John Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017) was an American film and television actor. He had lead roles in several films, including Deceived, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Heart Beat, Cutter's Way, Cat People, and C.H.U.D., as well as supporting roles in After Hours, Big, Beaches, Awakenings, Rambling Rose, The Pelican Brief, My Fellow Americans, Snake Eyes, and Animal Factory. He also played Peter McCallister, the father of protagonist Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) in Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, as well as George in Sharknado. Heard was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest starring on The Sopranos.

Rangers: What history tells us about Europa League decider

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'Victory against Post Office one of the best days of my life'

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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

The 16-year-old is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.

Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that it has chosen “they” as the 2019 word of the year. The singular “they” is a pronoun used to refer to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a word that itself was added to the Merriam-Webster.com dictionary in September of this year.

Where is one to turn for advice when deciding whether to pay double the price for cage-free eggs, or in determining how to vote on ballot initiates seeking to ban practices such as the use of gestation crates in pork production or battery cage egg production? At present, there is no clear answer.

General election 2019: Voters set to head to polls across the UK

Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed has said.

London-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation.

His colleague, David Shreeve, described him as a "larger-than-life character" who "inspired a whole generation".

He went on to present programmes such as Don't Ask Me, Bellamy On Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.

And in 1979 he won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award, for best presenter of factual programmes.

Chilean officials say they have located debris believed to be from an air force plane that went missing on Monday.

They said the wreckage was found floating 30km (19 miles) from where the C-130 Hercules cargo plane with 38 people on board last made contact.

The wreckage was spotted in a body of water known as the Drake Passage.

The plane was en route from Chile's southern city of Punta Arenas to the country's Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva base in the Antarctic.

Smaller goals and lighter balls: Joey Barton says women's football will always be 'inferior' unless changes are made

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Boris Johnson has said he will work "night and day" to repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an "historic" election victory.

With just two seats left to declare, the Tories have a majority of 76.

Speaking in London, the PM said it was a mandate to take the UK out of the EU next month "no ifs, no buts".

Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not fight another election as Labour leader after the party was swept aside in its traditional heartlands.

In a victory speech, Mr Johnson said it was a "new dawn" for the country - echoing comments Tony Blair made when he won power in 1997.

The pound surged against the dollar as the Conservative Party won an overall majority in the UK general election.

Australia and New Zealand have launched a joint bid to host the Women's World Cup in 2023.

The bid is backed by both governments and football associations and, if successful, it would see the tournament held in the southern hemisphere for the first time.

Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and are also expected to launch bids, with the Fifa submission deadline on Friday.

Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner has lost the Bolsover seat he has held for 49 years.

The 87-year-old was beaten by Conservative candidate Mark Fletcher by 5,299 votes.

Skinner - nicknamed the Beast of Bolsover - had been defending a majority of 5,288 achieved in 2017.

The former miner and prominent ally of party leader Jeremy Corbyn was not at the count when the result was announced.

Kerry the stripper voted Green.

Emmerdale star Sheila Mercier - who played Annie Sugden - dies at 100

Sheila Mercier was known to millions as Annie Sugden when the ITV soap launched back in 1972

The show icon died peacefully in her sleep according to former Yorkshire Television co-star Frederick Pyne

Lily Savage debuted in 1978, a single mother and sometime prostitute in a wig the size of the Shard

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, she became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal. Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US and its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond by the RIAA. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.

Having sold more than 50 million albums—including 37 million in the US—and 150 million singles, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has won 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, six Guinness world records and is the most-awarded act at the American Music Awards (29 wins) and most-awarded woman at the Billboard Music Awards (23 wins). As a songwriter, Swift has been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Association, and was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time list in 2015. She has appeared in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015, 2019) and was ranked first in the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016 and 2019), further being the youngest to be featured in the magazine's listing of the 100 most powerful women (2015). In 2019, Billboard placed Swift at number eight on its list of "Greatest of All Time Artists"—the highest for an artist that debuted in the 21st century—and named her Woman of the Decade (2010s), while the American Music Awards named her Artist of the Decade (2010s).

The swift (Apus apus) can power itself to a speed of 111.6km/h (69.3mph) flying horizontally and even upwards. Other birds, such as peregrine falcons, fly faster while diving in a stoop, but the swift is the fastest accurately recorded flying under its own power.

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Vegetables are great, but many people can’t imagine a pizza without some meat. If you don’t want to skip meat entirely, there are other options. Sticking to a single meat topping with your vegetables would still satisfy your meat craving without going overboard. Choosing meat that is lower in fat, such as grilled chicken or Canadian bacon would also be a better choice.