Hollywood's elite head for the red carpet Sunday for the Golden Globes, the champagne-drenched launch of the entertainment industry's awards season, with whimsical musical "La La Land" leading the race for statuettes.

Billed as the most raucous event in the showbiz calendar, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual prizegiving is a draw for filmmakers and actors looking to create some buzz ahead of February's Academy Awards.

A Saudi television channel apologized on Wednesday after a reality show in the strict Islamic kingdom featured a scene that critics denounced as "pornographic."

Following months of silence, reality television star Kim Kardashian reemerged on social media Tuesday, posting a photograph of herself with rapper husband Kanye West and their two children.

Kardashian, who has 49.3 million followers on Twitter and 89.6 million on Instagram, also posted a home video of her family that will likely put to rest rumors of a divorce.

When David Bowie walked unassumingly into a cozy New York jazz club to hear Donny McCaslin play, the saxophonist admits he wasn't well-versed in the rock icon's vast discography.

Bowie, who had a vision for the rhythmic underpinning of what would become his final album, met McCaslin in person a week later and soon emailed him to propose a collaboration.

A film about rising nationalism in Europe featuring a character similar to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to hit screens in France two months ahead of elections -- and Le Pen's allies are furious.

Mariah Carey surely must be hoping that her 2017 goes better than 2016 ended.

The pop music superstar endured what can only be described as a massive technical meltdown during her New Year's Eve performance late Saturday -- a fiasco witnessed by thousands in New York's Times Square and millions more across the United States.

A horrific attack that killed 39 revelers in an Istanbul nightclub cast a dark shadow over New Year celebrations attended by millions around the world to ring in 2017.

The shooting massacre, carried out by a gunman reportedly dressed as Santa Claus, took place despite heightened security in major cities around the world, amid fears that celebrations could present a target for terrorists.

Fears that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte would harshly punish revelers who celebrate the New Year with firecrackers caused a "remarkable" decline in injuries, the health minister said Sunday.

The upmarket Istanbul Reina club, targeted in a gun attack during New Year celebrations that left at least 39 people dead, is an exclusive haunt of Turkey's glamorous homegrown elite as well as foreign visitors.

Ex-Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham and Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance were among the public figures to receive Britain's traditional New Year Honours on Friday but two recipients turned theirs down.

Beckham, who rose to fame in the 1990s girl band the Spice Girls and is married to former England footballer David Beckham, launched her first fashion label in 2006.