MICHAEL JACKSON ACQUITTED

LONDON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Michael Jackson is settling with an Arab sheik who sued him for $7 million for allegedly reneging on a recording deal, a spokesman for the U.S. pop singer said.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Pop star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam at a ceremony in Los Angeles attended by Yousef Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, sources say.

LONDON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Michael Jackson has agreed to testify in person in a breach-of-contract lawsuit at London's High Court, the U.S. pop singer's lawyer said.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.

LONDON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The King of Bahrain's son is suing U.S. pop star Michael Jackson for about $7 million in London's High Court for allegedly backing out of a business venture.

SANTA YNEZ, Calif., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Pop star Michael Jackson has filed paperwork transferring ownership of his Neverland Ranch in California to The Sycamore Valley Ranch Co., TMZ said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- In the scrappy and often violent brand of rugby played at my school in South London, a "hospital pass" was a throw of the ball to a player when the opposition forwards were bearing down on him, guaranteeing him a bone-crushing place at the bottom of a pile of heavyset teenagers with big boots.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A New Zealand pizza chain has apologized and removed an ad that depicted the late Sir Edmund Hillary as a dancing skeleton.