Controversial Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's television channel suspended his program on Friday, a week after he returned from a four-month break and fired barbs at the country's military.

Youssef, known as "Egypt's Jon Stewart" after modelling his Al-Bernameg (The Program) on the US comedian's popular satirical news program, had already run foul of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in July.

Breaking through the bar-room chatter, a voice calls audience members downstairs, to the basement of Madrid's "Microtheatre".

Formerly a butcher's shop, this theater bar in a formerly undesirable neighborhood of the Spanish capital now uses its tiny underground chambers for a novel form of budget entertainment.

A U.S. student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking online accounts of Miss Teen USA and other women and threatening to publish nude photos of them, prosecutors said Thursday.

Jared James Abrahams surrendered in September to FBI agents probing so-called "sextortion" cases, in which he made demands in return for agreeing not to release the pictures.

More than 30 years after "Star Wars," Harrison Ford has returned to inter-stellar space battles in big-budget sci-fi spectacular "Ender's Game."

But the 71-year-old insists it's the human relations rather than hi-tech wizardry that drew him to the project, developed from a novel by Orson Scott Card and directed by South African "X-Men" director Gavin Hood.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are suing a co-founder of YouTube over a video of their marriage proposal that was posted online.

The lawsuit filed Thursday claims Chad Hurley violated a confidentiality agreement when he posted the fuzzy footage of the lavish proposal on his new web venture, MixBit.

One thing about season 13 of "American Idol" is that unlike last season, the judges seem to be getting along.

At an audition stop in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jennifer Lopez said she's excited for people to see how funny Harry Connick Jr. is and how much he knows about music.

When Hugh Jackman decided to marry the daughter of a woman who's dedicated her life to fighting cancer, he became part of the fight as well — it was a package deal.

The "X-Men" actor said that when he asked his mother-in-law Fay Duncan — president of the Fight Cancer Foundation in Australia — for her blessing when he proposed to Deborra-Lee Furness, she told him that supporting the fight against cancer was one of the requirements to get that blessing.

Tempestuous U.S. singer Chris Brown has checked into a California rehab facility two days after being charged over an altercation in Washington, a spokesman and reports said Wednesday.

The 24-year-old, who is still on probation after infamously assaulting former girlfriend pop star Rihanna in 2009, could spend up to three months in the rehab clinic in Malibu, according to celebrity news website TMZ.

Electronica singer-songwriter James Blake won Britain's prestigious Mercury Prize on Wednesday for his second album, "Overgrown".

The 25-year-old art-school graduate beat off competition from bookmaker's favorite Laura Mvula, legendary singer/songwriter David Bowie and Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys to claim the £20,000 ($32,000, 23,350 euros) prize at a ceremony in London.

George Clooney was recently spotted with an unknown woman, who is now being revealed as Amal Alamuddin, a Lebanese lawyer representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Clooney and the "mystery woman" were seen leaving Berners Tavern restaurant in London on Oct. 24 together. E! News then reported that the woman was Alamuddin, a trilingual attorney who was voted No. 1 on London's Hottest Barrister list of 2013.