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BERLIN – Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am is being investigated by Berlin authorities for his role in a nightclub brawl after a show this week, police said Friday. Will.i.am — the group’s dreadlocked lead lyricist whose given name is William Adams — was allegedly part of a fracas that broke …

BEIJING – Chinese investigators have concluded that an activist who said he was paralyzed after assailants broke his neck inflicted the injury on himself, his son said Thursday. “We cannot accept this decision,” said Fu Bing, whose father, Fu Xiancai, criticized the government’s treatment of people who were forced to …

HONG KONG – Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says that the band doesn’t want to impose its political beliefs on others, but that band members feel an obligation to use their celebrity for a good cause. “We don’t want to be preachy, we just say those words (fair trade), and make …

PASADENA, Calif. – Madonna is bringing her “Confessions” tour to network television. A two-hour special will be taped this summer at Wembley Stadium in London and shown in November on NBC. Click Here for the Madonna Center “Madonna is one of the greatest artists of our time and never fails …

ISTANBUL, Turkey – Leaders across the Muslim world demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize for his remarks on Islam and jihad, unmoved by the Vatican’s assurances that he meant only to emphasize the incompatibility between faith and war. The torrent of rage unleashed by Benedict’s comments in a speech in Germany …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn took the fall Tuesday after admitting she authorized an investigation that relied on “inappropriate techniques” to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media. CEO Mark Hurd, who has the respect of Wall Street and is untainted by the investigation at …

BANGKOK, Thailand – A leading candidate to become Thailand‘s interim prime minister said Wednesday that last week’s coup ousting an elected government was needed to end divisiveness that could have exploded into violence. “The most important matter is to build unity in the country,” said former army commander Surayud Chulanont, …

NEW YORK – The searing film of a plane slicing into the World Trade Center and exploding into a fireball, and the towers collapsing in a cloud of dust will never be forgotten by those who lived through Sept. 11, 2001. Television networks have been reluctant to show those disturbing …

LEESBURG, Fla. – Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV’s famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: “Where were you? Why aren’t …

AUSTIN – Prominent politicians, celebrities and regular Texans gathered Monday for a final farewell to former Gov. Ann Richards. Thousands of admirers streamed into the Frank Erwin Events Center at the University of Texas, a cavernous building usually used for college basketball games and rock concerts. Two huge photographs of …