A defense lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor said Wednesday the singer was so anguished about his deteriorating finances in his final days that he took desperate actions that caused his own death.

Angelina Jolie is urging the world community to continue helping Tunisia with its refugee crisis as thousands flood in from its war-torn neighbor, Libya.

AMC says "Mad Men" is definitely coming back, but the new season won't be on the air until 2012.

Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is engaged to be married.

Prosecutors have charged Lindsay Lohan's father with a misdemeanor domestic violence charge for an alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend.

Kiss' Israeli-born singer-musician Gene Simmons is shouting out loud at the string of musicians who refuse to perform in his homeland.

Nobody seemed to notice at first when legendary blues guitarist Billy Gibbons, front man for ZZ Top, jumped up on the stage Saturday at Stubbs BBQ for a free showcase marking the final hours of the South by Southwest Music festival.

Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut, an international star who as a cuddly, fluffy cub graced magazine covers, movies and merchandise, died Saturday. His death at the young age of four took zookeepers and animal experts by surprise.

Detroit officials who were backstage at a concert featuring hip-hop stars Dr. Dre and Eminem had no right to privacy then they confronted organizers in a videotaped exchange that turned up in a DVD, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in a decision released Saturday.

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is turning to fiction writing more than three years after publishing a memoir about her career.

TV on the Radio bassist Gerard Smith has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Yes, it's possible: Bill O'Reilly is getting bolder and fresher.

Frothy, film-inspired funfest "Legally Blonde: The Musical" won three big prizes at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards Sunday, while Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" went home empty-handed despite seven nominations.

One of the most famous drummers in jazz music history has died.

After invading Los Angeles, aliens have taken the box office, too.

Surveillance footage shows that a clerk smiled and held the door open for Lindsay Lohan when she walked out of a jewelry store that later accused her of stealing a $2,500 necklace.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers says a scene from "The Social Network" in which he's shown brushing off twin brothers who claim their idea for Facebook was stolen by a fellow student was pretty accurate.

Warner Bros. Television says it has fired Charlie Sheen from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men."

Scream! The cast of "Glee" could be planning a Michael or Janet Jackson tribute - that's if "Glee" star Amber Riley can get herway.

A British newspaper says Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studio has bought screen rights to its book about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The NCAA Women's Final Four basketball tournament will host a free festival headlined by country music star Kellie Pickler.

CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves is shrugging off the effect of cancelling Charlie Sheen's popular sitcom "Two and a Half Men." In fact, he says the move is saving money.

Singer Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a car that was stopped on a West Hollywood street.

Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman says she is "shocked and disgusted" by a video in which designer John Galliano says he loves Adolf Hitler.

Jane Russell, the brunette who was discovered by Howard Hughes and went on to become one of the biggest stars of the 1940s and '50s, has died at age 89.