A run-in with customs at Cairo airport has left Grammy Award winning rock musician Bryan Adams annoyed, after a border agent scrawled a number on the Canadian's prize guitar in paint marker.

Adams, who was in Cairo for a concert at the Giza Pyramids on March 8, posted a picture of the vintage Martin acoustic guitar on his Instagram account.

A 10.10 carat vivid blue diamond is expected to set the record for the most expensive piece of jewelry sold at auction in Asia despite an ongoing growth slowdown in China's economy, Sotheby's said Friday.

The "De Beers Millennium Jewel 4" is expected to fetch between $30 million and $35 million at the April 5 sale in Hong Kong, and is described by the auction house as the largest oval blue diamond ever to appear at auction and "internally flawless".

Fans desperate to know the fate of "Game of Thrones" hero Jon Snow must surely have their answer in a new trailer released Tuesday -- and it's not looking good for the felled warrior.

Played by the 29-year-old British actor Kit Harington, Snow was stabbed by mutinous followers at the end of season five, sparking months of heated debate on social media about whether he really had met his end.

Legendary British music producer George Martin, who turned the Beatles into the best-selling band in history, has died at the age of 90, his family said Wednesday.

Martin's family confirmed that the producer, who helped revolutionise the sound of pop music, died at home on Tuesday, and thanked "everyone for their thoughts, prayers and messages of support".

Bjork has revealed that she is working on a new album but, after last year's tortured heartache album "Vulnicura," this one will be happier.

The Icelandic experimental pop icon said she is working again with Alejandro Ghersi, the Venezuelan DJ better known as Arca, who helped create the beats layered behind the lush strings on "Vulnicura."

Official photographs of Prince William and his family skiing fueled growing criticism in the British press on Tuesday of the "workshy" royal, driven by frustration at his perceived reluctance for a life in the public eye.

The palace said the Duke of Cambridge and his wife Kate "hope people enjoy the photos" of the couple with their young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, on a private trip to the French Alps last week.

Designer Karl Lagerfeld, the doyen of the fashion world known as "The Kaiser", gave his backing Tuesday to Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign.

The German-born style icon said he "liked the idea" of Clinton taking over from Barack Obama at the White House.

The Indians are not just coming -- they have arrived. Paris fashion week is more Indian than ever, with two designers from the subcontinent cementing their place at style's top table.

Oscar-winning actress and producer Susan Sarandon has touched down in Cartagena, the historic resort city on Colombia's Caribbean coast for its celebrated annual film festival.

"Morning Cartagena!" she said on Twitter from the city which has a large Spanish-colonial era old city, a massive fort and glittering highrises along the beach.

"Girls" creator and actress Lena Dunham was hospitalized on Saturday and will undergo surgery after an ovarian cyst ruptured, reports said.

"Lena Dunham has been very public with her personal bouts with endometriosis. This morning, she suffered from an ovarian cyst rupture and has been taken to the hospital," Dunham's representative said in a statement distributed to various media outlets.