The Eagles of Death Metal band made a tearful return to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris Tuesday, nearly a month after they survived a jihadist attack there in which 90 people died.

Clearly moved by the floral tributes and messages left outside the building, the Californian band spent nearly 15 minutes reading cards left at the scene of the worst atrocity of the November 13 attacks on the city.

Actress Pamela Anderson on Monday met Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful chief of staff at the Kremlin to lobby for the protection of rare animals.

The Canadian-born former Baywatch actress, 48, raised issues from the conservation of endangered Amur Tigers to a legal ban on killing baby seals and stopping aquariums from keeping killer whales in captivity in a televised meeting with top official Sergei Ivanov.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas entered the pantheon of US cultural icons Sunday as he received a prestigious Kennedy Center Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

The man behind the saga in a galaxy far, far away received his prize at a gala event that also honored actresses Rita Moreno and Cicely Tyson, 1970s pop singer-songwriter Carole King and Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa.

British pop star Adele has been accused of plagiarism by Turkish music lovers, who say one of the tracks on her latest album is a rip-off of a song by an iconic Kurdish musician. 

Adele's Turkish critics say "Million Years Ago", track number nine on her album "25", bears an unmistakable resemblance to a tune by Ahmet Kaya called "Acılara Tutunmak" ("Clinging to Pain"), which was recorded in 1985. 

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 68, is to become a father again as his wife is expecting twins, a spokesperson for the British rock band said.

Wood's wife is 37-year-old wife Sally Humphries, who owns a theatre production company.

Adele's album "25" has broken another record, selling more than one million albums in the United States in its second week after a massive debut, a tracking service said Sunday.

By sustaining huge success for a second week, the British singer becomes the first artist to sell more than one million albums in two separate weeks since at least 1991, when Nielsen Music began systematic data.

U2 frontman Bono has written a song about the Paris attacks ahead of a defiant return to the French capital on Sunday that may also feature the Eagles of Death Metal whose show was targeted by the jihadists.

The Irish rock band canceled their shows in Paris earlier this month in the wake of the attacks on November 13 that left 130 dead. 

Minnesota police said Friday that they found cocaine in a tour bus near the lifeless body of Scott Weiland, the award-winning lead singer of popular rock act Stone Temple Pilots.

They also arrested Thomas Delton Black -- identified by U.S. media as a band member -- on charges of drug possession, as the music world paid tribute to what some called a legend of "grunge" music.

Eagles of Death Metal, whose gig was targeted during terror attacks in Paris last month, will return to the stage Sunday in the French capital with U2, Billboard magazine reported.

The California band will join U2 for the Irish rockers' final song at the AccorHotels Arena, also known as Bercy, Billboard said, in what promises to be a highly emotional moment for both bands and the thousands in the crowd.

A small Spanish fashion label has been swamped with demand for Princess Charlotte's floral dress, its owner told AFP on Friday, after the British royal baby was pictured wearing one of its frocks.

Charlotte, the second child of Prince William and his wife Kate turned six months old on November 2 and Kensington Palace has issued fresh photographs of the youngster, taken in early November, to mark the occasion.