Part 1 of our annual countdown of the top 50 local songs of 2025, featuring a range of artists from music legends to high ...

I wake at 3:35 in the morning and stumble out of bed to joints performing the Rice Krispies breakfast cereal song.

Elton John’s focus has shifted, but he’s still finding time to launch his own sparkling wine (alcohol-free, naturally), ...

China Vanke, once the country's largest homebuilder, narrowly avoided defaulting on a $284 million debt last week as the ...

Following his Dec. 15 conviction under Hong Kong's draconian national security law, media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai faces the possibility of life in prison. For ...

Examples of such evidence adduced this year include a teenage pupil stabbing two teachers and a girl, a Welsh politician who ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year, as the song goes: where there'll be much mistletoeing... not to mention a shedload of snacking. Christmastime is the season of perennial nibbling, from the ...

From Rosalía's Lux to Sleep Token's Even in Arcadia, discover the best albums of 2025 where streaming numbers meet critical ...

"Heart of Glass" is one of Blondie's most iconic cuts now, but it was almost abandoned on the cutting room floor ahead of their third album.

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

We give a tentative thumb's up to 10 games that are currently supposed to come out in 2026--although release dates for games ...