Guitarist Ron Asheton of The Stooges was found dead at home today. He was 60.

Exactly one year after marrying his fourth wife, the ANC leader Jacob Zuma is set to take a fifth bride, swelling the ranks of what is expected to be South Africa's first family after elections later this year.

It is one of modern cinema's iconic moments: Richard Dreyfuss carving open a great white shark in Jaws to reveal a car licence-plate and a crushed can in its stomach. On Thursday, the Auckland Museum will stage a public dissection of a great white, attended by 1,000 watchers and streamed live online.

India's Prime Minister has raised the war of words with Pakistan by claiming its authorities "must have" had a hand in the terror attack on Mumbai that killed 172 people.

The US President-elect Barack Obama today expressed deep concern about the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and Israel.