Paris: Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard gasped in pain after France’s culture minister accidentally stuck a pin into her chest as he decorated her with the Order of Arts and Letters on Monday.

Cotillard has spent much of her time in Hollywood since winning the Oscar for her performance as the singer Edith Piaf in La vie en rose in 2008 but she was back in Paris to receive the decoration from culture minister Frederic Mitterrand. Mitterrand, who praised Cotillard’s “charm, natural grace and beauty”, inadvertently skewered the actress as he pinned the medallion naming her as “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” on to her blouse. She appeared to suffer no damage however and burst out laughing as Mitterrand hastily apologised.    —Reuters

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Lady GaGa collapses on stage
London: Lady GaGa alarmed the thousands of fans gathered to watch her perform in a sold-out gig as she collapsed on stage in between an energetic dance routine.
The eccentric popstar was performing in Auckland, New Zealand, when she appeared disorientated and unable to dance her way through the closing track Bad Romance, reported Sun online.
Instead of dancing, GaGa slid to the floor and remained on her back for most of the song.
Now her fans, whom the Telephone hitmaker fondly calls “little monsters”, are asking her to take things easy and have been sending her messages on Twitter.
The collapse did not come as a surprise as the 23-year-old has been slogging away non-stop for the past 18 months touring around the world.
In the past two weeks alone she has been all over the UK, New York, Australia and New Zealand.
It’s not the first time the singer’s busy schedule has got the better of her. She burst into tears before the launch of her UK tour in Manchester and had to postpone US dates after passing out backstage due to exhaustion.     —PTI