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LA committee to review Jackson memorial costs

AP - Tuesday, November 24

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles City Council committee plans to discuss the $3.2 million taxpayers spent on the Michael Jackson memorial. More »

  • Adam Lambert ready to shake up pop world with CD

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    LOS ANGELES - During rehearsals for his outlandish American Music Awards performance, amid a thundercloud of throbbing theater lights and special-effects fog, Adam Lambert effortlessly governs the sprawling stage while gripping a microphone in his gloved hands and donning a tight T-shirt slathered with an image of David Bowie's face.

  • Michael Jackson 'Opus' book offers rare images

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    NEW YORK - Nate Giorgio, an artist who Michael Jackson relied on to illustrate him over the years, recalls the last time he saw the singer, just days before his death this summer.

  • Bono of U2 performs on stage at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on November 5. Irish rockers U2 will headline Glastonbury Festival next year, making their first appearance at the British arts and music event as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

    U2 to headline Glastonbury festival

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    LONDON (AFP) - - Irish rockers U2 will headline Glastonbury Festival next year, making their first appearance at the British arts and music event as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, organisers said Monday.

  • U2 to headline UK's Glastonbury music festival

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    LONDON - Organizers say U2 will headline Glastonbury, Britain's leading summer music festival.

  • Cuba film institute founder looks back on 50 years

    AP - Monday, November 23

    HAVANA - Fidel Castro was 32 and building his new government on the fly.

  • Winners at the American Music Awards

    AP - Monday, November 23

    Complete list of winners at the American Music Awards:

  • Hero pilot jokes about marital boost in NBC show

    AP - Monday, November 23

    LOS ANGELES - Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him "rock star sex" in an interview for "NBC's People of the Year" TV special.

  • Sting warns of hydroelectric project in Amazon

    AP - Monday, November 23

    BRASILIA, Brazil - British pop star Sting says Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest.

  • Two hurt as bulls flee Tom Cruise film set

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    MADRID (AFP) - - Two women were slightly hurt when they were struck by bulls that escaped the set of a new film that stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, local police and officials said.

  • Renelly Morel (R), digital marketing manager for Ubisoft, works out with Your Shape on November 6, in San Francisco. French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape.

    Ubisoft steps up videogame fitness with virtual coach

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - - French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.

  • Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

    AP - Monday, November 23

    LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

  • A rhinestone-studded leather glove worn by pop icon Michael Jackson on his maiden Moonwalk in 1983, was on display Tuesday in New York before it rocks on to the auction block. Duration: 01:31.

    Macau hotel to display Jacko 'moonwalk' glove

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    HONG KONG (AFP) - - A hotel in the glitzy Asian gambling haven of Macau will display Michael Jackson's rhinestone-encrusted glove after paying 350,000 dollars for the piece of pop history at auction, the hotel said Sunday.

  • John Travolta, family attend opening of new movie

    AP - Monday, November 23

    OCALA, Fla. - John Travolta and his family have helped raise money for charities in their home state of Florida with a screening of his new comedy

  • Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala

    AP - Monday, November 23

    DETROIT - Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty _ the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.

  • Stars come out for CNN Heroes ceremony

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    LOS ANGELES - Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.

  • International Emmys to honor David Frost

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    NEW YORK - British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers.

  • Actress Susan Sarandon attends a screening of Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans at the SVA Theater on November 8 in New York City. Sarandon was on Saturday honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm film festival.

    Sarandon gets lifetime achievement award at Stockholm film fest

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    STOCKHOLM (AFP) - - American actress Susan Sarandon was on Saturday honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm film festival.

  • US sculptor John David Mooney walks out of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI met with some 260 artists.

    Pope in landmark meeting with artists in Sistine Chapel

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    VATICAN CITY (AFP) - - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday sought to boost ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the art world as he met with dozens of artists in the Vatican's illustrious Sistine Chapel.

  • Swedish soprano Soderstrom dies

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    STOCKHOLM (AFP) - - The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82, the Royal Swedish Opera announced on Saturday.

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