Monday, July 20, 2009

Solitary dead at Slovak music festival


One person has died after a huge exhibition area distorted on a crowd of concert goers at Slovakia's biggest music festival.
One more 40 were wounded - 15 critically - when a gust of wind lifted and then brought down the tent during a rain storm in the western town of Trencin.
Organizers cancelled the Pohoda festival, which was attended by more than 30,000 music fans.
One report said the accident victim was a young boy.
Mario Gesvantner, a spokesman for the organisers, said weather forecasts had not warned of severe storms.

Yorke acting singly concert at Latitude


Broadcasting head face man Thom Yorke has played a rare acoustic set to kick off the last day of the Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
Masses began to congregate at the main stage with their breakfast rolls during the singer's sound check at 10am BST.
By the time Yorke got on stage at noon, the audience equaled that of Saturday night's headliner, Grace Jones.
Seated behind a grand piano, the 41-year-old opened with the title track from his 2006 album The Eraser.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Octuplets Mom's Son quick to Hospital


Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman's two-year-old son Caleb was quick to a hospital late Friday after accidentally drinking a chemical solution from his older brother's home volcano kit. The youngster vomited after swallowing the liquid; his mother decided to call paramedics just to play it safe.
"I knew it would all get blown out of part if I called, but I didn't want to take any chances," Suleman tells PEOPLE. "I think I did the right thing. He's okay."
The mother and her son were quick to St. Jude Medical Center in nearby Fullerton, Calif., where doctors ran tests on the youngster to determine exactly what was in the solution he drank. It turned out to contain mostly salt water, according to a family friend. Two and a half hours later Suleman and Caleb were back at home with the 13 other members of their family.