AP - Fans began lining up at 6 a.m. Saturday for a chance to snag free tickets to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" season premiere featuring 150 U.S. Olympic athletes.
AP - A dust storm chased away some participants from the counterculture Burning Man festival before its traditional climax Saturday night on the northern Nevada desert, authorities said.
AFP - Amy Winehouse pulled out of the Rock en Seine festival outside Paris after falling ill at home, the troubled singer's spokesman said Saturday as the furious organisers vowed to sue.
Reuters - A new film set in Indian Kashmir seeks
to go beyond stereotypes of the troubled region as either the
idyllic backdrop to Bollywood movies or the subject of news
reports and documentaries into the violence. -- read full article
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:53:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - British soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled
out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling
ill at home in London, her spokesman has said.
Reuters - A new documentary on aid workers in war
zones shows the tough choices, dilemmas and limits faced by
doctors providing emergency care in extreme conditions. -- read full article
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:23:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
AP - Hundreds of Oprah Winfrey fans are lining up in Chicago's Millennium Park for a chance at free tickets to the talk show host's season premiere featuring 150 U.S. Olympic team members.
AFP - Tibetan exiles and supporters staged a symbolic 12-hour fast for peace in Tibet on Saturday as Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama joined in from his hospital bed.
Reuters - Over 38 million Americans tuned in
for television coverage of Barack Obama accepting the
Democratic nomination for U.S. president on Thursday in what is
believed to be the most watched convention speech ever.
Reuters - British soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled
out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling
ill at home in London, her spokesman has said.
AP - Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain," opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story.
