Susan Boyle hospitalized

Susan Boyle hospitalized after losing 'Britain's Got Talent'
On Saturday, Susan Boyle lost "Britain's Got Talent" and on Sunday she lost her way. She was admitted into a clinic suffering from exhaustion. All of the attention finally proved to be too much for this 48-year-old spinster from a small Scottish village. She came to fame a mere seven weeks ago when her first audition for "Britain's Got Talent" became a You Tube sensation.

"Britain's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan told the BBC that Susan Boyle was feeling "physically and mentally drained" prior to her admission to the Priory clinic. That private facility is well known for helping celebrities deal with mental health issues. In the week leading up to Saturday's final, Susan Boyle's behavior came under fire by the notorious British press.

On Saturday night, Susan Boyle was gracious in defeat. Dance group Diversity bested her in the public vote, receiving 24.9% to her 20.2% of the nearly 4 million votes cast. The third-place finisher, saxophonist Julian Smith, earned 16.4% with the other seven finalists, splitting the remaining 40%. Unlike "American Idol," it costs money to vote in "Britain's Got Talent" — 50 pence (about 80 cents) for each call.

When the shock result was announced, Susan Boyle beamed with delight and told show hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, "The best people won. They are very entertaining lads," before turning to Diversity to say, "Lads, I wish you all the best."




And on the follow-up "Britain's Got More Talent," she reiterated, "I think the best people won — I really do." When that show's host, Stephen Mulhern, asked Boyle about her own plans, she said, "I hope to get an album out. I'll just play it by ear." And when asked to sum up the experience, she said, "What a journey. Unbelievable, and very humbling. Thank you for everything."

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Air France Flight 447 disappears from air, presumed to have crashed


Air France Flight 447 flying from Brazil to France lost contact after its takeoff, reported to have crashed with 228 aboard

Jessica Lutjemeyer



According to Reuters, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-200, went missing early Monday after disappearing from the skies and is presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

On board of the missing Air France plane were 216 passengers and 12 crew members, according to Air France company spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand.

Reuters reported that Air France expressed condolences to passengers’ families, implying that the airline did not expect to find any survivors from the alleged crash.

According to an Air France spokesman who relayed the information to press, several plane mechanisms had malfunctioned, and that “a combination of circumstances” caused the plane to crash into the Atlantic Ocean

According to the BBC, Air France Flight 447 left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s Galeao International Airport at 7 p.m on May 31st. It was scheduled to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle at 11:10 a.m., but reportedly entered a “thunderous zone with strong turbulence,” according to an official Air France statement.

The jet had last contact with Brazil’s Air Force around 9:30 p.m. May 31, but Air France Flight 447 did not state where the plane was, according to Yahoo! News.

About four hours after its takeoff, the plane sent out an automated message specifying that there was an “electrical circuit malfunction” on board.

Though the Air France spokesman said that a lightning strike could be conceivably responsible Air France Flight 447’s crash, most experts said that the likelihood that lightning brought the plane down is slim.

Bill Voss, president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation, told the Associated Press that while issues surrounding lightning have been discussed since aviation’s dawn, lightning issues “were far more prevalent when aircraft operated at low altitudes.”

Additionally, Voss told the AP that lightning strikes “are less common now, since it’s easier [for planes] to avoid thunderstorms.” Since Planes have specific measures built in to dissipate electricity if a plane is struck, Voss told the AP that he could not “recall in recent history any examples of aircraft being brought down by lightning.”

Additionally, the fact there was no reported mayday call means that the cause of the crash came quick;y. Chris Yates, who is an analyst for Jane’s Aviation, told the AP that “something catastrophic happened on board that has caused this airplane to ditch in a controlled or an uncontrolled fashion.”

A Pentagon official in Washington, D.C. said he hadn’t seen any indication of terrorism or foul play, Yahoo! News reported.

Seven hours after the automated message was received, Paris airport officials declared the plane to be missing, according to BBC News. Shortly thereafter, Brazil’s Air Force confirmed a search and rescue operation near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha.

The head of investigation for Brazil’s Civil Aeronautics Agency, Douglas Ferreira Machado, that the plane could have been near the coast of Africa by the time contact was lost, based upon the plane’s speed.

Machado told Globo TV that carrying out the search would “take a long time,” adding that the plane’s “black box will be at the bottom of the sea.”

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his “extreme worry” and planned to visit the Charles de Gaulle airport later Monday, according to Yahoo! News.

The aircraft, registered F-GZCP, had been in operation since April 2005, according to BBC News.

Our Take:
At this time, while the cause of the plane’s disappearance remains unknown, we can remain only hopeful that something soon will be found out. Similarly, our thoughts are with the plane’s passengers and their families. Hopefully, everyone will be all right. This is a sad and troubling incident.

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Nikki Catsouras Accident Pictures

By Jessica Bennett | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 25, 2009
From the magazine issue dated May 4, 2009


This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can't print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.

The Web is full of dark images, so perhaps the urge to post these tragic pictures isn't surprising. But for the Catsouras family, the photos are a daily torment. Just days after Nikki's death, her father, a local real-estate agent, clicked open an e-mail that appeared to be a property listing. Onto his screen popped his daughter's bloodied face, captioned with the words "Woohoo Daddy! Hey daddy, I'm still alive." Nikki's sisters—Danielle, 18, Christiana, 16, and Kira, 10—have managed to avoid the photos, but live in fear that they'll happen upon them. And so the Catsourases are spending thousands in legal fees in an attempt to stop strangers from displaying the grisly images—an effort that has transformed Nikki's death into a case about privacy, cyber-harassment and image control.

The Catsourases are by no means the first to suffer at the hands of cyber-aggressors. But their story is unique in that it touches on so many of the ways the Web has become perverted: as an outlet for morbid curiosities, a space where cruel behavior suffers little consequence and an uncontrollable forum in which things that were once private—like photos of the dead—can go public in an instant. The case also illustrates how the law has struggled to define how legal concepts like privacy and defamation are translated into an online world.

For the Catsouras family, calling attention to the case has obvious drawbacks: they realize some who read this story may seek out their daughter's death photos, though they desperately hope you won't. But the family decided that sharing its story with NEWSWEEK was worth that risk, to raise awareness of the real suffering caused by their dissemination—and of the need for America's legal system to better protect privacy in the Internet age. "The fact is that we will never get rid of the photos anyway," says Lesli, Nikki's mother. "So we have made a decision to make something good come out of this horrible bad."

From the beginning, Nikki's death had all the makings of a sensational story. She was gorgeous; it was Halloween, and she was driving a $90,000 sports car. She was from Orange County; the Beverly Hills 90210 of the housewives-filled suburbs. And from the outside, the Catsourases seemed to have it all: Christos and Lesli and their four beautiful girls lived in a planned community with man-made parks and multimillion-dollar homes. The family ate dinner together almost every night; their best friends lived next door.

But the family's life wasn't as idyllic as it seemed. In third grade, Nikki was diagnosed with a brain tumor that doctors didn't think she'd survive. It turned out to be benign, but 8-year-old Nikki had to undergo intensive radiation, and doctors told her parents the effects of that treatment on her young brain might show up someday—perhaps by causing changes in her judgment, or impulse control. Her family believes that's why, the summer before the accident, Nikki tried cocaine and ended up in the hospital in a cocaine-induced psychosis. She used cocaine again the night before the accident, her family says. Lesli and Christos discussed checking her into a hospital, but decided against it: she was to visit a psychiatrist the next day, a specialist on brain disorders. So they let her sleep it off, and the next day, the three of them ate lunch together.

Afterward, as Christos left for work, he waved goodbye to his daughter, and Nikki flashed him a peace sign from the couch, smiling. Lesli went to fold laundry. About 10 minutes later, Lesli heard the door slam, and footsteps out the back door. She walked toward the garage, hesitantly, and locked eyes with Nikki, who was backing out of the driveway in Christos's Porsche 911 Carrera—a car she was never allowed to drive. Lesli called out to her, but Nikki looked away, accelerating out the cul-de-sac. Lesli phoned Christos, who began driving around trying to find his daughter and called 911. As he waited on hold, two police cars raced past him, sirens blaring, headed toward the toll road. "Has there been an accident?" he asked. "Yes," the dispatcher told him. "A black Porsche."

nikki catsouras accident pictures

By Jessica Bennett | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 25, 2009
From the magazine issue dated May 4, 2009

At the accident site, a crane was lifting the remains of a car so crumpled it was hard to tell what it had been. But Christos recognized a hubcap, barely attached, and collapsed onto the pavement. Later, two coroners told the family Nikki had been driving at close to 100mph when she clipped another vehicle, tumbled over the median and smashed into the concrete tollbooth. An autopsy would later reveal that she still had cocaine in her system.

Two weeks later, Lesli's brother, Geoff, got a call from a neighbor. "Have you seen the photos?" he asked. Apparently, photos of the crash scene were circulating around town, via e-mail. Soon they showed up on Web sites, many of them dedicated to hard-core pornography and death. A fake MySpace page was set up in Nikki's name, where she was identified as a "stupid bitch." "That spoiled rich girl deserved it," one commenter wrote. "What a waste of a Porsche," announced another.

The family filed a formal complaint about the photos' release, and three months later, they received a letter of apology from the California Highway Patrol. An investigation had revealed that the images, taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response, had been leaked by two CHP dispatchers: Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30. O'Donnell, a 19-year CHP veteran, had been suspended for 25 days without pay. Reich quit soon after—for unrelated reasons, says his lawyer. Both men declined requests for comment, but Jon Schlueter, Reich's attorney, says his client sent the images to relatives and friends to warn them of the dangers of the road. "It was a cautionary tale," Schlueter says. "Any young person that sees these photos and is goaded into driving more cautiously or less recklessly—that's a public service."