Sunday's partial solar eclipse will bring a burning ring of fire to the sky

Reported by guardian.co.uk
A partial eclipse of the sun on May 20 will make for a great show on the west coast of North America and parts of Asia

There will be a relatively rare solar eclipse this weekend, as the moon slides between Earth and the sun, casting its long shadow across wide swaths of the.. »more

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Cannes docu tries to turn page on Polanski child sex case

A documentary on Roman Polanski presented at Cannes Wednesday gave a glowing account of the director's glittering career and traumatic life and sought to let him move on from a decades-old child sex case.

The film by Laurent Bouzereau features the Oscar-winner chatting about everything..

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When Cannes jury was hush-hush as a conclave

Cannes jury head Nanni Moretti, director of the Vatican-themed comedy "We Have a Pope", voiced a pang of regret Wednesday for the days when the jury was secretive as a conclave.

"There were two taboos left in the world: the silence after the Cannes awards ceremony, and the conclave -- now..

France 24 9 hours ago

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Turkey Flexes Muscles Before NATO Summit

A last-minute deal has cleared away a dispute over the attendance of senior European Union officials at the NATO summit opening in Chicago Sunday. Analysts saw the dispute as an example of Turkey flexing its growing diplomatic muscle within the military alliance. With only days to go before the..

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