ENTERTAINMENT

Melbourne author Rebecca Lim gets set to debut a dazzling new Young Adult (YA) series and unforgettable paranormal heroine with Mercy.

Speak Now, Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated third studio album, will be available in stores on October 25th. To promote the album, Taylor has planned a bi-coastal week with her fans to launch the Big Machine Records album.

Katy Perry Revenge By Bing application is now available in iTunes!

The Tropfest Short Film Festival for 2011 forged a unique partnership with YouTube. For the first time entries to this year's filmfest will be received via YouTube.

Australia All Over host Ian "Macca" McNamara releases a new book based on his immensely popular program. The book chronicles Macca and his adventures as he loaded up his 'radio stuff' and headed up and across, down and around Australia.

As Chile completes rescue of all thirty-three miners from the ground, a drama comes to an end on the sideline as Yonni Barrios surfaces: he kisses his mistress Susana Valenzuela.

Get to know the people that former American Idol judge Paula Abdul will be working with in the new reality talent search LIVE TO DANCE

Australian Idol co-host Andrew Günsberg will be hosting the Paula Abdul's LIVE TO DANCE. Meanwhile, former Pussycat Dolls member Kimberly Wyatt and Michael Jackson's This is It choreographer Travis Payne will serve in the panel of experts with Paula Abdul.

Rapper Huddy Combs, better known as Huddy 6, died in a car accident in New York City on Wednesday morning (October 13).

Hollywood actress Hilary Duff is now a romance novelist. The recently-married actress has been courting the press lately to promote her novel Elixir.The book follows protagonist Clea Raymond, a budding photojournalist, whose job takes her around the globe.

Ancestry.com has traced the family roots of U.S. President Barack Obama and found that he is the 10th cousin of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Courtney Cox's estranged husband David Arquette took to his Twitter account (@davidarqutte) to explain his comments in the Howard Stern show

Michael Jackson's estate and record label announced on Wednesday that the late pop star's library of music videos will be released for the first time on a box set of DVDs on Nov. 22.

YouTube has announced a collaboration with Sydney Opera House, Grammy Award-winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and many other leading institutions and figures of the classical music world including Sydney Symphony, to launch "YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

Glee fans will not hear virtual band Gorillaz music on Glee Season 2, as the band lead singer Damon Albarn said he is not interested in letting the New Directions render their songs the Glee-way.

Advice columnist (also known as an agony aunt) and author Claire Rayner died Monday night (October 11) in her home in Harrow, London. Rayner did not recover from an emergency intestinal surgery. She was 79-years old.

The sequel to Ben Stiller's 2001 hit Zoolander will soon hit the big screen. Zoolander 2 is reportedly nearing completion, at least, as far as the script goes.

Kanye West premiered his directorial debut Runaway, a 40-minute long movie, in Sydney last night at the Entertainment Quarter

Christina Aguilera issued a statement confirming reports that she and husband Jordan Bratman had separated. Reports had also said that no divorce proceedings has yet.

Kim Kardashian is proof that even if one is not talented, you can still be famous. As Kim shed her clothes off for the November issue of W, pundits wonders what makes Kim Kardashian a star.

David Arquette, erswhile husband of Courtney Cox, had admitted sleeping with another woman. Arquette, 39 confessed he did sleep with the 28-year-old waitress Jasmine Waltz as was reported by United Kingdom's Daily Mail

Prime Minister Julia Gillard paid tribute to Australian opera singer Joan Sutherland, saying that the famed singer had shown "quintessential Australian values."

Jane Lynch proved once again why she reigns supreme as Sue Sylvester (with an Emmy as her spectre) in Glee Season 2. Last weekend, Lynch stripped naked for her appearance in Saturday Night Live!

Miley Cyrus is getting some lashing from no less than parents of her Hannah Montana fans. Cyrus's latest music video for "Who Owns My Heart" is getting castigated by parents for being sexualized, particularly the Parents Televison Council.

Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland died last Sunday after what her family said was a long illness. Sutherland died at her home near Geneva, she was 83.

Sesame Street's parody of the Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice advertisement had become an instant hit in the Internet, proving once again that the children show remain popular with adults as well.

Hollywood Courteney Cox and David Arquete havedecided to go separate ways after 11 years of being married to each other.

Kim Kardashian poses in the nude for the November cover of W. Kim Kardashian can be seen stripped bare and covered only of strategically-placed marquees: "It's all about me. I mean you. I mean me."

FAMOUS announced the launch of the 'BUSTED GETTING FAMOUS' campaign, a first in Australia. The campaign will run across a four week period in newsagents.