Reality star Dean McDermott is being treated for a punctured and collapsed lung after a motorcycle accident. Publicist Meghan Prophet says McDermott will remain in intensive care “for a few more days” but is expected to make a full recovery. McDermott and his wife, Tori Spelling, star in the Oxygen reality show “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.” Source : ... Read More »

Summit Entertainment’s “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” has failed to eclipse an opening-day domestic boxoffice record set by franchise predecessor “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” “Eclipse” rung up $68.5 million in Wednesday coin. That set a new record for first-day boxoffice on a Wednesday, featuring more than $30 million in grosses from 4,416 theaters programming the vampire-romance threequel for midnight Tuesday ... Read More »

Sharad Pawar on Thursday assumed office as President of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at its annual conference here. The Union Agriculture Minister and former President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India succeeded David Morgan after serving as the ICC Vice-President since 2008. Mr. Pawar is only the second Indian, after Jagmohan Dalmiya, to have become the ... Read More »

A Russian spy suspect arrested in Cyprus and granted bail has gone missing, police say. Christopher Metsos was held at the Mediterranean island’s Larnaca airport on Tuesday by immigration officers after an Interpol alert. He is one of 11 people at the centre of an FBI spying investigation – the others are being questioned in the US. A Canadian citizen, ... Read More »

Comic book superheroine Wonder Woman has traded in her spangled hot pants for urban leggings and upped her street smarts in a 21st century make-over for the 69 year-old character. J.Michael Straczynski, the new writer for the DC Comics series, told the New York Times he wanted to “toughen her up and give her a modern sensibility” and change the ... Read More »

It may not eclipse the opening-weekend performance of franchise predecessors, but Summit Entertainment’s vampire-romance threequel “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” is off to a bloody good — and record — start. “Eclipse” fetched more than $30 million in estimated boxoffice from more than 4,000 domestic theaters programming midnight Tuesday performances, an unprecedented midnight tally. The witching-hour coin will be lumped in ... Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. said that its Web search service in mainland China was partially blocked Wednesday, the deadline for the company to extend its Internet operating license in the country. The company said the blockage appeared to affect only search queries generated by mainland China users of the company’s Google Suggest function, which automatically recommends search queries based on the ... Read More »