The best place to eat in Milan during fashion week is not in one of the city's multi-starred restaurants.
It's in the courtyard of a shop where the stubble-cheeked son of a farmer has rigged up some maxi-sized barbecues and deep-fat fryers to entertain a few hundred hungry friends and contacts.

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio brought star power to the U.N. summit on climate change Tuesday, urging leaders to stop treating global warming as "fiction."
"As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems," the actor told the summit of 120 leaders.

A new album by British rock legends Pink Floyd, their first in 20 years, is to be released on November 10, the group announced on Monday as billboards featuring the cover appeared around the world.
Named "The Endless River", the album features David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, and is based on a recording session by the three in 1993.

The famous red and white spacesuit worn by Robin Williams in hit 1970s TV series "Mork and Mindy" is up for auction next month, with an estimated price-tag of up to $20,000.
Also on sale will be the "egg" in which alien Mork traveled to earth from Ork in the breakthrough series for Williams, who committed suicide last month aged 63.

Four dresses designed for and worn by Britain's late Princess Diana are to go under the hammer in Beverly Hills, the auction house organizing the sale said Monday.
Three of the gowns were made by British dressmaker Catherine Walker, Diana's favorite designer and close personal friend, and are expected to fetch between $60,000 and $80,000 each.

The backstory of Batman's many villains came to life Monday in a new U.S. television drama series that Fox hopes will help lift its prime-time ratings out of the doldrums.
"Gotham" stars David Mazouz as a 12-year-old Bruce Wayne who witnesses the cold-blooded murder of his parents on the grim nocturnal backstreets of contemporary New York.

That's another Milan fashion week over and what have we learned?
For one, the 1970s are back, in a big, bell-bottomed way. So are waists.

Dutch director George Sluizer, best known for making the last movie featuring Hollywood actor River Phoenix, has died in Amsterdam after a long illness, Dutch media reported on Monday. He was 82.
"Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile," Dutch public broadcaster the NOS said, quoting relatives.

The young-adult adaptation "The Maze Runner" raced to the top of the box-office with $32.5 million, giving a budding franchise a quick start out of the gate.
The 20th Century Fox release easily outpaced the $13.1 million debut of Liam Neeson's hardboiled private eye thriller "A Walk Among the Tombstones" and the $11.9 million opening for the ensemble-cast dramedy "This Is Where I Leave You," according to studio estimates Sunday.

Milan designers wrapped up five days of previews for next summer's womenswear looks on Sunday.
While trends like geometric wedge sandals, billowing diaphanous dresses and embellished boyfriend denim trousers won't be in stores for months, the fashion hungry already have a good idea what to expect thanks to the hashtag-driven world.
