UPI Almanac for Sunday, March 30, 2008.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy sincere about re-joining NATO, or is this another European ploy to ease the Americans out?

MOSCOW, March 7 (UPI) -- The United States and China normalized bilateral relations with the so-called ping-pong diplomacy, when the exchange of ping-pong players between them in the 1970s encouraged an improvement in their political ties.

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Famed British blues-rocker Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in North Korea, a published report said Tuesday.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008.

NASHVILLE, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The Shirelles are celebrating half a century in the music business with a 2008 U.S. concert tour, organizers said Friday.

PARIS, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The mayor of Paris says French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Italian girlfriend, Carla Bruni, were married Saturday at the Elysee presidential palace.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Ron Wood, guitarist in the British band the Rolling Stones, said he found writing his autobiography to be "therapeutic."

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- British musician Eric Clapton said he didn't return to drinking and drugs after his 4-year-old son died in 1991 because he wanted to honor the boy's memory.