London, Dec 20: Take That's latest album `The Circus' has broken records after becoming the fastest-selling album in the UK so far this decade, according to Official Charts Company statistics.

`The Circus' raced to that milestone after just 19 days on sale.

It missed out on being the fastest million-seller ever, though. Oasis' `Be Here Now' passed the mark after just 11 days on shop shelves in 1997.

And Take That's `Beautiful World' album of 2006 is the third fastest.

New York, Dec 20: Madonna has reportedly signed paperwork to adopt a four-year-old girl from Malawi - the home country of her adopted son David.

Star Magazine has learnt that the 50-year-old singer will fly to Malawi with Alex Rodriguez to adopt the child.

"She''s hoping to bring the toddler home by early next year," a source told Star Magazine.

According to the New York Daily News, the singer will fly to Malawi to pick up the girl, Mercy James, whose grandparents are unable to care for her.

Washington, Dec 20: Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is reportedly house hunting in Washington D. C. so she can be closer to Barack Obama.

The talk show titan is eyeing lavish estates in the area, so that she can easily speak to the President about needful issues, according to sources.

Winfrey's team is apparently scouting for a nine-bedroom property in the ritzy Georgetown neighborhood with a whopping price tag of 50 million dollars, according to The New York Post.

London, December 20: Britney Spears' latest single `Womanizer' has climbed the number one spot in European pop charts.

London, December 20: Kanye West has resolved to maintain his calm and be nice to the haunting snappers as part of his New Year's resolution.

The American rapper had previously been arrested on two different accounts after having had a tiff with the photographers.

The ten-time Grammy Award-winner had been held by Newcastle police, England, in November after being accused of pushing a camera into a paparazzo's face, though he was later released.

The singer, along with his assistant, had also been detained by cops in September in another incident involving felony vandalism after reportedly shattering a snapper's lens.

Washington, December 20 : Former `The Beatles' stars Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon once sent their personal ads to a local music magazine because they were very keen on seeing their names in print.

McCartney has revealed that the two of them and their guitarist bandmate George Harrison contacted a small publication in Liverpool, England, so as to get their written work published.