George W. Bush's staff was quick to respond to the upcoming publication of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception", a memoir by former White House press secretary Scott McC...
It was a long and winding road, but the Heather Mills-Paul McCartney divorce is finally final. She's a woman and she's leaving home. So how come? Another girl? Some other guy? It looks like a case of "she said, she said.
Apparently applying the adage "Any publicity is good publicity, especially if your magazine's name is transcendentally insipid," the Australian women's weekly New Idea defied an officially-requested news em...
In a development that is sure to rivet the attention of celebrity tabloid readers around the world for several seconds until they realize what it's actually about, the Hilton International Hotel and Convention Center in Paris, Fr...
Senator John McCain has rejected a plan to use Abba's 1977 hit "Take a Chance on Me" as the theme song for his presidential campaign, citing licensing difficulties.
The CIA has announced that Cerberus, the guard dog at the organization's archives unit in Langley, Virginia who ate the videos of terror suspect interrogations, has been punished and "will probably not destroy any more really important recor...
Hominid fossils discovered in Eastern Africa last week have shed new light on the origins of man and altered the way anthropologists perceive the timeline of human evolution.
An estimated 1.8 billion people attended or watched broadcasts of pop concerts in more than 500 venues around the world on July 6 as part of "Live Earth", a global music marathon organized by former US vice president Al Gor...
After their first days on the job in each other's former posts, US Attorney General Paul Wolfowitz and World Bank President Alberto Gonzales held a joint press conference to comment on the transition.
Dangerous Dioxin Levels Found in L.A. Communion Wafers...
Trace amounts of retinol, or vitamin A, a substance that improves eyesight, skin quality and general health in humans, were found in several production lots of filter cigarettes at the Rigget & Lyers tobacco plant in Coughlin, North Carolina.
The United States Congress has followed the lead of the Executive Council of the European Union in passing strongly-worded legislation that makes it a crime for record producers to sign contracts with singers based on decisions in which physical appe...
The country formerly known as Iraq has literally been "blown off the map" in a chain of explosions that has eradicated the nation's entire landmass, leaving nothing but a gaping hole that is rapidly filling up with seawater.
Balmy Resorts Inc. has announced plans to build the world's biggest ever casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The corporation has purchased a 500-acre tract of land at the end of the Strip and will soon begin construction of a "four billion dollar g...
Upon the release by Tehran last Thursday of 15 UK armed forces personnel held captive for 13 days for allegedly violating Iran's territorial waters, a spokesperson for the British government claimed that their "confessions" broadcast on...
The International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday that a new event called the Centathlon will be included in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
The tortuous melodrama that has become the life of pop icon Britney Spears took an even more bizarre turn on Thursday when the beleaguered singer emerged from a California psychiatric hospital and was immediately targeted by a suicide bomber.
The California legislature has passed a new law making it illegal for any employer, educational institution or landlord operating within its borders to "discriminate against any citizen on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, sexual orientatio...