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APMargaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of England died on Monday morning from a stroke at age 87.

President Obama released a statement saying that Thatcher’s achievements taught “our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.”

According to The New York Times, Thatcher had retired from public life about two years ago but over the course of her 11-year career as prime minister, she was known largely for challenging gender barriers in the Conservative Party, turning around Britain's economy, and leading the country through a 1982 war in the Falklands. The fact that she was a woman was an asset, not a barrier (she was famous for the 1975 quote, "In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.") Her nicknames "The Iron Lady" and "Attilla the Hen" were just icing on the cake. She told People Magazine in 1980: "Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out about being

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Getty ImagesIf you were in a celebrity marriage, would you allow your husband to cheat?

Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about this very topic on Thursday when during an interview with HuffPo Live, she addressed longstanding rumors that she and her husband of 15 years Will Smith are allowed to sleep with other people. "I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay," said Pinkett Smith. "Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa."

It's not the first time one half of the power couple as spoken out about their unconventional relationship. In 2008, Will Smith told British magazine Now, "Our perspective is, you don’t avoid what’s natural and you’re going to be attracted to people. If it came down to it, then one would say to the other: 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. Now I’m not going to

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The happy couple (Photo by Getty Images)It's a sad day. Iconic film critic Roger Ebert passed away at age 70 after losing almost an 11-year battle with thyroid and salivary cancer. Just two days ago, he had written on his award-winning blog that his cancer had returned and he was taking a leave of absence to focus on revamping his new website with his wife of twenty years, Chaz. She had become the voice of Ebert since he lost his voice in 2006 due to complications from surgery and often tweeted updates to Ebert's fans, tickling them with photos of the couple's holidays and of Ebert when he was younger. Their marriage was a total romance—playful, inspiring, passionate. Here are 4 lessons they taught us about love:

Love means taking a chance: Ebert met Chaz in the early 90s one night while he was out to dinner with Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers. In "Roger Loves Chaz", an essay he penned for the Chicago Sun-Times in 2012 on the couple's twenty-year anniversary (July 18th) he described spotting Chaz from across the room

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Kissing a prince is what all little girls dream of, right? Maybe not.

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On Thursday, a 4-year-old Scottish girl ducked out of the way when Prince William swooped in to give her a kiss during a two-day visit to Scotland where he and Kate visited local residents. While saying hello to the girl who was waving a flower around, Prince William asks her, "Is that for me? Is that for Katie? Yeah, you can give it to her." Then he adds, "You look very pretty. Do you want a kiss?"

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As the crowd gives a collective "Aw..." Prince William leans in only to have the little girl squirm away. "Oh no!" says Prince William. "See? Next time, sugar, next time," he says.

Later, another mother gave an on-camera interview to the Associated Press while holding her daughter and explained that because of the incident, the Prince wasn't handing out kisses anymore.

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Who's that girl...and guy? Lourdes and her new boyfriend. (Photo by Getty Images)

Meeting the parents of your significant other is always nerve-wracking. Dating the daughter of the biggest pop star in the world? We'd guess downright terrifying.

Madonna's daughter Lourdes, 17, is reportedly dating a boy from her school. No big deal—unless your mom is a fiercely protective pop icon, your boyfriend is a little famous himself, and everyone in high school, nay, New York, knows about the two of you.

Today, New York Post's Page Six "exclusively reported"' that Lourdes is dating classmate and "Homeland" star Timothée Chalamet who plays Finn Walden on the hit Showtime series.

The new power couple met at La Guardia High School of Music & Art & Performing Arts (which was the inspiration of the 1980 film "Fame") on Manhattan's Upper West Side where Lourdes, a junior, studies drama and Chalamet is a senior. 

A source told the New York Post, “It’s common knowledge at the school that the pair are dating" but a spokesperson for Madonna declined to comment to the newspaper and

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Laura and Brad Partridge are proud parents to newborn triplets—trouble is, they can't tell their baby girls apart.

The triplets, born at 34 weeks on March 19, were a surprise to the St. Louis, Missouri based couple, who were already parents to 19-month old Stella and three-year-old Stephen. "We were open to having a third kid but weren't exactly planning it," Laura Partridge, 34, told Shine. "We were thrilled when the home pregnancy test was positive and then I scheduled an eight-week follow-up with my doctor. During the ultrasound she said, 'There's a heartbeat…oh, there's another one…and another one!' But I don't remember her telling me about the third heartbeat. I was in such shock."

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Like any other 22-year-old Floridian, Eric Ducharme loves to swim, except when he dives into the water, he trades his swim trunks for a floppy tail.

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Ducharme is a self-proclaimed merman, a mystical male counterpart to the mermaid. As the legend goes, these seductive sea creatures with the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish, make themselves visible to ships during thunder storms and would lure the opposite sex into the water with their siren-like singing.

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According to a story in The Daily Mail, Ducharme says he eats, sleeps, and breathes mermaids and mermen and tries to impersonate them whenever he can. "It's a lifestyle. It's a path in life that I have chosen," he says during a Wednesday night episode of TLC's "My Crazy Obsession," a reality show that follows people whose adoration for objects has become an obsession.

His love for all

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Getty ImagesRussia owns the most gold in the world so it's only fitting that the runways at Mercedes-Benz Moscow Fashion Week Russia were paved with bling as models sashayed down the runway in gilded bodices and glittery body paint.

The gold rush, deemed by the Internet "One of Moscow Fashion Week's oddest look so far" was the brainchild of British designers Fyodor Golan, a Latvian and Israeli fashion duo who launched their brand in 2010 when they were only 27 and quickly acquired Rhi-Rhi and Lady Gaga as fans. Their gold ensembles popped against other outfits on the runway such as the designer's lilac and blue face-covering hats, Gera Skandal's Spiderman-inspired sheer jumpsuits, and Ekaterina Sidelnikova's modern caveman creations.

Head-to-toe gold body paint has been the subject of controversy ever since a decades-old rumor circulated that a body double for actress Shirley Eaten who played Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film "Goldfinger" died during filming due to "skin suffocation" and

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