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.

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston might be closer friends than anyone realized.

Describing Aniston Monday night at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood event, Witherspoon said, "you just want to get your nails done with her and you want to make out with her at the same time."

Did Vincent van Gogh, one of the world's greatest artists despite having sold just one painting in his short and tortured lifetime, commit suicide in 1890 in a wheat field in northern France?

Two American authors are now challenging the theory that the enigmatic post-Impressionist killed himself aged 37, saying he claimed to have attempted suicide to protect two teenaged brothers -- one of whom shot him.

Naomi Campbell put her bad-girl reputation aside as she was honored by the Gabrielle Angel Foundation.

The supermodel says it meant a lot to her to be recognized by such an important cause.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back on set as a small-town sheriff in his first starring role since stepping down as governor of California and admitting to fathering a child with the family maid.

Lionsgate studios said Schwarzenegger, 64, has begun work on the set of "The Last Stand," directed by South Korean Jee-woon Kim, in which the actor will play his first starring role since 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."

Japan has overtaken France for the number of restaurants with three Michelin stars, according to the latest guide to the nation's western cities to be released on Friday.

Japan is now home to 29 establishments that hold the highly coveted three-star rating, against 25 in France.

An Indonesian princess married her prince Tuesday in the historical sultanate of Yogyakarta.

Princess Nurastuti Wijareni, 25, married 29-year-old Achmad Ubaidillah in a traditional Javanese-Muslim ceremony attended by more than 2,000 guests that included the Indonesian president.