AP - Kobi Graham, a lifeguard star of the Australian reality television series “Bondi Rescue,” said Monday he was lucky to avoid paralysis and death when he broke his neck in a surfing wipeout.

AP - The mammoth service for fiery frontman Ronnie James Dio was more akin to a spirited rock concert than a dreary funeral.

AP - Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro said Monday that production delays have forced him to quit the planned film version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” a two-part prequel to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson’s blockbuster trilogy “Lord of the Rings.”

Reuters - Ray Charles is a music publisher’s dream. Not only did he write songs that stand the test of time, but his interpretations of other songwriters’ tunes could turn them into royalty-generating goldmines.

AP - “Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea” (Viking, 256 pages, $25.95), by Linda Greenlaw: It had been a decade since Linda Greenlaw fished the deep ocean for a living. Her days as a swordfish-boat skipper, publicized by Sebastian Junger’s 1997 best-seller, “The Perfect Storm,” were a long-ago memory.

Reuters - Reliance Media World, part of India’s Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will form an equal joint venture with U.S.-based CBS Corp to launch television channels, the Economic Times reported on Monday.

Reuters - Carly Simon isn’t finished kicking up a storm over Starbucks’ decision to get out of the music business just five days before her previous album was scheduled to be released in its stores.

AP - Celine Dion’s struggle to have one more baby has more than paid off. She’s pregnant with two.

Reuters - “Sex” is losing its allure at cinemas.

AFP - Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October, Buckingham Palace confirmed Sunday — the first time she has missed the event in decades.