BERLIN (AP) – Daniel Barenboim has been released from a Berlin hospital and will set off for a U.S. tour as planned later this week.

Barenboim was hospitalized Friday night before a special concert marking the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. The 63-year-old conductor was released Sunday, the capital’s Staatsoper announced Monday.

The opera house said Barenboim had been suffering from “a disturbance of his sense of balance,” which doctors were able to treat.

Barenboim and the opera’s Staatskapelle orchestra will set off Wednesday on a two-week U.S. tour, the statement said.

Barenboim is general music director of the Staatsoper and chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Friday’s performance went ahead without Barenboim, with Julien Salemkour conducting.

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CHICAGO (AP) – Three members of the rock band Live were aboard a United Airlines Express plane that made an emergency landing at O’Hare International Airport after reports of smoke in the plane’s cabin.

The flight from Chicago to Harrisburg, Pa., on Sunday afternoon was carrying 37 passengers and three crew members. The plane returned to O’Hare about 40 minutes after its 1 p.m. takeoff, said United spokesman Jeff Green. It landed safely, and there were no reports of injuries, he said.

Passengers who arrived at Harrisburg International Airport said they were not told the nature of the problem that forced the landing.

“No one knew anything,” Chad Taylor, Live’s lead guitarist, told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg.

Taylor, bassist Patrick Dahlheimer, rhythm guitarist Adam Kowalczyk, assistant manager Matt Gracey and road crew member Shawn Williams were returning to Pennsylvania after a show Saturday night in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The band, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard album chart with the 1994 release, “Throwing Copper,” had finished a nine-date tour of Canada, opening for Nickelback.

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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) – Bryan Adams is helping raise money for victims of the South Asian earthquake that killed 87,000 people and left millions homeless.

His concert Sunday night was billed as the first by a major Western pop musician in Pakistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.

Adams, best known for hits such as “Summer of ‘69” and “Cuts Like a Knife,” arrived in Pakistan’s biggest city just days after the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for the country, citing concerns about terrorism.

But that didn’t faze the Canadian-born singer.

“The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels,” Adams, 46, told an afternoon news conference. “It’s exciting because I know we are the first Western artists to come and play a big concert here.”

Proceeds from the concert will go toward rebuilding schools damaged by the earthquake. Sponsors said they had sold 22,000 tickets at prices ranging from $58 to $83.

“We’re going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated,” Adams said.

The 7.6-magnitude quake struck northern Pakistan’s Kashmir region and surrounding areas on Oct. 8, destroying roads and schools and leaving 3.5 million people homeless. U.N.-led relief efforts are ongoing as survivors struggle through the harsh Himalayan winter.

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