Lindsay Lohan escapes injury after major crash

Actress Lindsay Lohan escaped injury in a major car crash on Friday after her Porsche collided with an dump truck on a Southern California highway.

Police said Lohan was driving her black Porsche with an unidentified male passenger on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica on her way to the set of her latest movie project, and collided with a dump truck.

NPR's Car Talk guys hang up wrenches, microphones

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of National Public Radio's popular "Car Talk" program, will retire in September after decades of dispensing automotive repair and driving advice laced with a side of wicked humor. The pair, in their guise as the self-deprecating Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers, have been taping the weekly show for WBUR, Boston's public radio affiliate, for 35 years, but say it is time to "stop and smell the cappuccino."

Alan Jackson gets personal in 'Thirty Miles West'

Country singer Alan Jackson is known for telling true-to-life tales but he says a song about his wife's battle with cancer, "When I Saw You Leaving (For Nicey)," was tougher than most. In fact, he admits it was the hardest tune he's ever had to record.

Shirley MacLaine honored with AFI lifetime award

Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine was honored with the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award on Thursday night for roles in movies including "Terms of Endearment," "Steel Magnolias" and "Postcards from the Edge." MacLaine, well-known for her belief in life after death, spoke seriously about the roles of women in movies, and was gently teased about her thoughts on previous lives by co-stars such as Jack Nicholson and Carrie Fisher at the gala dinner on the movie studio lot of Sony Pictures.

What is art? German fair tests limits

Stroll through a park in the sleepy German town of Kassel this summer and you can explore fairytale cottages brimming with bizarre objects, hear the sounds of the Brazilian jungle and enter the set of a West African theatrical performance. This is just one of the venues of "documenta," one of the world's biggest and most ambitious contemporary art fairs, which takes place every five years and which opens on Saturday.

Paris Jackson "confused" by childhood veils, masks

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris was "really confused" by having to wear a veil or a mask when she was a young girl in public with the late pop star, but says she now understands why her father insisted on the disguise. Paris Jackson, 14, tells Oprah Winfrey in a TV interview to be broadcast on Sunday, that the "Thriller" singer wanted his three kids to have the normal childhood that he had missed as a child star.

Costner pans Baldwin role in oil skimmer company

Kevin Costner downplayed fellow actor Stephen Baldwin's role in a venture that made oil cleanup devices when he testified on Friday in a lawsuit accusing him of cheating Baldwin in a multimillion-dollar deal to sell the devices to BP Plc <BP.L>. "I wondered what Stephen Baldwin was doing," Costner said in his first direct mention of Baldwin since the trial began on Monday in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. "I never saw him do anything."

Screams, tears as Japan fans choose pop group leader

Cheers, tears and screams marked the crowning of a new leader of Japanese girl pop group AKB48, who was chosen by fans in a nationwide "election" that dominated the media for weeks. In a three-hour show broadcast live from Tokyo's hallowed Budokan, 23-year-old Yuko Oshima was selected as leader and face of the group, which has been recognized by Guinness as the world's biggest girl pop group.

Ex-Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch dead

Bob Welch, an early member of rock band Fleetwood Mac who enjoyed a successful solo career with hits such as "Ebony Eyes," died on Thursday of an apparent suicide at home in Nashville. He was 66. Police said Welch's body was found by his wife Wendy with a single gunshot wound to the chest, and he had left a suicide note. Welch suffered from health problems, but police did not disclose what those issues were.

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