Pop singer Rihanna has won a legal battle with Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.The star sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia for $5 million (£3.3m) over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken during a video shoot in 2011.Her lawyers told the High Court in London the fashion chain duped fans and may have damaged her reputation.They said the picture was "very similar" to images used o
Angelina Jolie has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress in Forbes' magazine's annual list of top female earner – despite not having appeared in a movie since 2010.Jolie tops the poll with earnings of $33 million (£21.5 million).Hot on her heels, however, is 22-year-old Jennifer Lawrence, who coined in $26 million over the same period from June 2012 to June 2013, starring in a slew of hi
Marijuana has been found on a tour bus belonging to singer Justin Bieber as it crossed into America from Canada, according to Detroit Customs and Border Protection.American border officials found marijuana on the tour bus as it crossed into the States from Windsor, Canada.Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ken Hammond confirmed that the bus was stopped on Sunday as it attempted to enter the
Sent to clear up some unwanted graffiti, a worker couldn't have imagined he would be the inspiration for the next work on the very same wall.But an artist decided to turn an image of the man sent to remove his artwork into art.Stencil artist - who is known only as 'DS' - created his first piece 'Bad Kitty' on a wall in London as an amusing comment on the 'squeaky clean image' of the Hello Kitty c
Toni Braxton has just lost more than 2 dozen tunes that made her famous.Braxton struck a deal in her bankruptcy case, in which she settled with her various debtors. Part of the deal was that Toni could buy back 27 songs from her music catalog for $20,000 but she could be outbid.Ross M. Klein doubled Toni's price and bought the tunes.Among the 27 are a few hits, including "You're Making Me Hi
Eccentric actor Johnny Depp is planning to quit acting for good.At only 50, the multi-millionaire US actor revealed plans to retire to concentrate on other interests.It came as he promoted his flop remake of The Lone Ranger.In an interview to be broadcast by the BBC, he said: "Are there quieter things I wouldn't mind doing?"Yes, I wouldn't mind that. I wouldn't say I am dropping out any second but
One of Zimbabwe's best known singers, Chiwoniso Maraire, has died aged 37, her manager says.Chiwoniso's album Ancient Voices made her a star of the World Music scene in the 1990s.She played the mbira, or thumb piano, which only men were traditionally supposed to play in Zimbabwe.She died of suspected pneumonia, just a year after the death of her ex-husband, Andy Brown, also a prominent musician. T
A new female superhero is on the rise and this one shows a lot less skin than her predecessors, Wonder Woman and Supergirl.Pakistani heroine Burka Avenger is a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills.She uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls' school where she works.It is a battle Pakistanis are all too familiar with i
A delivery store worker says he is 'proud' to be the owner of Brooklyn's Smallest Penis.Nick Gilronan, 27, fought off competition from five other entrants in the event at Kings County Bar in the borough of New York city.The event, which also featured a 55-year-old calling himself 'Rip van Dinkle', was watched by over 100 people.Promoted as a "pageant for confident people with a sense of humour", t
Rapper Desmond "Stunner" Chideme has apparently been publicly dumped by evicted Zimbabwean Big Brother Africa (BBA): The Chase housemate Pokello Nare.To add to that former BB UK housemate Makosi has apparently implied he is not man enough for her.Speaking in a telephone interview from the Multichoice offices in Johannesburg, Pokello acknowledged that she was in a relationship with Stunner before
Rapper J. Cole is apologizing to those with autism and their families for an offensive lyric.Cole says in a blog post Sunday that he doesn't agree with the recent trend of pressure rappers have faced to apologize when they step over a perceived line, but in this case he feels he went too far in a verse he contributed to Drake's "Jodeci Freestyle.""To the parents who are fighting through the frustr
Chris Brown and Drake have won a lawsuit when a New York judge ruled they don't owe a CENT to a nightclub they brawled next to last summer, TMZ reported.Brown and Drake were sued for $16 million by Entertainment Enterprises, the company behind Greenhouse nightclub in NYC.Greenhouse is adjacent to W.i.P nightclub where Chris and Drake's entourages got into a massive bottle-throwing brawl last June
South African Music show Clash of the Choirs's second season on Mzansi Magic will be without host Bonang "Queen B" Matheba. Apparently her contract has not been renewed.An insider said: "The show will soon return to our screens, but Bonang won't be hosting it. "They approached Pabi Moloi, and she turned the offer down. She's on Strictly Come Dancing and it would've been a conflict of interest if s
A South African movie about a schoolteacher who falls for a student has become the first film to be banned in almost 20 years, the Sunday Times reported.The film "Of Good Report" was the first not to receive classification since the Film and Publication Board was created in 1994, it reported.According to the newspaper, the decision was made based on the depiction of a simulated sexual act involv
Two FHM men's magazine writers have written an open letter to apologise for joking about corrective rape, but also complained about "media madness" around their "private conversation" on Facebook.The letter, published on wordpress.com, by Max Barashenkov and Montle Moorosi, contains an apology in the first paragraph, but some readers' comments described it as "fake" and "flimsy"."We apologise sinc
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