Edward Snowden and girlfriend reunited in Moscow, new documentary shows
(Reuters) – Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who blew the whistle on the U.S. government’s mass surveillance programs, has been reunited...
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Taylor Swift named Billboard’s Woman of the Year for second time
(Reuters) – Country-turned-pop singer Taylor Swift has been named Billboard’s Woman of the Year becoming the first artist to win the honour more than once,...
Sinead O’Connor memoir with ‘sexual dirt’ due 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Sinead (shih-NAYD’) O’Connor has a book deal, and she’s not writing for kids. Penguin Random House imprint Blue Rider Press announced...
Cuban children train for circus, and a future
(Reuters) – Inside an abandoned movie theater on a noisy avenue in a working-class section of Havana, some 70 Cuban children as young as nine...
Rapper arrested after gun found in bag at airport
ATLANTA (AP) — Police say rapper Waka Flocka Flame was arrested after a handgun was found in his carry-on bag during a security scan at...
Amal Alamuddin Clooney gets back to work in Greece
(Reuters) – Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, fresh from her marriage to Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney last month, is heading to Athens to advise...
China bans tainted stars from TV, movie screens
(Reuters) – Stars who have used drugs, visited prostitutes or been involved in other law-breaking will not be allowed to appear on Chinese television, movie...
Ancient Indonesian cave paintings rewrite history of human art
(Reuters) – Prehistoric paintings at least 40,000 years old that depict animals – including one known as a “pig-deer” – and the outline of human...
Jennifer Lawrence says photo hacking is sex crime – magazine
(Reuters) – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, one of dozens of actresses, models and celebrities whose intimate images have been posted online, spoke about the photo...
Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86
(Reuters) – Tony-winning actress Marian Seldes, regarded as one of the great ladies of the American stage and famed for never missing a single performance...