♦ For wedding photos to remember, trash the dress

The perfect dress a perfect wedding makes but an Australian photographer is advising brides to destroy their prized gowns for nuptial pictures to remember.	1 vote

♦ Courtney Love still hates Coogan

Courtney Love has branded ex-lover Steve Coogan "mean" and "sociopathic". The singer, who briefly dated the British comedian in 2005, says Coogan left her in a "dark" place.	1 vote

♦ Ravers blinded

Russian ravers have been left partially blinded by a light show at a party in Moscow. Bad weather forced the organisers of the Aquamarine Open Air Festival to erect tents for the all night dance party. They used lasers which would usually only be used to point upward in the sky outside, which have had a devastating effect on some partygoers indoors.	1 vote

♦ Top trips for video game enthusiasts

TV screen or computer back home, joystick-lovers have the income to let their passion for playing inspire another pastime: travel. With their sense of exploration and their knack for the interactive, gamers should make natural adventurers. So, given a $1,500 budget for a game-related vacation, where would they go?	1 vote

♦ 50 Cent Wins Lawyer Battle.

who has an eleven year old son, Marquis, with Tompkins successfully argued the two cases are unrelated and that Kimmel never had an attorney-client relationship with her. New York judge Carol Edmead has thrown out the bid. 50 Cent real name Curtis Jackson is attempting to overturn a court decision to freeze insurance money on the New York house.	1 vote

♦ Knife crime: Tactics against gangs fatally flawed - report

The government's drive to curb street gangs and knife crime is challenged today by research suggesting official tactics are fundamentally misinformed, frequently failing, and sometimes actively strengthen the gangs they target. Based on two years' close work with members of six gangs in an English city, the research finds that schools...	1 vote

♦ ITV buyout attempt imminent?

Sky could this week be told to sell most of its stake in ITV, which may prompt takeover bids for the entire company, according to market speculation. ITV's share price reached an all-time low of 38.7p last week but rose to 42.6p on Friday on rumours of a possible buyout. This morning the price was back down to 39.7p. European press reports suggested Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset firm...	1 vote

♦ Big Brother 9: Luke's secret lust

Luke admitted he has "a thing" for licking girls' earlobes during a chat with Mikey and Stuart last night. After foul-mouthed comedian Mikey said he liked girls with ski-slope noses – much to the amazement of Stuart – Luke revealed his lust for "sweet and suckable" earlobes. Somewhat remorsefully...	1 vote

♦ Icon of the Month - Paul Newman

Paul Newman is an Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award winning actor in a career that has spanned in excess of fifty years. Born in Ohio Newman showed an interest in theatre, which was encouraged by his mother...	1 vote

♦ Ubisoft: EndWar will be the "Goldeneye" of console RTS games

Though the RTS genre has slowly become viable on consoles thanks to some clever control schemes, there hasn't yet been the definitive console RTS experience. However, Ubisoft's Julian Geright believes that the company's upcoming Clancy-based real-time strategy title EndWar is just the kind of "watershed" title that could change the way console gamers look at RTS games forever.	1 vote

♦ First Kampusch chat show screened

An Austrian teenager who spent eight years in captivity after being abducted as a child has made her television debut as a chat show host. Twenty-year-old Natascha Kampusch says she wanted to do the Natascha Kampusch Meets... show to create a story, rather than be the story. Her first interviewee is Austria's former racing driver Niki Lauda.	1 vote

♦ Sarah Jessica Parker Blasts Photographers' Shameless Tactics.

Sarah Jessica Parker Blasts Photographers' Shameless Tactics.... Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has slammed the paparazzi for following her every move, making her life feel like a "spy movie". The 43-year-old star claims she, husband Matthew Broderick and even their five-year-old son James Wilkie, are constantly chased for photo-opportunities.	1 vote

♦ The Kooks Snubbed By Minogue

British rockers The Kooks were left devastated after their unlikely musical hero Kylie Minogue refused to allow them entry to her latest tour's after-party. The Naive hitmakers were in Paris shooting the promo for upcoming single Do You Wanna at the same time the Australian pop star kicked off her X2008 tour in the French capital last week (ends09May08).	1 vote

♦ Guillermo Del Toro Addresses 'Hobbit' Fans' Concerns, Talks Possible Casting

"The Hobbit" director Guillermo del Toro talks about his about favorite characters and scenes, and how his Middle-earth will be different from Peter Jackson's.	1 vote