Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham flew into controversy on Monday after she posed for a picture in a crew-only seat on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong.

"Cabin crew prepare for landing! Welcome to Beijing!! X vb," she wrote on Twitter alongside a photograph of her sitting in the crew seats aboard the Beijing-bound flight on Friday.

The doctor of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb on Sunday hailed his "quite incredible" recovery; a day after the star woke from a coma and responded to members of his family.

Gibb, 62, contracted pneumonia and fell into the coma last week. He is suffering from colon and liver cancer.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited with displaced Colombians forced to seek refuge across the border in Ecuador, as a special envoy of High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the UNHCR announced Sunday.

It was the first such working visit for the screen star since Guterres named her to the post this month. She has however been a U.N. goodwill ambassador since 2001, and as such made 40 visits around the world in the past decade.

New Zealand teenage girls turned out in their thousands over the weekend hoping for a glimpse of British-Irish boy band One Direction but it seems not all knew who they were screaming for.

A radio producer wearing a beanie, dark glasses and a scarf, was mobbed when he left an Auckland hotel after interviewing the stars with young girls believing he was a member of the five-piece band.

Scores of conservative South Korean Christians will pray together on Sunday against Lady Gaga's Seoul concert, organizers said, accusing the U.S. pop star of advocating homosexuality and pornography.

The pop diva arrived in South Korea on Friday, a week before her Seoul performance which kicks off her "Born This Way Ball Global Tour."

Three concerts by legendary French singer Charles Aznavour scheduled in New York for next week have been canceled, organizers said late Saturday.

"The concerts have been canceled and will not be re-scheduled," Renee Portoff, a representative of the entertainment company Live Nation, told Agence France Presse.

Natalie Dessay needed a relief soprano at the Metropolitan Opera.

After struggling through the first act of Verdi's "La Traviata" on Saturday night, Dessay was replaced by Hei-Kyung Hong for the final two acts.

Chaz Bono picked up a pair of trophies at the GLAAD Media Awards.

The 43-year-old transgender activist and author was honored with the outstanding documentary prize and Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 23rd annual Media Awards for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Bono won along with directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato for "Becoming Chaz," the OWN documentary that chronicled his gender transition.

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma and responded to members of his family, his spokesman said Saturday.

Gibb, 62, contracted pneumonia and fell into the coma last week. He is suffering from colon and liver cancer.

No one smoked or drank on stage during the memorial for Christopher Hitchens, although one overhead picture featured a cigarette drooping from his mouth. And few of the speakers swore, unless quoting from their departed friend.

Hundreds filled Cooper Union's Great Hall in lower Manhattan on Friday to honor a provocative author and committed atheist who, unless mistaken about the cosmos, could not respond.