U2, Beyonce, Eminem win as MTV awards return to Berlin

November 5th, 2009 Winners of the 16th annual MTV Europe Music AwardsBERLIN — Winners of the 16th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, presented Thursday: Best Song — Beyonce for "Halo" Best Live Act — U2 Best Group — Tokio Hotel Best New Act — Lady Gaga Best Female — Beyonce Best Male — Eminem Best Urban — Jay-Z Best Rock — Green Day Best Alternative — Placebo Best Video — Beyonce Best Push Artist — Pixie Lott Best World Stage Performance — Linkin Park Best European Act — maNga (Turkey)

November 5th, 2009 U2, Beyonce draw fans for MTV's Berlin showBERLIN — Berlin loves Beyonce. The R&B superstar scooped up three wins Thursday at the 16th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, including trophies for best female, best song for "Halo" and best video for her No.

November 2nd, 2009 more images more imagesLONDON - Rapper Kanye West is working hard on something new and his DJ A Track is impressed by his new compositions. "Kanye's taking a bit of time away from the limelight.

November 2nd, 2009 more images more images more images more images MTV Europe Awards to celebrate fall of Berlin wall BERLIN — For Katy Perry, learning can be fun. The singer, hosting MTV's European Music Awards for a second consecutive year, said that Thursday's show is a chance to combine performances by artists like U2, Foo Fighters and Leona Lewis with a remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the Nov.

October 29th, 2009 BERLIN - Fritz Lang's original cut of "Metropolis" from 1927 will return to the screen at the 60th Berlin International Festival in 2010, organisers said Thursday. The classic silent film - reconstructed and restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation - will be shown Feb 12, 83 years after the original version had its world premiere.

October 28th, 2009 more images more imagesFree U2 Berlin concert tix gone in 3 hoursBERLIN — Lucky U2 fans have found what they were looking for. The 10,000 tickets for the Irish rockers' free Nov.

October 27th, 2009 U2 to play free show to mark fall of Berlin WallBERLIN — Achtung, baby: U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Music network MTV said the Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov.

October 15th, 2009 Key winners at Cannes, Berlin compete for Oscars LOS ANGELES — Top prize-winners from the Cannes and Berlin film festivals are among 65 movies competing for the foreign-language honor at the Academy Awards next March. Oscar contenders include Germany's "The White Ribbon," director Michael Haneke's sober drama that won the main prize at May's Cannes festival.

October 13th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson was nominated Tuesday for five prizes at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year. Almost four months after his shocking death, Jackson was also nominated for favourite male artist and favourite album in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B category.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Pop singer Beyonce Knowles is so impressed with her dad's past that she wants to make a movie about his "childhood and school years". According to contactmusic.com, her father Matthew Knowles had left his job as a salesman to help his daughter and her bandmates to stardom.

October 2nd, 2009 Giant marionettes celebrate unified BerlinBERLIN — The first of a pair of giant marionettes has awakened in Berlin and started the search for her missing partner as part of a massive-scale street performance celebrating German reunification. The 7.5-meter (25-foot) wooden doll hanging from a crane and clad in a bright yellow rain slicker and hat launched her search Friday with the help of dozens of handlers and puppeteers.

August 4th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - MTV announced Tuesday the nominees for its 2009 Video Music Awards with singers Beyonce and Lady Gaga leading the field with nine nominations each. Britney Spears continued her comeback trail with seven nominations, ahead of Kanye West, Eminem and Coldplay with four each, Green Day with three and Jay-Z with two.

August 1st, 2009 LONDON - Through his latest song, rapper Eminem is threatening singer-actress Mariah Carey that he will leak her nude snaps if she continues to deny that they ever had a relationship. Carey had poked fun at Eminem in her video "Obsessed" in which she said he was "delusional" for hinting they had slept together in his track "Bagpipes from Baghdad".

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Rapper Eminem is making a return to Hollywood after seven years with the comedy Funny People. Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, won critical acclaim for his role in the autobiographical movie 8 Mile in 2002, but put his acting career on hold to focus on music, reports contactmusic.com.

June 1st, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The teenage vampire movie "Twilight" has swept the honours at the MTV Movie Awards night, winning five awards including best movie and best actress for Kristen Stewart. Zac Efron was voted Sunday best actor for his performance in High School Musical, but his award was overshadowed by Sacha Baron Cohen.