1.Celine Dion has revealed the heartbreaking news her husband is dying.
Ms Dion, whose voice is one of the world’s most remarkable instruments, told USA Today that she is preparing for a future without the man she has known for most of her life.
Celine met Rene Angélil for the first time when she was 12. He later became her manager and, in 1994, her husband.
Rene was diagnosed with throat cancer two years ago, and lives at the family’s Las Vegas home. He has been fed intravenously for two years, Dion says.
He has been sick for so long that the couple’s 4-year-old twins, Nelson and Eddy, “don’t know their father in any other state, and I’ll say ‘Come on, let’s go feed Dad,’ and they’ll come along with me.”
“But René really gave me a gift,” she told the newspaper.
“My biggest job is to tell my husband, we’re fine. I’ll take care of our kids. You’ll watch us from another spot.”
Celine took a year off her gig at Caesars Palace when René was going through treatment but will resume her show from Thursday.
She says René has told her to go forward in life, but also: “‘I want to die in your arms.’ OK, fine, I’ll be there, you’ll die in my arms.”
He is unlikely to make the debut of Dion’s new show, and she anticipates a “fragile” night.
“There will be moments. Of emptiness, laughter, awkwardness, tearing up,” she says. “But that’s the point of coming back.”
2.The US state of Ohio is considering a ban on abortion if the reason is Down syndrome.
The New York Times reports that Ohio is ready to approve the bill on the grounds that nobody is perfect.
Down syndrome is the result of a chromosomal abnormality. Children born with the syndrome face a number of developmental challenges but also live productive lives.
The fashion world has been abuzz this week as a Brisbane model, Maddie Stewart, who has Down syndrome, took to the cat walk in New York.
The Times quotes Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, saying: “We all want to be born perfect, but none of us are, and everyone has a right to live, perfect or not. Pretty soon, we’re going to find the gene for autism. Are we going to abort for that, too?”
There are doubts about whether a ban can be enforced, since a US Supreme Court ruling, Roe v Wade, grants a legal right to abortion to pregnant women in almost all circumstances (gender selection and late-term abortion are some exceptions.)
Studies suggest that as many as 90 percent of mothers choose abortion if a test shows up Down syndrome.
3.You do not have to drink eight glasses of water a day.
In news likely to be celebrated by owners of weak bladders everywhere, The New York Times: says: “If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this: You should drink eight glasses of water a day.”
“It’s just not true. There is no science behind it.”
The source of the myth is apparently a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that said “people need about 2.5 litres of water a day.”
The next sentence in the report – which almost never gets mentioned – was: “Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.”
Water is present in fruit, vegetables, juice, and tea and coffee.
“You don’t have to consume all the water you need through drinks,” the report says.
Also, there is no evidence “that drinking more water keeps skin hydrated and makes it look healthier or wrinkle free.”
So, give your bladder – and the planet – a break.
4.Wings are a thing now? Apparently so.
Sharon Stone wore a pair to a gala in New York this weekend. Fashionistas gave it the thumbs up. Men will so not get this.
