TEHRAN- Iranian actress Leila Hatami on Sunday angered authorities in Tehran by kissing the Cannes film festival's president on the cheek, an act seen as affront to the "chastity" of the Islamic...

ROME- The soon-to-be director of La Scala opera house in Milan said on Friday he will prove he is "no donkey" after getting caught up in a conflict of interest row. Austria's Alexander Pereira has...

CANNES- Mexican film star Salma Hayek and French actress Julie Gayet branded signs saying #BringBackOurGirls on Cannes' red carpet Saturday, joining global calls to free 223 schoolgirls kidnapped by...

CANNES, Helen Rowe- A Syrian woman whose horrifying footage of the siege of Homs was turned into a film by an exiled director was on Friday given a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, a few...

ROME- Hip hop star Kanye West and reality television celebrity Kim Kardashian are getting married in Florence this month -- and some locals are not happy about the happy couple taking over some of...

NEW YORK- Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce's sister say they have apologized to each other and agreed to "move forward" after an "unfortunate" fight in an elevator, which became public with a leaked video....

NEW YORK, Brigitte Dusseau- President Barack Obama hailed the love and sacrifice he said was "the true spirit of 9/11" on Thursday as he inaugurated a haunting Ground Zero museum dedicated to the...

CANNES, Helen Rowe- A great or glittering life is no guarantee of a gripping biopic, say film-makers, as the Cannes Film Festival prepares to open Wednesday with the first big screen adaptation of...

LAGOS, Ben Simon- Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Boko Haram's leader as an "obscenity" who is likely to be incapable of dialogue, as the government considers opening talks with...