Stripes rock Newfoundland

For the final tour stop in Canada, the White Stripes kept it brief. Make that one-note brief. Jack and Meg White played just a single note--reportedly a C-sharp--on George Street in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland, after which Jack White announced that they had "now officially played in every province and territory in Canada." The duo then left the stage, although the gathered crowd was prewarned about the stunt.

The duo also played a full set at its scheduled gig that night at the Mile One Centre. Check out a video of the one-note show. The Stripes kick off their US tour July 22 in Portland, Maine.

Sting ordered to pay former chef

While Sting is out touring the globe and making millions with his reunited Police, he must take some of his pocket change and pay a former personal chef who accused him and his wife of sexual discrimination, according to a ruling by a UK employment tribunal. The singer has been ordered to pay a former personal chef more than $50,000 following a dispute in which the chef claimed she was discriminated against because she was pregnant.

Jane Martin, a chef who worked for Sting and his wife Trudie Styler for eight years, accused the couple of sexual discrimination after she became pregnant in 2005. Martin alleged that Styler would get angry when she took sick days and forced her to work long hours. Martin eventually left her job in 2006. The tribunal ruled that Martin was a victim of sexual discrimination and was unlawfully dismissed by Lake House Estate, the management company of Sting and his wife. Sting and Styler have appealed the ruling.

Paris Hilton won't go away

Upon her release from jail last month, Paris Hilton vowed to be a different person and lead a more humanitarian life. Before she begins that pursuit, she will be making another album of "music."

"I'm already working on my new record," Hilton told E! Online this week. "I've been in meetings with [producer] Scott [Storch] and we've been working on it. I've been working on it with Scott for a few weeks."

Hilton released her debut album, Paris, in August 2006. It sold more than 600,000 copies. Several photos of Hilton are featured in the CD jacket of the Smashing Pumpkins' new album Zeitgeist, released last week.

Bobby Brown says Al Qaeda after him

While the US continues to fight Pakistan-based Al Qaeda in Iraq, Al Qaeda is primarily concerned with fighting Bobby Brown. The embattled "My Prerogative" singer told an Australian radio show this week that he fears for his life after being told by a writer that he was a target of Osama Bin Laden. Sudanese writer Kola Boof had previously written that Brown was being targeted by the Al Qaeda leader because of Bin Laden's apparent infatuation with Brown's ex-wife Whitney Houston.

Brown said that the claims have struck fear in his heart. "Come on, if anyone is threatened by Al Qaeda they'd take it seriously. I figure if Bin Laden wants me, and everybody is looking for him, it won't happen. But if he wants to try and find me for something so stupid, then he can if he wants. I have to leave it in the hands of a higher power." Brown has admitted to stepping up security measures since the claims were made.

Pearlman vows legal fight

Jailed on fraud and a host of other charges, boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman has vowed to fight the allegations. In an interview with Radar magazine during a visit at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida, Pearlman said, "This is just one of those hurdles in life that you have to get past. I'm planning on this chapter ending relatively soon."

Pearlman faces federal bank fraud charges and scores of lawsuits that could leave him broke or jailed for the rest of his life. He spent much of the past year on the lam before he was picked up in Indonesia. Pearlman told Radar that he's been dieting and working on his defense. "I've definitely been dieting. I'm on a low-fat diet, low sugar," he said, adding that he does 100 to 200 sit-ups a day. "It's only been a few weeks. In another couple of weeks I might be able to weigh myself, figure out where I am. But I feel a lot healthier. My pants feel looser."

But Pearlman, the mastermind behind such boy bands as the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync, vowed a comeback. "My thing--and I've said this before--is that I'll know the exact moment when boy bands are over," Pearlman said. "And that'll be when God stops making little girls."