Bob Geldof took over for a day as the editor of Germany's biggest-selling daily newspaper, which appeared yesterday with an impassioned front-page plea for the country's leaders to "end the misery" in Africa. Geldof's stint at the mass-circulation Bild came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to host next week's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm. She has pledged to make Africa a major issue.
Bild's front page carried a large picture of an emaciated child inside the outline of Africa. "End this! Now!
" the headline said. A front-page Geldof commentary told German leaders, "You can change things and people want you to. .
.. Do your job!
" Among other contributions: President Bush underlined his commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere, U2 singer Bono echoed Geldof's call to help Africa, and Ocean's Thirteen star George Clooney highlighted the violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth movie based on the best-selling books, will open in U.S.
theaters July 11, two days earlier than previously scheduled. Warner Bros., the distributor, gave no explanation for the change.
The world premiere of the movie, directed by David Yates, will be June 28 in Tokyo. The seventh and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is still scheduled for release July 21.
Until now, when asked her favorite male singers, Jordin Sparks named John Mayer and Justin Timberlake.
But the new American Idol champ added another name Wednesday: Sanjaya Malakar. "He had so much guts," Sparks, 17, said. "He had so much strength.
He got a lot of criticism, but for him to go out on that stage and hold his head high ...
I really look up to him for that. He's just an amazing kid." Sparks and Malakar, also 17, will sing with other finalists on the American Idol concert tour, which kicks off July 6 in Sunrise, Fla.
, and ends Sept. 23 in Manchester, N.H.
It will stop in Louisville on Aug. 17.
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