Entertainment - AFP

MADRID (AFP) - Two women were slightly hurt when they were struck by bulls that escaped the set of a new film that stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, local police and officials said.

HONG KONG (AFP) - A hotel in the glitzy Asian gambling haven of Macau will display Michael Jackson's rhinestone-encrusted glove after paying 350,000 dollars for the piece of pop history at auction, the hotel said Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The "Twilight" vampire romance sequel "New Moon" raked in 140.7 million dollars in its premiere weekend, a spectacular showing for the cult series, Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - American actress Susan Sarandon was on Saturday honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm film festival.

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday sought to boost ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the art world as he met with dozens of artists in the Vatican's illustrious Sistine Chapel.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82, the Royal Swedish Opera announced on Saturday.

CHICAGO (AFP) - A tearful Oprah Winfrey on Friday announced that she will take her iconic talk show off the air in 2011 at the end of its 25th season, prompting an outpouring of emotional tributes from devoted fans.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Manny Pacquiao's 12th-round TKO of Miguel Cotto was the top-drawing pay-per-view bout of 2009 with 1.25 million purchases worth 70 million dollars in revenue, Home Box Office Sports said Friday.

PARIS (AFP) - Thousands of French Internet users flooded video sharing websites Friday to enjoy a lampoon of their glamourous first couple, almost a week after they appeared on the US show the Simpsons.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - All the hype surrounding the "Twilight" vampire romance sequel is scoring big at the box office, with industry reports estimating Saturday it took in the largest opening-day receipts on record.

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Michael Jackson's deathbed doctor waited over an hour to call for help when he realized the pop star wasn't breathing, and could not be found for hours afterward, according to a search warrant.

LONDON (AFP) - Glamour model Katie Price warned she may quit I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! on Friday after she was nominated by viewers to take part in another gruesome trial.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Fittingly for a director who has scored cinematic hits in Hong Kong and Hollywood, John Woo says his next film will depict Chinese and Americans working side-by-side successfully.

NEW YORK (AFP) - The rhinestone-encrusted glove worn by pop icon Michael Jackson for his first "moonwalk" dance in 1983 sold Saturday for 350,000 dollars at a frenzied auction in New York.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The hotly anticipated sequel to vampire romance "Twilight" scored a monster hit at the North American box office on Friday, shattering previous records for midnight openings, reports said.

MANILA (AFP) - A bruised but smiling Manny Pacquiao enjoyed a hero's welcome as he returned home to the Philippines on Friday, with masses of people taking to the streets and hailing him as the best boxer of all time.

CHICAGO (AFP) - US television superstar Oprah Winfrey, who rose from a childhood of abuse and poverty to become a global star, will announce on Friday that her talk show will end in 2011, her production firm said.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Promotional posters for a new Bollywood thriller, showing leading actress Kareena Kapoor from behind and apparently naked from the waist up, have got some people's backs up in India.

MANILA (AFP) - Newly crowned WBO welterweight king Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao said he was in no rush for a mega-bucks fight with American Floyd Mayweather as he landed back in his native Philippines Friday.

TAIPEI (AFP) - Leading Taiwanese movie director Chu Yen-ping plans a black comedy titled "Assassinating Chen Shui-bian" about a plot to kill the island's former president, a report said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A group of China's famed terracotta warriors are going on display at the National Geographic Society in Washington, on the last stop of a four-city US tour.

BERLIN (AFP) - Oscar-nominated German director Werner Herzog will lead the international jury at the 60th Berlin Film Festival from February 11-21, organisers said on Thursday.

JAKARTA (AFP) - Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam".

BRASILIA (AFP) - Audiences wept at the first screening of a movie charting the rise of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a childhood of poverty to a union leader on the verge of glittering political career.

PARIS (AFP) - Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Films about subjects as varied as dolphin-hunting and high fashion are among documentaries hoping to be nominated for an Oscar, according to a shortlist released Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson is to play Winnie Mandela in a film charting the turbulent life and times of the ex-wife of South Africa's first black president, it was reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," the new videogame from Activision Blizzard, keeps blowing away sales records.