Alain Delon

France's highest constitutional body on Friday rejected a plea by animal-rights activists to ban bullfighting nationwide, saving a southern French tradition denounced by critics as a cruel bloodsport.

The estranged son of French actor Alain Delon wants to forge his own film career using the name that made his father a cinema legend.

The Locarno Film Festival is perhaps the world's most discreet, but also among the most glamorous, held in a small Swiss town every summer on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

Chinese buyers showed their economic clout in Paris Thursday at an auction of watches owned by French film idol Alain Delon, with prices going through the roof.

Alain Delon, perhaps France's best known movie actor, said he briefly underwent surgery for an irregular heartbeat in Paris on Wednesday.

Alain Delon, perhaps France's best known movie actor, briefly underwent surgery for an irregular heartbeat in Paris on Wednesday, the 76-year-old told the daily Le Parisien.

Veteran French actor Alain Delon was hospitalised in Paris on Wednesday, the 76-year-old's secretary said, after reports claimed he was being treated for heart problems.

Veteran French actor Alain Delon has been hospitalised at the American hospital in Paris, a relative of the actor said on Wednesday, reportedly for heart problems.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will spearhead a project to rescue the Pacific port of Acapulco, a once glamorous haunt of Hollywood stars that has lately become mired in violent crime.

PARIS (Reuters) - French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates.

French actor Alain Delon has confirmed that at least a shot was fired in his Geneva apartment, although he said his son was not the one who pulled the trigger.

A teenage girl was shot and injured during a party at veteran French filmstar Alain Delon's Swiss apartment, in the presence of the actor's son, local media said Friday.

A charity gala for sick children featuring Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin along with Hollywood stars Sharon Stone and Kevin Costner yielded no donations, doctors alleged.

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The fashion elite turned out in support of couture house Christian Dior for its catwalk show in Paris on Friday three days after it fired star designer John Galliano over anti-Semitic comments.

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The fashion elite turned out in support of couture house Christian Dior for its catwalk show in Paris on Friday three days after it fired star designer John Galliano over anti-Semitic comments.

French actress Annie Girardot, who performed in more than 100 films from the 1950s on, died in Paris on Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer's, her family said. She was 79.

PARIS (Reuters) - In her trademark black and white hat and severe pancake make-up, 78-year-old Genevieve de Fontenay has reigned supreme over the Miss France beauty contest for more than half a century.

Two hundred photographs and magazine covers on show at an exhibit opening on Wednesday depict the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, as the country reveled in its Dolce Vita age.

Veteran Italian screenwriter Cecchi D'Amico known for neo-realist films dies at 96. Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestones as "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard," died Saturday at age 96.

The Atlas film theatre in central Baghdad is a shadow of its former self -- its red seats are badly torn and white neon lights flicker constantly, stopping only when a power cut turns them off entirely.