Entertainment

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Subscription music service Rhapsody has signed on to assist The Recording Academy's push for the availability of digital liner notes.

STOCKHOLM - Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the international 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most prestigious award for musicians.

NEWARK, N.J. - Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill stood in federal court Monday and compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.

NEW DELHI - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan jokes that he will wear a mask and sneak into a Mumbai stadium to watch his cricket team play in the Indian Premier League.

AUSTIN, Texas - Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse - this year's expanded Austin City Limits Festival will feature something of a European invasion with five of eight headliners at least partially coming from across the Atlantic Ocean.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis was found guilty Monday of misdemeanour counts of assault and false imprisonment stemming from a dispute with three women after a night out at a Hollywood club in 2011.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Megastar singer Justin Bieber is known for his slick dance moves onstage. But spinning away from a mash-up between security guards and a rogue fan has become the hit of his concert in Dubai.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is seeking a book deal, The Associated Press has learned.

WASHINGTON - While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life.