Madonna fends off fans and protesters to finish her retreat
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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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Madonna's Moscow concert kicked up controversy, but went off without incident.
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Israel was abuzz with excitement Wednesday over the arrival of Madonna, its biggest celebrity visitor in years. The pop star came to the Holy Land on a spiritual quest, including visits to the graves of revered rabbinical sages.
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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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Most people return home from trips abroad with snow globes and   Toblerone. Needless to say, Madonna is not most people.
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Madonna visited an orphanage in this impoverished African country Thursday, handing out copies of her book "The English Roses" to a crowd of AIDS orphans as her publicist dismissed claims that she was going to adopt a child herself.
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MOSCOW, Aug 28 (IPS) - Thousands of fans are expected to greet pop  superstar Madonna when she arrives in Moscow early next month,  but the Russian Orthodox Church wants Moscow city hall to ban the  concert, and is asking fans to boycott it.
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Madonna says the mock crucifixion in her stage act is not anti-Christian, as TV chiefs decide whether to air it.
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Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage. The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.
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Pop star Madonna visits Judaism's sacred Western Wall in the dead of night to avoid being mobbed by waiting photographers.
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After two years as the face of the antiwar movement, she has announced she's ending her public protests. A photographic look back at the antiwar mom's two years in the spotlight
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German prosecutors said Monday they have decided against opening an investigation into Madonna after the pop diva performed a controversial mock crucifixion scene at a weekend concert.
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Hundreds of Madonna fans lined up for 24 hours outside a central London bookstore where the pop singer signed copies of her new children's book Thursday.
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The chart-bursting singer walked away with a leading 11 awards at the music biz&#39;s biggest popularity contest, including trophies for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Confessions and
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The lucrative and heavily hyped Best of Both Worlds Tour featuring Chicago R&amp;B singer R. Kelly and hip-hop giant Jay-Z came to a halt Saturday as the simmering feud between the superstars erupted in public after a member of Jay-Z&#39;s camp allegedly attacked
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Madonna drew massive applause from a sold-out crowd at Paris' Bercy stadium when she dedicated a cover version of John Lennon's peace ode "Imagine" to the Russian hostage crisis.
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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.