CULTURE

On Monday, Island Records announced that a Amy Winehouse album is all set for a posthumous release in December. The world will finally get to hear Winehouse's voice again, in an album the 27-year-old singer was working on before her unexpected death. Winehouse's last studio recording, a cover of Body & Soul sung with Tony Bennett, will also be included in the album.

Lady Gaga has taken India by storm, as Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan join local newspapers, business moguls and fans in adoration after the singer's performance at the F1 after-party, her words of praise for the Indian people, and her unexpected skill with the sitar. Gaga's experience touring Indian orphanages, meanwhile, may have inspired her to form a charity for disadvantaged children.

Celeb Jihad is Taylor Swift's number one enemy. The site posted a photograph of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Swift lying topless on a bed, claiming that it is the songbird herself. Swift has threatened to sue the website over copyright infringement. Now, Celeb Jihad is proposing a compromise.

The lead dancer in Justin Bieber's Mistletoe video has spoken about how life has been different for her, from the time the video was launched. My friends were freaking out a little more than I was, the 18-year-old told MTV News, I wasn't really prepared for all the stuff that was happening. I think that pretty much everyone has been pretty supportive. There are some things out there that are untrue, just as far as my age and stuff, but everyone has been really nice and ...

JK Rowling admits in interview that she almost killed off Ron Weasley.

The latest trend in Halloween costumes for the year 2011 is mainly focused on celebrities from movies and television and the music world. According to Webtrends measurement, the celebrity who tops the list of Halloween costumes of 2011 is Lady Gaga with 57% of people getting ready to portray her this year. Gaga has her unique style with her dressing, hairdo, heels and accessories. She has hit the headlines several times for her costumes and the mother monster has not just grabbed eye balls and ...

Taylor Swift, the gorgeous country music singer, has found herself in the midst of a leaked nude photo scandal, just weeks after the nude photos of celebrities Scarlett Johansson and Madonna were leaked to the internet by hackers.

Happy Halloween 2011: Countdown Begins; Final Round-up of the Best Halloween Costume Ideas so Far, for Tonight [PHOTOS]

Decorative displays of pumpkins in New York and New Hampshire lay covered in snow, as a rare and late October winter storm struck the U.S. Northeastern region on Saturday and Sunday. The snow storm also led to power outages.

Pippa Middleton, sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, is all set to sign a $1.6 million book deal on how to be the perfect party hostess.

Prince William and Kate Middleton have received around 60,000 cards and letters from the public wishing them a happy married life.

Taylor Swift, 21, has called upon her lawyers in a battle against gossip website Celebrity Jihad over what it claims is a leaked private photo of the singer.

With Halloween 2011 just a day away there is still time to come up with a creative costume without having to break the bank. Here are some quick and easy ideas we have put together:

While some rejoice at the unexpected snow over Halloween weekend, many others in the Northeast face power outages, mass delays, and dangerous driving conditions as the rare snow storm travels up the East Coast. See footage of the storm, including New York' Occupy Wall Street, and view photos of the massive snowfall at MetLife Stadium and across Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Nick Aaronson, a U.S. Airways flight attendant, was found dead in a Hilton hotel room while on layover in Mexico City, killed in what authorities strongly suspect was a homicide. Aaronson, 33, was found naked with his hands tied and a belt around his neck in an apparent strangulation, though no motive or suspect have been found for the murder.

After a nor'easter pummeled the area on Saturday, Oct. 29, the Northeast is now clambering to clean up the aftermath. More than 2.3 million customers, stretching from Maryland to New England, lost power on Saturday and early Sunday morning, due to the storm.

Pippa Middleton reportedly to sign book deal on party planning.

Is the Jane Austen-zombie craze over? Lionsgate's adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's horror and drawing room comedy mashup, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has just lost its third director in a row.

One stuntman was killed and another one seriously injured in an explosion the set of action film The Expendables 2 in Bulgaria, the movie's production company said on Friday.

Cry Baby Lane, a Nickelodeon movie about conjoined twins who are sawed apart, was deemed so scary after its one airing in October 2000 that it was banned by the network, never to be seen again.

The Halloween will fall on next Monday. All kinds of funny, scary and sexy costumes have hit the market - have you got one for your own Halloween? People always dress up as supernatural and scary beings during Halloween. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, vampires, witches, and devils, while in recent years, they are also those of science fiction-inspired characters as aliens and superheroes.

Elizabethan scholars may dispute the version of events recounted in Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's exploration of who really wrote the plays and poems history attributes to William Shakespeare, but those of us in the cheap seats (with suitable temperament) will have to admire how the director of 2012 and Independence Day took a topic appropriate for a doctoral thesis and turned it into a melodramatic potboiler.

Ever hear of wearing your heart on your sleeve? A design project at the intersection between fashion and technology takes the idea to a new level with Intimacy 2.0, a dress constructed of e-foils that communicates the mood of the wearer.

Salma Hayek has been many things: movie star, director, producer, wife and mother. On Friday, she adds clawless and lawless to that list as the fierce, female heroine Kitty Softpaws in new animated film, Puss in Boots.

Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film My Tehran for Sale, which is banned in Iran.

With numbers from Game 6 of the World Series on Fox still pending, The Big Bang Theory holds the top ratings spot of Thursday night. NBC's comedy block suffered a series of losses, and Prime Suspect hit a series low, according to preliminary numbers.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim releases Nov. 11 with plenty of new game play mechanics and a focus on dragons.

Looks like former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart might have to counsel up some legal assistance.

Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol after popping an extra eight sedatives without his doctor's knowledge, a Los Angeles court heard on Friday.