Australian actress Nicole Kidman admitted Wednesday that the Hollywood film industry has very likely contributed to the violent behaviour towards women by representing them as vulnerable sex objects. The Oscar-winning movie star explained that these types of demeaning roles are not interesting for, adding that some people in the Hollywood film ...Read More...

A new study has revealed that backpackers from the UK are getting more than just a suntan on their holidays down under. A survey of over 1000 British backpackers at a range of youth hostels in Sydney and Cairns reveals that the budget travellers engage in up to three times as ...Read More...

A man from Colorado in the US rejected the idea that a search-and-rescue mission triggered by the belief that his son had lifted off in a home-made balloon was trick to get attention. Colorado authorities said they would ask to question the members of his family but they did not believe ...Read More...

Michael Jackson's estate has conceded the Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka, a music legend in his own right, a share of 50% of the copyrights to the pop star’s posthumously launched track This Is It following a claim that Jackson had stolen the studio tapes. Anka said that the track was previously ...Read More...

Performer Harry Connick Jr reacted with anger on a TV show after a group called the Jackson Five sporting blacked-up faces and white suits mimicked the famous brothers. The 42-year-old Connick said that if he would have known of this skit, he would not have taken part in the show. The American ...Read More...

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is set to travel to India in the coming days to see if the idea of the Gold Coast hosting the Commonwealth Games is a possibility. The Premier will discuss with games officials in India as she starts a trade trip, with the capital Delhi being her ...Read More...

Muse, Dizzee Rascal, Kasabian, Lily Allen, Calvin Harris and The Temper Trap have all been booked as set to perform at the Big Day Out series of festivals across New Zealand and Australia this coming January. The travelling festival takes place in New Zealand and Australia during the month of January ...Read More...

The autopsy report of mega star Michael Jackson indicated that the drug propofol combined with three other powerful sedatives is likely to have stopped his breathing which subsequently leas to his death, said an anesthesiologist who got his hands on the document. During a recent phone interview, Dr. Zeev Kain, which ...Read More...

Ex INXS and Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens has been in hospital for three weeks since his open heart surgery but his condition has been deteriorating. Stevens' spokesman, Simon Lucas, disclosed that the 47-year-old musician is in a Sydney hospital battling complications. He said that the operation had been deemed a success, but ...Read More...

The turbulent affair that once was Kate Neilson and Wayne Carey ended abruptly with the ex-bikini model being locked out of the former pro-footballer's villa after discovering the clothes of another woman in the back seat of her car. Neilson says she exploded in a jealous rage and hurled abuse outside ...Read More...