Prince's ruffled silk shirt from Purple Rain among items set to fetch more than 0,000 at auction
The ruffled shirt worn by Prince in the hit 1984 film Purple Rain and one of his guitars are among the items set to fetch more than 0,000 at an online auction by RR Auction next month. Read more...
Major, 40, is dismissed from the Army
Pristone Osabwa abused his allowances by keeping hold of a service family home in Germany despite never having lived there with his wife and three children. Read more...
Jersey Shore Family Vacation Angelina Pivarnick enjoys wedding and Lauren Pesce reveals pregnancy
Angelina Pivarnick, 34, got her wedding redo and Lauren Pesce, 36, announced her pregnancy Thursday on the midseason finale of Jersey Shore Family Vacation. Read more...
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody twin in wet suits and floppy hats as they go surfing in Malibu
Brody and Meester tied the knot in February of 2014 after meeting on the set of the 2011 film The Oranges. They welcomed a daughter Arlo in 2015 and a baby boy this past September. Read more...
How German Autobahns changed the world
Ah yes, "ze Autobahn". Few other landmarks represent Germany more than its freeway system. Cologne's cathedral is distinctively West German, and the TV Tower in Berlin is a GDR feat of engineering, but the Autobahn (literally "car runway") connects the whole country. Read more...
Muslim insurgents kill eight and wound dozens more with bomb blast in Thailand
The devices were hidden inside inside motorbikes and cars and detonated by mobile phones. Read more...
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Read more...
Candidate Biden Called Saudi Arabia a Pariah. He Now Has to Deal With It.
In a coming call with King Salman, the president plans to warn him that the United States will soon make public intelligence about the Saudi crown princes role in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Read more...
Golden Globes Faces Lawsuit, and Questions About Voting Group
Members of the tax-exempt Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts on the ceremony, are courted by stars and studios, and sometimes paid. Read more...
Labour says support for UK's Trident nuclear deterrent is 'non-negotiable'
Labour's shadow defence secretary John Healey today said keeping the UK's nuclear deterrent is 'non-negotiable' as he signalled a split from the party's approach under Jeremy Corbyn. Read more...
Husband who 'pushed pregnant wife to her death aft
Prosecutors claim Hakan Aysal, 40, had taken out insurance shortly before he killed his wife Semra Aysal, 32, in the Butterfly Valley, in their native Turkey. Read more...
Woman doused in petrol and set on fire by her ex-boyfriend says she wants him RELEASED from jail
A woman left with life-long injuries after being doused in petrol and set alight by her ex-boyfriend in her Queensland home in 2017 wants him released from jail. Read more...
Argo review Bristles with tension - Ben Affleck's 70s spy thriller
Argo, the new film from the increasingly admired Ben Affleck, concentrates on another tale that is so astonishing it is difficult to believe. Read more...
Annies Pledges to Purge a Class of Chemicals From Its Mac and Cheese
The move comes nearly four years after a study showed that chemicals believed to cause health problems in children and reproductive issues in adults were found in mass-market macaroni and cheese packets. Read more...
Jewish children put on a colourful show as they celebrate Purim in London
The streets of north London were awash with colour today as hundreds of children dressed up in celebration of the festival of Purim. Read more...
Vaccine passports 'WILL be here by summer' say EU leaders as Britons' hopes of beach holidays rise
EU leaders agreed to introduce vaccine passports by the summer in a virtual meeting last night, but work on a scheme by theEU Commission would take three months to complete. Read more...
Dad who died while being pinned down by security guards and was unlawfully killed, inquest rules
A father from east Hull who said he couldn't breathe seven times as security guards pinned him face down on the ground was 'unlawfully killed', a court has ruled. Read more...
'Crisis' tries giving the opioid epidemic the 'Traffic' treatment
It's either a bad time or (cynically) a good one to release a relatively small movie starring Armie Hammer, whose personal life has been very much in the headlines. Setting those marketing considerations aside, the film is "Crisis," a weak attempt to chronicle the opioid epidemic "Traffic" style, through a trio of stories that wind up feeling like three mediocre movies in one. Read more...