AP - The man known as “Don Vito” on MTV’s show “Viva La Bam” was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault on a child.

AP - Britney Spears defended her parenting and chastised her critics, lamenting “how cruel our world can be,” in a brief interview on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show Wednesday.

Reuters - Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood’s
memoir has just hit U.S. bookshelves, but he’s already talking
about another volume — and even a film adaptation.

Reuters - Alternative rock stalwarts R.E.M.
have just released their first live CD/DVD to generate some
buzz ahead of a new studio collection next year that will carry
a political tone coming just before the U.S. election.

AP - Heather Mills McCartney accused Paul McCartney of failing to protect her and their 3-year-old daughter Beatrice from abuse, which she says ranges from lies and slander to death threats.

Reuters - The New York Philharmonic announced
plans on Wednesday to tour China and Taiwan but failed to
confirm media reports that the United States’s oldest symphony
orchestra will also perform in North Korea.

Reuters - Roger Daltrey may be a fully
fledged rock star these days, the exuberant voice of The Who,
but during the band’s early years he was the weakest link, a
violent brawler briefly fired by his bandmates.

AP - Roberto Cavalli has confirmed, perhaps inadvertently, that Jennifer Lopez is pregnant.

AP - Robert Goulet is being remembered in this former mill city for mangling the lyrics to the national anthem before the Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston heavyweight championship fight more than 30 years ago.

Reuters - All eyes at this year’s MTV Europe Music
Awards in Munich will be on U.S. star Justin Timberlake, who
dominated the show in 2006, and British singer Pete Doherty’s
performance on Thursday night.