Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has been named this year’s “sexiest woman alive” by Esquire, the men’s lifestyle magazine said on Monday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Australian rapper Iggy Azalea scored the most American Music Award nominations with six nods, including the coveted artist of the year and favorite single and hip hop album, according to an announcement on Monday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, one of dozens of actresses, models and celebrities whose intimate images have been posted online, spoke about the photo hacking scandal for the first time on Tuesday, saying it is a crime and sexual violation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The singing group might have started as a ploy to get attention from their female counterparts during their high-school days, but now T.O.K.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King has canceled the remaining performances of his current tour after falling ill on stage during a performance in Chicago, according to his website.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Lindsay Lohan kept an opening night audience hanging on her every word, in part to see if she’d forget any, as she made her stage debut on Thursday night in a West End revival of “Speed-the-Plow”, David Mamet’s scathing satire of Hollywood.

(Reuters) – A trio of films stepped beyond Bollywood song-and-dance to show South Asian women grappling with male-dominated sport, child marriage, and sexual desire of people with disability in their premieres at the Toronto Film Festival.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – At 88, veteran crooner Tony Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living artist to land a No.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ben Affleck is not interested in playing nice guys and would choose an interesting, complicated character over a likeable one, which is what drew him to “Gone Girl,” a dark thriller about marriage, intimacy and the roles people play.

VENICE (Reuters) – The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, broke a vow to remain single yesterday and married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin during a weekend of lavish celebrations in Venice.

ROME, (Reuters) – Sophia Loren, Italy’s national cinema icon and eternal diva, turns 80 this week and is marking the milestone with a book of memoirs revealing details of her rags-to-riches life.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer Robin Thicke said he was high on painkillers and alcohol in 2013 when “Blurred Lines” became a hit, and he exaggerated his contribution to writing the song, according to court papers filed on Monday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran Irish rockers U2 pulled off the largest album release in history at Tuesday’s Apple Inc event to launch new products, after making its latest record available for free on Apple’s iTunes online stores to half a billion iTunes users.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth, and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby and the mother-to-be is once again suffering from very acute morning sickness, his office said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Family and friends bid farewell yesterday to Joan Rivers, the outspoken comedian who became famous around the world for her acerbic wit and brash style, at a private funeral sprinkled with jokes, laughter and songs.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – The code-breaking machine that may have cut World War II by two years and saved millions of lives was invented by British mathematician Alan Turing, a prickly genius and unlikely war hero unknown to most of the world.

NEW YORK  (Reuters) – Acerbic comedian Joan Rivers died in New York on Thursday, a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure, her daughter said in a statement.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Having hosted late night television’s satirical “The Daily Show” for 15 years, comedian Jon Stewart grew accustomed to a daily churn that he says “forgives sloppiness.”

(BBC) Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has crossed over 10 million followers on Twitter.

(Trinidad Express) Well-known pan arranger Eddie Quarless, 60, died on Tuesday in New York, USA where he had gone for medical treatment.