He has starred as the U.S. president, swashbuckling Indiana Jones and a heroic CIA analyst, but Harrison Ford says it was when stepped back on the new "Star Wars" set that he really felt at home.

"It felt like being home, to an extent. It felt good. I like to work. It was fun," the Hollywood legend said in Sydney where he is promoting the hotly anticipated new installment of the franchise, "The Force Awakens".

Singer Madonna made an emotional appeal following attacks in Paris a month ago that killed 130, shouting "We will not bend down to fear!" during a concert in the French capital on Wednesday.

"I think of what happened almost four weeks ago now," the visibly emotional artist said. "The heart of Paris and the heart of France beats in the heart of each city."

Time magazine Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year 2015," hailing her leadership for navigating debt and refugee crises that threatened to tear the European Union apart.

"For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time's Person of the Year," wrote editor Nancy Gibbs.

The British government and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling on Tuesday condemned comments by U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump saying Muslims should be barred from entering the United States.

Rowling wrote on Twitter that "Voldemort was nowhere near as bad" as the Republican frontrunner, referring to the villain of the "Harry Potter" series.

Rapper Kanye West and reality TV star Kim Kardashian are rarely accused of understatement and have given a fittingly grand name to their second child -- Saint.

Two days after announcing the boy's birth over social media, Kardashian again took to Twitter and announced "SAINT WEST" -- along with emoji faces depicting the now four-member family.

The Eagles of Death Metal band made a tearful return to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris Tuesday, nearly a month after they survived a jihadist attack there in which 90 people died.

Clearly moved by the floral tributes and messages left outside the building, the Californian band spent nearly 15 minutes reading cards left at the scene of the worst atrocity of the November 13 attacks on the city.

Actress Pamela Anderson on Monday met Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful chief of staff at the Kremlin to lobby for the protection of rare animals.

The Canadian-born former Baywatch actress, 48, raised issues from the conservation of endangered Amur Tigers to a legal ban on killing baby seals and stopping aquariums from keeping killer whales in captivity in a televised meeting with top official Sergei Ivanov.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas entered the pantheon of US cultural icons Sunday as he received a prestigious Kennedy Center Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

The man behind the saga in a galaxy far, far away received his prize at a gala event that also honored actresses Rita Moreno and Cicely Tyson, 1970s pop singer-songwriter Carole King and Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa.

British pop star Adele has been accused of plagiarism by Turkish music lovers, who say one of the tracks on her latest album is a rip-off of a song by an iconic Kurdish musician. 

Adele's Turkish critics say "Million Years Ago", track number nine on her album "25", bears an unmistakable resemblance to a tune by Ahmet Kaya called "Acılara Tutunmak" ("Clinging to Pain"), which was recorded in 1985. 

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 68, is to become a father again as his wife is expecting twins, a spokesperson for the British rock band said.

Wood's wife is 37-year-old wife Sally Humphries, who owns a theatre production company.