Britney Spears and Kevin Federline reached a divorce settlement Thursday.

“The parties signed a global settlement on all issues of their marriage and the custody of the children,” Michael Sands, a spokesman for Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan, said.

The deal was worked out in five-hour meeting in the Los Angeles high-rise offices of Spears’s attorney. At the table were Spears and Federline, along with Spears’s lawyer Laura Wasser and Federline’s counsel Kaplan and Jim Simon.

Courtney Love got the Internet buzzing Wednesday when she appeared dramatically slimmed down in a batch of beach photos – and now she says she’s lost 44 pounds.

In a posting on Love’s Web site, Moonwashedrose.com, she writes under the name “court” that she “lost 44 pounds with 6 more maybe 11 more to go.”

A man who has allegedly been stalking Michelle Branch caused the singer to stop her concert in Sheboygan, Wis., this week.

“Michelle Branch just said, ‘Wait a second. There’s a guy in the audience – striped shirt and glasses – can somebody check him out?’ ” audience member Cali Haas, 20, of Sheboygan, tells the Associated Press. “It left everyone just so confused, like, ‘Is this a joke, part of the show?’ ” Haas added.