A 'Honey' of a buy

A sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard titled "Tiggers Don't Like Honey" (above) fetched $49,770 at auction yesterday. Bonhams auction house said the drawing, of Pooh dipping his paw into a honey pot while Tigger and Piglet look on, was bought by a private collector in Germany for his wife who had loved the characters as a child. The large oval pencil drawing is an enlarged version of an illustration that appeared in A.A. Milne's children's classic "The House at Pooh Corner." (AP)

A Swedish court released Syrian singer George Wassouf from police custody yesterday pending the outcome of a drug investigation. The 47-year-old singer cried and raised his arms into the air in relief as the judge read out his decision. Wassouf and another man, Joseph Karabet, were arrested after police said they found cocaine Saturday at Wassouf's hotel room in central Stockholm. He has denied the charges, while Karabet has pleaded guilty. (AP)

In making a documentary about how the nation votes, actress Kirsten Dunst and filmmaker Jacob Soboroff were drawn to North Dakota, the only state without voter registration. "It's different than any other state in the United States, and what we're looking at is best and worst [voting] practices," Soboroff said. "I don't know if it's a best practice or . . . a worst practice, and that's why we're here." Dunst, who has starred in three "Spider-Man" movies, and Soboroff are directing and producing a documentary, not yet titled, that explores why American voter participation lags behind turnout in most other countries. (AP)

"I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote."-- Hip-hop mogul Diddy, talking about his vote for Barack Obama many hours before the polls closed in New York