Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Andrea
22-year-old Reka Urban, selected as Miss Plastic Hungary 2009, has the distinction of being the first beauty queen requiring substantial plastic surgery in order to qualify.
Plastic surgery is frowned upon in Hungary, and pageant judge Marton Szipal says “it’s time for Hungarian women to care more about appearance. They are the most beautiful in Europe.”
According [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Andrea
In a move considered a nod to the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism, Herta Müller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature.
The Romanian-born German novelist, poet, and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Romania under the criminal Ceauşescu regime, made her literary debut in 1982 with [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Andrea
The remains of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, the only American missing in action from the first Gulf War, have been found and positively identified.
There had been speculation over the past 18 years that Speicher, whose F/A-18 Hornet was shot down by an Iraqi warplane on January 17, 1991, might have been taken into captivity [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Andrea
Corazon Aquino, better known as “Cory” Aquino, died at a hospital in Manila on Friday at the age of 76.
Aquino, who became the first female president of the Philippines in 1986, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008.
“Cory” Aquino became an icon of democracy when she assumed the presidency in the “People Power uprising,” ending [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Andrea
Maria Carmen del Bousada, the Spanish woman who caused a controversy when she became the world’s oldest mother at age 66, has died from cancer, orphaning her two-year-old twin sons.
Bousada traveled to the United States to undergo in vitro fertilization at a Los Angeles clinic. She later admitted that she lied to get around the [...]
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