Posted: 1:33 PM Sotheby's says an original piece of artwork from the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album has fetched 55,250 pounds ($87,720) at an auction.

Posted: 12:41 PM The White House says Vice President Joe Biden has met with U2 frontman Bono to discuss global development, AIDS and efforts to fight poverty.

Posted: 9:18 AM Britain's media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: "omnishambles."

Posted: 9:14 AM NBCUniversal is laying off about 450 people, or roughly 1.5 percent of its workforce of about 30,000, in a round of belt-tightening that began in September.

Posted: 9:12 AM NBC's struggling "Today" show will be getting a leadership change.

Posted: 9:10 AM One Direction is headed to a movie theater near you.

Posted: 9:15 AM Victoria's Secret has apologized for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show.

Posted: 3:48 PM James Bond is cashing in at the box office.

Posted: 1:31 PM A widow of a U.S. Army soldier killed in Afghanistan is suing Fox Cable Networks and the National Geographic Society over a documentary that featured her husband.

Posted: 1:28 PM Anne Hathaway credits her new husband Adam Schulman for helping her get through the grueling filming of the screen adaptation of "Les Miserables."

Posted: 1:26 PM What tunes fit a post-apocalyptic society? For NBC's freshman drama "Revolution," the answer is Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and "Since I've Been Loving You."

Updated: 1:23 PM A judge has slashed a damage verdict favoring casino mogul Steve Wynn in a slander case against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis.

Updated: 1:31 PM The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" is taking a leave of absence from the popular kids' show following allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Updated: 3:44 PM Television producer and executive Henry Colman - whose credits include "The Love Boat," ''Hawaii Five-O" and "Green Acres" - has died at age 89.

Updated: 1:14 PM Judy Garland's blue gingham dress she wore in "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for $480,000.

Posted: 1:06 PM The GI Film Festival Hollywood has chosen Veterans Day weekend to launch its first event in Los Angeles.

Posted: 1:01 PM The sky's the limit for James Bond's "Skyfall."

Updated: 2:11 PM A source confirms to The Associated Press that Justin Bieber is no longer Selena Gomez's "Boyfriend."

Posted: 3:20 PM The Detroit Lions say Kid Rock plans to perform during halftime of the Thanksgiving Day game against the Houston Texans.

Posted: 3:18 PM Major Harris, a former member of the "Philadelphia sound" soul group the Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit "Love Won't Let Me Wait," has died.

Posted: 3:16 PM More than 1,500 "Twilight" fans are spending the weekend camping out in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the final film in the vampire-romance series.

Posted: 3:14 PM A Texas judge says a longtime friend of Sherman Hemsley can proceed with burial plans for the deceased star of "The Jeffersons."

Posted: 11:55 AM Actress Ashley Judd isn't ruling out a run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.

Posted: 5:30 PM "Dancing with the Stars" co-host Brooke Burke says she has thyroid cancer.

Posted: 5:23 PM Hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, were being sold Thursday evening at an auction house in Poland.