Reuters - Los Angeles police have agreed to return the $1.4 million worth of jewelry that pop star Rihanna was wearing the night her R&B singer boyfriend Chris Brown is accused of assaulting her, Rihanna's lawyer said on Wednesday.

AP - Rolando Villazon needs surgery to remove a cyst on his larynx, and the Mexican tenor withdrew from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" that opens Dec. 3.

E! Online - Why be at odds when there's music to be made?

Reuters - Singer Britney Spears has extended her "Circus" concert tour to include a dozen European shows taking her from London to Russia, the pop star's representatives said on her Web site on Wednesday.

E! Online - He made the most of his second chance, but Matt Giraud wasn't destined for the finish line.

AP - There was no saving Matt Giraud this time on "American Idol."

AP - Kenny Chesney will tape an episode of public television's popular show "Austin City Limits" to air sometime in the fall.

AP - Rolando Villazon's concert organizer in Germany says the Mexican tenor needs surgery to remove a cyst on his larynx and has canceled two performances in the country.

AP - Ashanti (AH'-shaun-tee) is going down the Yellow Brick Road to Oz.

AP - Tony Bennett donated a watercolor he made of longtime friend Duke Ellington to a Smithsonian museum on Wednesday, the 110th anniversary of the jazz great's birth.

AP - Toby Keith acknowledges that he's the type to hold a grudge.