A day after Hollywood’s biggest show, Charlie Sheen dominated the headlines with threats of a lawsuit, two riveting morning show interviews, and a rambling live stream on an internet website.

Jane Russell, who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 western The Outlaw, has died at the age of 89.

The spirit of Afrobeat musician and political firebrand Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will be returning to the Nigeria he fought for through his music.

Several of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, including Douglas Coupland and Rodney Graham, have donated work for an auction that will raise money for a legal defence fund for Vancouver’s Rebecca Belmore.

Nelly Furtado is the latest recording artist to come under scrutiny for having performed for members of the Gadhafi family.

An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink.

Roman Polanski has been named best director at France’s César awards for his political thriller The Ghost Writer.

Eddie Kirkland, an 88-year-old blues legend known as the “Gypsy of the Blues,” was killed in Florida when his car turned into the path of a Greyhound bus.

Moacyr Scliar, a Brazilian writer best known for his novel Max and the Cats, has died at age 73.