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Japanese switched-at-birth tale moves Cannes

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:00:16 +0200

Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival hailed a "moving" Japanese drama Saturday about two families who fall victim to a baby swap."Like Father, Like Son" by Tokyo...

Del Toro branches out with Freudian drama at Cannes

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:15 +0200

Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars in French Cannes contender "Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian", the true story of a traumatised Native American returning home from...

Depardieu compares Putin to Pope John Paul II

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:12 +0200

French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia...

Day 4: Behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:19 +0200

Behind the scenes at the May 15-26 Cannes Film Festival:SPARKLING HUMOUR: Stars have been quick to quip about Friday's predawn jewellery theft at Cannes hotel.Just...

Brothers arrested in France after school mass killing threat

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:13 +0200

Police in eastern France on Saturday arrested two brothers in their 20s whom they suspect of being behind an online threat to stage a mass killing at a high school, officials...

French president signs gay marriage bill into law

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:00:15 +0200

France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law following months of bitter political...

France legalises same-sex marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:00:06 +0200

France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political...

French president to sign gay marriage bill into law

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:15 +0200

French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing...

AIDS science at 30: 'Cure' now part of lexicon

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:14 +0200

Big names in medicine are set to give an upbeat assessment of the war on AIDS on Tuesday, 30 years after French researchers identified the virus that causes the disease....

'Ugly' film about Mumbai dark side

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:14 +0200

A decades-old rivalry between a Bollywood wannabe and a brutal police chief shines a light on Mumbai's dark side, in Indian director Anurag Kashyap's fast-moving psychological...