Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival give a warm reception to director Hirokazu Koreeda's drama about two families caught up in a baby swap.

Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...

Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to ...

Dr. Joyce Brothers, 85, who held a Ph.D. in psychology and was one of the most prominent and widely known of those who provided the American public with personal counseling through the mass media, died Monday in New York City. Her longtime publicist reported ...

Children’s shows such as “Sesame Street,” inspirational monologues by celebrities and campy movies — these are among the offerings on 30 channels that will soon require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube. Although the world’s largest video site has rented and sold movies and ...

When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark “Dia de los Muertos,” the name of the traditional Day of the Dead celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S., the cartoonist had an idea. The trademark was for an animated ...

Could it be the tour too far for the Rolling Stones? Insiders are predicting that the band will have to renegotiate the huge guaranteed fees for their American tour, which opened on May 3, as ticket prices are radically reduced in light of poor ...

“Gangnam Style” star Psy’s new music video had received more than 50 million views on YouTube by Monday, rewriting the video-sharing site’s records for single-day hits. The dance video to “Gentleman,” the South Korean singer’s long-awaited follow up to “Gangnam Style,” was only posted ...

In 1987, when Bruce Springsteen wrote the song “Ain’t Got You,” he was the biggest rock star in the world. He had vast estates in New Jersey and Beverly Hills, and he had not long returned from a honeymoon at Gianni Versace’s villa in ...

Even Kim Jong Un’s threats of nuclear war can’t divert world attention from the main event on the Korean Peninsula this week — the launch of Psy’s hugely anticipated followup to his global hit “Gangnam Style.” The new single, “Gentleman,” will hit online music ...

For the second time in about four years, Jay Leno is stepping down from NBC’s iconic late-night franchise “The Tonight Show.” This time, he’ll exit in spring 2014 to make way for “Late Night” star Jimmy Fallon. Fallon will take over sometime after that, ...