Veteran actor Mzee Ojwang, 78, passes on at KNH

Mr Benson Wanjau, famously known as Mzee Ojwang' Hatari, has died.
Mzee Ojwang, 78, died on Sunday evening while undergoing treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
He had been admitted to the hospital at noon on Sunday and passed on at 8pm, from what doctors said could be pneumonia.
Kenyans took to social media to eulogise the veteran actor after the news of his death.
“It was an honour to have interacted with you and the crew while at @KBCChannel1 #RIP great one,” Senator Naisula Lesuuda ‏tweeted via @Lesuuda page.
The actor hit the news early this year after he suffered from partial blindness.
He was suffering in silence and it took the intervention of Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko, who rushed him to Loresho Hospital to see an ophthalmologist.
Since then, he had disappeared from TV screens.
The actor had come to represent the image of talented artistes who become popular to millions of television viewers but whose lives take a turn for the worse after their on-screen careers

Man 'has sex with dog to get revenge on wife for giving it too much attention'

Jonathan Edward Medley's wife thought he was having an affair with another woman - until she caught him on film, police said
A man allegedly had sex with his wife's dog because he was jealous her giving it too much attention.
Jonathan Edward Medley, of Geneva, Alabama has been charged with animal cruelty, according to police, who say that he felt that his wife was spurning him in favour of Buster the Shih Tzu.
Geneva Police Captain Ricky Morgan said that the 39-year-old was "mad at his wife because she paid more attention to the dog than him so he had sex with the dog".

According to the New York Daily News: "[His wife] actually thought he was having an affair with another woman and hid a recording device.
"She learned he was in fact molesting the dog.”

Vanessa Hudgens - Role as a prostitute in her new film

LOS ANGELES - STAR of the High School Musical franchise, Vanessa Hudgens, will reportedly strip off in a role as a prostitute in her new film.

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series.She pursued a solo music career and released her debut album V on September 26, 2006. The album debuted at number twenty four in the U.S. and was later certified Gold. Hudgens released her second album, Identified in July 1, 2008 in the U.S. She has three upcoming films: Bandslam, in theaters August 14, 2009,Beastly in 2010, and Sucker Punch!

According to media reports on Tuesday, the Disney star, 20, will be naked in the film Sucker Punch.

"I'm playing a character named Blondie and it's set in a brothel in the 1950s, so there's not a whole lot of clothes,' Hudgens told Metro.co.uk.

'It'll be gun training, stunts, fighting and all that craziness. I can't wait. I'm so excited.

'I'm so excited. I've wanted to do an action film for a while,' said Hudgens

Jeb Bush: Next president should privatize Social Security

WASHINGTON – Jeb Bush thinks the next president will need to privatize Social Security, he said at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday – acknowledging that his brother attempted to do so and failed. It’s a position sure to be attacked by both Republicans and Democrats.

Bush has previously said he would support raising the retirement age to get Social Security benefits, a common position among Republicans. And he backed a partial privatization that House Republicans have proposed that would allow people to choose private accounts.

The future of Social Security has become one of the most hotly contested issues in national politics, and both parties have accused the other of threatening its survival. Republicans argue that Democrats’ refusal to change the program will lead to its bankruptcy. Democrats say privatization would kill the program and leave elderly Americans at the mercy of the stock market. Plus, any discussion of changing the system often creates fear in older Americans beyond or nearing the age of retirement, who also tend to vote in the greatest numbers.

Republicans have split on the answer to fix the program, which could begin to pay out more than it takes in as more baby boomers retire and younger generations aren’t able to pay enough into the system to keep it going. Understanding the fear privatization proposals create, some Republicans have argued that the retirement age should be increased or means-testing established instead. Many Democrats advocate raising the ceiling for the tax that funds it.

Speaking in Derry, New Hampshire, Tuesday, Bush acknowledged that when his brother President George W. Bush attempted to privatize Social Security in 2005, he met great bipartisan resistance.

“My brother tried, got totally wiped out,” Bush said. “Republicans and Democrats wanted nothing to do with it. The next president is going to have to try again.”

Bush also said Social Security shouldn’t be called an “entitlement.” “I’ve learned that in town hall meetings,” he said, according to a video released by the pro-Democratic group American Bridge. “It’s a supplemental retirement system that’s not actuarially sound, how about that. Medicaid and Medicare are entitlements, and they are growing at a far faster rate than anything else in government.”