AP - He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions — Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by fans on both sides of the Atlantic.
Reuters - Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co's fourth-quarter results handily beat Wall Street expectations as the fall in its advertising revenue slowed sharply.
AP - After what feels like an eternity, but is actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerges from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor.
omg! - The 2012 Super Bowl took advantage of its largest audience ever -- 111 million -- to introduce fans to the plight of rescue dogs. Especially one cute, funny, and talented rescue dog named Weego.
Reuters - Works by Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein are among Post-War and Contemporary art that will be sold by Christie's at an auction next month that will also feature 45 works from the collection of Silicon Valley pioneer Peter Norton.
La Lohan recently posed for famed photographer Terry Richardson and the product of their Chateau Marmont shoot has just been released online. Much to my eye's horror.
AP - Europe's human rights court has rejected an invasion-of-privacy complaint by Monaco's Princess Caroline — one of two potentially groundbreaking rulings Tuesday that uphold the media's right to report on celebrities.
AP - Chris Brown is known pop singer, a slick bedroom crooner and at other times, a Euro-flavored dance singer. But it's his rapping that has taken his career to new heights.