Elton Slammed For Royal Attack

November 18th, 2009 LONDON - British comedian Ben Elton has evoked many frowns after hurling insults at the Queen on Australian TV. The 50-year-old appeared on comedy quiz show Good News Week where he launched a foul-mouthed tirade against the Royal Family in a word-association game.

November 17th, 2009 more images Sir Elton John hides his face while leaving his hotel in Manhattan with his partner.

November 15th, 2009 ELTON JOHN\'s E.coli infection and flu symptoms have prompted the Rocket Man to scrap a weekend show in California. The pop pianist and touring partner Billy Joel were hoping to bring their Face 2 Face Tour to the Oracle Arena in Oakland on Saturday night (14Nov09), but Elton is still too sick to perform.

November 2nd, 2009 Washington, (ANI): Elton John's illness is weighing so heavily on him that the star has now postponed three upcoming gigs in Seattle and Portland after cancelling a series of concerts in the UK. According to his official website, the shows have been postponed "due to a serious case of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza," reports Us mag.

October 24th, 2009 SIR ELTON JOHN scrapped a sell-out gig in Britain at short notice on Friday night (23Oct09) after falling ill with influenza. The Rocket Man was due to play to more than 13,000 fans at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England but pulled out just hours before he was due to take the stage for his Red Piano show.

October 17th, 2009 The executive director of SIR ELTON JOHN's AIDS Foundation has died, aged 62. Robert Key passed away on Thursday (15Oct09) following a bone-marrow transplant.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - The father of the 15-month-old Ukranian boy whom Sir Elton John wants to adopt has said the singer must also take him along to London with his son. Thirty-one-year old former drug addict and murderer Sergey insisted that he did not mind the singer becoming his son Lev's guardian.

October 5th, 2009 The father of the Ukrainian boy SIR ELTON JOHN dreamed of adopting wants the singer to take the tot to Britain - so he can come along too. John and his partner David Furnish wanted to take 15-month-old Lev back to England after meeting him during a visit to an orphanage in Makeeva, Ukraine last month (Sep09).

October 4th, 2009 LONDON - After being banned from adopting a 14-month-old tot by the Ukrainian government, Sir Elton John and partner are considering adopting a boy in Africa. The musician's civil partner, David Furnish, disclosed at the launch of Stephen Calloway's book Gosling: Classic Design for Contemporary Interiors, at the Ritz: "We were in Africa for the [Sir Elton John] Aids Foundation and met a boy, and immediately thought about adopting him," "When we found out he had a maternal grandmother, and brother and sister, we realised it wouldn't be the right thing to take him away from the family he had there," he said.

September 21st, 2009 ELTON JOHN has paid tribute to his longtime keyboard player GUY GRAHAM BABYLON who died in hospital in California earlier this month (Sep09). A former competitive swimmer, the Grammy Award-winner died of arrhythmia.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Elton John is planning to adopt a child from Ukraine with partner David Furnish. The singer revealed that a 14-month-old boy called Lev has apparently "stolen his heart." The child had performed at an orphanage in Ukraine while the 'Candle In The Wind' hitmaker was on a visit.

September 13th, 2009 SIR ELTON JOHN is set to follow in the footsteps of ANGELINA JOLIE and MADONNA - he wants to adopt a baby boy. Sir Elton, 62, has long considered adoption, but always rejected the idea because of his age and touring lifestyle.

August 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Brit singer Sir Elton John has been accused of using an autocue during his concerts, as he cannot remember the lines to his famous songs. John, 62, was playing at a private birthday party in Monaco recently, when a photographer snapped a picture of a digital device buried in a flower arrangement, which clearly displayed the words to the singer's 1970 hit 'Your Song'.

July 27th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Elton John was forced to cancel a concert in New York after his musical partner for the show Billy Joel showed flu-like symptoms. Doctors reportedly ordered Joel to rest after he showed signs of an influenza bout, the Daily Star reports.

May 9th, 2009 Woman becomes 7th victim of Dutch parade crashAPELDOORN, Netherlands — A woman died of her injuries more than a week after a man plowed his car into a crowd during a parade, becoming the seventh victim of a failed attack on the Dutch royal family, authorities said Saturday. The 46-year-old woman, whose identity was not released, was among about a dozen people struck down in the April 30 attack.