Celebrated Brazilian author Paulo Coelho released his latest novel Wednesday, "Manuscript Found in Accra," examining "values that span time."

It is Coelho's 22nd offering -- previous works, including "The Alchemist," "Veronica Decides to Die" and "The Zahir," have sold over 140 million copies in 73 languages.

A judge has given temporary guardianship of late singer Michael Jackson's three children to his nephew TJ amid a dispute over the supposed disappearance of the family's matriarch.

Katherine Jackson, the late singer's mother, had custody of Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket, but Judge Mitchell Beckloff suspended that arrangement because she had left the family home in Los Angeles.

Sharon Osbourne said Tuesday that she's ready to say goodbye to NBC's "America's Got Talent," taking the network by surprise.

In a posting on Twitter, Osbourne addressed "my darling" fellow judge Howard Stern and said, "money is not the reason I'm not returning" to the show. Her tweet trailed off with "it's because ...." and didn't elaborate.

Batman actor Christian Bale paid a low-key visit Tuesday to Aurora, Colorado to comfort victims of last week's shooting massacre, which occurred during a screening of his latest film.

Pictures posted on Twitter showed the Welsh-born actor at the Medical Center of Aurora, where 20 of the 58 people wounded in Friday's massacre are still receiving treatment, some of them in critical condition.

Five cast members from hit TV comedy Modern Family Tuesday filed a lawsuit to have their contracts declared void, which could help them renegotiate much better pay.

According to show business newspaper Variety, the actors did not show up Tuesday for the first readings of the fourth season.

Actor Sherman Hemsley, who rose to fame in the 1970s as the wise-cracking father in the hit sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died at the age of 74, police said Tuesday.

Hemsley was found dead in his El Paso, Texas home, No foul play is suspected, local police said in a statement.

British prosecutors Tuesday charged Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson and former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with phone hacking as the scandal lapped at Downing Street's door.

The Crown Prosecution Service announced that eight people, all either current or former employees of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, would face charges of illegal interception of voicemails.

When comedian Joan Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted about 15 years ago, she called on New Orleans voodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman to perform a "spiritual cleansing" of the brownstone.

Glassman said the pair became friends during that meeting, at which Glassman wore a flowing white gown and chased off the disturbing spirits in a night of rituals.

Actress Cybill Shepherd is hoping the third time's the charm.

The 62-year-old's publicist confirms Shepherd is planning to marry a former jeweler-turned-psychologist named Andrei (AHN'-dray) Nikolajevic (nik-oh-LY'-eh-vish).

Mariah Carey will join "American Idol" as a judge next season, Fox announced Monday, bringing her star power to the show that remains a ratings leader but has seen its viewership and pop culture status diminish.

"I am so excited to be joining 'Idol,'" said Carey, addressing the Television Critics Association via Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly's cellphone, which he put on speakerphone for the hotel ballroom meeting.