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David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. "David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief," read a statement posted on the artist's official social media accounts.

Just noticed tonight, (Tues night) that BBCA was airing Ashes to Ashes. And unless I just watched an episode that I missed, what I saw was a season 2 episode. For those that missed, BBCA usually shows an episode of Ashes to Ashes several times during it's premier week.

For fans of the Original Brit show 'Life on Mars', heres a heads up: Last night, BBCA aired the first episode of a sequel series to LoM, called 'Ashes to Ashes'. In thios new series, it is a Brit Police Psychologist, who has been studying the file of deceased Sam tyler, in present day, gets called to a hostage situation, with a hiostage taker that knows her, but she doesn't know him...He eventually shoots her, and she wakes up to find herself back in the Seventies, and finds herself working as a subordinate to...who else but Tylers old boss: Gene...

LONDON (The Catholic Herald) - Plans to rebury Cardinal John Henry Newman have been thrown into disarray after it was discovered that his body has disintegrated in its grave. Undertakers attempted to exhume the body of the Victorian cardinal on Thursday last week in preparation for his likely beatification later in the year.Officials were hoping to transfer his remains from a small rural cemetery in Rednal, Worcestershire, to a marble sarcophagus in the Birmingham Oratory, Edgbaston, where he could be better venerated by pilgrims. Plans had been announced for the cardinal to lie in state for three days in the...

<p>The Drop Broke Saddam's neck killing him instantly. At the executions following the Nuremberg Trials others were not so lucky.</p> <p>"..The executions, in a brightly lighted prison gymnasium where three looming black wooden gallows had been erected, were witnessed by a handful of Allied military officers and eight journalists, one of whom, Kingsbury Smith of International News Service, wrote a famous newspaper article, "The Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 16 October 1946," based on his eyewitness observations. Although Smith discreetly omitted mentioning it, the experienced Army hangman, Master Sgt. John C. Woods, botched the executions. A number of the hanged Nazis died, not quickly from a broken neck as intended, but agonizingly from slow strangulation. Ribbentrop and Sauckel each took 14 minutes to choke to death, while Keitel, whose death was the most painful, struggled for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring..."</p>

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, in increasingly poor health before and since he left office three years ago, has vascular dementia and has moved into a convalescent center near his home, The News & Observer reported Sunday. "He has his good days and his bad days," his wife, Dot Helms, told the newspaper. "He still sees friends. Company is good for him. He is still signing books. But he is not able to conduct any business or make any speeches." The 84-year-old Republican has been slowed by a variety of illnesses, including a bone disorder, prostate cancer...

A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday. Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town of Benejúzar, 30 miles south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca. While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and allegedly taunted her about the attack. He is said to have called out "How's your...

When Mark Hofer realized a year ago he was going to die, he told one of his best friends to start making phone calls. "I want a party," the 46-year-old public relations specialist -- known for his vast collection of 1950s memorabilia and his sense of humor -- told Sally Cimini. "I want everyone to toast my memories." So, after her friend's death from prostate cancer in May, Cimini, a Downtown lawyer, did what many baby boomers -- and their parents -- are opting to do as they confront their mortality: She eschewed the traditional funeral in favor of a...