In the News June 22nd

More oil on the way but, will gas prices go back down to where they were a year ago?

Saudi Arabia will increase its daily oil production to 9.7 million barrels from 9 million to counter the sharp rise in international oil prices, Saudi King Abdullah said Sunday.
The increase will take place in July. It would be Saudi Arabia's highest production rate since 1981.

The Saudi government will also invest in oil projects that would allow the nation to produce 12.5 million barrels per day by the end of the year.
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Anna's Ex Pays Big Bucks for her lingerie



Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend spent nearly $3,000 lingerie once worn in a Playboy shoot by the late playmate at a celebrity auction .

Birkhead said he is trying to make sure his 1-year-old daughter, Dannielynn, has something to remember her mother by. Birkhead said he hoped the items would help his daughter learn her mother's life story — when she's old enough.

"I have a lot of history I have to put together that she doesn't really know about," Birkhead told The Associated Press. "Playboy was such a big part of Anna's career."
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Amy Winehouse (Pic:Focus)

More about Amy.

Amy Winehouse's father gave an exclusive interview with a British paper. In it he says that Amy has lung damage and irregular heart beat, says her father.
The damaged to her lungs is fromsmoking crack cocaine and cigarettes.

Amy has an early stage emphysema and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs.

"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying.

"There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She has 70 percent lung capacity."


She is scheduled to sing at a concert in London on Friday celebrating 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela. .

In an emotional interview, her devastated father Mitch told the Sunday Mirror how watching his daughter deteriorate reminded him of his own 78-year-old mother struggling for breath on an aspirator before she died of lung cancer.