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Hollywood’s most sought after heartthrob may finally be settling down. George Clooney is engaged to British lawyer Amal Alamuddin, according to a report by People magazine. The two were spotted at Nobu in Malibu Thursday, dining with Cindy Crawford and husband Rande Gerber. During the outting, Alamuddin, 36, was seen rocking a suspicious ring on her left ring finger.

People taking statins to reduce cholesterol may feel a false sense of security and overindulge in unhealthy foods, according to a new study. Statins are prescribed to reduce cholesterol and as a preventive measure for heart diseases. Millions of Americans are prescribed statins each year, either after a stroke or a heart attack.

Alex Graves, the director of the hit TV show ‘Game of Thrones’, has reportedly filed for divorce from his wife Sarah Graves citing irreconcilable differences.

NEW YORK Bearded dragons have joined the list of pets that can give you salmonella poisoning. In the past two years, 132 people in 31 states have been infected with a rare form of salmonella bacteria. About two dozen of the sick people said they’d handled bearded dragons — a popular lizard native to Australia.

Tamera Mowry-Housley is showing off her slim post-baby body in the new issue of In Touch, where she’s flaunting her curves in a hot pink bikini.

This week a Pennsylvania couple decided to skip a surgery for their conjoined twins as the newborns were unlikely to survive the separation. Michelle Van Horne and Kody Stancombe of Indiana, Penn., felt the best thing was to keep their boys together.

Mila Kunis bares her small baby bump while attending the day 1 of 2014 Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival held at the Empire Polo Club on Friday (April 25) in Indio, Calif

Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” cartridges, considered by some the worst video game ever made and blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry in the 1980s. Some gamers speculate that thousands or even millions of the unwanted cartridges made by Atari were buried in a …

A woman was killed and six other people were injured Friday evening when an SUV hit a line of people waiting outside a Buena Park restaurant, authorities said. The accident occurred at low-speed in front of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour on Beach Boulevard, according to Cpl. Andy Luong of the Buena Park Police.

Stem cell “exhaustion” may play a role in defining the limit of human lifespan, a study of blood from a dead Dutch super-centenarian suggests. Analysis of white blood cells from 115-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper showed they were derived from just two related stem cell clones.

An international team led by King’s College London and the San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have developed the first lab-grown epidermis – the outermost skin layer – with a functional permeability barrier akin to real skin.