CULTURE

Kate Middleton, like Princess Diana, is beautiful, exudes confidence, class and has an amazing taste in fashion. Therefore, a comparison between the two is inevitable.

Airline pilots will fly shorter shifts and get longer periods of rest under new rules the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finalized Wednesday in a landmark effort to prevent potentially dangerous fatigue.

Steven Spielberg is among the most prolific film directors ever, and as if to prove it, he has two movies in theaters this holiday week during what is one of the biggest box office periods of the year.

Lovelace also stars Hank Azaria, Peter Sarsgaard and Amanda Seyfried.

Batman star Christian Bale should feel embarrassed for trying to visit a prominent Chinese human rights activist detained in his home in eastern Shandong Province while he promoted his latest film, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

R. Kelly is ready to continue his widely-known, and widely-criticized, Trapped in the Closet series. But the singer doesn't just have one new episode up his sleeve, but rather 32 new chapters ready to be filmed. Here is a round up of chapters of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos.

Commissioners in Florida’s Pasco County awarded $3,818 in tourist taxes for a promotional campaign to lure in European nudists.

Ryan Gosling and rumored girlfriend Eva Mendes cozy up for the new hilarious addition to Funny or Die's Drunk History series for Drunk History Christmas.

Whether you're traveling by air or by land, make sure to check out these tips for travel before you head out to maximize holiday travel happiness and minimize coal-in-the-stocking grief.

The first of the two-part prequel opens in theaters Dec. 14, 2012.

RadarOnline reported via a Star magazine exclusive that the Kardashians' products are made in sweatshops with the use of child labor.

Several of the states that are applying for relief from provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law have submitted proposals that lack detail and evidence that they will produce substantive reform, according to a new report.port.

While reports of the highly publicized divorce of Kim Kardashian begin to fizzle, the spotlight is on Reggie Bush after he finally made a public statement about his ex-girlfriend's divorce after 72 days of marriage and failed to mention his new girlfriend.

Army Sgt. Wesley Durden Jr., a former contestant on TLC's reality show Next Great Baker, was shown voted off the show on Monday night's episode. However, Durden, a Jacksonville native, completed suicide back in October after production ended, according to reports.

Tokio Marine said it will buy U.S. insurer Delphi Financial Group for $2.7 billion and is eyeing other acquisition targets, as Japan's No.2 property-casualty insurer looks to expand outside its mature home market and diversify geographic risks.

Think of wine critic Robert Parker as the E.F. Hutton of fermented grapes. When he talks, oenophiles listen.

The Courage Campaign wants reality TV star Kim Kardashian to endorse the Millionaires Tax of 2012, a statewide ballot initiative that seeks to levy a higher tax rate on Californians who make more than $1 million a year. Their new ad pointedly explains that Kardashian made $12 million in 2010, significantly more than the average Californian whose income was $47,000.

Vogue has chosen its top 10 models of 2011. Here are this year's winning ladies.

Kendall Jenner, 16, the younger sister of American reality television star Kim Kardashian, is not a fan of big parties. She was reportedly upset on Monday night's special episode of Keeping up with the Kardashian and snapped back at her mother, Kris Jenner, who tried to relocate her birthday party to the Bahamas.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady will solidify their fairytale lifestyle when the supermodel and her quarterback hubby move into their $20 million Los Angeles dream home.

The Academy Award statuette, given to famed American film director-actor, Orson Welles, for his 1941 classic Citizen Kane, has fetched $861,542 at a Los Angeles auction held on Dec. 20.

It's been eight years since epic fantasy lovers were able to see a 'Lord of the Rings' film. Now, fans will finally be able to go back to Middle Earth with the trailer for Peter Jackson's upcoming film, 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,' the first of a two-part prequel to the LOTR film trilogy.

French multinational luxury conglomerate, LVMH has increased its stake in rival company, Hermes to 22.3 percent from an initial 21.40 percent, according to France's stock market regulator, Autorite des marches financiers (AMF).

After almost 10 years since the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film was seen in theaters, middle earth is getting much closer, as the first trailer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to the trilogy, was revealed on Tuesday.

Kate Middleton or, if one was to be official - Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge - exuded elegance and style, as she attended a military awards ceremony, The Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards at the Imperial War Museum in central London, on Monday. The resemblance to Princess Diana was, in many ways, striking.

Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, who died of breast cancer at a very young age of 28 Saturday, proved in her short span of life how a woman could put up a brave fight against the affliction.

Directed by Peter Jackson, who previously brought Oscar fame to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit is a prequel to that trilogy. Many of the same actors from Lord of the Rings appear in The Hobbit.

For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.

An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his semen that he advertises over the Internet.