President Obama will have a late night chat with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" next week.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer says in a tweet that Obama will be on the show Tuesday.

After 14 years as one of Ireland's most successful boy bands, Westlife are finally handing in their mics.

The pop group members issued a statement announcing their split, saying "the decision is entirely amicable."

"The Sound of Music," the musical made world famous by the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews, has never been performed in the picture-postcard Austrian city of Salzburg where it is set.

But on Sunday this will change as the Salzburg State Theatre premieres a sell-out German-language version of the feel-good Rodgers and Hammerstein story of the singing-and-dancing von Trapp family on the eve of World War II.

A prequel to "Peter Pan" is flying to Broadway. Producers Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Greg Schaffert said Wednesday that "Peter and the Starcatcher," the first play commissioned by Disney, will be staged in the spring. It was last seen off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, where it earned five Drama Desk nominations.

The cast and theater will be announced later. When it was off-Broadway, it starred Christian Borle, who is to appear on the NBC series "Smash," and Adam Chanler-Berat, who is currently starring in the off-Broadway revival of "Rent" at New World Stages.

Trusty sidekick Snowy in tow, Tintin leaves his comic book universe for the brave new world of 3-D animation next week in Steven Spielberg's big-budget take on the boy reporter's intrepid adventures.

"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" brings the hero and his little white dog to the big screen on October 26, following a red-carpet world premiere in Tintin's native Brussels on Saturday.

Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber performed before thousands of screaming teenagers in Venezuela as he concluded a Latin America tour.

Bieber, clad in a purple and white jumpsuit, opened his first-ever concert with "Love Me," as fans packed the Simon Bolivar University football stadium, where the stage had been set up.

Singer Georges Wassouf has been transported to the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Thursday morning after suffering from a brain stroke.

Medical sources said that Wassouf, 50, was in Damascus where he suffered from the stroke.

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed delight Thursday at the birth of his new daughter, declaring it a "very profound joy, a joy all the deeper because it is private."

Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy had decided not to officially announce the birth, but Sarkozy reacted warmly when waste-processing plant workers gave him gifts during a visit to the western Mayenne region.

A city prosecutor will ask a judge to find Lindsay Lohan in violation of her probation and order her to spend time in jail, a city attorney's spokesman said Tuesday.

The move is based on the actress' most recent probation report that states she was terminated from a women's shelter where a judge wanted her to serve most of her community service, city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

President Barack Obama said he wanted to use his bus trip through rural North Carolina and Virginia to hear directly from the American people.

So he took questions on jobs, Social Security retirement benefits and education. Oh, and on pop star Justin Bieber.