Ten minutes before the start of a benefit concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater, and rapper-singer-songwriter Akon is brawling with his deejay over how to hook a stodgy crowd of Manhattan philanthropists ...

Akon has been arrested in the US and has spent hours behind bars, according to officials. The “Locked Up” singer, whose real name is Aliaune Thiam, was apprehended by Chamblee Police in Georgia on ...