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The world's biggest festival, the Rio Carnival, comes alive with 2.5 million people and a street parade.

Stella McCartney used the flash mob concept in presenting the creations when her models suddenly appeared and started moving amidst a sit down dinner.

As the 2012 London Fashion Week proceeds with creations from designer labels like Issa and Temperley, stars from across the world of fashion, movies and music collide on the front row of the event.

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Stella McCartney's Evening wear presentation and dinner party was a star-studded affair with around 100 guests attending the event at Mayfair, London.

Researchers from the Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, have discovered that Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in this high valley of the Peruvian Andes, was built to create certain ceremonial sound effects.

It may already be over. The 2011/12 Spanish La Liga may well be declared done, dusted and tied-up, following Real Madrid's almost leisurely stroll to a 4-0 win at the Spanish capital on Saturday night.

You could just see it coming couldn't you? Arsenal have been eliminated from the FA Cup by Sunderland, after losing 2-0 to their hosts, at the Stadium of Light.

Aretha Franklin, who was expected to sing at the service, could not attend at the church as she is reportedly too ill to attend the ceremony.

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Pope Benedict XVI formally inducted 22 churchmen to the elite circle of cardinals in a ceremony on Saturday. Pope presided over the ceremony held in St. Peter's Basilica. The new cardinals are from 13 countries- including three from the United States and Canada-Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York, Edwin F. O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto.

Though police is planning to lock down the streets near the church, a large number of fans are expected to crowd the area surrounding the funeral home and the cemetery where she will be buried.

Actresses Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis stole the show at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards presentation on Friday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

After dazzling the fashion world during the 2012 New York Fashion Week, designer Victoria Beckham arrived in London to display her collection at the London Fashion Week.

One of the highlights of this festival is that devotees and non-devotees are allowed to smoke intoxicating substances such as marijuana, as it is the only day when marijuana is legal.

"I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else," tweeted Daniel Radcliffe, on Feb. 17.

Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system, Eta Carinae which had occurred nearly 170 years ago.

Michelle Obama, The First Lady the United States, has been a positive role model. She has charmed the world with her discipline and decorum.

You know a white elephant is something that you can't dispose of. But have you ever heard about a white elephant that melts and disposes itself?

Guests at the opera house include Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen, former James Bond star Roger Moore, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Austrian President Heinz Fischer.

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The organisers are even ready with 6,000 law enforcement officers and 2,000 health workers who can communicate with the guests in English.

Tributes from fans worldwide are still pouring in for Whitney Houston... and who wish to bid farewell to the singer will not be disappointed as they will be able to watch her private funeral on the Internet live.

Check out photos of all the celebs who turned up to add glitter and glam to the day...

Check out Jennifer Aniston through the ages... her sense of style and fashion... from the mid-90s all the way through to 2012...

American model Kate Upton, who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition this year, is said to be dating New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.

Hollywood couldn't write soap operas better than this! Check out these photographs of Tevez and his family at Manchester airport on Feb. 14.

Italian Serie A side AC Milan teach English Premier League club Arsenal a thing or two, after comfortably beating them 4-0 in the first leg of their Round of 16 Champions League match.

Hollywood diva Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey", premiered in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday night.