American television icon Barbara Walters will bring the curtain down on her glittering broadcasting career on Friday, signing off after more than five decades spent interviewing everyone from Fidel Castro to Kim Kardashian.

Walters, 84, famed for political and celebrity interviews during a 53-year career which blazed a trail for women journalists, will leave U.S. screens when she co-hosts her chat show "The View" on the ABC network for the last time.

"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is graduating from Brown University.

The 24-year-old British actress is due to graduate this month from the Ivy League university with a degree in English literature.

Social networking boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg was branded all grown-up on Wednesday, his 30th birthday triggering a barrage of online accolades and playful barbs.

The Facebook co-founder's list of achievements is more than enough to make others in his age group feel like slackers.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's children are keen to help their Hollywood A-list parents plan their long-awaited wedding -- and would organize a Disney or paintball party if they had their way, Jolie says.

The actress also revealed that she is doing well a year after she revealed that she had had a double mastectomy to reduce her high risk of breast cancer.

French-Italian actress Chiara Mastroianni and Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron on Wednesday opened the 67th Cannes Film Festival at a star-studded ceremony in the French Riviera resort.

Mastroianni is the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose image peering over his dark glasses emblazons the 2014 festival poster.

Head of the Cannes jury Jane Campion -- the only woman ever to win the festival's top prize -- on Wednesday blamed the lack of women movie makers on "inherent sexism".

"I think you would have to say that there's some inherent sexism in the industry," the New Zealand screenwriter and director told reporters on the first day of the Cannes Film Festival.

Team Coco will continue to play for TBS for four more years. The network says Conan O'Brien will be sticking around with his late-night hour through 2018.

"Conan" premiered on TBS in November 2010. It airs Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. Eastern time.

The allure of superstar Nicole Kidman was not enough to salvage "Grace of Monaco" from the scathing wrath of critics Wednesday, just hours before the movie opens the Cannes Film Festival in a star-studded world premiere.

Kidman, "Gravity" director Alfonso Cuaron and Chiara Mastroianni are just some of the big names due to walk up the red carpet under what promises to be a clear, sunny sky as the 12-day film fest officially gets going in the glamorous Riviera resort.

Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, who won an Oscar for his 2012 documentary "Searching for Sugar Man", committed suicide in Stockholm, his brother said on Wednesday.

"I can confirm that it was suicide and that he had been depressed for a short period," the 36-year-old film-maker's brother Johar Bendjelloul told newspaper Aftonbladet. "Life is not always so easy."

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Twitter to vent his anger on Tuesday after being detained by police in New York for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a street.

The 56-year-old star was left furious after an altercation with police on Fifth Avenue Manhattan's Flatiron district following the traffic stop.