AP - "The Fidelity Files" (St. Martin's, 422 pages, $13.95), by Jessica Brody: At first, this debut novel reads like a feel-good story for women who think men are scum.

Reuters - French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71, hailed as a 20th century cultural innovator who revolutionized the way women dressed.

AFP - One of Spain's top recording artists, Alaska, launched a campaign against bullfighting by presenting a poster of herself posing nude with three swords stuck in her back.

AP - Solitary confinement isn't sitting well with Hulk Hogan's son.

Reuters - Now we have a horse race -- a box office derby, that is.

AP - Tatum O'Neal swore she was done with drugs. The Oscar-winning former child actress proclaimed she was sober as she promoted her 2004 tell-all memoir, cobbled her acting career back together and even offered advice to misbehaving pop star Britney Spears.

AP - A star prosecution witness cried Monday as she alleged at R. Kelly's child pornography trial several three-way sexual encounters with the R&B superstar and the alleged victim, some of which she said Kelly videotaped.

AP - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.

AP - The birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins is turning into the type of mystery that might make a good movie one day.

AP - A spokesman for Kelsey Grammer says the "Frasier" star is recovering in a Hawaii hospital after a mild heart attack this weekend. Stan Rosenfield says Grammer is "resting comfortably" in an undisclosed hospital after being stricken Saturday. Rosenfield says the 53-year-old actor will be released early this week.

Reuters - Best-selling novelist Andre Dubus III says he never intended to write a 9/11 novel but instead set out to craft a short story about a stripper.

Fashion Wire Daily - As Universal Studios burned just over the hill on Sunday, destroying sets from some of Hollywood's classic films, a happier scene played out on Hollywood Boulevard at Grauman's Chinese Theater, as "Kung Fu Panda" premiered.

AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" brain cancer surgery here Monday, his doctor said, and will follow up with chemotherapy as the political icon vowed a return to work and to campaigning for presidential hopeful Barack Obama.