Melbourne Stars sign quickly with New Zealand Adam Milne for a pre-Christmas stint in the BBL to replace the Pakistani legspinner Osama Mir who will miss the first three matches of the season. Meanwhile, the Stars are expected to unveil a new captain this week after Glenn Maxwell retired at the end of last season. … Read more
Canadian actor Julian Arnold died during a performance of “A Christmas Carol” after suffering a medical emergency. It’s not clear what caused Arnold’s death, but paramedics arrived at the Citadel Theater in Edmonton, Canada, at approximately 8:28 p.m. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Paramedics performed resuscitation attempts, but Arnold died in the operating room. … Read more
Clay Aiken returns with new holiday album ‘Christmas Bells Are Ringing’ – CBS News Watch CBS News Award-winning singer Clay Aiken, who rose to fame on American Idol, joins “CBS Mornings Plus” to talk about his new holiday album, “Christmas Bells Are Ringing,” and his rendition of Bing Crosby’s “Do You Hear What I Hear?” … Read more
Initially a magazine short story, then expanded into novel form in 1972, Barbara Robinson’s “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” has remained a holiday staple ever since. Its delightful central conceit of Roald Dahl-style comic ugliness – the first sentence pegs the main characters as “the worst children ever to have ever lived in the history … Read more