AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy left hospital Wednesday giving a thumbs up to waiting supporters a day after doctors announced he had a malignant brain tumor.

Reuters - Time Warner Inc will completely split with Time Warner Cable Inc by the end of the year, and receive a $9.25 billion payout, to separate its media content and distribution businesses.

Reuters - A powerful new film, made with a cast of former child soldiers from Liberia and shot in the streets of Monrovia, depicts the brutal chaos of civil wars that have consumed generations of African children.

AP - Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" goes back on display this week for the first time since it was stolen four years ago but has suffered permanent damage, museum officials said Wednesday.

AP - Amy Winehouse will perform at this summer's Glastonbury Festival.

AP - After four consecutive male winners on "Dancing With the Stars," it was finally ladies' night.

AP - Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.

AP - Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.

Reuters - On the face of it, the Kuchi nomads of Afghanistan, a tribal people accustomed to rearing goats, are not a straight-forward fit for high-end fashion.

Reuters - In a possible harbinger of more Hollywood labor unrest this year, a performers union that was expected to wrap up quick contract talks with the studios said Monday it had run into "challenging issues, and a resolution may not be quick or easy."