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Serena Williams was fined a whopping $82,500 for her outburst of slinging profanities at the U.S. Open this year, the highest fine ever given to any tennis player. Watch the video of her meltdown by clicking on the story. Grand...

The 25th Anniversary Show celebrating the ROCK & ROLL Hall of Fame was shown on HBO last night. Recorded from 2 shows at Madison Square Gardens over a month ago, the show runs 4 hours and includes many great musicians....

Call me old, call me a cynic, call me a post-Gen X crybaby, but I no longer want my MTV. Before you go and break out the crazy like a republican at a town-hall, you must understand that I am...

The New York Daily News reports that a boy who was shot in the leg last month in New York might have been attacked as part of an ongoing spat between Harlem gang Original Young Gangsters and rival factions. Lieutenant...

WHO warns that with new H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened Hanoi: Vietnam's Ministry of Health says a...

So much to think about in markets today.. Dubai, Iran etc etc..although nothing to report (trading wise) from the UK morning session. While I catch up on things a few general thoughts. Markets are more than usually vulnerable to news...

Easily, Fabolous has one of the top albums of the year; Loso's way is a BIG DEAL. No one should be sleeping on it. 'I'mma do it' is the fourth single from the monumental record and rightly so. Story of...

Actor Alec Baldwin, 51, says he's quitting showbiz in 2012, after his contract is up with "30 Rock." Thanks for the three year notice Alec. He told the Men's Journal in a recent interview, "I don't have any interest in...

Prime minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom seem to have taken a direct and almost abrupt approach with Pakistan and its leaders on the war against al-Qaeda. Gordon Brown told Pakistan leadership they had not done anywhere near the...

“The banks are not doing a good enough job,” Michael S. Barr, Treasury’s assistant secretary for financial institutions, said in an interview Friday. “Some of the firms ought to be embarrassed, and they will be.” The Obama administration on Monday...