British singer PJ Harvey is to record her ninth studio album in public, the two-time Mercury Prize-winner announced on Friday, turning the recording process into an art installation.

The 45-year-old musician will spend four weeks working on the album at Somerset House on the River Thames in London, with the public able to watch from behind one-way mirrored glass.

U2 frontman Bono says he may never play the guitar again after a bicycle accident that injured his hand, shoulder, elbow and face.

The Irish rocker fell off his bicycle in New York's Central Park in November and underwent hours of intensive surgery to wash out his elbow and repair the bone with three metal plates and 18 screws.

China's box office sales surged 36 percent in 2014, state-run media reported Thursday, as the world's second-largest film market after the United States added thousands of screens.

Cinemas took in 29.6 billion yuan ($4.77 billion) in ticket sales last year with domestic films accounting for a little more than half the total, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Vinyl sales and music streaming both soared by more than 50 percent in 2014 in the United States, even as overall sales kept declining, a music industry monitor said.

With few blockbuster releases and streaming becoming more mainstream, consumers in the world's largest music market bought 257 million albums last year, a drop of 11 percent from 2013, Nielsen SoundScan said in data released late Wednesday.

Kanye West and Paul McCartney, two music legends from opposite sides of the track, have teamed up in an unlikely collaboration on a new single released Thursday called "Only One".

The soft ballad, which West said was inspired by his daughter, features the vocals of the world-famous rapper and former Beatle McCartney on the organ.

Dubai celebrated the New Year with a light and sound extravaganza at midnight Wednesday at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower.

The 828-meter (2,716-foot) tower was lit up with different-coloured panels as the clock counted down to 2015.

A dazzling display of fireworks lit up Sydney Harbor on Thursday as Australia's biggest city welcomed the New Year in spectacular style, defying terrorist fears days after a deadly siege.

From Hong Kong to London and New York to Rio, millions around the world will celebrate when the clock ticks past midnight, ringing in 2015 with massive fireworks displays, concerts and light shows. 

Jennifer Lopez decided to hit the road after her split from singer Marc Anthony two years ago.

She went on her first world tour, visiting 65 cities on five continents and reaching 1 million fans.

Jennifer Lawrence says she'd be fine if she got Ebola, in a video that encourages Americans to focus more on West Africans far more likely to die from the dreaded virus.

The Oscar-winning actress teamed up with fellow stars from "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" for the nearly two-minute online public service announcement from the Ebola Survival Fund.

Veteran actor John Hurt was given a knighthood and 1960s fashion designer Mary Quant, pioneer of the mini-skirt and hotpants, made a dame in Britain's New Year Honors List released Tuesday.

Other stars to be honored include "English Patient" actress Kristin Scott Thomas and campaigning television presenter Esther Rantzen.