Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars:

NEW YORK - Donny Osmond was declared the new champion of "Dancing With Stars" on Tuesday night, taking the series mirror ball trophy in the season finale of the reality show on ABC.

Osmond, the former teen pop star singing Osmond family, said the show was a highlight in a career of ups and downs.

"I've done it!" Exclaimed Osmond. He immediately ran to the audience and dragged from his wife, Debbie, who at the scene.

Contribution to boost Osmond at the top is the tango that place on Tuesday with his professional dance partner, Kym Johnson. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba greeted him as "art in motion". He had the top score of the final results deserve.

Along with her famous family - Ozzy, Sharon and Jack - see Osbourne and professional partner Louis Van Amstel danced a version of Trouble "by Ray LaMontagne." The 25 year old, was clearly moved and began to grieve after her last dance.

He thanks the audience and said that he "grew significantly" during the show. Co-host Samantha Harris said Osbourne had a "swan has become."

The end of the culmination of a season of good grades of "Dancing With the Stars," which has consistently ranked as one of the most popular shows of the fall.

The participant who did most of the newspaper, the former congressman Tom DeLay was forced to retire in the third week of competition as a result of stress fractures in both feet. A cure DeLay returned Tuesday night to dance the Texas two-step routine, which had hoped to make.

Tonga

Tonga:

Nuku'alofa (AFP) - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 repulsed the Pacific island nation of Tonga early Wednesday, the U. S. Geological Survey said that although there is no threat of a widespread destructive tsunami.

The earthquake occurred at 2:47 (1247 GMT) and was centered 193 kilometers (120 miles) east-northeast of the capital Nuku'alofa to a depth of 62 kilometer, the USGS reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said "no destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data."

He said in a newsletter that earthquakes of this size sometimes local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts within 100 kilometer of the epicenter.

The earthquake was followed by an aftershock of magnitude 5.6.

Nine people were slain in September, when a tsunami the northern island of Tonga Niuatoputapu after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. The tsunami also killed 143 people in Samoa and another 34 in neighboring American Samoa.

Earthquakes are common in the "Ring of Fire" where continental plates meet in the crust.