Despite impressive performances from its two stars, Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, the thriller "Before I Go To Sleep" figuratively put many critics and viewers to sleep as it took a lowly No. 14 spot in the weekend box office with just $2 million earnings.
"19 Kids & Counting" star Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald were married on Saturday, Nov. 1, in the presence of over 1,000 guests and family members at First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Arkansas. The wedding saw the couple deviating from a number of Duggar family traditions.
Comedienne Chelsea Handler is boycotting Instagram after the latter removed a topless photo of herself that she had posted. In the image she is seen riding a horse half-naked – a replica of the same pose taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin also posted in Instagram.
Super fast cars, death-defying stunts and high-action fist fights – the best scenes in "Furious 7" (formerly titled "Fast and Furious 7") – are captured in the upcoming movie's recently released trailer.
In a statement published recently in BusinessWeek, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, openly admitted that he is gay. The statement was in the form of an essay that Cook wrote explaining his decision to come out publicly. He noted that many in Apple already knew that he is gay and that he had never told people otherwise.
There is a new story about a character from the Harry Potter books. Specifically it's about the witch Dolores Umbridge who for a period served as a headmistress at Hogwarts. J.K. Rowling, the author of the books, released the story just in time for Halloween on the Pottermore website.
Pope Francis did not signal a major shift in the Catholic church's doctrine when he declared that evolution and the Big Bang theory were not contradictory to the divine act of creation. Time Magazine pointed this out as it analyzed the statements made by the Pope in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Monday.
The top five cast members of "Game of Thrones" have signed on for a possible seventh season and have received considerable pay hikes. As a result of the hikes they have become the highest paid actors on TV. Deadline notes that each could be receiving as much as $300,000 per episode.
Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the world aboard a Lockheed Model 10 Electra with twin engines. Since that time, her plane and body have never been recovered. That could change as Ric Gillespie has managed to match a piece of wreckage to Earhart's plane.
Murder and mayhem will plague the survivors of the Zombie apocalypse in the Nov. 2 episode of "The Walking Dead," which airs on AMC at 9/8c every Sunday.
Fox News Channel is set to reveal the identity of the man who fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden. This revelation will be made in a special titled "The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden" that will air on Nov. 11 and 12 at 10-11 p.m./ET.
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) marked its 180th anniversary with online gatherings. Founded in London in 1846, the WEA represents more than 650 million evangelicals through nine regional alliances spanning 160 countries. Hundreds of participants from more than 20 countries joined two Zoom events on Sept. 23, scheduled at different times to accommodate multiple time zones.
A public forum titled “Seeking the Essence of the Church” was held on the 25th at Queens Central United Methodist ...
Chinese authorities have detained multiple pastors and church workers from Beijing Jiaquan Church, an independent house church that has operated in the capital for more than two decades. ChinaAid founder and President Bob Fu said his organization is “urgently concerned for the safety, health and legal rights of every Jiaquan pastor and church co-worker who has been taken away.”
A planned church in East Java Province in Indonesia is facing renewed opposition from Muslim residents who argue that an address discrepancy in permit documents should halt construction. Residents in the Dukuh Kukun area of Babat Jerawat Urban Village, Pakal District, Surabaya, say the address listed on the official permit does not match the church site in the CitraLand housing complex.
National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School may continue pursuing plans to become the nation’s first religious charter school while its legal challenge to an Oklahoma law moves forward, a federal judge ruled. According to Baptist Press, the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation is challenging provisions of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act that bar religious organizations from operating publicly funded charter schools because of their religious character.