Happiest Country, Stephen Hawking heading to space, George Clooney surprises elderly fan & Backstreet Boy is a dad!

George Clooney surprised a fan named Pat at a senior assisted living community in England for her 87th birthday over the weekend. Sunrise Senior Living UK posted an adorable photo of Pat and Clooney on Facebook and captioned it, “A dream came true for one of our residents today! The lady in the picture loves George Clooney and mentions everyday how she would love to meet him, especially as he lives so near to where I work. So letters have been sent asking would it be possible for her dream to come true.” The staff admitted, however, that they had no idea that the actor was planning on dropping by and were shocked over his visit. Clooney reportedly rang the doorbell holding one of the letters that Pat had written him and made sure to bring her a card and a bouquet of flowers.

Norway is the world’s happiest country. The World Happiness report shows Norway taking 1st place this year, followed by Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland. All of the top four countries rank highly when it comes to: caring, freedom, generosity, honesty, health, income and good governance.

The United States just keeps getting sadder, falling to 14th on the list

Canada is #7 on the list of happiest countries.

(http://www.myrepublica.com)

Stephen Hawking said he will leave the Earth to travel to space onboard Richard Branson’s spaceship

Professor Hawking, a Cosmologist and Physicist says he’d never dreamed he’d be able to head into space…..But “Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately”, he said.

Hawking said that his “three children have brought me great joy – and I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space”.

People reports that Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean and his wife Rochelle welcomed their second child, a daughter named Lyric Dean, on Sunday. The newborn joins 4-year-old big sister Ava Jaymes. “I was told by someone very dear to me that having a child will change you forever, and that was beyond true with Ava,” says McLean. “We decided to try one more time because even though Ava is so independent, the idea of having a sister or brother for her became more and more important to us. Despite the fact that I’m an only child (and all jokes aside) turned out okay, my wife is one of four and that showed me there’s something beyond special about having siblings.”