Pink Floyd have announced they are putting their differences aside and will play together at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.

David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright last performed together in public in 1981.

Hopes of seeing them again have been constantly dashed by the feud between founder member Waters and the rest of the band.

NBA Commissioner David Stern would never allow it if the state’s sportsbooks take bets on the game, but to appease Stern and increase Las Vegas’ chances of hosting the game, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said it would prohibit betting on the game.

Bookmakers in Las Vegas are fine with that decision
“Absolutely,” said Mark Goldman, sportsbook director at the Venetian hotel. “It’s one game. The handle on it is negligible.

ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" hit the trifecta in nominations for the 21st annual Television Critics Association Awards.
"Housewives" and "Lost" both earned mentions in the categories of best new program, program of the year and in their respective comedy and drama program categories as well. Fox's "House," UPN's "Veronica Mars" and FX's "Rescue Me" rounded out the competition in the best new program heat.

When Donna Muir first tried to play the newest video slot machines at the Quil Ceda Creek Casino, she discovered she couldn't find one available to play.
She tried the Tulalip Casino, where the machines were even more in demand.
"You couldn't even touch one," the Tulalip resident said.
The two casinos are the only places in the world right now that gamblers can play certain new games, according to Les Parks, a Tulalip Tribes board member.

Western slot-machine makers will need new strategies to win the jackpot in Macau, according to Scott Winzeler, Asia division managing director for International Game Technology.
The Nevada-based IGT, a dominant supplier of slot machines in the United States, sent Winzeler to run the new Asia division. He was previously in charge of Japanese and international markets operations.
The division, which opened its headquarters in Macau this month, will get about 70 percent of its revenue from the SAR.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the No. 2 U.S. casino company, may expand its two Atlantic City casinos and renovate Bally's Las Vegas to take advantage of growing demand in both markets, Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman said in an interview.

Harrah's may add more hotel rooms and restaurants to the Showboat and Harrah's Atlantic City, Loveman said. The company expects to acquire Bally's Las Vegas next month with its $6.5 billion purchase of Caesars Entertainment Inc.

It was Mary Alice, the narrator of "Desperate Housewives," who had killed the woman buried in the yard - not her husband, Paul, who nearly paid for the crime with his own execution Sunday night.

"Desperate Housewives" made good Sunday on its pledge to solve the Mary Alice mystery as the smash first season came to an end on Wisteria Lane, the ABC show's mythical slice of suburbia.
A cultural phenomenon like few TV series in years, this saucy blend of melodrama, whodunit and dark comedy had viewers hooked from its first night last October.

But now a major security review is under way at the Gold Coast's Jupiters Casino after a group of Chinese gambling high-rollers allegedly used hidden cards to fleece more than $750,000.
The gang of six was arrested at the Gold Coast Airport this week as they tried to fly out after their alleged sting on a baccarat table in Jupiters' high-rollers room, Club Conrad.
Casino sources say Jupiters' playing cards are distinctively branded and kept under tight security, but the Chinese allegedly smuggled in cards and "palmed" them.

Nevada casinos won $1.03 billion from gamblers during March - a record for any month - for a 10.9 percent gain over the same month in 2004, a state report showed Wednesday.
The state Gaming Control Board said strong convention business, record leisure travel in southern Nevada and big gains at casinos favored by locals all figured in the milestone March win.

There's something to be said for being nice to others. America is saying it now on behalf of Paula Abdul.
Corey Clark presented overwhelming evidence on Primetime Live that there was inappropriate behavior between him and Abdul when he was a contestant on American Idol.
This reflects more poorly on her than him, for the same reason Bill Clinton's misconduct outweighed Monica Lewinsky's. In the context of the show, Abdul was an authority figure; Clark was a star-struck youngster.