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2008-10-14 05:58:00

LONDON (Billboard) - Katy Perry, the singer/songwriter of the summer smash "I Kissed a Girl," will host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool on November 6. The pop singer has been nominated in two categories -- best new act and most addictive track fo

2008-10-14 03:39:00

LONDON (AFP) - Two housekeepers working at a mansion owned by former England football captain David Beckham and his pop star wife Victoria have been arrested on suspicion of theft, reports said Tuesday. Newspaper reports said items belonging to the LA Gal

2008-10-14 01:44:00

PARIS (Reuters) - French film star Gerard Depardieu's son Guillaume, a 37 year-old actor who rebelled against his father and led an angst-ridden, tumultuous life, has died of pneumonia, his father's agency said Monday. The young actor won the French versi

2008-10-14 01:28:00

LONDON (AFP) - French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has transformed the vast turbine hall at London's Tate Modern museum into a refuge from futuristic climate chaos, with beds laid out under oversized works of art. The pounding of continuous rain res

2008-10-13 23:01:38

Louis Walsh has admitted that none of his acts will win The X Factor. He told New! magazine "It'll be Simon (Cowell) or Cheryl (Cole)" who win as judges, adding: "It's not about winning."Bad Lashes, one of Walsh's bands, became the fir

2008-10-13 23:01:38

Russia is to make its own version of hit British motoring show Top Gear. TV bosses there are searching for a Russian Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.MIR Reality Production, a Russian production company, is to make 15 episodes for the broadc

2008-10-13 20:42:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has told fans to stop sending letters and requests for autographs, saying such mail will be thrown away after next week because he has too much to do. Starr, 68, made the announcement in a video m

2008-10-13 20:38:01

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has given his inaugural speech as a visiting professor to students at Oxford University. The Hollywood star delivered his 5pm lecture at St Catherine's College on Monday, a spokeswoman for the University said.It was the fi

2008-10-13 20:29:29

French actor Guillaume Depardieu, the son of world-renowned French movie star Gerard Depardieu has died from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia, hospital officials said. Depardieu, 37, had been in hospital in a western Paris suburb since S

2008-10-13 19:57:00

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has launched a regional multimedia centre to train, develop and promote Arab talent in journalism, broadcasting, film-making and publishing. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has been seekin