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LOS ANGELES — Hip-hop icon and fashion mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs suffered "multiple injuries" including to his neck and collarbone in a car crash in Beverly Hills, a spokeswoman for the star said Thursday.

Film actor's estate earned $210m last year after record-setting jewellery and art auction

The New York Times Co. on Thursday announced a modest profit in a quarter in which digital subscriptions rose but revenues fell, including from online and print advertising.

Ecuador has requested a meeting with Britain to discuss WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who it says is losing weight and suffering vision problems as he languishes in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for US$780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmmaker, although a man who did the same only fetched US$3,000.

Rock legends the Rolling Stones were due to play a surprise mini-gig in Paris Thursday and all 350 tickets priced at 15 euros ($20) each were snapped up in minutes.

Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing him to the convicted sex offender and disgraced football coach Jerry Sandusky and accusing him of academic fraud.

WASHINGTON — Combative US conservative pundit Ann Coulter came under fire Wednesday from a Special Olympian with Down syndrome after she branded President Barack Obama a "retard" on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Troubled Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is suing the publishers of US magazine Life and Style for $50 million over a cover claiming he had abandoned his daughter Suri, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The conservative owner of both of San Diego's major newspapers failed to inform his editorial staff and at least one former local politician of his financial involvement with a recent anti-Barack Obama film.

The former head of the BBC on Wednesday denied any role in shelving an investigation into allegations of widespread abuse of underage girls by the late British TV star Jimmy Savile.

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, stopped transmission yesterday after delivering 38 years of up-to-the-minute news and sports updates to the British public.

LOS ANGELES — "Top Gun" director Tony Scott had traces of anti-depressant and sleep-inducing drugs in his body when he killed himself by jumping from a California bridge, according to coroners.