IT was sensational stuff that riveted a nation: A mild-mannered American doctor poisons then dismembers his unfaithful wife, flees England in disguise with his mistress - and is caught, tried and hanged.

A MISERLY baker in Austria, who had monitored toilet breaks and deducted the time taken for the nature call from holiday leave, has been forced to stop it.

A PARROT will be the king of the roost after chirping "hello, hello" in the middle of the night, alerting his owner to an intruder - the fifth break-in that month.

In Mosfilm one prepares to shootings of the 16 part film Ivan the Terrible by the film director Andrey Eshpy. An historic subject is always interesting from the film art designer's point of view, so it was interesting for us

The interest to shows on the ice remains keen. Two years running the legendary First film stage of Mosfilm, a biggest Russian one, turns into the skating rink with stands for plenty of spectators.

Why does Mosfilm attract people? Perhaps, that is why all is unpredictable here, suffice is to take only a step and everything changes drastically. Take a stroll along Mosfilm passages, and you can be lucky unexpectedly to come to Cafe-Blues,

There are few Russian films that won the prestigious award of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One of the Oscar statuettes kept in Mosfilm is the award to the film Dersu Uzala . This film is

This September the 28-th International Manaki Brothers Film Camera Festival was held in Macedonia, in the town of Bitola. In this festival the Russian cameraman Anatoly Petritsky won the Golden Camera-300 prize for progress in the field of cinema (the

Single and longing for a baby, Lisa would do almost anything to conceive. Her solution was so shocking she still hasn't dared tell her own mother

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH made their U.S.

Possum of Altitude TV's "Metalogy 101" show recently conducted an interview with the Arizona post-hardcore band THE BLED.

The "uncensored" and "unedited" five-and-a-half-minute version of MACHINE HEAD's video for the song "Now I Lay Thee Down" has been posted on the band's official web site.

KING'S X bassist/vocalist Doug "dUg" Pinnick will release his visceral, loose, jam-heavy new solo effort, "Strum Sum Up", on November 20 via Magna Carta Records.

Sweden-based band TRITON ENIGMA has inked a deal with Open Grave Records for the release of its debut album, "Black Lies".

Having recently completed a North American tour alongside EDGUY, INTO ETERNITY and ECHOES OF ETERNITY, Bay Area thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY have returned home and posted a tour photo blog on the band's MySpace page.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's solo debut, "Elect the Dead", which arrives on October 23, can now be streamed in its entirety at www.mtv.com.

Austrian melodic death metallers THIRDMOON will release their fifth album, "Dimorphic Cynosure", on November 23 via Maintain Records.

ICEPICK, the band featuring Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED, MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball"), Lord Ezec (a.k.a.

MUDVAYNE and HELLYEAH singer Chad Gray recently accepted an offer to contribute a guest entry for the Headbanger's Blog in order to vent about the bane of every recording artist's existence — illegal downloading.

After getting delayed, gutted, and extensively overhauled, Saber Interactive's TimeShift (PC, PS3, X360) has gone gold for PC and Xbox 360 and will make its retail date of October 30. The PlayStation 3 version is currently scheduled for release December