The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.
Austrian singer JJ won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with “Wasted Love,” a song that combines operatic, multi-octave vocals with a techno twist.
Several Hollywood celebrities and film industry insiders signed a letter attacking the industry for its “silence” over Israeli.
The grandmother who was arrested for holding a sign near an abortion clinic in Scotland is warning about the assault on free speech.
Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal urged Hollywood to “fuck the people that try to make you scared” on Saturday while admitting it was “scary” to speak out against US President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Monday aimed at bringing peace to Ukraine.
The three Iranian nationals accused of spying on behalf of Tehran amid a counter-terrorism probe reportedly entered the United Kingdom illegally before applying for asylum.
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.” “I can
British police said on Saturday they have charged three Iranian men with spying offenses after an investigation by counterterror detectives.
Sir Keir Starmer’s popularity has sunk to its lowest level ever as large swaths of his leftist Labour Party base appear to be having doubts about his leadership.
A Russian drone on Saturday hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, killing nine people and injuring seven, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire.
Both Poland and Romania will host presidential elections this Sunday, and a joint rally by the sovereigntist candidates from both nations saw a crowd of Polish voters chant the U.S. President’s name in response to a call for border control.
A bronze statue of First Lady Melania Trump has apparently disappeared from her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia.
Hungarian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar said on Thursday that President Donald Trump should not pressure Hungary to “decouple” from China because China is too important as an investor and trading partner.
President Donald Trump hit back at Bruce Springsteen on Friday, calling him “Highly Overrated” and a “dried out prune” and flogged the New Jersey native for going “to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States.”
An art installation for “equality month” at Grenoble Alpes University in Southern France has come under fire for messages denouncing “white males” and claiming that white people are the only demographic guilty of racism.
Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met in Turkey on Friday for the first time since 2022, but progress appeared limited by mid-afternoon.
The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.
New Zealand pop star Lorde defined her gender identity as some days being a woman and some days being a man.
Cannes, FRANCE — There are not many fans of Donald Trump’s dream to save Hollywood with tariffs among the dealmakers at the Cannes film festival — even among those who voted for him.
Three killed in a blaze at a former British military base that is now used to commemorate the history of aviation and motor sports.
Ukrainian national arrested over three suspected arson attacks involving properties connected to the Prime Minister has appeared in court.
The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.
Israel has won its way through to the Eurovision grand final on Saturday, hours after anti-Israel protesters in Basel, Switzerland, tried to disrupt the country’s dress rehearsal and prevent a survivor of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack go forward.
LONDON — American R&B singer Chris Brown, the former boyfriend of superstar Rihanna, is due to appear in a UK court on Friday after being arrested and charged over an alleged assault at a London nightclub in 2023, police said.
Spain is running its national power grid in “strengthened mode”, using more nuclear and natural gas in place of the renewables.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Russia would make “adjustments” in its demands to Ukraine “due to developments on the ground,” a vague declaration following the Kremlin’s confirmation that strongman Vladimir Putin would reject Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet in person.
Trump’s proposed 100% tariffs on films produced outside the United States has found favor with certain Hollywood workers who lost jobs due to foreign credits.
Richard Grenell, the top man at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, called out actor Robert De Niro, who delivered yet another wild anti-Trump screed at Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.
Germany’s interior minister said Thursday that the number of people turned back at the country´s borders increased by nearly half.
Progress on Russia-Ukraine peace talks will depend on a leaders meeting with President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump said.
CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival barred French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of the competition entry “Case 137,” in what’s believed to be a first for the festival in the #MeToo era.
They might look like lost tourists – unkempt and overloaded with gear – or hikers with military haircuts.
Aging rocker and longtime Democratic Party mouthpiece Bruce Springsteen delivered a splenetic tirade against Donald Trump on Wednesday night, opening his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour in Manchester, England, by attacking the Republican president’s “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
Successful diplomacy can only be negotiated from a position of strength. President Donald Trump honored that credo Thursday when he visited U.S. troops at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, praising their crucial role in regional security while saluting America’s ongoing commitment to ending – not beginning – conflicts.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky decried Potemkin delegation sent by Russia to peace talks after it transpired Putin won’t be attending.
The case to brand the AfD as an extremist group appears to have been primarily built on mere political opinions said in public.
Hollywood appears to be relenting in its boycott of the Russian film market despite past claims of supporting Ukraine with a policy of punishing Russia for its invasion.
The Cannes Film Festival opening night was reportedly interrupted by workers who protested near the red carpet over a labor dispute.
Pope Leo vowed to help protect Catholic communities in the Mideast and Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.
Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe will not face criminal charges over alleged threats made against Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf.
