CULTURE

Sir Paul McCartney and NYC MTA Board member Nancy Shevell at the MLB game between the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers at Yankee Stadium in New York, August 26, 2009.

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Film website Flixster launched a new version of its iPhone application

Author Fay Weldon sets her latest novel only four years in the future, but by then Britain's currency has collapsed, inflation has soared and the bailiffs are knocking on the door of London's middle class.

The last surviving leg of the original Orient Express rail route from Paris to Istanbul is to end in December.

Southern right with calf sighting verified by scientists

The observatory on top of Shanghai’s World Financial Center has been crowned the world’s highest observation deck.

Think of New Zealand, and the first thing that comes to mind is the magnificent scenery that this country is known for.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday.

A Chinese kung fu artist who tows cars and cuts paper with her braided hair has given up her crowning glory to officially become a Buddhist nun.

A free birthday bash for the public celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday will be held on Saturday and is expected to draw a crowd of more than 10,000, the New York Times reported.

California police in a press conference on Wednesday revealed a detail timeline of the events surrounding the murder playboy model and suicide of Ryan Jenkins.

California police said blood stains were found inside the abandoned Mercedes belonging to Jasmine Fiore on Wednesday in a press conference where a detailed timeline of the events was revealed.

It's a 7-year-old boy's dream team -- Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates.

Superstition, torture, and its effect on the perpetrator are at the heart of historical drama

MTV is doing a slasher movie.

Labor group Actors' Equity said on Thursday an arbitrator has cleared actor Jeremy Piven of wrongdoing in a dispute with producers of Broadway play

Want the romance of the railways without the anoraks? We spot the world's best trains

Chaperoned by a pack of mules and local Samburu warriors, take in the beauty of northern Kenya

At 5,895m, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the world's highest peak that you can climb without technical skills. But could a mountain novice climb it?

Oscar nominee Laura Linney will star as a cancer-stricken woman in a new television series on cable network Showtime, playing a suburban mom whose life changes when she learns she has

Madonna on stage in Bucharest, Romania condemned the widespread discrimination that exists in Eastern Europe against the Gypsy people – prompting mixed reactions from 60,000 crowed with many responding with jeers.

Anne Heche called his ex-husband Coley Laffoon a

The Black Eyed Peas extended their unprecedented run at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart to 21 weeks on Thursday, while Miley Cyrus kept partying at No. 2.

A federal appeals court has thrown out a $37.6 million fine and three-year infomercial ban against Kevin Trudeau, who has long battled regulators over his marketing of

Death Cab For Cutie has scored the lead-single spot on the soundtrack for

Actress Lindsay Lohan is pictured in this police booking photograph released July 24, 2007. California officials, on August 23, 2007, charged Lohan with seven misdemeanor counts of cocaine possession, drunken driving and reckless driving stemming from two arrests.

Tim Gunn, fashion guru and urbane mentor to the budding designers on TV's

Electronic dance music with heavy bass, unknown vocalists and mixed by club disc jockeys regularly tops pop charts in Europe but in America such music has been an underground genre with little mainstream success.