CULTURE

The French take their food seriously. In a land of three hour dinners, afternoons spent at outdoor cafes, hundreds of different kinds of cheese and mandated 35-hour work weeks, the French seem to spend about as much time and energy eating and drinking as they do working.

Over the weekend Paris Jackson got her first haircut in Los Angeles after which every strand of hair was carefully swept up by her security and placed into a container according to reports from Britain's Daily Mail.

Perhaps the most colorful and loveable of the traveler trifecta of food, shelter and water is food. Where to get it,

Chris Brown will speak for the first time since he was sentenced to 5 year probation for allegedly hitting his former girlfriend and fellow R & B singer Rihanna back in February.

Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, will be buried today in a Los Angeles Jewish cemetery according to reports from TMZ.

Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer will replace anchor Charlie Gibson when he steps down from ABC's

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has not quit the band, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday, denying a news report from Australia.

Whitney Houston performed at New York City's Central Park on Tuesday for her first performance in seven years.

Country singer LeAnn Rimes, 27, is divorcing her husband of seven years Dean Sheremet amid allegations that she is having an affair with actor Eddie Cibrian, her co-star in the film

DJ AM may have committed suicide, according to People Magazine which quotes an unidentified law enforcement source.

The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with Italian movie

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was given a hero's welcome on Tuesday when he visited Ennis, his ancestral home town in Ireland, and was made an honorary freeman at a reception watched by hundreds on big screens outside.

Before conceiving her 19th child, Michelle Duggar,42 truly thought she was done having children, she said on her blog Tuesday.

Whitney Houston appeared on stage in Central Park on Tuesday on

Take Africa's peaks: at 5,895m Kilimanjaro - the continent's highest point, the world's highest hiking peak, a visually satisfying snow-topped monolith - steals the show.

The date for DJ AM's funeral is not yet known to the public but speculation is that DJ's remains will be moved to California where he is expected to be buried later this week.

The island's moving history and resilient people almost stole the show.

The late Tammy Wynette will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at a formal ceremony on October 18, officials said on Tuesday.

Not many actresses get a career-changing chance at 68.

Musicians from 40 countries gathered in the heart of former Nazi-occupied Poland on Tuesday to mark the outbreak of World War Two with a concert to persuade people making music is better than waging war.

SkyEurope, the Slovak-based low cost airline, has gone bust.

Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, 35 was sentenced to a minimum of 59 years in prison on Monday for sexual assaulting aspiring models, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was sentenced to 59 years to life in prison on Monday for sexual assaulting aspiring models.

CBS has landed a highly sought multicamera comedy script by

Boxing will return to movie theaters for the first time in almost three decades -- and in high definition -- with the September 19 welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez, it was announced Monday.

Anand Jon Alexander, notorious fashion designer was on Monday afternoon sentenced to a minimum of 59 years in prison for the sex crimes committed on young aspiring models.

R&B singer Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna, said he still loves her and details of the assault are blurred in his memory roughly six months later.

Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon was sentenced to a minimum of 59 years in prison on Monday for sexually assaulting aspiring models as young as 14, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.

Sublime, the chart-topping punk-reggae group that split up more than 13 years ago when its lead singer overdosed, is gearing up to play its first official gig with a new vocalist at a festival celebrating cannabis.