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Lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis, according to a statement he posted Friday night on the band's website.

Irish rock band The Cranberries will reunite after a near seven-year break for a tour in North America and Europe with some new songs and old hits like

For all the attention heaped on Jon Hamm and the male cast of

In the battle of horror franchises,

Travis Barker and his band, Blink 182, took the stage on Saturday for a concert which he admits was difficult to get through following the passing of his close friend DJ AM on Friday.

In the battle of horror franchises,

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.

The Venice film festival has capitalism in its sights this year, with premieres of Michael Moore's documentary on the U.S. economic meltdown and a drama starring Matt Damon as a corrupt corporate whistleblower.

Director Spike Lee is sponsoring a public birthday celebration for Michael Jackson in Prospect Park, New York on Saturday.

Walt Disney Co, Hearst Corp and NBC Universal said on Thursday that their jointly owned A&E Television Networks group will buy Lifetime Entertainment Services for an undisclosed sum.

Twenty years ago, the idea that technology would be at the center of business was still part of the future. Computers were just starting to land on desks as fledgling companies like Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc said their products would change the way we work.

FremantleMedia Enterprises is betting that parkour and freerunning, up-and-coming sports that have already attracted an online crowd, can draw a TV audience.

Out of pain and destruction can come hope and celebration. That's the genesis of jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard's new album,

A lead single about a proletarian revolt against the global banking crisis. A teaser campaign involving a worldwide musical treasure hunt. And an album that ends with a three-part, fully orchestrated symphony about an alternative theory of the creation of mankind. Is Muse the only young, stadium-filling rock band that could get away with this?

With the face of an ingenue and the lyrical bite of a social commentator, Kany Garcia debuted in 2007 as part of a new crop of Latin female singer-songwriters.

Randy Houser is on top of the world. His second single,

A patriotic Chinese film aimed at boosting national pride ahead of a key political anniversary has tempers rising instead, because many of the movie's stars are foreign citizens.

Demian Bichir, the Mexican actor who portrayed Fidel Castro in Steven Soderberg's

Nelly Furtado's first Spanish-language album is a mixture of design and circumstance, as so many grand plans often are.

George Steinbrenner, longtime owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, was accused in a lawsuit on Friday of fraud and breaching an agreement over the running of his $3 billion cable TV network.

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Songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher announced Friday he had quit Oasis, saying he could no longer work with his brother Liam, the rock band's singer.

Pop star Michael Jackson's death was ruled a homicide from drug overdose on Friday, fueling speculation his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, may soon be charged with manslaughter or another crime.

Pop star Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol and other drugs, and police will refer the case to prosecutors for possible criminal charges, officials said on Friday.

The priciest neighborhood in the United States is Alpine, New Jersey, home of hip hop stars such as Sean

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.

James Cameron's

Film website Flixster launched a new version of its iPhone application