Former Beatle Paul McCartney supplied the star power Monday at Paris fashion week as daughter Stella opted for "understated seduction" in a collection of fluid silhouettes and light, airy tailoring for summer 2014.

The singer, along with wife Nancy Shevell, headed a host of names on the front row including Ringo Starr's wife and former Bond girl Barbara Bach, model Twiggy, actresses Salma Hayek Pinault and Angie Harmon, singer Sharleen Spiteri and model Natalia Vodianova.

The world's most prominent literary singleton Bridget Jones is now a widow bringing up two children alone, according to extracts of a new book of her exploits released on Sunday.

Fifteen years after the last novel in her saga, it turns out unlucky-in-love Bridget married Mark Darcy and had two children -- but author Helen Fielding has killed off the barrister and put her heroine back on the singles' market.

"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" slurped up the box office.

The animated Sony sequel featuring the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris opened in first place and earned $35 million in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Gazan winner of the Arab Idol talent competition Mohammed Assaf brought his thumping Palestinian beats out of the Middle East for the first on Sunday in his electrifying European debut.

Mohammed Assaf, 24, became a national hero and a rare symbol of Palestinian unity when he won the pan-Arab contest in June after transfixing millions of television viewers with his soaring renditions of Arab love ballads and patriotic Palestinian songs.

Written by Anthony Sargon

"Don Jon" marks Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, and all I can say is that the man sure knows how to leave an impression. The movie is very funny and memorable, and it establishes Gordon-Levitt as a director with a bright future, in case acting wasn't enough.

Written by Anthony Sargon

Sports dramas are very difficult to pull off, especially when it comes to Formula 1. Capturing the intensity of one of the world's most dangerous sports is no easy task, but Ron Howard has done the impossible; he made it look easy.

Miss Philippines was Saturday crowned Miss World 2013 in a glittering finale on the Indonesian resort island of Bali amid tight security following weeks of hardline Muslim protests.

As hundreds of Muslim hardliners held a prayer session in a mosque near the capital to express their anger at the contest, Megan Young wept as she won the coveted title in the final on Hindu-majority Bali.

The fate of the man who is arguably America's most popular TV villain will be unveiled on Sunday in the feverishly awaited finale of the series "Breaking Bad."

A week after the five-year-old show won the best drama award at the Emmys, soft-spoken high school chemistry teacher turned ruthless, cancer-ridden drug lord Walter White will appear one last time.

Thousands of square meters (yards) of hanging vines, wisteria and roses — some real, some fake — created a garden setting through which designer Raf Simons' took guests on the latest Christian Dior journey for spring-summer 2014.

But in the garden Simons created — with its lurid-colored flora hanging from make-shift metal scaffolding — the bees sting and things were off kilter.

In Bogota's Buen Pastor prison, age is not an obstacle to a beauty queen crown.

Maria Cristina Villareal, 56, was among six women competing Friday in this year's pageant for the title of "Reina Madre" or "Queen Mother." There is a separate category for unmarried women.