The Rolling Stones returned to London's Hyde Park after 44 years with a concert that saluted both the band's past and the fleetingly idyllic English summer. Mick Jagger even donned a frock for the occasion.
The band played an outdoor gig for 65,000 people Saturday in the same venue as a landmark 1969 show performed two days after the death of founding member Brian Jones.
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"Despicable Me 2," a sequel to the 2010 animated blockbuster, was far and away the top movie at North American cinemas over the July 4 holiday weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The comedy, starring villain-turned-doting-father Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) and his adorable little yellow minions, raked in an impressive $82.5 million beginning Friday.
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British art collector Charles Saatchi told a newspaper on Sunday that he is divorcing his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, following an incident in which he grabbed her by the neck outside a London restaurant.
Under the headline "I'm divorcing you Nigella", 70-year-old Saatchi said in a statement to the Mail on Sunday that he had made a "heartbreaking" decision to separate from his 53-year-old wife because she had not defended him over the row.
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Britain's new royal baby will be third in line to the throne but a legal wrangle in the Commonwealth is holding up new law ensuring that a female heir cannot be overtaken by a younger brother.
Prince William and his wife Catherine's baby, due this month, will be born directly in line to become king or queen, after Queen Elizabeth II's eldest son Prince Charles, and then William, his eldest son.
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Renowned television director Simon Asmar is being interrogated by the Internal Security Forces on charges of murdering a Syrian man whom witnesses said had ties with the veteran Lebanese celebrity.
LBCI television said Asmar denied to interrogators “any link to the murder of Syrian national Mohammed Ragheb al-Darwish, whose body was found in the outskirts of the Kesrouan town of Shahtoul with three gunshot wounds to the head and several stab wounds on several parts of his body.”
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Beyonce has a stepmother.
Her father and former manager, Mathew Knowles, got married last Sunday. His representative told The Associated Press on Friday that he has wed former model Gena Charmaine Avery in Houston, Texas. The pair had been engaged for a year and a half.
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The producer of the cult film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" on Friday won his battle in Britain's High Court to boost his share of the profits from the hit spin-off musical, "Spamalot".
Mark Forstater welcomed the ruling, which he estimates will net him about £220,000 ($330,000, 255,000 euros), but said he was sad that his friendships with the comedy stars had ended.
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Britain's Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter commander, the Ministry of Defence announced Friday, putting him in charge of the aircraft he co-piloted in Afghanistan.
Harry, 28, served as a co-pilot gunner in the attack chopper during his 20-week tour in Afghanistan's restive Helmand Province, which ended in January.
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A "charlatan" who claimed to be the lover of a late Hong Kong billionaire was jailed on Friday for 12 years after a court convicted him of forging her will in a bid to steal her fortune.
Bartender-turned-feng shui master Tony Chan had claimed to be the sole beneficiary of Nina Wang's U.S.$13 billion estate, which she inherited after the kidnapping and disappearance of her property mogul husband.
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James Gandolfini left the bulk of his estimated $70 million estate to his 13-year-old son and infant daughter.
The late star of HBO's "The Sopranos" left millions of dollars to his wife and relatives.
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