After 31 years and 15 albums, the pioneering American alternative rock group R.E.M. has announced that it will be no more.

The group, whose hits included "Shiny Happy People" and "Everybody Hurts," were a cult band on the U.S. college rock circuit before hitting the mainstream in the early 1990s.

Denzel Washington still applies the same principles in his acting career that he learned when he was a third grader in the Boys & Girls Club of America.

Now, the Oscar-winning actor along with director Ron Howard want to show how the club has impacted his life along with 20 other celebrities and entertainers, who were once members of the club.

Japanese teenagers crowded a new Hello Kitty themed store in one of Tokyo's hippest areas on Thursday as the mouthless cat turned global icon of cuteness entertained them with her music-mixing skills.

A life-sized version of the cat that adorns everything from school bags to office equipment got the crowds moving from a special DJ booth in the ultra-cool SHIBUYA109 building, a magnet for Tokyo's fashion-conscious youth.

T-Group Productions is set to release the Lebanese movie, ‘My last valentine in Beirut’, the first feature film to be produced in 3D in the Arab region ever, with one of the highest production costs and biggest production team.

The movie will have a world wide release with professionally crafted plans of marketing mixes and distribution.

Gold and black trimmings, feather handbags and dinner jackets: the new Gucci spring-summer 2012 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday leant heavily on some of the most iconic images of Art Deco.

Like ball-goers emerging on to the deck of a luxury cruise liner at dawn circa 1932, androgynous-looking models swept down the catwalk with chiffon neck scarves fluttering in the wind and gold belts twinkling in the meager light.

U.S. ballet star David Hallberg is to join Russia's Bolshoi Theatre for the new season, the first time an American has become a member of the legendary company, sources said Wednesday.

Whereas Russian dancers including Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov famously defected to the West from the Soviet Union, this is the first time that a Western dancer is to perform full time with the Bolshoi.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will not be watching a controversial TV comedy Wednesday that portrays her in a compromising position with her boyfriend on the floor of her office.

The third episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's satirical "At Home with Julia" has sparked widespread condemnation with some MPs calling for a rethink of the state broadcaster's funding.

The earliest known film from British director Alfred Hitchcock screens in Los Angeles this week for the first time in more than 80 years -- but it would have been lost to history if not for an eccentric hoarder half a world away in New Zealand.

The only known print of the 1923 feature "The White Shadow" lay in a garden shed in the North Island town of Hastings for decades, alongside hundreds of other films from the silent era.

Some 400 dresses and accessories that belonged to the late U.S. film star Elizabeth Taylor will be auctioned in December, as well as more than 200 pieces of her jewelry.

Christie's auction house said Tuesday that the December event will include dresses, shoes and handbags that span 50 years in the life of the Hollywood star, including items by Chanel, Christian Dior and Versace.

Style icon Pippa Middleton took a front row seat as one of her favorite designers, Temperley London, unveiled its Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week.

The catwalk show Monday at the British Museum launched elegantly glamorous designs inspired by the silver screen.