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French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU.

French filmmaker Francois Ozon has been blasted by local politicians for telling THR, "it's a fantasy of many women to do prostitution" and "there is kind of a passivity that women are looking for." Instead, it turns out it's an imperative of many French women to condemn exactly that kind of statement.

CANNES, France - Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is "idiotic" The director made the comments Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he came to premiere "Venus in Fur," a film adapted from the David Ives play which stars Polanski's wife and toys with the ... (more)

CREATIVE LICENCE: After bursting onto the haute couture scene with sculptural dresses incorporating the latest technologies, Iris van Herpen takes center stage in a new exhibition at the International City of Lace and Fashion museum in Calais, France.

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the... A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark ... (more)

Her mother is the former editor of French Vogue, she was photographed by Mario Testino at 10, and her new baby blog rivals Gwyneth'sa Julia Restoin Roitfeld is 2013's ultimate It girl Julia Restoin Roitfeld with her mother, Carine Roitfeld: 'French women look put-together but we don't spend that much time in the bathroom, and tend to go for really ... (more)

Anti-gay marriage group the French Spring is facing the possibility of being banned amid claims it's comments amount to a call to violence.

Canine glamour was honoured Friday in Cannes, with pampered poodle Baby Boy from Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" winning the film festival's unofficial Palm Dog prize.

I consider myself a cineaste . Once, when I was in college, I watched a film that was not in English or Hindi.

CANNES, France - For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson.

On Tuesday, besieged with questions about The Great Senate Scandal, Stephen Harper didn't answer the questions that Canadians wanted answered.

CANNES, France - Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, was filmed in part on ... (more)

As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the... The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.

He drove them to a secluded spot and stabbed them to death. Earlier Denise had told the wife-beater she was leaving him The anguish of Stephanie Stevenson is unimaginable.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours Thursday by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister.

A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.

The Cannes film festival was hit by a second jewelry heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweler De Grisogono.

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Georges Moustaki was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star.

CANNES, France - Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .