“The Hummer brand is synonymous with adventure, freedom and exhilaration, and we plan to continue that heritage by investing in the business, allowing Hummer to innovate and grow in exciting new ways under the leadership and continuity of its current management team,” Yang Yi, the chief executive of Tengzhong, said in a statement released by GM.

United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the award.

Jon Gosselin arrived at the celebration with a cake from New York’s upscale Cupcake Café that had his daughter’s name misspelled.

Biologists have discovered seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species, bringing the total number of bioluminescent fungi to 71.

According to E! Online’s Mark Malkin, Marge Simpson (yes, this blue-haired cartoon mom) is set to appear naked on the November 2009 cover of the magazine.

The video for Death Cab for Cutie’s “Meet Me on the Equinox”— you know, the “New Moon” theme song—premiered Wednesday night on MTV. The clip features a couple of new scenes from the upcoming film, interspersed with the band playing the song in a lodge of some sort.

A high-ranking al Qaeda official has called for a holy war against China in response to what he says is the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uighurs—the ethnic minority group who live primarily in the northwest region of Xinjiang.

We know that kissing and telling is not the most gentlemanly behavior, but a new website, called IJustMadeLove.com, is letting its kinky users tell the world when, where and, yes, how they got it on.

Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born German writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.

Wanda Sykes’ wife, Alex, gave birth to twins on April 27, her rep tells PEOPLE. The couple welcomed the twins named Olivia Lou and Lucas Claude.