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Doctors say that the childhood illness that Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta’s son Jett had been suffering from, scientifically called Kawasaki disease, could not be blamed for his death because it was unlikely to cause the boy’s reported seizure.

"Seizures are not part of Kawasaki disease," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Stanford Shulman, a specialist in the disease at Northwestern University''''''''''''''''s Feinberg School of Medicine, as saying.

"If a teenager had a seizure and died, that would not commonly be due to Kawasaki disease," the expert added.

American actor Tom Cruise could end up being sued by a San Francisco advertising executive for using a replica of Adolf Hitler''''s globe in his movie “Valkyrie”.

Robert Pritikin owns several of Hitler’s artefacts, including the notorious globe, which the Fuehrer used to plan U-boat attacks from his compound in the Bavarian Alps.

Pritikin, who had bought Hitler’s globe in 2007 for 100,000 dollars, decided to take legal action after he saw a copied version of the globe in Cruise’s movie.

While most starlets find being naked on a film set daunting, American actress Jenna Fischer has revealed that she would rather do it on screen than at home.

Fischer, who had donned skimpy lingerie in the hilarious “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” early in 2008, likes being naked on a film set because it is possible to hide all the blemishes.

“In your house you don''t have a team of people lighting you perfectly. They can light your cellulite so you see it or don''t see it; it''s the most amazing thing,” Fox News quoted her as saying.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of influential Hamas Leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has converted to Christianity, and said that there will never be peace between Israel and Palestine.

Mosab Hassan Yousef stated, among other things, “Is there any chance for fire to co-exist with the water? It’s not about Israel, it’s not about Hamas: It’s about both ideologies,” FOX News reported.

Yousef (30) went on to state that Hamas betrays the Palestinian cause and tortures its own members.

A US airline has apologized to nine Muslim American passengers from the Washington area who were removed from a flight out of Reagan National Airport.

But a Muslim civil rights group has said that it intends to press a discrimination complaint against the airline for its treatment of the passengers, The Washington Post reported.

Surya, a four-year-old rescued orang-utan, enjoys riding on an inflatable jet ski at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Miami, Florida, USA centre, which is its home.

Surya, who was dressed in a child''s wetsuit to keep warm, enjoyed floating across the wide pool, waving at onlookers as the inflatable moved around.

Trainers at the centre put him in the pool every week to keep him active and challenged, and he enjoys splashing about with them.

Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, has passed away.

The boy, who was plagued by fits, was found dead in a bathtub.

Jett was staying with his father, mother Kelly Preston, and eight-year-old sister Ella Bleu at their Bahamas holiday home.

According to reports, he fell ill and hit his head.

He was rushed to hospital in Freeport from the Old Bahama Bay Resort on Grand Bahama island, but he was dead on arrival.

It was a caretaker who found Jett unconscious in the bathroom at 11.40am, say reports.

Here’s some good news for women who find it hard to squeeze into their skinny jeans, courtesy their big bottoms: a generously proportioned derriere could be good for health, say scientists.

Accord to research, the fat in buttocks and hips may protect against type 2 diabetes.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School in America reckon that the type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may offer some protection against developing the condition.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s two daughters are apparently not less than any celebrity, for a Des Moines diner has seen its cookie sales skyrocket since the little girls took a liking to them last year.

Baby Boomers Cafe owners Tom Magnani and Rodney Maxfield have revealed that their chocolate-chunk cookies were popular with the Obama family, including daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, during the campaign season.

They revealed that the little girls took a liking to the chocolate chunk cookie when they visited the campaign headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, last year.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has revealed that her unwed teen daughter Bristol, who gave birth to son Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Saturday, and her fiance Levi Johnston are working hard to balance schoolwork with their new parental obligations.

"You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time. They are certainly not high school dropouts," Fox News quoted the Alaska Governor as telling People magazine during a telephonic interview.