Fearful parents may conjure up images of trench-coated predators trolling the Web, but the virtual world their teens actually inhabit is more like the soda shop of yesteryear or the mall -- a place to hang with friends...

THINK Nicky Wire (pictured), think mascara, bombastic stadium rock, leopard print fur and heavy politics. The very last thing CityLife imagined him to be was the kind of rock star that likes a good laugh with a hack...

Fifth 'Harry Potter' a film of the first order...

HOBART, Australia A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday. "It is a whopper," said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist who studies invertebrates at the Tasmanian Museum...

AS a youth, actor Bruce Montague was a bit of a heart throb, so much so that his agent made him sign a clause in his contract promising not to marry. After all, Montague was to be the UK's next idol of the silver screen...

No, I didn't hit up the at the Met last night -- otherwise known as the Oscars of the East Coast -- but I did check out the party pictures...

It was the NAACP that sent lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court to successfully fight the notion that schools for black children were equal to the better facilities and newer books provided to white kids...