U2 will play a free show in Germany to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The 'Get On Your Boots’ rockers will play in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate as part of the MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) on November 5, as a prelude to the city’s 'Fall of the Wall’ celebrations.
The group's manager, Paul McGuinness, said: "It'll be an exciting spot to be in, 20 years almost to the day since the wall came down."
A source added to Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: "They're expecting tens of thousands of people to turn up.

Michael Jackson has earned $90 million since he died.
The late 'Thriller’ singer – who passed away from acute Propofol intoxication on June 25 – came third in Forbes.com’s annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list with the huge financial haul.
Michael was the highest ranking deceased singer, after bringing in the enormous sum from radio play, royalties from album sales, rights to his name and royalties from his stake in the Sony/ATV music catalogue.

Jay-Z used to 'mercilessly' beat his nephews at video games – but now he always loses.
The 38-year-old hip-hop star was once a talented gamer but now his nephews can 'destroy' him.
Jay-Z – who is married to 28-year-old singer Beyonce Knowles – said: 'My nephews didn’t beat me their entire lives, until now. They can destroy me now. I would never let them win because that meant they controlled the household, so I would just beat them mercilessly.'

Josh Duhamel loves wife Fergie’s scent.
The Black Eyed Peas singer has developed her own fragrance for Avon and insists her 'Las Vegas’ actor husband goes giddy when he gets a whiff of the perfume, which is set to be released in 2010.
Fergie said: 'He loves it, of course he does. I made sure that he liked it, because that would be important to me.
'We’ve been designing this for over a year. But I’ve been keeping my big mouth shut about it. I wanted it to smell fresh and yet modern at the same time, it’s definitely for confident, strong women.'

Madonna branded a 'God' by Malawi the orphanage she adopted son David Banda from.
The 'Celebration’ singer – who adopted the boy, now four, from the African country in October 2006 when he was 13 months old – visited the centre where he used to live this week and the children couldn’t hold back their praise for her.
One child said to her: "You are our God. Where could we have been without you?"

Lil Wayne, the biggest selling rapper of last year will spend most of next year in jail after pleading guilty to gun possession charges.
Lil Wayne appeared in a Manhattan Court yesterday on the charges dating back to July 2007. Police had pulled over his tour bus and caught the rapper in possession of a weapon.
In a statement released today, Cash Money owners Ronald 'Slim’ Williams and Bryan 'Baby’ Williams had this to say.

100 of Europe’s most dedicated music fans beat over 7,000 applicants, from 15 different European countries, to participate in Sony Ericsson’s FanWalk 2009 – a 10 day challenge from Hamburg to Berlin that ends at the ultimate music event, the MTV EMAs 2009.
En route from Hamburg to Berlin, from 27 October, FanWalkers will be set challenges to show their skills and prove that they are the ultimate music fan. One FanWalker will even win an exciting dream prize – presenting an MTV EMA award live on stage in front of millions of fans around the world on 5 November.

New Nokia run music channel offers fans the chance to watch Green Day soundcheck and then attend their show at London’s 02
The lucky entrant will win a pair of tickets to watch pop punk favourites Green Day run through their soundcheck and then attend the show at London’s 02 venue on Friday 23rd October. The competition will end Thursday 22nd October.

Multi-platinum producer, prolific hit-maker, and sonic innovator Timbaland will release his third solo album, Timbaland Presents Shock Value II, on November 23rd 2009.
The album is the follow-up to the multi-platinum 2007 album Timbaland Presents Shock Value, which spawned two massive number one hits with Give It To Me (featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake) and The Way I Are (featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E.) and one of the best-selling singles of the decade with the remix of OneRepublic’s multi-platinum blockbuster Apologize.

Britney Spears feels "completely out of it" because her father is so controlling, it has been claimed.
Friends say the '3' singer is so strictly guarded by dad Jamie Spears she has lost track of the time and days of the week.
A source told FoxNews: "She is so out of it she just doesn’t care anymore. She just does what she’s told and is totally in her world.
"She’ll even call people at all hours of night for a general conversation and acts like it’s the middle of the day or something."