Defending champion Rafael Nadal withdrew from Wimbledon on Friday after failing to recover from chronic tendinitis. His aching knees forced him out of the Queen’s Club warm-up event and after two losses at the Hurlingham exhibition tournament this week, he decided to pull out.

The granddaughter of the late Argentine revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara has posed in a revealing photo-shoot to promote animal rights and vegetarianism.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is now writing a book entitled “The Day I Shot Cupid”.

Carly Smithson, sixth-placer of American Idol season 7, has teamed up with the three former members of Evanescence to form a new rock group “The Fallen”.

A family insider has revealed the real reasons behind Morgan Freeman’s divorce with his wife of 25 years: Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman apparently maintained an affair with his 27-year-old step-granddaughter for approximately ten years.

Google is currently working on what seems to be a rather neat and snazzy companion to Google News.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has disclosed in a recent speech in Chicago that there definitely will be a new Xbox console on store shelves by 2010, despite constant denials by Microsoft execs.

US consumers will soon be able to trade in their cars that give them less than 18 miles per gallon of gas for a government gift voucher amounting to approximately US$3,500 to 4,500, as the US Senate passes a bill for the Cash for Clunkers program today.

A former escort who claims that she and other women were paid to spend the night at Silvio Berlusconi’s official Rome residence said yesterday that she had photos showing her with the Italian Prime Minister in his bedroom.

NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up two lunar spacecrafts atop an Atlas V rocket. The LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and a crater observation spacecraft are unmanned scouts designed to lay the first groundwork for the space agency’s proposed 2020 return of astronauts to the moon.

Boom Boom Pow! Fergie looks incredibly toned in her striped two-piece on the July 2009 cover of Allure. Inside the mag, the 34-year-old singer sports different bathing suits in the photo shoot showing off her assets.