CARDIFF, Wales, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Welch singer Charlotte Church plans to spend the New Year's holidays with her boyfriend, who is celebrating his birthday.
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Web-based broadcasting, known as podcasting, is getting more popular among U.S. and British users of Apple iPods and other digital music players.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Senior U.S. officials have warned that the death toll in the Asian tsunami disaster is much higher than what the media are reporting.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Royal Shakespeare Company says it will perform in a new, 1,000-seat temporary theater while its main hall is under renovation from 2007 to 2009.
MADRID, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of "Don Quixote," the satirical novel by Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, goes global next year.
DELFT, Netherlands, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Art restorer Daan Hartmann claims the studio he has been working in for more than 20 years was once used by the 17th century Dutch master Jan Vermeer. Hartmann wants to have the site namesa World Heritage site and turned into a museum.
BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Romania's new National Museum of Contemporary Art opened this week in the vast Palace of the Parliament built by communist dictator Nicolai Ceausescu.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New York deejay Crazy Cabbie has been pulled from K-ROCK in the wake of federal charges and a "meltdown" on the Howard Stern show, a report said.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The story of a blind mother and a grocery clerk whose dreams of singing opera came true on a British reality TV show is headed to the big screen.
Holiday shoppers think Eminem ... Oscar nominees hit 267 ... Actor Jerry Orbach dead at 69 ... Liza Minnelli cancels Miami performances ... News from United Press International.
HERTFORDSHIRE, England, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- People added two and two and got five, said an Irish bishop who denied he christened the sons of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her husband, David.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Rock star Bono took to the airwaves in London to trumpet third-world causes and boosted the Labor Party's coming election theme of making war on poverty.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Guitarist Joe Satriani canceled five appearances in Arizona, California and Nevada through Jan. 1 to recuperate from pneumonia, a report said.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Oscar fever began its annual buildup as members of the Academic of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences poured over entries for the best film of 2004.
HONG KONG, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Martial arts actor Jet Li saved himself and his daughter from the deadly tsunami that slammed parts of Asia and Africa including the Maldives.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Last-minute shoppers took Eminem's "Encore" to the top of the Billboard 200, the third time the album held the reins of the music magazine's weekly rating.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- British teenagers spent double in 2004 on downloaded cell phone ringtones than on CD singles, The Times of London reported Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Liza Minnelli has had to cancel her New Year's Eve show in Miami because of injuries suffered in what New York police say was a drunken fall.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- British supermodel Kate Moss has resumed her romance with magazine owner Jefferson Hack, who also happens to be her daughter's father.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Ticket sales to foreign theater-goers helped Broadway end this year with an increase in sales and audience, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Jerry Orbach, star of stage, film and TV,has died of prostate cancer at the age of 69, WINS-AM, New York, reported Wednesday.
HONG KONG, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Chinese action star Jet Li was among those who escaped the tsunami in the Maldives, rescuing his daughter as the waters swept through the lobby of his hotel.
CANONSBURG, Pa., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Bobby Vinton has vetoed plans for a statue to made in his honor in his hometown of Canonsburg, Pa., because he says the money could be better spent.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Japanese comics sales, known as manga, are booming in the United States mainly because girls are buying them as well as boys.
A soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
