Vietnamese police have pressed child molestation charge against British rocker Gary Glitter who faces up to 12 years in a Vietnamese jail if convicted, officials said on Saturday. "The formal charge is engaging in perverse activities with children," an official from Ba Ria Vung Tau province said.
A British comedian who uses a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh alter ego called "Borat" to poke fun at interviewees has responded to a legal threat from the Kazakh authorities by satirically welcoming the move. Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays the spoof Kazakh television reporter in his Da Ali G Show, incurred the wrath of Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry this month after appearing as Borat at the annual MTV Europe Music Awards.
A legal battle between rival British pop moguls Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell was postponed indefinitely on Thursday, as lawyers were apparently seeking an out-of-court settlement. Fuller, best known as the manager of the Spice Girls band, has accused Cowell of copying his ideas in the hugely successful television talent show format, a claim dismissed by Cowell as "utterly ridiculous."
British pop star Robbie Williams has entered the famed Guinness Book of World Records by selling more than 1.6 million tickets for his 2006 world tour in just one day, its editor said.
The heartthrob singer takes the five-year-old record from US star Justin Timberlake's former group, NSync.
Britain's biggest boy band Take That announced Friday they were reforming for a tour nearly a decade after splitting -- but without Williams.
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen will reunite for a tour of British and Irish arenas starting in April next year.
Williams quit the five-piece band six months before they split in 1996 and pulled off the unlikely feat of becoming a pop superstar in his own right.
Songwriter and lead singer Barlow, the band member tipped for solo success, has struggled like his other bandmates to match Williams' or Take That's fame.
Take That were a phenomenal success during from 1992 to 1996, clocking up eight British number one hits, including Relight My Fire, How Deep is Your Love and Back For Good, and selling 10 million albums.
Barlow said: "Thank you very much for giving us the last 10 years off, but unfortunately the rumors are true -- Take That are going back on tour."
The group admitted they would love Williams to join them on the 11-date tour.
"I think we can all say we would definitely have loved that. But we do respect that's not going to happen," Barlow said.
Pop star Elton John will marry his longtime partner David Furnish in a small, private ceremony on December 21, the day civil partnerships between gay couples become legal in Britain.
The couple's parents will be the only witnesses at the ceremony, though it will be followed by a party later in the evening, John said in an interview with British gay lifestyle magazine Attitude, on sale Friday.
"The ceremony itself will be very private," he said.
"It'll be a very small family affair and then in the evening there'll be a soiree somewhere, which we have yet to work out. But the ceremony itself will be David's parents and my parents and the two of us."
Pat Morita, the Japanese-American actor who gained fame as the wise Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movies and on the television show Happy Days, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 73. The Las Vegas Palm Mortuary home said Morita died of natural causes on Thursday.
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