May 16 2008
Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage. “I am announcing I am getting married,” DeGeneres, 50, told the audience...
May 14 2008
The United Nations is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers said involved paying children for sex. The spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Congo (MONUC), Kemal...
May 14 2008
The Vatican’s chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans. “In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets)...
May 14 2008
Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public. The alien craft come in all shapes, sizes...
May 14 2008
High tech met high art late Tuesday when a robot conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was the first time an orchestra was handed over to a robot and the diminutive, spaceman-like machine got rave reviews.
May 14 2008
A Malaysian woman woke up to a real-life nightmare, discovering that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The 36-year-old housewife was asleep when the thief,...
May 12 2008
London put on its designer frocks Monday for the world premiere of the movie version of “Sex And The City”, the worldwide TV smash charting the lives and loves of four New York women. In keeping with the film, the dresses worn by its four...
May 9 2008
The planet’s “happiliest” married man, Ashton Kutcher, was once a champion carouser until he met his wife five years ago and became a changed man. So when Kutcher set out to make his new movie “What Happens in Vegas,”...
May 9 2008
Barack Obama’s White House drive picked up pace Friday with more superdelegates rallying to his side, as former rival John Edwards all but endorsed his campaign. Since Obama’s convincing win in North Carolina on Tuesday over rival Hillary...
May 5 2008
A Roman Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women’s prison was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison. Vincent Inametti, 48, was taken into custody after he was sentenced, the Fort Worth...