AP - Paul McCartney told Quebec nationalists on Thursday "to smoke the pipes of peace" over their opposition to his free concert celebrating the city's 400th anniversary.
AP - James Brown mementoes ranging from his signature capes to a medical bracelet fetched thousands of dollars Thursday at an auction, which the soul icon's children protested.
Reuters - Popular Canadian band the Barenaked
Ladies has pulled out of a children's charity show organized by
Walt Disney Co after lead singer Steven Page was charged with
possessing cocaine, the band said in a statement posted on its
website on Friday.
Reuters - Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay
Bounty Killa was arrested in Jamaica on Friday and charged with
using profanity during a performance at a leading reggae
festival in Montego Bay. -- read full article
Reuters - British folk singer Yusuf Islam,
formerly Cat Stevens, accepted libel damages and an apology on
Friday from a news agency that reported he had refused to talk
to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.
AP - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have reached an agreement that grants the pop singer more visits with her children and averts a custody trial that was scheduled for next month, attorneys said Friday.
AP - Songwriter Hank Cochran is recovering at a Nashville hospital following surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his pancreas and lymph node. -- read full article
AP - U2 stars Bono and The Edge won a four-year legal battle Thursday to reshape their old-fashioned Dublin hotel, the Clarence, into a futuristic landmark — a decision that appeared to fly in the face of Ireland's conservative planning laws.
Reuters - Dressed in his traditional brown robe,
sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old
Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — James Brown mementoes ranging from his signature capes to a medical bracelet fetched thousands of dollars Thursday at an auction, which the soul icon's children protested.
