MICHAEL Jackson fans around the world began yesterday marking the first anniversary of the music icon’s death, with events from candlelight vigils to slumber parties planned in honour of the tragic superstar.

Michael Jackson took centre stage for the final time today at a funeral service at which friends and family were given the opportunity to grieve in private.

A US national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.