Global Tribute Marks Year Since Michael Jackson's Death

LOS ANGELES  (Reuters) - Michael Jackson fans worldwide paid tribute to the late King of Pop on Friday, the first anniversary of his death, by remembering him in song and dance even as his father sued the doctor accused of sending the superstar to his grave.

In Tokyo , the "Thriller" singer's followers spent the night among his possessions at a Michael Jackson exhibition, at New York's famed Apollo theater they danced to his music, and along Hollywood's Walk of Fame, they laid flowers by his star.

Jackson's sister Janet and brother Jermaine were among family members visiting a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn cemetery near Los Angeles, where the singer's body was laid to rest, and his mother, matriarch Katherine, appeared at the unveiling of a monument outside the family's first home in Gary, Indiana.

Michael Jackson's children to attend school for first time

Michael Jackson’s three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, are to attend school for the first time later this year.

Katherine Jackson, the children’s grandmother and guardian, said she wants to give them a more conventional upbringing after years of being kept largely hidden from the outside world.

In an interview to mark the first anniversary of her son’s death she told the Mail on Sunday: “I’d say I’m a little less strict but I’ve tried to follow the way Michael was raising them.