Veering between drama and farce, the courtroom showdown pitting Johnny Depp against ex-wife Amber Heard focused this week on the host of professionals and hangers-on who surround the stars.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are to acknowledge the abuse of thousands of Indigenous children by Canada's school system during a visit next month.

A Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 119, public broadcaster NHK said on Monday, reporting the death of Kane Tanaka. 

Stewart, who captured the American zeitgeist while zinging politicians and the media as host of the "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central for 16 years, joked about the big-name stars celebrating him whose careers he helped advance.

Aziz Alibhai is showing the visitor his big love -- an astonishing collection of plane wrecks that he wants to turn into an atypical tourist attraction

During three days on the witness stand, the three-time Oscar nominee has sought to convince a jury that the allegations of domestic abuse made against him by Heard are untrue and have destroyed his career.

A Florida bride and her caterer have been arrested after a prank in which they allegedly laced the food served at her February wedding with pot.

Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn spent more than five hours seeking to undermine the credibility of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star before the seven-person jury hearing the suit in Fairfax County Circuit Court.

Depp, taking the witness stand for a second day of testimony in his defamation case against Heard, said she would regularly insult him and once threw a vodka bottle at him, severing the tip of one of his fingers.

With hot pink hair extensions and leopard print pantsuit, model Ziad al-Mesfer was bound to turn heads during his recent photo shoot in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia.

"There were arguments and things of that nature but never did I myself reach the point of striking Miss Heard in any way," Depp told the jury hearing the case at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.

Tesla chief Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover bid for Twitter, insisting he was the only person capable of unlocking the full potential of the platform.

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp physically and sexually abused his then-wife Amber Heard during drug-and alcohol-fueled benders, her lawyers told a court Tuesday.

Ramadan drummers who awaken the faithful for their pre-dawn meal are dying out across the Muslim world, but the tradition lives on in Syria's capital.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 96 soon, has spoken of serious fatigue after she contracted Covid-19 in February.

The looming execution of a US mother-of-14 -- sentenced to death in a controversial case for the murder of her toddler daughter -- has provoked backlash.

More than six weeks after Russia invaded the country, men and women huddled at a comedy club in the western city of Lviv, hoping for a joke to lighten the mood.

Will Smith was banned from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years, two weeks after the actor stormed on stage mid-ceremony to slap the comedian Chris Rock.

Israeli security forces raided the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin killing a Palestinian and wounding 12 others, after vowing there will "not be limits" to curb surging violence.

Hidden Beatles fan letters found a year after owner dies from COVID-19.

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, whose Drive My Car won this year's best international film Oscar, said he is ready to "take on the challenge" of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Amnesty International on Friday lambasted any move by Turkey to transfer the Istanbul trial of 26 suspects in the 2018 murder of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi to Riyadh.

Will Smith resigned from the body that awards the Oscars on Friday, five days after he assaulted comedian Chris Rock during a live global broadcast.

A video has gone viral showing an unidentified man in Palembang being questioned by police after reporting having been sold allegedly fake marijuana.

Hawkins, the 50-year-old drummer for the Grammy award-winning rock group, passed away in a hotel in Bogota shortly before the group was set to perform at the Festival Estereo Picnic on the city's outskirts, according to a statement Saturday from the mayor's office.

Jared Leto has been a star for decades, but it's only now at 50 that he is fronting his first major blockbuster -- transforming into a vampire for new Marvel flick Morbius.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancee Stella Moris are to marry on Wednesday, at the high-security London prison where he is being held during his extradition case.

"In a war started by the older generation, it's the younger generation that give up their lives. That's the way it's been for a long time, and it's truly heartbreaking," Murakami said in the special program broadcast by Tokyo FM.

April Curley contended in the suit that she was undermined and ultimately fired for advocating reform of "barriers and double standards" imposed on Black Google employees.

Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger appealed to Vladimir Putin on Thursday to end the "senseless" war in Ukraine.