The first full day of Paris' frenzied ready-to-wear shows mixed up iconic fashion veterans like Dries Van Noten with a whole new sort of fashion player: H&M.

It may be a tricky ride ahead for the main street shop, which is now attempting to walk the snooty high fashion runway.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" has joined the 100 million club.

Vintage Books announced Wednesday that sales for E L James' sexually explicit trilogy have reached 100 million copies and have spent 100 weeks on The New York Times' paperback best-seller list. The novels have been translated into 51 languages, including Hebrew, Icelandic and Korean. With a film adaptation planned for 2015, many more sales are likely.

The stars of the movie "Amazing Spider-Man 2" will lead this year's global Earth Hour lights-out event on March 29 which is being coordinated in Singapore, organizers WWF said Thursday.

"Spider-Man will join the film's stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx in the event, helping to switch off the lights across Singapore's signature Marina Bay skyline," the environmental campaign group said in a statement.

"Girls" star Allison Williams is making a grown-up move.

She's engaged to marry boyfriend Ricky Van Veen, her rep Lindsay Galin confirmed Wednesday.

Paco de Lucia, 66, the Spanish guitar virtuoso who brought flamenco to a world audience, has died of a heart attack while playing with his son on Mexican beach.

Born Francisco Sanchez Gomez, he was credited with modernizing the gypsy tradition of his native Andalusia, absorbing jazz and pop influences in a decades-long career.

Sweden's new princess, born last Thursday in New York, is called Leonore, her grandfather King Carl XVI Gustav said Wednesday.

Her full name is Leonore Lillian Maria and she has received the title of duchess of Gotland.

Written by Anthony Sargon

Luc Besson is one of the most prolific writer-producer-directors in the business. I haven’t enjoyed a lot of his more recent films, so I wasn’t particularly excited to see “3 Days to Kill.” I’m sad to say that my low expectations were pretty much met. Directed by McG, the flick is just another disposable, run-of-the-mill action flick that fails to take advantage of a likable Kevin Costner and impressive Hailee Steinfeld.

A security guard and driver for pop singer Justin Bieber have been arrested near Atlanta and charged with stealing a photographer's camera.

Sandy Springs, Georgia, Police Capt. Steve Rose said in a statement that Bieber was at an entertainment complex north of the Georgia capital Tuesday evening when 32-year-old bodyguard Hugo Hesny got into a confrontation with a photographer who he said had gotten too close to the singer.

Could this finally be Leonardo DiCaprio's year?

Twenty years after his first Oscar nomination, the 39-year-old actor is hoping that he may at last win one of Hollywood's most prized statuettes come Sunday night.

"Die Hard" director John McTiernan was released from prison Tuesday after nearly a year behind bars in connection with a wire-tapping scandal, his wife said.

Tiernan, whose films also include "The Hunt for Red October" and "The Thomas Crown Affair," was freed from prison in Yankton, South Dakota, his wife Gail told Agence France Presse.