Man says Lohan grazed knee with her Porsche

Lindsay Lohan's black Porsche was surrounded by paparazzi when her sports car grazed the knee of a man outside a Hollywood club early Wednesday, police said.

Rare Marilyn Monroe photos hit auction block

A collection of never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe â€" and their accompanying copyrights â€" are going up for auction.

Gore says 'democracy has been hacked' at SXSW

In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.

German court orders Nazi-seized art returned

Germany's top federal appeals court has ruled that a Berlin museum must return to a Jewish man from Florida thousands of rare posters that were seized from his father by the Nazis.

Beauty queen shaves head for cancer research money

The Miss Alaska pageant requires contestants to perform a public service project. Under Debbe Ebben's silver tiara is evidence of hers.

New opera celebrates imprisoned Maori hero

Based on a true story spanning nearly 150 years, "Hohepa" lays bare some of New Zealand's most painful wounds â€" and seeks to heal them through music.

Ambitious Vatican restoration projects moves ahead

Restoration is slowly but steadily proceeding on a Vatican project so ambitious it has been likened to the decades-long cleaning up of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

War film maker Pierre Schoendoerffer dies at 83

Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page, has died. He was 83.

James Patterson donates 200,000 books to US troops

If James Patterson thought it were possible, he'd shake the hand of every U.S. soldier. For now, he'll let a big bundle of his novels do the talking.

Minis on 'Mad Men'? What's next _ dungarees?

From the moment "Mad Men" debuted, the stylized AMC drama about the men and women who work in Madison Avenue advertising in the 1960s has been a tastemaker favorite.