Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study said today.

Silver-screen sprite Julia Roberts is fed up with intrusive paparazzi, and she is letting them know it.

Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother and her ex-boyfriend both testified that the starlet said she wanted to be buried in California, not the plots in the Bahamas or Texas that have been the focus of the fierce week-long legal debate.

Actress Daryl Hannah was among protesters who climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels when Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies evicted people from an urban community garden.

Michael Jackson’s former maid testified today at the singer’s child molestation trial that she and other employees of the pop star used a ”media broker” to sell stories to tabloids including one claiming inside knowledge of Jackson’s sex life with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley.