PARIS, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- French film star Samy Naceri, who recently mounted a campaign against racism, has been sentenced to six months in jail for racially abusing a black officer.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The new fine arts academy in Palestine is open for business and has a political mission as well as arts training as its mandate.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Rapper Busta Rhymes may be slapped with another assault charge after he allegedly attacked one of his employees in New York just after Christmas, a report says.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Singers Jessica Simpson and John Mayer have once again been seen together in New York, though they still deny being a couple.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The up and coming "Dreamgirls" star, Jennifer Hudson, has finished off 2006 with a sold out concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
ALTON, Ill., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An Illinois museum has been sued for the return of an old gravestone for two of the victims of the notorious 19th Century "Wood River Massacre."
Patty Heaton opens off-Broadway... Talent scouts in U.S. seek stars for Asia... Kate Moss said planning Thai wedding... New Disney spinoff 'Cory in the House'... News from United Press International.
BANGKOK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Reports have suggested that supermodel Kate Moss is planning to wed her boyfriend, Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty, in Thailand.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Patricia Heaton opens off-Broadway in New York this month in "The Scene," in which she plays a talk-show booker in the midst of a rocky marriage.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Disney Channel's new "That's So Raven" spinoff in the United States, "Cory in the House," will feature three well-known guest actors.
