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SYDNEY, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A representative for Nicole Kidman, disputing some media reports, said the Australian actress isn't pregnant.

BURBANK , Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is slated to be a guest on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" when the show tapes Wednesday.

COLOGNE, Germany, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Some 20,000 Alevi Muslims took to the streets of Cologne, Germany, Sunday to protest a public television plotline depicting incest in an Alevi family.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik Sunday slammed scenes from HBO's "The Wire," set in a thinly veiled mock-up of the newspaper's newsroom.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A 22-year-old California woman may soon become an overnight musical sensation if her song is picked to play during the Super Bowl.

GARLAND, Texas, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A 6-year-old Texas girl won't be getting free Hannah Montana concert tickets after it was learned she submitted a made-up story about her father dying in Iraq.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The CatHouse Loungerie has opened at Las Vegas' Luxor Hotel despite the notable absence of its scheduled host, actress Mischa Barton.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. recording industry has intensified its fight against illicit downloading, saying it is illegal for someone to transfer music from a CD onto a computer.

ATLANTA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Soul legend James Brown's tangled estate remains far from settled more than a year after his death in Atlanta.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is still piling up cash, staying No. 1 in U.S. theaters for the second straight week.

TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Playboy model known as Reby Sky said the scrape she got during an arrest in Tampa, Fla., is affecting her livelihood.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Chinese cinema great Sun Daolin has died in Shanghai at the age of 86.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Critics of China's human rights record say they will turn their backs when the country's float passes by in California's Rose Parade on New Year's Day.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Pioneering Tejano music star Lydia Mendoza has died in San Antonio at the age of 91.