CULTURE

The Merritt Parkway in Connecticut joins a monastery in Bhutan, a church in Chile and a British dockyard among 93 irreplaceable sites at risk from vandalism, neglect, conflict or disaster, the World Monuments Fund said on Tuesday.

It's an amazing story that perhaps you have heard. I read it again recently in a story by Rick Reilly for Sports Illustrated. The Father-son duo of Rick and Dick Hoyt are an amazing team. Together they have competed in marathons and triathlons. They have competed together and finished hundreds of races together. Each time they cross the finish line they do so at the same time- every time.

British comedian Matt Lucas has pulled out of a West End play after his ex-partner killed himself, reportedly hours after posting a message on Facebook saying Kevin McGee thinks that death is much better than life.

British author Hilary Mantel is favorite to scoop the Man Booker Prize later on Tuesday, while South African-born J.M. Coetzee is in the running to become the first writer to win the coveted award three times.

Comedian David Letterman said on Monday his wife has been horribly hurt by revelations of his sexual affairs exposed in an extortion plot against him and he apologized to staff of his popular late-night talk show.

American Idol is bringing back its Idol Gives Back charitable special on April 21 after a yearlong hiatus.

MTV is going forward with the late DJ AM's Intervention-style reality series Gone Too Far, which will premiere next Monday.

U.S. rapper Jim Jones pleaded guilty on Monday to misdemeanor assault charges related to a fight in Manhattan's Louis Vuitton store last December.

If anyone has amassed enough material for a tell-all one-person show, it's Carrie Fisher.

Lindsay Lohan thinks the collection she showed at the Paris Fashion Week couldn't maker her happier, but in the eyes of fashion critics the line is embarrassing and eventually a hot mess.

Dr Pradeep Taneja says that while communism in China is dead 'practically', the 60th anniversary of the creation of the People's Republic of China is particularly significant.

The Australian academic profession is headed for crisis due to a lack of academic staff, unless major change takes place.

There are times in one's life when it's hard to completely comprehend the significance of an experience until we decide to look at it again in retrospect. The opportunity to work for The Smith Family was one such time in my life.

Coalition armed forces are in danger of losing a battle to terrorist organisations because they are failing to counter the use of new media in conflicts, according to a researcher from The Australian National University.

Children's fiction is as important for young people as ever, but changes in society means the tone and subject content have shifted, a QUT researcher has found.

Mergers, management changes and unfriendly work-family practices were the main reasons behind women leaving the workforce today a new Melbourne Business School survey has found.

Four years ago, a company that was a curious hybrid of old and new made a statement of sorts when it bought a buzz drama about South African gangsters.

Comedian David Letterman did not tell the whole story when he described himself as the victim of a $2 million extortion plot by a TV news producer, an attorney for the producer said on Monday.

The entire city of Buenos Aires seems to drink mate. Families lounging on blankets pass it around in parks. Friends sitting on benches sip it while chatting. Beach-goers break out mate tote bags. Some

American Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) visited Iraqi refugees in Syria, in a suburb in southern Damascus on October 2, 2009.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped at an ice cream shop in Amman Jordan with their 15 month old twins Knox and Vivienne and all posed for a photo.

Actress Julia Roberts arrives for the filming of her upcoming movie Eat, Pray, Love at Mirzapur village in the northern Indian state of Haryana September 27, 2009.

Kate Gosselin appeared on NBC's Today Show on Monday claiming that Jon Gosselin withdrew $230,000 from $231,000 of their joint bank account in about one month.

Madonna and Lady Gaga appeared on Saturday Night Live's Deep House Dish sketch (A fake of the MTV show) over the weekend playing a mock lingerie fight and nearly kissing each other.

Narrator: Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything ... and just may get some of it back.

Beyonce may be the hardest-working woman in showbiz.

As the lead singer of the multimillion-selling band Linkin Park, Chester Bennington helped define the rap-metal sound of the early '90s. But as his career was ascending, his life was falling apart: Bennington was heavily involved in drugs and spent some nights wondering whether he would make it to the next day.

MC Wale seems poised to make the leap to mainstream success.

Five years after the release of Social Distortion's last studio effort, the veteran punk band is road-testing new material for an album it hopes will come out in 2010.