New York  - A New York judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that accused actor Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica, of plagiarizing some of the content of her best-selling cookbook.

The lawsuit accused Jerry Seinfeld of defamation for denying the allegations on national television.

Los Angeles  - Courtney Love urged the recall of the newly released Guitar Hero 5 video game Thursday over what she said was an "odious" portrayal of her former husband, the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Los Angeles - Jennifer Aniston is to take on one of her first singing roles since acting school, she revealed in an interview with People magazine.

The former star of Friends said she will star in The Goree Girls, a film about a real-life 1940s country-music group formed by female prison inmates.

On Thursday, KDDI Corp, Japan's No. 2 phone operator, informed that a sum of nearly $132 million will be spent by it in order to buy a majority stake in DMX Technologies; for widening its fixed-line network services in China.

After European technology received 'positive outlook' comments from chip maker Texas Instruments and chip equipment firm ASML, its shares grew rapidly on Thursday.

A sum of about $2.2 billion would be paid by Daiwa Securities Group, in order to buy out Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) from their investment banking joint venture - a move that leaves Daiwa prone to intensifying competition for deals in Japan.

Today, the German government was informed about a decision taken by General Motors Co. on the future of its Adam Opel GmbH unit.

In a Wednesday announcement, the University of Cincinnati (UC) trustees named Gregory Williams, a New York college administrator, as the 27th president of the Ohio school. Williams, who succeeds Nancy Zimpher, would incidentally be the university's first black president, and would assume office with effect from November 1.

American teenage sensation Melanie Oudin Wednesday met her match in the Denmark tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, who outplayed and out-plotted the 17-year-old, beating her 6-2, 6-2, and securing her first-ever semi-final berth in a Grand Slam!

In a Wednesday meeting with the employees of The Boston Globe, Janet Robinson, CEO of New York Times Co, said that though The Times still intends selling The Globe, the decision has now become "not so imperative," with The Globe showing notable improvements in its finances, largely due to cost reductions.