News in brief

Singer/actress Cher and members of her ex-husband Sonny Bono’s family are suing Chappell/Warner Music for breach of contract, claiming that they haven’t been paid some $250,000 in royalties.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to renew a contract with Adidas for a new six-year term, under which the Badgers will get as much as $400,000 in cash and $950,000 in goods a year.

Physicians in Italy are staging a one-day walkout—the fourth work stoppage in little over a year—to protest their continuing lack of a contract with the government.

Japan’s Midrex Technologies lands a $267 million contract to build an iron-ore plant in Qatar.

Facing an 18-fold increase in plastic surgery, Germany is pondering advertising restrictions on surgeons to prevent the common "before" and "after" ads.