Street vendor Antonio Zuniga was picked up by police in Mexico City in late 2005 without a warrant, jailed and sentenced to 20 years for the murder of a man he had never met.
Norwegian pop-group a-ha, which rose to fame during the 1980s, will end its nearly 30-year career with a 2010 world tour, Universal Music said on Thursday.
It's been more than 30 years since John Cleese made his television classic Fawlty Towers and the British comedian is just as proud of it now as when he helped create the series in the 1970s.
Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo musician in U.S. history, said on Thursday he was coming out of retirement and was expected to announce an extended concert run at the Wynn Las Vegas casino and hotel.
Oops, Britney Spears has done it again, with the U.S. pop singer cementing her comeback with a new single, 3, rocketing to No. 1 in its debut week.
Advance sales for This Is It look set to make the concert movie starring the late Michael Jackson into one of the hottest tickets of the year.
The latest character to go 3D? Jesus Christ.
Director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the United States on a 1977 sex charge, writer Robert Harris was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
A new Janet Jackson greatest hits album, Number Ones, will hit U.S. stores November 17.
After only three days of sales, Michael Buble's new album topped the Billboard 200 chart, while rock legends KISS finished in second place, the highest album-chart position of their career.
Leona Lewis ran out from a book signing in London on Wednesday after being attacked by an anonymous man, according to reports.
Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine, on Wednesday denied a magazine report that his three children will appear in a TV reality series, saying the pop star would not have wanted them to be in the public eye.
Fillippa Hamilton, a size 4 model who worked for Ralph Lauren, was fired after the fashion designer suggested she was too fat.
The role of Porgy, the crippled beggar in Porgy and Bess, has always been hard to pull off as he changes from grump to lover, but a Cape Town Opera version opening in Britain this month sets him a Herculean challenge:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested on Wednesday that China, Central Asian nations and Russia should hold a song competition to boost cultural ties.
American actress Megan Fox will strip down to her underwear for Giorgio Armani's Emporio Armani fashion brand, the Italian design house said on Wednesday.
Paul Stanley surveys his home high in the hills overlooking Los Angeles and proudly dubs it the house that bad reviews built.
Wes Anderson's animation movie Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney as the voice of the eponymous hero, got its world premiere on Wednesday on the opening night of the London film festival.
The Backstreet Boys began as a group of wide-eyed teenagers but 16 years later, after battles with drug addiction and the loss of loved ones, believe their seventh album shows they have matured.
The funeral of late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, who died on the Spanish island of Majorca over the weekend, will be held in Dublin on Saturday, his bandmates said on their website on Wednesday.
Al Martino, a crooner who had several pop hits spanning more than 20 years and played Johnny Fontane in the 1970s Godfather movies, died Tuesday at his childhood home in Springfield, Pa. He was 82.
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino will be tackling more mother-daughter relationships in a project for HBO.
In Shakira's hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, there's a 15-foot metal statue of her, wearing bell bottoms and strumming a guitar. It was donated by a German sculptor in 2006, in the midst of the singer's wildly successful Oral Fixation world tour, which featured her jaw-dropping belly-dancing and a finale of Hips Don't Lie with Wyclef Jean.
Benjamin Bratt will guest star on ABC's new comedy series Modern Family, playing the ex of Sofia Vergara's character.
A few months after the Beatles box sets made retailers scramble to fill orders, the King of Rock 'n' Roll is getting the royal treatment.
Michael Jackson picked up five American Music Awards on Tuesday, almost four months after his sudden death turned him into the biggest-selling artist of the year, organizers said on Tuesday.
Rihanna's new album will likely be released on November 23, the R&B singer twitted Tuesday.
A Pennsylvania judge ordered reality TV star Jon Gosselin to return $180,000 to a joint bank account he shares with estranged wife Kate Gosselin, People Magazine reported Tuesday, citing a source close to Kate.
The soon to be ex husband of Kate Gosselin, Jon, has been ordered to return $180,000 to the couple's joint bank account after withdrawing this in violation of an arbitrator's order.
Country ingenue Taylor Swift and dead pop star Michael Jackson led the contenders for the 37th annual American Music Awards, and will both vie for the artist of the year prize, organizers said on Tuesday.
