We live in a cruel, cruel world, and yet I’m still sometimes shocked by how mean people can be. Especially to those who really don’t deserve it.

Dear Prez, I think there’s been a mistake. Apparently 2010 is the year of the tiger… surely it should be year of the rat?

Japan’s Princess Aiko, the eight-year-old daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, is back in school after a six-day absence. According to an odd public statement released by an Imperial Household official last week, the Princess had been unwilling to return to the elite Gakushuin...

London club kings Nick House and Piers Adam’s newest venture, the Brompton Club, just opened business. But if you think you can slip into the exclusive watering hole just like that one time you somehow managed to get past the velvet rope at the West End enclave Mahiki, well, think again. The “Brompton,”...

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Corey Haim, left, with Corey Feldman, in 1987. ©Patrick McMullan. It’s a pity it took an obituary to remind us of Corey Haim, who died yesterday at the young age of 38. It was sad not just because his death was premature, or because it reminded us of his wasted potential, but because the last...

The Disney star shares her candid, intimate pics as she preps for Hollywood’s biggest night

A view of Jackson Hole. By Tristan Greszko/courtesy of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Dying to get out of your cubicle and hit the slopes for some spring skiing? Head to Jackson Hole, a sleepy ski town in northern Wyoming with an aura of the wild, untouchable West. Revered for its jagged peaks and expansive...

At approximately 5 p.m. today, Barack and Michelle Obama will host a screening of The Pacific, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s new HBO miniseries documenting the American Marines involvement in the Pacific theater during World War II. Hanks and Spielberg will be on hand, as will national security...

Christine Bleakley is finally all set to embark on her challenge to water-ski across the English Channel for Sport Relief tomorrow. The plucky One Show presenter will hang on at approximately 20mph for the entire choppy 22-mile stretch to France – across the world’s busiest shipping lane....