Montreux unveils 2010 poster by Brazil's Britto
Reuters - Saturday November 21, 07:00 AM
ZURICH (Reuters) - Brazilian Romero Britto has created the 2010 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival's poster, adding to a long list of striking images by famous artists that have made the posters desirable objects among collectors.

Famous but poor: Sheryl Crow revisits first album
Reuters - Saturday November 21, 06:50 AM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Back in early 1995 when Sheryl Crow won Grammy gold for her debut album, her bank account was hardly glistening.

Playboy's bunny turns more alluring than playmates
Reuters - Saturday November 21, 06:34 AM
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Playboy spent 56 years making sure that the world would know it by the sign of its bunny ears.

Auction record for umbrella stand as YSL mystique inflates prices
AFP - Saturday November 21, 06:31 AM
PARIS (AFP) - A humble if eye-pleasing umbrella stand once owned by Yves Saint Laurent fetched an amazing 90,000 euros (134,000 dollars) Friday at the close of a sale of the last belongings of the late couturier and his partner Pierre Berge.

Simpsons' lampoon of Sarkozy sudden French web hit
AFP - Saturday November 21, 06:25 AM
PARIS (AFP) - Thousands of French Internet users flooded video sharing websites Friday to enjoy a lampoon of their glamourous first couple, almost a week after they appeared on the US show the Simpsons.

Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
Reuters - Saturday November 21, 06:22 AM
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.

Uganda's gays: from advocates to outlaws
AFP - Saturday November 21, 06:20 AM
KAMPALA (AFP) - If Uganda?s recently tabled Anti-Homosexuality Bill becomes law, Frank Mugisha and other individuals found campaigning for gay rights will face the choice of going to jail or leaving the country.

No reply this Christmas as US blocks Santa mail
AFP - Saturday November 21, 06:09 AM
WASHINGTON (AFP) - No matter if children are naughty or nice, they won't get a reply from Santa this year, as the US Postal Service has blocked mail to a tiny Alaska town that answered Christmas letters for decades.

US singles on PlayDate search for soul mate
AFP - Saturday November 21, 06:08 AM
ARLINGTON, Virginia (AFP) - Forget singles bars and the mad dash through the speed-dating circuit:

Polanski will not agree to extradition: lawyer
Reuters - Saturday November 21, 06:08 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday.