There's a lot of noise surrounding Khloe Kardashian Odom. She's frequently with members of her family, and they're not a quiet bunch.

The family stars on the popular E! reality show "Keeping up With the Kardashians," now in its eighth season. (Her sister Kim recently revealed on the show that she and rapper Kanye West are expecting a daughter sometime this summer.)

Two Dutch entrepreneurs have found a novel way to make money out of the thousands of bicycles abandoned in the Netherlands each year, by turning them into designer fashion items and furniture.

Industrial design student Lodewijk Bosman, 25, and Hidde van der Straaten, 28, founded "The Upcycle" in university city Delft in January 2012 to exploit a typically Dutch problem.

"Art will always triumph in the end," says acclaimed Tunisian singer Lotfi Bouchnak, who composed songs for the 2011 revolution but has since seen his profession come under threat from firebrand Islamists.

"The Tunisian revolution continues," said the singer and oud player, one of the voices of the first Arab Spring revolt which inspired an

Esther Williams, a swimming champion who went on to become a star of Hollywood's golden era in the 1940s and 1950s, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, her publicist told Agence France Presse.

Williams passed away peacefully in her sleep, the actress's representative Harlan Boll said. She was 91.

Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan became the first Chinese actor Thursday to have his hands and feet cast in wet cement at Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre, alongside generations of Tinseltown icons.

He was joined by American actor Chris Tucker, his co-star from the "Rush Hour" movies, in the ceremony in the courtyard of the TCL Chinese Theatre, as hundreds of fans screamed from across Hollywood Boulevard.

Michael Jackson's jailed doctor Conrad Murray has sent a consoling message to the late pop icon's daughter Paris after she tried to commit suicide, saying he loved her like a "precious father."

"You are not alone," the medic -- convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 over Jackson's death -- says in the nearly four-minute message posted by celebrity news website TMZ, citing the title one of Jackson's songs.

After years of communist-era shortages, then a craze for Western fast food, Polish cuisine is undergoing a revival thanks to quality local ingredients and a modern twist on traditional fare.

Leading the renaissance is Atelier Amaro, a Warsaw eatery that won Poland's first Michelin star in March for using "local produce to create innovative cuisine and original combinations".

Jennifer Love Hewitt is engaged! Just one day after news broke that the 34-year-old "Client List" star is expecting her first child, Us Weekly has confirmed that Hewitt will also tie the knot with her boyfriend, actor Brian Hallisay.

The three-month pregnant Hewitt and her fiancé say in the new issue, "We're so thrilled and happy to start a family."

Emma Watson might be a Hollywood movie star who flits off to Cannes and hangs out with Sofia Coppola, but the 23-year-old is ready to settle down and head back to Brown University.

Despite already having a flourishing career, Watson has decided to go back to Brown for the fall semester. She first enrolled in 2009 only to take time off while promoting the final "Harry Potter" film in 2011.

British actor Stephen Fry revealed on Wednesday that he attempted suicide last year.

The actor, comedian and writer, best known for his role in the long-running BBC comedy "Blackadder", said he had taken a cocktail of pills and alcohol while filming abroad and was only saved because his producer discovered him unconscious in his hotel room.