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Bonnie Tyler of Britain performs her song "Believe in Me" during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 17, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012, the final will be held in Malmo on May 18. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest 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, hippie-chic 20-year-old for the catchy love song that ...

  • Updated: 9:48 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013
A transvestite walks on all fours imitating a tigress in a parade marking the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, 2013. About 500 people marched through the Cuban capital to the rhythm of conga drums in an early celebration of the international day against homophobia, commemorated annually on May 17. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba's LGBT community celebrates

A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminated Friday with the International Day Against Homophobia.

  • 7:56 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
From left, producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy, actress Berenice Bejo, actress Pauline Burlet, actress Jeanne Jestin, director Asghar Farhadi, actor Elyes Aguis, actor Tahar Rahim, actor Ali Mosaffa and actress Sabrina Ouazani pose for photographers as they arrive for the screening of the film The Past at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/David Azia, Pool)

Iran's Farhadi and China's Jia make Cannes splash

Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart. Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin" depicts facets of fast-changing China the government prefers ...

  • Updated: 4:14 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
FILE - In this April 2, 2013 file picture Capuchin monkey 'Mally" sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. German officials say Justin Bieber will have to pay the bill for his monkey’s two month stay at a Munich animal shelter. A spokesman for Munich’s customs office says the cost of care, food and vet visits for Mally is several thousand euros (dollars).That’s, of course, what you might call “chimp change” for the global superstar. Customs spokesman Thomas Meister says Bieber has until midnight Friday May 17, 2013 to claim the monkey seized by authorities March 28 when the singer failed to produce its papers after landing in Munich on tour. Bieber’s management company has asked the shelter to place the 20-week-old monkey in a zoo but hasn’t talked with customs. If not claimed, Mally becomes German government property and will likely go to a zoo in any case. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File)

Bieber will have to pay for German monkey business

Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal. A spokesman for Munich's customs office said the teenage ...

  • Updated: 12:21 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks to invited pastors and community members at the New Destiny Christian Fellowship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 in Detroit. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told a Detroit church audience that African Americans should pool their money and buy up property as a way to save the city. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Kimberly P. Mitchell) DETROIT NEWS OUT, TV OUT, INTERNET OUT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT DETROIT FREE PRESS

Farrakhan: Blacks should buy property in Detroit

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has told a Detroit church audience that African Americans should pool their money and buy up property as a way to save the city. The Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/16ndNX7 ) says Farrakhan addressed about 250 people Thursday at New Destiny Christian Fellowship Church, one ...

  • Updated: 8:48 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
From left, actor Armando Espitia, director Amat Escalante and actress Andrea Vergara pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Heli at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a bleak picture that one journalist told ...

  • Updated: 9:47 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
FILE - In this Wednesday June 27, 2012 file photo, Singaporean pop music singer Ho Yeow Sun, popularly known as Sun Ho, get on a car as she leaves the Subordinate Courts in Singapore. City Harvest Church faithful queued at a Singapore court overnight and packed the public gallery to show support for the accused who prosecutors say diverted the congregation's funds into "sham" investments to advance the career of aspiring star Ho. Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Singapore church on trial in pop star scandal

Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial Wednesday of six church leaders accused of embezzling more than $40 million to fund the pop music career of the wife of their evangelical movement's founder. City Harvest Church faithful queued at a Singapore court overnight and packed the public gallery to show support ...

  • Updated: 4:14 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013
FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Michael Jackson announces several concerts at the London O2 Arena in July, at a press conference at the London O2 Arena. Stacy Walker, a choreographer who worked with Jackson in his ill-fated “This Is It” shows, told a civil jury in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday May 13, 2013, that she did not see any signs that the singer was ill or might die in his final days and weeks. Walker is AEG’s first defense witness in a civil case filed by Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, who claims the concert giant failed to properly investigate or supervise the doctor convicted in 2011 of causing the singer’s death. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)

Jackson described as 'loopy' after doctor visits

Michael Jackson appeared "a little loopy" after visits with his longtime dermatologist and was considering using a teleprompter to help him perform some of his songs during his ill-fated comeback concerts, a choreographer who worked one-on-one with the pop superstar told a jury Tuesday. Travis Payne said he expressed concerns ...

  • Updated: 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Kansas State Board of Education member Carolyn Campbell reads from Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 letter from the Birmingham, Ala., jail during the board's meetingon Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Topeka, Kan. Campbell and others criticized fellow board member Steve Roberts for his use of a racial slur during the April board meeting during a debate over new history standards and not sanitizing history. (AP Photo/John Milburn)

Kan. ed board member criticized for racial comment

Several black leaders in Topeka said Tuesday that a Kansas State Board of Education member's use of a racial slur during a meeting last month was unnecessary and inappropriate. Carolyn Campbell, the only black member of the board, and other black community leaders criticized board member Steve Roberts for using ...

  • Updated: 5:41 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In this photo taken Monday, May 13, 2013, courthouse dog Kiley lies across the feet of Linda Avila, left, a witness in a homicide case, as Avila sits with Kiley's handler Michelle Walker, Justice Services manager, in a hallway at the Pierce County Courthouse in Tacoma, Wash. As canine companions in courthouses, dogs have helped thousands of victims and witnesses, but some challenges are working their way through the courts, driven by attorneys who claim the dogs are distractions or sympathy magnets. So far, all lower courts have upheld the use of dogs. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Dogs give comfort _ and controversy _ in court

The twins were 7, shy and scared. Talking was tough and describing what happened nearly impossible. So the prosecutor preparing them to testify against the father they said molested them borrowed a dog named Jeeter. "It was a last ditch effort to try to build rapport with my kids, who ...

  • Updated: 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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