ROME (AP) - Italy's center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was chosen Friday to form a new and viable government, which is badly needed to steer the country out of recession and get more Italians back to work. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Natasha Lyonne's career is going up in smoke -- in a good way. The "American Pie" actress has booked a gig on the two-part series finale of the Showtime pot dramedy "Weeds," a spokeswoman for the a... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The makers of a planned film about rock icon Janis Joplin have tapped recent Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to play the part of the 1960s singer in a biographical movie directed by Sean Durkin, a spokesman for the director sai... [Full Article]
PARIS (Reuters) - The man who turned Apple into a web-connected empire of consumer gadgets drew some of his inspiration from a table-top box that wired French households to networked information way before the arrival of mass Internet, a French telec... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is targeting potential untapped shale gas reserves in coal-hungry South Africa where landowners - including a Dutch princess - are readying for a showdown.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)... [Full Article]
(Canadian Press) - Legendary Canadian songstress Anne Murray has been tapped to host Canada’s Walk of Fame gala next month. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Peter Kramer/ file)... [Full Article]