Madonna's "Confessions" tour sets record
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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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Pop singer Madonna on Thursday   defended staging a mock crucifixion during her record-breaking   "Confessions" world tour, saying it was not "anti-Christian,   sacrilegious or blasphemous" -- but a plea for people to help   one another.
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Madonna, the Catholic pop diva turned Jewish mystic, ended a five-day retreat last night with 2,000 fellow searchers in the comfort of a five-star Tel-Aviv hotel.
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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 embarks on a visit to Israel with her family as part of her interest in the Kabbalah faith.
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US television host Regis Philbin will break the world record for spending the most hours on television on Friday.
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Two of Madonna's bodyguards are arrested in Israel after an alleged brawl with photographers, as the star makes a spiritual pilgrimage.
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Madonna signs a ground-breaking recording and touring contract with concert promoter Live Nation.
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Pop star Madonna says she will not allow herself to become a victim of ageism
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Madonna's pay-packet, Janet Jackson's malfunctioning wardrobe, Hillary Clinton's memoirs and Sigourney Weaver's height all have one thing in common -- they're world record breakers.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Madonna's blockbuster Re-Invention  tour took all of the drama out of the top tour of the year  race, ringing up a year's best $125 million in total box office  gross by the time it wrapped in September.
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Madonna made a rare foray into politics Tuesday, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio, reports Agence France-Presse.
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Madonna, a student of Jewish mysticism, was arriving in Israel for the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown on Wednesday. The five-day visit, which includes trips to graves of rabbinical sages, brought
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Girls Aloud enter the new World Records book with the most consecutive UK top 10s by a female act.
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Pop star Madonna hosted a celebrity-studded event on Wednesday on the lawns of the United Nations to aid Malawi orphans, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and -- controversially -- to inaugurate a new Gucci store.
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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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Pop superstar Madonna has hit back after being accused of cheating prestigious fashion house Gucci into raising money for Kabbalah causes under the guise of helping Malawian orphans.