Justin Bieber is wanted for questioning by police in Los Angeles after a photographer complained of being roughed up by the pop star at a shopping centre.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Robert Wiard said the photographer called police yesterday and complained of pain to his chest.
Lt Wiard said the scuffle happened when the photographer tried to take pictures of Mr Bieber and his girlfriend, teenage actress Selena Gomez, after they walked out of a theatre.
The photographer was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.
Lt Wiard added Mr Bieber and Ms Gomez left before deputies arrived, so police want to get his side of the story.
Elvis’s crypt up for auction
For the right price, you or a loved one can rest in peace in the tomb of The King.
Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien is selling Elvis Presley’s original crypt as part of his Music Icons auction. The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.
Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died on August 16, 1977. Two months later, they were reburied at his Graceland home. The original crypt has remained empty ever since.
The winning bid from the auction beginning on June 23 will receive the crypt, opening and closing of the vault for burial, a memorial inscription and use of a chapel for a committal service. Transportation and funeral home charges are not included.
Rockers clinch ‘greatest album’
A chart-topping release by heavy rockers Iron Maiden has been named the greatest album of the past 60 years.
The group’s third LP The Number Of The Beast topped a month-long Jubilee poll to find the greatest releases during the Queen’s reign.
The ever-popular Beatles claimed more than a fifth of the votes in the survey by retailer HMV with four titles in the top 10. The Fab Four’s highest entry was the group’s biggest seller, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, at number three. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon was ranked fifth. The Number Of The Beast has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and features hits such as Run To The Hills.
Reviving the language of Jesus Christ
Two villages in Palestine’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East.
The focus on the region’s dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with a little help from modern technology: an Aramaic-speaking TV channel from Sweden, where a vibrant immigrant community has kept the ancient tongue alive.
In the Palestinian village of Beit Jala, an older generation of Aramaic speakers is trying to share it with their grandchildren.
Bumblebee buzzes back
A bumblebee that vanished from the English countryside almost a quarter of a century ago has been reintroduced.
Around 100 short-haired bumblebees (Bombus subterraneus) were brought from Sweden to repopulate areas where it previously thrived in the UK and around 50 of the healthiest speciments were released at the RSPB’s Dungeness reserve in Kent.
The short-haired bumblebee was last recorded the Dungeness area in 1988, having suffered declines over the past 60 years as its habitat was lost, and it was officially declared extinct in the UK in 2000.