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  • Murray pulls out of French Open

    US Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray Tuesday announced he will skip the French Open tennis due to a back injury. The World No.2 retired with the back problem in his second-round match against Spain's Marcel Granollers at the Rome Masters last week, which posed as a bad sign for his withdrawal from the second tennis Grand Slam of the year. Scotsman Murray will now aim to be fully fit for ...

  • Michael Douglas fights back tears at Cannes

    Michael Douglas wept here Tuesday as he recounted how director Steven Soderbergh waited for the Oscar-winning actor to recover from throat cancer so he could star as flamboyant pianist Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra". "For me this it was right after my cancer. This beautiful gift was handed to me. I'm eternally grateful to Steven, Matt and Jerry," a tearful Douglas said, referring to ...

  • French educators divided over use of English in universities

    .The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education-reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses - like science or economics classes - in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right ...

  • Cannes Film Festival 2013 review Only God Forgives review - Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn reunite for this underwhelming revenge thriller

    Watching Nicolas Winding Refn's lurid, ultra-violent and frequently preposterous Bangkok-set revenge thriller, you can't quite believe that he once directed an episode ...

  • Wartime MI6 had secret plans for liquidation or kidnapping of targets

    August 1945: British wartime prime minister Clement Attlee, seated right, with US president Harry Truman, and Stalin. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin stands behind, centre. Photograph: Yevgeny ...

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Scandal [DVD]

Scandal [DVD]

In 1963, the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was rocked with a sex scandal involving Macmillan's Secretary of War, John Profumo, and a young woman named Christine Keeler. The fact that the married Profumo was having an illicit relationship with a woman that many characterized as a high-price call girl was certainly questionable, but not enough to topple a go ... ...

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  • Stacy Keibler Paul Wesley Stella Artois Suite At Cannes

    Stacy Keibler and Paul Wesley hit up the Stella Artois Suite during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival held at Radisson Blu on Wednesday (May 22) in Cannes, France. The 33-year-old entertainer looked gorgeous at the De Grisogono Party the evening ...

  • Cannes Foursome Team Up for Chicago Crime Boss Film Hubris

    Charles Gillibert, Scott Stuber, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert are joining forces for the thriller, which will mark French director Olivier Assayas' first film shot in the United ...

  • Cannes-Fashion Photos Robert Redford Suits Up and Sports Illustrated Model Irina Shayk Bares Skin on the Croisette

    Even though they did not have premiere tickets, the same pesky rain clouds that reigned over the Cannes Film Festival's first weekend stormed back into the coastal town on Wednesday. And while they succeeded in showering the red carpet, they could not dampen the day's glamour. Robert Redford, Jessica Chastain, a gaggle of designer-clad models, and even Roman Polanski still swept down ...

  • French Open loses another star as Juan Martin del Potro withdraws

    France World number seven Juan Martin del Potro has become the second high-profile men's player to pull out of the French Open.The former US Open champion, who made the quarter finals at Roland Garros last year, has decided to withdraw due to a virus.World number two Andy Murray will also not compete in Paris after aggravating a back injury during the Rome Masters last week.The French ...

  • France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group

    Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...

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