LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Bruce Jenner said on Friday that he identifies as a woman, becoming the most high-profile American to come out as transgender.
NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major Indian jewellery chain has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with a dark-skinned boy holding a parasol over her after it was slammed by activists and on social media for being racist and promoting child slavery.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A judge in Los Angeles today ordered rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight to stand trial for murder in the hit-and-run death of a man outside a hamburger stand in January.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Soul singer Percy Sledge, best known for his recording of “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died at his home in Louisiana at age 74 after battling cancer, his agent said on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran blues guitarist B.B. King said he was “feeling much better” and heading home on Tuesday after being hospitalized for diabetes-related issues.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “I couldn’t find my glasses,” Jean Small said. She was explaining to The Sunday Gleaner, an extra-long, between-scenes wait that the audience had during her one-woman show, The Awful Truth, at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA) recently.
(Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest names in music including Beyonce, Cold Play’s Chris Martin and Rihanna are backing Jay Z’s new global streaming music service Tidal, which launched on Monday, and is billing itself as the first of its kind owned by artists.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Before Helen Mirren agreed to play elderly Jewish World War Two refugee Maria Altmann in the new film “Woman in Gold,” the Academy Award-winning actress checked the last page of the screenplay to see if the character was there.
(Reuters) – Comedian Trevor Noah, a relative newcomer to U.S. television, will replace Jon Stewart as the new host of the Emmy Award-winning, late-night parody newscast “The Daily Show,” Comedy Central said on Monday.
(BBC) Bollywood star Salman Khan has told an Indian court that he was not driving on the night he is accused of running over five men sleeping on a pavement, killing one of them.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Two more women came forward today accusing veteran comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them decades ago, when they were in their teens.
(Reuters) – Two years after her double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie said she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A judge set bail today at $25 million for Suge Knight in a murder case, agreeing on the amount requested by prosecutors who had described the rap mogul in court papers as being “incapable of stopping his violent criminal behavior.”
AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – Thirty years after five misfits entered high school detention and defined the archetype for the modern teen movie, actresses Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy reflected on the unexpected impact of John Hughes’s “The Breakfast Club.”
(Times of India) NEW DELHI: Top filmmakers on Monday sought the ouster of censor board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, accusing him of creating a “hostile” environment.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actress and media magnate Oprah Winfrey is selling antique furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics and memorabilia from her Chicago apartment next month to benefit her education foundation, the auction house running the sale said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Mike Porcaro, the longtime bassist for Grammy Award-winning U.S.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Sean Penn is not all gruff voice and intense gaze.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Forget about likeable, upstanding characters doing what is right.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty-three years after playing the role of Ivanhoe ‘Rhygin’ Martin, in the iconic Jamaican crime film, The Harder They Come, legendary reggae artiste, Jimmy Cliff, is set to reprise the role in the upcoming sequel.
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