Singer Janet Jackson has thanked the LA County firefighters for saving her Malibu estate from devastating fires by sending her own special present: two women to give them relaxing massages.
"It's a goodwill gesture, that's all," said Jackson.
O.J. Simpson has compared himself to Jesus and other Biblical figures and said he is working with "volunteers" to find the killers of his former wife and her friend.
"I look throughout history and when I read the Bible - from Moses to Jesus to whoever you want to name, Job - they all went through similar things. And that's what the Bible was to me, a map that says, `Things like this can happen in your life,"' Simpson said on the cable TV sports channel ESPN.
Junior Wells, a pioneer in blues harmonica who helped define the Chicago sound, has died. He was aged 63. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he moved to Chicago in 1946 and first made his mark playing in the Muddy Waters band.
Yehudi Menuhin (81) received the Otto Han Peace Medal in Berlin yesterday, in recognition of his efforts at promoting world peace.