Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival....

Gosling misses Cannes premiere, sends his regrets
CANNES, France (AP) -- The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling....

Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break
PHOENIX (AP) -- It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet....

Singer Kellie Pickler named new `Dancing' champ
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kellie Pickler came into the final "Dancing With the Stars" episode in second place but finished in first....

Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis....

Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- Khaled Hosseini, whose novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide, knows what a lucky man he is....

Aretha Franklin taking June off, postponing shows
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June....

Nick Jonas, Giuliana Rancic to host Miss USA
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant will be hosted by a Jonas brother and an E! News personality....

Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
LONDON (AP) -- For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world....

Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
BEIJING (AP) -- Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power....