Courtney Love, now clean and sober for 15 months, says she had some high-profile help on her road to recovery: Mel Gibson.
While she was doing drugs with some men in a posh Beverly Hills hotel room, Love revealed on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, the leading man – who himself only recently underwent his own sobering […]

NEW HIV diagnoses are at their highest in a decade and rates of chlamydia have increased fourfold, suggesting people of all sexual orientations are practising safe sex less often.
After a long-term decline, the number of new HIV diagnoses has increased over the past five years. More than 1000 new cases are expected this year, says […]

Superstar Madonna is staying tight-lipped over reports she has adopted a one-year-old Malawian boy.
She was visiting the site of an orphanage her charity is building in Mphandula, a villlage 30 miles outside the Malawian capital, Lilongwe.
She spoke briefly to villagers, but did not comment to journalists about the adoption claims made by the boy’s father.
Yohame […]

Police are investigating whether a car carrying Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie was involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Indian city of Pune on Wednesday.
Motorcyclist Mittal Rawat was riding his bike on a busy road when he was hit by a car. He realised it was the star’s car when he saw Jolie’s bodyguard in […]

TO LEARN MOREDHHS has established a toll-free hotline for EEE/West Nile at (866) 273-6453, and more information on the mosquito-borne diseases is available on the department’s Web site at www.dhhs.nh.gov.
PORTSMOUTH — The evenings are getting cooler, but are not yet cool enough to end the threat of West Nile and eastern equine encephalitis for this […]

In this, his first book, Chandrasekaran said he also tried to pull the curtain back on the selection of personnel assigned to work for the occupation administration, which was based in many cases on “political connection and loyalty instead of experience in post-conflict reconstruction.”
In poetry, the finalists are: “Averno” by former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise […]

Fiction and Nonfiction Delve Into Terrorism, Iraq
Historian Taylor Branch was on the road when he heard that his book, “At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68,” had been named as a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards. He received the nod yesterday for this, the third and last volume of his monumental […]

Madonna won’t seem to speak out on the reports she’s adopted a child. The people of Malawi won’t seem to shut up about them.
A week after the Material Woman’s publicist denied that she either had plans to adopt or had already adopted a child during an orphanage-hopping visit to Africa, a Malawi man has stepped […]

British rock legend David Bowie’s career will take a dive next year — as he joins the cast of the popular underwater cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants for a guest appearance.
Bowie said on his Web site blog that he would be the voice of a character called Lord Royal Highness on the Nickelodeon network’s hit children’s cartoon […]

In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Mel Gibson talks about his recent D.U.I. arrest, his battle with alcoholism and his anti-Semitic remarks.
Actor Mel Gibson is speaking out for the first time about the anti-Semitic comments he made to police when they booked him for drunken driving last summer.
Gibson tells ABC News’ Diane Sawyer […]