• Hong Kong pop singer Jacky Cheung lashed out at claims he has fired 21 Filipina maids in three years. "Is there anything wrong if we fire a maid when we find out that she is not helpful?" the 46-year-old said.
Cheung, dubbed "the Terminator" by domestic workers, said some of them resigned on their first day after seeing there were too many stairs at his four-storey luxury home. Agence France-Presse • Colombian pop star Shakira announced a US$40-million donation last week to repair damage caused by an earthquake in Peru and a hurricane in Nicaragua. Shakira is the co-founder of the Latin America for Solidarity Foundation, ALAS, which means wings in Spanish, with author Gabriel GarcГa MГЎrquez.
"I’ve seen first-hand many of the challenges facing Latin America," she said. Reuters • Britney Spears' much-maligned comeback at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards was picked as the most embarrassing dance sequence of all time in a survey published on Friday. Spears, whose performance was condemned as "a crime against choreography," topped the UKTV Gold poll after fighting off British comedian Ricky Gervais in The Office and actor Hugh Grant in Love Actually .
Reuters • Greece will dedicate a museum to Alexander the Great in Pella, his birthplace and the seat of the Macedonian kingdom that once ruled from Europe to India, an official said on Friday. The new museum will contain mosaics, weapons, jewellery and other finds. "We even found a curse which shows that the Macedonians spoke Doric, an ancient Greek dialect," the official said.
Agence France-Presse [ Jacky Cheung and Minnie Mouse.
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