
The big winners at last night's
MTV Europe Music Awards were Britney Spears and Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds To Mars, each of them winning two awards. Hostess Katy Perry beat Duffy to take home the award for New Act, and the Brits were represented by Sir Paul McCartney and Rick Astley who each took home a gong. For the most part, the winners were American, and there was certainly a theme running through the evening as President-Elect
Barack Obama's face showed up on everything from the video screens to one of Katy's twelve brightly coloured outfits!

Music industry artists and insiders including Take That, Girls Aloud, Mika, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sugababes, Simon Cowell, The Feeling and many more
honoured Lucian Grainge, a Universal Music boss, at a hotel in London last night as Lucian Grainge picked up the Music Industry Trust Award last night. It was a fab photo opportunity for the biggest boyband and girlband in the UK (minus Nadine) to get photographed together, making me imagine what an awesome supergroup they'd be! U2 presented the award to Lucian, with
Bono saying:
"He's great because he's ready to take on the world for British music, and Irish music for that matter.

Bono spends a lot of time giving back and making music, but over the Summer he found some time to relax. He was
snapped alongside two bikini-clad 19-year-olds on a yacht in St. Tropez, looking awfully cozy for a husband and father.

He is a world famous singer and songwriter, a spokesman for Africa, a Noble Peace Prize nominee, and now he’s a writer for the New York Times. My David Brooks is looking at some rocking competition. Bono, lead singer of U2, is
set to be a contributing writer for the NYT, offering his insight on topics including Africa, poverty, and a little Frank Sinatra too.

This week heads of state, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropists met for the fourth annual meeting of the
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). By gathering global leaders, the ex-Pres hopes they will devise and implement concrete solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges. Since 2005, CGI has committed $30 billion to programs that have impacted 200 million lives in more than 150 countries.
Sep 26 2008 - 7:30am by
Molly

The fourth annual
Clinton Global Initiative continued on yesterday with an appearance by Drew Barrymore who cozied up with the former president himself. Drew was there as part of her involvement with the United Nations World Food Programme and despite the other fun we saw her having in NYC this week —
making out with Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick — it's clear she's got more on her mind than boys. Now, just wonder if after her big day of doing good and discussing the state of the world at the conference, she celebrated with a night on the town with her younger gentleman friend?

Gwyneth Paltrow, Mario Batali, and a few of their celebrity friends like Bono and Helena Christensen got together last night at the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute in NYC to celebrate the debut of Mario and Gwyneth's
Spain . . .