A Michigan beauty queen of Lebanese origin who made headlines two years ago by becoming the first Arab-American crowned Miss USA will stand trial in March on a drunken-driving charge unless a plea deal is reached, a judge said Wednesday.

Judge Brigette Officer set a March 14 trial date for Rima Fakih, who made her first court appearance since the Dec. 3 traffic stop in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park. Fakih, 26, has said she wasn't drinking that night, but two police breath tests put her blood alcohol content at over twice the legal limit.

Australian surf boats, American whalers and an Indian houseboat will take part in a huge flotilla of ships led by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to mark her diamond jubilee, organizers said Wednesday.

More than one million people are expected to line the River Thames in London and hundreds of millions to watch on television around the world as the 1,000-boat tribute sails on June 3, they said.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such "artifacts" as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.

The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.

An anti-profanity crusader has asked the ABC television network to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007, said Tuesday. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

Paris once more turns fashion capital of the world for a week starting Wednesday, playing host to menswear shows before haute couture's heady mix of craft and luxury casts its spell over the city.

Models, buyers and fashion writers are to converge on Paris for a week of trend-spotting -- and hobnobbing -- as Italy's Versace fetes its return to the couture club, in a glamorous buzz at odds with the ambient economic gloom.

French screen star Isabelle Huppert was among guests to walk a "white carpet" of snow at Tuesday's opening of the Fifth Kuestendorf film and music festival in Serbia.

The event is organized by Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica in Drvengard, a wooden village he built as a movie set some 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Belgrade.

Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who was jailed in 2010 for the murder of a Lebanese pop singer, will be retried next month as sought by prosecutors who complained his 15-year sentence was too lenient, a court said Monday.

The Supreme Egyptian Criminal Court decided that it would begin the new trial of Moustafa for the murder of singer and former lover Suzanne Tamim from February 6, an Agence Frnce Presse correspondent reported.

Silent movie "The Artist" secured the most nominations for Britain's BAFTAs Tuesday, just piping "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" in a key indicator ahead of the Oscars next month.

U.S. actress Meryl Streep's portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" also goes up against Michelle Williams's role as Marilyn Monroe at Britain's biggest film awards.

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Taylor Swift graces the cover of Vogue's February issue and tells the magazine her next album will be about an "absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak" she experienced.

The Nielsen Co. says Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony was seen by 16.8 million TV viewers. It beat all network competition in its time period but dipped slightly from last year's audience for the film and TV awards show.

According to time zone-adjusted Nielsen "fast national" figures released Monday, the Globes finished within 1 percent of the 17 million viewers who tuned in to the 2011 broadcast.