AP - PARIS (AP) — Green bunches of Yves Saint Laurent's beloved wheat dressed the yellow cloth covering his casket, which stood like a ray of light amid a sea of mourning luminaries clothed in funereal black, his favorite color.

Reuters - The recent fire damage to Universal Studios' video vault underscores the significance of film preservation and archiving, which already been receiving increased industrywide attention.

Reuters - Popular "American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta has signed a record deal and is expected to release an album later this year, his new producers at 19 Recordings/Jive Records said on Thursday.

AP - Ellen DeGeneres is doing it. So is George Takei. But Rosie O'Donnell isn't jumping at the chance to walk down the aisle.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Ashanti was one of music's hottest stars, with two multiplatinum albums and a Grammy under her belt, until her third disc, 2004's "Concrete Rose," landed like a brick on the music charts.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A book publisher has sued Victoria Gotti for the return of an advance she was paid to write a memoir she never delivered.

AP - TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Deputies at a west Florida jail have transferred Hulk Hogan's son out of solitary confinement into a communal cell.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Third-place "Dancing With the Stars" finisher Cristian de la Fuente is back in the swing of things.

Reuters - France said farewell to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at a funeral on Thursday attended by supermodels, film stars and President Nicolas Sarkozy.

AFP - With a military salute, crowds thronging the streets and the cream of global couture in attendance, France's "prince of fashion", Yves Saint Laurent, was given a grand send-off at his funeral Thursday.

Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications will act soon on Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio, the chairman of the FCC said on Thursday.