Rap group Wu-Tang Clan have re-teamed with sports brand Fila to launch a new style of footwear. The Gravel Pit stars have designed the new Wu-Tang Weathertech boot - their second collaboration with Fila bosses since the special edition C.R.E.A.M. shoe, which was released in 2007.

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's highest civil court has dealt electronic band Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright.Thursday's decision overturns a Hamburg state court ruling in Kraftwerk's favor that said reusing even the shortest bit of a song infringed on copyright. The Hamburg court will now have to take up the case again. The civil court ruling, however, forbids sampling of a song melody and insists that the sample must be part of a completely new musical work bearing no resemblance to the original.