LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocker Pete Wentz on Monday denied that his fiancee, pop star Ashlee Simpson, is pregnant as reported in celebrity magazines days after they announced their engagement, according to a story on MTV.com.
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April 15 - French climber Alain Roubert, better known as the French Spiderman, scales a gleaming Hong Kong tower overlooking Victoria Harbour.
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An orchestra made up of five cars gave its first performance at the Sydney music festival, Australia.
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JAFFA, Israel (Reuters) - A Jewish couple raises an abandoned Palestinian child. Decades later the boy’s two mothers meet, and, after an agonizing and high-octane exchange, they tentatively embrace.
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Apr. 15 - Masseuses in Indonesia’s East Java province are now required to wear padlocks on their pants to stop prostitution.
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There are about fourbillion retirement calculators out there, and they all agree onone thing: It’s bad when you have to retire into a recession.
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Apr. 9 - A German bicycle fanatic has invented what he calls the “biggest rideable guitar in the universe”.
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Financial aid season is infull swing. Colleges send out their award letters on April1, and families have until May 1 to reply to whicheveroffers they intend to accept.
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LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Anthony Zuiker is on a mission to drive viewers back to television.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The curtain may be rising on the final act of an epic leadership battle at Germany’s Wagner Festival after family patriarch Wolfgang Wagner said he was ready to go if his two daughters took over jointly.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - She wasn’t in the house, but former “American Idol” finalist Kellie Pickler was the top winner at the CMT Music Awards, held Monday in Nashville.
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Apr. 14 - Tokyo’s new cross-dressing maid cafe attracts both the young and old.
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Apr. 7 - A 300-year-old fertility festival at a Japanese shrine celebrates the coming of spring with raunchy symbols carried through public streets.
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Apr. 10 - Siberian mud wrestlers (why not?), a new cute polar bear, and inflatable subway grate art.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock ‘n’ roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game said on Monday.
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Apr. 9 - A replica Viking boat, made out of 15 million ice-cream sticks, finally sets sail from the Netherlands for London.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Comedian Bill Cosby’s hip-hop album, described as an “unflinching look at life in the 21st century, but without the profanity, misogyny, violence and braggadocio” is expected to reach stores within the next several weeks, a spokesman said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actor Wesley Snipes should serve a maximum three-year prison term and pay a $5 million fine for failing to file his income taxes, U.S. prosecutors recommended in a tax-season court filing.
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Apr. 10 - Alitalia employees make a splash by throwing a model aeroplane into one of Rome’s most famous landmarks, the Trevi fountain.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Monday ordered a 33 year-old woman to stand trial for stalking actor John Cusack, star of movies such as the recent family film “Martian Child” and supernatural thriller “1408.”
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Mar. 25 - Fighting robots battle for supremacy in the latest of Japan’s Robo-One Championships.
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Mar. 27 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko presents world’s tallest man with a customised car.
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Note to young renters:It’s a very good time to start thinking about buying your firsthouse.
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After years of living large, American families are now being forced into financial responsibility bythe housing downturn and a weakening economy, and live within their means.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs lashed out at the Los Angeles Times on Thursday over the “defamatory nature” of a story the paper published that sought to link the rap music mogul to an assault on Tupac Shakur.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. reversed course on Thursday and pleaded guilty to three charges of illegal weapons possession.
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Mar. 26 - A cow in India has amazed dairy farmers by releasing milk completely unaided.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - In his first French-speaking role, Kevin Kline is starring in a drama shooting on location on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
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Mar. 25 - A robber has apparently used hypnosis to force an Italian supermarket employee to empty the cash register and hand him the money.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 300-year-old Antonio Stradivari violin said to be sweet and feminine in its sound is expected to fetch more than $1 million when Christie’s puts it up for auction next week.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Paris Hilton, the celebrity and hotel heiress who spent a stint in jail last year, said on Thursday she sees herself as a role model for young women as she prepared to judge a contest to crown Miss Turkey.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was convicted of assault, weapons possession and coercion on Thursday for shooting a woman in the abdomen in a dispute about money in New York.
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Mar. 27 - Not such a bird brained parrot, a car for the tallest man in the world, and the self-milking cow.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Talent show winner Leona Lewis became the first British female solo artist in over 20 years to top the U.S. pop ratings on Thursday when her single “Bleeding Love” hit number one in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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As hundreds of thousands of American home owners fall behind on theirmortgages, people are turning to short-term loans withsky-high interest rates to get by.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders launched a film on Thursday that accuses the Koran of inciting violence and warns that Muslim immigrants threaten the West, prompting the government to appeal for calm.
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Mar 26 - A parrot solves chain puzzles faster than visitors at a Tokyo botanical garden.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Expert scene-stealer Will Arnett has packed his bags for “When in Rome,” a Disney romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell.
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Mar. 27 - South Korean audiences experience a “bloody” musical based on a 1980s American horror movie.
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LONDON (Reuters) - They’ve played to sell-out audiences all over the world — except in Blackpool.
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Mar 27 - A Texas man is facing charges for selling liquor without a license after he was found peddling bottles of vodka containing dead baby rattlesnakes.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s Supreme Court suspended on Friday legal proceedings against Richard Gere, who faced obscenity charges for publicly kissing Bollyood star Shilpa Shetty last year.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Doctors who treated John Ritter after he collapsed on the set of his television comedy were cleared on Friday in a $67 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by the Emmy-winning actor’s wife and children.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Who wants to bask in the reflected glory of Paris Hilton? That’s the challenge the ubiquitous socialite is throwing out to 20 men and women who will compete in an MTV reality show to be her new “BFF” (best friend forever).
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LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Five years after “Hulk” underwhelmed moviegoers, the jolly green giant is bounding back into movie theaters this summer.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gross-out stunt performer Steve-O of the MTV television series “Jackass” and its movie spin-offs has been charged with cocaine possession, prosecutors said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rapper Remy Ma discovered a wad of cash missing from her purse after a night out in New York and shot the woman she believed was the thief, the victim testified at the rapper’s assault trial on Friday.