CANNES, France (AFP) - A wrenching documentary about five men wrongly imprisoned for the 1989 brutal rape and attempted murder of New York's Central Park Jogger premiered this week at Cannes.
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JAKARTA (AFP) - Police in Indonesia, after refusing a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta, said Friday they were considering an offer from her local promoters to tone down the pop superstar's racy show.
May 25, 2012, 7:21 pm
Lady Gaga's controversial stage act won't be toned down to appease Asian sensitivities, her manager says.
May 25, 2012, 6:53 pmLOS ANGELES (AFP) - Elton John has canceled shows in Las Vegas this week after being hospitalized for a "serious respiratory infection" in Los Angeles, his publicists said.
May 25, 2012, 5:37 pm
NEW YORK (AFP) - It has long served as the spiritual home of New York's French-speaking Catholics, but the Church of St. Vincent de Paul is nearing its end as the faithful grow fewer and the building lies in disrepair.
May 25, 2012, 4:51 pm
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia plans to roll out the red carpet for wealthy businesspeople by establishing a visa category offering a pathway to residency if they invest at least Aus$5 million (US$4.9 million).
May 25, 2012, 2:51 pmCANNES, France (AFP) - The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film "The Anti-Semite", by controversial French comic Dieudonne, according to an official.
May 25, 2012, 10:57 am
Kylie Minogue says she was "blown away" watching her new film, Holy Motors, for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival.
May 25, 2012, 8:31 amElton John has cancelled shows in Las Vegas this week after being hospitalised for a "serious respiratory infection" in Los Angeles.
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Elton John has cancelled three Las Vegas shows while he recovers from a respiratory infection.
May 25, 2012, 7:18 am
CANNES, France (AFP) - Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy", marking the US director's return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit "Precious".
May 25, 2012, 6:19 am
LONDON (AFP) - Scotland on Thursday became the first part of Britain to introduce a minimum price for alcohol in an attempt to change its unhealthy relationship with booze.
May 25, 2012, 5:48 amCANNES, France (AFP) - Cannes was treated to a grisly slice of black comedy with "Sightseers", the story of a pair lovebird serial killers who smear a trail of blood along the British tourist trail.
May 25, 2012, 5:13 am
CANNES, France (AFP) - Take a timeless French classic, "Dangerous Liaisons", and whisk it to 1930s Shanghai: a South Korean director pulled off the unlikely stunt in Cannes on Thursday.
May 25, 2012, 4:19 am
HONG KONG (AFP) - As billions of dollars pour into Asia's gleaming casinos, they are becoming the front line of a sometimes hugely lucrative battle between cheats and the house, say experts.
May 25, 2012, 4:08 am
THIMPU (AFP) - South Asia's love of literature festivals has spread to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which features in many an exotic travelogue but is pretty much a blank space on the global literary map.
May 25, 2012, 3:12 am
BAKU (AFP) - Police in Azerbaijan on Thursday detained dozens of opposition activists who staged the latest in a series of unsanctioned protests as Baku hosts the prestigious Eurovision song contest.
May 25, 2012, 2:39 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Zombies stalked San Francisco streets on Thursday as social game maker Zynga ghoulishly introduced a game that lets iPhone or iPod Touch users slash and hack the undead.
May 25, 2012, 2:29 am
MADRID (AFP) - Spanish public television directors urged the country's Eurovision Song Contest entry not to win this weekend's event because they would not be able to afford to stage it next year if she did.
May 25, 2012, 2:20 am
Lady Gaga has sparked an online uproar in Thailand after tweeting she was looking forward to buying fake Rolex there.
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Hugh Dancy's latest film role has him playing a Victorian-era doctor who is one of the first to use the electric vibrator on his female patients. The movie may sound salacious but it's actually based on some truth. (May 24)
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