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Happy 21st Birthday, Miley Cyrus! Have A Shot Of Malibu On me

Miley Cyrus has accomplished more in her first 21 years than most people will in a lifetime. As the music industry's wild child du jour can now legally down  glasses of Gatorade and Malibu , we'd like to take a moment to look back on how a little girl with a twang became a chart topping, tongue-wagging twerker in just over two decades: She started out with the best of both worlds.   Though there were controversies along the way ... She always knew how to "Party In The U.S.A."  Then Miley let everyone know she "CAN'T BE TAMED." And she started dating Liam Hemsworth.  After "Hannah Montana" ended, Miley chopped off her hair. Then came the twerk and the tongue. Followed by the end of her romance with Liam.  Of course, she recovered, and celebrated her latest achievement by sparking up a joint on stage at the MTV Europe Music Awards.  Exhausted? Well brace yourself for more, as we're sure whatever Cyrus has...

How Xbox One and PS4 have finally come of age

FOR years, games consoles were confined to bedrooms, where fans could blast away at characters on screen with outsize weaponry or play football games that made you feel you were really there in the stadium. It's all down to their evolution from a games centre for teenagers and guys who never grew up to an entertainment hub - streaming films, running the net, playing music - for the entire family. Microsoft's Xbox One, launched at midnight on Thursday, and Sony's new PlayStation 4, on sale this coming Friday, are now marketed as an entertainment centre for the entire household . "This is a savvy bit of marketing by both companies," Scots gaming expert Scott Munro said yesterday. "Microsoft and Sony realised that by restricting their consoles to games they were limiting their market. If they advertise them as all-singing, all-dancing media systems for the family, they open the consoles up to a much wider market. "Their idea is to market the...