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ACTOR Mel Gibson today apologised for making anti-Semitic remarks after his recent arrest for drunken driving and asked to meet with members of the Jewish community to begin a "path for healing". "There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark," Gibson said in a statement. "I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested," he said. Gibson, who directed 2004's blockbuster movie The Passion of The...

ROLLING Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where he was being treated after a mysterious accident, the band's spokeswoman said today. Details about his whereabouts or condition were not immediately available. However, the European leg of the band's world tour will begin as scheduled on May 27 in Barcelona, she said. Richards, 62, was flown to the New Zealand city of Auckland last week for observation after sustaining a mild concussion while on vacation with his wife, Patti, in Fiji. Various news reports have said the death-defying rocker fell from either a coconut tree...