First Lady Melania Trump is making waves ... for her flood fashion.
The former model is always elegantly turned out and perfectly coiffed, and Tuesday was no exception as she left the White House with her president husband for storm-ravaged Texas.

Beyonce, one of the most famous natives of Houston, has pledged generous but unspecified aid after the fourth most populous U.S. city was ravaged by mega-storm Harvey.
The pop superstar, in a statement to the Houston Chronicle, said she was working out details with her team and her Houston pastor "to implement a plan to help as many as we can."

In keeping with time-honored French presidential tradition, Emmanuel Macron has given the country a First Dog.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar dominated the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday as the glitzy gala took a political turn with impassioned denunciations of white supremacists in America.
Lamar won the most prestigious award of Video of the Year for "HUMBLE.," his ironic look at his growing fame in which he dresses up as everything from the pope to Jesus in "The Last Supper."

On a crisp December evening in 1960s California, two men near the peak of their powers locked horns in a battle that would go down in the annals of kung fu mythology.
On one side was a scrawny 24-year-old monk, newly arrived from eastern China, who exuded reserve and modesty despite being one of the fabled Shaolin Temple's most skilled grand masters.

Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a "creep" in her new memoir and describes how the now-president's behavior during one of their debates made her skin crawl, according to excerpts released Wednesday.
"We were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. It was incredibly uncomfortable," Clinton, who made history last year as the first woman presidential nominee of a major U.S. party, wrote in her upcoming book, titled "What Happened."

Grunge veterans the Foo Fighters are channeling their inner Rick Astley with a bold new record the American rockers describe as their "weirdest" yet.

The popularity of Britain's Prince Charles has taken a dive, according to a survey published on Monday, as the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death approaches.

Public anger at the monarchy following the death of Princess Diana marked a turning point for the royal family, forcing a revolution in its communications machine that helped revive the brand.
As mourners left thousands of bouquets of flowers at the gates of Buckingham Palace and nearby Kensington Palace, after Diana's death on August 31, 1997, the royal family were nowhere to be seen.

"Never again a summer like this": Exasperated with the hordes of visitors they blame for making their city unliveable, Barcelona residents have risen in protest.
