NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Randy Travis suffered a stroke while at a Texas hospital and was in surgery late Wednesday, the singer's publicist said.

Randy Travis was admitted to an undisclosed Texas Hospital July 7, 2013. The singers publicist Kirt Webster stated Travis was being treated for complications from viral cardiomyopathy which is a heart condition caused by a virus. Travis was listed…

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BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been in a hospital for nearly a month.

Former president FW de Klerk, 77, who helped end white rule of South Africa and freed Nelson Mandela from prison, will spend the night in hospital after having a pacemaker fitted today to help his heart.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will meet on Saturday with relatives of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, but they will not visit the hospital where the former South African president is critically ill.

Google has stepped in to take down the image – which was revealed to anyone typing the name of Tameside General Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, into the search engine.

Well-wishers have flocked to the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where Mandela is in ‘critical condition’ as relatives of the 94-year-old held an emergency meeting at his home in Qunu, Eastern Cape, today.

Cynthia Bower, the former head of the NHS regulator, denies having backed an order by her then deputy Jill Finney, to delete a report which said they failed to investigate a health trust properly.