US news This article is more than 14 years oldObituaryCharles Houston obituaryThis article is more than 14 years oldAmerican pioneer of high-altitude medicine who led two landmark attempts on K2In 1950, the physician and mountaineer Charles Houston was walking towards Everest, one of a small group of friends, the first westerners to explore the Nepalese side of the mountain and its remote communities. In the village of Dhankuta, Houston read the words, written in English on a schoolroom wall: " Read More...
Publishing This article is more than 11 years oldObituaryHarry Chambers obituaryThis article is more than 11 years oldFounder and director of the publisher Peterloo PoetsHarry Chambers, who has died aged 75, was the founder and director of the publisher Peterloo Poets, and described by his friend Seamus Heaney as being one of the great "hearers and hearteners" of British and Irish poetry. In 1972, with the financial assistance of a bookseller, EJ Morten, he published four hardback volumes under the imprint of Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets. Read More...
Daniel Davis played the wise-cracking butler Niles on classic ’90s sitcom The Nanny. And the 75-year-old actor has now revealed how he landed the role, telling Australian morning show Studio 10 he couldn’t believe his luck when he got the call.
Then Did Fran and Maxwell have a baby? Maxwell proposes marriage and, following several snafus, they are finally married in the season 5 finale. Fran gives birth to fraternal twins, Jonah Samuel and Eve Catherine, in the series finale. Read More...