Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation.

Stallone supported the 1994 "Brady bill" that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, and hopes that ban can be reinstated.

David Beckham has won league championships in three countries on two continents, earns millions of dollars in endorsements and his name is practically synonymous with celebrity itself. He has his own cologne, for goodness sake. So why is he even bothering to sit on the bench for the Paris Saint-Germain football club?

His royal highness of football doesn't need the money — and he's said he'll donate his PSG salary to charity — but he does need to start thinking about life after the game. At 37, Beckham is practically a dinosaur for the sport, and he acknowledged in his welcoming press conference on Thursday that he probably won't be in the team's starting lineup.

The man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, vouched Friday for "Zero Dark Thirty," calling it a "good movie" even though the tale of the biggest manhunt in history had to be simplified for the big screen.

"It's a movie," Panetta said, laughing. "And it's a good movie. But I lived the real story," he told Agence France Presse in an interview.

Japanese Manga legend Leiji Matsumoto celebrated 60 years in the business at France's international cartoon festival, and confessed that the experience left him feeling like a time traveler "with the strange sensation of finding myself in one of my stories".

The author of numerous cult works such as "Captain Albator" and "Galaxy Express 999", the slender, white haired 75-year-old, sporting a goatee, cap and huge glasses, was on Friday feted at the festival in southwestern Angouleme.

Sizzling British hit "Downton Abbey" has stolen the hearts of its legions of avid fans, but one viewer hopes the television show will steal its way to their stomachs as well.

Canadian culinary historian Pamela Foster has crafted a cookbook based on the early 20th century British cuisine featured in the show -- though she's given it a modern, and more healthful twist.

Award-winning U.S. comedy "30 Rock" bowed out after seven seasons Thursday, with a double helping of the cult TV show starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin.

The multiple Emmy-winning comedy show -- about the cast of a TV comedy sketch show -- has featured a who's who of guest celebrities over the years, including Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston and Calvin Klein.

A court in Mumbai has ruled that Bollywood star Salman Khan will be tried for culpable homicide over a 2002 hit-and-run case which could land him behind bars for 10 years, his lawyer said Friday.

Khan is alleged to have rammed his Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle onto a pavement and over five sleeping homeless people in suburban Mumbai, killing one and injuring four others.

A Japanese starlet who shaved her head and issued a tearful YouTube apology after spending the night with a man was scrambling Friday to redeem the girl next door image of all-female group AKB48.

Pictures of the roughly-shorn head of Minami Minegishi, 20, were emblazoned on national newspapers and Japan's Twitter scene was abuzz Friday over news that the pop princess had broken the band's cardinal rule: No Dating.

Model Naomi Campbell won damages from a British newspaper on Thursday over a report claiming she was planning to organize an elephant polo tournament for her partner's birthday in India, her lawyer said.

The Daily Telegraph formally apologized in court for the story published in November and agreed to pay a "substantial sum" in damages and legal costs, the model's lawyers, Michael Simkins Solicitors, said in a statement.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday set a date of March 18 for perennially troubled U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan to stand trial for allegedly lying to a policeman after a car accident.

Lohan arrived at the last minute for a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, following what her lawyer conceded was "some drama" after she initially planned to stay in New York, reportedly due to illness.