Live 8 Update

Geldof Gets His Way Again

"Three weeks ago Europe agreed, unbelievably, to double aid,
throwing the ball back to the Yanks [Americans], the Japanese
and the Canadians," the former Boomtown Rat said Thursday
after receiving an honorary degree in his hometown of Dublin.

"So that forced me now to do, which I didn't want to do, a concert
in Tokyo [and Toronto] which we are announcing tomorrow."

The additions of Japan and Canada nearly fulfill Geldof's original
vision of staging shows in each of the G8 countries, which represent
the world's wealthiest nations. The G8 is made up of the United States,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia,
and also includes the European Union. Russia is the only member
nation that doesn't yet have a Live 8 concert planned.

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e-Bay bows to Geldof

LONDON (Reuters) - Internet auction site eBay has suspended
some of the accounts of users who sabotaged online sales of free
Live 8 concert tickets by making hoax bids of up to 10 million pounds.

On Tuesday, eBay ended a sale of free Live 8 tickets after
widespread protests. Concerts organiser Bob Geldof labelled the site an
"electronic pimp" and urged people to swamp it.

"In accordance with eBay's site rules, once an individual places a bid
on an item, it acts as a binding contract and the individual is obliged to
honour it," eBay said on Thursday.

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and.....the Paris concert will be at the historic Palace of Versailles !