Al-Jazeera's top executive, Waddah Khanfar, resigned Tuesday after eight years as the head of the satellite news channel, the station announced on its website.

"For some time I have been discussing my desire to step down with the chairman of the board," Khanfar wrote. "He has kindly expressed understanding and has accepted my decision."

Canadian rock band The Tea Party is in talks to sell its web domain to the American conservative political movement for up to one million dollars, a U.S. magazine reported Monday.

BusinessWeek said the band's teaparty.com is among the top results for online searches for the phrase "tea party," which has both annoyed and given an unexpected boost to the nearly forgotten Windsor, Ontario band.

Thieves stole John Travolta's vintage Mercedes-Benz while he was gone for only minutes -- visiting a Jaguar dealership -- police said.

The "Grease" and "Pulp Fiction" star left his vintage Mercedes-Benz 280SL parked in a residential district in Santa Monica on Sunday, said Sergeant Richard Lewis.

"Two and a Half Men" star Jon Cryer on Monday received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and thanked former co-star Charlie Sheen and the show's co-creators for intervening during last season when troubles arose.

Cryer, 46, was honored with the 2,449th star on the famed walkway. Among those who attended were "Two and a Half" creator Chuck Lorre and co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Angus T. Jones.

List of winners at Sunday's 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:

— Drama Series: "Mad Men," AMC.

Cult ad agency drama "Mad Men" won the best drama Emmy for the fourth year late Sunday, while "Modern Family" again took the comedy glory at US television's awards show.

British shows also triumphed at the annual Hollywood show, the Oscars of the small screen, with Kate Winslet leading a string of Brits taking gongs, notably for "Downton Abbey."

A painting that sold for over $11 million under the name of a renowned Chinese artist was actually made decades after his death by a student in a classroom exercise, a group of artists has alleged.

The nude, entitled "The Body of Miss Jiang Biwei", was accredited to the well-known artist Xu Beihong and sold at auction in June 2010 for 72.8 million yuan ($11.4 million).

British rock sensation Kasabian release their fourth album on Monday titled "Velociraptor!" in a nod to the most "glam-rock" of the dinosaurs, the band told Agence France Presse in an interview.

"We just loved the word, that was the initial attraction," said Serge Pizzorno, the guitarist and lead songwriter whose four-man outfit has been hailed by the music press as true heirs to Britpop legends Oasis.

Lea Michele and Julianna Margulies shot for red-carpet fashion heights with their statement gowns at Sunday night's Emmy Awards, but there's something about movie stars that tends to upstage TV stars — even on TV's biggest night.

Kate Winslet and her red-as-the-carpet, cap-sleeve Elie Saab seemed the understated, sophisticated look until she flashed the significant cleavage on the bust line, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in a black-sequin number by Emilio Pucci, pulled off a belly baring outfit that would have made the new "Charlie's Angels" trio jealous.

Lebanese-born Nadine Labaki's second directorial effort "Et maintenant on va ou?" ("Where Do We Go Now?") on Sunday won the Toronto film festival's People's Choice Award for best picture.

Set against the backdrop of a war-torn nation, the film chronicles the determination of a group of women to protect their isolated, mine-encircled town from pervasive and divisive outside forces.