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Facebook announces new "Home" feature on Android

Updated: 1:53 PM At a press event in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the announcement by joking: "Today, we're going to finally talk about that Facebook phone."

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Has NBC learned transition lessons?

Posted: 6:54 AM Executives hope their luck is better late at night, and they have a year to try and make it a smooth handoff from Jay Leno to Jimmy Fallon at the "Tonight" show

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Survivors angry over 'Pain & Gain' depiction

Posted: 6:51 AM The real-life murder, torture and kidnapping case from South Florida that's behind the coming movie "Pain & Gain" indeed reads like a script — just not a funny one.

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Tweet about 'Daily Show' boomerangs on US Embassy

Posted: 6:49 AM That's the lesson the U.S. Embassy in Cairo is learning the hard way after being rebuked by both the Egyptian government and the State Department for causing an international incident.

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Elaine Stritch movingly says goodbye to New York

Posted: 1:56 PM Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical brand of sass and feistiness.

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Rolling Stones announce 9-city tour

Updated: 1:57 PM With Wednesday's expected announcement of a new Stones tour, those words will again signal the start of a rock 'n' roll show.

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TV or reality? Lines blur after death of show star

Posted: 7:02 AM Shain Gandee died doing precisely what made him the star of MTV's "BUCKWILD" reality show: tearing through mudholes in his truck, taking chances most others wouldn't, living free and reckless.

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Thandie Newton takes lead acting role in 'Rogue'

Posted: 7:00 AM As she takes on a leading television role, she hopes to empower women like the stars who have come before her — Kerry Washington, Regina King and Anika Noni Rose among them.

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Cano switches agents to Jay-Z company from Boras

Posted: 6:56 AM Rapper and recording producer Jay-Z is expanding into sports representation and has signed New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano away from Scott Boras to be a client.

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'BUCKWILD' star found dead with 2 others in W.Va.

Posted: 6:52 AM Shooting for the second season of the MTV reality show "BUCKWILD" has been suspended after a popular cast member was found dead along with two others inside a sport utility vehicle in West Virginia.

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Australia puts $22.6M into '20,000 Leagues' remake

Posted: 6:48 AM The Walt Disney Studios will film a new version of the science fiction classic in Australia, which will pay the studio 21.6 million Australia dollars ($22.6 million) to film there, the government said Tuesday.

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CBS: No regrets on Ware injury coverage

Posted: 6:47 AM The chairman of CBS Sports had no regrets about banning further replays of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware's gruesome broken leg and says if anyone wants to watch it on the Internet, that's fine with him.

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Fans mark 10th anniversary of Leslie Cheung death

Posted: 6:45 AM Almost 2 million origami made by fans in memory of singer-actor Leslie Cheung are being displayed in Hong Kong at an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of his death.

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Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet'

Posted: 12:15 PM "The last thing we wanted to do was to do a sort of pompous, classic version of 'Romeo and Juliet,'" said director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee.

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CBS halts replays of basketball player's injury

Posted: 8:03 AM After two initial replays, CBS stopped showing footage Sunday of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware breaking his leg during the first half of his team's NCAA men's tournament game against Duke.

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Rep: Glee's Monteith heads to rehab

Posted: 7:41 AM In a statement, Monteith's rep confirmed Sunday night that the actor has "voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction.

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Caroline Kennedy returns to poetry for 10th book

Posted: 7:39 AM Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her mother's scrapbooks

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Virtual reality, goggles and all, attempts return

Posted: 12:27 PM The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference

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Monroe, Eisenhower letters to be auctioned

Posted: 6:41 AM Marilyn Monroe's letter of despair to mentor Lee Strasberg, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.

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It's a girl for Kristen Bell, fiance Dax Shepard

Updated: 6:39 AM Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are new parents of a baby girl. The engaged actors took to Twitter Thursday to announce the arrival of their daughter, Lincoln Bell Shepard.

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