American rock band Journey's lead vocalist Arnel Pineda says he's been putting together an album of his own compositions in his own voice which he plans to launch within the year.

But he quashed rumors that he is gearing to leave Journey. The Filipino singer says he will stay as long as the band needs him.

Tunisia on Tuesday announced a new international fundraising campaign to reclaim the set where numerous Star Wars scenes were filmed from the encroaching desert.

The set for Mos Espa -- hometown of Anakin Skywalker, the protagonist in the blockbuster film series who later becomes Darth Vader -- was built at Ong Jmel in southern Tunisia in the 1990s for the filming of "Star Wars Episode One - The Phantom Menace."

Live Aid founder Bob Geldof said his family was "beyond pain" at the death of his socialite daughter Peaches at the age of 25 on Monday.

Police were called to her secluded home outside Wrotham in Kent, southeast England, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Her death was being treated as "unexplained and sudden" but non-suspicious, police said.

Kerpow! "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shot straight to the top of North America's box office this weekend -- socking rivals with the biggest U.S. April opening of all time, figures showed Monday.

And buoyed by the news, Marvel filmmakers announced they will release the Captain's sequel on the same 2016 date as rival Warners' Superman/Batman mash-up hits multiplexes.

Four decades on from the flares, fame and fabulousness, the members of ABBA say they have no regrets — not even about the clothes.

Members of the Swedish supergroup marked 40 years since their international breakthrough hit "Waterloo" on Monday with a party for hundreds of guests at London's Tate Modern gallery.

Singer Chris Brown's assault case is going forward after a judge in Washington on Monday rejected a request to dismiss it.

Lawyers for the Grammy-winning singer had argued the case should be dismissed because prosecutors abused the grand jury process to prepare for trial. Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said prosecutors used the grand jury to "freeze" the testimony of the alleged victim in the case, a man who says Brown and his bodyguard punched him outside a Washington hotel in October.

Peaches Geldof has died at the age of 25.

The British socialite and mother-of-two, daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, was found by police at her house in Wrotham, Kent, at 1.35pm on Monday. Kent Police said the death was "sudden" and "unexplained."

Veteran singer George Strait won the Entertainer of the Year award late Sunday at the star-studded Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

The event, full of performances by country music's top stars and some surprise cross-genre guest appearances, is an annual show where fans vote for the winners.

There's something missing from the handbags that adorn the shelves of Serge Amoruso's Paris boutique. It's certainly not the hefty price tag or the top quality craftmanship.

What you won't find, however, is that universal badge of 1990s consumerism -- a logo.

Beloved U.S. child star and comic actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood's most enduring denizens whose career began in the silent film era, died on Sunday. He was 93.

Rooney's son Michael Joseph Rooney confirmed the actor's death to the New York Times. The celebrity website TMZ said that Rooney died of natural causes.