The Middle East's first three-dimensional pavement art festival, starring works by international artists that appear to rise from the ground, kicked off this week in Dubai, its organisers said.

The Dubai Canvas Festival features 3-D artworks in chalk or paint, many of them depicting eye-catching images of the Emirati city. 

Months after rock legends Pink Floyd put out a final album, guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour is planning a solo album and shows at Roman-era theaters.

Gilmour announced on his website Wednesday that he would release the album, the title and exact date of which he did not reveal, to coincide with a tour of "some of the world's most beautiful cities and venues."

Country superstar Carrie Underwood on Tuesday announced the birth of her first child with her husband, the hockey player Mike Fisher.

Underwood released on Twitter a photograph of the hand of their son -- Isaiah Michael Fisher -- and said he was born on Friday.

A Philadelphia man already facing an attempted murder charge in the stabbings of two members of Nicki Minaj's tour has been charged with murder.

Homicide Capt. James Clark says 31-year-old Pierce Boykin was charged Tuesday with murder in the stabbing death of 29-year-old Devon Pickett. The double stabbing outside a bar last month left Pickett dead and a second member of Minaj's tour severely wounded. Minaj says the crew members had arrived in Philadelphia to rehearse for a tour.

Paris Hilton's youngest brother, Conrad, agreed to plead guilty to assaulting flight attendants on a trip from London to Los Angeles last year during which authorities say he called other passengers "peasants" and threatened to kill crew members.

Hilton, 20, signed the agreement Tuesday and is set to appear in court Thursday, but will officially plead guilty to the misdemeanor later, said the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday unleashed its first day of stilleto- and swagger-filled shows with a nod to young designers coming up to fill the creative ranks.

It was the French capital's turn to reveal its women's 2015-2016 autumn-winter collections after the shows in New York, London and Milan.

Madonna wants to "sit down and have a drink" with France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen to hear out the woman she once demonized on stage by showing a picture of her with a swastika on her forehead.

The American singer -- who only last week called Le Pen's National Front party "fascist" and said France and Europe now "feels like Nazi Germany" -- made the offer in an interview late Monday on French television network Canal+.

Jennifer Lawrence will star in Steven Spielberg's "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," U.S. media said Monday.

Warner Bros studio secured the rights to the memoir by Lynsey Addario, the award-winning American international photojournalist, after an auction, Variety said.

As Milan fashion week hands over the baton to Paris, winding up a whirlwind show which saw historic brands revitalized and young designers triumph, here are 10 themes from the autumn/winter 2015 collections.

- The bedroom look: At the hottest show of the season, Gucci's brand new creative director, Alessandro Michele, stunned fashionistas by unveiling furry slippers that looked like they were borrowed from Star Wars' Chewbacca.

Heaps of twisted iron, piles of ash and a charred microphone are all that remains of Jazzamba, the iconic Addis Ababa nightclub that revived Ethiopian jazz after it all but disappeared under communist rule.

The fire that destroyed the venue in January has left Ethiopia's vibrant and growing jazz scene in disarray.