Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the line-up of Saturday’s Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.

HELD for the first time in Miami, the city of skin, the MTV Video Music Awards were sizzling, energetic and colourful — yet tame, by MTV standards.

An inspection of a factory in Honduras that produces a clothing line for US rap music mogul Sean “P Diddy” Combs did not uncover the kinds of labour abuses alleged by activists, the country’s labour minister said.