Recent news

Reuters - Lawyers for R&B; singer Bobby Brown asked a California judge on Friday to throw out his divorce from Whitney Houston and reopen the question of custody over the couple's 14 year-old daughter.

AP - Bobby Brown went to court Friday to seek custody of his and Whitney Houston's teenage daughter.

AP - The female musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.

Reuters - Drive around Houston or Dallas and you're bound to see the strategically placed billboard: "They Can't Deport Us All," it says, over a caricature of a man jumping a fence.

Reuters - U.K. crooner Richard Hawley has a fast-growing reputation as a musician's musician.

Reuters - It's taken country star Travis Tritt more than a dozen albums to arrive at a point where he's achieved "total, utter freedom" to craft the "album I've always wanted to make."

Reuters - U.K. crooner Richard Hawley has a fast-growing reputation as a musician's musician.

Reuters - On her indie debut, much like her previous albums, Long Island, N.Y.-bred Lil' Mo emotively relates around-the-way tales of love and lust, heartache and heartbreak.

Reuters - Troubled pop star Britney Spears has released her first new song in years on the Web, a single called "Gimme More" that is expected to hit radio airwaves as early as next week.

AP - Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues.

AP - It seems like forever since Britney Spears had six-pack abs and a hit song on the charts. But the fallen pop princess — tarnished by a tumultuous divorce, late-night partying and erratic behavior — is trying to get her music career back on track.