Lebanon will host its first Theater Festival for Children and Youth where Scenez Drama and Arts Academy Presents " Little me Little You " on March 31.

The event will be held under the patronage of the Culture and Tourism Ministries.

Robert B. Sherman, the composer of the "Mary Poppins" song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and other Disney classics, has died in London aged 86, his publicist said on Tuesday.

"He died peacefully yesterday," a spokeswoman for Stella Richards Management told Agence France Presse, without giving any further details.

Chanel's superstar designer Karl Lagerfeld turned Paris' ornate Grand Palais into a crystal vault on Tuesday, sending out a look packed with trompe l'oeil tricks and glinting shades of violet and blue.

Giant spears of mock-crystal filled the vast domed space, as the models filed past with crystal outlining their eyebrows, and clustered on the clear heels of shoes which crunched on a floor of glittering mineral dust.

Nigeria's biggest city from Wednesday hosts the second Lagos Fashion Week, which organizers say will showcase local design talent and add a splash of color in a region often seen as troubled.

"There's a lot of negativity about Africa in general and Nigeria in particular," Penny McDonald, managing director of Arise Media, which is organizing the event, told Agence France Presse on the eve of the opening day.

Britain's Prince Harry was due in Brazil Friday for his first visit to the South American giant to launch the GREAT campaign promoting his country ahead of the 2012 Olympics.

Making his first solo tour, the third in line to the British throne will launch the campaign from the top of Sugarloaf Mountain following festivities with samba dance and capoeira martial art presentations, a British embassy spokeswoman told reporters.

Italian designer Stefano Pilati earned a standing ovation on Monday night as he sent out his swansong collection for Yves Saint Laurent before a star-studded gathering at Paris Fashion Week.

French actresses Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert were joined front row by the U.S. pop star Katy Perry -- sporting bright blue hair -- the soul singer Alicia Keys and the actress Rosario Dawson, in cheering the collection.

Inhabited by lonely little monsters, dancing corpses and boggle-eyed creatures from the underworld, Tim Burton's cult universe comes to Paris this week with a show that journeys through his life's work.

Some 500 sketches -- the starting point for all Burton's films -- whisk visitors deep into the U.S. director's surreal inner world, with gothic doodles dating back to his misfit childhood in Burbank, a bland suburb of Los Angeles.

Pop diva Lady Gaga has become the first person with more than 20 million followers on Twitter, cementing her place as the most-followed on the planet.

A 20 millionth "Little Monster," as Lady Gaga calls her fans, signed up to follow her Twitter feed over the weekend.

Canada imposed Monday a fresh round of sanctions on Syria targeting the central bank and seven cabinet ministers in a bid to halt President Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown on dissent.

The Canadian embassy in Damascus and a consulate also were shuttered and Canadian diplomats left the country, the foreign affairs ministry said.

Coldplay and Mumford and Sons were among the performers here late Sunday at an Amnesty International concert organized in defense of freedom of expression.

The show marked the first time that the "Secret Policeman's Ball" -- organized by Amnesty International since 1976 -- was held in the United States.