If Yves Saint Laurent was widely hailed as a feminist for freeing women from pinching bustiers and nip-waisted dresses, what does that make Gareth Pugh?

The British bad boy designer sent models out in convict stripes, leather cages and head-englobing plastic tears for his spring-summer 2012 collection at Paris fashion week.

An enamel black-and-white brooch by Roy Lichtenstein that recalls his pop art designs. A bold gilt-painted necklace twisted into a bowtie by Frank Stella inspired by his sculptural forms and reliefs.

These wearable works of art are at once different but recognizable as the designs of their creators, and are among nearly 200 one-of-a-kind and limited edition jewelry pieces in a new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Justin Timberlake has been lauded for his work in music, TV and film. Now he's about to get an accolade for trying to better the environment.

The Environmental Media Association says Timberlake will receive its Futures Award, which represents future environmental leaders in entertainment.

Pakistan and the United States set aside an escalating row over proxy warfare for a night of musical fusion by the moonlit shores of a lake, hoping to cement public friendships, and all that jazz.

In Washington, the White House exacerbated tensions with more demands that Islamabad clamp down on the Al-Qaeda-linked network blamed for attacks on U.S. targets in Kabul, but in the Pakistani capital, diplomats trod a softer path.

Paris Fashion Week got off to a black-and-white start on Tuesday as a duo of Asian designers sent out Spring-Summer looks for 2012 that played on monochrome in both setting and style.

The global fashion pack descended on a Paris basking in gorgeous Indian Summer sunshine for the finale of the four-week ready-to-wear marathon, after a stop in Milan where the tone was firmly upbeat despite the economic gloom.

Spectacular entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has begun a 10-year residency in Hollywood, with a new show paying tribute to the history of film in the home of cinema.

The Canada-based acrobatic group has signed a deal with the Kodak Theatre to put on shows 10 months a year -- the other two months it's used for the Oscars, Hollywood's top annual awards -- for the next decade.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut hosted Native Deen for the Lebanese leg of their 2011 middle East/North Africa tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State from Wednesday until Saturday.

Native Deen is an American Islamic hip-hop group composed of three Muslim-Americans who use their music to promote religious tolerance and to talk about Islam, and being a Muslim in America. While in Lebanon, the group conducted workshops with local hip-hop artists, held discussion groups with Lebanese youth, and performed in both Beirut and Tripoli.

Twenty years ago, a naked baby diving after a dollar bill turned the rock world upside down, and Nirvana's "Nevermind", the record immortalized by that image, became the soundtrack for a generation.

"Nevermind"'s release in late September 1991 also sucked Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain into a whirlwind that he would not get out of alive.

To the cries of "Freedom!" from a sold-out crowd of 18,000, the last bull to be killed in Catalonia in a bullfight before a ban on the sport comes into force hit the sand of Barcelona's Monumental arena.

"This will continue," read a large banner carried by hundreds of bullfighting fans who invaded the arena after the 570-kilo (1,250-pound) beast was slain by 28-year-old Catalan matador Serafin Marin.

Five armed men stormed into a youth hostel early Sunday and robbed some 20 tourists, mainly Brazilians, near the site of Rock in Rio, the music mega-festival under way here, police said.

"I still haven't had time to count how many people were robbed because I'm still so shaken up, but they (the assailants) didn't touch the foreigners. They only robbed the Brazilians," the proprietor of the hostel in the popular tourist area of Copacabana said on Globo's website G1.