CULTURE

A story posted on Parade magazine's website on Thursday in which Brad Pitt talks about his life with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston put the actor in damage control mode, saying his words had been misinterpreted.

Casey Anthony has been ordered to pay a sum of more than $97,000 to law enforcement agencies on Thursday, as compensation for their efforts to find the missing child. She was acquitted of the murder charges of her two-year-old daughter.

Naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson appeared online on Wednesday, after her phone was hacked.

Two nude photos of Scarlett Johansson, which were leaked on the Internet, immediately went viral, prompting the sexy actress to demand their removal.

With a slimmed-down figure Kirstie Alley made her runway debut at the Zang Toi Spring/Summer 2012 show during the 2011 New York Fashion Week.

An enraged Lindsay Lohan reportedly threw a drink at a photographer during a New York Fashion Week party Wednesday night, which, according to reports, missed and unintentionally injured a guest.

There's nothing like letting off a bit of steam at a party, and that is exactly what Scarlett Johansson did with her good friend Justin Timberlake amid an alleged hacking scandal where photos of the actress leaked on the Internet.

In an interview with Parade Magazine, Brad Pitt said that while he was married to Jennifer Aniston, he was trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't.

Mad Men actress January Jones has given birth to a healthy baby boy, Xander Dane Jones. People magazine reports that the star gave birth on Tuesday, and that both mother and child are doing great.She's really looking forward to the next chapter in her life as a single mom, a source told People, in what sounds like a pre-emptive strike against questions about the baby's father.Jones has been mysteriously mum on her child's patertiny since announcing her pr...

There aren't many reality TV shows that stage their own world premiere.

About two weeks ago T.I. was scored an early release from an Arkansas minimum-security prison, but was remanded back into custody because of an issue with his style of transportation to a halfway house in Atlanta.

Ramona Singer may be the only surviving original member

The National Blue Ribbon School award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools based on students' academic excellence or for the schools' progress in closing achievement gaps, especially among disadvantaged and minority students

NBC premiered two new sitcoms last night : one showed potential, the other did not.

Singer Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. took the crown on Wednesday as the Season 6 winner of “America’s Got Talent.” The singer beat out three finalists to win a $1 million cash prize and a headlining contract in Las Vegas, Nev. at Caesar's Palace in October.

University of California tuition may increase by up to 16 percent each year for the next four years if the system doesn't get more state funding, according to a long-term budget plan released Wednesday.

The government of Australia announced on Thursday that it will now offer three gender options for passports, M, F, and X.

A new study from San Francisco State University finds that rising sea levels and stronger storms caused by global warming may cost the state of California hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tourism and tax revenues as beaches shrink and buildings require additional protection.

Prince Harry turns 27 Thursday, but the Royal ginger won't be partying it up too hard. Instead, he'll be working.

At the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday, IFC Films acquired North American and Latin American rights to Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister.

Not since Frank Sinatra was featured in a commercial sending the casino owner off to fetch him some towels has Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn suffered such a public embarrassment.

Two people were killed and nine injured in an engine room fire on a Norwegian cruise ship Thursday morning.

It's OK we are just on a flight simulator, yelled a man as he attempted to open the emergency door of a Thomson Airlines flight at 36,000ft in the air.

Google is taking on Kayak and Expedia in the newly launched Google Flight Search.

America's Got Talent named its Season 6 champion, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a former car washer from West Virginia who was once homeless and almost gave up his dream as a talented singer.

Alley, 60, ruled the runway on Sept.13 in her modeling debut, walking for Zang Toi showing off a thinner, yet still curvy new figure.

Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a car washer from Logan, West Virginia who was once homeless, has finished his long journey to be crowned the most gifted in 'America's Got Talent' Wednesday night.

For affirmation of the old saying that the truth is stranger than fiction, compare Nicolas Cage's role in the upcoming film Trespass, in which strangers break into his affluent home, and his real-life experience dealing with a very bizarre intruder.

Director Roman Polanski is to collect an award from the Zurich Film Festival intended for him in 2009, when he was arrested en route to the ceremony on charges related to a sex crime more than 30 years ago, organizers said on Thursday.