Katy Perry’s single Roar has turned out to be a bestseller on iTunes and now she wants her boyfriend John Mayer’s new album Paradise Valley to do well. The singer took to Twitter to gush about her beau and his work with her fans, reported Us magazine.

A collection of cigars that belonged to German dictator Adolf Hitler’s deputy and close confidant, Hermann Goering, may fetch up to £1,200 at an auction in the UK. Specially made for Goering, the cigars were taken from the cellars of the Reichsmarschall’s home in Brandenburg.

Former Disney star Lee Thompson Young, best known for his lead role in the 1990s series The Famous Jett Jackson, committed suicide in Los Angeles, the actor’s manager said on Monday. He was 29.

Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke, best known for his hit television comedy of the 1960s, survived a car fire unscathed on Monday when a passerby pulled him from the smoldering vehicle before it burst into flames on the side of a Los Angeles-area freeway.

Waking up to a new year! Researchers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet 700 light-years away that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.

Cosmic jewellery! Some of the earliest iron artefacts ever found — beads strung into a necklace found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery — were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said.

American author Elmore Leonard, whose ear for gritty, realistic dialogue helped bring dozens of hard-bitten crooks, cops and cowboys to life in nearly 50 novels, died on Tuesday at age 87, according to his website, weeks after a stroke.

Imagine if you could name a newly-discovered planet after your son or a new moon after your spouse? Now, you can make your wish come true, provided you follow certain simple rules.

Scientists have developed an interactive life-sized robot that acts as a stand-up comic and has already garnered many laughs from the audience during its unique performance here.

The mystery behind the identity of the writer of five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s play The Spanish Tragedy has now been solved, and it is none other than Shakespeare! Surprisingly, the proof that the Bard of Avon was involved comes from his trademark misspellings and the bad handwriting behind them.