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George Clooney will kick off the 2011 Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of his political drama The Ides of March. The Lido waterfront will witness star-studded 11 days.

The shipwreck discovered in 1996 by a private contractor working for the state of North Carolina has been confirmed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the notorious 18th-century English pirate Blackbeard, state officials said.

Teen pop star Justin Beiber was uninjured in a car accident in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

India's full service airlines, buffeted by high fuel costs and intense competition, face new headwinds on their lucrative international routes as budget carriers launch services with rock-bottom fares.

Lady Gaga, or rather, Jo Calderone, wore a wig and merkins as well as prosthetic cheekbones and shoulder at the MuchMusic awards function earlier this year, but she wore a prosthetic penis to complete her transformed look of Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV VMAs.

For the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, contestants from 89 countries and regions across the world are participating at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo on Sept.12.

George Clooney kicks off the 2011 Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of his political drama The Ides of March, setting the tone for a star-studded 11 days on the Lido waterfront.

Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah was briefly arrested outside the White House on Tuesday during a protest against a proposed $7 billion oil pipeline, police said.

Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day trying to rescue people from the scene.

Angelina Jolie has dismissed ongoing speculation about marriage and more kids with her partner Brad Pitt, telling Vanity Fair in an interview published on Tuesday that there are no secret wedding plans.

A mystery buyer has put in a bid to take a sex tape featuring Kim Kardashian offline from Websites where viewers now have to pay to watch it.

An adult actor who contracted HIV through unprotected sex shut down Los Angeles' adult film industry Monday night. An involuntary sexual health database was established less than a month ago in order to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted disease within the notoriously promiscuous community.

Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most famous conductor, will not take part in a music festival in China later this week, organizers said, with media reporting that he was in hospital in Tokyo for tests.

Warrior may have a hot young rising star in Tom Hardy, but Lionsgate knows that for the UFC drama to be a hit it will need strong word of mouth support.

Some think Nancy Grace will be the first to be eliminated -- will she surprise us?

Jolie dishes about her directorial debut, quells rumors.

Concourse F at Miami International Airport was evacuated after screeners spotted a suspicious package.

Cartoonists, writers will create 9/11 tributes.

More information on the new cast of the hit ABC show.

This is not Hannah's first arrest for political demonstrations

Reprint features new cover art.

A full night of Gordon Ramsay-generated culinary drama pushed Fox to an overall win on Monday night, while ABC's Bachelor Pad got a slight bump in the ratings, according to preliminary numbers.

When Glen Campbell made a comeback bid in 2008, there was one aspect of his concert appearances that invited audiences' ridicule or alarm -- not his delivery, which was still pitch-perfect, but the fact that his eyes were glued to his Teleprompter for even his most familiar hits. Could he really be afraid he'd forget the words to the chorus of Galveston?

The big worry for Red Hot Chili Peppers fans leading into I'm With You, their 10th album, was whether new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer could possibly measure up to the legacy of departed axeman John Frusciante, who'd been with the Chili Peppers for most of their career and all their most popular recordings.

TSA arrested a man at Miami International Airport for attempting to board a flight with 7 snakes and 3 tortoises in his pants.

Nicollette Sheridan hit another setback in her lawsuit against ABC and Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, the Associated Press reports.

The body of a hiker was found in Grand Canyon on Sunday, adding to an increasingly deadly summer in United States' National Parks.

R&B star Chris Brown wowed fans and celebrities at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, apparently impressing Lindsay Lohan so much that the 25-year-old actress would flirt-tweet at him.

A much-hyped Gawker exclusive alleges that popular Fox News host Bill O'Reilly tried to have his wife's police officer boyfriend investigated by his department's internal affairs.