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The British are crazy for actor and comedian Russell Brand, but he's not content to stop with his compatriots. With a comic triumph as a bad-boy rocker in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and a startlingly frank memoir called My Booky Wook, Brand is shooting for Stateside stardom.

Stocks tumbled Friday after the government said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis. The Dow Jones industrials were down 324 points Friday at 9,931.

Until a video of "Stand by Me" had gone viral on YouTube, Roger Ridley had sung and played guitar anonymously on the streets for years. A new collection, Playing for Change: Songs Around the World, is a cross-continental effort that connects disparate cultures with the universal language of music.

For years, Tom Ford has been associated with fashion; he was, after all, credited with reviving the fortunes of the near-bankrupt Gucci, where he became creative director. Last year he put his creative sensibilities to work in the service of a Christopher Isherwood tale: A Single Man, which was Ford's big-screen directorial debut.

The National Auto Dealers Association meets with a White House task force Thursday in hopes of staving off a General Motors bankruptcy. But there are increasing signs that the company may end up in court anyway.

Wireless companies are asking people among the huge crowd expected to attend the inauguration to text rather than make phone calls. Carriers say despite added capacity, mobile phone users are still likely to run into blockages. Carriers also ask that if people take photos, they wait until later in the day to hit the send button.

Factory orders fell a larger-than-expected 0.9 percent in March and shipments dropped 1.2 percent, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor spent most of the 1990s belting out misanthropic anthems for young people decked out in dark eyeliner and combat boots. On Ghosts I-IV, Reznor drops the singing and puts his thick soundscapes in the center ring. It's a whole new world.

Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, was arrested for threatening the House speaker over her support for the health care bill. The magistrate judge ordered the U.S. attorney's office to determine whether Giusti is mentally competent enough to be released to a halfway house or should be detained.

The reemergence of the Taliban threatens one of Afghanistan's greatest achievements: education. Female students, whom the Taliban denounces as un-Islamic, are at greatest risk. Their teachers are kidnapped and killed; their classrooms are torched; and their parents are threatened.