A three-and-a-half hour largely plotless movie set in a nightclub, featuring girls twerking from every angle and a 13-minute explicit sex scene in the toilet, claimed the dubious honour as the most universally panned film at Cannes on Friday.
The International Olympic Committee on Friday heaped praise on two remaining candidate cities for the 2026 Winter Olympics, with Italy's Milan/Cortina bid recording stronger local support than Sweden's Stockholm/Are proposal.
After losing territory, Islamic State fighters are turning to guerrilla war - and the group's newspaper is telling them exactly how to do it.
Trade fair organiser Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) is sounding out investors for a possible stock market listing after a previous attempt failed in December due to unfavourable markets, two market sources said on Friday.
* Proposed bid implies 36.2% premium (Adds advisers to Charterhouse and Tarsus, shares)
EU antitrust regulators have extended by two weeks to July 23 their investigation into Vodafone's $22 billion bid for Liberty Global's cable networks in Germany and central Europe, according to a filing on the European Commission website.
The field of competitors in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee has nearly doubled in recent years, thanks to a program that gives young prodigies an alternative route into an event that has captivated many spell-check-dependent Americans.
Celebrity chef and former television star Mario Batali is due in a Boston court on Friday to face a criminal charge that he forcibly groped and kissed a woman at a restaurant in 2017.
Philippine shares declined on Friday on fears that trade tensions between China and the United States could balloon into a deeper strategic dispute, while Indonesian stocks posted their biggest weekly gain since July 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday Washington's complaints aga
China on Friday denounced U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for fabricating rumours after he said the chief executive of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was lying about his company's ties to the Beijing government.
Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit, setting up a contest that will bring a new British prime minister to power who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.