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A haunting Halloween howler by San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers helped the Kansas City Chiefs steal an improbable 23-20 overtime victory and move into joint control of the AFC West on Monday.

Actress Eva Amurri, the oldest child of Susan Sarandon, married former soccer pro Kyle Martino on Saturday, People magazine reported.

Cigar-chomping disc jockey and entertainer Jimmy Savile, a flamboyant star of British television and radio for decades, died on Saturday aged 84, the BBC said.

Animated movie Puss in Boots landed on its feet with a $51 million global debut over the weekend and likely set a Halloween weekend record for a domestic opening, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.

She's been atop the leader board on TV contest Dancing With the Stars several times, but Ricki Lake still doesn't believe she'll end up with the mirror ball trophy. The winner, she thinks, will be J.R. Martinez.

Island Records, part of Universal Music, will release a posthumous album of Amy Winehouse's songs on December 5.

Singer Rihanna was forced to cancel a show in Malmo, Sweden, after being hospitalized with the flu on Monday night, the singer said in a statement.

Singer, actress and fashion mogul Jessica Simpson has finally put baby rumors to rest by confirming Monday that she is pregnant with her first child, in a statement posted on her official website.

An expert defense witness suggested on Monday that Michael Jackson could have risen from his bed, picked up a syringe left by his doctor and given himself a fatal dose of a powerful anesthetic in 2009.

Nudity, video, puppets and an ultra-modern twist on Mikhail Glinka's folkloric romantic opera Ruslan and Lyudmila will be the first full production to grace the stage of Russia's newly renovated Bolshoi theater.

America's state governments won't see many revenue gains any time soon if they triumph in battles to tax sales by out-of-state Internet retailers, a leading Wall Street credit-ratings group said on Monday.

The nondescript stretch of asphalt is an unlikely symbol of Brazil's attempt to lift its economy into a new high-tech era.

At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp.

The state of California should immediately investigate why more than 1,000 sex offenders have the same addresses as licensed foster homes and facilities housing children, a new report by the state auditor said.

The St Louis Cardinals' spirited charge to the World Series title only served to pad the Hall of Fame credentials of Tony La Russa, the club's stoic, lawyer-trained manager with a cerebral approach.

Call it a state of 11th heaven for the St. Louis Cardinals after a fairytale finish to one of baseball's great comeback stories, ending with a World Series triumph for the National League's most successful team.

The Toronto Maple Leafs snapped the Pittsburgh Penguins' five-game winning streak when Phil Kessel scored his National Hockey League-leading 10th goal of the season to hand the Maple Leafs a 4-3 win in a clash of division leaders on Saturday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. discriminated against female employees in Texas stores in pay and promotion decisions, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday in Federal Court in Dallas.

The National Basketball (NBA) canceled another two weeks of the season on Friday and conceded it was now too late to save the entire 82-game season even if owners and players reached an agreement to end to their bitter labor dispute.

The film Land of Oblivion may revolve around victims of the Chernobyl disaster a quarter of a century ago, but Japanese audiences will see striking parallels with current-day headlines following the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

British singer-songwriter Adele has been forced by impending surgery to cancel all her remaining tour dates and promotional appearances through the end of the year, her record label said on Friday.

One stuntman was killed and another one seriously injured in an explosion the set of action film The Expendables 2 in Bulgaria, the movie's production company said on Friday.

Veteran actor Michael Douglas said in a recent interview with Alec Baldwin that he will never forget when he was first told he had late-stage throat cancer in 2010.

Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol after popping an extra eight sedatives without his doctor's knowledge, a Los Angeles court heard on Friday.

President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser in California this week he has kept 60 percent of his 2008 campaign promises.

A former soldier wounded in a protest on the streets of Oakland after surviving two tours in Iraq has put a new face on the 'Occupy' movement by galvanizing veteran backing for the push against economic inequality in the United States.

A U.S. judge blocked most of a San Francisco ordinance on Thursday that required warnings about cell phone safety risks, saying it violated the First Amendment.

With the two-year anniversary of his last tournament win fast approaching, Tiger Woods is preparing for next month's Australian Open amid growing doubts over whether he can ever regain his former dominance.

The odds on a dog running on to the track and interrupting the inaugural Indian Grand Prix were priced at 100-1 Friday despite two incidents during first practice at the Buddh circuit.