Issue: July 30, 2010 (Archive)

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Ex-Fugee mulls bid to lead Haiti
Haitian rapper and songwriter Wyclef Jean is weighing a bid for the presidency of his earthquake- shattered Caribbean homeland but has not yet decided whether to run in November's election.

French first lady makes acting debut in Allen movie
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, made her acting debut with Hollywood star Owen Wilson in a Woody Allen film being shot in Paris.

Presley piano to hit high notes
Elvis Presley's white grand piano and his 1955 contract with RCA Records are going up for auction in Memphis next month, with the piano expected to fetch more than US$1 million (HK$7.8 million), auctioneers said.

DiCaprio still top as titans clash
In a clash of Hollywood titans, Leonardo DiCaprio came out on top of Angelina Jolie as Inception rubbed out spy thriller Salt to claim box office supremacy for a second straight weekend.

Russian spy Jolie wows Moscow
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie delighted Russians as she arrived in Moscow to promote her thriller movie where she plays a "big hero" Russian spy two weeks after a real-life espionage swap fascinated the world.

Bayreuth rats win catcalls and applause
Germany's Bayreuth Festival got under way with an iconoclastic new production of Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin featuring a German star tenor in the lead role.

Copter dash for ill Jarreau
US jazz, pop and soul singer Al Jarreau was in a stable condition after being transferred to a larger hospital in Marseille in southern France.

Swift to release `confessions' album
Country-pop starlet Taylor Swift, who sold millions of records detailing the agonies of adolescence, said her third album will be a "conceptual" release directed at specific people she met during her dizzying ascent to stardom in the past two years.

Lohan books in for shorter jail term
A "scared" but resolute Lindsay Lohan has begun a 90-day jail sentence, trading nightclubs and Twitter messages for a small, isolated cell and an orange jumpsuit.

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