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Pakistan's former Prime Minister was reportedly assassinated today by a gunman who then blew himself up in a deadly suicide bombing that killed at least 20 others. According to media reports, Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, said that his wife was shot in the neck during the attack, which occurred in Rawalpindi. Bhutto was the first woman to lead a Muslim nation. In October, the 54-year-old mother of three returned to Pakistan after an eight-year exile.
Wedding Bells to Ring for Fergie and Josh Duhamel
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, whose real name is Stacy Ferguson, is engaged to Las Vegas star Josh Duhamel. (Per Duhamel's rep, he proposed "recently," but not on Christmas Day.) The pair have been an item for three years. A source told People, “They don’t know what kind of wedding they want yet, but she’s the happiest girl on Earth.”
A California girl is in stable condition after being rescued from a fatal plane crash that killed three, including Pacificor LLC CEO Michael Klein and his 13-year-old daughter, Talia. Francesca Lewis was airlifted to a hospital in Panama yesterday; she is awake and speaking, according to her doctor. Her mother, Valerie Lewis, says, “We’re so relieved to have her with us. So many people tried to help, and at great effort and sacrifice, and through the Christmas holiday.”
HIV Testing Law for Pregnant Women and Newborns in New Jersey
Acting Governor Richard Codey signed legislation yesterday making New Jersey the first state to require HIV testing for pregnant women and newborns. To help reduce HIV transmission to babies, pregnant women will be tested in their first and third trimesters unless they refuse. Newborns whose mothers tested positive or whose HIV status is unknown at their time of birth will also be tested.
Paris Hilton Won’t Be Inheriting Grandfather’s Fortune
Paris’s 80-year-old grandfather, hotel magnate Barron Hilton, announced yesterday that he plans to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity. The money will be placed in a charitable trust that will eventually benefit the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (named after Barron's late father), raising its value to about $4.5 billion.







Few days before the New Year, 2008, it is really sad that the only hope for an area full of madness and confusion, Benazir Bhutto, is killed like that. I had always wished a female to be a leader in an Islamic country but I knew it would be impossible these days. What is really sad and a concern is the way she was killed. She was shot first and then the suicide bombing. This means those who targeted her are not opposition but men filled with hatred and madness. and in my opinion no matter how you justify this crime, whatever God approves this madness is a MAD God and we don’t need a MAD God in this century. The Islamic fundamentalism will go extinct, no matter how many suicide bombers are left (hoping for those 72 virgins to meet in their MAD heaven).
BM