This might come as a surprise to the RnB world but Missy Elliott’s young, talented and neo-soul protégé Jazmine Sullivan has decided to leave the music industry.
The “Need U Bad” singer who has released only two great CD’s – “Fearless” in 2008, “Love Me Back” in 2010 and received two Grammy nominations – has announced via Twitter just moments ago that she is quitting… Continue
Lady Gaga is over the moon about the release of her upcoming album, "Born This Way."
At 12:01 am on New Year’s Day, the "Alejandro" singer posted a black and white photo, taken by British photographer Nick Knight, showing her flashing her nude rear end as she whips her hair to the right to reveal a jacket with the words "Born This Way" spray painted on the… Continue
A Florida doctor looking to relieve some holiday stress was killed by her mechanical neck massager, police said.
Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson of Parkland finished wrapping presents in her bedroom on Christmas Eve, authorities say, when she apparently decided to use an electrical massager on her neck.
"The massager got entangled with a necklace, and it… Continue
Social networking giant Facebook is now valued at $50 billion, thanks to an investment from one of Wall Street's biggest names and a Russian investor, according to a report.
Goldman Sachs and a Russian firm, Digital Sky Technologies, combined to invest $500 million into Facebook, which was recently named the Internet's most visited site.
SVAY ROLUM, Cambodia - Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia flocked to a wedding ceremony Monday between a 16-foot 200-pound female python and her slightly smaller snake groom.
Fortune-tellers believe the pythons are magic snakes that bring prosperity and peace to the village.
The two-hour ceremony ended with two Buddhist monks blessing the snake couple as… Continue
First birds dropped dead from the skies, now thousands of fish have died in Arkansas.
Officials are investigating what may have killed some 100,000 fish in the Arkansas River in the northwestern section of the state, authorities said on Sunday.
Deceased drum fish littered 20 miles of the river near Ozark, Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish… Continue
I was recently speaking to a colleague who just found out that a close female friend of his was date raped. As he struggled to understand what happened, he asked me: "How do we help men take women's feelings more seriously?" This is a question that I think about nearly every day - whether it's because another girl in a school that I work at reveals a history of sexual assault,… Continue
A man who tried to jump to his death from a midtown building Sunday survived the plunge because he landed in a pile of garbage, officials said.
Police believe the man jumped from the ninth floor of a building on W. 45th St. near Eighth Ave. a few minutes before noon. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.
Oprah Winfrey's network has begun not with a bang but with redeclared purpose by the Queen of Daytime for her new round-the-clock cable channel venture.
After years in the planning and months of hype, the moment of launch on Saturday at 12 noon EST was rather quiet.
Buried in the middle of a holiday weekend (though boasting the numerically catchy date… Continue
Apple fans started the New Year with a bit of a hangover after a software glitch caused the iPhone's alarm function to stop working.
The failure caused many to oversleep on the first two days of 2011, with some complaining they were late for work or even missed flights. Users could set alarms - but they didn't go off.
Residents in a Arkansas city got a bizarre New Year's surprise on Saturday when they woke up to find their neighborhood covered with thousands of dead birds that appeared to have fallen from the sky.
Dozens of lawns, streets and rooftops for more than a mile in Beebe, Ark., were covered with the corpses of red-winged black birds. An aerial survey showed that no other… Continue
Chuck Berry was so exhausted at his concert in Chicago Saturday night that the 84-year-old legend was escorted off stage after slumping at his piano.
In an email to the Daily News, the singer's rep, Dick Alen, said the incident was due to "last night exhaustion" -- he had performed two shows in New York the night before -- and that Berry was… Continue
Revelers wearing party hats and 2011 glasses packed Times Square last night as confetti rained down and a crystal ball dropped into the New Year for a once-in-a-lifetime New York experience.
"It's awesome!" German nanny Katrina Luther, 19, squealed as she stood among the celebrating crush in the Crossroads of the World.
The Discovery Channel has shelved plans to air a TV special featuring a re-enactment of Michael Jackson's autopsy, according to TMZ.com.
The network opted to call off the program, scheduled to run in the United Kingdom only, after receiving fierce objections from the executors of Jackson's estate.
"Given the commencement of legal proceedings beginning next… Continue
A mother and daughter in Arizona are accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy for three years and police say the pair did it without knowing about each other’s relationship with him.
The mother, 48-year-old Susan Brock, allegedly met the boy for trysts when he was 13 and continued for three years until this past October, police said. Her daughter, Rachel, now 21,… Continue