It was Adele's year, and when the Grammy Awards are revealed next February, it very well may be her night. But on Wednesday night, the British songstress shared in the Grammy nominations glory.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple's iPhone is the world's hottest smartphone - and one iPhone in Australia appears to be the hottest of the bunch as it spontaneously began smoking last week.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nicki Minaj will have another moment to savor from her super year: Billboard is honoring her as its rising star of 2011.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's tough to keep a pregnancy a secret when you're in the public eye, and for a while, Beyonce thought the jig was up.

BUENOS AIRES (AP) -- Sammy Ellis can dance the tango any way she wants, with anyone she wants. And the California woman has come to Argentina to celebrate that at a festival known as Tango Queer.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Her hips don't lie and neither do her massive album sales. International pop star Shakira was honored as the 2011 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in Las Vegas Wednesday night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was as if Heavy D knew that it would be his last tweet. The self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip hop, who became one of rap's top hit makers with his charming combination of humor and positivity, enthusiastically told his Twitter followers Tuesday morning to "BE INSPIRED!"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hip hop heavyweights known as much for their fiery political lyrics as for their bass-pounding beats have been among the thousands marching, tweeting and sharing dinner with protestors in the Occupy Oakland protests in recent weeks.

SYDNEY (AP) -- A grim-looking Kim Kardashian said "intuition" led her to end her 72-day-old marriage, insisting in an Australian television interview on Thursday there was no "right or wrong" way to handle the situation.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Adil Omar was a 16-year-old rapping in his bedroom in Pakistan when a member of the American group Cypress Hill discovered his music on the Internet and invited him out to Los Angeles to record together.