The breakup of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon was a bitter ending to a decade fraught with numerous divorce and cheating scandals and sparse golden couples in Tinseltown. Over the years, there have been celebrity couples whose commitment to each other have been nothing short of inspirational: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Linda and Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, and Johnny Depp … [Read more...]

The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) has announced the top five Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of the Year for 2009. Nominees were drawn from the monthly Most Ridiculous Lawsuit poll winners chosen by visitors to FacesofLawsuitAbuse.org - a public awareness campaign website that aims to show how abusive lawsuits affect small businesses and average families in very real ways. The top five Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2009 are: 1. … [Read more...]

The worst corporate "Scrooges" of 2008 - the CEOs who exhibited the worst kinds of unbridled greed and a lack of compassion or concern for others over the last year - are being named today by Co-op America, in conjunction with its Responsible Shopper program. In order to make the list, the actions of the CEOs had to have had a decidedly negative impact in 2008, a year in which the greed of corporate managers helped create a severe downward … [Read more...]

Harlow Winter Kate Madden and Caleb James Bice are the best celebrity baby names of 2008, according to a poll taken on the popular website BabyNames.com. Harlow is the daughter of actress Nicole Richie and singer Joel Madden, while Caleb is the son of American Idol runner-up Bo Bice and his wife Caroline. "The celebrities did pretty well this year in baby naming," says BabyNames.com founder and CEO Jennifer Moss. "Harlow Winter Kate is a … [Read more...]

NASA landed on Mars, photographed distant worlds, added to the International Space Station, took part in a lunar science mission with India and made major progress toward returning astronauts to the moon as the agency celebrated its 50th birthday in 2008. Here on Earth, NASA researchers recorded the continued decline of Arctic sea ice, won awards for aviation breakthroughs, discovered the cause of storms that brighten the Northern Lights and … [Read more...]

When asked to recall the top food-related stories of 2008, the nation's food editors in the US focused on issues with global significance. Topping the list was the spike in food prices across the world, followed by the tainted milk scandal in China -- a crisis that spanned five continents. The sixth annual year-end survey was conducted by Hunter Public Relations (www.hunterpr.com), one of the nation's leading public relations agencies serving … [Read more...]

Hollywood, Height And Heavy Metal Headline As "Brangelina", The World's Tallest Man And Guitar Hero Top List of Record Breakers for 2008. From Britney Spears' unparalleled comeback to Brangelina's Hollywood ascension, 2008 has been a year marked by record-breaking achievements from around the globe. Grabbing headlines throughout the year, Guinness World Records has chronicled hundreds of amazing feats from all across the globe, perhaps none as … [Read more...]

New Yorker Film Critic David Denby has named Defiance as his top pick of the 10 Best Movies of 2008. The complete list of the top 10 best movies of 2008 is: Defiance: An inspirational story, told with a maximum of physical detail and a minimum of rhetoric, about the three Bielski brothers (including Daniel Craig), who kept twelve hundred Jews alive in the forest during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia. … [Read more...]

Multinational Monitor magazine has released its annual list of the 10 worst corporations of the year. The companies on the list are: AIG, Cargill, Chevron, Constellation Energy, CNPC, Dole, General Electric, Imperial Sugar, Philip Morris International and Roche. "In the 20 years that we've published our annual list of worst corporations," says Multinational Monitor editor Robert Weissman, "we've covered corporate villains, scoundrels, … [Read more...]

"The Stupidest Statements Awards" have been bestowed again upon the famous by Mega Genius(R), "The Man with the Perfect IQ(TM)." His sixth annual prizes of recognition for "crash-and-burn lapses in intelligence" are just for fun. 1. Vijay Prakash, Indian welfare minister, for urging 5-star hotels to serve rat burgers, rat tail pasta, and minced baby rat meat: "It is very high in protein and the beauty is that we have billions of rats." August … [Read more...]

Will Smith (pictured) has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2008 in Quigley Publishing Company's 77th Annual Poll and is the second black American to win, since Sidney Poitier was first in 1968. Smith, who starred in "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds" in 2008, placed second to Johnny Depp last year. This is Will Smith's eighth appearance in the Quigley Poll since 1997, when he came in fourth. The Quigley Poll, conducted each year since 1932, … [Read more...]