Singapore's Roman Catholic archbishop has expressed concern at an upcoming concert by pop diva Madonna in the city-state and warned his flock against supporting those who "denigrate and insult religions".

Archbishop William Goh said in a statement posted on the diocese website on Saturday that he had met various government officials to express the church's concerns about the February 28 concert, part of her global Rebel Heart Tour.

Actor Charlie Sheen's announcement last year that he is HIV-positive led to a record number of Google searches for information about the virus that causes AIDS in the United States, researchers said Monday.

"Just as with celebrities Rock Hudson's and Magic Johnson's disclosures of their HIV-positive status, Sheen's disclosure may be similarly reinvigorating awareness and prevention of HIV," said the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.

Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas has apologized for saying he was dealing with his jet lag by drinking until he became "a black Australian", after a backlash that left him in tears.

The American Grammy Award-winning rocker made the poorly received comments that many regarded as racist at a gig in Melbourne on Saturday night.

When Beatlesmania hit the world in the 1960s, pop music would never be the same. Neither would hairstyles after young men adopted the British group's trademark "mop top" look in droves.

Now a lucky bidder has bought a piece of the real thing -- paying $35,000 at auction for a lock of John Lennon's hair snipped in 1966 during his preparation for a film role.

British rock star Phil Collins has gotten back together with his ex-wife and the couple aims to remarry, she said in an interview published Sunday.

"Our separation was the wrong decision," Orianne Collins, who split from the famous soft-rocker a decade ago, told the SonntagsBlick weekly. 

From biopics and historical epics to spy stories and harrowing tales of abduction and abuse, this year's list of Oscar nominees features a bevy of films based on true stories.

Some stick faithfully to history, but many play fast and loose with the facts -- and others are almost entirely fictionalized.

The Berlin film festival wraps up Sunday after "Fire at Sea", a harrowing documentary about Europe's refugee crisis, clinched its Golden Bear top prize from a jury led by Meryl Streep.

As Europe grapples with its biggest migrant influx since World War II, the picture by Italian director Gianfranco Rosi offers an unflinching look at life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where thousands of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East have arrived trying to reach the European Union over the last two decades.

"Fire at Sea", a harrowing documentary about Europe's refugee crisis, looked the favorite to clinch the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize Saturday from a jury led by Meryl Streep.

Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's picture was ahead in critics' polls by British trade magazine Screen among 18 contenders at Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year.

A film about gangs set in the tough Brussels suburb where a jihadi cell planned the Paris terror attacks, has been pulled from French cinemas.

The distributors of "Black", shot in the Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital made notorious by the November 13 gunmen, told AFP Friday they were forced into the decision because so many cinemas were refusing to show it.

Lady Gaga powered down the runway for design legend Marc Jacobs in a triumphant finale to New York Fashion Week Thursday, showcasing a Gothic fantasy of oversized coats, full skirts and teetering platforms.

Jacobs, the darling of the U.S. fashion scene, prides himself on closing out the biannual Big Apple fashion bonanza by putting on extravagant spectaculars -- and his fall/winter collection was no exception.