LONDON - BRITAIN has given the go-ahead for a new 25 million pound (S$50 million) visitor centre at Stonehenge and will shut a road that runs alongside the country's most famous prehistoric monument.
CANNES - CANNES kicked off Wednesday with a 3D crowd-pleaser cartoon as a bevy of auteur directors and megastars, from Quentin Tarantino to Brad Pitt, jet in for the annual film festival frenzy.
Tarantino's long-awaited Inglourious Basterds - a blood-and-guts World War II tale of Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to murder Nazis - is one of the 20 films vying for the Palme d'Or top prize to be handed out on May 24.
NEW YORK - MISS CALIFORNIA, embroiled in a national row over gay marriage during last months' Miss USA pageant, was told she can keep her state crown despite the release of semi-naked photos.
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who owns the Miss Universe organisation, announced at a press conference in New York's Trump Tower that Carrie Prejean "will remain Miss California".
LAS VEGAS - AMERICAN singer Cher, now 62, stunned her the audience when she appeared in a see-through bodysuit very similar to the one she wore 20 years ago for her video, If I Could Turn Back Time.
