She’s got her hands full with a toddler and an infant, but “finding wife for Harry” must be written down somewhere in her diary. The Duchess of Cambridge is apparently fuming that Prince Harry has enlisted the help of his step-mother, the Duchess of Cornwall in a quest to find true love. Or a wife. Whichever comes first. This is according to Celebrity Dirty Laundry , a site that never ceases to entertain when it comes to fabricated royal stories. “Prince Harry has turned to stepmother Camilla Parker-Bowles for advice about finding a wife,” the site claims. “Kate Middleton is livid that Prince Harry is ignoring her advice and has approached her arch rival Camilla for help choosing a Royal bride .” RUDE! “The Duchess of Cambridge loves her brother-in-law and wants to see him happy,” the site helpfully points out. “Sources say she is not going to let Camilla influence Harry’s choice of a Royal bride. An insider says this latest development has ‘sparked a royal war. You can bet Kate will go all-out to find Harry a bride before Camilla does.'” Right, so in January Harry reportedly admitted to wanting to get married. “I’m not dating and for the first time ever I want to find a wife,” the prince was believe to have told TV presenter Denise van Outen at a party. Then it was revealed that he hooked up with American Juliette Labelle over the New Year in Los Angeles. Now it’s anyone’s guess who Harry is snogging at the moment, and with his upcoming official visit to Nepal, there is no time to fit in a royal wedding by year’s end. Should Harry need a royal bride at the ready, I volunteer. View Slideshow: 16 Times Prince Harry Made Us Royally Swoon
Dahlia Yehia, from Kalamazoo, Michiga,who was an art teacher in Austin, Texas.she was beaten to death by a teacher last month. Yehia, 25, traveled to Pokhara after arriving to Nepal on July 20. She was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher named Narayan Paudel, who confessed, according to Kaski District Police superintendent Hari Bahadur Pal. Police said Paudel beat Yehia to death, put her body in a sack and dumped it in a river. He confessed last week to killing her on Aug. 4. Yehia#39;s bod
Death Toll Rises Over 1,100 After Earthquake Strike Nepal, South Asia Our prayers are with the people in Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, India and surrounding South Asian regions devastated by one of the worst earthquakes to ever strike the area. According to NY Post reports : A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing at least 1,180 people across a swath of four countries as the violently shaking earth collapsed houses, leveled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches on Mt. Everest. It was the worst tremor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years. At least 1,130 people were confirmed dead across Nepal, according to the police. Another 34 were killed in India, 12 in Tibet and two in Bangladesh. Two Chinese citizens died in the Nepal-China border. The death toll is almost certain to rise, said deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam. It was a few minutes before noon when the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8, began to rumble across the densely populated Kathmandu Valley, rippling through the capital Kathmandu and spreading in all directions — north toward the Himalayas and Tibet, south to the Indo-Gangetic plains, east toward the Brahmaputra delta of Bangladesh and west toward the historical city of Lahore in Pakistan. A magnitude-6.6 aftershock hit about an hour later, and at least 16 aftershocks continued to jolt the region for hours. Residents ran out of homes and buildings in panic. Walls tumbled, trees swayed, power lines came crashing down and large cracks opened up on streets and walls. “Our village has been almost wiped out. Most of the houses are either buried by landslide or damaged by shaking,” said Vim Tamang, a resident of Manglung village near the epicenter. He said half of the village folks are either missing or dead. “All the villagers have gathered in the open area. We don’t know what to do. We are feeling helpless,” he said when contacted by telephone. So sad… Natural disasters always leave us feeling so helpless. If you’re able to donate any funds or assistance to disaster relief, please help these people out. Our prayers are definitely with Nepal right now. APImages
Kate Middleton’s little sister Pippa Middleton and Nico Jackson are on the brink of getting engaged, or so says an alleged insider quoted by Life & Style . Pippa, who dutifully carried big sister Kate’s cathedral-length train during the royal wedding in April 2011, may soon hear wedding bells herself. We’ve heard this before, however. Pippa and Nico Jackson, a stockbroker she’s dated for two years, have been reportedly engaged at least twice before. Those stories weren’t true. Is this one? Like many (okay, most) Kate Middleton stories, we’ll believe it when we see it, but we’re happy Pippa is happy with her longtime beau in any case. “She’s on the brink of getting engaged,” a royal insider exclusively reveals. “She’s dropped hints to Nico, but ultimately she’s letting him pick the ring.” As soon as Nico pops the question, they won’t be wasting any time: “[The engagement] will probably last only six to nine months!” the insider adds. Even though Pippa just gave her first-ever interview on Today this summer, we don’t anticipate she’ll be commenting on any of this anytime soon. 19 Prettiest Pippa Middleton Pics 1. Pippa Middleton, White Dress Pippa Middleton wears a white dress. Stunning, she is.
Nicki Minaj and her buttocks are all over the Internet at the moment, as the singer unveiled the cover art for Anaconda , which features Minaj squatting in a G-string. It’s quite revealing. But it’s also quite unnerving for Minaj, who isn’t happy with the way she’s been received online. The artist took to Instagram last night and posted multiple photos of models such as Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge striking similar sexy poses, with Minaj wondering why these pictures were deemed “ACCEPTABLE.” She then the 31-year-old rapper re-published her racy “Anaconda” single and included with it a one word caption: “UNACCEPTABLE.” Does Minaj make a point here? Does the public respond different to white women baring their rear ends than it does to African-American women doing the same? Ponder. Respond. Debate. And however you feel about Nicki’s argument, just enjoy what the Web has come up with for Minaj’s R-Rated image … meme style! Nicki Minaj Anaconda Memes! 1. The Original The booty that launched a thousand memes.
While most 81-year-old celebrities are retiring from public life or riding out the final years of their careers while carefully avoiding controversies that might tarnish their legacy, Joan Rivers has been ruffling more feathers than ever lately, and whether you love or hate her, you’ve gotta admit it’s been entertaining. Joan’s recent tirades are too numerous to list here, but highlights include Rivers accusing Miley Cyrus of incest , and suggesting that Kim Kardashian has slept with millions of men. But while she’s consistently raised the bar for shocking rants throughout her career, Rivers may have outdone herself at LAX today when she stopped making fun of celebrities and started getting serious about the bloody conflict between Israelis and Palestinians: Joan Rivers on Israel-Palestine Conflict The video above features Joan providing her unabashed two cents on the topic, and if you’ve tweeted #FreePalestine recently, you may want skip the clip so as to avoid smashing your laptop in a fit of rage. “If New Jersey were firing rockets into New York, we would wipe them out,” Rivers said, in reference to Hamas rocket attacks against Israel. “Palestinians, you cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves.” She goes on like that (the video really has to be seen to be believed), passionately defending Israel and coming off as oddly blasé about the many civilian casualties in Gaza. If it all sounds like a bit too much reality for a Friday afternoon, we recommend skipping to the 1:23 mark to see Joan doing what she does best: eviscerating young starlets! Told that Selena Gomez had posted pro-Palestinian messages on her Instagram page, Joan responded as only she can: “Oh Selena Gomez! That college grad! Let’s see if she can spell ‘Palestinian!'” Still nicer than Rivers’ Kristen Stewart comments . Selena Gomez in Nepal 1. Selena Gomez UNICEF Photo Selena Gomez plays with children here in Nepal. She’s there as an ambassador for UNICEF.
SMH. Would she still be alive if she was caught with a classmate instead? You know in India “Caste Matters .” According to MailOnline reports : An Indian court on Monday found a dentist couple guilty of murdering their 14-year-old daughter and a servant five years ago, in a dramatic finale to a case that transfixed the country and tapped unease on both sides of the rich-poor divide. Aarushi Talwar was found with her throat slit at the family home in Noida, an affluent town of new shopping malls and offices near Delhi, in 2008. A day later, the body of the Nepalese family servant, Hemraj, was discovered. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were convicted in a local court in Ghaziabad, near Noida, and remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on Tuesday – they could face the death penalty. Early in the investigation, police alleged Rajesh had murdered his daughter and servant in a rage after finding them in a compromising situation – the kind of crime more often associated with rural, conservative parts of India where ‘honor killings’ are not uncommon. Naresh Yadav, a lawyer present in court, told reporters waiting outside that the couple and members of their family broke down in tears when the verdict was read out. But the case was plagued with blunders from the start. In the hours after Aarushi, was found dead in her bedroom, police named Hemraj as the prime suspect. They even dispatched a team to Nepal to look for him. But the housekeeper wasn’t missing – his body was discovered lying on a terrace above Aarushi’s room. It had been there the whole time. The Talwars came under suspicion early on, and police said the manner of the girl’s death suggested she was killed with surgical precision, a clear nod to the Talwars’ medical profession. SMH. Can’t believe they thought they would get away with it. Both parents were later charged, but the Talwars always denied the murder and blamed sensational media coverage for demonizing them and damaging their defense. They also described a Kafkaesque trail of botched police operations, arrests, ‘truth serum’ tests and contradictory rulings by different investigative bodies. Much has been made in the media of the fact that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s federal detective agency, relied on circumstantial evidence to pursue the Talwars. R.K. Saini, representing the CBI, defended the prosecution. ‘There were so many circumstances that proved that no one could have committed the murder other than the two accused,’ he said. Rebecca John, one of the lawyers representing the Talwars, said they would appeal the ruling in a higher court. ‘We are deeply disappointed, hurt and anguished for being convicted for a crime that we have not committed,’ the Talwars said in a statement. ‘We refuse to feel defeated and will continue to fight for justice.’ Horrific crime stories are common in India and many involve caste or class. But the Aarushi case, in which police named Hemraj as the murder suspect before his body was found, resonated with the rapidly expanding number of well-off families who fret that their wealth makes them vulnerable to violence. Dipankar Gupta, a sociologist at Shiv Nadar University in Uttar Pradesh – the state where Noida is located – said the case highlighted how domestic staff were frequently abused by employers in India. ‘But at least now there is some progress and people are talking about it,’ he said. Newspapers this month reported the case of a wife of a member of parliament who allegedly tortured a maid to death at her home in Delhi. This is so sad. We feel for the family of that servant and that poor girl who lost her life before even really having a chance to experience anything!
Man Bites Snake To Death After Being Attached Bet the snake didn’t see this one coming…. A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said on Thursday. Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday, caught it and bit it until it died. “I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry,” the 55-year-old Miya, who lives in a village some 200 km (125 miles) southeast of the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, was quoted by the daily as saying. The snake, called “goman” in Nepal, is also known as the Common Cobra. Police official Niraj Shahi said the man, who was being treated at a village health post and was not in danger of dying, would not be charged with killing the snake because the reptile was not among snake species listed as endangered in Nepal. Desperate times call for desperate measures . Source Image via Shutterstock
This is so sad… A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including two U.S. citizens, officials said. The turboprop plane belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 13 foreign tourists, three Nepalese passengers and three crew members when it crashed in Bisankunarayan village, just a few miles south of the capital, Katmandu. Rewant Kuwar, an official at Katmandu’s international airport rescue office, said that 18 bodies were pulled out of the plane’s wreckage, and that another victim died later after being rushed to a hospital. Tourism Secretary Ganeshraj Joshi said that among the foreigners who died in the crash, two were U.S. citizens, 10 were Indian nationals and the other was Japanese. Andy Lane, a U.S. State Department press officer, told NBC News that it was aware of the incident and was working with Nepal’s government to get more information. He said the State Department could not confirm the reports that two Americans were on board and died in the crash. An eyewitness, Haribol Poudel, told Avenues Television that the plane had hit the roof of a house in the village and disintegrated into several pieces. No casualties were reported on the ground. Poudel said it was foggy, and that visibility was very low in the mountainous area. Our thoughts are with the victims’ families. Source
