The climax of the Cannes Film Festival looms, as the jury prepares to announce the winner of this year's Palme d'Or. The international jury, led by British director Stephen Frears, will choose from a shortlist of 22 films...

save to del.icio.us When Atsutoshi Nishida took over as chief executive of Toshiba two years ago, he had a simple plan: Avoid the commoditization trapping the consumer-electronics industry by creating key products like next-generation TVs and DVD players...

A new canine unit helped to arrest an inmate within an hour of his escape from a minimum-security prison, authorities said. Sean Lee Southerland, 25, was caught just after midnight Thursday about three miles from the Bell County Forestry Camp...

As previously reported, Our Stories was created last year by the Weinsteins and BET founder Robert Johnson as the first label at a studio or mini-major devoted to releasing movies for black audiences...

He does the "Monster Mash" no more. Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia...

VICTORIA Beckham, the pop star wife of former England soccer captain David Beckham, said today she thought the US media would soon realise she's actually rather dull, as the couple prepared to begin a new life in Los Angeles...

A 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, once owned by film star Steve McQueen, is expected to fetch $1.5 million at a California auction in August...