Entertainment

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is putting on a show at the White House next week for singer-songwriter Carole King.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo.

TORONTO - Vancouver's Stan Douglas has won this year's $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award.

PARIS - A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town's film festival.

BERLIN - Conveyor belts hum quietly, towering over piles of dark red wax. A giant mauve object that looks like a deflating balloon sprawls and sags its way across three rooms. A dark pigment circle creates the illusion of a black hole opening up in the floor. And there are lots of mirrors: convex, concave, twisting and a painted "blood mirror."

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - With a flawless voice that recalled past "American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson and a sense of determination after not making it in previous seasons, Candice Glover did the one thing Hudson wasn't able to do: She won the title of "American Idol."

BERLIN - German officials say Justin Bieber will have to pay the bill for his monkey's two-month stay at a Munich animal shelter.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Forget the DVR.