NEW YORK (AP) -- An army of fans — more than 500,000 of them — went out to support Sade's latest CD, "Soldier of Love," giving the group their first No. 1 disc in 20 years.

"Soldier of Love" sold 501,665 units in its first week, debuting on top of the Billboard 200 album charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The CD is the follow-up to their Grammy-winning album "Lovers Rock," released in 2000.

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LONDON (AP) -- Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82.

Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine — who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a spot with his band — announced her husband's death before the finale of an anniversary concert at The Stables, the theater they founded together.

Monica Ferguson, the theater's chief executive

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Sade, "Soldier of Love" – Like a long-ago lover not quite forgotten, Sade has returned to steal our hearts with more beautiful, uncategorizable music.

It's been 10 years since her last album, a fatal hiatus for almost any other artist, but just another hibernation for a woman whose disdain for fame only deepens our fascination. Sade's voice sounds unchanged, a unique emotional instrument that conjures visions of rain-streaked

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I returned to the movies last week to see Mel Gibson's thriller "Edge of Darkness." A large part of me was anxious to see it since I knew Gibson plays a Boston cop whose daughter is murdered in front of him. As Gibson's character, Detective Thomas Craven, launches his own investigation into his daughter's untimely demise, he starts unraveling threads to a conspiracy involving big business and government in Massachusetts.

While this sounds like a promising plot that could be quite more...

Happy new year TV lovers! Now that the holidays are over, your favorite television shows are coming back in full swing, starting with a new season of our favorite reality dating show with a very familiar face.

"The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love" - ABC - Monday, Jan. 4, 2009

At first, I was planning to skip this season of "The Bachelor." Jake Pavelka never really interested me when he was on the last season of "The Bachelorette," so I wasn't interested in watching him more...

Lawyers representing the guardians of Courtney Love's daughter have filed a court request to seal legal documents relating "to a minor and allegations of domestic violence".

Seventeen-year-old Frances Bean Cobain, whose father is the late Kurt Cobain, was placed under the temporary guardianship of her paternal grandmother, Wendy O'Connor, and her aunt, Kimberly Dawn Cobain, earlier this month after requesting to live with her relatives.

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Mischa Barton prefers kissing girls onscreen because lesbian love scenes are more "relaxed." The 23-year-old actress locked lips with Alex Kelly during her stint on teen drama The O.C., and she got intimate with Evan Rachel Wood in the TV show Once And Again.

Barton also starred in 2008 movie You and I, which told the story of two teenage girls who fall in love after meeting at a concert.

Barton admits she prefers same-sex smooching in front of the camera, because more...