Florence's Arno river embankment collapses. Read more about sharing. A section of the embankment of the River Arno in central Florence collapsed on Wednesday morning, sending part of the road and at least 20 parked cars into a newly formed ditch. The collapse took place very close to the famous Ponte Vecchio, a medieval covered bridge over the Arno.
Yvonne Craig who, as Batgirl, was a pioneer of female superheroes passes away. Updated 7:50 PM ET, Wed August 19, 2015. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
Sandra Dee, who at the height of her fame in the 1960s was arguably the biggest female teen idol of her time, has died, leaving a legacy of film roles that includes Gidget and Tammy and the Doctor. She was Gidget, and she was Tammy, and for a time she was young America's ideal, film historian Leonard Maltin once said of her. Dee married another pop icon, singer Bobby Darin. Dee died of complications Sunday morning from kidney disease at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, her family said. She was 62. Steve Blauner, a longtime family friend who represents Darin's estate, said Dee had been hospitalized for nearly two weeks. She had been on dialysis for about four years, Blauner said.