Cate Blanchett and hubby Andrew Upton-Co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company-consider environmental conservation as their foremost...

Singer Kanye West has apologised to country singer Taylor Swift for barging on to the stage during Swift's award acceptance speech in MTV movie awards last...

Pamela Anderson is set to make one lucky fan's dreams come true - she's offering to film a bedroom scene with a complete stranger for a new contest. The former Baywatch beauty, who hit the...

Actor Paul Hogan has launched a fresh attack on Australian tax officials after leaving the country amid an ongoing battle over alleged unpaid tax bills. The Crocodile Dundee star was banned from...

BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel set the stage on Monday for perhaps the biggest fight of her time in office with proposals to postpone the date when Europe's biggest economy...

Janet Jackson talks about how her emotional role in Tyler Perry's film, 'Why Did I Get Married Too?' helped her cope with grief after her brother's death. (Sept....

When people think of country blues, aka prewar blues - roughly the late 19th century to shortly before World War II - music, their thoughts drift to the hot, languid days of the Mississippi Delta,...

In 1968, when I first heard “Wichita Lineman,” I was struck by how perfect a song it was. Simple, heartfelt, entrancing. Gorgeous. My feelings for the song have never abated. Shimmering...

this week's Blues Power Rankings . This week we have songs from JW-Jones, Charlie Musselwhite, Albert Castiglia, Steve Miller Band, Jimmie Vaughan, and Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois...

Reflections On a Perfect Song: "Wichita Lineman" This time, it was at Dublin, Ireland’s O2 Arena. Guns N’ Roses had arrived three hours late (translated to GN’R...

will be well on the way to the delivery ward herself when she hosts the gig on November 2. The 32-year-old Kazakh, who formed Universal You with husband Paul Finnie, 42, and Mark Grant, 24, in the...

Originally published September 6, 2010 at midnight, updated August 13, 2010 at 5:47 p.m. Before he joined San Francisco-based Latterell Venture Partners almost four years ago, Ken Widder says the VC...

Foster City has its bell back, but the mystery rings on. In a whodunit worthy of its own three-act play, a 300-pound antique bell, which vanished from a community theater in 2004, reappeared Friday...

George Harrison died of cancer November 29, 2001 at the age of 58. He had not released a studio album since 1987’s Cloud Nine. His participation with the Traveling Wilburys, a tour with Eric...

West taking serious note of her lack of acting skills. Miral is an adaptation of Italo-Palestinian Rula Jebreal's book about Hind Husseini, who founded an orphanage...

While the roundtable panelists were disappointed by the reform act, they were not ready to give up on change. They just decided it was up to them. All of them. James...

Chief Executive Bill Long isn’t retiring yet. But when the 64-year-old banker decides it’s time, the candidates to succeed him are waiting in the wings. Long this week announced the...

Spain's Igor Anton from Euskatel celebrates in the podium his new leadership after the eighth stage of the La Vueltar of Spain in Xorret de Cati near Alicante, Spain, Saturday Sep. 4, 2010. The stage...

: Find out who's walking down the aisle When we catch up with the doctors of Seattle Grace, the series has jumped ahead in time. However, Meredith hasn't clued Derek in on her miscarriage in the...

Michael Costello , who once again shocked his dismissive competitors when his complex, black-lace, cut-up-to-here number was chosen as the winner — to the shocking: Poor, sweet Peach was sent...

Evan Rachel Wood's lusty fans have Kate Winslet to thank for convincing the young star to strip off for her new TV role - because the Titanic beauty insisted she'd regret it if she didn't bare all on...

Rapper Eminem has vowed to stop taking aim at his rumoured ex-girlfriend Mariah Carey in his songs following their public bust-up last year, insisting he's "done" with the topic. The Not Afraid...

Millions of passengers are preparing for travel chaos in the capital because of a strike by London Underground workers in a bitter dispute over...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Ukraine could draw on China's experience in staging international events to prepare for the 2012 European Football Championship."China's successful...

The Vuelta, or Tour of Spain, finishes on September 19. (Getty Images) Spanish rider David Lopez of Caisse d'Epargne won the mountainous ninth stage of the Tour of Spain on Sunday while his...

I was absolutely thrilled with the Emmys, both the show itself, plus the recipients of the awards were for once not terrible to watch. But a couple of questions remain. I was probably happiest...

played by Jennifer Love Hewitt ) who, several years earlier, submitted to an invasive exam for a rape evidence collection kit that was ignored by police. The episode took shape when a real rape...

Boats are decorated for the 2009 World Acadian Congress held in northeastern New Brunswick. The Conservatives and Liberals both pledged money for the 2014 instalment, to be held in...

David and Victoria Beckham are taking steps to make their U.S. move even more permanent - they are putting their luxurious English mansion up for sale. The superstar couple is reportedly placing its...

Rapper Lil Wayne has landed a prison captain at his New York lock-up in trouble with authorities after he was allegedly given special treatment behind bars. The Lollipop hitmaker, real name Dwayne...

QUEBEC — The national debate on euthanasia and helping end the life of someone who wants to die is about to be rekindled by public hearings kicking off this week in Quebec. Euthanasia and assisted...

David Lopez emerged from the mountains of Alicante to claim victory on stage nine of the Tour of Spain. Lopez broke clear going into the final three kilometres of a gruelling day's riding, eventually...

The ball for the opening Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was yesterday parachuted on to the ground in the possession of an RAF display team. Nobody exactly said it but the feeling...

Empty shops in Scotland's capital should be opened up to showcase the best of the nation's arts and crafts during the festival season as an antidote to tartan tat, according to one of the leading...

On PAPER, this year's classical music programme looked the strongest of any Jonathan Mills has produced. But exceptional highlights - in some cases, audiences - were fewer than...

Iggy Pop , now 63, knew that his body language translated into still photographs resembling Mannerist paintings. And everybody there knew the band was to play “Raw Power,” the album it...

It was just after the long Fourth of July weekend when the Ghetto Film School assembled its 2010 fellows at its headquarters in the South Bronx, a few floors above offices of the state parole...

The narrator of “Remainder” has suffered some kind of mysterious accident involving “something falling from the sky,” and after emerging from a coma he becomes obsessed with...

The Censor” and others), I have little squeamishness about this. But there are three things for which I was unprepared on Friday night, the New York premiere of “Cinderella”: the...

Ivete Sangalo: The Brazilian pop star sold out Madison Square Garden on Saturday at a concert the organizers said was the first time a Brazilian had headlined at the arena. Five thousand of the...

the songwriter Sara Bareilles . Pumping piano chords and cheerful insubordination (along with promotion via television commercial) gave Ms. Bareilles a multimillion-selling hit single, “Love...

Take-Two Interactive ’s 2K Games label, ever asked themselves. If they did, their answer was obviously, “Right now.” The sad truth is that the actual historical reality of Italian...

“We Are Family” is not shy about milking every last ounce of sentiment from its rather creepy premise: Maya (Kajol), a mother of three, learns she’s dying of cancer and enlists her...