Madonna's new single has topped the British charts and taken the singer into a pop music elite.
Music is her 10th No 1, and only the Beatles, Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard have made it to the top more times.
"It is the most [No 1s] for a woman artist and the first time she has had two in a row since 1987," said Alan Jones, chart consultant for Music Week. "This proves she is back."
Madonna gave birth to her second child two weeks ago and turned 42 last week.
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Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell has been hospitalised for acute inflammation of the pancreas, say his doctors.
Austrian-born Schell, 69, abruptly left the opening ceremony of the Baltijas Perle film festival, where he was to be honoured with an award for best male actor of the millennium.
Doctors at Gailezers Hospital said the actor's diabetes has destroyed nearly half of his pancreas, a gland behind the stomach that produces insulin. Schell was conscious and in good spirits.
Schell has appeared in dozens of films over the past four decades, including Judgment at Nuremberg, for which he won a best actor Academy Award in 1961.
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British fans of pop idol Robbie Williams were yesterday counting down to midnight to get their hands on the first copies of his eagerly awaited album.
Williams releases his third solo album, Sing When You're Winning, today, but a few shops were opening last night to give fans the chance of a head start.
The release comes hot on the heels of Williams' third number one single, Rock DJ, which spent a week at the top of the charts.
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Country singer Louise Mandrell says guns saved her father's life and may one day save her own.
"Thanks to handguns, I still have my father," she told a meeting of the National Rifle Association in Sevierville, Tennessee.
Mandrell said her father, Irby, was attacked by two convicts on parole in California and escaped with his life only because he had a handgun.
"I've been to handgun school to learn how to protect myself because I have a whole file of people who have threatened my life."
<i>Showbiz:</i> Madonna reigns atop Brit charts
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