Police in a pickle over handcuffing Lily Allen

Australian Federal Police officers who handcuffed Lily Allen at Gold Coast Airport as part of an Instagram prank gone wrong are now the subject of an internal investigation. The 29-year-old British singer landed at the Queensland airport on Sunday afternoon before her headline performance that night at Splendour In The Grass near Byron Bay, in northern NSW

The dark side of Comic Con

Amid the costumes and fantasy of this weekend’s Comic-Con convention, a group of young women drew widespread attention to a very real issue – allegations of sexual harassment at the annual comic book convention. Geeks for CONsent, founded by three women from Philadelphia, gathered nearly 2600 signatures on an online petition supporting a formal anti-harassment policy at Comic-Con

Commando Steve on his near breakdown

Commando Steve Willis may be a professional tough guy, but his secret fears nearly drove him to flee his TV career and return to the army. The Biggest Loser’s hardman has revealed to S he was so afraid of his own feelings after blocking them for 10 years in the military, that normal emotions “nearly broke me”.

Morgan Freeman’s God complex

There’s a game television chat show hosts play when they have Morgan Freeman on as a guest. That voice, they say, can make anything sound interesting, and Freeman, being a good sport, obliges, reading names from the phone book or a news item about the inclusion of “twerking” in the Oxford English Dictionary

British label admits artist ripped off Kiwi musician

A British record label has removed from sale a track by one of its artists after acknowledging it was a rip-off of a composition by Wellington musician Rhian Sheehan. Manchester-based Broken Bubble issued an apology to fans who had downloaded Japanese artist Sunnova’s track Silver Tear after Sheehan contacted the label and pointed out it was a blatant copy of his 2009 composition Standing In Silence Pt 2.