Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who achieved fame in the Harry Potter films,makes his Broadway debut in the revival Broadway production of Peter Shaffer play Equus on September 25, 2008. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)
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The World's Most Powerful Celebrities
It is the year of the tween. Coming off a massive concert tour, a hit 3-D movie--and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair--pop star Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto Forbes annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the worlds ultra-famous.
The World's Billionaire Women
When it comes to the ranks of the worlds billionaires, the fairer sex is still very much the rarer sex. In 2008, Forbes counted 99 female billionaires, 16 more than last year, but still representing slightly less than 9 percent of the worlds 1,125 billionaires. Just making it into the ranks of this uber-exclusive club is enough to turn these women into some of the most envied people in the world.
OP-ED: Ramzy Baroud
U.S. Elections: Just like the movies
Multi-multi screens in exploding world of TV
Its never been better for television fans worldwide. As TV explodes onto a host of new screens, the race is on to find more great programs to capture an increasingly-savvy audience.
Microsoft bets on 'Halo 3' in gaming industry battle
Microsoft hopes that the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated "Halo 3" game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendos Wii and Sonys Playstation 3.
Gaza power cuts rekindle forgotten traditions
It was about 8:00pm when one of Gaza Citys Beach Refugee Camps narrow alleys started filling up with plastic chairs, wooden stools, and people. Although lights were still on, those who brought the chairs and stools brought also lanterns, gas lamp
Biblical blockbuster or famous flop? 'Da Vinci' hits screens
Religious thriller The Da Vinci Code hit US screens this weekend, with backers hoping to confound scornful critics and cries of blasphemy from Catholics by striking box office gold.
Fresh war erupts in southern Sudan ... against illiteracy
"This is war, too," murmurs an ex-child soldier in southern Sudan, stone-faced and staring blankly at a placard reading: "Let all children go to school ... Leave no child behind."
Hollywood leaps into same-day DVD and Internet digital film sales
Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the Internet on Tuesday when the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent download on the same day that its DVDs hit the shelves.
Believe it or leave it: strange stories
Alongside tragedies, wars and natural disasters the year just ending brought its share of unusual, outrageous and tragi-comic and just downright silly news items. A selection of the stranger items:
