World record-holder Usain Bolt put his poor performance in the Czech Republic behind him with a season’s best 9.76 seconds in the 100-meter race at the Golden Gala on Thursday.

Bolt ran a relatively slow 10.04 in Ostrava last week, raising questions about his Olympic preparations.

His previous world’s best of 9.82 was set at home in Jamaica this month.

“My drive was better and I started well,” Bolt said. “The transition was also better. After Ostrava a lot of people questioned me, but I never questioned myself.

“Everyone has a bad race, you just got to go back to the drawing board.”

While his start in Rome still wasn’t exceptional, Bolt quickly pulled in front and broke the previous meet record of 9.77 set by Tyson Gay three years ago.

Former world record-holder Asafa Powell crossed second in 9.91 and European champion Christophe Lemaitre was third in 10.04.

There was virtually no wind.

Powell didn’t hear “set” or “go” from the starter.

“I’m very upset with my race tonight. I’m not upset that I lost but that I couldn’t execute like I wanted to,” Powell said. “I didn’t get out of the starting block like I should. I was all over the track.

“I’m not even going to complain,” Powell added. “Usain ran a great race, I just have to go home, work on it and come back.”

Bolt attributed his problems in Ostrava to fatigue for his first race of the season in Europe. This time, he appeared energized even two hours before his race, when he warmed up the crowd with a lap around the track on a golf cart, wearing the shirt of Italy’s football team as he danced and posed for the cameras.

The crowd of nearly 60,000 cheered Bolt’s every move.

“I appreciate a great crowd, they gave me a lot of love,” Bolt said. “I feed off the crowd, so that was good.”

When he came back out to run, Bolt chatted with the race worker behind his lane before he stepped into the starting blocks. After the race, he grabbed an Italian flag as he celebrated with another lap around the track that hosted the 1960 Olympics.

“Since I arrived in Rome I made sure to be in in bed early. So I got a lot of rest and slept a lot,” Bolt said. “In Ostrava I had not had enough sleep. This race was much better.”

This was the third Diamond League meet of the year but Bolt’s first.

Bolt will also compete in a Diamond League meet in Oslo, Norway, next week before returning to Jamaica for national trials. He then plans to return to Europe for a 200 in Monaco on July 20, his last race before the London Games start a week later.

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Deranged woman suddenly snatched an infant from a stroller, slammed the baby into a pole and later said she was trying to break the baby’s arm off ‘so she could eat it,’ Los Angeles police said on Wednesday.

Prosecutors have charged Natasha Hubbard, 36, with aggravated assault.

They have released her photo believing she may have other victims from her wild rampage in downtown Los Angeles last Thursday.

The terrifying incident with the four-month-old boy took place in a crowded shopping district packed with families, police said.

Detectives said the mother, Adriana Miranda, 29, was pushing her infant son Alexander in his stroller when Hubbard unbelted the child and grabbed him by the leg, says reports.

Witnesses said Hubbard then swung the baby over her head and slammed him into a metal rail of a nearby truck as the distraught mother and the baby’s aunt watched in horror, police said.

The mother and aunt fought off the woman, with the suspect clawing at Miranda as she clutched the baby boy in her arms, police said.

Arriving officers were able to locate Hubbard with the help of witnesses who pointed her out.

She is currently in jail with bail set at $55,000.

Oklahoma City Thunder officials denied Lil Wayne entry into Thursday night’s game after the rapper showed up to watch his favorite team take on the San Antonio Spurs sans one very important piece of paper. After being rejected from the NBA playoff game for not having a ticket Lil Wayne tweeted, “Was going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena…”

It turns out that saying Lil Wayne was denied entry might be a bit harsh… it turns out he’s just not as special as he thought.

The not engaged rapper’s people had requested tickets but insisted he be seated in the front row. Those seats sold out long ago, and so none were saved in his name…but apparently Wayne didn’t get the memo.

Thunder spokesman Dan Mahoney commented on the Lil Wayne NBA game incident explaining, “We’d love to have him at a game, but like anyone else, he needs a ticket.”

Looks like Lil Wayne’s feelings are hurt all the same. He signed off the tweet about being denied entry, “Wow. Smh. Go Spurs!”

Ouch! Wonder if the Oklahoma City Thunder just lost one of their most famous fans?

Kevin Durant, forward for the team, is now trying his best to make amends with Lil Wayne by offering him two tickets to Game 3 on Saturday. “We need people like that around here,” the baller told reporters.

A judge sentenced Lindsay Lohan on Wednesday to 30 days in jail and warned the actress there would be plenty more time behind bars if she violated further court orders.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner imposed the complicated new sentence, telling Lohan she would have to serve more than 400 hours of community service at the county morgue, undergo counseling sessions and report to court frequently to avoid further jail time.

In all, Sautner sentenced Lohan to 300 days in jail for violating a court order, but said the actress would only serve the additional 270 days if there was another violation.

In reality, however, the initial 30-day sentence will be significantly shortened by jail overcrowding, with Lohan likely serving only about six days. The actual length of the term will be set by the Sheriff’s Department, which oversees county lockups.

The actress has until Nov. 9 to report for her jail term, and Sautner ruled she cannot serve house arrest, as she did previously this year.

The judge is keeping a short leash on Lohan, ordering her to report to court for monthly updates between December and March. She said Lohan can no longer leave the country and would have a new “no-nonsense” probation officer.

The judge said the highly-structured sentence was known in judicial circles as “putting the keys to the jail in the defendant’s hands.”

Lohan, 25, acknowledged violating her probation by being terminated from a community service assignment at a women’s shelter earlier this year and missing psychotherapy sessions that the judge previously ordered.

Wearing a polka-dotted dress, Lohan arrived at the courthouse about 10 minutes early and spoke only briefly in court, telling Sautner she understood the sentence and was OK with it.

Sautner noted that Lohan’s popularity in certain circles is low, saying another women’s shelter refused to accept her for a community service assignment because she was considered a bad example for the women.

Lohan’s previous probation officer also wanted off the case, and the new officer is under orders to immediately report any violations directly to Sautner.

It will be Lohan’s fifth jail sentence since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007. She last served 35 days on house arrest on a four-month jail sentence.

Sautner revoked Lohan’s probation at a hearing nearly two weeks ago.

Sautner, who is the fifth judge that Lohan has faced since her first arrest in 2007, has expressed exasperation with the actress and California’s budget-strapped jail system.

The “Mean Girls” star has been reporting to the Los Angeles morgue regularly, which Sautner ordered her to do at the last court appearance. The judge had sentenced Lohan to serve 120 hours doing janitorial work at the coroner’s office in April and expressed hope that the actress would benefit from working three times that amount of hours at a women’s shelter.

Lohan was terminated from the shelter program after failing to show up nine times at the center. She told her probation officer the assignment was not fulfilling, according to the actress’ probation report.

The actress’ morgue service has not been without drama. She was turned away the first day after showing up 40 minutes late but has shown up early several times since then. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter declined Tuesday to characterize how Lohan’s service was progressing.

The former Disney star has been sent to jail, rehab, counseling and community service numerous times since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007.

Her probation on that case is nearly over, but her release remains supervised after Lohan pleaded no contest in May to misdemeanor theft for taking a $2,500 necklace without permission in January.

Once a headlining actress, Lohan’s court and personal troubles have overshadowed her career for years.

Kris Humphries had a suspicion his celebrity wife Kim Kardashian could be bailing on their marriage, but has told NBA friends he was “blindsided” by Monday’s divorce filing and learned of the news through a TMZ report like the rest of the world.

Kim Kardashian has released a statement to E! News regarding her divorce.

“After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage,” she said. “I hope everyone understands this was not an easy decision. I had hoped this marriage was forever, but sometimes things don’t work out as planned. We remain friends and wish each other the best.”

The couple’s recent issues played out in the tabloid world and culminated with Kardashian filing for divorce after 72 days of marriage.

“I love my wife and am devastated to learn she filed for divorce,” Humphries said in a statement later Monday.

Humphries, a free-agent forward who played for the New Jersey Nets a season ago, married Kardashian in a lavish, made-for-reality-TV wedding on Aug. 20 in California. As the Nets planned to move into a brand new Brooklyn arena for the 2012-13 season, his relationship with Kardashian appealed to the franchise’s business and marketing side.

Kardashian lent some sort of celebrity status to the franchise’s courtside seats, but that was never going to influence the Nets’ basketball officials on how they worked to re-sign him. Nets management does have interest in bringing back Humphries, but purely based on his market value for rebounding and defense.

TMZ reported that Kardashian filed for divorce on Monday morning, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

In his statement, Humphries sounded like he isn’t ready for the marriage to end.

“I’m committed to this marriage and everything this covenant represents,” he said, “and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it work.”

Comedian Rob Delaney Says He’s Suing Kim Kardashian Over Her Divorce

Rob Delaney, one of the most popular stand-up comedians on Twitter, announced in his column on VICE.com that he’s planning on suing Kim Kardashian to prevent her plan to divorce husband Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage. He also announced that he will also sue Ryan Seacrest, E! Entertainment Television and Comcast for their part in promoting what he suspects was a “sham marriage” from the beginning.

Delaney writes that he is personally offended by the extravagant build-up of the televised wedding, its massive price tag and seemingly flippant end.

He writes on VICE:

KIM KARDASHIAN, I WANT THIS FOR YOU. I don’t hate you. I hate your shows. I hate that I know who you are. But I could move to Patagonia or New Guinea and escape you if I wasn’t as willingly bound up in our terrifying modern consumer culture as you are. I know that under your unnecessary inch of makeup and Kevlar sheath dress is a heart that yearns for true love and could find and appreciate the pleasures in marriage that I described above. That’s why I’d like you to stay married. And if you won’t, I will sue you.

Whether or not he actually sues Kardashian, Delaney joins a growing number of critics who have slammed the divorce as not only insulting to gay couples who cannot get legally married, but a waste of millions of dollars during an economic recession. George Takei, openly gay former “Star Trek” actor and gay rights advocate, had one of the most retweeted statements on the matter:

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Delaney also took issue with Ryan Seacrest, who produces the various reality shows following the Kardashian family, specifically for a magazine cover where Seacrest claims that “The audience is really smart.”

While Delaney states that “this is not a joke,” it seems unlikely that he will actually sue the above parties. Delaney is known to write in a very tongue-in-cheek manner on his VICE column and on his Twitter. (He also recommends that the money for Kardashian’s wedding should have been given to Bernie Madoff.) Regardless, his threat to sue Kim Kardashian serves as a poignant statement about what Kardashian’s marriage and divorce says about America.

Follow Rob Delaney on Twitter to find out whether he goes through with the lawsuit or not.

Even when you are the Commander-In-Chief, TV still does play a part in your life — specifically when you are trying to figure out what shows to let your children watch. Apparently, one show that is seemingly looked down upon by President Barack Obama for Sasha and Malia is Kim Kardashian’s hit “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

What’s the issue here? Speaking to iVillage in a new interview, here is what First Lady Michelle Obama had to say:

“Barack really thinks some of the [Kardashian shows] — when they watch that stuff — he doesn’t like that as much … but I sort of feel like if we’re talking about it, and I’m more concerned with how they take it in — what did you learn when you watched that. And if they’re learning the right lessons, like, that was crazy, then I’m like, okay.”

The Kardashian family is known for producing a great bit of drama on their show — and while there are some family values thrown in there, there is also a certain obsession with material goods.

These are difficult times for rappers’ health. First Rick Ross suffered not one, but two seizures Friday while traveling to a concert in Memphis. Then, on Saturday, Tone Loc collapsed during a performance in Atlanta.

Loc’s manager told TheWrap that the rapper — real name, Anthony Terrell Smith — “is exhausted after performing many shows in the last few months.” After a brief hospitalization, however, the “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina” star “is fine now.”

This isn’t the first time that Smith, 45, has succumbed to tour fatigue. In 2009, the rapper collapsed during a Pensacola, Fla., performance. At the time, his manager said that flight delays and heat caused the collapse. In December 2010, Loc was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Los Angeles, though the manager told TMZ that the incident was due to a seizure Smith had suffered.

Earlier this month, Smith pleaded no contest to domestic violence and weapons charges, stemming from an alleged June incident with the mother of one of his children. He received one day in county jail, three years’ probation, plus community service and anger-management classes.

The death of Steve Jobs has spawned an outpouring of grief and gratitude from his fans across the globe. From celebrities and Silicon Valley titans to everyday Mac and iPod users, people around the world are taking to the streets and the web to show how he touched and changed them.

Since the announcement of Jobs’s death from pancreatic cancer came Wednesday with a simple graceful image on the Apple Web site, people have been gathering outside Apple stores across the globe to show their gratitude and grief for one of the kings of technology.

Large crowds have been showing up at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to remember Jobs. On the company’s campus — a miniature city of sorts where every building is Apple — a memorial has been set up, where the public has been stopping by to leave flowers and light candles.

“[Jobs is] somebody who really made a difference in the world. And we felt like we would come down here to see what was happening here,” one man who said he drove an hour to be there told ABC News.

Apple has said that it doesn’t know when or if there will be a public memorial service for Jobs.

Outside the Apple Store in New York a simple sign reading “I Love Steve” was displayed. One man started bawling, iPad in arms, when asked how he felt about Jobs’ death. And a message was written in what looks like lipstick on the window at an Apple Store in Santa Monica, Calif.: “Thank You Steve,” and a drawing of an apple.

In Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul they loved him too. At the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, employees of Apple’s store reportedly held a silent moment of prayer before opening to customers. A candlelight vigil planned outside the store at 5 p.m. Thursday.

Many in Asia feel that Jobs was one of the most crucial men working in the world of technology, and compare Apple to Sony at its prime.

“His ability as a CEO was unmatched. I think he had an incredible impact on leaders of Japanese corporations,” Atsushi Nemoto, a Japanese Jobs fan, said Thursday.

In China alone, more than 50 million messages have been posted on their equivalent to Twitter. It’s reported that within four hours of the announcement, nearly 35 million messages were posted on Sina Weibo and 23 million messages on Tencent QQ Weibo, China’s biggest microblogging sites.

And Jobs’ contemporaries, the fellow kings of software, also had plenty to say of the man who challenged them again and again by making gadgets, gizmos and new technology something sought after and truly cool.

“The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come,” Bill Gates said.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had kind words for the man he called his mentor.

“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world,” Zuckerberg said.

Celebrities from across the entertainment industry also sounded off and took to their Twitter accounts to give a nod to the man people are calling the Thomas Edison of his time.

“While others simply accepted the status quo, he saw the true potential in everything he touched,” “Star Wars” creator George Lucas said.

Actress Eva Longoria tweeted “What an inspiration he was to us all and a creative visionary for the world!,” while Ashton Kutcher wrote: “We have all surfed on the wake of Steve Jobs ship. Now we must learn to sail, but we will never forget our skipper.”

obs’s influence on the world of music has arguably been just as influential as it has on the world of computing and the mobile phone market. Not only did he bring the iPod into the mobile music market — essentially allowing users to keep their entire music catalogue in their pockets — but in January 2001 he helped to usher in the digitalization of music for the everyday user with iTunes.

“Before Steve Jobs, digital music was math class. After, it was recess,” Billboard magazine wrote.

And of course the circuits on Twitter and YouTube were overflowing overnight with tributes from around the world. From students to grown men, it seems almost everyone has something to say about Jobs.

“Just thinking about it, i even used one his quotes for my senior quote last year…innovation distinguishes a follower from a leader,” a young student said on YouTube.

And of course politicians and pundits are chiming in with praise and admiration for a true American innovator. President Obama released a statement shortly after news came of Jobs’s death.

“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it,” Obama wrote.

The Republican field also took to Twitter to express their feelings on Jobs.

“Steve jobs is an inspiration to American entrepreneurs. He will be missed,” tweeted Mitt Romney, while Herman Cain wrote, “this country is made great by those who personify the American Dream; Steve Jobs gave us new ways with which to dream.”

But the world’s emotions were perhaps best summed up in a tweet that came in the form of four simple letters: “I-Sad.”

L.A. Reid was chose by Simon Cowell as a judge on The X Factor so it’s safe to say he has an eye for talent and maybe he does. That is if you forget he ever dropped Lady Gaga from his record label.

Speaking to Access Hollywood (via StarPulse), Reid says he signed Gaga but had a bad day and fired her after listening to some of her demos which were works in progress. Lady Gaga eventually signed to another label and now she’s a big international star who wears meat dresses.

He tells Access Hollywood, “This artist came to my office… she played piano, she had on white go-go boots – like, all the way up to here, thigh high boots – she sat down at that piano, she played and she sang. When she was done, I said, ‘You are an amazing artist, a true star, and you will change music,’ and I signed her. Her name was Lady Gaga.”

“Then, a few months later, I got her demos, and it was a work in progress, and I was having a bad day. I’m telling you, I was having a bad day. And I said, ‘You know what? I really don’t like it. Let her have her freedom, let her go find her career.’ It was the worst thing I’ve ever done.”

“I felt bad, but I swear to you, like a month later Justin Bieber came and redeemed me, so, you know, I survived it all. But I’m a little bit jealous, because the Twitter following, for example, the biggest ones are Bieber and Lady Gaga, so I would have felt like the king of the world! Instead I felt like half the king.”

Northern Ireland farmer Alan Graham says he doesn’t know who Rihanna is but she must keep her top on while performing on his land.

Graham says he enforced a dress code as he watched Rihanna shoot a video Monday in his wheat field east of Belfast for her new single, “We Found Love.” She’s in Northern Ireland this week to perform three concerts.

The 23-year-old switched from a flannel checked shirt into a stars-and-stripes bikini, a red bra, a mesh black top, and finally went topless before Graham climbed off his tractor to protest.

Graham says, “I had a conversation with Rihanna. I hope she understands where I’m coming from. We shook hands.”