Iranian film star Golshifteh Farahani is to make her European stage debut in May playing the tragic heroine Anna in Paris.

The 32-year-old, who made her name internationally in Asghar Farhadi's modern classic "All About Ely", was the first top Iranian actor to star in a Hollywood film, raising eyebrows in her homeland when she appeared in Ridley Scott's "Body of Lies" in 2008.

The Rolling Stones took to Cuban media to promise a "historic" occasion when they give their first Havana concert this Friday in a communist country where rock 'n roll was long considered subversive.

"Hola Cuba!" the elderly but still hugely popular British superstars call out in a short clip posted on the state-run cubainformacion.tv website late Tuesday.

Say goodbye to Mink coats: Italian fashion king Giorgio Armani said Tuesday he would no longer use any real animal fur in his collections, saying there was no excuse to indulge in such "cruel practices."

A drama about an attack on a mosque is headlining the third Saudi Film Festival, which opens Thursday amid hopes the conservative kingdom may finally allow public cinemas.

The modest festival, which will feature 70 productions in competition, is a far cry from the glitz and glamour of Western counterparts.

Hulk Hogan was back in a Florida court Monday as jurors weigh whether to award the wrestling star even more than the $115 million in damages granted last week over a sex tape posted by entertainment website Gawker.

The 62-year-old Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, successfully argued that the posting of the secretly recorded video featuring him and a friend's wife -- which is less than two minutes long -- invaded his privacy and humiliated him.

A 21-year-old college student died and 67 other people were arrested over the weekend in Miami during one of the world's biggest electronic music festivals, authorities said Monday.

Authorities were investigating the circumstances the led to the death Friday evening of Adam Levine, a University of Miami student, said Ray Martinez, head of security for the Ultra festival.

Ben Affleck hopes Batman fans who were skeptical of him playing the caped crusader in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" realize how seriously he took the role.

"The most difficult thing about making this movie, honestly, was the physical aspect," Affleck told The Associated Press on Sunday on the red carpet for the film's New York premiere at Radio City Music Hall.

A judge at England's High Court on Monday pleaded with U.S. pop megastar Madonna and her British film director ex-husband to resolve a legal dispute over their son Rocco amicably.

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, a Russian-born Swiss businesswoman who owns the French football club Olympique de Marseille, has given birth to twin girls at the age of 53, her spokeswoman said on Monday.

"The mother and babies are doing well," the spokeswoman said in an email to Agence France Presse, confirming press reports at the weekend.

It's the year's least likely feelgood hit film in which the little guys take on France's richest man and end up laughing all the way to the bank.

A documentary about an unemployed middle aged couple in one of France's poorest towns so desperately in debt that they were on the point of burning their home has been playing to packed cinemas, with audiences cheering in the aisles.