Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock has walked along a tram cable in Germany's tallest mountain without a harness and safety nets that will catch him if he falls to set a new world record for the stunt.

At 9,655 feet high in Zugspitze mountain, it was the highest tightrope walk ever made. Nock walked along 3,264 feet of inclined cable and reached the tram station in 50 minutes on Sunday. The ground was 426 feet below him.

Leona Lewis is having hypnotherapy to boost her confidence. The "Bleeding Love" singer's mentor Simon Cowell has arranged for her to be treated by celebrity therapist Paul McKenna to banish her nerves ahead of her proposed 14-month tour.

A source said: "Seeing as Leona is on the path to becoming a global touring powerhouse, no corners will be cut."

A 12-year-old girl who miraculously survived a plane crash off the coast of Comoros Islands is well and talked to her father and uncle Wednesday from a hospital bed in Moroni.

Paris-based Kassim Bakari, father of the survivor named Baya, quoted her daughter as telling him by phone that she was thrown into the waters when the Yemenia plane crashed into the Indian Ocean while trying to land at an airport in Comoros' largest island of Njazidja.

Madonna is turning her Manhattan apartment into a replica of her British estate. The "4 Minutes" singer - who split from her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, late last year - misses their Wiltshire manor so much she is spending a fortune replicating the period interiors in her luxurious new home.

A source told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "She doesn't seem to want to give her old place up. Living there was like living in a dream."

A Florida man suspected of robbing a bank was arrested after several witnesses reported seeing a drunken man covered in red dye.

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives think a homeless 53-year-old man, Michael Prance, robbed Seminole's RBC Bank Thursday, escaping with the bank's cash, the St. Petersburg Times reported.