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Laura Bush Recounts How Weather Threatened Jenna's Wedding to Henry Hager .

WASHINGTON — Storms that spawned violent tornadoes over the weekend slammed into President Bush's Texas ranch and threatened to disrupt wedding plans for Jenna Bush and Henry Hager, first lady Laura Bush said Monday. "We did have a little — one setback on Friday night. While we were off in another town at the rehearsal dinner there was a tornado. ... All the catering ovens were turned over and the sides were ripped off the tent," she told a luncheon at the White House. "But everyone worked wildly and you couldn't even tell the next night. It was just perfect, everything was great." The first family and the White House staff have been extremely tightlipped about discussing the private outdoor wedding ceremony on Saturday that drew about 200 guests. read more-foxnews.com

Nearly 10,000 reported killed by China quake.

CHENGDU, China (CNN) -- Rainy weather and poor logistics thwarted efforts by relief troops who walked for hours over rock, debris and mud on Tuesday in hopes of reaching the worst-hit area of an earthquake that killed nearly 10,000 in central China, state-run media reported. Setting out from Maerkang in Sichuan Province at 8 p.m. Monday, the 100 or so troops had to travel 200 kilometers (124 miles) to go before reaching Wenchuan, the epicenter of the quake, also in the province, Xinhua reported. After seven hours, they still had 70 kilometers (43 miles) to go. "I have seen many collapsed civilian houses, and the rocks dropped from mountains on the roadside are everywhere," the head of the unit, Li Zaiyuan, told Xinhua. read more -cnn.com

Shirley Watts spared jail after trying to kill husband three times.

carer who told police she tried to kill her wheelchair-bound husband three times was spared jail after a judge ruled it was her "cry for help". Shirley Watts, 61, choked her husband Michael with a dressing gown cord, smothered him with a pillow and pushed his head underwater in a bath on three successive days last Christmas, before she dialled 999 and asked to be arrested. A judge at Bristol Crown Court said the pressure of looking after her husband, who has rheumatoid arthritis, had become "too much" after five years of 24-hour care. Mr Justice Richard Field, sentencing her to 100 hours of community service, said: "I'm satisfied these three incidents were out of character and that they were a cry of help." read more -telegraph.co.uk

Glorious sunshine, wildfires - and freak floods - as Britain is hit by 24 hours of extreme conditions .

Flash floods and wildfires hit parts of Britain yesterday, with more unsettled weather predicted for the end of the week onwards. But despite the extreme conditions in some areas, most of us simply basked in another day of glorious sunshine, with parts of England enjoying the warmest start to May since 1772. Frustrated families were mopping up after flash floods brought misery to Wales and the North West. On Merseyside, torrential rain on Sunday night left anxious residents piling sandbags against their front doors as water poured through in Childwall, Dovecot, Broad Green and Gateacre. The fire brigade said it took "hundreds of calls", with some families stranded in their homes. The terminal at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport was also flooded, triggering an evacuation read more dailymail.co.uk

NY man sues airline over flight spent in toilet.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation." When Gokhan Mutlu arrived to check in for a jetBlue flight from San Diego to New York in February he was told the flight was full, according to the lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court. But Mutlu was allowed to board after a jetBlue flight attendant agreed to give up her seat and travel in an airline employee "jump seat." It was not clear in the lawsuit whether the flight attendant was working. read more -yahoo.com

Sex and the City premieres in London .

The seminal Manhattan show emerged from a golden age of TV-making in the US. But things are different now. The television series was shown in more than 100 countries, but the film very nearly did not happen and has taken four years to get to the big screen. As the movie version of Sex and the City gets its first very first airing in Britain tonight, its writer says if the original series broke every taboo when it came to sex, the movie version breaks every taboo about hiding your age in Hollywood. The TV series also came out of a golden age in America, creating drama and comedies to export. But it is a different story now. read more -channel4

Madonna set to finalise adoption.

Madonna is set to appear in court in Malawi to finalise the adoption of a two-year-old boy. The pop star is expected to get a favourable ruling from the country's High Court on whether she can become David Banda's new mother - two years after she brought the boy from southern Africa to share her London home. The adoption has been controversial, with critics accusing the government of flouting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi. The country has been ravaged by an Aids epidemic, leaving more than one million orphans. The boy's father Yohane Banda said on Monday he supported Madonna's case but wanted her to bring his boy home for visits. He said: "I have no problem with the government's recommendation to allow Madonna to get the child.This is what I wanted, that Madonna should keep the child." read more -channel4.com

Alabama Father Charged With Shooting and Killing His Own Son.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A Tuscaloosa County man is facing a possible death sentence in the shooting death of his own son. Tuscaloosa County sheriff's officials say 55-year-old Henry Butler "Hank" Hanly II of Duncanville is accused of capital murder in the slaying of his son, John Hanly. The younger man died on Mother's Day after being shot repeatedly on Saturday. Sheriff's Captain Loyd Baker said the father and son were arguing, and John Hanly got in a vehicle to drive away. The vehicle was then hit with gunfire repeatedly, with at least one bullet striking the victim in the head. Hank Hanly is being held without bond. His son died Sunday morning. read more -foxnews.com

Utah Father And Son Graduate Law School Together .

(AP) Tom McLelland was both proud papa and happy grad during commencement at an Ohio law school. McLelland, 58, and his son, Ryan, graduated together Sunday with law degrees from Ohio Northern University in Ada and may open a practice together at home in Utah. "It's something we've talked about for the last five years," the elder McLelland, a former human resources manager for the state Department of Corrections, said before the ceremony. Ryan McLelland said he and his dad took almost every class together. "We could help each other a lot better," he said. Tom, who lived in West Jordan before going back to school, is interested in labor and employment law and Ryan, a father of three, is interested in family law. "I'm a little nervous," Tom said. "I'm looking forward to a new challenge in life." .read more -cbsnews.com

1000 dead at second school - report .

AT least 1000 students and teachers were killed or buried in the collapse of another school in quake-hit southwestern China, state media reported today. "So far, the number of dead or missing is estimated at more than 1000" at the school, Xinhua news agency said in a dispatch from Beichuan county, where reports earlier had said up to 5000 people in the area may have been killed by yesterday's 7.8-magnitude quake. More than 1000 students and teachers were inside the Beichuan Middle School when its six- to seven-storey main building was reduced to a pile of rubble, the report said. read more -news.com.au

Slab of beer buckled up, but not boy.

POLICE were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained. Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the car on the Ross Highway south of the desert town at the weekend. "I haven't ever seen something like this before," he said. "Sure we get beer out of vehicles that is being taken into restricted areas but this is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child." He said the driver of the car "just looked at me blankly" when he was handed a $750 fine for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt. read more-news.com.au

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