LOS ANGELES

Justin Bieber and Christina Aguilera will be among the artists taking the stage at the 2011 American Music Awards, Dick Clark Productions president and executive producer Orly Anderson announced Monday.

President Barack Obama returns to Los Angeles Monday, just in time for rush-hour, for two fundraisers in Hancock Park.

President Barack racked up cash for his re-election campaign at fundraisers in Nevada and California on Monday, declaring that he had kept 60 percent of the promises he made as a candidate in 2008.

On Jan. 4, two joggers, living at the Marine Corps base north of San Diego, discovered the naked body of Anneka Vasta at a beach in Camp Pendleton, in no-man's land. The woman was so slim, young and youthful that she was initially thought to be a teenager. However, it turned out that the body was one of a 58-year-old woman.

Victoria Beckham's eponymous label has generated sales in excess of $24 million during the first quarter of 2011. It is further believed that if this trend continues, the designer could very well generate over $96 million from her fashion line.

When California lawmakers reached a deal to close a $10 billion budget gap in June, critics warned the agreement relied too heavily on $4 billion in additional tax revenue projected to materialize with a rapidly rebounding economy.

Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez square off for the third time.

Stuart Walker, a young gay hotel manager and barman, was found tied, beaten and burned alive in Cumnock, Scotland this weekend. Though police will not confirm that Walker was the victim of a hate crime, his death, evoking as it does the legacy of Matthew Shepard and the rash of gay teen suicides in North America, is a testament to how far the LGBT movement still has to go, and how stark a reality dying for who you love can still be for gay teens and adults.

A TSA officer allegedly left a note in one travelers' bag that read GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL after he discovered her vibrator.

Scientists are scrambling to develop a universal flu vaccine that will protect against all strains of influenza. Some pharmaceutical companies say that vaccine could be available as soon as 2014.

Members of National Nurses United are rallying outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office after police arrested two nurses and a union organizer at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park on Saturday.

In its opening weekend, Paranormal Activity 3 shatters the fall box-office record, while other films under performed.

Capelin roe and cases of sandwiches are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination, the manufacturers said.

Airport security failed to detect a loaded .38 caliber gun that fell out of a checked bag at Los Angeles International Airport while loading Sunday.

Mitt Romney may face even more scrutiny for Romneycare.

The 34-year-old had surgery to remove granuloma cells just above his vocal cord.

An attorney for Michael Jackson's doctor counterattacked the demonstration of IV drip system for jurors on Friday, Oct. 21, for the type of IV line used in the demonstration was never found at Jackson's house.

EA DICE is just hours away from the official release of “Battlefield 3”.

After giving birth to baby daughter Giulia, Carla Bruni Sarkozy was seen leaving the maternity clinic on Sunday with the newborn.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES meets with media luminary Steven Beer.

Hey Trojans, Bruins and Kings fans: Game over.