J. Hudson cancels her video shoot. Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson, still reeling from the murders of her mother, brother and nephew in October, has put the filming of her first music video on the shelf for now. She was scheduled to shoot the video for “If It Isn’t Love” in Los Angeles this week, a rep for J Records told Us magazine. “The video was set up before the tragedy, and she felt like she should finish what she started, but she’s realized that she’s not ready to go back to work. It’s too early,” a source told Us. On Dec. 2, William Balfour – the estranged husband of Jennifer’s sister, Julia – was charged with shooting to death Hudson’s mother,  Darnell Donerson, 57; brother, Jason, 29; and 7-year-old nephew, Julian King in Chicago on Oct. 24. Read more at Entertainment Spotlight.

Old man shoots at rap fans. In Senegal, an elderly man, offended by a rap song about cranky old men, fired into a crowd of fans singing it at a concert, reports BBC. The man, who is 70, thought that fans were singing the song “Pa’Tang Xol” (Angry Old Men) about him and demanded them to stop. “The elderly gentleman felt that these young people were insulting him in their songs,” an officer told Reuters. When they ignored him, he shot into the crowd four times with a hunting rifle, seriously injuring two people. His own children were in the crowd when he fired but they were not hurt, according to the police. The man was arrested. The song, in Wolof language, is by Baaba Mal, a popular musician in Senegal. The fans were listening to the track before the live act took the stage at the concert in the Matam region of the nation, about 440 miles from Senegal’s capital, Dakar.
 

Almost 1,000 killed due to Zimbabwe cholera crisis. According to the United Nations, the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed 978 people and as many as 60,000 people could be infected with the water-borne illness, reports Bloomberg. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called living in the nation “unbearable” and addressed the nation’s political instability at a U.N. Security Council meeting. “We continue to witness a failure of the leadership in Zimbabwe to address the political, economic, human rights and humanitarian crisis that is confronting the country and do what is best for the people,” he said. Longtime leader Robert Mugabe, who has blamed the West for the outbreak, is in deadlocked talks to form a power-sharing government with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The World Health Organization has put together a “comprehensive cholera-response operation plan” for Zimbabwe and the government has agreed to it, said a U.N. spokeswoman. WHO is currently “in the process of procuring and distributing emergency stocks of supplies,” she said. The plan will cost $25 million to implement, according to Ban. Half of the nation’s population is expected to need food aid by March.

Three suspects were arrested, and guns, bullet-proof vests and drugs were seized

At least three Colorado men, possibly four, have been arrested with rifles, bullet-proof vest, walkie-talkies and camouflage clothes in an alleged plot to kill Sen. Barack Obama, according to reports from news media and law-enforcement agencies. TV station CBS4 reports that the suspects planned to shoot Obama in Denver during his acceptance speech. One suspect was nabbed in Aurora on Sunday, after being stopped by police for swerving in traffic in a rented pickup truck, reports say. Get more details on the plot at BET.com/News.