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Michael Jackson spent the last night of his life doing what he had always done: performing. The singer was in rehearsals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, running through a full slate of songs from his upcoming 50-concert London event flanked by friends and colleagues. He marveled at the major set pieces that had finally been installed in the rehearsal space.
There’s a photo of the Jackson family on the cover of the September 24, 1971, issue of Life magazine. In it, Joseph and Katherine Jackson stand at the foot of a set of stairs, their star children — known as the Jackson 5 — arrayed behind them
For almost four months, fans of Michael Jackson were holding what were deemed by concert promoters AEG Live as the "Hottest Tickets on the Planet." Now some 750,000 fans have been left with passes that, while steeped in sentimentality, won’t entitle them to see the hyped spectacular that was promised to be Jackson’s farewell tour.
An autopsy on entertainer Michael Jackson has been scheduled for Friday and results are expected by afternoon, according to the Los Angeles, California, coroner’s office. The “King of Pop,” who was preparing for a comeback tour, died Thursday at age 50. Jackson, under apparent cardiac arrest, was taken from his home by paramedics to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where a team of physicians tried to resuscitate him for more than an hour, said Jackson’s brother Jermaine
Veteran American golfer, Kenny Perry, has told CNN he is focused on winning this year’s U.S.
All 19-year-old Maria Hernandez wanted to do was escort her grandparents, visiting from Puerto Rico, through a museum whose displays had so impressed her during her previous visit. But their tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ended abruptly just before 1 p.m
President Obama spoke emotionally Friday about his great-uncle’s role in liberating the German concentration camp at Buchenwald, noting that "it was a memory burned in him for quite some time." Obama is to visit the camp Friday afternoon.
The turbulent cricket career of Andrew Symonds took another twist on Thursday when the Australia all-rounder was sent home from the World Twenty20 tournament in Britain for an "alcohol-related incident". The 33-year-old’s international future is now in grave doubt following the latest in a series of controversies, having only just returned to the national squad after being suspended for missing a team meeting last year.
Security forces in Pakistan have started the "most important phase" of their push against the Taliban — clearing militants from the largest city in the troubled Swat Valley region.
Natalie Cole’s search for a new kidney ended this week when someone with a compatible organ died and their family asked that it be given to the singer, according to the organ procurement group that handled the donation. Cole, who underwent a successful kidney transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, was “responding well and recuperating” Thursday, her publicist said.