Curvy model 'still on cloud 9' with sudden fame
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Khloe Kardashian Shares Super Skinny Selfie: 'People Love to Call Me the Fat One'
Khloe Kardashian is putting in work! The reality star posted a new selfie Friday, showcasing an impressively slim figure, and posted some inspirational words about her fitness journey along with the new pic. PICS: Kourtney Kardashian and JWoww's Post-Baby Bodies Will Make You Consider Waist Training "My fitness journey will be a life long journey," the 30-year-old reality star wrote along with her selfie. "Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It's about being better than you used to be. I'm not where I want to be and who knows if I ever will be. But I am healthier than ever and due to my consistent workouts, I am slowly seeing results. Hi baby abs!! I see you!!! I hope to meet your other ab friends soon (yes I'm talking to my muscles. I've never met most of them before)." Khloe also posted a side-by-side photo of the new selfie and a pic of her on the red carpet from 2010, along with a longer comment addressing the lifestyle changes she has made in recent years. "Looking back at pictures of myself I didn't realize at the time how unhealthy my lifestyle actually was," she wrote. "People love to call me the fat one but as weird as it sounds I still don't think I would consider myself fat back then. Definitely overweight and unhealthy, yes. About two years ago I decided to turn to fitness as a form of therapy and as a stress reliever. I started slow and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere and doing something is better than nothing at all." NEWS: 6 Things You Don't Know About Khloe Kardashian The reality star also posted some inspirational words to fans motivated by her fitness journey. "Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up," Kardashian advised. "Remember it is all about consistency. There are no quick fixes if you want long-term results. Working out is a huge part of my life now. I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul. We all have different journeys in life, make sure your journey is for you and you alone. Remember in the end the turtle won the race. Slow and steady. dedication and tenacity." One look at Khloe’s Instagram and you know she’s telling the truth as gym selfies abound. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has also dabbled in some waist training like both her older sisters and J.Woww. And waist training while working out! WATCH: Dr. Oz Spills More Weight-Loss Secrets
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Poland's 'Barbie' candidate dashes hope for left's revival
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's main left-wing party was once a major player. It helped bring Poland into the European Union, sent troops to Iraq and let the CIA operate a secret prison for terror suspects.
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Alexey Shved throws the ball way over the basket, confuses all
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Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly
WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps. "I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday...
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British TV shows student picture of 'Jihadi John' in baseball cap
Sky News broadcast a photograph of the 26-year-old wearing a black cap with a logo that resembled the P from the Pittsburgh Pirates U.S. Major League Baseball team, which it said was stored by the University of Westminster where he studied. Two U.S. government sources have told Reuters that Emwazi is Jihadi John, the black-clad militant seen brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent in videos released by Islamic State (IS). The document obtained by Sky News also showed that Emwazi had completed a degree in Information Systems with Business Management.
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American Airlines Flight Delayed 9 Hours by Heavy Snow, Mechanical Problem
What was supposed to be a nearly one-hour flight turned into a nine-hour ordeal for passengers on board an American Airlines plane delayed for hours because of icy conditions and a mechanical problem. American Airlines flight 382 was scheduled to leave for Oklahoma City from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at 1:45 p.m. CT Friday, but the plane was grounded until 10:48 p.m. CT. "We get on the plane and it's just one thing after another," said passenger Brandon Sullivan. After about five hours, a mechanical problem kept the plane grounded, said Sullivan.
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Retreating ice in a warming Antarctica (21 photos)
From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging thousands of feet (hundreds of meters) below to re-shape Earth. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea — 130 billion tons of ice (118 billion metric tons) per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. That's the weight of more than 356,000 Empire State Buildings, enough ice melt to fill more than 1.3 million Olympic swimming pools. And the melting is accelerating. In the worst case scenario, Antarctica's melt could push sea levels up 10 feet (3 meters) worldwide in a century or two, recurving heavily populated coastlines. Parts of Antarctica are melting so rapidly it has become "ground zero of global climate change without a doubt," said Harvard geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica. (AP) Photographs by Natacha Pisarenk/AP Photos Find more news-related pictures in our photo galleries and follow us on Tumblr.
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Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning
If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang. In the new formulation, the universe was never a singularity, or an infinitely small and infinitely dense point of matter. "Our theory suggests that the age of the universe could be infinite," said study co-author Saurya Das, a theoretical physicist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. The new concept could also explain what dark matter — the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe — is actually made of, Das added.
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Leonard Nimoy was saying goodbye for months on Twitter
Leonard Nimoy, the beloved actor best known for his role as Spock on Star Trek, died Friday morning at the age of 83. His Twitter feed suggests that he had been saying goodbye to his fans for months, with sentimental and instructive missives that often ended with the acronym LLAP, which stands for "live long and prosper" — a reference to the show that made him famous.
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Indonesia's stance 'clear' on Australians' executions: Widodo
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has said his country's stance is "clear" on the pending executions of two Australian drug smugglers, despite the suggestion by Australia's prime minister that he is "carefully considering" his position. The executions by firing squad of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the Australian ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug smuggling gang, are believed to be imminent. Their appeals for presidential clemency, typically the final chance of avoiding death, were recently rejected by Widodo, and a court this week dismissed a bid to challenge that decision. The looming sentences have dramatically heightened tensions between Australia and Indonesia, fraying ties that were only just recovering from a spying row.
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7 Ways to Skimp on a Bathroom Renovation (8 photos)
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Mexico captures most wanted drug kingpin, former teacher 'La Tuta'
By Anahi Rama and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico captured its most wanted drug lord on Friday, former primary school teacher Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, delivering a boost to a government battered by gang violence. The 49-year-old gang boss was the prime target of President Enrique Peña Nieto's effort to regain control of Michoacan, a western state wracked by clashes between Gomez's Knights Templar cartel and armed vigilantes trying to oust them. Peña Nieto has been trying to quell public outrage in Mexico after the late September abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers by corrupt police in league with gang members.
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CBS News’ Lara Logan Hospitalized With Internal Bleeding
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was admitted to a D.C.-area hospital Wednesday with internal bleeding, a CBS spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap. “We wish Lara a speedy recovery,” a spokesperson for “60 Minutes” told TheWrap, declining to comment more specifically on the correspondent’s condition. The New York Post reports Logan was admitted to the hospital with digestive disease diverticulitis and internal bleeding.
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