There's a new musical coming to town and it sounds like it's Sesame Street crossed with Peter Jackson's sordid black comedy Meet the Feebles.

John Mayer is once again making news with his mouth, not his music, calling his ex Jessica Simpson 'sexual napalm' in a new interview.

Jay Leno has ushered out one of television's biggest flops without sentiment during the final night of his prime-time experiment.

Newly released aerial photos of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers' dramatic collapse.

Model Brooklyn Decker has landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

Lil Wayne's sentencing has been delayed until March 2 due to dental surgery, his attorney has announced.

Facebook has started rolling out a new front page design which emphasises chat and applications, and includes display advertising.

Bauer's back for the eighth season of 24, this time in the Big Apple.

Sidibe plays the title character in the movie, an obese, illiterate, teenage mother from a highly dysfunctional family in 1980s Harlem.

No one from the UK arm of Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment business will face prosecution, the Serious Fraud Office has decided.

Soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae is making a comeback after husband's tragic death.

An art student invited the to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ripped a Picasso masterpiece after losing her balance and falling into the work of art.

It was the most expensive residential property deal ever. It was among the most controversial. And now it is the most disastrous.

George Clooney's Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised US$57 million (NZ$79 million) so far.

A movie about an obese, abused black teenager is proving the most provocative of this year's possible Oscar contenders.

Actor Dennis Hopper has filed for divorce from his fifth wife, amid reports he's on his deathbed, writes Myrddin Gwynedd.

A vamped-up sophomore effort stares out a hard-to-beat debut.