A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA.

Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino Sunday night after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests. Asked if she agreed with the decision to swab the cheeks of arrestees, Brady said she did, since they had committed crimes after all.

Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals and announcing a deal that will give the music to 1 million users of Galaxy mobile phones.

The new album, called "Magna Carta Holy Grail," will be free for the first 1 million android phone owners who download an app for the album. Those who do so will get the album on July 4, three days before its official release, according to a Sunday statement.

Written by Anthony Sargon

"Man of Steel" is arguably this summer's most anticipated movie. Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) and produced by Christopher Nolan ( The Dark Knight Trilogy), the movie has a lot riding on it. It's intended to be the launching pad for DC's own cinematic universe, one they hope can rival Marvel's when it comes to boxoffice receipts. So does "Man of Steel" live up to the immense hype, or does it crash under the weight of its lofty ambitions? While the movie does more right than it does wrong, it's not the home run many - including myself - were hoping for.

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".