CRAIG BROWN: Death has its draw­-backs, particularly for those whose toupees survive them. Recently, an auction house in Bristol sold off items that had belonged to Peter Wyngarde (pictured).

Wesley Trent Stoker, a fourth grader from Dallas, Texas, won first place for his brilliant five-minute-long speech about the theme 'What is your dream for today's world?'

It is hailed as one of the most inspirational speeches of all time. But Martin Luther King did not originally intend to make his ‘I have a dream’ speech – because he was ‘bored’ with it.

A speech by Martin Luther King was found by the children of a photographer and journalist who hid a tape recorder under a Klan robe to infiltrate a white supremacist rally in South Carolina in 1967.

A British man has discovered a simple way to peel carrots in just seconds - and it turns out thousands of home cooks have all been doing it wrong their whole lives.

Olivia couldn't contain her emotion as she collected her award from Sam Neill, and apologised profusely for welling up on stage.

The trailer hints at a period piece inspired by the everyday violence of racism and the cosmic horror of author H. P. Lovecraft.

Gigi Hadid is the latest celeb to get on board with the underwear as outerwear trend. Over the weekend, the supermodel was spotted in New York City putting her own spin on the provocative look.

Ivanka Trump will be joining her father on his trip to Japan, where she will speak at a 'Women's Empowerment' event connected to the G20 summit in Osaka.

The Baby hitmaker, 26, revealed he has been catching up on his reading as he shared a screenshot of some Christian literature he is reading

Patricia Arquette, star of Medium and True Romance got up on stage to praise the work of Special Counselor Robert Mueller. She was accepting an award for Escape at Dannemora.

Swift - who turns 30 on Friday - took aim at the 38-year-old record exec in the pointed speech after he acquired Swift's music catalog when acquiring Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group.

She hit out at Scooter Braun  and male privilege as she accepted Billboard's first-ever Woman of the Decade award last week.

Channel 10 have released a sneak peek for its new Pilot Week series, Sydney's Crazy Rich Asians.

He battled with a stutter for most of his younger life, before then went on to win the second season of The Voice in 2013.

The quirky three-minute long offering sees the singer, 29, dramatically peel a mask from her face, writhe around on a floor of broken eggs and dance with a skeleton.

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Tyler Magloire's pace not only puts him ahead of Paris Saint-Germain star Mbappe, but it also beats Usain Bolt's average speed when he set the 100m world record in Berlin back in 2009.

The Geordie Shore star, 24, who has just returned from her Thailand break, took to Instagram on Monday to give her 3.4 million followers a tour of the luxurious new build.

Academy Award winners celebrated on Sunday by using their platforms to talk about politics and other global issues, prompting many viewers to nickname the ceremony the 'wokest Oscars ever'.

Following a series of dazzling appearances on the red carpet, once the stars entered the 26th annual Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center

Her husband John Legend, also wrote to Miller, 'Do they pay you for these dumb takes or is this something you do for fun.'

Critics called Sunday's Oscars a 'shambles', saying the show lacked structure and almost passed for the Grammys due to a number of 'baffling production decisions'. 

Joaquin Phoenix was filmed rescuing the cow and her calf from the Manning Beef slaughterhouse in Los Angeles the day after he accepted his best actor Oscar for Joker.

Joe Biden delivered a foreign policy speech Tuesday where he laid out why it was impossible to believe the Trump administration's claims that Qassem Soleimani was an imminent threat.

Rafael Cruz won't say a word about Donald Trump's attacks on him on the eve of his son's prime time speech before the Republican convention – but Ted Cruz will say Trump's name.

Ted Cruz refused to back down on his convention speech where he refused to endorse Donald Trump: 'I wasn't elected to do the convenient thing, I was elected to do what's right,' he said on Thursday.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz passionately spoke of queso and it made some people uncomfortable. He said at the Senate cheese competition that queso is a 'visceral, emotional, powerful family bond.'

Simpsons showrunner Al Jean (left) was quick to shut down Ted Cruz (right) on Thursday after the Texas senator used the cartoon's characters to make a point.

A liberal PAC targeting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has teamed up with filmmaker Richard Linklater to slam the senator in a new ad over his preference for White Castle burgers.

Both Eric and Lara gave speeches at the Houston rally for Cruz on Monday night. Eric boasted that ISIS no longer exists - despite the Pentagon saying last week it still poses a threat.

Kaepernick had shared a video montage of depictions of slavery and modern-day videos of police brutality on Twitter but Cruz claimed they lacked context and he interjected to add it.

Donald Trump stomped on the grave of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a speech to police chiefs in Chicago on Monday.  'He was a sick and depraved man, and now he's dead,' he said.

The touching moment where Coco Gauff's father delivers a rousing courtside speech moments before her maiden WTA title has been revealed.

Nigel Farage was approached by a 'middle man' to sound him out over accepting a peerage from the Government, it was claimed last night.

It came after police revealed they were assessing two allegations of electoral fraud after claims the Tories offered peerages in return for standing down.

Parliament vice-president Mairead McGuinness switched off Mr Farage's microphone as he was finishing his address as she told the party's MEPs to 'put your flags away, you are leaving'.

It seems Brad Pitt formed quite the bromance with Leonardo DiCaprio while filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg vowed that he wouldn't write 'love letters' on White House letterhead to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if he became president - a jab at Donald Trump.

House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that it is time for party unity and a 'clean break from a failed system.'

Eric Trump spoke as Donald Trump's campaign faced questions about plagiarism about speeches given by Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in Cleveland.

Rafael Cruz won't say a word about Donald Trump's attacks on him on the eve of his son's prime time speech before the Republican convention – but Ted Cruz will say Trump's name.

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka will be in the spotlight tonight as she is set to introduce the Republican presidential nominee in Thursday night's grand finale of the party's convention.

Ted Cruz refused to back down on his convention speech where he refused to endorse Donald Trump: 'I wasn't elected to do the convenient thing, I was elected to do what's right,' he said on Thursday.

To chants of 'lock her up,' RNC Chairman Reince Priebus proclaimed that Clinton had lied to the American people 'over and over and over' again about her emails.

Entering to the theme song from the Harrison Ford movie ‘Air Force One,’ he heard wild cheers of ‘Trump! Trump! and accepted the nomination the establishment swore would be denied him.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech was interrupted on Thursday night, when a Code Pink protester unfurled a banner reading 'Build Bridges, Not Walls.'

It'll be years before he is eligible to vote, but Barron Trump is already the spitting image of father as he made his first appearance at the Republican National Convention Thursday.

An overwhelming majority of Americans had a positive impression of the speech Donald Trump delivered Thursday night when he formally accepted the Republican Party nomination in Cleveland.

'This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere doesn't really jive with the experience of most people,' Obama stated.