British Museum the most popular UK's visitor attraction

 

 (BBC News)The British Museum was the UK's most popular visitor attraction in 2012 - the sixth year running it has been so.

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva) said the London venue attracted 5.6 million visitors.
Artist Damien Hirst's retrospective contributed to a 9% rise in Tate Modern visitors, which had 5.3 million.
Despite bad weather and the Olympics, there was an overall 5.1% increase in visitors at all UK attractions, from 87.7 million in 2011 to 92.1 million.
Visitors were briefly deterred from central London during the games, but Alva director Bernard Donohue called the recovery "almost immediate".

Lion kills woman at California park

A lion has killed a volunteer at a private big cat park near Fresno, California, officials say.

The 26-year-old woman was attacked and killed when she entered the animal's enclosure.
Fresno County Sheriff's Sgt Greg Collins said investigators were trying to determine why the worker was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack.

HOMEMDGE RECIPE FOR A HAPPY WIFE

The other day someone asked my husband a very interesting question. They said: “Your wife seems to smile all the time. How do you keep her so happy?” Now, he laughed at first, because he knows good and well there is no such thing as a wife who’s happy wife 24/7, but then he took a stab at giving them what he felt was a sufficient answer. He wants to post a video blog about what he said, so I’ll hold on going into it for now. However, I would like to share what I think the recipe for a happy wife is.
Wives, send this to the hubby if you agree. Men, listen up (even if you’re not married yet!). This is how my husband makes me happy — and as most of you can see, I smile a lot. Okay, let’s do this!

Mother bitten by spider nearly dies became infected by flesh-eating bug

Lengthy ordeal: Sue Isaac recuperating in Spain after she was bitten by a spider

A mother-of-three nearly died after being bitten by a spider while sunbathing on holiday.
Doctors had to operate to save Sue Isaac after the wound became infected by a rare flesh-eating bug.
She feared at one point they would have to amputate her leg.
Mrs Isaac, 58, was bitten on the bottom by the spider while relaxing by the pool in southern Spain.

Actress Bonnie Franklin dies

(CNN) -- Actress Bonnie Franklin, a Tony Award nominee who played a single mom at the center of the hit TV sitcom "One Day at a Time," died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Franklin was 69.

The woman who played the youngest daughter of Franklin's character on the CBS show, Valerie Bertinelli, said her "heart is breaking" after hearing the news.

"Bonnie has always been one of the most important women in my life and was a second mother to me," Bertinelli said. "She taught me how to navigate this business and life itself with grace and humor, and to always be true to yourself.