LIVE 8 JAPAN
Iceland's Bjork poses for the media during Live 8 Japan, held at Makuhari Messe in Makuhari, Chiba on July 2, 2005. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Ken McDonald was fired Friday as the men's head basketball coach at Western Kentucky after the Hilltoppers' 5-11 start to the season.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 10 (UPI) -- Singer Bjork and the rock band Sigur Ros are to perform a free concert in Iceland to raise awareness about the environment, Icelandair announced Tuesday.
BEIJING, March 7 (UPI) -- China's culture ministry plans to impose tighter restrictions on visiting music acts after Icelandic singer Bjork yelled "Tibet, Tibet" at a Shanghai gig.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Icelandic singer Bjork allegedly ripped the shirt of a news photographer after he snapped her picture as she arrived in New Zealand to play a gig.
NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- Michael Buble's "Call Me Irresponsible" moved from No. 2 to the top on The Billboard 200 chart for album sales in the United States.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 10 (UPI) -- Officials Thursday announced a 130-act Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup, featuring acts ranging from Bob Dylan and the Indigo Girls to Arctic Monkeys.
INDIO, Calif., April 29 (UPI) -- The first day of the 2007 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., featured many high-profile performances, including the singer Bjork.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 19 (UPI) -- The inventor of a heart valve that has saved thousands of lives is giving $12 million to rebuild the University of Portland's engineering building. Donald Shiley, 87, of San Diego, is co-inventor of the Bjork-Shiley heart valve. He graduated from the priv
COLORADO SPRINGS, March 8 (UPI) -- A Colorado woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 2000 woke up, spoke to family and TV crews and then went back to her unresponsive state. "It's just got me dumbfounded," neurologist Dr. Randall Bjork told the Colorado Springs Gazette o
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Rage Against the Machine, the LA band known for its insistent political content, will perform for the first time in seven years, the Los Angeles Times said.
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