The former-current vocalist for Smashing Pumpkins lost his cool with fans during a concert in Melbourne, Australia Tuesday night after fans kept yelling at the singer to play Smashing Pumpkins songs. According to the Aussie music website "undercover. com", a fan shouted to Corgan "play some Pumpkins", Corgan reportedly snapped back, "Can I live my life for today?"

Glastonbury rock music festival is turning out to be the most effective anti-crime measure in Britain. Almost 120,000 people attend the annual event, consuming vast amounts of alcohol. Yet, authorities say crime figures didn't go up.

A Berlin man who killed a music teacher and stored his victim's body parts to satisfy cannibalistic fantasies was convicted of murder Tuesday and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Ralf M. , 41, confessed to stabbing Joe R. , 33, with a screwdriver during a sexual encounter at his apartment in Neukoelln in southern Berlin.

The Hong Kong government has launched the "IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Scout Badge" to promote respect of intellectual property among youngsters. The government announced Wednesday that Boy Scouts qualify for the badge by attending seminars and other activities on the topic. The program will initially target scouts between 11 and 16 years old.

Devoted fans of elusive soft drink Surge have started a letter-writing campaign to Walmart Inc. and Coca-Cola bottling executives in hopes to get the beverage back on the market. The "fully loaded citrus soda" is no longer sold in bottles or cans and on rare occasions is spotted in soda fountains across the U. S. Fan site- www. savesurge. org offers Surge lovers' 500 pages of testimonials, photos of Surge memorabilia, even a recipe for making a surge-like drink at home. Two Arizona women have said they plan to head a petition signing at a country music festival this month. While a Norwegian man offers shipments or Urge, a Surge-equivalent sold in his country. Coca-Cola debuted the drink in 1997 to compete with the ever-popular Mountain Dew, offering a flavor that bordered between lemon-lime and orange and containing more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi. Sales of the drink began to dwindle around 2002. That's when web designer and surge devotee, Eric Karkovack started the website, which averages 500 hits a day. "I never expected when I started the Web site that it would still be going three years later," said Karkovack, 27, who hasn't had a swig of the bright green liquid since 2003. "I just figured that, like most of these sites that want to save something, that it would be a fad. " Twelve-packs of the drink have been know to sell on eBay for as much as $152. Coke spokesman Scott Williamson said Coke has no plans to raise Surge's profile. "If there were to be increased demand for Surge, we would consider making it more widely available," he said. In 2004, Surge sold 200,000 cases, a major drop from 69 million in '97. It's rival, Mountain Dew, sold 650 million cases in '04. If savesurge. org ultimately fails, Karkovack said the effort would not have gone to waste: The cause brought together a disparate group of people who, at least for a while, had a good time. v "It's more like a community than a Web site," he said.