A German music festival Wednesday invited social media users to compose all-new orchestral pieces for a "Tweetfonie" to be given a world premiere later this year.

The world of classical music is eagerly embracing Twitter and Facebook with musicians, conductors, concert halls and opera houses enthusiastic users of the platforms.

Thousands of hours of fastidious couture burst out onto the catwalks for Wednesday's dramatic Paris shows — including displays from Valentino, Elie Saab and Viktor & Rolf. The spring-summer 2014 collections provoked applause, gasps, cheers and generally so much enthusiasm that one fashion journalist even fell off the stage trying to speak to Jean Paul Gaultier. The Associated Press also caught up with a real life haute couture client who owns over 1,500 astronomically-priced gowns.

Here are the reports, tidbits and highlights from the day:

Long before Newsweek called her a "tarted-up floozy," way before she married and had babies and adopted babies, and a lifetime before she opened an Instagram account, Madonna was a young woman in New York trying to make it big.

That ambition — and a good bit of innocence — can be seen in a collection of photos, art and drawings that are on the auction block Feb. 9 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Indonesia's first lady apologized Wednesday to her hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers after a series of angry outbursts on the smartphone photo-sharing service.

Ani Yudhoyono has attracted around 310,000 followers since joining Instagram in April but has regularly caused a stir by lashing out at people who post critical comments under her photos, many of which are of her family.

Prince Harry became a master in toilet-building during his expedition to the South Pole, a fellow trekker said Tuesday as he lifted the lid on the royal's hidden skills.

Last month Harry became the first British royal to reach the pole after a three-week charity trek with injured military veterans from Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia.

Fashion has its fair share of personalities as seen in Tuesday's high-octane Paris haute couture shows.

Kim Kardashian nearly caused cars to crash when she arrived late to one show, while Chanel's front man Karl Lagerfeld proved that he doesn't just design couture dreams, he also speaks politics.

Don't worry, Anne Hathaway is OK.

Recently paparazzi photos circulated of the Oscar-winner on vacation in Hawaii with her husband and looking like she was having an emergency while in the ocean. Reports stated she had gotten caught in a riptide, was injured and had to be rescued.

British actor Hugh Laurie prompted an outcry in Russia with a Twitter proposal to boycott vodka over President Vladimir Putin's gay rights stance.

Laurie, who has more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, wrote on Saturday: "I'd boycott Russian goods if I could think of a single thing they made besides the rest of the world depressed."

U.S. rapper Kanye West and reality TV star Kim Kardashian have paid a private visit to Versailles outside Paris, but insist they are not eyeing the grandiose palace as a possible wedding site.

The couple visited the magnificent palace built by King Louis XIV on Sunday after it closed to the public, the office of the historic monument said Monday.

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and the actress Amber Heard are engaged to be married, People magazine reported.

"They couldn't be happier to be engaged and excited to share the rest of their lives together. Amber has really taken well to the kids and really enjoys spending time with them," the People report said, citing an unnamed source.