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Singer Lauryn Hill faces tax evasion sentencing

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill is facing sentencing Monday in New Jersey on federal tax charges. Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she ...

  • Updated: 6:25 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
FILE - British actress Dame Helen Mirren arrives for a TV interview in Culver City, Calif., USA, in this file photo dated Thursday, June 9, 2011. A troupe of street performers got a shock on Saturday May 4, 2013, when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theatre during the intermission of her performance, to berate them for disrupting her show. Published in a British newspaper Monday May 6, Mirren said she used less-than-royal language, "I'm afraid there were a few 'thespian' words used," she is quoted as saying, in the rant at drummers who were marching through the streets to promote a gay music festival. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, FILE)

Helen Mirren gives noisy drummers a royal rebuke

Silence for the queen, please. A troupe of street drummers got a shock when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theater to berate them for disrupting her show. Mirren is starring in "The Audience," a drama about the weekly meetings between the queen and Britain's ...

  • Updated: 5:40 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2013 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, next to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, looks up at the crowd during a dedication of the new Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center in Denver. On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest court, spoke at Cooper Union, a private college in Manhattan's East Village where Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech against slavery. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)

Sotomayor speaks at NYC literature festival

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just "Sonia from the Bronx." And on Sunday, the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest court explained why, saying "you can't come from the world I grew up in, the South Bronx, without feeling the frenzy ...

  • Updated: 1:08 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
Steven Tyler of the famed Aerosmith rock band is mobbed by reporters as he makes his way to his waiting van upon arrival from Melbourne Sunday May 5, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. Tyler and his entourage are here as part of their band's world tour concert. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears

Aerosmith canceled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar Embassy. Concert promoter Ismaya Live cited safety concerns as the reason for the cancellation, but it wasn't clear if there was a direct connection to the alleged embassy plot. The American ...

  • Updated: 10:40 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
Daryl Hall and John Oates, right, perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trombone Shorty, Aaron Neville close Jazz Fest

For more than two decades, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has closed with a performance by the city's own Neville Brothers. On Sunday, that tradition changed. Aaron Neville performed on a stage with his new band while young brass band frontman Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews closed the festival's ...

  • Updated: 7:06 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
FILE - This 1939 file photo supplied by Geller/Goldfine Productions shows Frederic Franklin, top, George Zoritch, center, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in their production of "Rouge et Noir," which was choreographed by Leonide Massine. Franklin died, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in New York. He was 98. (AP Photo/Geller/Goldfine Productions, File)

Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98

Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98. Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner, William Ausman. Franklin last appeared with the American Ballet ...

  • Updated: 5:28 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
Actor Robert Downey Jr. gives a high-five to his "Iron Man" character during opening bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Stock prices are opening mostly lower on Wall Street as weak earnings from Pfizer and other companies drag down major market averages. Downey's film, "Iron Man 3," also starring Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow, opens nationwide on May 3. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Will Downey suit up again after $175M 'IM3' haul?

Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks. According to studio estimates Sunday, "Iron Man 3" has raced to a worldwide total of $680.1 million. ...

  • Updated: 3:15 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
FILE - This April 25, 2012 file photo shows journalist Howard Kurtz at the world premiere of "Knife Fight" during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Kurtz is apologizing for several errors in a column he wrote about gay basketball player Jason Collins this past week. Kurtz, host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” brought two other media critics onto his show Sunday, May 5, 2013, to question him about the story written on The Daily Beast suggesting Collins had hidden a previous engagement to a woman when he came out as gay in a Sports Illustrated story. Kurtz said he was not only wrong in the facts, he shouldn’t have written the story in the first place and was too slow to correct himself. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

CNN's Kurtz apologizes for errors in Collins story

Media critic Howard Kurtz used his CNN show on Sunday to point a finger at himself, apologizing for a story on gay basketball player Jason Collins that he said was riddled with errors and shouldn't have been written in the first place. The extraordinary edition of CNN's "Reliable Sources" contained ...

  • Updated: 1:13 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
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FILE- British actress Keira Knightley poses as she arrives for the world premiere of Anna Karenina in London, in this file photo dated Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. French mayor Aime Navello said Sunday May 5, 2013, that he officiated on Saturday May 4, during the wedding of Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley to keyboard player for the Klaxon rock group James Righton, during a simple French ceremony at the Mazan town hall in southern France. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

Keira Knightley says 'oui' to rocker James Righton

A French mayor says Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has said "oui" to rocker James Righton in a small wedding ceremony in southern France. Aime Navello said Sunday the couple followed French tradition when he married them at the Mazan town hall on Saturday. Navello read the service in French and ...

  • Updated: 10:11 a.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
Interpreter "Mohammad" has the British Foreign Office reflected in his glasses as he campaigns outside the Foreign Office in London, Friday, May 3, 2013. Campaigners and two former British soldiers gathered to deliver a box with over 70,000 signatures calling on the UK government to grant Afghan interpreters asylum, a wreath was laid in memory of the 26 Afghan interpreters who have already been killed while serving with British forces. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Images from the weekend

Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

  • Updated: 8:17 a.m. Sunday, May 5, 2013
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