Adele on Monday shattered a record with her long-awaited song "Hello," which became the first track downloaded more than one million times in a week in the United States.

"Hello," a piano ballad that is the debut single from the British pop star's first album in nearly five years, opened at number one for the week through Thursday on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, which monitors sales, streaming and radio play.

After being told that he is "just passing as white", Welsh crooner Tom Jones says he is ready to take a DNA test to find out once and for all if he has black ancestry.

The star, whose hits include "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah" and "Sex Bomb", is often thought to have black heritage for his booming baritone voice, tight curly hair and olive complexion.

Jennifer Lawrence is bidding farewell to "The Hunger Games" the wildly popular fantasy franchise that made her a megastar and rare Hollywood action heroine.

Lawrence is back as bow-and-arrow badass Katniss Everdeen leading her rebels deeper into the fight against injustice in their dystopian world in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2", opening around the globe November 18-20.

Al Molinaro, the loveable character actor with the hangdog face who was known to millions of TV viewers for playing Murray the cop on "The Odd Couple" and malt shop owner Al Delvecchio on "Happy Days," died Friday at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, his son Michael Molinaro said.

He died of complications of gallstone problems, his son said. He was 96.

The former manager of the pioneering rap group N.W.A has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the movie "Straight Outta Compton", claiming the summer hit portrays him as a "sleazy, dishonest thief."

Jerry Heller is seeking $110 million dollars in damages in the lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles against the film's producers, the artists who were the subjects of the biopic and others connected with the film.

One Direction "fully intend" to reform, the British pop phenomenon's Louis Tomlinson said ahead of Saturday's final concert before their planned hiatus.

The four-piece boy band, who have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, are ending their On The Road Again Tour at the Sheffield Arena in northern England.

An Egyptian television station suspended a female presenter's program on Friday following online outrage after she shamed and allegedly stole personal pictures from a sexual harassment victim on her show.

Stressing its "respect for all women and girls", the privately owned Al-Nahar channel said it had suspended Riham Saeed's program and opened an internal investigation into the incident.

A Polish court on Friday ruled against extraditing to the United States Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty in 1977 to raping a 13-year-old girl but left the country before sentencing.

The court ruled "inadmissibility in extraditing Polish-French citizen Roman Polanski to the U.S.," Judge Dariusz Mazur said at the court in the southern city of Krakow.

About a quarter through the new and uneven Broadway revival of "Therese Raquin," you begin to wonder why Keira Knightley has put herself through this.

Her Broadway debut seems to be about playing a lonely, detached and diffident girl in a slow-moving parlor play. She looks wan. She gazes through windows. She generally moons about.

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber says he stopped a concert in Oslo after one song because fans got in his way as he tried to wipe up liquid on stage.

On Instagram, he wrote that he "chose to end the show as the people in the front row would not listen." Videos posted on social media show a visibly irritated Bieber saying "Gimme me a second. Guys, I am done. I am not gonna do the show."