Reuters - Coldplay keeps the top soil fertile on the Billboard 200, as "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" opens with 721,000 sold.

Reuters - Seated in a quiet corner of New York restaurant the Spotted Pig, Nas is drinking a glass of rose. He's dressed comfortably in jeans, Velcro-fastened sneakers and a white T-shirt featuring the image of a poster from Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier's "Thrilla in Manilla" fight. His black Rolls Royce is parked outside and he's awaiting a few cigars from his driver.

AP - Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Tyler sought the "safe environment" of rehab last month to recover from more than just surgery — the Aerosmith frontman now says was fighting a dependency on pain and sleep medication.

E! Online - How's this for corporate synergy?

E! Online - Keep your ears perked, ladies and gentlemen, because the musical talents of Paris Hilton are heading back to the airwaves. And this time, she's teaming up with her musician boyfriend, Benji Madden, to make it happen.

E! Online - Jesse McCartney says he was in and out of a relationship while creating his third and latest album, Departure, but has been single now for about a year and a half.

AP - Adam "MCA" Yauch and the Beastie Boys have always been hoop fans, with lyrical references to ballplayers from Latrell Sprewell to streetball legend Hawthorne Wingo. Now Yauch is bringing that love to the big screen with the documentary "Gunnin' for that #1 Spot."

AP - Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to work right.

AP - Even for Amy Winehouse, it was a dramatic chain of events: After fainting and being rushed to a hospital, Winehouse's father said her crack and cigarette smoking had so damaged her lungs, she was risking emphysema and death if she didn't clean up.

Reuters - Hollywood actor Will Smith kicked off a star-studded concert on Friday to honor Nelson Mandela, whose visit to London has been overshadowed by events in Zimbabwe where widely condemned elections had just ended.

AP - Queen, Leona Lewis and Amy Winehouse were among the performers due to serenade Nelson Mandela at a concert Friday honoring the South African statesman's 90th birthday.

AP - Authorities have arrested a southeast Ohio man accused of stalking and threatening teen actress-singers Aly and AJ.