Dickon Stainer, managing director of Decca, signing the recording contract with the nuns. Photograph: Chris O’Donovan/PA A group of Benedictine nuns who live in complete seclusion in the South of France are set to become divas of pop after signing a deal with Universal Music, the leading... 

High School is notorious for cliques. So what if the jocks or nerds or outcasts tried to learn more about each other? In MTV’s new series If You Really Knew Me (Tuesday at 11/10c), students participate in a one-day program called Challenge Day that tries to break down the walls among these different... 

Linda Stay joined forces with filmmaker Reed Cowan to detail the prominent role the Mormons played in the reinstatement of Prop 8 in the new documentary “8: The Mormon Proposition.” Following a lengthy investigation, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission ordered The Church of... 

AP Joe Perry of Aerosmith Joe Perry, guitarist for the American rock band Aerosmith, was recovering Friday after his Italian racing motorcycle was hit by a 62-year-old grandmother as he drove through Middleborough, Mass., The Boston Herald reported. Perry, 59, suffered a back injury and some minor scrapes... 

Magnetic Man. PICK OF THE WEEK Magnetic Man Feat Angela Hunte I Need Air (Columbia) Let’s hear it for people with vision and ambition and, well, balls. There’s a brilliant video of Magnetic Man (dubstep overlords Skream, Benga and Artwork) on YouTube playing this live. The crowd...