Elvis Presley went straight back to the top of the UK album charts on Friday with a collection that backs the king of rock and roll's voice with Britain's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

"If I Can Dream" gave the late U.S. legend his 12th chart-topper in Britain, meaning he now has more UK number one albums than any other male solo artist.

Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and husband Brad Pitt were all smiles at the world premiere of "By the Sea", her latest directorial outing and their first on-screen pairing in a decade.

The much anticipated movie, which had its official opening at the American Film Institute festival late on Thursday, is an intimate drama about a married couple in the 1970s whose relationship is verging on collapse. 

A statue dedicated to South Korean singer Psy's global music video hit "Gangnam Style" is to be erected in the eponymous, upscale Seoul district made famous by the song.

Gangnam district council said Friday that the statue -- modelled after Psy's signature horse-riding dance move -- would be unveiled next month outside the COEX shopping and exhibition centre, where the first part of the video was shot.

George Barris, the man who designed and built the black, fire-spitting vehicle made famous in the 1960s "Batman" television series, has died in Los Angeles, his son Brett announced on Facebook.

Known as the "King of the Kustomizers," the 89 year-old Barris died at home in his sleep on Thursday.

A zealous fan kissed Britain's Prince Charles in New Zealand on Thursday, grabbing the heir to the throne as he went walkabout in the southern city of Dunedin.

The royal security detail scrambled into action but could not stop Lesley Hayde from planting a peck on the prince's cheek then doing the same to his wife Camilla.

Rifling through sweaters in India's first Gap store in a glitzy New Delhi mall, 21-year-old Ridhi Goel says her grandmother doesn't mind how she dresses, as long as it's not too revealing.

"She's fine with me wearing Western clothes like a shirt but not jeans and a crop top," said the journalism student, her grey leggings contrasting sharply with her mother's colorful kurta. 

Chris Stapleton, a long anonymous songwriter who released his first album this year at age 37, triumphed Wednesday night at country's music signature awards.

In a sign of the genre's growing crossover appeal, Stapleton took the stage at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville to sing a duet with pop superstar Justin Timberlake in the evening's most memorable performance.

The star-studded "Spectre" cast graced a skeleton-themed red carpet in Mexico on Monday as the new James Bond movie, partly shot here, made its Mexican debut on the Day of the Dead.

Bond actor Daniel Craig, Italian beauty Monica Belucci and Austrian star Christoph Waltz, who plays the villain, were greeted by a jubilant crowd -- some in the typical Catrina skeleton makeup -- at the capital's National Auditorium.

Darth Vader's distinctive helmet-headed silhouette swoops in to seize control of a spaceship, but this is not the movies -- instead his movements are being brought to life by a Malaysian shadow-puppet master behind a back-lit screen.

"Tell me, where are the plans that have been intercepted?," the puppeteer intones in the Malay language, drawing cheers from hundreds of spectators as they recognize Vader's baritone.

Their head-to-toe cute factor brings to mind fellow crowd-pleasing Japanese musicians, but for the two sisters who form Charan-Po-Rantan, the inspiration comes not from pop idols but the circus.

With songs driven by an accordion, Charan-Po-Rantan has created a sound that marries J-pop with klezmer, the festive music of Ashkenazi Jews, and the theatrical atmospherics of vaudeville.