Monica Haynes is on assignment. Compiled from wire and Web reports.

A newspaper published by China's ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N' Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation.

Delayed since recording began in 1994, "Chinese Democracy" hit stores in the United States on Sunday, although it is unlikely to be sold legally in China, where censors maintain tight control over films, music and publications.

In an article today headlined "American band releases album venomously attacking China," the Global Times said unidentified Chinese Internet users had described the album as part of a plot by some in the West to "grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn."

Songs from the album could be heard on YouTube and the band's MySpace page, and it was not immediately possible to tell whether China's Internet monitors were seeking to block access.

Little Sunday Rose's parents grew up Down Under, but they want their baby to have an accent of a different kind.

Her mother, Nicole Kidman, has been so taken with Southern charm since she and hubby Keith Urban settled outside of Nashville, Tenn., that she is "glad that [Sunday] is able to say she's born and bred in Nashville and Tennessee," she told the Nashville Tennessean over the weekend. "I hope she has a Southern accent."

Kidman and Urban, both 41, moved to rural Leiper's Fork and are living a simpler life.

"We are pretty simple," Kidman says. "We just like good food. I suppose a lot of it is we like spending time with our baby, so we grab something or stay at home and cook."

They've been able to slip in and out of the Nashville crowd unnoticed. Even when she knocked on strangers' doors to deliver Meals on Wheels at 8 1/2 months pregnant, residents didn't recognize the Oscar-winning actress.

"We never get bothered, and the people are incredibly friendly and easygoing. It really has been a perfect match for me."

Oprah Winfrey wants a court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by the ex-headmistress of her girls school in South Africa.

Nomvuyo Mzamane (num-VOO'-yo m-zah-MAH'-neez) is suing Winfrey in federal court in Pennsylvania over remarks she made on her Chicago-based talk show about a sex-abuse case at the school.

A dorm matron who worked under Mzamane is charged in South Africa with abusing six students at the school for poor girls. The ex-headmistress lives in the Philadelphia area and says she cannot find work because of Winfrey's comments.

Winfrey says she and her defendant companies have no business ties to Pennsylvania and should not be sued there.

The details of pop star Michael Jackson's settlement with a Bahraini prince are to remain confidential, a lawyer for the royal said yesterday.

Attorney Bankim Thanki confirmed to London's High Court that Jackson and Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa had settled their legal dispute over a planned music project that fell apart in 2006.

Al Khalifa first befriended Jackson in the wake of his trial on child molestation charges in California. The sheik took the singer under his wing after Jackson was acquitted in June 2005, moving him to Bahrain and showering him with money.