LOS ANGELES - THE new U2 album is on track to exceed industry forecasts by selling almost half a million copies during its first week on sale in the United States, the band's manager said on Monday.

'No Line on the Horizon,' the first superstar release of the year, went on sale last Tuesday in the United States and a day earlier everywhere else.

Seoul - An actress in the popular Korean drama, Boys Over Flowers, was found dead last Saturday in an apparent suicide, fuelling talk that the serial is jinxed.

Jang Ja Yeon, 26, played Sunny, one of a trio of mean girls who harass heroine Geum Jan Di (played by Gu Hye Seon) in the Korean version of the hit Taiwanese idol drama, Meteor Garden.

MADRID - A FIERCE debate has erupted in Spain's bullfighting world after the culture ministry gave an award to a handsome matador who some say is better known for his personal life than his abilities in the ring.

The controversy began two weeks ago when the ministry gave the Fine Arts medal to Francisco Rivera Ordonez, a member of Spain's most illustrious bullfighting family who is heavily involved in the business side of the sport.