Saturday, August 17, 2013
Lisa Robin Kelly, That '70s Show actress, dies aged 43

Actress
Lisa Robin Kelly, who had a role in the US sitcom That `70s Show
alongside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, has died at age 43.
Her manager Craig Wyckoff said Kelly died on Wednesday at a Los Angeles No official cause of death was given.
Kelly portrayed Laurie Forman, the promiscuous sister of Eric - played by Topher Grace on the Fox series, which ran from 1998 until 2006.
She left the series at the end of the fifth season in 2003. Her character was portrayed by the actress, Christina Moore, in season six.
Kelly fell out of the spotlight after leaving the show but soon began making headlines for her troubled personal life.
She was arrested in November along with her 61-year-old husband, Robert Joseph Gilliam, in connection with a disturbance at their home in North Carolina.
In June, she was arrested on suspicion of drink driving in California.
"Lisa had voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility early this week where she was battling the addiction problems that have plagued her these past few years," said Wyckoff.
"I spoke to her on Monday, and she was hopeful and confident, looking forward to putting this part of her life behind her. Last night, she lost the battle," he added.
Prior to That '70s Show, Kelly had minor roles in several US TV shows, including The X-Files, Charmed and Married With Children.
She also had roles in the TV movies Amityville Dollhouse, Late Last Night and Jawbreaker.
British embassy in Yemen to reopen
The UK embassy in Yemeni
capital Sanaa will open "as normal" on Sunday after staff were withdrawn
earlier this month due to "increased security concerns".
Announcing the news on Twitter, British ambassador Jane Marriott apologised for a "brief hiatus".
All UK staff based in Sanaa were sent home after messages
between the head of al-Qaeda and the group's head in Yemen about a major
attack were intercepted.
US embassies across the Middle East and North Africa were also closed.
A terror alert was sparked after secret plans discussed by
al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri and Nasser al-Wuhayshi were picked up
by US intelligence officials.
Unprecedented security measures were taken in Sanaa, with hundreds of armoured vehicles deployed.
Speaking at the time, the BBC's Abdullah Ghorab, in Sanaa,
said a security source had confirmed that Yemeni intelligence services
had discovered that dozens of al-Qaeda members had arrived in the city
in the preceding days in preparation for a major attack.
The source suggested it was to include explosions and suicide
attacks aimed at Western diplomatic missions and Yemeni military
headquarters.
Yemen is the base of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP), which has recently suffered a series of setbacks after the
military launched an offensive in June with the help of US forces.
The UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to the whole country.
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World Trade Center - 2014 Updated
Four office towers, a transit center
designed by Santiago Calatrava, a memorial and museum at the
downtown Manhattan site of the World Trade Center may be
complete by 2014, according to city and state officials.
About 250,000 people a day will be working and visiting the
complex, developer Larry Silverstein said today at a news
briefing at 7 World Trade Center, a 52-story office building
across a street from where the twin towers stood. Finished in
2006, it is the first of several planned for the site.
Construction continues on One
World Trade Center (WTC), center right, next to the footprints of the
former 1 World Trade Center (North Tower) and 2 World Trade Center
(South Tower) in the Financial District of Manhattan in this aerial photo taken over New York Photographer: Keyur Khamar/Bloomberg
A landscaped outdoor memorial featuring a walkway through a
grove of trees will adorn the site by next year’s 10th
anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, which killed 2,752, said
Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The National September 11 Memorial &
Museum, adjacent to the open plaza, will be completed in 2012,
said Bloomberg, who also serves as chairman of the museum.
The Alliance for Downtown New York, an association of lower
Manhattan businesses, said it expects the neighborhood to
attract about 12 million tourists in 2012, double the current
level. Construction work on the project’s signature 1,776-foot
building, 1 World Trade Center, has reached the 36th floor. The
tower will be done by 2013, said Christopher Ward, the executive
director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Conde Nast has said it intends to lease 1 million square
feet in the tower. Silverstein said he expects to have $3
billion in construction contracts on three buildings by next
year.
August Agreement
Last month, the Port Authority, which owns the lower
Manhattan site, approved an accord withSilverstein to help
finance two skyscrapers, consistent with a March agreement. The
accord ended a dispute of more than a year’s duration.
Silverstein, 79, who signed a 99-year lease for the trade
center just six weeks before the 2001 attacks, has the right to
build three towers. One World Trade Center is being built by the
Port Authority, which took over the project in 2006.
The agreement with Silverstein included a “cash trap”
provision ensuring that the Port Authority and other public
entities get repaid before he and other private investors reap
any profit from the two buildings under his control.
The project experienced delays that spanned the
administrations of three New York governors and at least four in
New Jersey. They each had to resolve disputes among themselves,
Silverstein, Mayor Bloomberg and officials of the Port
Authority, wahich owns the site.
“It’s very difficult to see progress when the action is
mostly negotiations,” Bloomberg said. Nine years is not a long
time, considering the complexity of the job, he said.
Residential development in the nine years since the attack
has changed the nature of a neighborhood, doubling the number of
people who live there to almost 60,000, according to state
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who represents lower
Manhattan.
The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News
parent Bloomberg LP.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Henry Goldman in New York City Hall at
hgoldman@bloomberg.net.
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