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London, Nov 21 : F1 champ Jenson Button has reportedly offered 6 million pounds to buy singer Robbie Williams' mansion.
ANI Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:06 -0500
Melbourne, Nov 21 : Sexy singer Rihanna lost her cool and went on a F-word rant when her driver got three minutes late to pick her up outside a nightclub.
ANI Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:20:06 -0500
London, Nov 21 (IANS) Singer Rihanna has laughed off rumours of her dating Hollywood actor Tristan Wilds, saying that she doesn't even have his number.
IANS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:05 -0500
London, Nov 21 (IANS) British singer Cheryl Cole has dismissed rumours about her split with husband Ashley Cole and insists that they are very much together.
IANS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:03 -0500
London, Nov 21 (IANS) Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, who has previously spoken about the abuse she and her mother suffered at the hands of their partners, is proud of singer Rihanna for coming out of her troubled relationship.
IANS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:02 -0500
Los Angeles, Nov 21 (IANS) Reliance Big Entertainment and Brad Pitt's production company Plan B have entered into a pact with leading video gaming firm Capcom to make the sci-fi action game 'Drak Void' into a motion picture.
IANS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:01 -0500
London, Nov 20 (IANS) Hollywood star Hugh Jackman has healed a long-running rift with his mother, who had apparently walked out of their home when he was a child.
IANS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:03 -0500
The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corne...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:30:56 -0500
All four of the Liverpool players sent to a Belgrade clinic for unorthodox treatment in an attempt to have them ready for this key Premier League clash with Manchester City failed to make the starting...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:30:56 -0500
The confirmed death toll from a gas explosion that tore through a coal mine in northern China has risen to 42 dead with 66 people still trapped in the mine about a third of a mile underground.Rescuers...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:30:55 -0500
"The Office's" Dunder Mifflin paper company is facing financial problems this season One of the "Real Housewives of Orange County," Jeana Keough, leaving show over finances Recessi...
CNN Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:23:52 -0500
Two northwestern British Columbia native groups have made unprecedented moves to break free from decades of economic dependency. The Nisga'a First Nation has passed a historic law allowing its citize...
National Post Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:21:17 -0500
The late afternoon light was fading, shadows were rising. It was perfect. I walked down to the water trying to picture what it must have been like there a million years ago with the hairy Java man, hi...
BBC Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:19:55 -0500
IN a year when artists ditched guitars in favour of synthesisers, Gary Numan finally got his due. Which is superb, even better that he's touring to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his seminal album ...
The Scotsman Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:18:46 -0500
The US Senate will hold an initial vote on health care reforms today in a move that will test appetite for proposals that could extend medical coverage and slash insurance costs.The key procedural bal...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:15 -0500
The battle for the European Tour number one spot is set to go down to the wire as top two Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood continued their cut-and-thrust today.With seven holes to go in his third round a...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:15 -0500
The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates spoke on camera for the first time to warn their captors are “losing patience” and could kill them within a week.Surrounded by men brandishing machin...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:15 -0500
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu which has broken out in Wales will become much more common as the virus mutates, a flu expert said today.Three out of five patients diagnosed with the Tamiflu-resistant str...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:14 -0500
Former Ireland manager Brian Kerr says it was unrealistic to think we would get a replay of Wednesday's controversial World Cup play-off against France.FIFA and the French Football Federation have tur...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:14 -0500
Robert Pattinson needs 25 security guards to protect him from crazy fans. The ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’ actor – who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the hit film franchise – needed permanent pro...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:13 -0500
Not paying your taxes for five years? Understandable. Going to prison for three years as a result? Totally unreasonable. At least according to...
E online Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:30 -0500
Michael Jackson's private doctor waited over an hour to call emergency services when he realised the singer was not breathing, according to newly-released documents. Police filed the documents to su...
Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:23:18 -0500
Lee Westwood continued to hold Rory McIlroy at bay early in the third round of the Dubai World Championship today – thanks to some more brilliant putting.After taking a two-stroke overnight lead wit...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:26 -0500
Alex Ferguson has admitted he would never have sold Louis Saha if it had not been for his long list of injuries.Saha joined Manchester United from Fulham in a £12.8m deal in January 2004 and made an ...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:25 -0500
The German Football Association has called for a “thorough” investigation into the latest betting scandal to hit the nation.A total of 32 games from the German second division and below are curren...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:25 -0500
A Vatican researcher rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.Experts said the historian may be reading too...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:25 -0500
The jury in the trial of a police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations without a...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:24 -0500
All ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps on December 1, a senior Sri Lankan official said today.Some 300,000 war-displaced Tamils were forced into camps after fleeing th...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:24 -0500
Prosecutors are expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are charged wit...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:24 -0500
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — Sports memorabilia, celebrity autographs, art and more were auctioned off Friday night to help fuel the legacy of an actor who gave life to o...
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:40:03 -0500
Two northwestern British Columbia native groups have made unprecedented moves to break free from decades of economic dependency. The Nisga'a First Nation has passed a historic law allowing its citize...
National Post Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:33:00 -0500
Of the old movies, I liked "Crack in the World" and "When Worlds Collide." The more recent ones like "2012," "The Day After Tomorrow," "The Core," "Deep Impact," etc, have fantastic special effects, n...
Japan Today Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:09:13 -0500
NEW YORK (AP) - A collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including the now iconic rhinestone-studded glove he wore when he performed his first moonwalk dance in 1983, is being sold at auction. The...
Breitbart Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:16 -0500
Michael Jackson's private doctor waited over an hour to call emergency services when he realised the singer was not breathing, according to newly-released documents. Police filed the documents to su...
Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:59:25 -0500
Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2009 shows the general view of Sodre concert theater in Montevideo, Uruguay. After 38 years of rebuilding and maintaining, the Sodre concert theater that was ruined by fire wil...
SINA Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:54:16 -0500
Togolese artists staged an open concert on Friday evening in the capital Lome to mark Universal Children's Day and the 20th anniversary of the UN convention on the rights of children. The celebrations...
People's Daily Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:53:51 -0500
Irish soccer fans will march on the French Embassy today in an attempt to raise the stakes in the row over Thierry Henry's handball in Paris on Wednesday night.Henry's illegal use of his hand to preve...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:21:05 -0500
It's George Michael and Wham week on 'The X Factor' this weekend - with pundits saying our own Jedward will sing 'I'm Your Man'.After landing in the bottom two a fortnight ago, the Dublin twins pulled...
Irish Examiner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:21:04 -0500
Young Mass Presents... The Best Of Daygo City Is In Stores Now! (PRWEB) November 21, 2009 -- Jake Records has teamed up with San Diego's Young Mass to present a serious who's who compilation for San ...
Earth Times Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:02:27 -0500
Young musicians spurred on by reality TV. London, UK (PRWEB) November 21, 2009 -- The huge popularity of musical reality television shows has recharged the interest young people have in music, accord...
Earth Times Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:02:15 -0500
From left, Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow, Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens (back) of the rock band Big Star, playing their first New York show in several years at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.
International Herald Tribune Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:43:39 -0500
November 20, 2009 By Andrew Stern Chicago - Oprah Winfrey said on Friday that she will end her popular TV show in 2011 because it "feels right in her bones" after 25 years, and urged her viewers no...
Tonight Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:40:07 -0500
November 21, 2009By Candice Bailey Radio station Kaya FM's second risky reality radio marriage is off to a rocky start. Despite the station's PR disaster when it hosted the first ever radio wedding...
Tonight Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:40:05 -0500
November 21, 2009 Los Angeles - The driver of a tour bus for Miley Cyrus died on Friday when the vehicle crashed in Virginia, but the teen singer was not on-board, police said. The bus ran off the ...
Tonight Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:40:03 -0500
Singapore - A Singapore court on Saturday sentenced a celebrity Buddhist monk who ran one of the city-state's most popular charities to 10 months in jail for fraud, a media report said. Shi Ming Yi, 4...
Earth Times Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:42 -0500
Stockholm - Swedish opera singer Elisabeth Soederstroem, 82, died Friday in Stockholm from the effects of a stroke, her husband Sverker Olow said. The soprano made her debut in 1947 in a Mozart opera ...
Earth Times Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:39 -0500
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" was on course to break two box-office records in one day. The second installment of the vampire saga broke the record for midnight ticket sales Thursday night and was ...
Associated Press Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:16:47 -0500
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Adam Lambert -- the man with the outsize personality who delivered an audacious octave-and-a-half sitar-tinged purr of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on the most-watched TV sho...
Reuters Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:15:11 -0500
Advertisement But now, like many businesses in Michigan, Kinetic Post is becoming an increasingly important player in the state's fledgling -- but growing -- film industry.
The Detroit News Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:10:41 -0500
INGLEWOOD, Calif. ? Heavy favorite Reba is Tops won for the 10th time in 20 career starts Friday night with her victory in Hollywood Park's $47,000 allowance feature. Ridden by Joe Talamo, ...
Sign on San Diego Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:24:26 -0500
CEO and Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato of Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Dr. Lim Kok Wing, and UNICEF Representative in Malaysia Youssouf Oomar present 'Let's Heal the World' music vid...
UNICEF Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:23:20 -0500
NEW YORK: News Corp, Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, home of the James Bond movies, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. ...
Times of India Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:05 -0500
OPRAH Winfrey will end her popular US TV show in 2011 because it "feels right in my bones" to stop after 25 years, she said yesterday, urging viewers not to believe rumours of her motives.
The Scotsman Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:52:06 -0500
Nov 20th, 2009 - Hasbro Family Game Night is a collection of seven of Hasbro's board games, all of them already available as individual downloads on Xbox Live Arcade. Most of them have been reviewed ...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:34:43 -0500
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Nashville judge has dismissed assault and harassment charges against country music singer John Rich.Rich and other witnesses testified Friday before Judge John Aaron Holt that h...
The Miami Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:03 -0500
, but the tune seemed completely apropos for his latest political fight. The legendary British folk singer and known supporter of labour rights and other political causes, appeared at a news conferen...
CBC News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29:07 -0500
John Mayer performed a blues-rock jam at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Monday, the day before the release of his album “Battle Studies.”...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:34 -0500
Alan Gilbert was ultimately the choice for music director, and I can only hope that the players now feel as positive as I do about the current state and the future of their orchestra. I would go furth...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:25 -0500
Savion Glover , the tap dancer, has been performing this week at the Blue Note with four major figures in jazz. It’s all being recorded for video, but also for audio. Audio? Does that make sense...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:20 -0500
“American Idol” contestant Melinda Doolittle, who finished third on Season 6, knows who she is and what she wants. “In my heart of hearts, I want to be Clair Huxtable” (on R...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:17 -0500
Frank Sinatra . Marveling anew at that pinch-me moment, Mr. Nascimento said he was honored to be back again. That memory was probably the jolt he needed: his first five songs, stretching back to the e...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:08 -0500
Mahler’s Seventh Symphony is probably the least popular of his nine works in the genre. Completed in 1905, it was the last of his symphonies to enter the repertory of the...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:03 -0500
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal physician told investigators he was not the first doctor to give the pop star propofol, the powerful anesthetic that was one of the drugs to cause hi...
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:02 -0500
PARIS/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in ...
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:01 -0500
I have often decried the lack of big-time musicals in small towns, musicals like the ones you can only see on Broadway. But as the saying goes, “If you can't take theatergoers to Broadway, you c...
News-Review Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:08:45 -0500
Professional Sarah Palin and Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonators look for a gun prop for Sarah Palin's address during the Sunburst Convention of Professional Tribute Artists...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:03 -0500
Chef Jamie Oliver and television presenter Lauren Laverne are among the celebrities who donated items to a new charity shop due to open in Edinburgh.It is the first permanent charity shop designed by ...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:22 -0500
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A celebrity photographer who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after clashing with an official trying...
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:42 -0500
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sting's "If on a Winter's Night..." may feature holiday-inspired songs, but don't call it a Christmas album. "The whole season is much broader than that," he says. "Winter is ab...
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:41 -0500
The Launch of a Pop-Culture Talk Show Series Geared Toward the Net Generation. Hollywood, CA (Billboard Publicity Wire/PRWeb) January 10, 2009 -- Finally, a talk show series that speaks to young peop...
Earth Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:41 -0500
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Donald Braswell, 4th place winner from TV's "America's Got Talent" 2008 season, and William Stokking, retired principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orch...
Earth Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:33 -0500
Why put it off? In less than two years, she will vanish from sight as a five-hours-weekly broadcast TV fixture. How could we not be feeling early pangs of withdrawal and loss? Let's go ahead and start...
Houston Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:13 -0500
Hunt: End of "Oprah" Just a Beginning (AP) Is it too soon to begin missing Oprah? Why put it off? In less than two years, she will vanish from sight as a five-hours-weekly broadcast TV fixture. How...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:15 -0500
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Donald Braswell, 4th place winner from TV's "America's Got Talent" 2008 season, and William Stokking, retired principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, are...
Breitbart Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:06:55 -0500
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2009 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS ARTIST OF THE YEAR Kings of Leon Taylor Swift Lady Gaga Eminem Michael Jackson POP/ROCK - Favorite Male Artist Eminem Michael Jackson T.I. POP...
NewsTalk Radio 810 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:09:43 -0500
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urges supporters to vote for Republican candidate for New Jersey governor Chris Christie, left, in West Milford, N.J. A spo...
The Miami Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:58:11 -0500
Angry business people hit out at the ESB tonight after a dam on the River Lee was opened piling pressure on Cork city’s strained flood defences.Locals claimed the energy giant issued inadequate warn...
Irish Examiner Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:42 -0500
An auction and concert Monday night in Sioux Falls will raise money for people in South Dakota and around the world who need access to clean drinking water.
Argus Leader Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:31 -0500
LOS ANGELES - The hotly anticipated sequel to vampire romance "Twilight" scored a monster hit at the North American box office on Friday, shattering previous records for midnight openings, reports sai...
Inquirer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:52 -0500
Search warrant records released by a Nevada judge revealed that police found receipts in the Las Vegas medical office of Dr. Conrad Murray showing he bought the powerful sedative propofol from Applied...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:32 -0500
Palin, on her blog for the Going Rogue book tour, says she's "especially looking forward to meeting our brave men and women in uniform at Fort Hood."...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:31 -0500
"So I stepped off the plane after a month out of the country, and basically went straight to the hospital for the week," Madden wrote on his band's Web site on Friday. "But don't worry all is well and...
MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:42:36 -0500
Friends and fans alike are mourning the impending loss of Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk show in 2011, sharing the sentiment that it will be very difficult to fill the Queen of Media's high heels.
CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:23 -0500
If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from ...
Wired News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:34:59 -0500
The "virtual fifth label" is now friends with MySpace. Merlin, an organization that represents independent music companies, is supposed to have signed a deal with the social network that sho...
Web Pro News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:03 -0500
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At what may be the height of her early career, teen sensation Taylor Swift finds herself facing the downside of stardom -- naysayers.
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:08 -0500
AMARILLO, Texas, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAST) announced today a list of Must-Have Christmas Gifts for the 2009 holiday season. Has gift-giving anxiety ...
Earth Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:50 -0500
The Chinese Flute, Hans Bethge's German translation of eighth and ninth century Chinese poems, treating the joys of living and the constant renewal of the earth, mingled with intimations of mortality....
Houston Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:27 -0500
Free jazz trio Borbetomagus — from left, Don Dietrich, Jim Sauter and Donald Miller — has been in existence three decades.
Houston Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:25 -0500
"Big Brother" Court Hearing Postponed (AP) The winner of the CBS reality TV show "Big Brother 9" accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller is again asking to be released on bail unt...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:21 -0500
NEW YORK (AP) — Whether he's planning another run for the White House or a bid for senator or governor, or he just misses the spotlight, Rudy Giuliani is suddenly back and talking about the topi...
Deseret News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:14 -0500
A teary-eyed Oprah Winfrey announced today (Friday) that she will end her unrivaled daytime talk show at the end of its 25th season in 2011. She told her audience that "after much prayer and months of...
Showbiz Data Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:56 -0500
Oprah Winfrey has announced her daytime television show will end in 2011, after 25 years on the air. The talk show queen delivered the news on Friday's episode of her programme from Chicago, saying ...
Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:30 -0500
The popular chef Delia Smith has said her CBE is a "tribute to home cooks all over Britain" after being awarded the honour from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Smith's books, including the...
Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:30 -0500
In the midst of towering images of some of Spain's UEFA EURO 2008™ heroes, the 2010 UEFA Champions League final logo was launched to rapturous applause at the aptly named City of Football in Madrid ...
UEFA Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:10 -0500
I am an avid lover of film. For several like me, Dstv’s Africa Magic Channel and the ever-surging Nollywood have been a detrimental chagrin deserving to be tried in the Prague for committing crimes ...
Daily Monitor Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:39 -0500
(AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urges supporters to vote for Republican candidate for New Jersey governor Chris Christie, left, i...
The Examiner Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:08 -0500
Paul Dergarabedian is a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. He says the midnight start "portends an opening weekend that could be one of the biggest of the year. "...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:15 -0500
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