Video of Anna Nicole Smith appearing to mistake a doll for her unborn child was just the reality TV star acting for a camera, a defense lawyer for Howard K. Stern says. Prosecutors presented the tape in a preliminary hearing last week as evidence that Stern and two doctors conspired to keep Smith in a drug stupor in the two years before her death. In what has become known as the “clown video,” a 9-year-old girl seems uncertain whether Smith is pretending or is really having “brain... 

At first, R&B singer Monica wanted no part of reality television. “I assumed [producers] would not want a reality show about my life as it really is, because my life is drama-free now,” said the Grammy Award-winning artist. “If they wanted drama, they would have had to have caught me 10 years ago.” The singer, whose full name is Monica Denise Arnold, has overcome some terrible experiences. She witnessed the suicide of a despondent boyfriend and was involved with rapper... 

This Is It’,’ the film based around the rehearsals for Michael Jackson’s cancelled London concert residency, topped the North American box office charts, figures released on Sunday showed. The movie, which was released in the US on Wednesday (Oct. 28), took $21.3m (£13m) over the weekend, taking its five-day haul to a massive $101m (£61.5m). The film had been premiered in 19 cities around the world on Tuesday (Oct. 27) , including London, New York and Los Angeles. The film had... 

Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear. That shortfall is viewed with concern by current and former United States military and intelligence agency executives who argue that the menace of so-called Trojan horses hidden in equipment circuitry is among the most severe threats... 

Instead of feeling crisp and refreshed, Jesse Wu wakes up sluggish after 12 hours of sleep. “If I sleep the right amount, I feel really good,” said the 25-year-old who lives in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. “If I sleep too long, I feel groggy throughout the whole day.” Like Wu, some feel exhausted after long hours of rest. “Many people will tell you, they sleep a little worse when they sleep a long time on weekends,” said Dr. Daniel Kripke, co-director of Scripps... 

SIGG’s trendy aluminum water bottles have scored a lot of free advertising in recent years. In Touch Weekly raved about how Madonna’s kids sipped from the lightweight, eco-conscious and super-cute bottles. Julia Roberts was photographed with one. Jennifer Garner was too. The Swiss brand became the must-have accessory as consumers rushed to find alternatives to plastic bottles that contained bisphenol-A (BPA), a controversial chemical used to harden plastics, which some studies have linked...