Adele's album 21 has notched another week at #1 on the Billboard album chart, making it 19 weeks in all.

Three years after their split, Whitney Houston described her troubled married to Bobby Brown with the poignant words: 'He was my drug'. And despite their turbulent relationship, which ended after 14 years, the pair appear to be getting along just fine these days.

Despite a flood of seven new releases into the national top 10, Adele's seemingly insuperable "21" held onto No.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he'll spend a week every year in an Aboriginal community if he becomes Prime Minister.

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard is taken by police to a waiting car during a heated protest at an Australia Day awards ceremony.

Written and directed by Larry Kasdan and his wife Meg, The Big Chill is an autobiography of their college days at the University of Michigan, class of 1970.

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Adele's 21 seems to break Billboard records every week. This week, the album reached the number one position on the Billboard 200 chart, giving it the most weeks at that position since The Bodyguard soundtrack, which featured several hits by Whitney Houston and held the position for 20 weeks in 1993.

Adele poses in front of the winners board at the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2011 at Grosvenor House on Sept.

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