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Katy Perry is best known for her eccentric looks and popular dance music, but the 27-year-old singer proved quite the comedian as she hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend. The pop singer has had a stellar year with a hugely successful tour, chart-topping dance hits, a starring role on The Smurfs and two Grammy nominations for the 2012 awards ceremony in February.

Van Morrison has been left devastated following the death of his former lover and mother of his youngest child, Gigi Lee, who passed two months ago after a long battle with cancer. She was 44.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles in the third MiB installment.

President Barack Obama struck a pious tone on Sunday at a Christmas concert featuring teen pop star Justin Bieber and other singers that the president attended with his wife and daughters.

Christmas markets attract millions of tourists every year. Looking for the best market to visit in 2011? Here are the top ten Christmas markets.

The third Men in Black movie just got its first official trailer Monday, which showcased a new plot involving space and time travel.

Storybrooke's sheriff is no more, it seems.

Karryl Smith, more popularly known as rapper Special One of Oakland's Conscious Daughters, died suddenly on Saturday.

Actor Steve Guttenberg is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, according to CBS Los Angeles.

Young, gorgeous and a popular YouTube beauty guru, Annie Jaffrey leads quite a beautiful life.

New York Senator Charles Schumer and state Senator Michael Gianaris wrote a letter to Homeland Security and the TSA stating that an on-site passenger advocate would help strike a balance between security and the protection of vulnerable travelers.

A JetBlue flight from New York City to Salt Lake City made an emergency landing in upstate New York on Sunday when the pilot and crew saw smoke in the cockpit of the plane.

Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale was in Beijing on Monday promoting his new movie The Flowers of War that opens on Friday in China and a week later in the U.S.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which was under fire after two elderly travelers accused it of strip searches, has announced a “hotline” assistance to the passengers in need.

In her book Wrestling the Hulk - My Life Against the Ropes and in interviews promoting the book, Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda Hogan claims the wrestler had a homosexual relationship with male wrestler Brutus Beefcake.

The top 10 most fashionable hotels in the world. Bon voyage!

Sure, we all know the famed Thailand beaches of Phuket, Koh Lanta, and Koh Samui, but how about Koh Tarutao or Koh Similan?

The Obamas struck a festive note with celebrities including Jennifer Hudson, Victoria Justice and pop sensation Justin Bieber at the Christmas in Washington concert.

After Nigel Barker announced at the finale that Angelea Preston was disqualified from this season's America's Next Top Model fans news began to fly that it was possibly being due to her leaking the results on her Facebook page.

The contents of Michael Jackson's final home will be sold at an auction this week, presenting collectors and Jackson fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Zhang Yimou, one of China's best-known directors, is banking on heartthrob Christian Bale to help boost the country's chances of winning an Oscar, with his latest film on a tragic chapter in the nation's history.

Contents of the mansion where Michael Jackson's lifeless body was found by convicted killer Dr. Conrad Murray go under the auction hammer next week, closing one chapter on a tragic saga that started in 2009 and ended last month with his former physician behind bars.

Alec Baldwin dropped in on Saturday Night Live this weekend for a skit mocking the airline industry, issuing a fake apology from a pilot who kicked him off an American Airlines flight for playing a smart-phone game before departure.

An early New Year's Eve led the weekend box office charts as movie audiences turned to the holiday romance over new comedy The Sitter.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which took a typically idiosyncratic path with its 2011 awards, has named Alexander Payne's The Descendants the best film of the year.

The Artist, a black-and-white silent film about Hollywood, drama The Descendants, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese and Terrence Malick all won big on Sunday among U.S. film critics and industry groups that doled out honors for the year's best movies.

Romantic comedy New Year's Eve topped the domestic movie box office during the weekend but Hollywood had little to celebrate as North American ticket sales slumped to their lowest level in three years.

Lindsay Lohan may have felt far away from her problems in Hawaii, but the jacking of her $5,000 channel purse seems to have brought the troubled actress back to reality. The bag contained her passport, cash and probation papers from court, TMZ reported.

Official teaser posters for two of the most-anticipated summer blockbusters -- The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man -- have been released.