Sony Music Entertainment and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group will launch an upgraded online music subscription service on Thursday.
From 600 000-dollar diamonds to the gold dental bridge of someone’s dead grandmother, down-at-heel Hollywood stars are hocking their most precious heirlooms to pay for their face lifts or divorces.
Hollywood movie mogul Steven Spielberg has won a restraining order after a close encounter with an alleged stalker who claimed that the director planted a mind-control device in her brain.
An Egyptian immigrant armed with guns and a knife opened fire on Thursday at the Los Angeles International Airport ticket counter of Israeli airline El Al, killing two people before an airline security guard shot him dead.
A new study has found that the death toll from crashes caused by drivers talking on cell phones appears to have risen markedly in recent years.
The Aids Healthcare Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline, charging the drugmaker with antitrust violations and overcharging for its medicines.
Athena DeLima placed a bouquet of roses amid an array of other floral arrangements, then leaned over and kissed the bronze name plate on Marilyn Monroe’s crypt.
Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon, is being investigated by police for allegedly punching a man who claimed that the whole lunar landing programme was nothing but an elaborate
hoax.
A jury on Monday awarded a non-profit hospital million in compensatory damages at the end of a 10-month battle over unpaid royalties with a pioneering US biotechnology firm.
US TOBACCO giant R J Reynolds has been fined almost $15-million for illegally handing out fee packets of cigarettes at events attended by children, legal officials said on Thursday. The fine meted out by the top legal official in the traditionally anti-smoking state of California is believed to be the largest awarded against a firm […]
More than three decades after the start of the pot-powered hippie revolution, voters in six US states will vote on Tuesday on the still-smouldering issue of whether to ease laws on marijuana use.
Police in Los Angeles launched a probe on Monday into the videotaped beating of a black teenager by white policemen.
Hollywood star Winona Ryder told detectives who arrested her that she allegedly shoplifted nearly
000 of goods from a posh store to prepare for a movie role, a court heard on Monday.
Rod Steiger, the stocky, intense actor who played Marlon Brando’s hoodlum brother in ”On the Waterfront” and won an Oscar as a redneck Southern police chief in ”In the Heat of the Night,” died on Tuesday.
The board of the United States’ second-largest school district has voted unanimously to extend the ban on carbonated soft drinks to all its schools in an effort to combat childhood obesity.