Academy award-winning duo Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have broken off their engagement and parted ways after a two-year relationship, U.S. media reported Wednesday.

The couple was last seen together in May in Cannes, where Theron -- who only recently referred to Penn as the love of her life -- was promoting the premiere of her film "Mad Max."

Five decades after galvanizing the Brazilian music scene with the "Tropicalia" movement, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso are going back on tour, older and wiser but still border-blurring troubadours.

Gil, a politically engaged musical ambassador who once served as Brazil's culture minister, and Veloso, a wispy, gender-bending poet with a sublimely mellow voice, have been friends and collaborators since 1963.

The Beatles' recording sessions in London's Abbey Road Studios are being turned into a stage show at the city's Royal Albert Hall, the producers announced on Tuesday.

"The Sessions at Abbey Road" will see the legendary British band's studio work recreated live at the Victorian concert hall on April 1, 2016.

Broadcaster Chris Evans is to replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of the BBC's hit motoring show "Top Gear", the corporation announced Tuesday.

The BBC said Evans, 49, had signed a three-year deal to present the world's most popular factual TV program -- and announced that Clarkson's former co-presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, would not be returning, after months of speculation.

Downloading may be eviscerating the music industry, but rock legends KISS say they are pioneers in monetizing their image -- from a limo service, cruises, and even lunch with "Lord Simmons." 

The U.S. band recognizes it has escaped the worst impact of the availability of cheap music online thanks to the fact that its glory years were in the 1970s and 1980s, when the Internet was in its infancy. 

Entertainer Jennifer Lopez is no longer from the block, but British rocker Phil Collins is. He snapped up a Miami Beach mansion she once called home for a cool $33 million.

"It's true, Mr. Collins purchased this house," Mathieu Rochette at Barclay's Real Estate Group, who represented Collins in the transaction, told AFP on Tuesday.

British actor John Hurt said on Tuesday he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but would keep working and was "more than optimistic" about his future.

"I have recently been diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer," the 75-year-old Hurt, who appeared in the cult film "Alien" and the Harry Potter series, said in a statement to Britain's Press Association.

China has become one with the Force by showing the original "Star Wars" film at cinemas for the first time, nearly four decades after it became a global hit and cornerstone of Western popular culture.   

The Shanghai International Film Festival is showing all six "Star Wars" films this week, including the first screenings in mainland Chinese theaters of the original trilogy, festival organizers said. There are no plans for nationwide release.

Men dressed in lace by Burberry, Christopher Kane's colorful tweeds, and 1980s-style footwear by Jimmy Choo: London's men's fashion week bowed out Monday with plenty of daring designs.

Lace was not just for women at Burberry, where the material lent a romantic feel to white shirts and finished straight-cut, mid-length coats.

Google teamed up with five leading orchestras Monday in a bid to draw more classical music lovers to digital music as the streaming sector booms.

Dubbed Classical Live, the initiative will offer exclusive recordings through the Internet giant's Google Play service from orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra.