The FINANCIAL -- According to People, the show didn't go on in Vancouver April 8 night after Britney Spears pulled the plug on her sold-out Circus concert 15 minutes and three songs into her performance – departing the stage and leaving the audience in the GM Place in the dark for more than half an hour. Boos ensued.

The FINANCIAL -- BUENOS AIRES, Colombian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has denied reports that he has given up writing, regional media said on April 6.

The FINANCIAL -- According to Today's Zaman, a judge has rejected Madonna's request to adopt a second child from Malawi because of a requirement that prospective parents live in the southern African nation for at least 18 months, a judge and a lawyer said on April 3.

The FINANCIAL -- Madonna has applied to adopt a second child from Malawi, a High Court clerk said on March 26, despite the controversy surrounding an earlier adoption by the U.S. pop star in the poor southern African country.

The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, Georgia has decided to pull out from the MOSCOW Eurovision Song Contest after the contest organizer, European Broadcasting Union, offered Georgia to either re-write its song lyrics, poking fun at Russia’s PM Putin, or to submit another song.

The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest, said on March 10, that lyrics of a song submitted by Georgia for this year’s contest in MOSCOW “do not comply with the rules of the competition.”

The FINANCIAL -- According to the First National Channel, the finale of National selection for ‘Eurovision – 2009” took place on March 8. The spectators and jury chose the best one among 15 finalists during live broadcast.