Sydney rocks in first of climate change concerts
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The first of nine concerts across the globe aimed at persuading millions of fans to go green for the environment swung into life in Sydney on Saturday with fiery vocals and a distinctive Australian beat.
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The world&#39;s biggest classical music festival gets under way in London Friday, its usual Monteverdi-to-Mahler line-up updated with a musical about climate change.
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Revelers in Australia staked out prime spots along Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge foreshore Monday, ready to be among the first to usher in 2008 with a massive fireworks display. Meanwhile, celebrations in other parts of Asia were marred by casualties.
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They rocked the world, but as the clean-up at nine climate change gigs around the globe begins, many wonder if the galaxy of pop stars did much to change it.
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Glastonbury, the world's biggest green field arts and music festival, opened on Friday with a record 177,500 people braving rain and mud to hear British rockers Arctic Monkeys, Icelander Bjork and the haunting sound of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
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LONDON/EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey  - Some of the world's biggest pop stars performed at Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday to persuade fans and governments to go green.
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The Live Earth concerts and Denmark's Roskilde Festival are to be honoured with environmental awards at the music industry's biggest annual event.
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Led Zeppelin perform their first concert for 19 years, before thousands of fans at London's O2 arena.
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Madonna, Metallica, The Police and Kanye West are among the top names listed to perform at a series of climate change concerts being held around the world starting Saturday in Australia.
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In eight major concerts, local and international celebrities backed solo and group acts to promote individual, corporate and government action to slow climate change.
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Australia kicked off a round-the-world series of music concerts designed to highlight climate change Saturday with a traditional Aboriginal welcome ceremony.
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More than 100 rock stars play nine concerts across the globe on Saturday in the hope of persuading millions of fans to go green and pressure governments to do the same.
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Legendary rock band The Who will play the first concert to be staged at the Swansea's Liberty Stadium.
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Glastonbury, the world's biggest open air arts and music festival, on Thursday made environmental issues a pillar of the three-day event by launching its "I Count" campaign to stop climate change.
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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  SYDNEY, Australia - A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered and the organizers in boiling water.
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Music stars will take part in eight concerts around the world in July to highlight the threat of global warming.
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Australia's prime minister calls for a new way forward on climate change as Apec talks begin in Sydney.