Ashanti set to make her stage debut in ‘The Wiz’ at City Center’s ‘Encores1″

August 24th, 2009 Founder of Kaplan test prep centers, dead at 90NEW YORK — The founder of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers Ltd., the nation's first test preparation company, has died.

May 11th, 2009 Winfield's agent: Talks with Vikings have haltedMINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings and Pro Bowl cornerback Antoine Winfield are no longer talking about a new contract. Winfield's Agent Ashanti Webb said Monday that negotiations on an extension recently reached an impasse.

April 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - R and B star Ashanti is geared up to make her Broadway debut with the revival of 'Wizard of Oz'. Ashanti will portray the role of Dorothy in the version of L.

April 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sienna Miller has found a sporty new hobby: golf. The British stunner just can't get enough of the game, and realised that hitting the green helped her reconnect with her golf-mad father.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sienna Miller is set to make her Broadway debut in Patrick Marber's play 'After Miss Julie' in New York in October. The 27-year-old actress has admitted that she's scared as well as excited about it.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Former 'Spice Girls' band member Melanie Brown has delayed her striptease stage debut in Las Vegas in a bid to give her cast extra time to rehearse. The 'Wannabe' hitmaker was set to launch a raunchy spectacle, called Peep Show, at the Planet Hollywood Casino Resort, featuring Kelly Monaco alongside her, reports the Daily Star.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson, who is set to make a comeback with his London O2 Arena, will be introducing his eldest son Prince Michael I, who will make his stage debut at the concert. The 12-year-old, who has been masked for his most of his life, will be unveiled to audiences, as Michael wants him to carry on his father's showbiz family tradition.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pop singer Ashanti was left embarrassed when her dress split and exposed her bare bottom at a posh red carpet event. The 28-year-old star anxiously hid her naked butt while her dresser rushed to stitch up the slit.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Singer Ashanti revealed that she would be walking down the aisle with her beau Nelly this year itself. When asked about her marriage plans, Ashanti was quick to publicly declare that she would marry her beau soon.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Irish rocker Bono wants to re-record songs from U2's debut album 'Boy'- because he doesn't like the fake English accent he adopted while singing the tracks. Listening back to the 1980 disc, Bono still feels embarrassed by the 'phony English accent' he used.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - Barbie, the original fashion doll, is all set to make her runaway debut at the New York Fashion Week on the Valentine's Day. The 11.5-inch plastic doll is still on the top as a high-fashion muse for the international designers.

January 22nd, 2009 LONDON - British actress Sienna Miller has signed on to make her Broadway theatre debut in September this year. The 27-year-old actress will star in playwright Patrick Marber's adaptation of author August Strindberg's 'Miss Julie', which was first seen at the Donmar Warehouse in London five years ago, reports dailymail.co.uk.

January 9th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Tom Cruise is convinced his daughter from actress Katie Holmes will become an actress after two-year-old Suri tried to storm the stage during a performance of Holmes' Broadway play 'All My Sons'. Cruise stopped letting Suri watch from the side of the stage after she almost made an impromptu cameo on the stage, imdb.com reported.

January 5th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Sienna Miller is to make her debut as a designer at the London Fashion Week (LFW) to be held next month. 'We are so excited.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Yesteryear's he-man of Bollywood, Dharmendra, will make his small screen debut Friday with an episode of Zee TV's music reality show 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'. The 73-year-old star was invited as a special guest for the show, said a press release.