The great granddaughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite and heiress, was found slain on the island of Roatan in Honduras, at her spa resort, said local police.

Alex Madrid, the police chief of Roatan said that Nedenia Post Dye was found by police on December 22 in her room. Dye had been stabbed several times. Roatan is known for its white sand beaches, diving and fishing. The island is considered a top tourist destination in the region.

Police said they arrested a local man who they said Dye had been helping to quit taking drugs. The man, Lenin Roberto Arana, was a singer in a local bar.

Arana told police he and Dye, who is 46 and 21 years older than Arana, had a romantic relationship. He uses The Canary as his stage name and told police and reporters he did not commit the crime.

People who gathered outside the police station called Dye a good woman who was working with people on the island who were at risk including alcoholics and drug addicts.

The police chief said Dye had been a resident on Roatan for the past 15 years, where she operated a luxury spa named Baan Suerte.

Dye was originally from Santa Monica, California and told her alma mater’s alumni publication in 2012 that she shared a love of adventure and risk taking with her great grandmother, who inherited the company that would become General Foods, Inc. Dye was a graduate of George Washington University.

Dye told the magazine that she and a friend had an idea of starting a new business. Dye said her intention was to go to Asia. However, her friend convinced her to move to Central America since it was closer and if the business did not work out they could both swim home.

Police said the suspect was captured in blood soaked clothes as he was attempting to flee in Dye’s vehicle. While being led away by police, Arana told reporters that he was innocent and that Nedenia treated him as if she was his mother and protected him.

Police added that it appeared Dye had been stabbed several times.

Emergency services in London said close to 90 people had been injured Thursday night when a section of the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre in London collapsed during packed performance. The mishap brought to a standstill the entertainment district in the West End.

Audience members were showered with debris including pieces of masonry. The theater was filled with many families that were enjoying a popular family play.

In all, rescuers and emergency personnel said 88 people had been injured. They said 81 were walking wounded, many suffering injuries to the head, while there were seven others taken to local hospital with injuries that were more serious.

The local fire department said it was still too early to make a speculation on what caused the large section of ceiling to collapse. Police said they had no suggestion it could have been deliberate or an attack.

No indication was given it could have been caused by heavy storms in the area earlier that evening, but investigators worked through the evening attempting to find clues to why it happened.

The ceiling suddenly collapsed during the performance showering audience members and creating panic amongst those attending when everyone realized it was not part of the performance.

People started screaming and trying to flee as the theater filled with dust from the broken masonry.

Shaftesbury Avenue was blocked by emergency vehicles creating a traffic jam in the heart of the theater district in London, which has been packed by revelers on one of the year’s busiest nights in the run up week to Christmas.

A manager at a McDonald’s near the theater said that theater patrons started to run inside the restaurant, covered in dust.

He also said some paramedics brought people inside the restaurant covered in blankets with some arriving by stretcher.

Those injured and who needed attention were transported to a nearby hospital while others were helped to Gielgud Theatre while they waited for a bus or were able to walk to their cars.

On fireman said in his time of working with the department, he had not seen an incident similar

Hunger Games: Catching Fire stayed at the top of the U.S. box office for the second straight week over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

According to box office receipts, the sequel earned over $110.2 million over the long weekend, out pacing the second place finisher Frozen, from Disney, which earned a solid if not spectacular $93 million.

The take by Frozen made it the biggest debut ever at Thanksgiving. In fact, third place finisher Catching Fire even passed the previous debut record for Thanksgiving set in 2001 by Harry Potter at $82.4 million.

An executive vice president at Walt Disney, for distribution, David Hollis said the results of Frozen were much, much better than anticipated and was the biggest ever release of one of its movies.

The last Disney movie to debut during Thanksgiving to take in a large dollar figure was Tangled in 2010, which earned a respectable $68.7 million.

Frozen is about a Scandinavian princess who attempts to save the kingdom after her sister, the queen, accidently used her magic powers to put the country under a deep freeze.

There was a big drop off after the first two finishers in the box office race, with third place going to Thor, another Disney film that earned $15.5 million.

The Best Man Holiday, a movie with an ensemble cast earned just over $11.1 million to claim the fourth spot for the weekend.

Homefront, which stars Jason Statham and was written by actor and director Sylvester Stallone finished fifth, but second in the race for debut movies with $9.8 million.

The disappointment of the weekend went to Oldboy, the latest movie by director Spike Lee that failed to attract much viewership earning just $850,000.

The biopic about Nelson Mandela titled Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom earned just over $100,300, but it is considered a good return given it opened in just four cinemas in Los Angeles and New York.

The box office in North America took in over $294 million during the five-day holiday weekend which beat last year’s taking during the same holiday, which was $290 million.

The Children’s Fund of the United Nations said it is alarmed over the increasing rates of HIV and AIDS amongst the adolescent population over the past seven years. The fund is proposing an aggressive style program that includes the distribution of condoms and antiretroviral treatments.

However, in a development that is more positive, UNICEF has found that the transmission of HIV from mother to child has dramatically reduced. The organization estimates that nearly 850,000 cases have been prevented in middle and low-income countries.

In a report released on Friday the U.N. organization said deaths related to AIDS amongst those 10 to 19 years of age increased to 110,000 from 71,000 between 2005 and 2012. Nearly 2.1 million people who are adolescents had HIV during 2012.

Close to 90% of the children who were newly infected with the virus, live in only 22 countries, with all but one in sub-Saharan Africa.

UNICEF has found a dramatic improvement in the prevention of new infections of HIV amongst infants. Approximately 260,000 children have been newly infected with HIV during 2012, in comparison to over 540,000 during 2005.

New antiretroviral simplified long life treatment referred to as Option B+ has provided an opportunity to treat HIV infected women effectively to prevent transmission of their virus during pregnancy to their babies, as well as during delivery and the term of breastfeeding. The new treatment involves a regimen of one-pill per day.

The sub-Saharan has seen some of the best successes within the program. New HIV infections amongst infants has fallen by 76% between 2009 and 2012 in Ghana, 58% in Namibia, 55% in Zimbabwe, 52% in Botswana and Malawi and 50% in Ethiopia and Zambia.

The United Nations Organization for children said that around the world, the number of overall deaths related to AIDS had fallen between the year of 2005 and 2012 by over 30%.

A good number of foundations in both the U.S. and other places around the world are working with governments in poorer countries in an attempt to educate them and their people in the prevention and treatment of the deadly virus.

Europe is facing an increasing threat from superbugs, which are becoming resistant to last-resort powerful antibiotics referred to as carbapenems, said the disease-monitoring agency in the European Union on Friday.

This is the latest in a number of warnings related to antibiotic resistance from authorities in healthcare across the globe who fear that in the near future simple types of infections might not respond any longer to medical treatment.

Misuse as well as overuse of antibiotics had driven the rise in infections that are drug-resistance and medical experts are alarmed in particular about bacteria that are unable to be killed with the carbapenems, which is the most powerful type of antibiotic drug.

The proportions of resistant infections to carbapenems is increasing especially over the past four years, particularly in the region of southern Europe and nearly every European country has reported cases, said the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The cases that are most severe involved infections in the bloodstream, but the superbugs that are drug resistant can also cause more serious problems in the urinary and respiratory tracts.

The ECDC showed data that indicated the proportion of Klebsiella pneumonia, a cause of sickness in patients at hospitals, that were carbapenems resistant was 5% as of 2012 in five European countries – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Slovakia and Romania.

Back in 2009, only Cyprus and Greece were above that mark of 5%.

The ECDC also said another concern is the emergence of the Acinetobacter bacteria, which is carbapenem-resistant and now represents over 25% of the infections in eight of the 18 countries that reported data.

The director of the ECDC warned that the carbapenems were the last line of defense for antibiotics and the situation was becoming worrisome.

Since 2009, it is more common in hospitals to face treating patients with infections that are resistant to carbapenems, often meaning old and toxic medications need to be used.

In addition, there is a need for antibiotics to be used more prudently including more awareness amongst the public that they do not kill viruses. Of recent, pharmaceutical companies are shying away from researching of these antibiotics, are finding problems with leads for antimicrobial drugs, and have turned to drugs that are more profitable.

Singer Chris Brown was released from jail after his felony assault charge was lowered to a misdemeanor. Brown had been arrested outside a hotel on Sunday morning in Washington D.C. following an altercation where he is alleged to have broken a man’s nose after punching him.

Brown made a plea of not guilty and was released without bail from jail on Monday. The 24-year old singer was ordered to not come within 100 yards of the alleged victim.

It is unclear why the charge of assault was reduced, but it might be due to the injuries not being as serious as first thought. The victim alleges that Brown broke his nose, but police state the victim had been treated for a fractured nasal bone.

The first report the police made said it was one of Brown’s bodyguards who had thrown the punch, but the charge against the bodyguard was also reduce to just a misdemeanor.

The singer and Christopher Hollosy are alleged to have punched the man outside the W Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. at around 4.25 a.m. on Sunday, said sources close to law enforcement.

Brown denied throwing any punches, claiming the alleged victim attempted to board his bus and his bodyguard in turn handled the situation.

Brown was also accused of yelling a homophobic slur while the altercation was taking place that led to him being arrested.

Isaac Adams Parker, the alleged victim told local police that Brown said he was not down with gay s**t.

Parker said both Brown and his bodyguard punched him and the R&B singer then stood behind his bodyguard and ordered Parker to leave.

Because of this altercation, the Probation Department from Los Angeles County was launching an investigation to determine if the charges against Brown violated his terms of probation with them.

People without type 2 diabetes but with high blood sugar performed worse when they took memory tests than people with lower levels of blood sugar revealed a study this week.

Researchers from Germany used 141 people whose average age was 63 and all did not have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes and did not show any signs of memory problems.

The participants in the study took a series of tests dealing with memory and their blood sugar was tested. They had brain scans that measured their hippocampus’ size. This area plays an important part in an individual’s memory.

Researchers said they correlated the levels of long-term blood sugar with the amount of words people were able to recall on a test.

The researchers found that higher levels of long-term blood sugar went together with recalling fewer words. The researchers also found that those individuals with blood-sugar levels that were higher had hippocampus’ that had smaller sizes.

The findings, said researchers suggest that for people in the normal range for blood sugar, reducing the level might be a way to prevent problems with memory, as they get older.

The lead researcher pointed out that the study was small and did not prove a cause and effect. However, the researcher said that large clinical studies to test if lowering the glucose level will help prevent dementia are needed.

A member of the Alzheimer’s Association said if something happens to the ability of the body to regulate its glucose levels, the brain cannot work the best it should.

If the glucose is not properly functioning, it could affect brain health and function over a long period of time, said a research scientist with Kaiser Permanente.

Rekha Patel a restaurateur from Britain held her newborn baby at a medical clinic in India’s northwest, as Daniel, her husband stood by smiling looking through a glass door.

Patel, who is 42, said she was amazed they finally had their baby and were grateful for the surrogate mother who was able to get pregnant and deliver a healthy baby.

The surrogacy industry in India is booming as thousands of couples who are infertile, many from around the world, hire the wombs of women in India to carry embryos to birth.

However, a big debate is raging over whether the industry, which is unregulated, exploits the poorer women. That in turn has prompted authorities in the government to draft legislation making it tougher for people from outside India that are seeking babes made there.

One Mumbai-based operation has produced over 295 surrogate babies, of which 90% were for clients overseas and 40% for couples who are same sex, since the fertility bank opened in 2007.

However, if the new law creates tighter rules, as the ministry of home affairs has suggested, which would disallow surrogacy for couple that are same-sex as well as single parents, then a clear impact would be felt in the industry and keep many clients from coming.

In 2002, India first opened to surrogacy on a commercial basis. It is one of just a few countries including Russia, Ukraine, Thailand and Georgia and a couple of states in the U.S. where women are allowed to be paid to carry to term another’s genetic child via the process know as in-vitro fertilization.

Skilled doctors, little bureaucracy, low-cost technology and a huge supply of possible surrogates have made India one of the preferred destinations for today’s fertility tourism drawing in nationals from the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia and others.