Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him....

Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."...

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

West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'
CANNES, France (AP) -- One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot....

87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
CHICAGO (AP) -- An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost....

Mary J. Blige faces $3.4M federal tax lien in NJ
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey....

Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February....

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
CANNES, France (AP) -- Ladies? Don't make him laugh....

Coen, Guirgis on tap at Atlantic Theater Company
NEW YORK (AP) -- The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season....

CBS up, 'Idol' down as traditional TV season ends
NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS strengthened its dominance over the television industry this year at the same time that the unprecedented reign of "American Idol" came to a close....