Leave your coats, your pants and your inhibitions at the door: a Paris restaurant has begun serving up classic French fare to diners in the nude.

Located down a quiet side street in southwest Paris, O'naturel, billed as the French capital's first nudist restaurant, is the brainchild of 42-year-old twins Mike and Stephane Saada.

The Cannes film festival is to end decades of tradition next year by awarding its top Palme d'Or prize on a Saturday rather than a Sunday, its organizers said Wednesday.

On the initiative of LiBank S.A.L. (Levant Investment Bank), in partnership with M.media, and in collaboration with the Lebanese-Brazilian Cultural Institute, and co-organization of Né a Beyrouth Films, Dream Box Productions and Tripoli Film Festival; The Panorama of Lebanese Cinema Festival (Este Eo Libano: Panorama Do Cinema Libanes) will be launching a first of its kind event in Brazil.

The festival, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo between 23-29 November, will open with screenings of the film "The Insult" by director Ziad Doueiri (special private screenings on 21 and 22 November). It will be joined by many other wide-ranging films from Lebanese cinema, including Maroun Baghdadi's "Out of Life”, the latest documentary by Hadi Zakak “Ya Omri (104 Wrinkles)”, Doueiri’s debut film “West Beirut”, Nadine Labaki’s “Where Do We Go Now?”, "Very Big Shot” by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, and Ziad Rahbani’s classic play “What About Tomorrow?” and many more.

The 1969 murder spree by followers of Charles Manson spawned decades of fascination -- and revulsion -- with the apocalyptic cult leader and the grisly crimes committed at the height of the counter-culture movement.

For many at the time, Manson, with his crazed eyes, beard and long, unkempt hair, was the dark face of a drug-fueled hippie movement that was consuming America's youth.

Charles Manson, the psychopathic guru who masterminded a savage killing spree in the United States in the late 1960s that shocked the world, has died aged 83, California prison officials said.

Manson "died of natural causes at 8:13 pm (0213 GMT Monday) on Sunday" at a hospital in Kern County, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a brief statement.

A proposal to ban smoking in French films has been met with splutters of indignation in a land raised on images of puffing, pouting silver-screen stars.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell and Tunisia's president led mourners in a final tribute Monday to French-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaia, who died this month aged 77 after winning a worldwide following.

Spray-painted in murals, wielded on anti-war banners, and even once hung as a tapestry at the United Nations, Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" might be the world's most famous political artwork.

"We don't carry out euthanasia as often as it is asked for," says Dutch GP Carin Littooji, advocating for assisted dying on a bench usually reserved for bishops in the Vatican.

The World Medical Association (WMA)has gathered at the heart of the Catholic Church to debate its policy on end-of-life care.

From the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court, Washington has had its share of sexual scandals.

But the #MeToo wave exposing sexual misconduct which began in Hollywood crashed ashore in the U.S. capital this week, triggering an unprecedented slew of allegations, apologies and resignations.