LOS ANGELES, Nov 21 —Michael Jackson's personal physician told investigators he was not the first doctor to give the pop star propofol, the powerful anesthetic that was one of the drugs to cause his death, according to court papers unsealed yesterday.

Dr. Conrad Murray, a target of the criminal probe into Jackson's death, recounted under questioning by a Los Angeles police detective that Jackson told him he was given propofol by two unnamed doctors in Germany, the affidavit states.

Murray, a heart specialist with offices in Houston and Las Vegas, was hired to care for Jackson while the singer prepared for a series of comeback concerts in the weeks before his sudden death in Los Angeles on June 25 at age 50.

BUDAPEST, Nov 21 —US-based radio broadcaster Emmis Communications Corp has said it will leave Hungary after losing a commercial radio licence it had held for 12 years in a tender that it said was politically influenced.

In a statement on its website yesterday, Hungarian Slager Radio, which was taken off the air on Wednesday, said its owner Emmis “made a difficult decision today, and at present it does not wish to continue analogue broadcast services in Hungary.”

Late last month Hungary’s National Radio and Television Board (ORTT) awarded two commercial frequencies to stations that industry critics and Emmis said were close to major political parties.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 21 — A celebrity photographer who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail yesterday after clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining order.

Adnan Ghalib, 37, one of the paparazzi who trailed Spears night and day in 2007, was also ordered to complete an anger management program.

Los Angeles prosecutors alleged that in February Ghalib drove his car toward an official who was trying to serve a court order keeping him away from Spears and her family.

PARIS, Nov 20 — South Korean model Daul Kim was found hanged in her Paris apartment yesterday, a spokeswoman for the city prosecutor’s office said.

Police were investigating the cause of the 20-year-old’s death and said it was most likely that she committed suicide, the prosecutor’s spokeswoman told Reuters today.

LONDON, Nov 20 - Scottish singer Susan Boyle, one of the biggest stars of the Internet age, seeks to turn global celebrity into record sales next week with the release of her debut album “I Dreamed a Dream”.

Named after the song from the musical “Les Miserables” that made her famous, the 12-track album is a mix of pop covers like Madonna’s “You’ll See” and The Monkees’ “Daydream Believer” and Christian stalwarts like “Amazing Grace” and “Silent Night”.

The Sony Music record hits stores in Britain on Monday and in the United States on Tuesday, and the early commercial signs are promising.

The album is the largest ever global CD pre-order on online retailer Amazon.com, with sales reportedly in excess of 100,000, and is the bookmakers’ favourites to top the British chart over the lucrative Christmas period.

PHOENIX, Nov 20 - A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said yesterday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or US Senate.

“Right now I feel exhilaration at the wide range of choices before me as to what I do next,” Dobbs, whose outspoken views on immigration and other topics often angered liberals, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York yesterday.

Dobbs, 64, a veteran CNN anchor who had become one of the most divisive figures in US broadcast journalism, announced last Wednesday he was leaving CNN after spending the better part of 30 years at the 24-hour cable news network.

He still hosts a daily radio show.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 20 — A few weeks ago “Crazy Heart” was just another invisible movie, one with so little promise that the company that made it refused to put it into theaters. Now, suddenly, this low-budget film about a washed-up country singer finds itself at the heart of the Oscar race, with some awards watchers calling its star, Jeff Bridges, a likely best actor candidate.

Every year one or more films like “Juno” or “The Wrestler” seem to emerge from nowhere. What makes “Crazy Heart” so arresting this year is that it has jumped into the race at pretty much the last minute and also comes complete with a juicy business back story involving a studio, Paramount, that may find itself embarrassed for letting an Oscar winner slip through its fingers.

And it comes in a year when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has raised the number of best picture nominees to 10, causing even more filmmakers to demand potentially expensive awards campaigns from studios that increasingly wonder whether having an Oscar contender is an asset or a liability.

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LOS ANGELES, Nov 20 — Oprah Winfrey will end her top-rated daytime talk show that has featured newsmakers from President Barack Obama to movie star Tom Cruise, in September 2011, a spokeswoman for her company said yesterday.

“I can confirm that she’s planning to make an announcement that she will end ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ at the completion of the 25th season, in September 2011,” said the representative for Harpo Inc.

NEW YORK, Nov 20 — Irina Shabayeva won the sixth season of the fashion reality show “Project Runway” yesterday in the conclusion of the hit cable series which was delayed for months by legal wrangling.

Shabayeva, 27, the daughter of immigrants from the Republic of Georgia who moved their family to Brooklyn, impressed the show’s judges with an edgy collection of 13 looks shown at New York’s Fashion Week earlier this year.

The designer said she was inspired by “what it takes to survive in the city as a woman.”

NEW YORK, Nov 20 — Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental art projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died two days ago in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 74.

A statement on the couple’s Web site, christojeanneclaude.net, said the cause was complications of a brain aneurysm.

Jeanne-Claude met her husband, Christo Javacheff, in Paris in 1958. At the time, Christo, a Bulgarian refugee, was already making art of wrapped packages, furniture and oil drums. Three years later, they made their first work together, a temporary installation on the docks in Cologne, Germany, that consisted of oil drums and rolls of industrial paper wrapped in tarpaulin.