Madonna switches Moscow concert to Olympic stadium
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Organizers on Monday switched the venue  for Madonna's Moscow concert from a hilltop site overlooking  the city to a Soviet-era stadium used in the 1980 Olympic Games  because of crowd control fears.
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By JUDITH INGRAM  MOSCOW - Madonna took to the stage of Moscow's biggest stadium Tuesday night in spite of religious protesters' threats to disrupt the performance.
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Madonna is among a host of female stars to perform on a charity single by singer Annie Lennox.
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Singer George Michael is to perform the first concert at London's new Wembley Stadium, it is announced.
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The South Korean city of Pyeongchang or the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Russia will stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games after third candidate Salzburg was eliminated on Wednesday.
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Madonna stages a mock-crucifixion during a show in Rome, where religious leaders have condemned the move.
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Pop diva Madonna last performed in Israel in 1993, but has come to the country this time to take part in a Kabbalah conference sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Center.
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Pop idol Madonna, fresh from her  acclaimed "Re-Invention" tour, began a spiritual pilgrimage to  Israel on Wednesday to practice her newfound faith in the  mystical Jewish Kabbalah.
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Madonna will wrap her Confessions  tour Thursday at the Tokyo Dome as the top-grossing tour ever  by a female artist.
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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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Posters throughout the Russian capital had proclaimed the venue and date for a month, 40,000 tickets had already been sold. But for the past week a long-awaited concert in Moscow by Madonna had become mired in security concerns, and it was anyone's guess where and when the show would take place, if at all.
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Pop star Madonna's Russian concert was  pushed back a day to avoid performing on the fifth anniversary  of the September 11 attacks on the United States, a Russian  organizer said on Monday.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lent support to a bid to play host to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, saying his country wanted a chance to show it could stage a successful Winter Games.Putin said yesterday in Guatemala City that Russia, a leading Olympic medal-winning nation that has never played host to the Winter Olympics, had long supported the Games movement.The International Olympic Committee will decide the winning bid today in the Guatemalan capital, with Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, also in the running.
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MUNICH  - Her movie career did not amount to much, but Madonna will hope for better luck behind the camera when her directing debut makes its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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Madonna has invited Eugene Hutz, Gogol  Bordello&#39;s self-styled &quot;bandleader and agent provocateur,&quot; and  Sergey Ryabtsev, the New York gypsy punk act&#39;s violinist, to  perform with her at Live Earth on Saturday (July 7).
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Fresh from her acclaimed "Re-Invention" tour, pop idol Madonna embarks on Wednesday on a spiritual pilgrimage to Israel to practice her newfound faith in the mystical Jewish Kabbalah.
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Pop star Madonna's Russian concert was   pushed back a day to avoid performing on the fifth anniversary   of the September 11 attacks on the United States, a Russian   organizer said on Monday.