<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film "The Anti-Semite", by controversial French comic Dieudonné, an official said on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><strong>Video: </strong>Who cares about the audience? They'll soon all be dead anyway: French auteur Leos Carax told Cannes without a blush on Wednesday, saying he makes his films for himself.</p>
<p>A 50-year-old school supervisor who was dismissed after she took part in a rap video clip about older women who date younger men. The woman is taking her employer, a Catholic school near Cannes, to court. </p>
<p>Berenice Bejo, co-star of the hit French silent movie "The Artist", is to host the Cannes Film Festival's opening and closing ceremonies next month, the event's chairman said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>From documentaries to high-end costume dramas, the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic has sparked a tidal wave of TV shows, up for grabs at this week's MIPTV international trade show in Cannes.</p>
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<p>American director Wes Anderson's new film "Moonrise Kingdom" will open the 65th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, the organisers announced Friday.</p>
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<p>Leaders of the world's top economic powers on Friday pushed Europe into acting to stop Italy following Greece into a debt vortex and undertook measures to boost sluggish global growth.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">US president Barack Obama will appear alongside French president Nicolas Sarkozy on both main 8pm nightly news programmes in France on Friday evening for a 15-minute interview.</span></p>
The elegant French resort of Cannes is to be transformed into a fortress for this week's G20 summit, while the nearby city of Nice is to host thousands of anti-globalisation protesters.
<p>Leaders of the world's biggest economies meet in Cannes this week as Europe tries to convince markets and US critics that its debt bail-out package is serious and urges China to fund it.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Three French men are being held following a fight in which a 37-year-old British man was killed in the early hours of Monday morning on the French Riviera.</span></p>
