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KHANDALA, India (AFP) - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, best known for winning the British version of television show Celebrity Big Brother, married in a lavish ceremony in western India on Sunday.

HONG KONG (AFP) - A hotel in the glitzy Asian gambling haven of Macau will display Michael Jackson's rhinestone-encrusted glove after paying 350,000 dollars for the piece of pop history at auction, the hotel said on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Ryan Lochte beat out superstar Michael Phelps and veteran Aaron Peirsol for male swimmer of the year Sunday at USA Swimming's Golden Goggles awards.

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Michael Jackson's deathbed doctor waited over an hour to call for help when he realized the pop star wasn't breathing, and could not be found for hours afterward, according to a search warrant.

CHICAGO (AFP) - A tearful Oprah Winfrey on Friday announced that she will take her iconic talk show off the air in 2011 at the end of its 25th season, prompting an outpouring of emotional tributes from devoted fans.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Actor and heartthrob Jude Law hurled oranges at an unwanted audience peeking on his exercise routine on his New York balcony, the New York Post reported Friday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A Los Angeles judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against Miley Cyrus which accused the teen icon of discriminating against Asians after she was photographed making "slant eyes."

PARIS (AFP) - A nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, identical to one sold last year for 91,000 dollars, was Friday withdrawn from a Paris auction after bids failed to hit the reserve price.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A former boyfriend of pop star Britney Spears was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Friday for fleeing the scene of an accident earlier this year.

SEOUL (AFP) - Fans and friends on Saturday expressed shock at the death of a South Korean supermodel who was found hanged in her central Paris apartment earlier this week.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said Friday.

ROME (AFP) - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale Friday for 15,000 euros (22,000 dollars) on online auction website eBay, before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - R&B singer Chris Brown was praised by a Los Angeles judge on Thursday for making "extremely favorable" progress following his sentence for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

NEW YORK (AFP) - The rhinestone-encrusted glove worn by pop icon Michael Jackson for his first "moonwalk" dance in 1983 sold Saturday for 350,000 dollars at a frenzied auction in New York.

PARIS (AFP) - Twenty-year-old South Korean supermodel Daul Kim was found hanged in her central Paris apartment after an apparent suicide, the South Korean embassy said on Friday.

CHICAGO (AFP) - A tearful Oprah Winfrey on Friday announced that she will take her iconic talk show off the air in 2011 at the end of its 25th season.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Army plans to restrict media coverage of an appearance by Sarah Palin at a military base to prevent the event from turning into a political protest against President Barack Obama, officials said.

NEW YORK (AFP) - The artist Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband Christo in wrapping the Reichstag, erecting huge umbrellas in California and other monumental and dramatic projects, has died. She was 74.

LONDON (AFP) - British supermodel Kate Moss was accused Thursday of giving the wrong message to anorexics and teenage girls when she gave her backing for a slogan encouraging them not to eat.

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - French screen goddess turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has appealed to the government of Catalonia to back a campaign to ban bullfighting in the northeastern Spanish region.

LONDON (AFP) - Supermodel-turned-photographer Helena Christensen urged politicians and world leaders to commit to real changes at the upcoming Copenhagen climate talks, as she launched a photo exhibition in London documenting climate change in Peru.

LONDON (AFP) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of such hit musicals as "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats", was back in hospital on Wednesday after developing an infection from an operation for prostate cancer.

NEW YORK (AFP) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp is the sexiest man on the planet, according to People magazine Wednesday.

MANILA (AFP) - Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday brushed off rumours his marriage was on the rocks amid reports the Philippine boxing superstar flew a starlet to Las Vegas to watch him win a record seventh world title.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic potential.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Sarah Palin dropped a heavy hint Tuesday that she might seek to run for the White House in 2012 as champion of America's Republican right.

GENEVA (AFP) - Switzerland's top criminal court said Tuesday that it was likely to rule in two to three weeks' time on film-maker Roman Polanski's appeal for bail.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Ex-Beatle and music legend Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a US Library of Congress honor that has been bestowed on stars like Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.