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.
In small-town California, a handful of passionate people like Dennis Borba give the dramatic clash between man and beast life in the US.
One-year-old Guatemalan twins joined at the head were separated n a marathon operation, but one sister was returned to surgery a few hours later because of bleeding on her brain.
Ray Brown, a jazz bassist who played with giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and his one-time wife Ella Fitzgerald has died. He was 75.
A stinging movie satire of America’s gun culture is cleaning up at the US box office just as an army of law enforcement officials battles to halt a sniper in the country’s capital in his tracks.
Bill Gates introduced Microsoft’s newest multimedia software in Hollywood, promoting his company’s bid to make its technology central to tomorrow’s digital home entertainment centre.
Keith Uncapher, a computer pioneer at the University of Southern California who was a key player in the development of the Internet, died of a heart attack, the university announced. He was 80.
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.