
2012 styles that made our heads turn
Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on — and consumers respond to — is buzz. Here are ...

Nearing 50, a heightened perspective for Pitt
The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with ...

Timeline of events in Petraeus case
The extramarital affair that brought down David Petraeus' celebrated career last week raised many questions. Among them: when exactly the affair ...

Petraeus' biographer a military reservist, scholar
Paula Broadwell first met fellow West Point graduate David Petraeus in the spring of 2006, when she was a graduate student at Harvard's Kennedy School ...

Official: Emails from paramour led to FBI probe
The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus started with harassing emails sent by his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to ...

AP PHOTOS: The most charitable stars
Celebrity charity work has been around as long as celebrity itself. "Beethoven was doing charity concerts," says Myrlia Purcell, founder of ...

Benefits can flow both ways at celeb charity galas
The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom will soon be filled with flowers, chiffon, fine china and crystal stemware for a starry black-tie ball ...

LA's red-carpet fashion gets filtered for shoppers
Style looks a little different when it comes through a Hollywood lens, and shoppers often like what they see. Sunday's Emmy Awards featured the first ...

Winter onset latest challenge for Syrian civilians
The days are still warm across the fertile plains of northern Syria around Aleppo, but night brings a chill — an ominous harbinger of winter's ...

SHOW BITS: Moore a wallflower, Klum a traffic cop
IT'S NOT TV, IT'S AN AFTER-PARTY Show Bits brings you the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists.

SHOW BITS: Stewart drops f-bomb; Party starts
Show Bits brings you the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available ...
Namibia: 40 babies, fetuses dumped monthly in city
The Namibia Press Agency reports that some 40 babies and fetuses are dumped and flushed down toilets every month in Windhoek, Namibia's capital of ...

Turkey seeks to relocate some Syrian refugees
Already host to 80,000 Syrians in refugee camps, Turkey is now seeking to relocate some of the tens of thousands of others living outside the shelters ...

Angelina Jolie pushes plight of refugees in Iraq
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting with leaders about the plight of an estimated 50,000 refugees who fled to escape violence in Syria.

Jolie fears for Syrian refugees in winter
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says that with winter approaching, she is concerned about the plight of hundreds of thousands of Syrians forced to flee ...

Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Turkey
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie met with Syrian refugees in Turkey on Thursday to draw attention to the plight of the hundreds of thousands who have ...

Blast in northern Syria targets troops
An explosion targeting Syrian regime forces killed at least three people in northern Syria on Wednesday — and possibly up to 18 — amid rising violence ...

Jolie hears 'horrific' accounts of Syrian refugees
Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said she heard "horrific" and "heartbreaking" accounts from Syrian refugees she met Tuesday ...
Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees
The U.N. refugee agency says its special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is in Jordan to visit Syrians who fled the civil war in their country.

CONVENTION WATCH: Romney on his way, polls tight
Around the 2012 Republican National Convention and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details to you: ...

Women behind the mask of Russia's Pussy Riot band
One of the key ideas behind the Russian punk provocateur band Pussy Riot was the supremacy of an idea over personality — thus the balaclavas that made ...

Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux engaged
After years of breathless anticipation — at least on the part of the tabloids — Jennifer Aniston is finally ready to wed again. Her representative, ...

Celebrities keeping a low profile at the Olympics
Now that's more like it. Mick Jagger has dropped by Olympic Stadium to watch some track and field, providing relief to celebrity-watchers who worried ...

Online and outspoken: China's microblog craze
China's Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing's gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation's exuberant ...

Muhammad Ali gala kicks off Olympic party season
Muhammad Ali was the star of a London charity gala Wednesday that set off the Olympic party season - though with a gentle jog rather than an A-list ...