Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the holy season of Lent for many Christians in the Western church. Catholics and Protestants usually head inside their local church to receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead.
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The news of the departure of yet another high-ranking Delray Beach employee was delivered in an unexpected manner - in the middle of an election debate. Jim Chard, a candidate for Delray Beach city commission Seat 2, was asked Tuesday evening during a forum at Old School Square about the city's high rate of staff turnover.
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A man who is currently buried alive and breathing through pipes in Belfast appeared calm and talkative on Wednesday evening, as he broadcast a live video of his experience on the internet. Born-again Christian John Edwards, in his 60s and from Dublin, is taking part in the stunt in an unusual bid to try and offer "hope" to those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts and addiction.
The cast of the new "Dancing With the Stars" season was announced this morning. As usual, it's a collection of celebrities, athletes and people you may not have thought about lately.
Kaia Larka, left, competes to win the annual Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race in the town of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, England, Tuesday, Feb. 28. Every year, women clad in aprons and head scarves from Olney and the city of Liberal, in Kansas, U.S., run their respective legs of the race with a pancake in their pan. According to legend, the Olney race started in 1445 when a harried housewife arrived at church on Shrove Tuesday still clutching her frying pan with a pancake in it.
WASH BOWL: Edward Morris, alias Metal Detector Man, with The Wash Bowl, one of his three artwork pieces based on King John's lost treasure which is reputed to have sunk in mud around The Wash 800 years ago. Photo by Tim Wilson. SG280217-208TW.
However, whether you love them, loathe them or feel indifferently to them, it would probably be quite fun to be royal. One man in the US certainly seems to agree, and rather than finding an opportunity to marry into the Royal family, he's gone one better and is staking his claim to the throne.
Entitled We Will Multiply, the 2017 work is by former Turner Prize-winner Laure Prouvost, who draws on the "everyday and domestic" while merging "life and art". She is one of four artists who feature in the show Speak, which opens at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery on Thursday.
Furious Slimming World members are reeling today after it was revealed they've been eating 'low fat' sausages which turned out to be, well, not so low fat after all... Porky Lights sausages, on sale in major supermarkets, have been selling out for months because of their low 'Syn' value on the weight loss plan. People were even seen fighting in shop aisles over the meaty treats and they sold out so often that Slimming World members were stocking their freezers whenever they could.
The only cure for Seattle traffic? Tacos, of course. A food truck reached hero status on Monday after opening for business in the middle of a major traffic jam.
French authorities have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a family of four near Nantes in Western France. Pascal and Brigitte Troadec, both about 50 and their children Sebastien, 21 and Charlotte, 18 have not been seen since Feb. 16. Officials say there has been no activity in their bank accounts and their phones have been off since Feb. 17 Prosecutor Pierre SennA s says bloodstains matching the DNA of three of the four family members have been found under the stairs, on Sebastien's cell phone and on Brigitte's watch.
But that's precisely what sat on top of 99-year-old Annie's list: "Experience a police cell from within." Annie's niece contacted officers in the Dutch town of Nijmegan-Zuid to tell them about her aunt's dream.
In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 photo, uneaten food that students have donated sits on a table where it can be shared with classmates at James H. Moran Middle School in Wallingford, Conn. School officials there are criticizing a state policy change that restricts sharing of some uneaten food items.
Veterinarians say a red-tailed hawk that got stuck in the grille of a vehicle in Massachusetts last weekend sustained such severe injuries that it had to be euthanized. Police say the bird got stuck after swooping in front of an SUV on Interstate 495 in Milford on Saturday.
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For the past couple of months, meat-loving Slimming World followers thought they had found the holy grail of sausages. Porky Lights promised all the tastiness and texture of a proper sausage at a fraction of the calories, costing just half a 'Syn' on the Slimming World plan - compared to the usual four or five syns for a regular sausage.
Dancing with the Stars will return Monday, March 20, with a celebrity cast including Mr. T, Charo , Chris Kattan and Nancy Kerrigan. The cast of the 24th season of the ABC series was announced today on the network's Good Morning America.
The Oscar winner has been known to make some controversial beauty suggestions on her website, Goop, since its fruition. Do $50 vagina steams ring a bell? What about a sprinkle of Moon Juice Sex Dust for her morning smoothies? Then, of course, there was the $15,000 golden dildo she included in Goop's roundup of "not-so-basic" sex toys.
Wondering if anyone has any ideas about this one. About 9:45am we lost internet connectivity across the site.
According to the park, April is "as large as ever," and is "carrying a bit higher and tighter" as of Tuesday evening. Keepers have not yet announced active labor, and said in a Facebook post that both mother and baby are "happy and healthy."
A 13-year-old Georgia girl "freaked out" after seeing a not-so-typical figure appear in the background of her selfie. Jessica Ogletree posted a photo of her daughter on a fishing trip this weekend in Tifton, Ga.
When it comes to blockbuster movies, visual effects companies can create anything. Sequences where entire cities are destroyed or an entire creature created with visual effects happen regularly, and the technology is so advanced that they pretty much all look incredible.
While he may not know what he's getting from half to half Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy has been pleased with what he's gotten from game to game the last two outings. Ole Miss won in overtime at Mississippi State last Tuesday and an avoided overtime with big shots down the stretch against Missouri.
The photo was created by Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka . He's Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Japan and specialises in optical illusions.
The women, usually retirees, meet at dusk and dawn in public squares, plazas or parks and perform synchronized dance routines to deafeningly-loud music -- often with costumes or props. Public dancing has exploded in popularity in China as these women -- and a few men -- look for low-cost ways to stay fit and socialize.
While the nation was divided on their views over Pakistan after Gurmehar Kaur's tweet and the controversy of 'Fightback DU' campaign, some Pakistani women were busy sharing the plight of their life. Marriage changes everything in the lives the couple who decide to walk down the aisle.
"It's a totally febrile atmosphere here. It's kind of like Game of Thrones meets House of Cards - and if you chuck in the Labour Party - Laurel and Hardy too."
Conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon arrives to deliver his speech at his campaign headquarters in Paris, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Fillon's campaign for the French presidency faced new uncertainty Wednesday as he abruptly canceled a campaign stop at the country's premier farm fair and an investigation intensified into alleged fake parliamentary jobs for his family.
Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Huong, center, in the ongoing assassination investigation, is escorted by police officers out from Sepang court in Sepang, Malaysia on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Appearing calm and solemn, two young women accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, were charged with murder Wednesday.
A Charlotte man plans to spend his $1 million North Carolina lottery prize on a house with enough room for two goats his fiancee wants to get. Lottery officials tell the Charlotte Observer that over the weekend, Bobby Murphy bought five $10 50X The Cash tickets at 7-Eleven and saw he won the top prize on the last ticket he scratched off.
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Police tell WABC-TV that the man grabbed a 32-year-old woman by the buttocks in a Manhattan subway station around 7 p.m. on Feb. 8. Investigators say the man then grabbed a 34-year-old woman by the backside later that night. Authorities have released photos of the suspect.
In this June 4, 2010, file photo, dressed in jeans and blue suede loafers, Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, waves after his first-ever interview with South Korean media in Macau. Kim Jong Nam had spent years in exile, gambling and drinking and arranging the occasional business deal as he traveled across Asia and Europe.
The stakes were lower at the 1964 Oscars when Sammy Davis Jr. got handed the wrong envelope . But he handled it like a boss.
Although discouraging the marriage of children in developing nations has been U.S. foreign policy for years, a data-collecting watchdog group in America disclosed in February that 27 U.S. states have no minimum marriage ages and estimates that an average of almost 25,000 children age 15 and under are permitted to marry every year . Child marriage is often allowed in the U.S. if parents approve, although no such exemption is made in foreign policy, largely to curb developing nations' "family honor" marriages-which often wreck girls' chances for self-actualizing.
Although discouraging the marriage of children in developing nations has been U.S. foreign policy for years, a data-collecting watchdog group in America disclosed in February that 27 U.S. states have no minimum marriage ages and estimates that an average of almost 25,000 children age 15 and under are permitted to marry every year . Child marriage is often allowed in the U.S. if parents approve, although no such exemption is made in foreign policy, largely to curb developing nations' "family honor" marriages-which often wreck girls' chances for self-actualizing.
"Guys did you hear that?" he says. "That was seriously two loud bangs I don't know what the f*** that was."
Kyle Fowler, 28, says he was 'almost possessed' by the infamous 'Black Monk' while investigating 30 East Drive in Pontefract The 28-year-old visited the house of the 'most violent poltergeist haunting in Europe' last week with Psychic Medium Lillyanne, her husband Jack Bairstow and son, Ashley Flay. The house, 30 East Drive in Pontefract, West Yorks, was the site where the Pritchard family were allegedly subjected to years of torment by the so-called 'Black Monk of Pontefract'.
Visitors to Central Park's Conservatory Garden pass a flowering rhododendron, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in New York. Crocuses, cherry trees, magnolia trees are blooming several weeks early because of an unusually warm February.
This image released by Disney shows Benedict Cumberbatch in a scene from Marvel's “Doctor Strange.” While I wasn't as rapturous about the Oscar winner “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins's second feature, as others, it was still one of the best films of 2016. I think Jenkins turned a small personal film into what feels like a much larger vision.