The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) appointed Alan Horn as chairman of Disney Studios, replacing former chairman Rich Ross, who was forced out of the role in April, the company announced Thursday.
It's being called the anti-Goop!
The literary phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey continues to dominate (no pun intended) the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists. The racy book and its two sequels have left millions of women glued to their kindles. Written by E.L James, it chronicles the unbridled sexual rendezvous between a young woman, Anastasia Steale and a gorgeous billionaire, Christian Grey.
Supersizing your soda or any other sugary beverage at some of your favorite places in NYC may be a thing of the past if Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban is approved.
Local reporter suggests that Daisey is responsible for the New York Times investigation of factory conditions at Foxconn.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in war crimes committed during the Sierra Leone civil war that took place in the 1990s. Taylor was found guilty by the same judge who presided over his sentencing in an international criminal court on Wed., May 30.
Marina Keegan was a 22-year-old aspiring writer who had everything going for her. A recent Yale graduate, Keegan was about to start her first job -- at the New Yorker -- and had already published essays in The New York Times. But Keegan's plans came to a screeching halt when the Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on May 26 as she and her boyfriend were on their way to a vacation house on Cape Cod.
Anthony Bourdain is traveling to an unlikely destination, surfing across the airwaves to CNN.
Backed by a muscular interpretation of executive power, the Obama administration has made armed drones the centerpiece of its counter-terror arsenal, stepping up strikes in Pakistan and expanding the campaign into Yemen and Somalia.
An autopsy will be performed on Johnny Tapia Tuesday, two days after the former boxing champ was found mysteriously dead in his Albuquerque, N.M., home.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the spicy S&M romance novel penned by E.L. James, proved to be too hot for some bookshelves in Florida. But, just one month after the book was banned, officials have announced the erotic best-seller will be put back in circulation.
The 22-year-old promising student journalist died Saturday in car crash in Massachusetts just days after graduating from Yale
In a thinly veiled attack, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, suggested on Monday the U.S. military would be weakened if President Barack Obama gets his way on budgetary matters.
Since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004, the social network has become one of the most important centerpieces in society, especially as it becomes increasingly digital and mobile. Yet, the value of Facebook has not yet translated to revenue dollars. That may change, however, if Facebook decides to build its first-ever piece of hardware: A Facebook smartphone.
Google is not the only software company trying to get into the hardware arena. If ongoing rumors are to be believed, Facebook too wants its own smartphone. Reports said that it hopes to release its own smartphone next year and has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers.
Iran announced it will continue enriching high grade uranium while adding a nuclear power plant in 2014 and rebuffed calls to allow U.N. inspectors to visit the suspected home of the country's nuclear weapons research.
