Boy George declares himself “free” man after electronic tag removal

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Singer George Michael had come close to a nervous breakdown after his split with partner Kenny Goss, it has emerged. The 'Careless Whisper' hitmaker's lover had left him after he was arrested for possessing drugs last year.

September 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Culture Club frontman Boy George is drawing plans to head back to the studio and resurrect his career just fourth months after he walked free from jail. The fallen pop star, real name George O'Dowd, was jailed in January for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat and beating the 29-year-old after a drug-fuelled nude photo shoot in 2007.

September 2nd, 2009 Former CULTURE CLUB frontman BOY GEORGE is celebrating after prison officials removed his electronic tag - declaring himself a "free" man. The singer, real name George O'Dowd, was jailed in January (09) for the false imprisonment and assault of male escort Audun Carlsen in 2007.

August 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Handwritten love letters have become a thing of past, thanks to electronic love mails. The immediacy of heartfelt emails or text messages has replaced the intimacy of the handwritten word.

August 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - George Clooney is planning to sue a paparazzo, who allegedly climbed the wall of his Lake Como retreat in Italy and took snaps of a topless 13-year-old girl changing in one of the star's guest bedrooms. The photographer also reportedly took shots of Clooney and his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis enjoying private moments in the yard of his estate, reports Contactmusic.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - George Michael was arrested in the wee hours on Friday, after he ploughed his Range Rover into the back of a lorry on a dual carriageway. The 'Faith' hitmaker's car was dragged for 100 yards after it got jammed in the lorry's rear axle.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Brit actress Sienna Miller is rumoured to have found a new love who goes by the stage name of Slinky Wizard, after her split from married billionaire, Balthazar Getty. Miller, 27, is said to have met rugged DJ George Barker earlier this year, and that she had taken him on a special date to the Secret Garden Party last month.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Ocean's Eleven' star George Clooney is said to be back on the dating scene after he was photographed with an Italian TV presenter in Rome. Clooney, 48, has been single ever since he split from long-time girlfriend Sarah Larson last year, and he is once again said to have found love in Elisabetta Canalis, reports Contactmusic.

July 27th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Kelly Osbourne has developed a new hobby-electronic book reading. Since writing her first book, rocker Ozzy's daughter, 24, has launched the Sony Summer Reader Roadshow - a library for electronic book reading.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - Boy George wants to go back to prison so he could perform for inmates. The former Culture Club singer and recovering drug addict was released from Edmunds Hill Prison, in Suffolk, in May.

July 21st, 2009 New Barnes & Noble multi-format e-books dog AmazonPORTLAND, Ore. — Barnes & Noble Inc.

July 14th, 2009 Some final words coming from George CarlinNEW YORK — Some final thoughts are coming from George Carlin. Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, said Tuesday that the comedian's book "Last Words" will be published in November.

June 24th, 2009 Author acknowledges lifting Wiki materialNEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken for using passages — without attribution — that closely resembled material from Wikipedia and other sources included in his latest release, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected," Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote on his blog Wednesday.

June 20th, 2009 Mich. mermaid sculpture targeted as illegal copyGREENVILLE, Mich. — A Little Mermaid statue that has stood in a park in a Michigan city since 1994 may be removed because of a claim it's an illegal replica of the famous original in Denmark.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - If you think that massage after exercise improves blood flow to the muscle, better think again, for a study conducted by Canadian scientists at Queen's University suggests the contrary. The researchers say that their study debunks the myth that massage after exercise improves circulation to the muscle, and assists in the removal of lactic acid and other waste products.