Sapporo and Osaka have made lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples in officially recognized partnerships eligible to receive support money if they are victims of crime, marking a rare move among municipalities in Japan, officials of the two cities said recently.

After burying her “truth for so long”, Paris Hilton has finally decided to open up about the traumatic experiences she had during her teenage years, which, to this day, continue to give her “nightmares”.

A woman of Indian-origin dubbed "the spy princess" on Friday gets a new memorial in Britain honoring her espionage work and refusal to betray secrets in World War II.

A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times' bid to dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting.

Britain's Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has helped choose 100 final images from more than 31,000 submissions made to Hold Still, a photography project she launched in May to capture a snapshot of the nation in coronavirus lockdown.

"Harry Potter" creator JK Rowling said on Friday she would give back an award presented by the US Kennedy family after one of its members criticized her views on gender issues.

As a supermodel, it comes as no surprise that Gigi Hadid was a sight to behold on her maternity shoot for her first child with Zayn Malik.

Indian cricket superstar Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma announced Thursday they are expecting their first child in January.

If budget and approval were not issues, director Harvan Agustriansyah would like to film more social-political dramas.

A US judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn jail where she is awaiting trial on charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.

While coronavirus lockdowns caused many men across the world to grow their hair longer than usual, none compare with Vietnam's Nguyen Van Chien who has gone almost 80 years without a trim.

The Dutch king and queen apologized on Monday after they were pictured breaking coronavirus social distancing rules while on holiday in Greece.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Monday she has returned to school after a year off campaigning to curb climate change.

Rafael Viguera is taking no risks. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he has traded in his comfortable house in Havana for his roadside, tiny wooden juice shack out by the fortress overlooking the city bay to self-isolate.

A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world's oldest people died Saturday in South Africa.

Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, on Thursday broke from protocol normally followed by British royals in calling for a "change" in the upcoming US presidential election.

Dubai's highest court has rejected an appeal by the ex-wife of a Russian billionaire to seize a £350 million ($460 million) superyacht in one of the world's costliest divorce battles, a court ruling last week said.

Ghislaine Maxwell's chance of a fair trial on criminal charges she aided Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls could be destroyed by substantial negative publicity if a deposition she gave four years ago were publicly released, her lawyers said.

Billie Eilish spoke up against United States President Donald Trump for allegedly “destroying” the country and “everything we care about”.

Singer Cher has waded into the row surrounding the US Postal Service by offering herself as a volunteer worker -- only to be shot down by a local branch manager.

After more than a decade living under a conservatorship that sees her father steer her personal and professional matters, Britney Spears is seeking to significantly alter the terms of the arrangement.

The former US president curated a plethora of chart-topping singles for his 2020 summer playlist.

In a wide-ranging interview published Monday, superstar rapper Cardi B candidly quizzed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden on issues including police brutality, health care reform and higher education.

For Orlando Bloom, living in these “new circumstances”—amid the COVID-19 pandemic—has been nothing short of “surreal”.

A man jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it attacked her on Saturday at a beach in Port Macquarie in the Australian state of New South Wales, media and officials said.

A one-year-old boy who was tragically declared "brain dead" after an accident has undergone surgery to have his organs donated that could save four lives.

Former United States first lady Michelle Obama is not afraid of getting personal on her eponymous Spotify podcast.

Meghan Markle said Friday she was pleased to be back in America, where she plans to speak out against racism and campaign for positive change in her home country.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have purchased and moved into a new family home in Santa Barbara, an affluent seaside city outside Los Angeles, according to US media reports.

A US judge on Wednesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request for a three-week delay in the unsealing of additional documents related to her dealings with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.