Kirthana Dewi

By : Kirthana Dewi Performers from 42 countries strode down a long red carpet near Ukraine's parliament this week, as a curtain-raiser to this year's Eurovision Song Contest. But one nation, Russia, was missing.  For the first time in Eurovision history, the host nation barred another country's singer. That is because in 2015, in violation of Ukrainian border rules, Russia's Julia Samoilova performed in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia a year earlier. Samoilova suffers from a neural muscular disorder and has been in a wheelchair since childhood. "When the rumours began I might not go, I was so sad," she told the BBC in Moscow. "I thought, how come? This was my dream. When the final decision was taken I didn't believe it. But unfortunately, this is the reality." I think it's a stupid reaction," Russian MP Vitaly Milonov tells me. "They're even afraid of such a small girl to enter Kiev." Even b

By : Kirthana Dewi R ichard Gere may play a politician in his new movie "The Dinner," but he tells CNN he has "zero" interest in running for office. "I have no interest, none, zero, there's not even a speck of me that goes 'boy, 'I'd really want to be a politician,'" Gere said. The actor, a longtime advocate for Tibetan independence and human rights, said he prefers promoting change as a private citizen. "It's really easy speaking," Gere explained. "I don't have to compromise with anything. The realm of politics is everyday, every moment, compromising somehow. I don't have the patience for it." Gere has starred in more than 50 films over the past four decades, motivated by "love." "The only way you can work is if [the project] touches you some way and some kind of creativity opens up," he said. "I call it a falling in love. I don't know why exactly, you c

By : Kirthana Dewi Jimmy Kimmel used his monologue Monday night to get both personal and political. The late night host got emotional as he revealed that his son William John Kimmel was born on April 21 with a serious heart issue. Those emotions then spilled into thoughts he offered about the importance of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and his feelings on health care policy. During the 13-minute long monologue, Kimmel said his wife, Molly McNearney, had an easy delivery with their second child, whom they call "Billy." "Six pushes, he was out," Kimmel said. "He appeared to be a healthy normal baby until about three hours after he was born." Kimmel said his family was there in recovery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital as little Billy met his two-year-old sister, Jane. Then "a very attentive nurse" discovered the baby had a heart murmur and appeared to be a bit purple in color. Tests showed the baby wasn'

By : Kirthana Dewi  Lesley Murphy says she decided to kick "cancer's a** before it could kick mine." The former "Bachelor" contestant is healing after recently undergoing a preventive double mastectomy. Murphy, a travel blogger who appeared on on Season 17 of "The Bachelor," said she decided to have the surgery after she tested positive for the BRCA 2 gene mutation, which increases the risk of developing breast cancer. In a posting before her surgery, Murphy shared on her Instagram account that her mother is a breast cancer survivor. "It's because of her diagnosis that I underwent genetic testing and can now do something about it," Murphy wrote. "Knowledge is power." Murphy documented her surgery and its aftermath on social media. In one photo, Murphy poses topless with her hair cascading over where her breasts used to be. "I think my upper half is healing nicely," she wrote. "Sure, it&