Motley Crue fights ban
Motley Crue has sued NBC in Los Angeles federal court, accusing the network of banning the heavy metal band from its television programs to curry favor with federal regulators cracking down on indecency.
Motley Crue, best known for 1980s hits like Girls, Girls, Girls,was banned from appearing on NBC after its lead singer, Vince Neil, used a profanity during a New Year's Eve broadcast of last year on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, according to court papers.
Pavarotti
Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti will bring his tenor voice to a global anti-poverty campaign, using his concerts in Ireland this week to urge his audiences to back the cause, a UN official said Thursday.
Pavarotti has offered to show, during his concerts Thursday and Saturday, several short films on the Millennium Development Goals "to call on his audiences to take action to reach the targets" of the campaign, said Eveline Herfkens, UN chief Kofi Annan's executive coordinator for the campaign.
The films will also be shown at more than 40 concerts during his global farewell tour this year and next. Pavarotti has been a UN "Messenger of Peace" since 1998.
In 2000, UN members agreed to the Millennium Development Goals of slashing poverty in half by 2015.
"We are the first generation that can end poverty," Herfkens said.
`Star wars' and the pirates
US law enforcers said on Wednesday that they have shut down a computer network that distributed illegal copies of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith before it appeared in movie theaters. Federal agents executed 10 search warrants and seized the main server computer in a network that allowed people to download nearly 18,000 movies and software programs, including many current releases, the FBI and Homeland Security Department said.
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