Rihanna won't say when she plans to release new music but she is confident about what it sounds like.
"I can't give you any hints of when it will drop. It's going to be great, that's all I'm going to tell you and I'm excited about it," said the singer at a meet-and-greet Wednesday with fans at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Taylor Swift has unleashed a debate on streaming by pulling her music from Spotify, but plenty of others are rushing to join in, rather than trying -- in the singer's words -- to shake it off.
The rapid growth in music streaming shows that the main question may not be whether services like Spotify, which lets users listen instantly to millions of songs, will survive, but how they will evolve.

Gym classes that promise a plump posterior are in high demand. A surgery that pumps fat into the buttocks is gaining popularity. And padded panties that give the appearance of a rounder rump are selling out.
The U.S. booty business is getting a big bump. Companies are cashing in on growing demand from women seeking the more curvaceous figures of their favorite stars, who flaunt their fuller rear ends.

Nicki Minaj is apologizing for a video that some feel uses Nazi imagery.
The rapper posted on Twitter on Tuesday that she didn't create the concept for the lyric video for her song "Only." She wrote: "(I) take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."

Grammy-winning salsa singer Marc Anthony has married his Venezuelan model girlfriend at a seaside resort in the Dominican Republic.
The 46-year-old New York-born singer of Puerto Rican roots tied the knot with 26-year-old Shannon de Lima at a Tuesday ceremony at his residence in the exclusive Dominican resort of Casa de Campo.

"Hunger Games" actress Elizabeth Banks will be honored with the March of Dimes' 2014 Grace Kelly Award, which recognizes celebrities who champion healthy pregnancies.
Host Jason Bateman will present Banks with her award at the ninth annual Celebration of Babies luncheon on Dec. 5. Banks has two boys born to the same surrogate, Felix, 3, and Magnus, 1.

For those who dismiss beauty contests as parades of dream-girls gushing about world peace, Puerto Rican bombshell Valerie Hernandez Matias offers a twist: a serious political agenda.
The newly crowned Miss International told Agence France Presse she hopes to pay back her country's education system for the opportunities it afforded her, after crediting teachers with helping her overcome learning difficulties as a child.

Leonardo DiCaprio turns 40 on November 11, although only in the biological sense. As a performer, he’ll remain exactly as old, and as young, as he’s been for ever.
For almost as long as he’s been acting, DiCaprio has been stranded at a strange no-man’s-age – baby-faced and teenage-taut, but with the leopard-ish self-assurance of a man in his 50s or older. It’s DiCaprio’s agelessness that has shaped his extraordinary career to date, both for good and ill. First it was his trump card, then his Achilles’ heel, then latterly, over the past five years or so, it’s become his secret weapon.

A New York City clinic where comedian Joan Rivers suffered a fatal complication during a medical procedure made several errors, including failing to keep proper medication records and snapping cellphone photos of her while she was unconscious, state health investigators said Monday.
Rivers, who was 81, died Sept. 4. New York City's medical examiner found she died of brain damage due to lack of oxygen after she stopped breathing during an endoscopy days earlier.

Actress Meryl Streep and crooner Stevie Wonder were among 19 people named Monday by U.S. President Barack Obama to receive the country's highest civilian honor.
Others to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award for those who make "especially meritorious contributions" to the United States' security, interests, world peace or the arts, include the composer Stephen Sondheim, author Isabel Allende and journalist Tom Brokaw.
