Pop superstar Taylor Swift offered a new personal transformation Sunday as she debuted a video of herself as a feminist action hero in collaboration with rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Appearing at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, where she was the night's victor, Swift premiered "Bad Blood" as the fourth single from her album "1989," by far the top-selling solo album last year.

Bill Cosby said young people should separate what he has to say about their future from sexual assault allegations lodged against him.

The actor and comedian was in Alabama to speak with high school students as part of a nonprofit foundation's campaign to improve education in the south-central part of the state. In a taped interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Cosby was asked how he would respond if a youngster pressed him about accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted a number of women over a period of decades.

On Sunday, many an Old Fashioned will be raised to Don Draper -- or raised in his memory.

After seven seasons, eight years and nearly 100 episodes, "Mad Men" fans will finally discover the fate of the show's dashing but conflicted anti-hero as the curtain comes down on the award-winning retro-cool series.

Britain's Prince Harry had a close encounter with a ferocious crocodile during his recent trip in Australia, with officials revealing Saturday he helped capture a 3.1 meter predator.

Harry spent a month Down Under with the Australian Army, an experience which involved learning bush survival skills, flying helicopters and working with elite SAS commandos. 

With just days to go before they perform at the Eurovision song contest, the Romanian pop-rock group Voltaj are rehearsing their hearts out.

For them, the competition is not just about representing their country but also about giving voice to thousands of children who grow up alone in Romania, with parents forced to go West to find work.

Premieres, parties, pretty people and paparazzi. All come together at the annual Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera. Associated Press journalists are in the mix, too, and here's what they're reporting:

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Singer Sam Smith appeared to be in good spirits Thursday after vocal surgery that will leave the rising star silent for weeks.

The British soul sensation, who enjoyed a meteoric rise thanks to his hit "Stay With Me," underwent surgery at a U.S. clinic after doctors detected a hemorrhage in his vocal cords.

B.B. King, with his ever-present guitar Lucille, rose from sharecropper poverty in deep Mississippi to become the face of the American blues worldwide and an inspiration for generations of rock guitarists everywhere.

"The King of the Blues," as he was universally known, led a life of non-stop touring, electrifying audiences in some 100 countries with his biting guitar licks and soulful songs of love and angst such as "The Thrill is Gone" and "How Blue Can You Get."

Woody Allen premieres his latest film at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, finding comfort and adulation in Europe away from controversies that have tarnished his name in the United States.

The famed American director, who has produced more than 50 movies, is best known for a film career that has concentrated on his life-long love affair with New York, the city of his birth.

Johnny Depp’s pet dogs Pistol and Boo were expected to fly out of Australia on Friday and escape threats to put them down, after a complex and often comical quarantine wrangle.

But Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, who had warned the dogs could be destroyed within hours, said the threat had not entirely disappeared if Depp is unable to get the terriers home to America.