Paintings, writings and the iconic blue sweater of the audacious assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian are going up for auction, his attorney and close friend said Friday.

Lawyer Mayer Morganroth said the late pathologist's artwork and items will be sold in late October at the New York Institute of Technology.

A Congolese man pleaded with a Belgian court on Friday to remove "Tintin in the Congo" from bookshelves, arguing that the comic book is littered with racist stereotypes about Africans.

"It is a racist comic book that celebrates colonialism and the supremacy of the white race over the black race," Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo said as he arrived for the opening of the civil trial in Brussels.

Michael Jackson's doctor scrambled to hide equipment including a "milky white" liquid near the star's bed minutes after he died, as his distraught children sobbed, a court heard Thursday.

Amid frantic scenes, Jackson's daughter Paris screamed "Daddy!" as she saw doctor Conrad Murray pumping her father's chest, as he lay eyes open but seemingly already dead, according to testimony at the medic's trial.

Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, says there aren't many contemporary singers who could "lead" a band, and he partially blames shows like "American Idol" for it.

"A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that — I don't ever hear lead singers," he said. "They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer."

A Brazilian government agency says it wants a TV ad starring a lingerie-clad Gisele Bundchen to be taken off the air because it is sexist.

The Women's Rights Secretariat says in a Thursday statement that it has asked the National Advertising Council to suspend the ad.

Over the past seven years, the developers at Starbreeze Studios have created video games based on a film franchise ("The Chronicles of Riddick") and a comic series ("The Darkness").

For the latest entry in its first-person shooter catalog, the independent Swedish gamemaker is turning to an unexpected source of inspiration: another video game.

Tony Bennett made music history Wednesday when he topped the Billboard album chart for the first time in his 60-year career -- and became the oldest living act ever to do so.

Bennett, 85, a 15-time Grammy winner who plays London and Copenhagen next week, reached the summit with "Duets II" featuring collaborations with 17 other stars including Lady Gaga, Michael Buble and the late Amy Winehouse.

South Africans will glimpse into the lives of Nelson Mandela's family when a reality show featuring three of his grandchildren premiers in 2012, the producers said Thursday.

"The show provides a first look into a high-profile South African family," the producers said in a statement.

Pop stars including Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen will come out in New York to help rocker Sting celebrate his 60th birthday in a charity concert.

Sting invited the stellar guest list -- also including Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and Billy Joel -- to his bash at the Beacon Theater on October 1. Proceeds will go to the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, sting.com website said.

Flushed with the triumph of her latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is the toast of the town as she sits in a Beirut cafe giving interview after interview.

The movie "Where Do We Go Now?", about a group of women determined to prevent the men in their village from getting involved in a religious war, won best picture at the festival's People's Choice Award, seen as a bellwether for Oscar success.