Sony's superhero film "Venom" held onto the lead this weekend in North American box offices, despite bad reviews, again trailed by last weekend's number two "A Star Is Born," final figures showed Monday.

Five months on from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's fairytale nuptials, the time has come for "the other" royal wedding -- the one no one seems to want to pay for or watch.

Spain's world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe has died in Barcelona on Saturday, a source at the hospital where she was being treated said.

The singer, who was known as one of the world's greatest voices during a career spanning half a century, had long suffered from ill health and was hospitalised in mid-September due to a gall bladder problem, local media reported.

France paid a moving national homage on Friday to the late singer Charles Aznavour, the little man with the very big life.

Singer Charles Aznavour died in his bathtub after suffering heart and breathing problems, an autopsy has found, as tributes continued to pour in Tuesday from around the world for one of France's most famous performers.

Armenia on Tuesday mourned one of its most famous descendants, singer Charles Aznavour who died Monday aged 94, commemorating him in parliament, on the streets and in underground train stations.

The legendary French singer Charles Aznavour has died aged 94, his spokeswoman told AFP Monday.

Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney appealed to Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday over a pardon for two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, saying the Nobel laureate held the key to their release.

From U.S. cultural icon blazing past racial barriers to prison for aggravated indecent assault: a judge's sentencing Tuesday saw "America's Dad" Bill Cosby reduced to a sexually violent predator in handcuffs.

Disgraced television icon Bill Cosby was handcuffed and taken into custody Tuesday to begin a minimum three-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago.

The 81-year-old, once beloved by millions as "America's Dad," is the first celebrity convicted and sentenced for a sex crime since the fall of Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement and America's reckoning with sexual harassment.