According to Star Magazine, Zac shelled out $50,000 for a vintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk. A source for the magazine says, “Vanessa loves Louis Vuitton, but she wouldn’t spend the money for it. To her it is a piece of art.”

Austrian officials have charged a father who secretly kept his daughter as his sex slave in their house’s basement for 24 years and fathered her seven children, one of whom died during birth.
Josef Fritzl, 73, has admitted to investigators of imprisoning her daughter Elisabeth, now 42, since she was 18 and repeatedly raping her. Murder, rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery were the charges filed against him.

The incest produced seven children, three of whom Fritzl allowed to live with him and his wife upstairs but locking up three others with …

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.

This image, taken with a camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows the newly discovered planet Fomalhaut b orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut. (NASA / November 13, 2008)
The planet’s existence had been known since 2005 because its gravity had shaped the inner edge of a dust belt around its parent star, but …

The best rapper alive goes country and joins Kid Rock at the Country Music Awards.
Kid Rock brought Lil Wayne on stage as he performed his hit “All Summer Long.” But Lil Wayne didn’t rap: In fact, the best-selling rapper didn’t say a word. He just acted as part of the band, bringing out his guitar and strumming the strings silently alongside Kid Rock’s real guitarist.
You didn’t even see Wayne until somewhere around the song’s two-minute mark, when Kid came over and gave him five. Both performers wore Tennessee Titans jerseys.
Big …

Things got rough between the Suns and Rockets on Thursday.
With just a few seconds left in the third quarter, Houston guard Rafer Alston shoved Phoenix forward Matt Barnes. Alston said he pushed Barnes in retaliation, but his actions caused an even bigger fight.
Yao Ming hit the floor with no ill effects, and Steve Nash was lucky not to get hurt when he went flying into the scrimmage.
In the end, the Rockets beat the Suns 94 to 82.
The Suns played good enough defense, but just missed too many easy shots to …

She grew up listening to Waylon Jennings and her dad says…

Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of legendary 1960s band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, passed away early this morning. He was 62.
He was found in a hotel room in Oregon, officials said. A statement on the official Jimi Hendrix website run by the late guitarist’s estate said Mitchell died from natural causes.
Mitchell played with the sort of infectious enthusiasm that makes you want to learn drums… yet Mitch was the most underrated drummer in rock history.
Mitch, along with bass player Noel Redding became the other two thirds of the “Experience” …

Microsoft announced Thursday it has overhauled its Live.com search site to include some of the social networking features made famous by companies like Facebook.
Windows Live users will be able to let people they’ve designated as “friends” see activities they are doing in other Web applications through Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and other Live applications and services, said Chris Jones, corporate vice president of Windows Live at Microsoft.

Consumers today are creating online content and sharing it in many places across the Web. To help make it simple for the …

Everyone in politics is having an affair!

The National Enquirer has published the above photo as proof that Cindy McCain, wife of failed US Presidential candidate John McCain is having a secret love affair.
“I couldn’t believe I was watching Cindy McCain passionately kissing and hugging another man!” says a witness.
The wealthy blonde heiress and her secret pal have been spotted together around her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona over the past several years, The Enquirer writes.
The spy photos were snapped when Cindy and her companion attended the Tempe Music Festival says the …

President Omar al-Bashir, who faces indictment for alleged war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), called a unilateral ceasefire in Darfur on Wednesday.
“I hereby announce our immediate unconditional ceasefire between the armed forces and warring factions, provided that an effective monitoring mechanism be put into action and be observed by all involved parties,” Mr al-Bashir said.
The Sudanese president promised to disarm militias, a top rebel demand, in a new push by his government to show it is serious about ending the nearly 6-year-old conflict.
A key Darfur rebel group, the …