Sydney, April 15 : Spanish model Elsa Pataky says she hates making her daughter wear pink dresses.

Her daughter India Rose is 11-month-old. However, her husband Chris Hemsworth insists on making their daughter look more girly.

"I hate to dress her in pink and I don't know why I have to. Even Chris is (saying) all the time, 'They think she's a boy! Can't you put her in something more girly?'," People magazine quoted Pataky as saying.

Sydney, Mar. 5 : Former Spice Girls member Melanie Chisholm has rubbished rumours that the all girl band is reuniting for a 2014 tour of Australia.

The 39-year-old singer told the Sydney Morning Herald that the band has no plans to go to Australia with or without Victoria, wife of footie ace David Beckham.

Sydney, Dec 15 : Hugh Grant was blasted by `The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart for being rude to his staff, who said that the actor will never be invited back.

Speaking at a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey recently, Stewart said: "He's giving everyone shit the whole time, and he's a big pain in the ass. And we've had dictators on the show," Channel
24 reported.

Sydney, Nov 29 : Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been caught in a Twitter war after telling French Vogue that her generation had no need for feminism.

"In my generation we don't need to be feminist," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted the former First Lady, who is making a public comeback after her husband Nicolas Sarkozy lost the presidency, and who guest edited the Christmas issue of the style magazine.

Sydney, November 24 : Lara Bingle, who is one of Australia's most famous women, has revealed that she has a new set of priorities and that credibility is the number one thing that she wants.

Sydney, Nov 23 : INXS frontman Michael Hutchence's life story is set to be laid bare on the big screen.

Former Hollywood screenwriter Bobby Galinsky revealed on Sydney radio station 702 `Drive' show that the proposed project, titled `Two Worlds Colliding,' is based on the book `Just a Man: The Real Michael Hutchence', the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Sydney, Nov. 20 : Peter Jackson has hit back at accusations claiming that 27 animals died of mistreatment on the sets of his latest venture `The Hobbit.'

Claims surfaced on Monday that horses, goats, chickens and a sheep used in `The Hobbit' had died after being housed in a farm, described by wranglers who worked on the film as full of "death traps."

Sydney, Nov. 20 : Russia's Miss Earth entrant Natalia Pereverzeva has caused outrage in her country by calling it "a beggar."

In a remarkable outburst, the 24-year-old-model said Russia was "a great artery, from which the `chosen' few people are draining away its wealth," the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Sydney, Nov. 20 : Australian hard rock band AC/DC have finally put their entire music catalogue for sale on the digital retailer, iTunes.

Their capitulation, after vowing for the past four years that they didn''t want fans to be able to `cherrypick songs' through music sites, comes as they release Live At River Plate, their first concert release in two decades.

Sydney, Nov 19 : American rapper Snoop Dogg is planning to invest in Scottish football club Celtic, and wants David Beckham on its team sheets.

Beckham was linked to the Australian A-league late last week, but has since denied he is interested in heading Down Under.

Sydney, Nov 12 : Britain''s Prince Charles has joked about his new-found status as a style icon, and said that he comes back in fashion in every 25 years.

"Every 25 years I seem to come back in fashion," said Prince Charles, who was recently in Australia to attend Melbourne Cup celebrations and the Campaign for Wool event at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sydney, Nov 7 : Australian commercial media firm The Ten Network is reportedly planning to sack around 100 news staff across the country.

The firm is planning to sack around 40 journalists, News and Operations staff this week after failing to reach redundancy targets.

It is believed that between 60 and 70 staff have nominated for voluntary redundancies, the Herald Sun reports.

Sydney, Nov 2 : In a revelation that likens Mitchell Starc to George Clooney''s frequent-flyer-earning character in the Hollywood blockbuster film `Up in the Air', the Australian pacer is set to play for the first Test at the Gabba next week after having astonishingly spent only seven nights at home in the past eight months.

Sydney, Oct 23 : Tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams have confessed that they got distracted by some X-rated girl talk during the draw ceremony for the WTA Championship - the tour's flagship event.

During the ceremony the tennis stars were spotted laughing and whispering.

Sydney, Oct 19 : Britney Spears' former manager, Sam Lufti, who is suing the singer for defamation, libel and breach of contract, has claimed that the singer used drugs on the night that she was restrained and hospitalized in 2008.

Sydney, Oct 17 : Russell Crowe has spoken out for the first time about his split from his wife of almost a decade Danielle Spencer, lamenting how he "missed" her.

Spencer and her two sons with Crowe now live in a glamourous 10-million-dollar Rose Bay mansion.

The Oscar winner, currently in New York where he co-hosted the Indoor Garden Party with Alan Doyle at the Gramercy Theatre on Saturday night, sent a touching tweet to Spencer.

Sydney, September 25 : Shane Warne, who is best known for his cricketing prowess, completed his transformation from beer-swilling bogan to man-about-town metrosexual when he sat front row with fiancee Elizabeth Hurley at the Roberto Cavalli show during Milan Fashion Week.

Sydney, September 19 : Former Beatles singer John Lennon has been named rock's ultimate icon by British music magazine NME.

Lennon topped a survey of more than 160,000 readers, beating former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher into second place, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

David Bowie is third in the poll. The top five consisted of Arctic Monkeys star Alex Turner and late Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain.

Sydney, Sep 10 : Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis recently went public about his new love Silvana Lovin, and the Melbourne-born model and budding actress has said she is very happy with Scud.

Philippoussis, who is known for his playboy lifestyle off the court, has had two engagements and a string of colourful girlfriends, but his past doesn't seem to bother Lovin.

Sydney, September 8 : Cressida Bonas, who is better known as Prince Harry's latest girlfriend, was the toast of Sydney's party set just a few months before she made international headlines, it has been revealed.

During a six-month stay, Bonas and her party pal Georgia Forbes became fixtures of the eastern suburbs cocktail circuit earlier this year.

Sydney, August 24 : A school in Medowie, New south Wales, has banned Harry Potter books from its premises, insisting they are inconsistent with their Christian values.

Medowie Christian School was one the of many in Hunter Valley that marked `Book Week' this week by asking children to dress up as their favourite book characters for a parade.

Sydney, August 4 : As Marilyn Monroe's 50th death anniversary draws closer, a number of things that had never been known about her have come to the limelight.

The sex siren preferred to go naked, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Among female studio employees - wardrobe mistresses, hairdressers, make-up artists - the late screen icon often went without clothes.

Sydney, August 1 : Nicole Kidman, who is sleek, svelte and almost 1.78 metres tall, has inspired `Hemingway and Gelhorn' costume designer Ruth Myers.

Myers was nominated this year for an Emmy for her tailored 1930s and `40s-based dress slacks and suits in the HBO movie.

Sydney, July 30 : The dream of late movie legend Marlon Brando has finally been realised as an eco resort that he had wanted to create on a private island in Tahiti will open for business at the end of next year.

Brando had bought 12 small islands north of Tahiti, called Tetiaroa, after filming `Mutiny' on the Bounty there in the early 1960s.

Sydney, July 30 : Lara Bingle, who rose to fame at the tender age of 17 and has faced her share of photo scandals, has big plans of re-invention and business success.

The former fiancee of Australian cricketer Michael Clark has revealed that she is ready to reinvigorate her modelling career.