Reuters - Teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus has announced dates for her first UK tour which will start in December, as she continues to build a pop music career in her own right rather than as her alter-ego Hannah Montana.

AP - For someone about to make her stage debut, Ashanti appears eerily relaxed.

E! Online - Michael Jackson is about to learn the hard way that family always comes first. Or at least it does when there's a multimillion-dollar contract involved.

E! Online - The Circus is coming to even more towns than originally thought.

AP - Chris Brown lost a bid to delay a preliminary hearing in his assault case, which his attorney argued should wait for a related California Supreme Court decision.

AP - Queen Latifah has revealed a traumatic chapter of her personal life: The singer-actress was sexually abused as a child.

Reuters - A music promoter on Wednesday sued to stop Michael Jackson from performing in London this year, claiming his appearances would violate a prior contract.

Reuters - Van Morrison hates the fame game so much that he would have abandoned his music career 40 years ago if one of his early albums had made him a superstar.

Reuters - Dave Matthews Band replaced Eminem at the top of the U.S. pop album chart on Wednesday, logging the third-best debut of the year.

AP - The convicted killer of Tejano music star Selena lost an appeal Wednesday in Texas' highest criminal appeals court because it was filed in the wrong county.

AP - A mug shot of Phil Spector released Wednesday reveals that prison has been a hair-raising experience for the legendary music producer.