A judge today ruled that Michael Jackson’s mother should raise the King of Pop’s children.

IF you still haven’t found what you’re looking for in the new U2 album, well, you might find it in the next which is already looming large on the horizon.

John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after apparently suffering a seizure and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home, authorities said.

The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai said he was promised that his impoverished family would get around €990 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said today.

Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin urged the Republicans not to become the “negative party” of US politics today.

Americans want “real answers” on the economic crisis and “don’t care about the back and forth between the candidates”, Barack Obama’s wife said today.

A plastic surgeon who operated on US rapper Kanye West’s mother the day before she died pulled out of a TV interview last night.

Mel B says she wants more children, with new husband Stephen Belafonte.

US Vice President Dick Cheney has admitted he was wrong when he said the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes" more than two years ago.

A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith today said he was the father of the reality TV star’s newborn girl, who has been the couple’s one “ray of hope” as they have grieved the death of her 20-year-old son in the Bahamas.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other targets, the FBI said.

Elizabeth Taylor has dismissed US newspaper reports that she was being treated for early Alzheimer’s disease or was gravely ill.

US President George Bush today suggested that he would like to see his family’s White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.

Michael Jackson is happy in his new life in the Middle East – and is doing 300 push-ups a day, according to his brother Jermaine.

Oprah Winfrey has angrily laid into an author whose drug abuse memoir she promoted, saying revelations that he had made up parts of it had embarrassed and disappointed her.

Lance Armstrong fears allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs will follow him forever.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld offered to resign twice during the height of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal last year. He said he wanted the decision on his future to be placed in President George Bush’s hands.

Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late President Ronald Reagan, criticized George Bush’s foreign policy, saying he believed Bush misled Americans to gain support for the Iraq war.

THE White House came out fighting yesterday after claims it did not consider the threat of terrorism an “urgent” issue in the months before September 11.

Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker admits she’s more prudish than her alter ego Carrie Bradshaw.

Sex abuse charges against pop star Michael Jackson are driven solely by money and revenge, his lawyer claimed.

Illusionist David Blaine will plunge hundreds of feet from a helicopter into a river for his next stunt, he announced today.

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has popped the question, asking companion Judith Nathan to marry him during a recent business trip to Paris.

Pamela Anderson has been forced to take a break from her TV and film career, in order to undergo medical treatment for hepatitis C.

Lennox Lewis claims he still wants to fight Mike Tyson - but only if the American seeks psychological help.

The British Prime Minister has ruled out any negotiation with Afghanistan's Taliban government.

A US Congressman who admitted having an affair with an intern who is now missing should take a lie detector test, her family say.