The U.S. Embassy in Beirut hosted Native Deen for the Lebanese leg of their 2011 middle East/North Africa tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State from Wednesday until Saturday.

Native Deen is an American Islamic hip-hop group composed of three Muslim-Americans who use their music to promote religious tolerance and to talk about Islam, and being a Muslim in America. While in Lebanon, the group conducted workshops with local hip-hop artists, held discussion groups with Lebanese youth, and performed in both Beirut and Tripoli.

Twenty years ago, a naked baby diving after a dollar bill turned the rock world upside down, and Nirvana's "Nevermind", the record immortalized by that image, became the soundtrack for a generation.

"Nevermind"'s release in late September 1991 also sucked Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain into a whirlwind that he would not get out of alive.

To the cries of "Freedom!" from a sold-out crowd of 18,000, the last bull to be killed in Catalonia in a bullfight before a ban on the sport comes into force hit the sand of Barcelona's Monumental arena.

"This will continue," read a large banner carried by hundreds of bullfighting fans who invaded the arena after the 570-kilo (1,250-pound) beast was slain by 28-year-old Catalan matador Serafin Marin.

Five armed men stormed into a youth hostel early Sunday and robbed some 20 tourists, mainly Brazilians, near the site of Rock in Rio, the music mega-festival under way here, police said.

"I still haven't had time to count how many people were robbed because I'm still so shaken up, but they (the assailants) didn't touch the foreigners. They only robbed the Brazilians," the proprietor of the hostel in the popular tourist area of Copacabana said on Globo's website G1.

While the eyes of the style world were on London's autumn fashion week, another couture event was taking place on the other side of the world -- in the Himalayas.

At Nepal Fashion Week the models sashayed down the catwalk in a mix of Western and ethnic apparel, contrasting classic with kitsch in a cornucopia of sassy cocktail dresses, flowing silk gowns, kaftans, kurti blouses, shalwars, sequins and ruffles.

A fashion line launched to raise money for Nelson Mandela's AIDS charity made its runway debut Sunday, with high-fashion incarnations of the vivid shirts that he often wore as president.

The clothing created for 46664, the anti-apartheid hero's prison number which is now the name of his charity, appeared on the catwalk for South Africa Fashion Week, with everything from salmon-colored suits for men to full-length flowing gowns for women.

American pop sensation Lady Gaga has been signed up to play at India's inaugural Formula One race next month, which will be held a newly-built circuit outside the capital New Delhi.

The colorful diva will perform at a concert after the Indian Grand Prix on October 30, organizers said in a press release on Saturday.

Copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe's first photo shoot are hitting the auction block.

A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that photos taken in 1946 of Norma Jeane Dougherty — who went on to become the iconic Monroe — will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the photographer.

The world's great ballet houses are accustomed to cheers, shouts of "Bravo," even standing ovations. Rock star-groupie screams? Not so much.

But all bets are off when there's a Beatle in the house.

Brazil is getting ready for the return of Rock in Rio, an extravaganza headlined by Elton John, Katy Perry and Shakira that is billed as the world's biggest music festival.

The festival that opens Friday also includes Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Coldplay, performing before an audience expected to total some 700,000 by the time it closes on Oct. 2.