BERLIN Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal.

MALMO, Sweden Flashy skirts, fake tans, fur and feathers: It's the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.

AUSTIN, Texas Country star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent two state agencies from releasing a patrol car video of his 2012 DWI arrest in North Texas.

CANNES, France The Weinstein Company's fall slate of awards contenders will feature a glamorous Grace Kelly, a brawny Nelson Mandela and a mysterious J.D. Salinger.

LONDON George Michael was being treated at a hospital Friday for what his publicist called minor injuries after being a passenger in a car crash near London.

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is putting on a show at the White House next week for singer-songwriter Carole King.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. One by one the teenage singers practice the opening lines to "Boogie Wonderland," a disco-funk hit from an era before they were born, as dancers work on hip-swinging moves that require perfect choreography.

Amy Grant, "How Mercy Looks From Here" (Capitol Christian)

LOS ANGELES Randy Jackson isn't sure which budding diva will take the crown on "American Idol."

BOSTON Andris (AHN'-driss) Nelsons has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

LONDON Hit boy band One Direction has announced plans for an ambitious world tour in 2014.

AUSTIN, Texas The guys in Vampire Weekend changed how they wrote songs, how they record and what an album of theirs even looks like - the cover for "Modern Vampires of the City" is not another artsy old Polaroid, but a 1966 black-and-white photo of a smoggy New York skyline.

LOS ANGELES With a flawless voice that recalled past "American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson and a sense of determination after not making it in previous seasons, Candice Glover did the one thing Hudson wasn't able to do: She won the title of "American Idol."

SINGAPORE Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial Wednesday of six church leaders accused of embezzling more than $40 million to fund the pop music career of the wife of their evangelical movement's founder.

NEW YORK Phoenix frontman and singer Thomas Mars says their new album "Bankrupt!" was born out of the negative influences going on in the band after the unprecedented success of their Grammy-winning 2009 album, "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix."

LOS ANGELES The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook.

LOS ANGELES For most of the last three decades, ABBA was but a memory for Agnetha Faltskog. She made concerted efforts to leave behind her past as one of two principal singers of the best-selling 1970s Swedish quartet, best known for the pop classic "Dancing Queen."

LOS ANGELES Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and music industry entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine have donated a combined $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, the school announced Tuesday night.

MELBOURNE, Australia The lead singer of the 1960s Australian folk-pop group The Seekers is recovering from a brain hemorrhage suffered after a concert.