Matt Smith, the star of the BBC drama Doctor Who, has started the eighth day of the Olympic torch relay from Cardiff.

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A new book claims that legendary Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee once harbored doubts about whether star reporter Bob Woodward was completely “straight” when recounting in his best-selling Watergate book some of the dramatic, cinematic elements of the scandal. Read full article > >

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New book on Bradlee: Editor harbored doubts about details of ‘All the President’s Men’

At Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, which just opened in Brooklyn, service is the star. The food, not so much.

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Restaurant Review: Shake Shack in Brooklyn Struggles With Inconsistency

In two years, the Star Wars-inspired Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus has become the fastest-growing parade float sponsor at the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration.

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Wookiee Invasion at New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Parade

UK broadcaster Channel 4 screens an interview with Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, which has angered the star’s family.

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Channel 4 shows Murray interview

Patti Stanger, the star of Bravo’s “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” issued an apology for saying gay men have difficulty staying monogamous.

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Patti Stanger, the star of Bravo’s “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” issued an apology for saying gay men have difficulty staying monogamous.

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Darpa, the government agency that helped invent the Internet, is studying what it would take to send humans to another star.

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Life Out There: Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Humans to Stars

Organisers of a Michael Jackson tribute concert in Cardiff are criticised for booking rock band Kiss after its bassist called the star a child abuser.

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Kiss dropped from Jackson concert

The sun is waking up. And on June 7, it woke up Michael Hesse. At 5:49 a.m., the solar scientist received an alert on his smartphone. NASA spacecraft had seen a burst of X-rays spinning out from a sunspot. The burst was a solar flare — and a “notably large one” at that, Hesse said later. The sun has been quiet for years, at the nadir of its activity cycle. But since February, our star has been spitting out flares and plasma like an angry dragon. It’s Hesse’s job to watch these eruptions. Read full article > >

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As the sun awakens, the power grid stands vulnerable

Is this a wake-up call to TV producers who capitalize on troubled lives? Amber Portwood, the star of MTV’s hit reality-TV show Teen Mom, has been rushed to an Indiana hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. Star Magazine reported that Portwood…

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Everyone may be talking about her star-studded final shows, but Oprah Winfrey has been unseated as No. 1 on Forbes’s 100 Most Powerful Celebrities by Lady Gaga. The singer, who was fourth last year, bumped Winfrey to second place. She earned $90…

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Lady Gaga Tops Celeb 100 List

It pays to be on reality TV. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, the star of MTV’s hit series Jersey Shore, received $32,000 to speak to Rutgers University students Thursday-$2,000 more than Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison who is delivering the…

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College Pays Snooki $32K to Speak

The actress was the star attraction of the 18-month campaign of husband John Warner.

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Elizabeth Taylor in Washington: As John Warner’s wife, the movie star played the role of political spouse

A nonprofit group is trying to buy the star’s home.

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Michael Vick’s former kennels could become haven for dogs