In Brief: Peter Gabriel plays at peace concert

An Albert Hall concert featuring Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams and Lenny Kravitz was the focal point of the Peace One Day on Sunday, a campaign for an annual day of ceasefire around the world. The event was organised by Jeremy Gilley, an actor from Southampton, who had gained the support of both sides in the Afghanistan conflict, where doctors planned to use the break in fighting to start vaccinating 1.8m Afghan children against polio. Spoiling the party, Taliban insurgents launched at least 28 attacks on the day, including the kidnapping of 140 labourers in Farah province....... Quentin Tarantino has been scouting locations in Germany for Inglorious Bastards, a new film with Brad Pitt about a team of Jewish-American soldiers sent to hunt down Nazis. Tarantino will work at the same studios that Josef Goebbels used for his propaganda films........ Dressed rather more elegantly than the average Chelsea FC fan, Nicole Kidman went  to Stamford Bridge with her husband Keith Urban to watch the 1-1 draw with Manchester Utd on Sunday. The pair saw the game from Roman Abramovitch and girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's box......... John Lennon's widow, 75-year-old artist Yoko Ono, will give the keynote lecture about 'passages of light' at this year's Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park in October.......... Warner Bros, makers of the Harry Potter films, have failed in their attempt to halt the release of a film in India that they complained was too close in title to the JK Rowling franchise. The movie, Hari Puttar, which tells the story of a 10-year-old boy who moves to England with his family and becomes involved in a plan to save the world, will now be released in India later this month having been delayed by the lawsuit......... Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the 'Merchant of Death', appeared in chains today during an extradition hearing in a Thai court. Bout was arrested at a Bangkok hotel in March by US drug enforcement agents pretending to be FARC rebels after a year-long sting operation. He has been accused of numerous terrorism charges, including providing weapons for former Liberian president Charles Taylor........... ·