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CBS asked a federal appeals court to set aside the $550,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission against the broadcaster for airing Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
The television network said the fine was "unconstitutional, contrary to the Communications Act and FCC rules and generally arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law."
The petition for review was filed in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia Mel Gibson was arrested in Malibu for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol Friday morning after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies pulled over his vehicle for speeding.
He was driving his 2006 Lexus sedan at about 80 mph in a 45 mph zone on the Pacific Coast Highway, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
"We arrested Mr The acoustic guitar that former Beatle Paul McCartney first learned to play on was sold Friday for 330,000 pounds (US$620,000; euro485, 000), a London auction house said.
The instrument was the star item in the sale of rock memorabilia at London's famous Abbey Road studios, where The Beatles produced most of their hits Daniel Radcliffe is getting ready to make his London stage debut, starring as the troubled stableboy who blinds horses in the play "Equus."
It's a play that requires the star to be naked in a key scene, but Radcliffe's spokeswoman says nudity isn't the focus of the play.
Radcliffe is currently 17 years old.
He'll be co-starring on stage with Richard Griffiths, the man who plays Harry's Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films Authorities charged a New York City man with murdering an 18-year-old Bergen County woman whose body was found in a trash bin.
A judge in Hudson County signed an arrest warrant Thursday afternoon charging Draymond Coleman, 35, of West 92nd Street, New York, with the slaying of Jennifer Moore.
The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said it had identified the body as that of Jennifer Moore of Harrington Park, who went missing after leaving a nightclub early Tuesday with a friend in Manhattan "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee proved that her vocal cords are better by singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on "The View" on Thursday. She also co-hosted the daytime talk show.
She explained that she missed the first few weeks of the Idol tour because her doctor ordered her not to talk or sing. She denied rumors that she had a relapse of her bulimia, or she thought she was too good for Idol POP star Prince is set to divorce his wife, Manuela Testolini Nelson.
The Purple Rain singer, 48, first met Manuela, 29, when she started work at his charitable foundation.
The couple married five years ago.
Prince's lawyer, Ian Eidsness, confirmed that the divorce papers for the couple were filed at Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court on May 24.
According to People, Prince's lawyer explained the filing for divorce came from Manuela alone The same day his divorce became final from Pamela Bach, David Hasselhoff was banned from boarding a British Airways flight after showing up to the gate intoxicated, according to The Sun newspaper.
After reportedly downing bottles of beer and shots of whiskey at a first class lounge at Heathrow, British Airways staff told Hasselhoff he was unfit to board the plane, which The Hoff agreed with The dress that has inspired more fashion designers, more high street copies and more celebrities in search of fashion credibility than any other is to go on sale at Christie's in December.
The little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's is being put up for auction by its current owner, Dominique Lapierre, on behalf of the charity City of Joy Aid, which raises money for India's poor.
The dress is expected to attract bids of up to £70,000 Hollywood heartthrobs Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx will make an appearance on the red carpet for the European premiere of Miami Vice tonight.
The new movie version of the 1980s hit cop show stars the pair as undercover cops Sonny Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Foxx).
The £73m (€106.5m) film, directed by Michael Mann, which is set to open in Ireland next week, has received a cool response from US critics
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