Beyonce has settled a lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her.

Court records show the case was closed Friday after the Grammy Award-winning singer and Gate Five LLC agreed to drop it.

Hollywood stars including Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman are calling on Group of Eight leaders meeting in Northern Ireland next week to eliminate nuclear arms.

Oscar-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz and Matt Damon are also among the stars lending their faces and voices to the two-minute video plea by the anti-nuclear campaign group Global Zero.

British singer Adele and "Blackadder" stars Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson were among those given awards in this year's Queen's Birthday Honors announced late Friday.

Adele, 25, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), which she adds to an already bulging trophy cabinet of several Grammys and an Oscar for the James Bond song "Skyfall".

Kanye West's new album "Yeezus" leaked online Friday, four days before its official release, but the U.S. rapper appeared unconcerned as the Internet went crazy over his latest record.

The much-anticipated album -- due to be officially released Tuesday -- immediately became a top Twitter trending subject, while instant reviews were largely positive.

An oak cradle designed to resemble a Gothic cathedral is headed from Poland to London for the July birth of the first child of Prince William and his wife Kate.

Dariusz Bergier, a carver and furniture maker in Tuszyn, central Poland, hopes to send the cradle off to Britain next Wednesday.

The relationship between former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been turned into an opera due to open in Paris on Friday for a five-night run.

"Allies" revolves around a televised 1999 meeting of the two late leaders when Pinochet was being held under house arrest in Britain.

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch filed papers to divorce his third wife Wendi Deng, citing an "irretrievably" broken marriage to a woman 38 years his junior.

The 82-year-old media tycoon's Chinese-born partner is perhaps best known for a 2011 incident when she leapt to defend her husband by striking a pie-wielding protester, prompting headlines calling her a "tiger wife".

After Cyprus's bloated banking sector was hit by a body blow this spring, sending the economy further into recession, cut-price summer holiday offers are attracting tourists but not the spending needed.

On the pebbly beach in front of Aphrodite's Rock, where legend has it the goddess was born out of the foam, tourists bask in the sun and bathe in the clear azure waters of the eastern Mediterranean.

Celebrity Chicago chef Charlie Trotter was sued Thursday for allegedly selling two collectors a large bottle of wine that was supposedly highly valuable but in fact was a fake.

Bekim (Benn) and Ilir Frrokaj paid more than $46,200 in June of last year for what Trotter had claimed was a magnum of 1945 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti from the chef's famed, now-shuttered restaurant Charlie Trotter's in Chicago.

Written by Anthony Sargon

We officially have the year's best comedy. "This is the End" is a blast from start to finish, and thankfully doesn't squander its amazing cast. It stars some of the biggest names working in comedy today, all playing themselves, trying to survive the apocalypse. It's crude, memorable, and hilarious.