What an awful way to kick things off!

According to reports, a knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team and their Chinese tour guide at a tourist site in Beijing on Saturday, the first day of Olympics competition.

One of the victims was killed and one was injured in what's being called a random act of violence.

The attacker then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the tourist attraction, three miles from the main Olympics site.

The midday attack was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime against foreigners in 'tightly controlled China', which has pumped up security measures even more for the Games.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims' families.

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New reports claim that legendary actor Paul Newman has finished chemotherapy treatment for his cancer and that he's been given only a few weeks to live.

We hope that's not true.

The Oscar winner's battle with a yet-to-be officially confirmed cancer has been talked about for months, though he and his 'people' have continued to debunk claims that he's fighting for his life.

A source said that the renowned philanthropist has been discharged from the hospital because he wants to die at home.

"Paul didn't want to die in the hospital," says the insider. "(Wife) Joanne and his daughters are beside themselves with grief."

Sad, sad, sad.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Newman and his family.

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SpaceX, a privately held rocket company founfed by PayPal founder Elon Musk, has just suffered its latest failure.

The company is blaming a design error for its rocket not reaching orbit.

The result was a loss of three government satellites and the ashes of 208 people that were to be released in space.

Among those ashes were the remains of Star Trek actor James "Scotty" Doohan and astronaut Gordon Cooper who set a space endurance record for traveling over 3 million miles in space back in 1965.

The rocket took off Saturday night and separated on its way to space, but after the engine cutoff the rocket fell into the Pacific.

It has yet to be recovered as of today.

This weekend marked the third failure for SpaceX since their initial launch back in 2006, which failed due to a fuel line leak.

The failure this time they say occurred because "there was a short time gap, 1.5 seconds, between engine shutdown and stage separation."

Scotty's dreams to rest in peace in space are now shattered!!!

As for a relaunch, SpaceX plans to try again with another rocket as early as next month.

Let's hope the fourth time is a charm.

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Sad news.

Fashion critic, actor, and author, Richard Blackwell has been hospitalized due to a serious illness.

Mr. Blackwell is probably most well-known for his "worst-dressed" lists.

The critic is currently 85 years old and unfortunately has been unconscious and in the hospital since Tuesday.

His partner, Robert Spencer, did not release any information regarding where Blackwell was receiving treatment or about his current condition.

Let's hope Mr. Blackwell gets well soon!!!

At his age, though, and being unconscious for days already, things aren't looking so positive.

Sad.

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It's more serious than previously reported!

Bernie Mac has been in the hospital the last few days for pneumonia.

This weekend, his flack told the media that he was 'responding well to treatment' and would basically be in the clear in no time.

However, a source close to the family disputed the mouthpiece's all-is-well claims and revealed to the Chicago Sun Times that Bernie is in "very, very critical" condition.

Sad, sad and very scary!

We hope he's well soon.

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THIS is awful!

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This is so sad, yet touching.

Reece Fleming was diagnosed with leukaemia back in 2004 when he was just 4 years old.

He battled the disease for years until this May, when doctors gave the 8 year old boy only a few weeks to live.

The family decided to try and help him achieve most of his goals before he would pass. And one of those was to marry his school sweetheart, Elleanor Purgslove.

Reece's mother said "When we found out that we only had a few weeks with him we tried to do absolutely everything with him that we could. Him and Ellie had been 'special friends' for a couple of years but then they broke up. We said we'd have a pirate party, and Ellie came. She went to visit Reece a few times in hospital as well."

Then during a recent laser tag party, Reece "proposed" to his little friend.

After she accepted, their parents arranged a pretend wedding at Reece's home (not the kids pictured above).

The families went out to dinner in the mayor's limousine and organized the wedding with rings and even a fictional certificate.

The kids got married on July 4th. And Reece told his mom, "I can go now," after his wedding wish had been fulfilled.

His mom added, "He was so proud of her, and we were proud of them both."

The following day after the wedding, Reece died at home with his family.

Soooooo sad!

During the funeral, the mourners followed a horse-draw hearse on foot.

His mom added, "Even on the Saturday that he died, he got out of bed and walked to the sofa. He always tried walking, right to the end, so we thought if he walked for us then we would walk for him."

What an amazing little boy.

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As we mentioned earlier this week, troubled country singer Mindy McCready has checked into rehab.

Well, now comes word that McCready attempted to take her life last week after supposedly suffering a miscarriage.

According to an inside source, the pregnancy was unplanned and the father is an unidentified man that McCready's been dating for about three months.

Her reaction to the miscarriage apparently set off some emotions which caused her to try and take her life.

McCready is also said to be receiving treatment for “alcohol, substance abuse and emotional issues with the emotional issues being at the top of the list.”

She's expected to be in rehab for about a month.

Let's hope going to rehab will help keep her out of jail.

She's wasted too much of our tax dollars in prison!

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Surprise!

Some Mindy McCready news that's NOT about jail time!

A report claims that the cracked out country crooner is apparently going back to rehab after trying to "do herself in" with vodka and Ambien late last week.

McCready supposedly became suicidal after getting dumped by her boyfriend and collapsed while on the phone with her mother.

Dr. Phil reportedly suggested to the troubled singer that she head to Arizona for treatment.

Mindy is the doc's new "personal project."

Both parties have declined to comment.

Hey, rehab is better than jail, right?

Actually, we'd prefer prison over Dr. Phil!

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