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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami said on Tuesday his government's imprisonment of colleague Jafar Panahi is "intolerable," and that film-makers and art in general are under attack in his home country.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - As the Cannes film festival entered its second half on Tuesday, players in the market for buying and selling movies looked ahead with cautious optimism that tough times may be near an end.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Popular Argentine singer and former Soda Stereo bandleader Gustavo Cerati suffered a suspected stroke in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after giving a concert on Saturday, local media reported on Monday.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Death stalks the cast of "Biutiful", Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's moving portrayal of a father rushing to put his chaotic life in order before it is too late.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen, the highest-paid actor in television, has agreed to return to "Two and a Half Men" for an additional two years, after suggesting he would walk away from the hit CBS sitcom as his private life spiraled out of control, reports said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's publicly funded broadcaster the BBC issued an apology on Tuesday after a DJ on a local radio station joked on air that Queen Elizabeth, 84, had died.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The unsolved murder of seven French monks in Algeria during the brutal civil conflict of the 1990s is recounted in "Of Gods and Men", a sombre and reflective entry at the Cannes film festival.

DOHA (Reuters Life!) - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, who underwent colon cancer surgery in March, said he was feeling well and in good health after giving a performance of traditional Spanish music in Doha, Qatar last week.