New York, Mar 07 : It seems that singer Chris Brown is trying his best to shun away the bad memories of his alleged attack on Rihanna, as he was spotted leaving a Hollywood bar at 3:45 am.

Brown was escorted by his bodyguards when he left the chic Hollywood bar in the midnight, according to TMZ.

Brown has been charged with allegedly attacking Rihanna and leaving her with horrific injuries.

The charges against him could mean at least a five-year jail term.

New York, March 7: Hip-hop star M. I. A. has denied naming her newborn baby Ickitt on her MySpace page.

She criticised the press for spreading the rumour that she had given the odd name to her little son.

"My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit," the New York Daily News quoted her as writing in all caps.

"Thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. He''s a baby, he don''t need press!" she added.

New York, Mar 7: Wall Street fund manager Bernard Madoff, who is accused of defrauding investors of 50 billion dollars in a massive Ponzi scheme, could plead guilty as early as next week.

Madoff, the high-profile money manager, is expected to plead guilty to federal charges at a hearing on Thursday; FOX News quoted a Justice Department official, as saying.

Victims could speak at the hearing, and there are thousands of them, according to a motion filed in federal court.

New York, Mar 7: Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was hurt and his wife, Susan, has been killed in a car crash about 45 miles south of Harare.

According to officials of Tsvangirai’s political party, the Movement for Democratic Change, the head on collision with a lorry was not a genuine accident. Rumours that the fatal incident was a botched assassination attempt spread quickly in the country, which has a history of political killings.

New York  - Two former New York police detectives who worked secretly for years as mafia hitmen were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday, ending a long-running criminal trial.

Dubbed the "Mafia Cops" by New York media, Stephen Caracappa, 67, and Louis Eppolito, 60, were sentenced for eight murders, as well as racketeering, drug distribution and money-laundering charges in a district court in Brooklyn.

New York, Mar 6: Jennifer Aniston’s 56,000 dollars a week pay out to bring her hairstylist along on her ‘Marley & Me’ Europe tour might have raised many eyebrows, but elite stylists have claimed that such a fee is totally worth it.

Legendary hair stylist Edward Tricomi, co-founder of the elite Warren Tricomi salons, says that such a jaw-dropping sum for hair like Aniston’s is worth every penny.

"You can''t put any price on it - it''s priceless," the New York Daily News quoted Tricomi as saying.

Tricomi even likened Aniston and her pricey locks to a farmer, who might need a 4,000 dollars part to repair his tractor.