Syndicated radio host Kidd Kraddick dies

David "Kidd" Kraddick, whose morning radio show aired in nearly 100 cities, has died. He was 53.

He died Saturday in New Orleans at a golf tournament to raise money for his Kidd's Kids Charity, his management company said.

What killed Kraddick was not immediately known.

"At the appropriate time, we will release more information about the cause of death," said Ladd Biro with Champion Management.

Photos: People we lost in 2013

"He died doing what he loved, and his final day was spent selflessly focused on those special children that meant the world to him."

Kraddick is the face behind the nationally successful "Kidd Kraddick In The Morning" show.

He has been named America's Best Radio Personality'; Radio and Records Major Market Personality of the Year; and he won the prestigious Marconi Award for Radio Personality of the Year.

Kraddick said his career as a disc jockey began in high school.

"We sponsored a big dance for the seniors but didn't have enough money to hire a DJ. So I snuck out my dad's stereo and did it myself," he said.

The name "Kidd" wouldn't come for several years though.

He began his career in Miami. And as is common with radio personalities, he bounced around.

Stints in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Tampa followed.

It was in Tampa that a program director gave him the name "Kidd." It stuck.

His career really took off after he moved to Dallas when his morning drive time show went into syndication.

Last week, Kraddick did a humorous segment on what he'd say to his co-hosts in his "final moments on Earth."

"When I die, you have permission to take a bunch of creepy pictures of my body," Kraddick said. "I want to thank all of you guys for being at my deathbed today. I'm going to miss you so much."

Saturday's golf tournament was for his non-profit Kidd's Kids Charity, which raises money annually to send children with chronic and terminal illnesses -- and their families -- to spend five days at Walt Disney World.

"RIP Kidd Kraddick. You were an amazing man and a friend. You are already missed," tweeted entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

"Such a great guy. I've listened to the show for years," commented Johnny MacNary. "He was always raising money for Kidd's Kids and giving things away. He really had a heart of gold. Mornings in Texas will never be the same. My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues tonight. He really made the world a better place."

Huma Abedin,known as diplomatic

 When former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner admitted two years ago to sending explicit messages and photos to women online, his wife was notably absent, letting Weiner make his public mea culpa alone. But on Tuesday, Huma Abedin was front and center as Weiner confessed to having further explicit exchanges, even after the first scandal forced his resignation from Congress.

Abedin, 36, is no stranger to politics. She has worked for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for years and accompanied her husband on the campaign trail in his current bid for New York City mayor.

She had her first news conference on Tuesday, however, and she admitted to being nervous -- but it was her moment to defend her husband of three years and describe her struggle to forgive him.

"It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony," Abedin said. "It was not an easy choice in any way, but I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage."

Weiner admitted in June 2011 that he had sent sexually explicit messages and photos to women online. He apologized for initially claiming they weren't his and said he was seeking treatment, and he resigned from the U.S. House two weeks later.

The couple had a baby boy in December of that year.

On Tuesday, a gossip website published screen shots of sexual conversations that it said Weiner had had with a woman last summer, along with explicit photographs it claimed he had sent.

In his afternoon news conference, Weiner admitted that some of the online exchanges and photographs were his but said some were from before his resignation and some were after.

Abedin said Tuesday she knows her husband made "horrible mistakes" both before and after his resignation from Congress.

"We discussed all of this before he decided to run for mayor, so really what I want to say is, I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward," she said.

Abedin began working for Clinton as a White House intern in 1996, eventually becoming the former first lady's traveling chief of staff -- or "body man" -- during her campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She remains a Clinton adviser.

Although she is described as a very private person, Abedin's intelligence, striking style, unusual background and ability "to make the trains run on time" brought her attention well before her July 2010 marriage to Weiner.

Vogue magazine profiled her in 2007, an unusual distinction for a campaign aide.

"Huma Abedin has the energy of a woman in her 20s, the confidence of a woman in her 30s, the experience of a woman in her 40s and the grace of a woman in her 50s," Clinton told Vogue. "She is timeless, her combination of poise, kindness, and intelligence are matchless, and I am lucky to have had her on my team for a decade now."

Abedin is the daughter of college professors. Her late father, an Islamic scholar, was from India and her mother, a sociologist, was from Pakistan. She was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but the family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was 2. She moved back to the United States to attend George Washington University.

She told Vogue that she decided at 15 that she wanted to be an international journalist, inspired by CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

Abedin's plans changed when the White House intern program assigned her to the first lady's office, not the press office as she had requested.

She's not been far from Clinton since then, friends say.

"I don't think you could say they are like mother and daughter," actress Mary Steenburgen and longtime friend of the Clintons told Vogue in 2007. "It's more like an older sister-younger sister relationship, but it's definitely familial."

She joined Clinton's State Department staff in 2009, serving as a senior aide.

Her efficiency, language abilities, attention to detail and remarkable ability to pack for long trips -- noted by the Vogue reporter -- make her invaluable to the globe-trotting Clinton.

"Huma does make the trains run on time," Clinton lawyer Bob Barnett told Vogue.

The Vogue story hinted in 2007 that she had dated actor John Cusack and cyclist Lance Armstrong. Abedin was introduced to Weiner during the 2008 congressional campaign.

Former President Bill Clinton officiated at their wedding. Their marriage drew extra attention because Abedin is Muslim and Weiner is Jewish.

Weiner rose through New York City politics as a young man unafraid of a fight and eager for media attention. Abedin, in contrast, is known for her diplomacy and privacy.

Summer movie guide: Top 20 picks for 2013

This year's summer movie season is all about asking "What if?"

As in, what if you had super powers and came from another planet? ("Man of Steel") What if the world came to an end and you were stuck at James Franco's house? ("This Is the End") Or what if you were pub-hopping during the end of days? ("The World's End")

How about if mankind was forced to leave Earth and the planet became inhospitable ("After Earth"), or if only the wealthy could afford to leave ("Elysium")? What if it were zombies that were our greatest threat? ("World War Z")

That's a lot of speculation, not the least of which centers around which of these movies could become hits and which are worth your box office cash.

Here's our guide to the top 20 summer movies:

May 24: "The Hangover III," "Before Midnight"

As Memorial Day rolls around, you have two trilogies to choose from: "The Hangover III" and "Before Midnight," the three-quel to Richard Linklater's accidental trilogy that began with 1995's "Before Sunrise" and continued with 2004's "Before Sunset."

In the presumed end to the "Hangover" franchise, the Wolf Pack reunites because Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is in crisis, and then they have to team up with their one-time nemesis, Mr. Chow, to retrieve something that was stolen. "It does not revolve around a wedding, and it does not revolve around a forgotten night," director Todd Phillips said. "It's a different structure."

In "Before Midnight," we catch up with lovers Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) to see if they've finally made their relationship work, and under what terms, during a visit to Greece. "These films are the opposite of victory-lap sequels," Linklater said. "We've had six to nine years to think about it and dig in, and we wouldn't do that if we didn't feel that there was something new for them to say and some new station in life."

May 31: "Now You See Me," "The East," "After Earth"

Following Memorial Day weekend is the magic-heist film "Now You See Me," which squares off against star/co-writer Brit Marling's "The East."

"Now You See Me" is a glossy tale about four magicians (played by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco) who execute a bank robbery as part of their act (part of the fun is learning how the tricks are done).

"The East," meanwhile, is an indie thriller about a corporate spy infiltrating a freegan anarchist collective that executes "jams" on unsuspecting companies. Whether it's done by magic or terrorism, both films are about free thinkers teaming up to hold corporate America financially and morally responsible for its wrongdoings; consider them companion pieces.

Despite taking place in the future, at its heart, "After Earth" is a father/son survival story in which Will Smith tries to build his son Jaden's movie career -- er, tries to direct his son toward a rescue beacon. Smith's original idea for the film had the father and son crash their car in the mountains, but screenwriter Gary Whitta jazzed up the piece with a primordial planet filled with defense mechanisms meant to kill humans. "Earth has evicted us because we were messing (it up)," Whitta said. "If you took 'Jurassic Park' and dumped 'King Kong' in the middle of it, that's what you have in this environment."

June 7: "The Purge"

In "The Purge," a future version of America has decriminalized murder for a 12-hour period once a year. Those who can afford to do so either participate and kill off the have-nots or go on lockdown to protect their families. Ethan Hawke's character, who became rich selling security systems, finds his family besieged after his son lets in a man on the run. It's basically a home-invasion story with some sociopolitical underpinnings, but it'll provide some summer chills as the purge begins.

June 14: "This Is the End," "Man of Steel"

"This Is the End," which opens ahead of the weekend on June 12, will also provide a high body count but for comedic effect. Various celebrities are at a party at James Franco's house when the apocalypse occurs. "We thought it would be funny to see famous people die in graphic ways," star, co-writer and director Seth Rogen said. "We killed most of our favorite stars. ... Michael Cera plays a lunatic cokehead version of himself. He makes the best corpse."

Does Henry Cavill make the best Superman, though? "Man of Steel" is another reboot, this time with director Zack Snyder at the helm. Unlike the last Superman film, Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" (2006), this is an origin story with a young Clark Kent realizing the scope of his powers and what he was out on Earth to do.

June 21: "World War Z"

Brad Pitt is also out to save the world, but only because it's infested by zombies. The producer and star of "World War Z" (based on Max Brooks' book) plays a former U.N. staffer caught up in a zombie pandemic. Pitt has said the film offered up a couple of challenges, and not just how to fight the undead: "How do we keep the global, dynamic scope of the book, and how do we originate a genre that's been done quite often and really, really well?" One of the solutions is to show the pandemic as it unfolds instead of merely documenting the aftermath.

June 28: "White House Down," "Byzantium"

Channing Tatum also plays the hero, but on a smaller scale. In "White House Down," he plays a man who has just interviewed for his dream job with the Secret Service and is on-site when terrorists storm the White House. He may not have gotten the job officially, but he in effect does it anyway by protecting the president (Jamie Foxx). Expect lots of explosions.

For a female-action alternative to most of June's fare, Neil Jordan ("Interview with the Vampire") has another story of the undead on the way called "Byzantium." Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan play a mother-daughter vampire duo who've broken a cardinal bloodsucking rule of no females allowed. "It's a feminist movie," Arterton said. "Traditionally men, not always, are sexualized as vampires, not women. Women are the ones who are usually victimized."

July 5: "The Way, Way Back"

Sam Rockwell stars in the latest film from writing team Jim Rash and Nat Faxon ("The Descendants") as the owner of the Water Wizz water park who takes an awkward teenage boy under his wing. They head out on vacation with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell). "It's inspired by real-life happenings," Rash said, "but it's heavier on the funny side than 'The Descendants,' even if both are dysfunctional family comedies." It won audiences over at Sundance.

July 12: "Pacific Rim"

Guillermo del Toro knows his monsters, and in "Pacific Rim," he brings to life his biggest ones yet: kaiju (Japanese for giant monsters). The film also features giant robots controlled by soldiers battling the race of alien beasts who rise from the ocean. There's a stellar cast as well (Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Rinko Kikuchi), but really, the selling point here is monsters vs. robots, right?

July 19: "The Girl Most Likely"

Kristen Wiig has her first post-"Bridesmaids" starring role in "The Girl Most Likely." Her character pretends to commit suicide to get a guy's attention, but the move backfires and lands her back at home with her mother (Annette Bening). "It's a comedy with an underpinning of real emotion, because this character is a hot mess and falling apart at the seams," co-director Shari Springer Berman said. "But it's Kristen, so you love her. Kristen can do anything."

July 26: "The Wolverine"

Hugh Jackman is back for another round as Logan in "The Wolverine," in what should be a stand-alone film within the" X-Men" series (hopefully erasing any bad memories leftover from "X-Men Origins: Wolverine.") This time, the story is from Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 1982 comic series, so Logan is in Japan, where he meets up with a man he'd saved from a POW camp during World War II. Logan's lived a long time, but his friend offers him a way out: to make him mortal. In his way are Viper and Silver Samurai, the Yakuza and members of the Japanese criminal underworld.

August 2: "The Spectacular Now," "2 Guns"

An indie teen coming-of-age story ("Spectacular Now") starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller is no box office match against "2 Guns," but it'll remind audiences of John Hughes films that they love -- and make Teller a break-out star.

In the meantime, Mark Wahlberg teams up with Denzel Washington (and re-teams with his "Contraband" director Baltasar Kormákur) for "2 Guns," in which a DEA agent and a naval intelligence officer are forced to work undercover together as members of a narcotics syndicate, but neither one knows the other is also a federal agent. When they discover the truth about each other, they have to go on the run -- together.

August 9: "Elysium"

A little more high-concept is the much-anticipated sci-fi film "Elysium," starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster and directed by "District 9"'s Neill Blomkamp, about the wealthy living on a space station while the impoverished live on a polluted planet. "It's not a sequel; it's not a franchise," Foster said at San Diego Comic-Con. "This is completely original, and it has a real sociopolitical relevance. It's about all sorts of things that matter to me, plus beautiful gut-wrenching explosions."

August 16: "Austenland"

In a summer filled with "gut-wrenching explosions," "Austenland" offers a respite for those looking for something more gentile. Keri Russell plays a mega-Jane Austen fan who spends her life's savings for a weekend getaway at a spot that promises to re-create life as portrayed in such classics as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility." She's hoping to find her own Mr. Darcy, but fantasy and reality collide in this comedy about role-playing romance, also featuring "Flight of the Conchords" star Bret McKenzie.

August 23: "The World's End"

Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz") completes his Simon Pegg-Nick Frost trilogy with "The World's End." A group of friends (including Pegg, Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan) want to re-create a classic pub crawl from their youth: 12 pubs in one night, ending at a pub called (what else?) the World's End. On the way, they discover that their hometown has been invaded by aliens! But that won't stop these determined drinkers. "We are going to get to the World's End if it kills us," Pegg vows. We'll probably die laughing.

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Amazon CEO says discovery is Apollo 11 rocket engines

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos rescued sunken treasure in the Atlantic this year: components of two F-1 rocket engines. Now he says he has verified that they are engines from Apollo 11, the first mission that took U.S. astronauts to the moon.

The timing, as Bezos is aware, is appropriate. Saturday is the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing.

"44 years ago tomorrow Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and now we have recovered a critical technological marvel that made it all possible," Bezos wrote on his blog.

Bezos congratulated the conservation team at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas, for its efforts.

One of the conservators discovered that the number "2044" had been stenciled in black paint on the side of one of the massive thrust chambers. He found it while using a black light and a special lens filter.

This 2044 was not a mystery. According to Bezos, it corresponds to NASA number 6044, the serial number for F-1 Engine No. 5 from the Apollo 11 mission.

The conservator continued his work on this thrust chamber and, after removing more corrosion, found a stamp on the metal surface that said "Unit No 2044."

"Conservation is painstaking work that requires remarkable levels of patience and attention to detail, and these guys have both," Bezos said of the Kansas conservators.

An Internet retail mogul might seem an unusual patron of Apollo 11 artifacts and history. But Bezos said he was inspired to dream big by watching the original moon mission as a 5-year-old in 1969.

The Amazon chief announced in March that his team of researchers had discovered a set of giant rocket engines that he described as "an underwater wonderland -- an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines." They were found in 14,000 feet of water off the Florida coast.

F-1 engines powered the Saturn V rocket carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. At an altitude of about 38 miles, the first stage of the spacecraft, including the engines, separated. These parts were considered destroyed or lost forever.

Bezos had said in 2012 that he wanted to find the Apollo 11 rocket engines but noted that many serial numbers are completely or partly missing.

"The components' fiery end and heavy corrosion from 43 years underwater removed or covered up most of the original serial numbers," he wrote on his blog Friday.

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Each of the engines weighs nearly 9 tons, and they came in a cluster of five. They provided 32 million horsepower by burning 6,000 pounds of fuel every second, and together, they lifted the largest rocket in history 38 miles above the Earth in less than three minutes.

After separation, the rocket engines made their re-entry at 5,000 miles per hour, Bezos said, and then plummeted into the ocean. That's where they remained, undiscovered for decades, until Bezos' team found them using sophisticated sonar.

"The technology used for the recovery is in its own way as otherworldly as the Apollo technology itself," Bezos wrote in March. "The Remotely Operated Vehicles worked at a depth of more than 14,000 feet, tethered to our ship with fiber optics for data and electric cables transmitting power at more than 4,000 volts."

His team felt the echoes of the moon mission as they probed the icy depths of the ocean: "The blackness of the horizon. The gray and colorless ocean floor."

Having taken space venturers to the moon, the engines are now the treasure of a different breed of explorers. Bezos said he intends to put the hardware on display "where just maybe it will inspire something amazing."

Taylor Swift's reaction to her VMA noms is priceless

Experience is the best teacher, and Taylor Swift now knows exactly what to do should she win the Video of the Year award at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.

"Two VMA nominations!!" Swift, 23, said Wednesday in a celebratory tweet. "If you vote and get us one, I promise to keep a firmer grip on the mic this time "

Clearly, the singer is coyly referring to "The Incident," in which Kanye West mic-jacked her at the 2009 VMAs to tell the world that Beyoncé deserved to win Video of the Year rather than Taylor Swift.

Steal Swift's mic once, shame on you. Steal it twice, you'll get what's coming to you, apparently.

This year's lead nominees, Justin Timberlake and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, might want to heed Swift's lesson as well. The two acts are both up for six Moonman trophies, including that coveted Video of the Year honor. Behind them is Bruno Mars with four nods, with Miley Cyrus, Pink, Robin Thicke and 30 Seconds to Mars each receiving three nominations a piece.

Check out some of the major VMAs categories below, and see the full list on MTV.com. The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards will air on August 25 from Brooklyn for the first time.

Video of the Year

Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz, "Thrift Shop"
Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven"
Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell, "Blurred Lines"
Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble"

Best Male Video

Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors"
Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell, "Blurred Lines"
Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven"
Ed Sheeran, "Lego House"
Kendrick Lamar, "Swimming Pools"

Best Female Video

Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko, "Stay"
Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble"
Miley Cyrus, "We Can't Stop"
Pink feat. Nate Ruess, "Just Give Me A Reason"
Demi Lovato, "Heart Attack"

Best Pop Video

Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven"
Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors"
Fun., "Carry On"
Miley Cyrus, "We Can't Stop"
Selena Gomez, "Come and Get It"

Best Rock Video

Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive"
Fall Out Boy, "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)"
Mumford & Sons, "I Will Wait"
Thirty Seconds To Mars, "Up in the Air"
Vampire Weekend, "Diane Young"

Best Hip Hop Video

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, "Can't Hold Us"
Drake, "Started From The Bottom"
Kendrick Lamar, "Swimming Pools"
A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, "F–kin' Problems"
J. Cole feat. Miguel, "Power Trip

Kelly Osbourne is engaged

Kelly Osbourne is officially engaged to Matthew Mosshart.

Osbourne, 28, confirmed in an interview with Hello! magazine that she and Mosshart, a vegan chef, are ready to tie the knot.

"I've never felt this close to another human being, ever," Osbourne told Hello!. "People say we're co-dependent but we just want to be together all the time."

Mosshart and Osbourne met two years ago at Kate Moss' wedding to The Kills' Jamie Hince (Mosshart's sister is Hince's bandmate), and since then they've embarked on a two-year relationship.

Engagement rumors were flying in January but Osbourne denied them at the time, tweeting to her followers, "#DontBelieveEverythingYouRead."

As it turns out, Mosshart's known for a while that Osbourne is the one for him, and he popped the question while the two were on holiday in Anguilla. Osbourne's diamond ring was inspired by an earring her dad, rocker Ozzy Osbourne, used to wear.

For the E! "Fashion Police" star, Mosshart already showed his devotion when he moved from New York to Los Angeles to be with her.

"Matthew made the biggest sacrifice anyone's ever made for me, to move away from everything that he knew to be with me in L.A.," Osbourne said. "Long-distance relationships often don't work out. We'd dated for a year and knew we wanted to be together. Matthew has broken down every one of my walls. There's nothing I wouldn't do in front of him."

Obama speaks out on Zimmerman verdict

President Barack Obama said Friday that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago" in his first live comments since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman last weekend in the teenager's shooting death.

He also said protests over the verdict should remain nonviolent.

The president said Americans are aware of the "history of racial disparity in our criminal laws" and said the government should review some state and local legislation, such as Florida's "stand your ground" law, saying they may promote rather than discourage violent confrontations.

A jury acquitted Zimmerman last Saturday in Martin's February 26, 2012, shooting death, inciting anger among many who considered the incident racially motivated murder.

Obama issued a written statement on Sunday noting that the jury had spoken and urging calm and reflection.

On Friday, he also said successive generations of Americans have gotten better at changing attitudes on race, but "we have to be vigilant and work on these issues."

To demonstrators calling for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, Obama said they must "have some clear expectations here."

He stressed that law enforcement and the criminal code "is traditionally done at the state and local levels, not at the federal level."

Randy Travis remains under heavy sedation, in critical condition

Country singer Randy Travis remained under heavy sedation and in critical condition Friday, two days after surgery relieved pressure on his brain after a stroke, his publicist said.

"His family continues to ask for prayers and support," publicist Kirt Webster said in a statement.

His stroke was "a complication of his congestive heart failure" for which he is being treated at The Heart Hospital at Baylor Plano in Texas, Webster said.

The singer was initially hospitalized Sunday at Baylor Medical Center at McKinney, Texas, with a presumptive cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.

Travis, 54, was transferred to The Heart Hospital at Baylor Plano in Texas on Monday.

Travis' illness is related to his "recently acquired viral cardiomyopathy," one of his doctors said. Viral cardiomyopathy is a disorder where a virus attacks the muscles of the heart, causing the heart to beat slower, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website. In some cases, the heart can stop, it said.

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Travis had a tough year in 2012 with arrests for assault and public intoxication, which earned him probation.

Travis was at the forefront of the "New Traditionalist" movement in the 1980s and 1990s, but he faded as the '90s wore on. He made a comeback after turning to gospel music in 1999. His song "Three Wooden Crosses" won song of the year in 2003 from both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music.

'WWE' Dolph Ziggler Will Be World Champion Again in 2013

Dolph Ziggler's first two runs with the World Heavyweight Championship were brief, but he'll get a third try before 2013 ends.

Ziggler's fleeting championship reigns shouldn't be seen as a sign of WWE's lack of confidence in him, but a situation born from a compelling story taking precedence over his individual success.

WWE is in the business of telling stories, and it sacrificed Ziggler's time as champion for the sake of a great story. Ziggler fending off his first challenger would have been the expected outcome. Champs usually make it out of their first defense.

The Miz, who lost the Intercontinental Title to Wade Barrett one night after winning it, and Ziggler are recent exceptions.

Of all the scenarios fans thought might happen at the inaugural Payback, who could have predicted that we'd see a rare double turn take place? In a single match, Alberto Del Rio became champ again as well as morphing into a villain once more. Del Rio reverted back to his dastardly ways, and Ziggler showed signs of becoming a fan favorite.

The unexpectedness of this angle was one of the best parts of the pay-per-view.

One can understand why WWE went in that direction. It meant robust entertainment for the crowd, but an abbreviated title reign for Ziggler.

Expect him to wear that championship once again.

And soon.

The history of both the WWE Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship shows a pattern of Del Rio not holding onto either belt for long. His first reigns as world champ lasted three months each. His two WWE title runs lasted 35 days the first time around and the 49 the next.

CM Punk's recent historic reign and Sheamus keeping the belt for much of 2012 aren't the norm, for Del Rio or anyone during this era.

That opens the door for Ziggler to win the belt back at either Money in the Bank 2013 or later. His and Del Rio's feud is charging along with them colliding at Del Rio's championship celebration.

Ziggler is playing the predator here in a situation where it seems like WWE is leaning toward letting him regain his belt after struggling and suffering on his way to earning our sympathy.

That would make sense, too, considering who the champion after Ziggler might be.

If Ziggler is headed towards full facedom, he'll likely win this eventual struggle. In the end, WWE often lets the good guy overcome his enemy. Ask Sheamus or John Cena how being opposite the dark side affects one's win-loss record.

Good defeating evil in the end is a more familiar and more comforting story. That's the one Ziggler getting his revenge and his title back will tell.

With the entire world title Money in the Bank ladder match comprised of heels, one would assume that it will be a face Superstar that they will cash in on. Should Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes or Antonio Cesaro win the briefcase, it makes more sense for a face Ziggler to be their eventual victim.

Ziggler might then again be the victim of a story arc.

This time, the tale would be of an up-and-comer earning their first world title by any means necessary. It could very well be Ziggler who that Superstar robs of the championship.

Family feud is almost 'like spitting in' Mandela's face, Tutu says

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a few choice words for the feuding family of Nelson Mandela: Resolve your differences, and stop tainting the former president's name.

Tutu intervened after a bitter dispute among relatives over the burial of Mandela's three deceased children. His grandson exhumed them from Qunu two years ago, then reburied them in Mvezo.

The rest of the family sued the grandson, and a court ordered him to return the remains to Qunu, where the former president spent his childhood. They were reburied there this week.

The drama has played out in public, with the grandson, Mandla Mandela, lashing out at his relatives during a news conference.

Mandela's family dispute comes at a precarious time. The statesman is hospitalized and on life support for a recurring lung infection.

Though he has been getting kidney dialysis, he is not in a vegetative state and opens his eyes when people talk to him.

The feud has appalled the nation, prompting Tutu to step in and appeal to the family to stop.

"Please, please, please may we think not only of ourselves. It's almost like spitting in Madiba's face," Tutu said in a statement, according to the South African Press Association.

"Your anguish, now, is the nation's anguish -- and the world's. We want to embrace you, to support you, to shine our love for Madiba through you."

Madiba is the revered statesman's clan name.

Mandela has been hospitalized in Pretoria for nearly a month.

Court documents filed in relation to the case revealed more details on the condition of South Africa's first black president.

His health had declined so sharply last week that his family was considering whether to take him off life support, a court document revealed Thursday. His condition later improved.

The document, known as a "certificate of urgency," was filed on June 26.

It stated that Mandela, 94, had taken "a turn for the worst" and doctors had advised his family to switch off his life support machine.

"Rather than prolonging his suffering, the Mandela family is exploring this option as a very real probability," it added.

Mandela remains in critical but stable condition, President Jacob Zuma's office reported Thursday.

Considered the founding father of South Africa's democracy, Mandela became an international figure while enduring 27 years in prison for fighting against apartheid, the country's system of racial segregation. He emerged from prison in 1990 and became the nation's first black president four years later.

His lung problems started during his years in prison under the nation's now-defunct apartheid regime.

Tutu, who was also a hero of the anti-apartheid movement, is friends with Mandela.

The remains are Mandela's daughter, Makaziwe Mandela, who died as a baby in 1948; his eldest son, Madiba Thembekile, who died in a car crash in 1969; and Makgatho Mandela, father to Mandla, who died in 2005.

Before they were reburied this week, a forensic test was done to confirm the identities of the bodies.

Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport

An Asiana Airlines' Boeing 777 crashed and burned Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport, sending up a large plume of dark smoke from an aircraft that lost its tail and much of its roof.

Flight 214 left Seoul's Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and 23 minutes to California, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and commercial air traffic.

Anthony Castorani, who witnessed the flight land from a nearby hotel, said he saw the plane touch the ground then noticed a larger plume of white smoke.

"You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft.

Kristina Stapchuck saw the dramatic scene unfold from her seat on a plane on the airport tarmac. Soon after Flight 214 touched down, "it looked like the tires slipped a little bit and it rocked back," .

Parts of the plane began to break off as it rocked and then began to spin.

Video taken soon after the crash and posted on YouTube showed dark gray smoke rising from the plane, which appeared to be upright. That smoke later became white, even as fire crews continued to douse the plane.

A photograph posted to Twitter shows what appear to be passengers walking off the plane, some of them toting bags, as smoke rises from the other side.

"I just crash landed at SFO," read the accompanying message from David Eun. "Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal..."

Debris settled from the water's edge, along San Francisco Bay, up to where the plane eventually came to a stop.

Fire trucks were on site, while first responders could be seen walking outside the aircraft.

Evacuation slides could be seen extending from one side of the aircraft, from which there was no apparent smoke.

Corrine Gaines, from the U.S. Coast Guard's operations in San Francisco, said that a helicopter had been launched and that her agency is helping others responding at the scene.

The Bay Area airport was closed to incoming and departing traffic after the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said on its website, adding that the time when it's expected to reopen is unknown.

There were a few clouds in the sky around the time of the crash, and temperatures were about 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Winds were about 8 miles per hour.

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a "go team" that will be led by chairwoman Deborah Hersman to investigate the crash, the agency said.

Asiana Airlines-- one of South Korea's two major airlines, the other being Korean Air -- got the plane involved in the incident in 2006, according to the Aviation Safety Network. The craft has two Pratt & Whitney engines, it said.

Asiana operates many of its flights out of Incheon International Airport, which is the largest airport in South Korea and considered among the busiest in the world.

San Francisco International Airport, located some 12 miles south of downtown San Francisco, is California's second busiest, behind LAX in Los Angeles.

According to information on Asiana Airlines' website, the company has 12 Boeing 777 planes. They have a seating capacity of between 246 and 300 people and had a cruising speed of 555 mph (894 kph).