Madonna Plays Moscow Amongst Protest
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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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Russian nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked demonstrators calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while riot police detained dozens of gay protesters.
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The United Nations is facing criticism over claims that a star-studded fundraising event hosted by Madonna at its headquarters last night was used to promote the controversial Kabbalah Centre and a new Gucci store
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Madonna may want to keep her baby --  but now she's got a fight on her hands.
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For even a performer who courts controversy, Madonna's upcoming concert in Moscow has drawn considerable uproar.
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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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Pop star Madonna will sing suspended  from a cross in the finale of her Moscow concert on Tuesday  despite a plea from the Russian Orthodox Church to drop that  part of her act.
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Madonna launched her first world  tour in two years on Sunday, delighting an enthusiastic Los  Angeles crowd by hanging herself from a cross, insulting  President George W. Bush, and dusting off some of the sexy  moves that have sustained her career for more than 20 years.
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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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Pop star Madonna is due to stage her  first concert in Russia at Moscow University next month, but  due to crowd control fears, she might have to perform instead  at an airfield where suicide bombers once killed 15  concert-goers.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Thousands of cheering fans  called on Mexico's tarnished "Madonna," Gloria Trevi, to resume  her singing career when she arrived at a hometown Mass on  Thursday to celebrate her release from jail.
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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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Ageing pop icon Madonna performed at the Live Earth concert in London to raise funds to protect the environment from "herself".
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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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Pop idol Madonna, fresh from her acclaimed &quot;Re-Invention&quot; tour, began a spiritual pilgrimage to Israel on Wednesday to practice her newfound faith in the mystical Jewish Kabbalah.
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The outcry over the police beating of  a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights has caused an unexpected burst of civic activism across Russia.
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Prosecutors plan to keep an eye on Madonna's weekend concert in Duesseldorf to see if the pop diva repeats the mock crucifixion scene that has drawn fire from religious leaders.