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ICC T20 Cricket Rankings 2015 - Top 10 Batsmen

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Kelly Clarkson is 'totally pregnant'

Surprise! Singer makes pregnancy announcement at show 01:47

(CNN)"Miss Independent" will now have two dependents.

Singer Kelly Clarkson announced during a show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that she's "totally pregnant."

This will be baby No. 2 for Clarkson, 33, and husband Brandon Blackstock.

The surprise announcement came Wednesday night after Clarkson broke down while singing "Piece by Piece," a song about her relationship with her dad.

"I wasn't planning on announcing. ... Totally pregnant," she gushed.

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Julian Bond, former NAACP chairman and activist, dies at 75

ATLANTA (AP) — Julian Bond's life traced the arc of the civil rights movement, from his efforts as a militant young man to start a student protest group all the way to the top leadership post at the NAACP.

Year after year, the calm, telegenic Bond was one of the nation's most poetic voices for equality, inspiring fellow activists with his words in the 1960s and sharing the movement's vision with succeeding generations as a speaker and academic. He died Saturday at 75.

Former Ambassador Andrew Young said Bond's legacy would be as a "lifetime struggler."

"He started when he was about 17 and he went to 75," Young said. "And I don't know a single time when he was not involved in some phase of the civil rights movement."

Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, after a brief illness, according to a statement issued Sunday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an advocacy group that he founded in 1971 and helped oversee for the rest of his life. His wife, Pamela Horowitz, said Bond suffered from vascular disease.

Her husband, she said, "never took his eyes off the prize and that was always racial equality."

The son of a college president burst into the national consciousness after helping to start the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, where he rubbed shoulders with committee leaders Stokely Carmichael and John Lewis. As the committee grew into one of the movement's most important groups, the young Bond dropped out of Morehouse College in Atlanta to serve as communications director. He later returned and completed his degree in 1971.

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Morgan Freeman's granddaughter Edena Hines found stabbed to death

The actor Morgan Freeman is mourning the death of his granddaughter, who was found stabbed to death on Sunday on a Manhattan street.

Police responding to a 911 call about 3am found 33-year-old Edena Hines lying on the street with multiple stab wounds to the chest. She was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.

A 30-year-old man was taken into police custody at the scene, in front of Hines’ apartment on West 162nd Street.

Freeman issued a statement, in which he said: “The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer.”

Hines had studied acting and was involved with teaching urban youth. She was the granddaughter of Freeman’s first wife.

No charges have been filed. Police are investigating the stabbing.

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49ers release Aldon Smith following arrest on DUI, hit and run charges

Smith was booked into the Santa Clara County jail and released Friday on $26,000 bond. It was his third arrest on suspicion of drunken driving since entering the league in 2011 as a first-round draft pick out of Missouri.

"It's a sad day," first-year 49ers coach Jim Tomsula said at a news conference Friday afternoon. "We're not worried about football. This has nothing to do with football. ... If one person out there reads this and you're struggling, get help. Go get it. You're worth it. We value every human being. Get the help. You don't have to walk alone. Find it. It's there.

"Although Aldon will not be playing football here, he will be supported. He will not be alone. ... We saw a man fighting, working and trying. ... Once again, real life, everyone has struggles. They're just in different ways. ... From our perspective, from him, we need the things that need to be addressed with 100 percent of everything he has."

Smith was arrested on suspicion of DUI in January 2012, a charge that was later reduced to reckless driving. Later that year, he faced three felony weapons charges stemming from a June 2012 party at his home. Police said several shots were fired, two partygoers were injured and Smith was stabbed. Smith pleaded not guilty, and the weapons charges were later reduced.

Smith was arrested and charged with DUI again after a car accident in September 2013. He voluntarily entered rehab and missed five games that season. In July 2014, Smith was sentenced to 11 days of work release for that DUI in Santa Clara.

In August 2014, Smith was suspended for the first nine games of last season for violating the NFL's personal-conduct and substance-abuse policies, in connection to the 2013 drunken-driving arrest.

Smith also was arrested April 13, 2014, at Los Angeles International Airport. Police said he was randomly selected for a secondary screening and became uncooperative, telling a TSA agent he had a bomb. No charges were filed in that incident.

On Tuesday, 49ers GM Trent Baalke said he wants the team to re-sign Smith.

"Aldon's like any young player," Baalke said. "He's growing up, he's maturing. You see that with a lot of these guys. Some of them get themselves in a few more situations that you wish they didn't ... [but I'm] really pleased with the way he's handled things, the way he's working both personally and professionally. I think he's doing an outstanding job. He's always been a great teammate. He's always had an excellent work ethic. Those are things he's even stepped up.

"He's in his contract year," he said. "He's poised to have a very good year. We expect him to have a very good year. I think he expects himself to have a very good year."

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Bernie Sanders Live-Tweeted The Republican Presidential Debate

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, live-tweeted the first GOP primary debate on Thursday night using the hashtag #DebateWithBernie.

Sanders posted an image of himself on a couch with a clipboard ahead of the debate, inviting people to watch along with him.

Sanders criticized Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) for his comments on Obamacare:

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Scarlett Byrne

Scarlett Byrne was born on October 6, 1990 in Hammersmith, London, England as Scarlett Hannah Byrne. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). See full bio »

Born:

 Scarlett Hannah Byrne 
October 6, 1990 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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Google Doodle Honors The First Ever Electric Traffic Light

The Doodle shows the jerky and chaotic traffic flow of a century past

The device, the predecessor to what is used worldwide today, was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 1914, at the corner of105th and Euclid.Wednesday’s Google Doodle offers a glimpse of what American traffic would’ve looked like 101 years ago, when the world’s first electric traffic light was installe

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LENNY KRAVITZ EXPOSES JUNK Leather Pants FAIL!!!

Lenny Kravitz had the worst wardrobe malfunction of all-time -- or maybe the best -- when his leather pants ripped completely open onstage ... and his junk fell out. 

Luckily, Lenny had a back-up pair of pants during his Monday show in Stockholm -- so he was able to do a quick wardrobe change and finish the concert. Even luckier ... he's got no reason to be shy.

Encore!

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Lenny Kravitz lets it rip on stage in Sweden

Kravitz performed to an audience of thousands of cheering fans at Stockholm's biggest theme park – Gröna Lund – on Monday night.

And the rock legend, who is not known for pulling any punches on stage, went all in to offer his Swedish audience the whole package. Yes, the whole package.

For as Kravitz crouched down in a laws-of-physics-defying way right at the start of the energetic performance, he managed to split his leather outfit at crotch level – leaving the artist with a gaping hole in his trousers.

And if there was one thing we did not know about the 51-year-old artist before that we know now – it is that he does not wear underwear. Let's just say the audience went nuts.

The Local is unable to publish picture proof of the revealing incident, but curious readers may click on the tweet below. Warning: contains nudity. Do not click if you are at work.

After leaving the stage for several minutes, the rocker reappeared in a new pair of trousers. And that's how you crack into the history books, folks.

“The producer stepped up and said that they had 'some problems on stage'. A bit later Kravitz came out wearing other trousers. He said 'sorry, I ripped my trousers',” a member of the audience, named only as Sara, told the Expressen tabloid after the show.

“It was insane, I killed myself laughing. And then I called my mum who was there at the show as well. Her reaction was the same and she almost killed herself laughing too,” she added.

Behind hits such as 'It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over', 'American Woman' and aptly titled 'Fly Away', Kravitz has sold almost 40 million albums worldwide and holds the record of most Grammy Awards in the category Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

He commented on the incident in Stockholm late on Tuesday by tweeting a screen shot of a text message from fellow rock star Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith fame:

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