Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a death row inmate in the 1999 drama The Green Mile, died in a hospital on Monday, less than eight weeks after sufferin

Around a dozen US newspapers have raised questions about an abortion-related Doonesbury comic strip set for publication next week, and some will likely not run it, the syndicate behind the cartoon said on Friday.

Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Michael Jackson’s former doctor to the maximum four years in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the singer’s 2009 death.

Michael Jackson’s personal doctor was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s drug-related death in 2009 but may not spend much time in jail.

Witnesses on day two of the Michael Jackson death trial told of a panic-stricken doctor and the pop star’s children crying in disbelief with their father lying unresponsive on his bedroom floor, mouth

Lindsay Lohan was briefly jailed again on Friday after a rollercoaster day in which a judge downgraded her jewellery theft charge, but sentenced the actress to four months behind bars for violating her probation. Looking confused and distressed, Lohan — who was locked up for two weeks last summer — was taken immediately to jail from court after a day-long preliminary hearing on charges that she stole a $2,500 gold necklace from a store in January.

In newly-revealed love letters, a 17 year-old Elizabeth Taylor shared her dreams with her fiancé before later agonising about returning an engagement ring when the relationship soured.