Taiwan's presidential candidates waded in to a row with China and South Korea Saturday after a teenage Taiwanese K-pop star was forced to apologize for waving the island's flag.

A video apology from a tired and sombre Chou Tzu-yu, 16, went viral hours after it was posted, with more than two million hits by Saturday morning.

It is nothing short of a fashion earthquake.

The organizers of New York Fashion Week are considering doing away with a century of tradition and showing designers' catwalk collections only when they go on sale in the shops.

The funeral for Celine Dion's husband Rene Angelil will take place next Friday at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal where the couple married, a family spokesman said.

Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and managed her career, died Thursday at age 73 after a struggle with cancer.

From an outrageously costumed parade to a bacchanalian party in heaps of glitter, memorial events to David Bowie are multiplying as fans find their own ways to mourn the rock legend.

Bowie -- a pioneer of glam rock at the start of a half-century career marked by constant reinvention -- apparently did not want a soppy public funeral.

American rapper Mos Def appeared in a South African court Friday after being arrested for allegedly using an illegal "world passport" as he tried to leave the country, officials said.

The 42-year-old hip hop artist, actor and activist, whose real name is Dante Terrel Smith, was taken into custody overnight for contravening immigration laws.

Shooting will start next week on a feature film tracing the early career of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his childhood in a poor district in Istanbul to his rise to become the city's mayor, its producers said Friday.

"Reis" ("The Chief") will star well-known Turkish actor Reha Beyoglu as the Turkish strongman and show his life up to 1999, Turkish media quoted producers Evrensel Medya as saying.

Hollywood actor Sean Penn has expressed regret that the article he wrote after interviewing Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman failed to spark a debate about the U.S. war on drugs.

In an excerpt of the interview broadcast Friday, Penn said his goal in meeting with Guzman was to shine a light on America's role in the international drug trade.

U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday claimed to feel no nerves at the prospect of claiming his first Oscar for his role in "The Revenant", saying he had "done the work" and could do no more.

"The one reassuring thing about all this award season stuff is that you have absolutely no control over the outcome," he told BBC radio.

Celine Dion's husband Rene Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and long managed her career, died Thursday aged 73, after a struggle with cancer.

Dion announced his passing in a Twitter message, saying: "Rene Angelil passed away this morning at his home in Las Vegas after a long and courageous battle against cancer."

Sean Penn's article about Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has hit a nerve in Mexico, where many journalists have paid dearly for covering drug cartels run by such ruthless kingpins.

The U.S. actor's story published by Rolling Stone has drawn plenty of flak from American journalists, who panned his writing style and questioned the ethics of letting the drug lord vet the story before publication.