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Elizabethan scholars may dispute the version of events recounted in Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's exploration of who really wrote the plays and poems history attributes to William Shakespeare, but those of us in the cheap seats (with suitable temperament) will have to admire how the director of 2012 and Independence Day took a topic appropriate for a doctoral thesis and turned it into a melodramatic potboiler.

Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film My Tehran for Sale, which is banned in Iran.

Looks like former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart might have to counsel up some legal assistance.

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.

Violating Rules Runs in Family: Lindsay Lohan's Father Denied Bail; Not to be Released Soon

From Blade Runner to Total Recall, Hollywood has made millions spinning the futuristic tales of Philip K. Dick into big screen entertainments.

Adolf Hitler Campbell and his two sisters will remain under foster care after a judge denied the parents custody of their kids.

A number of Tuareg have reportedly fled Libya for Mali and Niger and other nations since the Libyan rebels deposed Gaddafi.

Oil prices retreated on Friday in light volume trading as uncertainties about Europe's plan to tackle its debt problems prompted some profit taking after the previous session's rally.

Kenya will end its military campaign against the Islamist al Shabaab rebels in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack across the border, its head of military said on Saturday.

A federal court in Oklahoma on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame brought by the widows of two assassinated African presidents, ruling that he had immunity in the United States.

The International Criminal Court said on Saturday Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was in contact through intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation.

State legislatures have proposed 900 bills dealing with reproductive rights this year, 600 of which are anti-choice.

Earlier in July this year, a new cell-phone radiation law was passed in San Francisco requiring mobile companies to properly inform their customers about the dangers of radiation. On Thursday, the federal court ordered that the city soften these regulations.

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.

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.

Tonya Cooley claims she was sexually assaulted during the filming of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins in Phuket, Thailand in May 2009 and producers did nothing to stop it. The former Real World Chicago cast member has filed a law suit against MTV, Bunim-Murrary Productions and reality stars Kenneth Santucci and Evan Starkman, according to court papers obtained by EW.

A court in Morocco has sentenced to death the man believed to be behind a deadly April bombing of a cafe in Marrakesh.

Oil prices retreated on Friday in choppy trading as uncertainties about Europe's plan to tackle its debt problems prompted some profit taking after the previous session's rally.

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

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.