Grandpa Barron Hilton plans to donate 97 percent of his fortune to African Americans. Hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity. That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp.... 

Delighted Rachael Leyman was yesterday celebrating having her fifth child — and she is still only 21. Daughter Maddison arrived just in time for Christmas to join sisters Felicity, five, Ffion, four, brother Cody, three, and Cerys, one. Rachael was just 16 when she first became pregnant with partner Lee Beckinsale — and has loved every minute of motherhood since. Felicity was a surprise. Rachael... 

A new study is providing insights into the genetics of homosexuality — at least in fruit flies. Researchers have discovered a gene involved in homosexual behavior in the tiny flies. They also found a way to turn homosexuality on and off with drugs. Humans have a similar gene. But it’s unclear what effect, if any, the gene has on homosexual behavior in people, said biologist David Featherstone of... 

According to this map – and if you really believe that blondes have less brains –a nasty fall like that is more likely to happen in the central parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland, where at least 80% of the population is fair-haired, the highest figure in all of Europe. This map, indicating the varying degrees of ‘blondness’ in Europe, shows how fair hair gets rarer further away from this core... 

I’ve had enough of it. Ninnying fatuous self-important morons who demand that everyone else make sacrifices in the name of mother earth while they zoom around in CO2 belching private jets and lavish themselves in heated swimming pools are hypocrites but perhaps we should be grateful that their frothing absurdities are causing the man-made global warming cult to lose whatever credibility it has... 

Accompanied by body-armor vested London police officers, Lambeth Senior Trading Standards Officer Ray Bouch walks into a beauty and cosmetics shop on Brixton’s Electric Avenue. Bouch works for the London borough’s Public Protection Unit, tasked with keeping everything from faulty condoms to illicit vodka off the streets. Today, he’s in search of contraband cosmetics: illegal skin... 

Protesting parents shut down a Toronto District School Board meeting on Wednesday after realizing the issue of a black-focused school would not be discussed. Dozens of supporters of a proposal to implement a black-focused school showed up to last night’s meeting expecting to discuss details of a feasibility report on the issue. The TDSB spent $300,000 preparing the controversial report, which... 

The Negro-run Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta has served as the first place of healthcare for generations of Negro violence in that city, from victims of stabbings and shootings, and motorists grievously injured in Atlanta’s murderous rush-hour traffic. Now, Grady itself is in grave condition. Staggering under a deficit projected at $55 million, the city’s only public hospital could... 

“I realised then that a baby would pollute the planet – and that never having a child was the most environmentally friendly thing I could do.” Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into... 

BERLIN – Shortly before leaving Berlin, Shimon Stein, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, summed up his seven-year term as “interesting, challenging, productive, and frustrating.” It was frustrating, he said, mainly because “though we invested much effort in an attempt to explain the situation in Israel and why we react the way we do to the Germans, we scored an unimpressive... 

Migraine sufferer Emmanuel Mgaya recovering from knee surgery Tanzania’s Health Minister David Mwakyusa has apologised for a recent surgical mix-up where a knee patient underwent a complex head operation. On 8 November, surgeons at the country’s main Muhimbili hospital opened the skull of Emmanuel Didas to remove a non-existent brain tumour. While Emmanuel Mgaya, who had the tumour, underwent... 

The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202. Researchers predict the last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland – the country with the highest proportion of blondes. But they say too few people now carry the gene for blondes to last beyond... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised sports officials on Tuesday for attracting sportsmen from abroad instead of grooming homegrown champions. “Looking at our teams, one cannot immediately understand whether those are ours, or a team from Africa,” he said. “The result is well known. There is no one to play in our national teams,” he told a meeting of Russia’s Sports... 

In the European Union today, nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, and one in three children is born out of wedlock, the latest statistics show. In Belgium alone, 71% of married couples are divorced. That number is higher in the less religious French-speaking part of the country, while lower in the more conservative Flemish portion. In Poland, 33% of marriages end in divorce. Only 18% of married... 

An Oregon resident grew a 691-kg (1,524 lbs) pumpkin and won a competition weight-off in Half Moon Bay, California, local media said on October 9, Tuesday. “I’m ecstatic,” Thad Starr said. “I’m very, very happy. You always want to hope. You always want to dream. That’s why we do this.” The giant pumpkin set a contest record, and its owner received a prize of...