British actor Jude Law joined hundreds of people gathered in London Saturday as part of worldwide Greenpeace protests over Russia's jailing of activists opposed to Arctic oil drilling.

"Sherlock Holmes" star Law, joined by Damon Albarn, the frontman of British band Blur, and guitarist Paul Simonon of The Clash, voiced support for his friend Frank Hewetson, one of 30 Greenpeace activists threatened with up to 15 years in prison.

Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall.

The former "Hannah Montana" actress turned pop princess burst into the wider public's mind with her sexually suggestive twerking performance at the MTV video music award show in August.

Grammy-winning American soul singer Lauryn Hill was released from a U.S. prison Friday after being jailed in July for failing to file her tax returns on time, her lawyer said.

The 38-year-old is a former member of The Fugees, famous for hits such as "Killing Me Softly" and whose 1996 album The Score became one of the best-selling hip hop albums of all time.

U.S. pop icon Madonna was raped at knifepoint when she was a young struggling artist in New York, she revealed in an article published Friday.

The 55-year-old also recalled being held up at gunpoint and having her seedy apartment burgled three times, saying she was "scared shitless" at times before she started making it as a singer and dancer.

Fashionistas first scoffed at Suzie Moncrieff's displays of bizarre bras and out-there attire, but 25 years on international designers are clamoring to be part of Wellington's annual World of WearableArt show.

The event the New Zealander founded in the late 1980s features mind-bending costumes that use materials from finest silk chiffon to rusty kitchen utensils.

Written by Anthony Sargon

Every now and again, we're treated to a truly miraculous movie-going experience; a film that transcends genre or demographics and appeals to the film fan in all of us. "Gravity" is one of those movies. It's a masterfully directed love-letter to cinema, and you owe it to yourself to watch it; but not just watch it, but experience it the way it was intended to be experienced; on a massive screen, and in glorious 3D.

American actress Julianne Moore received the 2,507th star on Hollywood Boulevard's "Walk of Fame" Thursday, during a ceremony surrounded by colleagues from her career in film.

Wearing a yellow dress and white heels, Moore unveiled her star, located opposite Hollywood's historic Pantages Theatre, one week before the release of her latest film "Carrie," a remake of the classic 1976 horror flick.

Former Disney teen idol turned bad-girl pop star Miley Cyrus hit back Thursday at Sinead O'Connor, rebuffing advice by the Irish singer that she stop prostituting herself for music business bosses.

Cyrus, in the headlines repeatedly since her infamous twerking performance at the MTV Video Music Awards show in August, fired off a couple of tweets to O'Connor evoking mental health problems.

Steven Spielberg and George Clooney go way back in show business. In fact, it was Spielberg who gave Clooney his big break on the TV show "ER," the actor recalls.

But the two Hollywood heavyweights came together Thursday evening for a different reason: Spielberg was honoring Clooney for his humanitarian work around the globe, especially in the Darfur region of Sudan.

With a whiff of controversy and not a bikini in sight, a U.S-educated business graduate was selected as the first Miss Universe contestant to represent Myanmar in more than 50 years.

Moe Set Wine will take her place on stage at the global beauty pageant in Moscow next month, reflecting dramatic political and social changes in the former junta-ruled nation, which last fielded a Miss Universe contender in 1961.