Parts of the plane in which former US President Theodore Roosevelt’s pilot son Quentin was shot down in July 1918 will be auctioned off on June 29 in this northwest French town, organisers said.

Roman Polanski said the birth control pill has had a “masculinising” effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is “idiotic” The director made the comments on Saturday at the Cannes Film Fest

The first 6,000 bottles of Miraval rose wine from a French vineyard owned by Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sold out on Friday within hours of going on general sale.

A bride gave birth only minutes after tying the knot at a townhall wedding in western France, making it more of a ‘big day’ than anticipated, the local mayor said on Sunday.

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Love, the wrenching tale of an elderly Parisian caring for his dying wife, scooped top prize in Cannes on Sunday, handing a second Palme d’Or in three years to Austria’s Michael Hane-ke.

The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film The Anti-Semite, by controversial French comic Dieudonne, an official said on Thursday.

A Romanian nunnery tale, a killer whale of a drama and a wrenching story of love and death jostled for Cannes glory on Monday as the world’s top cinema showcase hit the half-way mark.

The Hunt, a taut psychological thriller starring Danish heart-throb Mads Mikkelsen as a man falsely accused of molesting a child, emerged on Sunday as a hot contender at Cannes.

Actor and activist Sean Penn urged a glamorous party of Cannes actresses and glitterati to go on a sex strike unless their men stumped up at a charity auction held for Haiti on Friday night.

Interpol said on Tuesday it had issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi "on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks".

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