A rights group has hit out at hip-hop superstar Kanye West for performing at the lavish wedding party of the Kazakh president's grandson, calling the country a "human rights wasteland."

Thor Halvorssen of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation said President Nursultan Nazarbayev's "regime crushes freedom of speech and association."

Delphine Boel, who has long sought recognition as the daughter of former Belgian king, Albert II, launched fresh legal action Tuesday to prove he is her real father as new details emerge about her origins.

Lawyers said they would file new proceedings next week on behalf of Boel, a 45-year-old artist, who in June had tried to get Albert and two of his three children, Prince Philippe and Princess Astrid, to appear in court.

Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran is a free, outdoor cultural event for the entire family.

Organized by Collectif Kahraba, the third annual edition of the festival will take place on the Vendômes staircase on September 6, 7 and 8 of 2013, and will feature theater performances, puppetry, contemporary dance and concerts, a press release said on Tuesday.

Monty Python star Terry Gilliam probes the meaning of life in "The Zero Theorem", premiering in Venice Monday, bringing love and laughs to a tale of solitude in a chaotic, futuristic world.

Actor Christoph Waltz, best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino films "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained", plays a tormented computer genius in a society of excess where a master corporation controls all.

Leaving San Francisco, singer Chris Hart has made himself at home in "J-pop."

His album of cover versions of Japanese pop tunes is rising on the charts. And the crooner is scoring on this nation's equivalent of "American Idol," being billed as a genius who understands the musical soul of Japan.

Actor Michael Douglas says he doesn't have a crisis at home and that he and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones "are fine" and taking a "temporary separation."

Douglas was speaking in Berlin on Monday while promoting Liberace film "Behind the Candelabra."

The film version of erotic best-seller "Fifty Shades of Grey" will star British actor Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, the book's author E L James said on Monday.

The casting of the movie, to be directed by British filmmaker and artist Sam Taylor-Johnson of "Nowhere Boy" fame, has been one of the most hotly anticipated secrets in Hollywood.

American hip hop superstar Kanye West was the surprise celebrity guest at the lavish wedding party this weekend in Almaty of the grandson of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh media reports said Monday.

Aisultan Nazarbayev celebrated his marriage to bride Alima Boranbayeva in a no expense spared party on Saturday night at the Royal Tulip hotel in Almaty, the Tengri news website reported.

The Venice film festival descended briefly into chaos Sunday as screaming "Harry Potter" fans stampeded across the seafront after British star Daniel Radcliffe, in town to present his new film.

Radcliffe, who rose to fame playing the child wizard, was surrounded by bodyguards and police, but that did not stop some admirers pushing their way into the bathroom with him during a press conference break.

British TV giant David Frost, 74, who interviewed the world's great and good in a half-century broadcasting career, has died of a heart attack on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise liner, his family said.

Frost, celebrated for his 1977 talks with Richard Nixon that coaxed an unexpected apology from the disgraced US president over the Watergate scandal, died Saturday.