One of India's top newspapers faced a social media backlash on Tuesday after it splashed a picture across its front page of Britain's Princess Kate suffering a "Marilyn moment" as her dress rose up in the wind.
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Dozens of fire trucks on Tuesday rushed to extinguish a blaze which gutted four buildings in a famed Tokyo bar district.
Full StoryTurkey's most popular comedian went on trial Monday accused of insulting a provincial governor, the latest in a string of such court cases seen as clamping down on free speech in the country.
Cem Yilmaz, who is also an award-winning actor, is facing up to two years in jail for a series of tweets criticizing the governor of northwestern Yalova province over the death of a mathematics teacher.
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A cellist friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin named in the Panama Papers as owning a $2-billion offshore empire was portrayed as a humble patron of the arts Sunday, in a state TV program in which he said he helps hundreds of musicians.
Full Story"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" took the top prize at the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards.
The audience at Warner Bros. Studios waved what looked like red and blue lightsabers as star Daisy Ridley and director J.J. Abrams accepted the final golden popcorn trophy at Saturday night's ceremony.
Full StoryPolice say Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil is accused of grabbing a woman's hair from behind and pulling her to the ground at a Las Vegas Strip resort.
Bystander cellphone video provided to the celebrity website TMZ.com shows actor Nicolas Cage physically restraining Neil before police arrived.
Full StoryFirst-person live-action shooter "Hardcore Henry" hits theaters this weekend in a blaze of buzz hailing the movie as a new cinematic genre for "Generation Xbox" -- but sharply dividing critics.
The Russian-American production shares the aesthetic of hit "point-of-view" video games like "Halo" and "Call of Duty," but with real actors, filmed on GoPro cameras attached to the main character.
Full StoryGangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. called their success a lesson for youth as they entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the institution came under blistering criticism from fellow honoree Steve Miller.
Hard rockers Deep Purple and Midwestern chart-toppers Chicago and Cheap Trick were also inducted in a Brooklyn gala after an annual vote by music industry insiders.
Full StoryA man finds his lover in bed with another man. He pulls a gun, shoots the rival dead, ties up the woman, drags her to a car, stuffs her in the trunk and smiles as he sets it on fire.
"Fuiste Mia" ("You were mine"), a slick music video by the Mexican-American singer Gerardo Ortiz, has garnered more than 25 million views on YouTube -- and provoked a furious backlash in a country that suffers from an ingrained culture of sexual violence and where killings of women have surged.
Full StoryBruce Springsteen on Friday canceled a concert in North Carolina to protest a law that targets transgender people, vowing to fight against "those who continue to push us backwards."
Springsteen's move marks one of the highest-profile actions yet against the law, which prohibits local governments within the southern state from acting to stop discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people in public facilities and restrooms.
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