Madonna`s pay-packet, Janet Jackson`s malfunctioning wardrobe, Hillary Clinton`s memoirs and Sigourney Weaver`s height all have one thing in common — they`re world record breakers.
Veteran pop singer Madonna supplants younger rival Britney Spears in the latest edition of Guinness World Records, winning the title of highest annual earnings by a female singer after she took home […]

New York, Sep 30 (IANS) Feuding pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera seem to have finally patched up.
According to newsweek.com, Aguilera bought a $570 gift bag for Spears’ new son, which included a hooded towel, overalls, slippers and a crockery set. Spears will add this gift to the room decorated in blue on which […]

U.S. heir Harry Morton has responded to recent rumors regarding actress Lindsay Lohan, saying they have not broken up but are merely ‘taking a breather.’
While rumors have been widespread over the last week alleging the celebrity couple either had broken up or were getting engaged, the heir to the Hard Rock fortune recently said he […]

All’s well that ends well…we guess.
Attorneys representing Michael Jackson and his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, announced Friday that the pair have settled “all the issues” in their ongoing custody battle, preventing the need for further squabbling.
“We’re still dealing with the details but it addresses all of the disputes between the parties,” Rowe’s lawyer, Marta Almli, […]

“OK, so flower power didn’t work,” says John Lennon in the opening scene of “The U.S. vs. John Lennon.” He was speaking from the stage of Ann Arbor’s Crisler Arena, in December 1971. “Apathy isn’t it. We can do something.”
What Lennon had done was write a song about Detroit radical poet and rabble-rouser John Sinclair, […]

“Ugly Betty” delivered pretty ratings for ABC Thursday night, with sampling of the 8 p.m. comedy-drama boosting it past “Survivor” in its second half hour.
CBS’ “CSI” came back a bit higher at 9 p.m., winning by a nose over “Grey’s Anatomy” in viewership although “Grey’s remained dominant in the coveted adults 18-49 demographic.
But ABC’s halo […]

Madonna’s pay-packet, Janet Jackson’s malfunctioning wardrobe, Hillary Clinton’s memoirs and Sigourney Weaver’s height all have one thing in common — they’re world record breakers.
Veteran pop singer Madonna supplants younger rival Britney Spears in the latest edition of Guinness World Records, winning the title of highest annual earnings by a female singer after she took home […]

The state suspended the licenses of a Near Southwest Side dentist Friday after finishing an initial investigation into the death of a 5-year-old girl who had received anesthesia in his office.
Hicham Riba, who was licensed by the state in 1997, cannot practice medicine before an Oct. 13 hearing, said state Department of Financial and […]

A new drug being developed to fight both bird flu and seasonal flu can be given safely to people in very high doses, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Friday.
The drug, called peramivir, is still in experimental trials but is considered the next-line drug to fight influenza of all sorts, after Tamiflu and Relenza.
Experts want […]

Two children have been sickened by E. coli bacteria in a case associated with unpasteurized milk, the state Health Department said Thursday.
The milk came from Grace Harbor Farms, a dairy operation in Whatcom County, the department said.
Testing confirmed both cases were caused by the same strain of the bacteria, E.coli O157:H7 — also the strain […]