London Fire Brigade says Rihanna was among 300 people evacuated from a hotel after an early-morning fire in an elevator shaft.

The 24-year-old Barbadian singer tweeted news of the fire early Wednesday to her 21 million Twitter followers, posting a picture of a fire engine and the words: "Roamin da streets since 6am! Fyah in da telly."

As part of the Great British Week that took place between June 12 and 17, ABC hosted a traditional British Garden Tea party in both Ashrafiyeh and Dbayeh branches, a press release said.

The event featured English tea and cakes among many other delectable British specialties. VIP guests and members of the media showed up in their fedoras and bonnets and enjoyed a unique tea drinking and cucumber munching experience.

British alternative rock group Blur will perform two new singles on Twitter via live worldwide video stream Monday, their record label said.

The group will play the two songs at 1715 GMT and broadcast them via its Twitter account @blurofficial, EMI said Tuesday on its website.

Former U.S. presidential hopeful John Edwards and his mistress have split up just days after charges were dropped against him for misuse of campaign funds to hide their affair.

Rielle Hunter, 48, who has published an autobiography of the liaison which buried forever Edwards's White House dreams, told ABC they had separated.

A representative for 50 Cent says the rapper is out of the hospital after being injured in a car accident in New York on Tuesday morning.

The rep says 50 Cent was taken to New York Hospital Queens where he was treated for "minor neck and back injuries" and is now "doing fine."

Nora Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism, has died. She was 71.

She died of leukemia Tuesday night at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, her family said in a statement.

The MENA Design Research Center is proud to announce the launching of the first “Beirut Design Week”, a press release said Tuesday.

Unlike fairs and exhibitions, this event is a whole week dedicated to exploring all aspects of local design and design thinking throughout Beirut. During Beirut Design Week, with a series of over 50 events: exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and screenings across the city, we will be celebrating the role of design in our contemporary culture, society, education and economy. One of the main aims of Beirut Design Week is to brand Beirut as the Design Capital of the Middle East.

The father of late British singer Amy Winehouse details his daughter's cycle of drug and alcohol abuse in a new memoir due on bookshelves Tuesday in the United States.

Mitch Winehouse's "Amy, My Daughter" includes "exclusive, never-before-seen photos and paints an open and honest portrait of one of the greatest musical talents of our time," said publisher HarperCollins.

American superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter Blue Ivy has been named an honorary citizen of the Croatian town of Hvar, after reports the couple named her for a local tree, media said Monday.

"The story of the origin of your girl's name, Blue Ivy, has brought huge media attention and great tourism promotion to the town of Hvar," said Mayor Pjerino Bebic in a letter sent to the couple, according to local news portal Dalmacija News.

A cluster of tiny Louisiana towns being slowly swallowed by the encroaching sea has been given new life in a fantastical film that has won top honors at Cannes and Sundance.

Days before the wide release of "Beasts of the Southern Wild," the crew returned to Montegut to show it to the people who fed them and housed them, built their sets and filled their supporting roles.