All posts tagged "Concert"

Recently news broke of an 11-year-old who was raped in England, and the most shocking part of the story was that the 21-year-old perpetrator was sentenced to absolutely no prison time. The age of consent is 16 in England, meaning that there was no way the act was legal. So how could something so egregious not result in deserved punishment?

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Sting has canceled a concert in the Kazakh capital Astana scheduled for Monday after human rights group Amnesty International informed the former Police frontman about what it described as a "crackdown" on oil workers there.

(Reuters) - Top online group buying site Groupon tied up with Live Nation Inc to launch a new online ticketing deals web site that will allow customers buy tickets to concerts, theatres and other live events at discounted prices.

HANOI (AFP) – Legendary American singer Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s anti-Vietnam War era, will play his first concert in the communist country next month, the promoter said Monday.

LOS ANGELES – Grammy-winning singer Beyonce donated money received for a New Year's Eve concert reportedly for Moamer Kadhafi's son to help Haiti relief over a year ago, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – British rocker Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness," was to perform in Israel on Tuesday despite a string of recent cancellations by other artists protesting its occupation of Palestinian lands.