Tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak have something to sing about: They're having a baby.

The Metropolitan Opera announced Monday that Kurzak has withdrawn from a revival of Verdi's "Rigoletto" because of her pregnancy.

YouTube is launching its own music awards and Lady Gaga will perform at the first-time event.

The Google Inc.-owned company announced Tuesday that Eminem and Arcade Fire also will perform at the YouTube Music Awards on Nov. 3. It will take place at Pier 36 in New York City and stream live online.

It's a tricky balancing act for Paris fashion designers to express their individuality and still bear witness to the trends.

A case in point is Saint Laurent's Hedi Slimane whose spring-summer 2014 show — one of the biggest of Monday's ready-to-wear collections — stuck steadfastly to his obsession with Rock 'n' Roll styles, showing him impervious to the current fashion conversation.

In a rare move, the top Marine on Monday forced two U.S. generals into retirement after concluding they should be held to account for failing to secure a base in Afghanistan on which two Marines were killed by Taliban attackers a year ago.

Gen. James Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said in announcing his decision that Maj. Gen. Charles M. Gurganus and Maj. Gen. Gregg A. Sturdevant "did not take adequate force protection measures" at Camp Bastion, an airfield in southwestern Afghanistan that was the Taliban target.

A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, researchers report.

The experimental technique was only tried in a small group of Japanese women with a specific kind of infertility problem, but scientists hope it can also help women in their early 40s who have trouble getting pregnant because of their age.

The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study going out Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.

The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom. It reflects what advocates for the old have been warning, with increasing urgency, for years: Nations are simply not working quickly enough to cope with a population graying faster than ever before. By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors over the age of 60 will outnumber children under the age of 15.

A biotech drug from Roche has become the first medicine approved to treat breast cancer before surgery, offering an earlier approach against one of the deadliest forms of the disease.

The U.S. IFood and Drug Administration approved Perjeta for women with a form of early-stage breast cancer who face a high risk of having their cancer spread to other parts of the body.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem noted Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.

Addressing world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Muallem also charged that the U.S., Britain and France had blocked the naming of the real perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

Elche beat Celta Vigo 1-0 thanks to midfielder Javi Marquez's solo effort to claim its first win in Spain's top flight in 25 years on Sunday.

Also, Real Betis dealt Villarreal its first loss this season with a 1-0 home win, Levante's late goal gave it a 1-0 victory at Osasuna, and Getafe striker Adrian Colunga scored twice as it beat Espanyol 2-0.

Australian international Tim Cahill scored a 76th-minute equalizer to help the New York Red Bulls secure a 1-1 draw with the Seattle Sounders on Sunday and return to the top of the MLS standings.

The Red Bulls lead the eastern conference with 52 points, one clear of the Sounders, who share the Western Conference lead with Real Salt Lake.