Rock guitarist and former Thin Lizzy star Gary Moore has died in Spain, British media reported on Sunday. The Belfast-born musician was 58.

According to the Irish Times website, Moore was found dead in his hotel room in Estepona early in the morning. A postmortem was due to be carried out in the nearby city of Malaga, the newspaper added.

A Foreign Office (Ministry) spokeswoman in London said: “We are aware (of Moore’s death), and we stand ready to provide consular assistance. We are very sorry for his family’s loss.”

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Atlanta mother and grandmother, Jazz Ison Sinkfield, has been growing out her fingernails for the last 22 years in the hopes of meeting Oprah and “a lot of more celebrities.”

So far her quest has only landed her on the local news, but her nails, the longest of which is 24 inches, are actually pretty impressive. Their length keeps her from doing everyday tasks like tying her shoes and putting on jewelry, and she pays $250 a month at the nail salon to maintain them, but Jazz is committed nonetheless.

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Charlie Sheen is now out of hospital and plans to return to work on Tuesday

A porn star who partied with Charlie Sheen just hours before he was hospitalized yesterday says he was ‘wasted out of his mind‘.

Kacey Jordan, 22, told TMZ she ‘couldn’t keep up’ with the Two and a Half Men star, who was rushed to the emergency room in the early hours suffering ‘severe abdominal pains.’

Sheen is now back at home and ‘feeling great’, according to the sitcom’s producer Mark Burg, who adds the actor is expected to return to work on the show on Tuesday.

Adult film star Jordan, who claims she was at the actor’s Beverly Hills home, says their 36-hour bender involved ‘$20,000 worth of drugs‘.

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Egyptians woke Friday morning to find their Internet access shut down in much of the country and to the sight of heavy deployments of black-clad, truncheon-wielding riot police, as the country braced for massive anti-government protests on a scale unseen in decades.

Opposition activists said the popular turnout on this traditional day of prayer and rest could prove to be decisive in determining whether the historic four-day-old protest movement gains momentum in its calls for the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, or fizzles beneath the weight of a violent government crackdown.

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With a Catweazle-style beard and wispy moustache, Hollywood veteran Al Pacino is transformed for his latest movie, Jack and Jill.

The Godfather star, 70, ditches his usual clean-cut look in the comedy, due out later this year. And it’s an offer you can’t re-fuzz.