Syrian state television said soldiers found chemical weapons on Saturday in tunnels that had been used by rebels, deflecting blame for a nerve gas attack that killed hundreds this week and heightened

Actor and screenwriter Wentworth Miller, best known for his leading role in Fox television drama Prison Break, came out as a gay man on Wednesday in a letter declining an invitation to attend a Russian film festival in light of Moscow’s recently adopted anti-gay laws.

Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in US history by providing files to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.

Kimi Raikkonen, the least garrulous of Formula One drivers, is the man everyone is talking about ahead of Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix at his favourite Spa-Francor-champs circuit.

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.

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.

In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number.

The last time Manchester United began a season without Alex Ferguson in charge Ron Atkinson was shown the Old Trafford exit door before Christmas and the rest, as they say, is history.

Egypt’s Muslim Brother-hood and its allies suffered a heavy blow from the state security crackdown, their central coordination has been lost and the bloodshed means anger is now “beyond control,” the group said on Thursday.