Mandawuy Yunupingu, the lead singer of Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi who helped to build bridges between Australia's indigenous and white communities, has died of kidney disease aged 56, it was announced Monday.

Yunupingu, a musician, songwriter and campaigner whose surname translates as "rock that will stand against anything", died Sunday night at his home in Eastern Arnhem Land in Australia's north.

US rock legend Lou Reed is recovering from a life-saving liver transplant, his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson revealed in an interview published Saturday.

The 71-year-old singer, who was the driving force behind The Velvet Underground, was close to death before the operation in Cleveland, Ohio last month, Anderson told Britain's Times newspaper.

Google interns got an early look at a Hollywood take on their world and chatted with celebrities who play them on screen in 'The Internship' film set for release next week.

Actors Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson along with director Shawn Levy walked on stage to a standing ovation from an audience of 'Googlers' in the wake of a private viewing of the film in a San Francisco theater.

Two bare-breasted female protesters burst on to the stage at the final of Germany's Next Topmodel TV show, hosted by the German ex-supermodel Heidi Klum late Thursday.

As the finalists appeared with Klum, two Femen feminist supporters, one with "Heidi Horror Picture Show" written in English across her naked chest and stomach, stormed on stage, N24 rolling news channel showed Friday.

The invitation from Harvard University caught Oprah Winfrey at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop in the media, when Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust called last year to ask Winfrey to address 2013 graduates.

The request came "in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding," Winfrey recalled.

Nicki Minaj is following Mariah Carey out the door on "American Idol."

The hip-hop diva announced Thursday on Twitter that it is "time to focus on the music."

Movie star Toni Collette was Friday ordered to pay more than Aus$800,000 (U.S.$770,000) in damages after being sued for failing to complete the purchase of a multi-million dollar Sydney house.

Industrie clothing brand founders Nick and Susan Kelly sued the Oscar-nominated Australian actress and her musician husband David Galafassi and the Supreme Court in Sydney ruled in their favor.

U.S. rock supergroup Bon Jovi will waive their fee for playing a concert in recession-hit Spain next month, media reported on Thursday, with special low-price tickets for Spaniards struggling in the crisis.

Tickets for the gig in the giant Vicente Calderon football stadium in Madrid are capped at 39 euros ($50) -- a fraction of the top price in other countries on the band's "Because We Can" European tour.

A unique handwritten script for French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic "Contempt" has sold at auction for 144,300 euros ($186,800), seller Artcurial said Wednesday.

The 1963 script, made up of 59 pages written by Godard, sold on Tuesday for well above its estimate of between 60,000 and 80,000 euros.

Justin Timberlake will be the headliner when the iTunes festival kicks off in September in London.

The superstar is among the acts slated for the annual music series, which will be held each night that month and streamed on Apple devices like the iPad, iPhone and Apple TV.