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.

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.

Uri Geller is to sue CNN after it broadcast an allegation he had betrayed his friend Michael Jackson for £100,000 ($216,000).

Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti in his latest film, a role which required some real soul-searching.

Kentucky Fried Chicken has apologised for a cricket-themed ad that many see as racist.

She's gone from Twilight teen to holding her own beside George Clooney in acclaimed new movie Up in the Air.

Crusty Larry David has found his movie niche as Woody Allen returns to his New York roots.

The expensive settings and cutting-edge clothes were gone.

It appears that Apple is preparing to launch its much-rumoured tablet PC.

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.