SAD: Whitney Houston's daughter, Kristina goes back to God

She and her mother Whitney

Her aunt Pat Houston released a statement saying the 22-year-old's condition has worsened.

"Despite the great medical care at numerous facilities, Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition has continued to deteriorate," it read.

"As of today, she has been moved into hospice care."

Ms Brown, the only child of the late singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub at her home near Atlanta in January.

She had surgery to replace her breathing tube with a tracheostomy tube in February.

The statement said the Houston family thanks "everyone for their support and prayers. She is in God's hands now."

Bobby Brown and Pat Houston, Whitney's sister-in-law and manager, were appointed co-guardians of Brown last month.

Ms Brown's famous mother, a six-time Grammy Award winner and actress who battled substance abuse, was found unresponsive in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, California, in February 2012.

You won't Text while Walking after reading this

You do it, I do it, we all know is a bad habit, but how do we stop? Read this story and see how bad this is.

This happened in China where a slim teenager got her entire leg stuck in a storm drain while walking and texting.

The girl who is still unnamed was paying rapt attention to her mobile phone while walking down the street in Mianyang City, in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. While she was busy texting a friend, she wasn’t paying attention to the pavement and when she stepped on a drain, her slim leg went right through the bars putting her left foot in a tight wedge.

A good Samaritan had to call the fire brigade before she could be rescued after a 45-minute wait.

Justin Bieber and Usher sued for copyright issues

Justin Bieber and his mentor Usher are being sued for $10m (£6m).
R&B singer De Rico, real name Devin Copeland, and his songwriting partner Mareio Overton claim that three versions of Somebody To Love recorded by Bieber, Usher or both share the beat pattern, time signature and similar chords and lyrics with their song with the same name.
The news came to light on Thursday (June 18) after a US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, received a lawsuit from May 2013, saying a lower court judge was wrong and it shouldn't have dismissed it.
"After listening to the Copeland song and the Bieber and Usher songs as wholes, we conclude that their choruses are similar enough and also significant enough that a reasonable jury could find the songs intrinsically similar," judge Pamela Harris wrote for the appeals court.
Duncan Byers, who is a lawyer for the claimants, said that the panel have expressed that they "recognise what my clients have said all along: it's the same melody and the same chorus".

Among the other defendants were publishers such as Vivendi SA's Universal Music Publishing Group and Sony Corp's Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Defence lawyers have not commented on the case.
The lawsuit will return to the lower court.
Ms Harris, though, said even the lyric "somebody to love" was delivered in an "almost identical rhythm and a strikingly similar melody".

One version of Somebody to Love, recorded by Bieber and credited to him as a co-writer, peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010.

The plaintiffs alleged that music scouts had played their song, which was written in 2008, for Usher, who liked what he heard and then brought it to Bieb's attention.

District judge Arenda Wright Allen dismissed the lawsuit in March 2014, saying no reasonable jury could find copyright infringement.

Earlier this year Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke were ordered to pay Marvin Gaye's family millions after a jury ruled that their hit Blurred Lines infringed the copyright of Gaye's Got To Give It Up.

Jurassic World tops the Box-office

Not only has Universal's Jurassic World brought the franchise back from near extinction, it chewed up and spit out every box office prediction to come in vastly ahead of expectations.

It pulled in $511m (£329m) globally as it opened in cinemas, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations - eclipsing Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($483m in 2011) and becoming the first film to ever cross $500 million in one weekend. That includes $204.6 million in North America, the No. 2 showing behind The Avengers ($207.4 million). And if Sunday is stronger than expected, Jurassic World could even beat Avengers.

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The unprecedented haul for the blockbuster, which has had largely good reviews, was boosted by the $100m earned in China alone and it topped the box office in 66 countries.

Co-produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two of the four films, Jurassic World returns to the island theme park where scientists first revived T-Rex and other dinosaurs for paying customers over 20 years ago.

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Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst, said the film benefited from something of "a perfect box-office storm".

"Nostalgia, legacy, pedigree: Three things that can make a newly updated franchise a monster," he said.

"There are many reasons Jurassic World is eating box office records like a hungry Indominus Rex: the original Jurassic Park was the second coming of Jaws and was for many the film that defined in the psyche their personal definition of the summer movie experience.

"At the time 1993's Jurassic Park was released it was the first film to ever open with over $50m and as such was seen and loved by a massive audience that were at once repelled and thrilled by its science-run-amok premise, its homage to the dinosaurs that everyone grew up learning about and were intrigued by.

"And not least of all, the collective movie theatre popcorn experience that the iconic superstar director Steven Spielberg delivered."

Christopher Lee dies at 93

The British actor became a star in 1957 when playing the creature in The Curse Of Frankenstein.

Sir Christopher appeared in numerous other Hammer horror films, most notably playing Count Dracula, and was the villain Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun.

He cemented his fame when he starred as Saruman in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit films, and appeared as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels.

He never stopped working and only last year marked his 92nd birthday by releasing a heavy metal version of the Frank Sinatra classic My Way.

A spokeswoman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea confirmed that a death certificate had been issued for the star, who died on Sunday at a local hospital.

His agent declined to confirm the news, saying only that his family wished to make no comment.

Tributes have been paid to Sir Christopher who had fans all over the world.

Sir Roger Moore, who starred as 007 alongside Sir Christopher's Scaramanga, tweeted: "It's terribly (sad) when you lose an old friend, and Christopher Lee was one of my oldest. We first met in 1948."

London mayor Boris Johnson tweeted a photo of him holding a light sabre while posing with the actor.

He wrote: "Really sad to hear about the death of Christopher Lee, one of the greatest British actors and a master of the macabre."

Film critic Jonathan Ross wrote: "So sad to hear that Sir Christopher Lee has died. A great actor, a great star, a surprisingly good singer and a lovely lovely man."

His Lord Of The Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan paid tribute, saying: "So, so sorry to hear that Christopher Lee has passed away. He was a fascinating person. Threw a Bic pen into a tree in front of me."

Actor Mark Gatiss wrote: "The great, always criminally underrated Sir Christopher Lee has left us. A Titan of cinema and a huge part of my youth. Farewell."

Sir Christopher was awarded with a BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and two years ago his friend Johnny Depp presented him with one from the British Film Institute.

Depp, who worked with the veteran on several Tim Burton projects including Sleepy Hollow, sneaked into the awards ceremony to surprise his friend.

Sir Christopher is survived by his wife of over 50 years, Gitte, and daughter Christina

Wiki details
Born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
27 May 1922
Belgravia, London, England

Died 7 June 2015 (aged 93)
Chelsea, London, England

Occupation Actor, singer, author
Years active1946–2015
Spouse(s)Birgit Krøncke (m. 1961; his death 2015)
Children1

Military career
Allegiance Finland
 United Kingdom

Service/branchFinnish Army (1939)
British Home Guard (1940)
Royal Air Force (1941–46)
Years of service1939–1946
RankFlight Lieutenant
Battles/wars
Winter War
World War II
North African Campaign
Allied invasion of Italy
Battle of Monte Cassino

Google Prepares An App That Can Scan Your Meal Photos For Calorie Count

The app can scan images from the likes of Instagram to work out calories

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A new Google app could be able to tell you how many calories is in your meal just by analysing a photo of it.

Im2Calories uses advanced image-recognition technology to work out what food you're eating, and what the estimated calorie count adds up to.

The size of each piece of food is worked out by comparing it to the rest of the plate - and even condiments spotted by the app are included in the calorie calculations.

A report in Popular Science says that the app will learn over time, with users being asked to input food details for any items that the app cannot recognise.

Google research scientist Kevin Murphy said the calorie count could be off by up to 20%, but said the technology will improve the more times its used.

"If it only works 30% of the time, it's enough that people will start using it, we'll collect data, and it'll get better over time.

"To me it's obvious that people really want this and this is really useful.

"Ok fine, maybe we get the calories off by 20%. It doesn't matter.

"We're going to average over a week or a month or a year. And now we can start to potentially join information from multiple people and start to do population level statistics.

"I have colleagues in epidemiology and public health, and they really want this stuff."

The app cannot identify the attributes of particular ingredients, so if a low-fat alternative ingredient is used in a dish the app will likely overestimate the calories.

It is still in development and has not yet been released.

STRANGE: Saw Fish Survive Extinction Through 'Virgin Birth'

Can one cheat nature? Is nature dynamic?

The sawfish grow up to 18ft (5.5 metres) long

Biologists have for long tried to explain the functional make up of nature. They have tried to understand how things work. Now some creature have now slipped through the hands of extiction


Scientists say a series of "virgin births", reproduction without mating, in a critically endangered Florida sawfish species marks the first time the phenomenon has been seen in a vertebrate in the wild.


The researchers say the female smalltooth sawfish are resorting to asexual reproduction because their numbers are so low mating opportunities are fewer.


They have been pushed to the brink of extinction by over-fishing and habitat destruction.


In parthenogenesis, a female's egg cell can develop into a baby without being fertilised by a male's sperm cell.

The 'virgin birth' sawfish amounted to about 3% of all those examined


This "fertilised" egg retains about half the mother's genetic diversity, a trait allowing parthenogenesis to be traced through genetic testing.


"It really surprised us," said Kevin Feldheim, manager of the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution at Chicago's Field Museum.


"It is possible that numbers are so low that females have a hard time finding mates.


"In such a situation, parthenogenesis can be used as a last-ditch effort for a female to pass on her genes."


The researchers were investigating sawfish inbreeding when they discovered seven, all healthy, born via parthenogenesis.


The 'virgin birth' sawfish amounted to about 3% of all those examined.


Such births have only previously been witnessed in certain reptiles, birds and sharks in captivity, according to Stony Brook University marine biologist Andrew Fields.


The research appears in the journal Current Biology.


The sawfish - which grow up to 18ft (5.5 metres) long - dwell in southwest Florida estuaries and ocean coastal habitats.