January 3, 2012
Senegal Music Star Youssou Ndour Running for President
World-famous Senegalese music star Youssou Ndour has officially entered the presidential race in his country. Ndour said Monday on the television station he owns that he will challenge President Abdoulaye Wade in the February election. The…
January 2, 2012
Michael Buble Remains No. 1, Adele’s ’21’ Has Best Sales Week Yet
Michael Buble's "Christmas" album spends a fifth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 467,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. Its sales were up 4% in the tracking week that ended on Dec. 25, Christmas…
January 2, 2012
Hollywood hopes for better 2012
Tom Cruise's new mission remains impossible to beat at the box office. Studio estimates yesterday placed Mission: Impossible Ñ Ghost Protocol in the No. 1 spot for the second-straight weekend with US$31.3 million. With a US$134.1 million domestic…
January 2, 2012
Katy Perry, Russell Brand head for divorce
Russell Brand is divorcing Katy Perry after 14 months of what appeared to be a storybook marriage. "Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage," Brand said in a statement released to The Associated Press on Friday. "I'll always adore her and I know…
January 2, 2012
LeBron James Is Engaged
LeBron James had more on his mind than just ringing in the new year on Saturday night. At a New Year's Eve dinner and party at the Shelborne hotel in South Beach, the Miami Heat star, 27, proposed to his longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson. And he…
January 2, 2012
Steven Tyler Is Engaged, Jeweler Confirms
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and his girlfriend of five years, Erin Brady, got engaged over the holidays, the rocker's go-to jewelry maker has confirmed. Reports that the "American Idol" judge, 63, had popped the question emerged…
January 1, 2012
Kelly Rowland wants to get a ‘movie kiss’ on New Year’s Eve
The former Destiny's Child star is currently single, but says she would like to see 2012 in with a passionate embrace. She said: "I don't know what I'm doing, but hopefully I'll just get a kiss! I want a good kiss where someone just takes your face…
January 1, 2012
Rihanna To Perform New Year’s Eve Concert in Barbados
Bajan pop star Rihanna is set to perform a private concert in Barbados on New Year's Eve, where the audience will include Simon Cowell. This is AWESOME! The government of Barbados has invested a lot of money in Rihanna as an Ambassador and it…
December 30, 2011
Lady Gaga to help drop New Year’s ball
Lady Gaga has been inescapable for 2011, so it makes sense that she'll also be on hand to help us draw this year to a close. The New Yorker will be back in town on New Year's Eve as Mayor Bloomberg's special guest, a spokesperson for the mayor…
December 30, 2011
Ghost Rider writer loses legal bid
The rights to Marvel Comics hero Ghost Rider - played by Nicholas Cage in two films - belong to the firm and not the writer who conceived him in the 1970s, a New York judge has ruled. Gary Friedrich launched a legal bid to cash in on film rights…