Large crowds welcomed Eurovision Song Contest winner Loreen home to central Stockholm on Tuesday after she claimed the Scandinavian country's seventh title triumph at the weekend.. Thousands of fans turned out in the Kungstradgarden park in central Stockholm despite gloomy weather to watch the 39-year-old artist perform her winning song "Tattoo", a pop anthem about unconditional love.
Ruben Ostlund, head of this year's Cannes festival jury, said Tuesday he supports the screenwriters strike in Hollywood ahead of the opening ceremony for the industry shindig on the French Riviera.. The Cannes Film Festival opens Monday evening and runs until May 27. eab/fb/pvh
American lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has become the oldest cover model for Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition, at the age of 81.. "Usually I'm motivated by pay but this time I was motivated by showing people that a woman my age can still look good, feel good, be good," Stewart said in a video on Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition website.
Aged 16, Halim Flowers was arrested in the United States, tried as an adult then jailed for murder.. Flowers was only released in 2019 after a change in US law allowed for under-18s who had been tried as adults to be "re-sentenced".
Greece will hold a legislative election on May 21 that promises to be the closest in more than a decade, with three main parties competing for seats in the 300-member parliament.. Because he was not an elected member of Greece's parliament, Androulakis was the first party leader who could not participate in debates in the chamber.
Five years after Europe enacted sweeping data protection legislation, prominent online privacy activist Max Schrems says he still has a lot of work to do as tech giants keep dodging the rules.. One reason why tech giants like Google or Meta as well as smaller companies choose against playing by the GDPR rules is because circumventing them pays off, Schrems said.
Tunisia's top cartoonist doesn't hesitate to compare President Kais Saied with Hitler.. Under Tunisia's new "dictatorship", anonymity is prudent, he said in an interview with AFP. Following Saied's sweeping power grab, "anonymity became vital because some people are being arrested just for expressing their opinion on Facebook", said Z. "You can imagine then what it is like for a cartoonist who criticises the president day and night."
The Cannes Film Festival was set for a stormy start on Tuesday, with Johnny Depp making his comeback in the opening film, showing off his French skills as King Louis XV. The 59-year-old's career has nosedived in Hollywood, despite his victory in a defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard last year that featured bitter domestic violence allegations.. But Depp has been gradually returning to work and will hit the red carpet for the opening night in Cannes with French period drama "Jeanne du Barry" about the 18th-century monarch who fell in love with a prostitute.
Johnny Depp became a global megastar playing off-beat characters from Willy Wonka to Captain Jack Sparrow, until his destructive off-screen lifestyle threatened to permanently derail his career.. He stepped into another level of fame fronting Disney's billion-dollar "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise as the rum-swilling sea dog Captain Jack Sparrow -- partly inspired by one of his many heroes, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.
Amy Pope, who on Monday was the first woman ever elected to lead the UN migration agency, made her name in the administration of former US president Barack Obama.. She did so well in a first round of voting Monday that Vitorino bowed to her lead and withdrew from the contest.
