South Africans will glimpse into the lives of Nelson Mandela's family when a reality show featuring three of his grandchildren premiers in 2012, the producers said Thursday.

"The show provides a first look into a high-profile South African family," the producers said in a statement.

Pop stars including Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen will come out in New York to help rocker Sting celebrate his 60th birthday in a charity concert.

Sting invited the stellar guest list -- also including Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and Billy Joel -- to his bash at the Beacon Theater on October 1. Proceeds will go to the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, sting.com website said.

Flushed with the triumph of her latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is the toast of the town as she sits in a Beirut cafe giving interview after interview.

The movie "Where Do We Go Now?", about a group of women determined to prevent the men in their village from getting involved in a religious war, won best picture at the festival's People's Choice Award, seen as a bellwether for Oscar success.

The family of Arch West, the marketing executive who came up with Doritos, will sprinkle his urn with the spicy tortilla chips when his ashes are laid to rest on Saturday in Texas.

"It's true, they are going to toss some Doritos in with him," funeral director Maria Estes of the Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery in Dallas, told AFP by telephone on Tuesday. "We're going to allow it."

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.