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Members of a Japanese girl pop group, the Virtual Currency Girls, said on Monday they had refused an offer to be paid in yen and would stay loyal to cryptocurrencies despite a $530 million cyber heist...

A rare Picasso painting on auction for the first time made its debut in Hong Kong at the start of a global tour on Tuesday and is expected to fetch $50 million, auction house Sotheby’s said....

Meryl Streep, the most celebrated actress of her generation, has filed an application to trademark her name. The application was filed with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Jan. 22, records show. It requests that the...

R&B artist Bruno Mars won the top prize at the Grammy Awards on Sunday in another victory for pop-driven music over rap, now the most popular genre in the United States. Mars won six Grammys including...

Rapper Kendrick Lamar and pop superstar Lady Gaga opened the Grammy Awards on Sunday with immediate if understated political touches. With a US flag in the backdrop, Lamar launched into a fierce rap at New York’s...

Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar stole the show, and most of the awards, at the 2018 Grammys. Mars provided the night’s big upset, taking the album of the year trophy that most critics assumed would go...

Five years after Detroit declared itself bankrupt, nightlife in Motown is hopping again. Nightclubs and bars mixing the Midwestern city’s African American musical heritage and a bubbling new creativity are sprouting up like mushrooms. And even...

Reese Witherspoon has asked fans to accept her for who she is – after Vanity Fair’s latest cover revealed her to have a secret third leg. She’s one of 12 film stars photographed by Annie Leibovitz...

Oscar-winning Casey Affleck, who has been accused of sexual harassment by female crew members on an earlier film, has withdrawn as a presenter at the 2018 Academy Awards, a spokeswoman for the organization said on Thursday....

Veteran Bengali film actress Supriya Devi died of a severe cardiac arrest at her residence here early on Friday, her daughter said. She was 85, reports BSS. Born in 1933, Supriya Devi was known for her...