RIO DE JANEIRO - English speakers get their moment in the Carnival sun on Monday as a wild, Beatles-themed street party shakes it up, baby, with a samba swing to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da."

LOS ANGELES - The January 31 photo opportunity for the film "The Artist" came courtesy of Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, who presented the cast and crew of the film with the inaugural "Made in Hollywood" award. But the photo op wasn't just a feel-good ceremony to celebrate the movie.

Ed Sheeran may have been the surprise package of the BRIT Award nominations last month, bagging more than anyone else, but the show itself looks set to follow a more predictable script on Tuesday-another Adele triumph.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Julia Roberts says she cannot believe that time has gone by so quickly - she is amazed to see that the remake of her 1990 movie "Flatliners" is already in the pipeline.

MUMBAI - Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be relieved "in a day or two" from the SevenHills Hospital, where he is recuperating following two abdominal surgeries.

LOS ANGELES - A study of Academy Awards voters has found that it's not a very diverse group that hands out Hollywood's highest honors.

LOS ANGELES - It can't be easy making Sean "Diddy" Combs cry, but Oscar-nominated documentary film "Undefeated" did - four times.

LOS ANGELES - "The Descendants" and "The Artist" won the ACE Eddie Awards for film editing on Saturday night, giving the former film a big boost in the Academy Awards race but perhaps reinforcing the latter's position as the Oscar front-runner.

KHARTOUM - Sudan mourned on Sunday the death of musical icon Mohammed Wardi, a former prisoner who spent years in self-imposed exile but who died on home soil after seeing his beloved nation divided.

LOS ANGELES - Michael Davis, the bassist of influential late 1960s rock band MC5, has died of liver failure, his wife said Saturday. He was 68.