Marc Lavine
latest news & developmentsStranded passengers pin hopes on Qantas mediator
About 70 000 stranded passengers have been hoping a workplace regulator would end the grounding of Qantas Airways’s fleet over an industrial row.
Residents, tourists flee as cyclone nears Australia
Residents and tourists evacuated coastal areas of Australia’s Queensland state on Tuesday as a monster cyclone intensified to "deadly" proportions.
West Wing to end run after seven years
The hit United States television drama about life in a fictional White House, <i>The West Wing</i>, will end its seven-year run in May, losing its battle against declining…
Hollywood leaps into same-day internet digital film sales
Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the internet on Tuesday when the Oscar-winning <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent…
Who is the most foolish American — again?
Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was on Friday crowned as the United States’s most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out trigger-happy US Vice-President Dick Cheney for…