Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, acting great Kenneth Branagh and the designer behind Kate Middleton's wedding dress were decorated by Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday in her birthday honors list.

"Titanic" star Winslet was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition for her services to drama, while Branagh becomes Sir Kenneth after being made a knight in the chivalry order.

Bill Cosby is retiring as master of ceremonies of the annual Playboy Jazz Festival after more than 30 years.

This weekend's festival at the Hollywood Bowl will be his last turn at the show's helm.

Singer Chris Brown, his girlfriend and his bodyguard were injured when a dance floor showdown with members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage turned into a bottle-hurling brawl earl Thursday at a nightclub, police said.

Brown tweeted a photo of himself with a cut chin, then later removed it, as well as other messages about the fight, including epithets and taunts. A representative later released a statement saying the singer and his girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran, were victims of a "brutal attack."

Multi-platinum recording artist Bob Seeger led off this years' Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony with a rousing version of his 1973 classic, "Turn the Page."

The Detroit rocker called songwriting the hardest thing he does, and the most rewarding.

First she made a joke about buying a fake rolex. Now Thailand's culture ministry has filed a complaint to police against Lady Gaga for misuse of the Thai flag during her show last month.

The ministry said the part of Lady Gaga's performance when she wore a traditional headdress and sat on a motorcycle in a skimpy outfit with a Thai flag trailing behind was "inappropriate and hurt Thai people's sentiment".

U.S. pop star Prince has been refused permission by the mayor of Paris for a concert under the Eiffel Tower on July 14 because it would clash with Bastille Day celebrations, a close aide said Wednesday.

"There was a request from the producer of Prince in France to organize a concert on July 14," said the aide to mayor Bertrand Delanoe.

Henry Hill, the ex-mobster played by Ray Liotta in the classic Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas," has died at age 69 -- and the actor described the former mafioso as "complicated" Wednesday.

Hill died on Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital following a long battle with an undisclosed illness, his girlfriend Lisa told the TMZ celebrity news website.

Veteran U.S. comedy actor Jerry Lewis is spending a couple of nights in hospital in New York after feeling faint, but is doing "fine" and is expected to be released Thursday, aides said.

The 86-year-old Oscar-winning star was rushed to hospital Tuesday after collapsing at his hotel before an event at the Friars Club honoring Tom Cruise, a spokesman for the club told Agence France Presse.

The most talked about event of the season - the mammoth launching of the all-new BMW 3 Series and the all-new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe – was achieved by regional communication network SPIRIT PR, after being commissioned by BMW to present an awe-inspiring evening for its 4000 plus guests, the agency said in a press release Thursday.

No stranger to presenting some of the region’s most exclusive events, SPIRIT PR, has been lauded for achieving one of the most successful events of the year in the region.

Hundreds of people have petitioned Saudi King Abdullah to allow women to get behind the wheel on the first anniversary of the Women2Drive campaign launched in June 2011.

The signatories, who numbered nearly 600 on Wednesday, are asking the king of the only country in the world that forbids women to drive to "encourage women who have obtained driving licenses from neighboring countries to begin driving whenever necessary."