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Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, is live-streaming today the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower, a memorial art piece dedicated to the former Beatles musician,.

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators descended on the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters.

The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes has advised Crystallex International Corp. that proceedings in its $3.8 billion case against Venezuela for nationalizng gold-mining assets has begun.

Representatives of the two ex-lovers--Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed to Us Weekly on Oct. 4 that the ex-lovers’ five-month dating had ended, but the couple will “remain friends.”

Topless pictures of pop star Madonna have been leaked once again, and are making rounds on the Internet. After the much-touted Scarlett Johansson nude photo leak, the 53-year-old Madonna is the latest victim of such an incident this year.

Roger Williams, known as the Pianist to the Presidents, died on Saturday at the age of 87 in his California home after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, his former publicist said.

Apple Inc.'s preorder stock of the new iPhone 4S for delivery on its release date has been sold out, at least on the company's Web site. Now the Web site says of the new smartphone, Ships: 1-2 weeks.

American horror film actor and songwriter, David Hess, 69, died Saturday of a heart attack. Hess is best remembered as Krug Stilo in Wes Craven's classic slasher film Last House on the Left (1972).

What started as a protest to occupy Wall Street seems to have turned into a protest that wants to occupy more New York locations.

Herman Cain got a lot of attention when a poll from Zogby showed him with a 20-percentage-point lead over his closest Republican presidential rival last week. But Americans don't know much about him or the rest of the GOP field.

Reports show that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the planning stages and making deals to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs movie about the Apple co-founder.

American industrial heiress Nancy Shevell and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney plan to wed Sunday at The Old Marylebone Town Hall. The soon-to-be married couple arrived at London’s registers office Saturday to organize some final details before heading to McCartney’s St John’s Wood home in north London.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney will wed for the third time on Sunday when he and New York heiress Nancy Shevell are married in a civil ceremony in London, British newspapers reported.

The New York Times has sold the film and television database Baseline StudioSystems to Project Hollywood, the company announced late on Friday.

Anyone who says they can predict the impact of Occupy Wall Street on the political climate and public policy is being disingenuous. But one thing is known: modern U.S. history shows, if Occupy Wall Street is to succeed it, the movement most likely will have to merge its interests with the Democratic Party.

As the "Occupy Wall Street" protest becomes a movement, joined in the past two weeks by union workers and environmentalists and acknowledged publicly in legitimacy by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, we have to ask the question: How big can the Occupy Wall Street movement grow?

New technique in stem cell research advances field.

We all know the shape - a small white rectangle with rounded corners, a screen, and a circular control. The first iPod debuted in November of 2001 and put all other portable music players to shame. It didn't try to be like the other guys, with their dubious interfaces and The Matrix-y black exteriors; instead, the iPod was its own kind of cool - obnoxiously so - with a minimalist white exterior and unapologetically Mac-centric interface design. In a way, the iPod was a representation of Apple...

National Football League teams have donated at least $1.4 million to politicians, parties, and committees since 2009, with about two-thirds of the cash going to Republicans, a study released on Friday showed.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney will wed for the third time on Sunday when he and New York heiress Nancy Shevell are married in a civil ceremony in London, British newspapers reported.

Steve Jobs, Apple's mastermind who took charge of the golden era of personal computing, led a full life characterized by several idiosyncrasies, some of which portray the amusing personality he was.