Caitlyn Jenner took the stage at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards and told an admiring crowd that the six months since she came out as a woman have been "the most eye-opening experience of my life."

Jenner, one of a group of honorees that included actress Reese Witherspoon, ballerina Misty Copeland, designer Victoria Beckham, the victorious U.S. women's soccer team, and a group of women from Charleston, South Carolina, who suffered great loss in the June church shooting there, also said she believes she was put on Earth to tell her story and perhaps make a difference in the world.

Russia on Monday detained a political performance artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square after he torched the doors to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB.

Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the wooden doors of the sprawling FSB building in downtown Moscow around 1:00am (Sunday 2200 GMT), his lawyer Olga Chavdar told AFP from the Moscow police station where he was being held.

British soul singer sensation Sam Smith desperately wants to take a year off. But he just can't stop working on his new album. 

The 23-year-old Londoner, who pocketed four Grammy Awards for his debut album "In the Lonely Hour," has had a whirlwind year filled with performances and promotional tours the world over.

Controversial French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala will appear at the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday to protest the fine he received in 2009 for inviting a Holocaust-denier on stage.

The judges will decide whether the 10,000-euro ($11,000) fine he was given by a French court for "racist insults" was an infringement on his freedom of speech.

The empire has not yet figured out how to strike back.

The major legacy television companies are struggling to find the formula to stem the loss of customers to Internet rivals like Netflix, Amazon and others.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump hosted the sketch-comedy show "Saturday Night Live," defying protesters to make the highly anticipated but controversial primetime television appearance.

Wearing a dark suit, white shirt and red tie, the bombastic Trump stepped on stage to cheers and insisted in a nearly five-minute opening monologue that saw him flanked by two lookalikes: "I am a nice guy."

A guitar beloved by John Lennon for writing Beatles hits such as "She loves you" and "All my loving" sold for a record $2.41 million on Saturday, a U.S. auction house said.

The 1962 J-160E Gibson Acoustic guitar was bought by the famous Beatle in Liverpool in September 1962 for 161 pounds, Julien's Auctions said.

To some he was the sexiest man of the 20th century, to others he is an egotistical cad. But as the actor Alain Delon turns 80 on Sunday, France still can't make up its mind about its greatest screen seducer.

As a slew of new French and Italian television documentaries puzzle over the enigmatic star, even Brigitte Bardot, one of Delon's oldest friends, has admitted she, too, has never quite solved the riddle.

A mini storm has broken out in the Netherlands ruffling some feathers amid plans to move popular children's program "Sesame Street" away from its regular early evening slot.

But Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who declared he's a fan of the show known as "Sesamstraat," backed public broadcaster NPO's decision.

U.S. video game giant Activision Blizzard on Friday announced the creation of its own television and film studio to bring titles such as "Skylanders" and "Call of Duty" to the big and small screens.

Activision Blizzard Studios' first production will be "Skylanders Academy," an animated TV series based on the award-winning game, followed by several films based on the best-selling "Call of Duty" franchise and possibly television adaptations too.