The beauty industry is booming in Brazil, where meticulous manicures, sophisticated scents and impeccable make-up are a must-have for women who have made the country the sector's world number three.

Last week, Sao Paulo hosted "Nails Fashion Week" -- where about a dozen domestic and foreign brands are offering up the latest trends in nail color as well as stilettos, make-up and eyewear in a bid to seduce new customers.

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas earned a standing ovation from a packed Los Angeles theater as he introduced a screening of the 1960 classic "Spartacus" that included a previously censored scene.

"When you're 95 years old, you don't look forward. You look backwards, you take inventory," Douglas said late Monday, as he sat on stage to talk about the film that immortalized him as a movie legend.

Previously unpublished extracts from the diary of iconic Welsh actor Richard Burton have revealed his "aching" love for screen siren Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married twice.

Passages from the journal, which will be published in full in October, expose a sensitive side to the notoriously hard-drinking actor.

Demographically speaking, a girl like Isabella Scott ought to be obsessed with the likes of Justin Bieber. But in fact, her heart belongs to Elvis Presley.

In her bright cotton dress and cowboy boots, the 13-year-old from Bonifay, Florida stands out among the significantly older crowd at Elvis Week, the annual jamboree in Memphis dedicated to the king of rock 'n' roll.

A Californian has been arrested and charged with stealing $60,000 worth of computers and other items from a home belonging to the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Kariem McFarlin, 35, could face a maximum sentence of seven years and eight months if convicted on charges of burglary and selling stolen property, according to supervising deputy district attorney Scott Tsui.

The U.S. socialite will be the only Paris Hilton left after the hotel chain lost the right to manage its sole establishment in the center of the French capital under a court ruling seen by Agence France Presse Monday.

Real estate and hotel firm SIHPM, owners of the Hilton Arc de Triomphe, took the U.S. group to court for "serious violations of its obligations" under a management contract awarded in 2003.

Helen Gurley Brown, the saucy Cosmopolitan editor who delivered thousands of sex tips to single women and more than a few curious men, died Monday. She was 90.

Gurley Brown's influence spread across 64 international editions of the low-brow, glossy magazine, aimed primarily at women in their early 20s, but also attracting the keen interest of anyone else searching for 77 "mind-blowing" sex positions, or other gems of Cosmo wisdom.

About 100 protesters in New York gathered Monday to speak out against a new NBC television reality show that will pair celebrities and service members for quasi-military exercises.

The show, called "Stars Earn Stripes," is hosted by retired general Wesley Clark and co-stars Republican ex-governor Sarah Palin's husband Todd, actor Dean Cain, boxer Laila Ali and former U.S. Olympic champion skier Picabo Street.

The new Spanish-language broadcast network MundoFox -- a joint venture of News Corp and RCN Television Group of Colombia -- began broadcasting Monday with the goal of reaching the growing U.S. Hispanic market.

The company, which says its programming is aimed at providing "Latino entertainment" with an "American attitude," will break the duopoly held by Univision and Telemundo in providing broadcast Spanish-language news and entertainment in the United States.

Juliet Sandler dresses in the latest $650 dresses and $400 shoes from Parisian fashion house Lanvin. Juliet is 3.

Her mother, Dara Sandler, says she dresses her daughter in the latest fashions because Juliet is a reflection of her — even though her daughter can't spell the names of the designers, let alone pay for their clothes.