Cookie the cat, reunited with owners Samantha and Andrew [ROSS PARRY] Owners Andrew and Samantha Buchanan and their two young daughters Lucy and Abigail feared the worst when their beloved pet disappeared on December 29. They searched in vain every day around their home in Swansea, South Wales, while Cookie lapped up gourmet treats at the Gomersal Park Hotel in ...
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Jazz icon Miles Davis gets block named in his honor
Don Hunstein/AP Musician Miles Davis is shown during recording session in 1959 for ‘Kind of Blue.’ The block that was the longtime home to a jazz legend was finall renamed in his honor on Wednesday. Officials renamed a stretch of W. 77th St. “Miles Davis Way” Wednesday, resolving a lengthy battle for the jazz impresario’s neighbor, Shirley Zafirau, who fought ...
Read More »Party-loving teen starts night in Manchester and ends up 500 miles away in Paris toilet
Luke Harding woke up in Paris after a night of drinking that began 500 miles away in Manchester [CAVENDISH] Luke Harding, 19, was left scratching his head after he woke up in Paris’s Charles De Gaulle Airport after a night that started innocuously in Manchester. The factory sheet metal worker was returning from Oldham’s Tokyo nightclub at 4am when he ...
Read More »Cassini captures Earth – and all of humanity – from a billion miles away
On July 17, did you look up and smile? If not, you’re one of several billion people who were captured in candid pose when NASA’s Cassini space probe looked back at Earth from about 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) away. Cassini has always been able to flip around and snap pictures in Earth’s general direction, but this picture was ...
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