Syria's foreign ministry spokesman has denied government troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people dead.
Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.
Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend, joining 5,500 fans at a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City.
Government troops shelled residential areas in central Syria on Sunday, activists said, two days after the bombardment of a string of villages in the same region killed more than 90, many of them children.
A NATO air strike killed a family of eight, including six children, when it ploughed into their home in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Sunday.
The Cannes standing ovation brought Zac Efron to tears, but Nicole Kidman remained dry-eyed.
Subtropical Storm Beryl continues to trek toward the Southeast coast, threatening dangerous surf and drenching rain from northeast Florida to parts of the Carolinas. Beryl is expected to make landfall with tropical storm strength winds as early as Sunday night. This storm will not be a signficant wind threat, and the rain associated with it will help a region that has suffered through an exceptional drought.
Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker — a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."
Subtropical storm Beryl picked up some speed early Sunday as it headed for the southeastern US coast, threatening to put a damper on Memorial Day plans for hordes of American beachgoers.