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened on generator power after two days of closure, along with the Nasdaq.
But New York City’s Bellevue Hospital had to order the evacuation of some 500 patients after back-up electricity failed.
A partial subway service is due to begin on Thursday. Many bus services are already back on the roads, and most of the city’s bridges have reopened.
The Holland Tunnel, connecting New Jersey and New York City, remains flooded.
Flights have now resumed at JFK and Newark Liberty airports, though the city’s LaGuardia airport remains closed. Nearly 20,000 flights were grounded by Sandy.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has admitted that Russia’s president is suffering from an injury, but denied media reports that it is affecting his work.
Dmitry Peskov said the president had “pulled a muscle”, adding that it was sports-related.
He dismissed claims that the injury had got worse after Vladimir Putin’s flight last month with Siberian cranes.
Vladimir Putin, 60, has recently postponed a series of foreign trips, and media reports suggested he had a back injury.
And in a recent TV documentary made for his birthday, the Russian leader was seen limping.
On Thursday, Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s Kommersant FM radio station that his boss indeed had “an old injury”.
“It’s a common sports injury – Vladimir Putin pulled a muscle,” the spokesman said, without adding any details about where the injury was.
Kremlin spokesman dismissed claims that Vladimir Putin’s back injury had got worse after his flight last month with Siberian cranes
The speculation in Russia’s media started last week after Vladimir Putin had put off a summit with other leaders of counties from the former Soviet Union. He has also postponed trips to Bulgaria and Turkey.
But Dmitry Peskov said that the dates for those visits “have not been fixed”.
Kremlin officials earlier denied that the real reason for the much-curtailed schedule is that the president is suffering from a bad back and may need an operation.
Dmitry Peskov also said the president had hardly left his country house outside Moscow in the past two weeks because he did not like his convoy causing traffic jams in central Moscow.
Vladimir Putin – a black belt in judo – has over the years portrayed himself as a macho man.
Russia’s state-run TV has shown videos of him tagging whales, swimming in freezing waters, horse-riding bare-chested and even saving a TV crew from a tiger.
Three women have died in a stampede at a Halloween party in Madrid, Spanish officials say.
They say that two more people were seriously injured at the gathering at the Madrid Arena.
It was not immediately known what caused the crush, but reports suggest the panic began after a flare was thrown in the crowd.
The building, which can house up to 10,000 people, was evacuated after the incident.
Two of the victims were 18 years old, while the third was 25, Spanish police say.
“There was a human crush at the only exit they had because the others were sealed off,” a partygoer – who gave her name as Sandra – told Spain’s Cadena Ser radio station.
The stampede recalled a mass panic at the Love Parade music festival in Germany that killed 21 people in 2010.
At least 4 people have been wounded in a shooting incident at a Halloween party at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles.
Campus news outlet Neon Tommy said the incident took place at 23:30 local time. Police confirmed that there were casualties.
At least one suspect has been detained.
The university shut down the campus and urged students to stay away from the area of the shooting, amid earlier reports of a gunman at large.
Witnesses reported a “mob of people” fleeing from the main campus building.
“Everyone started running. I saw a guy who was shot in the leg. He was limping and screaming for his friends to help him,” one witness said, quoted by the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
“People were screaming and running away.”
At least 4 people have been wounded in a shooting incident at a Halloween party at the University of Southern California
USC’s Department of Public Safety issued alerts asking students to stay away from the area, stay indoors and avoid opening the door to strangers.
In 2008, University of Southern California sprinter Bryshon Nellum was shot in the leg three times at a Halloween party just off the campus.
Bryshon Nellum recovered and won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 m relay at the London 2012 Olympics.
Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis is due to go on trial in Athens for breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts.
French authorities gave the names to their Greek counterparts two years ago, but documents were never investigated.
Costas Vaxevanis said that politicians should be prosecuted for keeping the names secret.
But Greek officials have said there is no proof that those on the list have broken the law.
Some of those named, said to include many prominent Greeks, are suspected of using the HSBC accounts in Switzerland for tax evasion.
Costas Vaxevanis says the list he published is the same one that was given by the then French finance minister Christine Lagarde to her Greek counterpart two years ago.
Greek officials say the list originally came from a former HSBC employee.
The names on the list are said to include politicians, businessmen and others, sparking fury among ordinary Greeks as they are hit by deep austerity measures.
The issue has revived claims that tax evasion remains rife in Greece, and that the authorities still are not serious about tackling it.
Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis is due to go on trial in Athens for breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts
Costas Vaxevanis, 46, said he published the list in his magazine Hot Doc “because I’m a journalist and it’s our job to tell the truth to the people”.
“The three last governments have lied and have made a mockery of the Greek people with this list,” he said.
“They were obliged to pass it to parliament or to the justice system. They didn’t do it and they should be in prison for it.”
Costas Vaxevanis said he thought the government had not acted on the list because it included friends of ministers, businessmen and powerful publishers.
He also accused much of the Greek media of ignoring the story.
“The Greek press is muzzled,” he said.
“There is a closed system of power in Greece, wielded by the political elite, businessmen and journalists.”
“If I need to go to prison I will do,” he said.
“Not because I’m a hero, but to show the injustice of what is happening in Greece.”
Hurricane Sandy has caused enormous devastation across eastern America, leaving dozens of people dead and huge cities without power.
Residents on Long Island, New York, felt the wrath of Superstorm Sandy after it uprooted their massive oak tree, sending it crashing into a neighbors’ garden.
Capturing the freak accident on camera, Mathew Weinschreider, from Huntington, could only gasp in horror as the lawn heaved and the tree’s roots slowly emerged from the ground.
As the video shows, the lawn eventually opened, the roots broke through and the tree succumbed to the hurricane-force winds rattling the East Coast.
Fortunately for his family, the tree toppled away from their home and instead landed across a fence before smashing into a neighbor’s garden, narrowly avoiding their house.
Matthew Weinschreider’s garden was left covered with soil while next door’s filled with branches.
Only when one of the residents went outside to survey the damage could the sheer size of the felled tree be recognized, its raised roots dwarfing the man.
Residents on Long Island, New York, felt the wrath of Superstorm Sandy after it uprooted their massive oak tree, sending it crashing into a neighbors’ garden
Matthew Weinschreider uploaded the video to YouTube, where it has already been viewed more than 60,000 times since Monday.
While falling trees have claimed scores of lives since Sandy came ashore, no one was injured in the incident in Huntington.
Hurricane Sandy landed in New York on Monday evening, terrorizing the area with 80 mph winds and storm surges that downed power lines, submerged homes with floodwater and sparked deadly car crashes.
The wind also snapped a crane in Manhattan, leaving it to dangle precariously above the Midtown West skyline, with officials too wary of the high winds to attempt to bring it down.
At least 26 of the 61 reported fatalities from the storm occurred in New York, with five on Long Island.
These included a motorcyclist who collided with a van after traffic lights stopped working, a car crash between a vehicle and a police car, a body washed up in East Hampton and two deaths by felled trees.
Khloe Kardashian has been tweeting her excitement surrounding her very first time hosting duties on the X Factor on Wednesday night.
And she started off the live shows with a bang exposing her nipple in a sheer purple blouse as she took to the stage for the live family-friendly broadcast show.
Khloe Kardashian, 28, had opted for a plunging black long-sleeve sheer top with sequined detailing, which she opted to wear with no bra underneath.
She paired the ensemble with a tight-fitting black pencil skirt cinched in at the waist with a leather belt.
Standing alongside co-host Mario Lopez, Khloe Kardashian was smiling as she underwent her hosting duties, seemingly unaware of the wardrobe malfunction.
Afterwards she joked about the incident on her Twitter account, saying: “I think I had a little nip action earlier. LOL.”
But Judge Simon Cowell certainly took note, immediately taking to his own account to make a crude joke about the incident.
“I think the air conditioning is on high tonight looking at khloe,” Simon Cowell wrote on the social networking site.
Khloe Kardashian started off X Factor shows with a bang exposing her nipple
The exposure also caused an social-networking sensation, with several users tweeting up a storm about the incident.
“Just turned on the X Factor… why is Khloe Kardashian’s nipple staring at me. I don’t like it,” one user wrote.
“Who can concentrate on the singing when Khloe’s nipple keeps distracting me?!” another one Tweeted.
But Khloe Kardashian’s hosting skills did not receive as much positive publicity as her nipple.
The Washington Post wrote: “Odom came across like the novice she is, shouting her lines despite the mic clutched in her hand and making awkward small talk with contestants and judge and executive producer Simon Cowell.”
And it added: “Odom sounded like an oddly flirtatious schoolgirl as she introduced Cowell as <<Mr. Sexy>>.”
It is unknown whether Khloe Kardashian was aware that her blouse was so sheer that her modesty would be exposed.
But Simon Cowell will no doubt be delighted at all the extra publicity his struggling show is getting off the back of the incident.
And it is not the first time she has bared her nipple on live television either.
For in June last year Khloe Kardashian highlighted the perils of fashion on the Live with Regis & Kelly show when she accidentally exposed her breast for six minutes, live on the daytime TV program.
Busily promoting the news series of her show Keeping Up With The Kardashians she was unaware that her left nipple was on full view, beneath a transparent panel on her blouse.
Unfortunately for Khloe Kardashian, her hosts on the show Fox And Friends were so interested in her and sister Kourtney that non noticed her mistake.
Her fans were quick to tell her, however.
One tweeted: “Your nipple was showing on Fox and Friends. See through tops.”
Khloé Kardashian laughed off the incident, replying: “Thank God! I f****** love nipples!!!!”
Meanwhile Khloe Kardashian is braving it alone on Wednesday night as she makes her hosting debut live on national television – Lamar Odom can’t make it.
Children should be accompanied by adults at all times. Cross only at corners or marked crosswalks, never cross the street between parked vehicles, never go into a stranger’s house, watch out for cars backing or turning, wear bright colored clothing and use a flashlight.
Drivers should keep an eye open for children who forget the rules, use caution when traveling and obey posted traffic signs especially in neighborhoods.
Parents should instruct children not to open candy until they return home, inspect ALL candy for tampering, discuss the route their children should be taking and most important, explain the difference between tricks and vandalism (especially cemeteries).
Homeowners should have a well-lit home both inside and out to prevent vandalism and injuries, remove all obstacles from their lawns to avoid injuries and don’t use candles in ornaments that could set a fire.
The latest range from Marks & Spencer is the Secret Slimming Bum Lift collection designed to sculpt bottoms and tame tummies to create a more alluring shape.
Consisting of a knicker, slip and tights, the products have been created with a pert profile in mind, and are here just in time for the Christmas party season.
Paschal Little, Head of Technology at M&S says: “Our Secret Slimming™ Bum Lift products use discreet, innovative lingerie construction techniques to lift, shape and contour your bottom, with tummy control for a sleek silhouette under your clothing.”
And Soozie Jenkinson, Head of Lingerie Design at Marks and Spencer says: “Wiggle pencil skirts and bodycon dressing call out for curve-enhancing underpinnings.
“Whilst we may not all be blessed with a bombshell body or a divine derriere like Kylie and Beyonce, we can certainly enhance our silhouette by choosing great underwear to sculpt and shape the body to wear this seasons silhouette with confidence.”
The latest range from Marks and Spencer is the Secret Slimming Bum Lift collection designed to sculpt bottoms and tame tummies to create a more alluring shape
The knickers and slip are made with a bottom panel made using light control fabric. An inbuilt sling lifts and shapes the buttocks to give a pert appearance while the overall look lifts and shapes without flattening the natural curve.
The remaining part of the slip and knicker is made with firm control fabric which slims and smoothes the thighs and flattens the tummy.
In the tights a knitted woven sling cups the buttocks lifting and shaping them without flattening the natural curve and Secret Slimming™ technology is used to weave them fabric to again slim and smooth the thighs and flatten the tummy.
Kim Kardashian posted an old family Halloween video, shot in 1982, by her late father Robert.
Kim Kardashian, 32, wrote the accompanying message: “Here’s Kourtney and me back in 1982 on Halloween day in our costumes!
“My dad used to love taking home videos of us and I’m so glad he did because I love looking back on these moments he captured. I’m two here and Kourtney is three. Xo.”
Kim Kardashian is currently residing in Miami with sister Kourtney as they film their spin-off reality show, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, which is set to air in January next year.
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian with mother Kris, seen in a home video from Halloween in 1982
Pink, real name Alecia Moore, celebrated Halloween’s Eve by tweeting a series of shots from her fancy dressing past, which show the youngster dressed in various spooky standards.
The terrifying top picture Pink accompanied with the following: “Not sure what I was going for here…. Started out as Glinda the good witch and went straight to the dark side.”
Another where she wears a black leotard and holds an exotic looking bird is explained thusly: “Me and my childhood bestie Lane:) I was Mademoiselle Moore.”
Pink celebrated Halloween by tweeting a series of shots from her fancy dressing past
In another, Pink, now 33, was dressed as a not too spooky clown, and there read a note: “It wasn’t Bob Mackie, but it was pretty fabulous. I was always a clown!!!!”
Pink will be looking forward to dressing her 16-month-old daughter Willow for her new few Halloweens.
New York Mayor’s Office and the NYPD shut down the Halloween Greenwich Village parade which normally weaves its route through the West Side neighborhood.
But it remains in complete darkness this evening, more than 24 hours after power was cut off to most of lower Manhattan during fierce winds and widespread flooding.
However, New Jersey Mayor Chris Christie today made good on his promise to make sure the Garden State was able to have Halloween and moved the holiday to November 5.
Chris Christie promised on Tuesday: “If conditions are not safe on Wednesday for trick-or-treating, I will sign an executive order rescheduling.”
“I’ve taken this action to minimize additional risks to lives and the public safety as we begin the process of rebuilding and recovering from Hurricane Sandy,” said Governor Chris Christie.
“In too many communities in our state, the damage and losses from this storm are still being sorted out, and dangerous conditions abound even as our emergency management and response officials continue their work.
“As Governor, it is my responsibility to use all available resources of the state government to protect against the emergency created by Hurricane Sandy – postponing Halloween celebrations by five days is a common sense and necessary step to accomplish that.”
New York Mayor’s Office and the NYPD shut down the Halloween Greenwich Village parade
Meanwhile, New York City all out cancelled their annual event.
Organizers of the parade said: “We hope that everyone who would have come to the Parade is safe and that those who can volunteer to help out at one of the Emergency Outreach Centers near you. We will surely miss all of you!”
The parade, which would have begun at 6:30 p.m. on 6th Avenue, usually attracts up to 60,000 Halloween lovers in the most outrageous costumes.
More than 50 bands playing an eclectic range of music take part along with hundreds of dancers, artists and giant puppets.
The theme of this year’s parade was “Tick Tock”, tying in with the final year of the Mayan calendar which predicts the apocalypse.
Halloween looked likely to be an uncharacteristically somber affair as up and down the East Coast people come to terms with Sandy’s aftermath.
Across New York and Westchester, around 811,000 people were without power – with that number reaching a staggering eight million along the Eastern Seaboard.
The outages in Manhattan have been attributed to a huge explosion at an electrical substation, which blew up when it was apparently overwhelmed by floodwater.
Traveling around the city remains difficult as it would still be four to five days before limited operation could begin on the New York subway, according to Bloomberg, with some reports estimating it might take as long as 21 days for service to become fully functioning.
There is growing pressure on well-known Roman cat sanctuary Torre Argentina to leave its home in the heart of the ancient city.
The head of Rome’s archaeological office says parts of the sanctuary have been illegally built on a heritage site and must be pulled down.
An eviction notice has been issued.
The disputed building of the Torre Argentina cat sanctuary is next to the site where Julius Caesar was stabbed by Brutus and his co-conspirators on the Ides of March in 44BC.
It is known as the Area Sacra and houses four temples, on one of which the sanctuary has built a store room.
Rome is well-known for the stray cats which live among its archaeological splendors.
The Torre Argentina cat sanctuary looks after about 200 cats, vaccinating the strays, neutering the toms and spaying the cats.
There is growing pressure on well-known Roman cat sanctuary Torre Argentina to leave its home in the heart of the ancient city
The animals are much photographed by tourists but Mariarosaria Barbera, the Special Superintendent for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome, has told the Repubblica newspaper: “While we love the cats almost as much as the ancient monuments, the sanctuary is an illegal construction.
“We object to illegal building on a heritage site.”
Mariarosaria Barbera said her office had been trying to find a solution to the problem for the past two years.
But Silvia Viviani, president of the Volunteer Association at the Cat Colony of Torre Argentina, said the archaeological office was trying to chase them out of a site which they had occupied for 20 years.
Silvia Viviani said she was trying to secure a meeting with city authorities to find an alternative home for her sanctuary, which has become a tourist site in its own right.
Bulgarian archaeologists say that have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe.
The walled fortified settlement, near the modern town of Provadia, is thought to have been an important centre for salt production.
Its discovery in north-west Bulgaria may explain the huge gold hoard found nearby 40 years ago.
Archaeologists believe that the town was home to some 350 people and dates back to between 4700 and 4200 BC.
That is about 1,500 years before the start of ancient Greek civilization.
The residents boiled water from a local spring and used it to create salt bricks, which were traded and used to preserve meat.
Salt was a hugely valuable commodity at the time, which experts say could help to explain the huge defensive stone walls which ringed the town.
Bulgarian archaeologists say that have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe
Excavations at the site, beginning in 2005, have also uncovered the remains of two-storey houses, a series of pits used for rituals, as well as parts of a gate and bastion structures.
A small necropolis, or burial ground, was discovered at the site earlier this year and is still being studied by archaeologists.
“We are not talking about a town like the Greek city-states, ancient Rome or medieval settlements, but about what archaeologists agree constituted a town in the fifth millennium BC,” Vasil Nikolov, a researcher with Bulgaria’s National Institute of Archaeology, told the AFP news agency.
Archaeologist Krum Bachvarov from the institute said the latest find was “extremely interesting”.
“The huge walls around the settlement, which were built very tall and with stone blocks… are also something unseen in excavations of prehistoric sites in south-east Europe so far,” he told AFP.
Similar salt mines near Tuzla in Bosnia and Turda in Romania help prove the existence of a series of civilisztions which also mined copper and gold in the Carpathian and Balkan mountains during the same period.
This latest discovery almost certainly explains the treasure found exactly 40 years ago at a cemetery on the outskirts of Varna, 35 km (21 miles) away, the oldest hoard of gold objects found anywhere in the world.
President Barack Obama is visiting the state of New Jersey, to survey the devastation two days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall nearby.
With Republican Governor Chris Christie, he is to meet rescue workers and residents in Atlantic City.
The massive cyclone killed at least 50 people across the north-eastern US and millions are still without power.
Some businesses and services reopened after a two-day forced closure, and Wall Street is trading again.
President Barack Obama has put campaigning on hold for a third day ahead of next Tuesday’s US election, as he directs the federal response to the storm.
Initial estimates suggest the cost of clearing up after the storm could total as much as $30-40 billion.
New Jersey’s Republican governor has lavishly praised the Democratic president for his leadership.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney cancelled campaign events during the height of the disaster, but was back on the trail on Wednesday in the crucial swing state of Florida.
Across the north-east, 6.2 million homes and businesses are without power because of the storm, says the US Department of Energy.
New York, which is also counting the cost of Sandy’s trail of destruction, is slowly getting on the move again.
Hurricane Sandy brought a record storm surge of almost 14 ft (4.2 m) to central Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10ft during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.
The unprecedented water levels brought blackouts across lower Manhattan and other parts of the city.
President Barack Obama is visiting the state of New Jersey, to survey the devastation two days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall nearby
The New York Stock Exchange reopened on Wednesday, albeit on running on generator power. The Nasdaq was also back in business after two days’ closure.
Partial subway service is due to begin running on Thursday in New York City, which was paralyzed by chronic traffic gridlock in Wednesday’s rush hour.
Many bus services have already resumed, and most of the city’s bridges have re-opened.
Flights started arriving at JFK and Newark Liberty airports on Wednesday morning, but the city’s LaGuardia airport remains closed.
In New York City alone, at least 22 people were killed by the storm. Among those who died were:
Artur Kasprzak, 28, an off-duty police officer who was moving his relatives, including a 15-month-old baby, to the attic of their home in Staten Island. He died in the basement of his home as water flooded in
Lauren Abraham, 23, caught fire and burned to death after a live wire touched her as she tried to take pictures of a damaged power line outside her house in Queens
Jessie Streich-Kest, 24, and her friend Jacob Vogelman, 23, were killed by a falling tree as they walked Jessie’s dog, Max, in a Brooklyn park
In all, storm Sandy has claimed some 120 lives, after killing nearly 70 people as it hit the Caribbean.
Impoverished Haiti is facing severe food shortages after 70% of crops were destroyed by the storm, officials said.
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on US, in figures:
50+ people killed
6.2 million left without power
139 mph – highest gust of wind – Mt Washington, New Hampshire
Eurozone unemployment rate hit to a new high of 18.49 million in September, the EU statistics agency has said.
The number of people out of work rose by 146,000, pushing the unemployment rate up to 11.6%. This compares with 10.3% a year earlier.
The highest unemployment rate was recorded in Spain, where 25.8% of the workforce is out of a job, and the lowest of 4.4% was recorded in Austria.
In Spain and Greece, more than half the workforce aged under 25 has no job.
The lowest youth unemployment rate of 8% was recorded in Germany, where 5.4% of the overall workforce is out of work.
The eurozone as a whole is struggling to generate the economic growth needed to stimulate employment. Its economy shrank by 0.2% between April and June, with Italy and Spain stuck in recession and France registering no growth for the past three quarters.
The notable exception is the German economy, Europe’s biggest, which grew by 0.3% in the second quarter.
Growth there is expected to slow when preliminary figures for eurozone GDP between August and October will be published on 15 November.
Across the wider 27-nation European Union, unemployment rose by 169,000 to 25.75 million people, Eurostat said, with the unemployment rate rising slightly to 10.6%.
A Japanese government audit has found that funds intended for reconstruction after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been spent on unrelated projects.
Projects financed by the $150 billion fund include roads in Okinawa, an ad campaign for Japan’s tallest building and support for whaling research.
Some 325,000 people remain displaced 18 months on from the disaster.
In some areas little reconstruction work has been carried out, reports say.
Some 19,000 people were killed or remain missing following the tsunami and earthquake that struck north-east Japan in March 2011.
A Japanese government audit has found that funds intended for reconstruction after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been spent on unrelated projects
The government has passed a number of supplementary budgets to fund reconstruction efforts in affected areas.
But a government audit showed money had been used for unrelated projects reportedly included on the basis that they could boost national economic revival.
The findings come at a time when questions are being asked about the speed of Japan’s reconstruction effort.
Takashi Kubota, deputy mayor of Rikuzentakata, a fishing port where nearly half of the houses were destroyed, told the Associated Press news agency that “not one single new building yet” had been built in the destroyed downtown area.
“In 19 months, there have basically been no major changes,” he said.
Speaking in parliament on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda promised that problems would be addressed.
“There have been various criticisms made regarding how the budget for reconstruction has been spent,” he said.
“We must listen sincerely to the voices calling for the utmost priority to be accorded to disaster area reconstruction. We will properly provide allowances for budget items that are truly needed by the disaster-affected areas and strictly narrow down other items.”
Donald Trump launched into a self-serving attack on President Barack Obama just hours after devastating Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast.
And as the city struggled to recover from a blackout, Donald Trump, 66, lashed out as he accused the President of using Sandy to win votes for next week’s election.
Donald Trump tweeted: “Not only giving out money, but Obama will be seen today standing in water and rain like he is a real President – don’t fall for it.
“Hurricane is good luck for Obama again- he will buy the election by handing out billions of dollars.”
After offering $5 million to charity in a bid to get Barack Obama to produce his college records and passport application in a desperate publicity stunt, Donald Trump today said he was extending the deadline until midday on Thursday due to the hurricane.
He tweeted: “Another great cause Obama could send my $5M donation to is a charity for 9/11 First Responders. They are American heroes.
“Don’t let Obama buy the election by handing out unlimited free money to states.”
He added: “Remember this: Obama wants to raise taxes, @MittRomney wants to lower taxes – need I say more.”
Donald Trump launched into a self-serving attack on President Barack Obama just hours after devastating Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast
Donald Trump also boasted that Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in Manhattan had stayed open last night during the storm, saying: “We are taking care of hundreds of people in the Trump Tower atrium – they are seeking refuge. Free coffee and food.”
And posting a picture on Facebook, he wrote: “People having a great time in the Trump Tower atrium – unlike others, I stayed open.”
He then boasted: “The Trump Tower atrium is such a great place & kept thousands of people warm & safe during the storm – thanks, staff.”
As a broken crane continues to dangle 90 stories above a luxury building on West 57th street, Donald Trump even found time to gripe: “I am the best builder but if that were my building with the crane mishap, I would have been lambasted from coast to coast.”
Even Donald Trump’s good friend Barbara Walters has made a plea for him to stop.
On The View last week, Donald Trump begged: “You and I have known each other for many years.
“And you know that I am your friend, and I think you are a brilliant businessman, and you are great on television, and you have a fascinating personality. Donald, you’re making a fool of yourself.
“You’re not hurting Obama. You’re hurting Donald, and that hurts me because you’re a decent man.
“Stop it. Get off it, Donald.”
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama last week joked that Donald Trump’s issue with him stemmed from a childhood feud in Kenya.
Donald Trump’s outpouring was met by general disdain from New Yorkers – including by model Chrissy Teigen, the fiancée of singer John Legend.
The stunning brunette tweeted today: “Finally unfollowed donald trump. my blood pressure skyrockets when he tweets and I will not allow him to have the pleasure any longer.”
Donald Trump was keen not to stop as he continued with his onslaught of tweets, writing: “The election is trending towards @MittRomney. Americans know we can’t afford another 4 years of the Obama economic decline.
“These last 4 years have not had a single quarter over 4% GDP. Obama has overseen the weakest economic recovery in American history.”
To add insult to injury, Donald Trump will inflict his views on the rest of America tonight when he appears on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
Jessica Simpson has rediscovered her confidence after losing 60 lbs of baby weight and she opted for a racy Halloween costume that showed off her newly slimmed-down waist.
Jessica Simpson, 34, gave birth to baby Maxwell in May.
The wench costume also revealed plenty of cleavage and leg and she finished off the look with long hair extensions and heavy make-up.
In the family portrait, Jessica Simpson poses alongside her fiancé Eric Johnson in a Braveheart costume and their daughter, who was dressed as a rooster.
Jessica Simpson tweeted the picture on Wednesday morning, with the caption: “Happy Halloween!!!”
Jessica Simpson opted for a racy Halloween costume that showed off her newly slimmed-down waist
The star is understood to have lost 60 lbs in six months as part of her deal with Weight Watchers, which is rumored to be worth $3 million.
She also works out four times a week with celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak.
Harley Pasternak recently told Us Weekly: “In over 20 years, I’ve never seen as consistent of a weight loss. Jessica’s right where she needs to be. She’s gotten so much stronger.”
Wearing a curve enhancing bodysuit, Ellen DeGeneres slipped into an imitation of the blue sequined dress that Sofia Vergara suffered a wardrobe malfunction in during the Emmy Awards.
Sporting her chosen Halloween costume for season 10 of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the 54-year-old tried her best to channel Sofia Vergara’s Colombian accent, and even joked it was “fake”.
As Ellen DeGeneres performed her hilarious skit, while wearing a brunette wig which had the audience in stitches, an unimpressed Sofia Vergara walked in and stood with her arms folded.
Trying to keep a straight face as Ellen DeGeneres to tease her, Sofia Vergara snapped: “Your ass looks huge!”
Biting back as the show host kept up with her charade, Sofia Vergara quipped: “I can also speak American English like you.”
Turning Ellen DeGeneres around, the 40-year-old beauty screeched: “What is this? My dress was not like that!”
To which the comic mimicked and replied: “Yes, it was like that!”
And having the final word Sofia Vergara said: “You look ridiculous!”
Ellen DeGeneres slipped into an imitation of the blue sequined dress that Sofia Vergara suffered a wardrobe malfunction in during the Emmy Awards
Ellen DeGeneres then asked Sofia Vergara to teach her some Spanish.
Failing to grasp the pronunciation of the words that Sofia Vergara presented her with, the show host asked to know what she was saying.
Sofia Vergara, then said: “Oh please with that dress you should know. Let’s go dancing!” and with that said the pair began dancing to Pitbull’s song, entitled, I Know You Want Me.
Back in September, Sofia Vergara’s famous curves proved too much for her designer gown at the award show after her dress split open, right over her derriere.
Her wardrobe malfunction occurred just 20 minutes before her hit TV show won a prestigious gong at the ceremony.
But despite the embarrassing situation, Sofia Vergara shared pictures of her fashion mishap on her Twitter page, showing the busted back zip of her Zuhair Murad teal cut-out gown.
The picture showed Sofia Vergara’s pert derriere fully visible as the rear of the dress failed to contain her Latin curves.
Sofia Vergara tweeted the shot along with the caption: “Yes!!!! This happend 20 min before we won!!!! Jajajajja. I luv my life!!!!”
CNN earned itself another black eye after wrongly reporting that the New York Stock Exchange was flooded with three feet of water following the worst of Hurricane Sandy.
“There has been no damage to our building or systems, and we will conduct tests with the industry today with the aim of reopening U.S. markets on Wednesday,” NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia said in a statement.
During a live segment on Piers Morgan’s show Monday night, the anchor spoke with the network’s meteorologist who based the sensational claim solely on a comment left in a chat room.
“You have an update on the stock exchange situation. Do we still think that three feet of water got into the exchange? There seem to be conflicting reports now,” Piers Morgan asked meteorologist Chad Myers.
“Oh, is that right? You know, I got that from the National Weather Service chat bulletin board. It was right on there; it said three feet of water on the floor. I don’t know if there’s conflicting reports or not,” Chad Myers said.
CNN wrongly reported that NYSE was flooded with 3 feet of water following the worst of Hurricane Sandy
The claim instantly went viral, spreading quickly on social networks and circulating as fact.
An NYSE official quickly tried to thwart the rumor, saying that the infrastructure of the landmark Wall Street building was “fine”.
A spokesman for the network issued a vague apology, purposefully avoiding the point of the fact that their sources were as murky as the alleged sea water that covered much of lower Manhattan.
“Chad referenced a National Weather Service report that turned out to be incorrect. We quickly made an on air correction. We regret the error,” CNN spokesman Bridget Leininger said.
