The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to (...)
The Great Gatsby star "Leonardo DiCaprio" is going to know all about space travel.
The trip sitting next to DiCaprio on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flight went for $1.5 million at amfAR's annual gala and auction at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Another pair of tickets on the same (...)
About 60 people have been injured, five critically, after a head-on, rush-hour collision between two commuter trains near New York City, officials say.
Some 250 people were on the trains involved in Friday evening's crash. No fatalities have been reported.
Officials said a train that left New York (...)
Emma Watson has certainly grown into a beautiful woman since her days as a Harry Potter star.
And the actress, 23, showed she scrubs up well by dressing to impress at the glamorous screening for her new film The Bling Ring at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday evening.
All eyes were on (...)
Engineers on the Google Android team say they are still working hard to ensure that Android updates are rolled out to new devices in a timely fashion.
During a fireside chat at the Google I/O developer conference here Thursday, 11 members of the Android development team fielded questions from the (...)
Is Rihanna dissing Chris Brown on Twitter and Instagram in the wake of their most recent split, or is she just being Rihanna?
The singer posted a selfie (right) on the photo-sharing app on Friday night, along with the caption, “Bad girls want a real n***aaa… Cuz real n***az just wanna phuck.”
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Researchers from the University of Notre Dame in US presented college-age women with a series of photos of either noticeably thin or noticeably overweight women.
The women in the photos engaged in either "fat talk" or positive body talk; the participants were then asked to rate the women on (...)
YouTube launched a pilot program of paid channels for its online video service, calling it part of an effort "that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity."
The Google-owned video-sharing service said the launch with "a small group of partners" starts Thursday with (...)
The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a US intelligence official said on Sunday.
Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the intelligence official said that (...)
The collaboration between director Christopher Nolan and actor Michael Caine is moving towards its tenth year, the two having first worked together on Batman Begins, shot in 2004 and released in 2005.
Caine was in all three of Nolan's Batman films, and played roles in the director's “in-between” (...)
She's played everyone from a footballer to a bounty hunter over the course of her career.
And now Keira Knightley has taken on fashion doyenne Coco Chanel, stepping into her stylish shoes for Karl Lagerfeld's short film, Once Upon A Time.
The newly released teaser trailer offers a sneak peek of the (...)
Adele's return to the recording studio has reportedly prompted Columbia Records executives to alter US release plans for Susan Boyle's latest album.
The Oscar-winning 'Skyfall' singer's follow-up to the huge-selling 21 is said to have been prioritised over the former Britain's Got Talent (...)
A few major names are aligning for Walt Disney Pictures' planned adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's smash Broadway musical Into the Woods. Variety reports that director Rob Marshall is negotiating with Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep to star in the film, which is still trying to figure out its (...)
Actress Emma Stone is in talks to make her Broadway debut in an upcoming stage production of `Cabaret`.
Roundabout Theater bosses are mounting a revival of Joe Masteroff`s hit musical at Studio 54 next year and the `Amazing Spider-Man` star is currently negotiating a deal to hit the stage as singer (...)
George Jones, 81, the enduring hitmaker who perfected a heart-rending ballad-singing style that distilled the quintessence of country music, died Friday.
Mr. Jones died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to publicist Kirt Webster. He was hospitalized with fever and (...)
If you're looking for tips to lose weight, it is not difficult to find them. The weight loss industry is a 60 billion dollar business, involving a plethora of experts, coaches, and companies advocating every diet and remedy under the sun. Unfortunately, much of the advice out there consists of (...)
The official release of Django Unchained in China is back on again.
Quentin Tarantino's blaxploitation western was pulled from cinemas just minutes into its first screenings earlier this month. It was suggested that the Chinese censors had balked at the film's scenes of full-frontal nudity, but (...)
Singer Nicki Minaj is set to make her live-action film debut as she joins the cast of Fox's revenge comedy The Other Woman. According to The Hollywood Reporter the American Idol judge is in the final stage of negotiations to get on board the Cameron Diaz vehicle.
The comedy will be directed by Nick (...)
Christina Aguilera recently closed escrow on a mansion in gated Mulholland Estates, buying the Westside home of Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores and his wife, Holly, for $10 million.
The Mediterranean, custom-built in 1992, features a family room with exposed beams, a paneled library, two bars, five (...)
Tech giant Apple has lost its title as the world's most valuable publicly traded company after the firm's shares fell below 400 dollars for the first time in a year and half.
The stock was down 21.89 dollars, or 5.1 percent, at 404.35 dollars, after a supplier hinted at a slowdown in iPhone and (...)
Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the (...)
Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S.
A White House (...)
He was baaack. Dancing With the Stars was livelier than ever Monday night with the return of bad boy pro Maks Chmerkovskiy. He and pro dancer faves Chelsie Hightower, Tony Dovolani, Anna Trebunskaya and Tristan MacManus returned for a special dance challenge.
But before the performances got (...)
Twentieth Century Fox with Dream Works Animated has released the trailer of ‘The Croods', an animated adventure comedy film, written and directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders, and produced by Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell.the movie is on the americain box office
The characters of the (...)
as Brad Pitt shows off his rugged masculinity in all-black to promote World War Z at CinemaCon
She strips down to her bra and underwear in the new Star Trek film.
But Alice Eve showed a more angelic side at a recent film convention in Las Vegas.
The 31-year-old actress showed off her shapely legs (...)