A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.

Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as US President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor, according to a testimony.
At least eight of the UK’s leading fashion retailers have failed to put their names to a legally binding initiative to offer financial support for fire safety and building improvements in the wake of the Bangladesh garment disaster.

Greece's parliament today ejected a neo-Nazi lawmaker and shouts of 'Hail Hitler' were heard in the chamber in the latest incident involving the aggressive Golden Dawn far-right party.
Jewellery worth more than one million dollars made by Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller Chopard and due to be loaned to stars walking the red carpet at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel, police said today.
The Moroccan woman at the center of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is testifying publicly for the first time.

A woman in Poland is facing jail time after she gave birth to her premature son who had severe alcohol poisoning due to the high liquor levels in his mother's bloodstream.
Britain wants the UPA government to complete its economic reforms programme, particularly in retail and pensions, but understands that democracies can be “messy,” British chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne said here on Thursday.

A collection of blurry photos taken by a chimp, touted as his “take on the world”, is expected to fetch up to a whopping 70,000 pounds at a London auction.
Scientists have discovered ancient pockets of water — dating back to at least 2.7 billion years — which contain abundant chemicals known to support life, lurking deep underground in Canada.
In a series of other announcements that Google made at its annual developer conference, it also announced a major addition to its emailing service, which is, users can now send money as an attachment with the integration of Google Wallet and email.
A senior British politician has said that the country's future economic success lies on the shoulders of Indian-origin entrepreneurs who can "put the 'Great' into Great Britain".
A seven-month pregnant mother from Lancashire is so obsessed with child pageants that she has already entered her unborn baby Ella’s name into a competition.
Mourners got the fright of their lives and ran in horror, after a man who was pronounced dead woke up at his funeral. Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, had ‘died’ after suffering for long from an illness at his home in Zimbabwe.
A US diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs, packets of cash, a knife, map and compass, and a letter promising millions for "long-term cooperation."