60 A Russian TV channel has reportedly cut a segment of the ribald U.S. cartoon comedy South Park that appeared to mock Vladimir Putin. www.newsobserver.com/1602447 It's Paris Hilton's turn to tell her side of the story in a lawsuit claiming she didn't do enough to promote her 2006 sorority movie "Pledge This!" www.newsobserver.com/1601763 The mayor of Gary, Ind. says Michael Jackson's father will attend a memorial service for the pop icon in the family's hometown. www.newsobserver.com/1601627 Weekly charts for the nation's most popular videos as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission: www.newsobserver.com/1602195 Weekly charts for the nation's best-selling recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. (Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold.): www.newsobserver.com/1602197 Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history and trying to talk with his numerous former doctors, the Los Angeles police chief said. www.newsobserver.com/1602046 The New York Philharmonic is headed to Cuba to explore the communist nation after being invited to perform there in the fall. www.newsobserver.com/1602070 Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane will remain married. www.newsobserver.com/1601933 A city council member has called on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million cost for policing Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center. www.newsobserver.com/1601930 David Arquette is going to live in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry. www.newsobserver.com/1601910 Even Michael Jackson knew the masks and veils would have to come off one day. www.newsobserver.com/1601857 Death won't still the voice of Billy Mays or his mighty powers of persuasion. Viewers will continue to find the boisterous, bearded TV pitchman hawking household products for the indefinite future. And at least one of his commercials is being introduced posthumously. www.newsobserver.com/1601717 Imagine rooting through a shoe box of faded photographs of folks you know or thought you knew. Memories tumble out in an almost dreamlike haze - sad, funny and more than a little wistful. www.newsobserver.com/1601701 George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy's recent earthquake and told the survivors he'll shoot a film in their mountain region. www.newsobserver.com/1601607 Michael Moore's latest documentary now has a title - and a theme that resonates with recession-weary audiences. www.newsobserver.com/1601542 Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback www.newsobserver.com/1601520 HARDCOVER FICTION www.newsobserver.com/1601521 FICTION www.newsobserver.com/1601519 Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno." www.newsobserver.com/1601512 Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal. www.newsobserver.com/1601280 James Bond and the Boy from Oz are coming to Broadway. www.newsobserver.com/1601380 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life. www.newsobserver.com/1601323 Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 29-July 5. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses: www.newsobserver.com/1601321 Visitors to the Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains. www.newsobserver.com/1600254 The tricks of the trade of Britain's rambunctious tabloid press came under scrutiny Thursday, after a newspaper reported that a tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch had illegally hacked into the mobile phones of hundreds of celebrities and politicians. www.newsobserver.com/1601019 The government's drug czar says that Michael Jackson's death is a wake-up call to the nation about prescription drug abuse. www.newsobserver.com/1601176 From superstars to tribal dancers, thousands of African artists are celebrating their troubled continent's culture and potential in an epic festival - and looking back at what they've accomplished and squandered in four decades of freedom from colonial rule. www.newsobserver.com/1601144 The Dutch government turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador on Thursday and urged other countries to clamp down on the illicit trade of artifacts. www.newsobserver.com/1601110 Dole Foods sued a Swedish filmmaker and his film company for defamation on Wednesday, alleging he insisted on showing his documentary, "Bananas!" at the Los Angeles Film Festival after learning it was based on a fraud. www.newsobserver.com/1600909 Marijuana dealer Jesse James Hollywood faces a possible death sentence after his conviction for kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old boy over an escalating drug debt, a crime that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog." www.newsobserver.com/1600446