A sea of pilgrims cheered Pope Benedict XVI outside Madrid's cathedral Saturday as he embarked on a final weekend of dazzling Catholic festivities, hit by repeated protests.

Tens of thousands of young pilgrims, many waving national flags and wearing orange floppy hats made for August 16-21 World Youth Day celebrations, packed the square in front of Madrid's Almudena Cathedral.

U.S. actress Angelina Jolie visited the Croatian island Brijuni Friday to attend a production of Shakespeare's King Lear, local media reported.

Jolie arrived in a private plane with two of her children, the Jutarnji List daily reported in its online edition.

Nearly 30 years after making the sci-fi cult classic "Blade Runner," British director Ridley Scott has agreed to direct a new installment, the producers said Thursday.

The new "Blade Runner," produced by Alcon Entertainment, will not be a remake but rather a follow-up or a prequel to the original. Scott has yet to decide between the two options, the company said in a statement.

American actor Danny DeVito, known for his Emmy-winning role on "Taxi" and his turn as Batman's nemesis The Penguin on the big screen, was honored Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The 66-year-old actor, who divides his time between films and television and is also an acclaimed director, received the 2,445th star on the famous sidewalk in Los Angeles.

The feud between Oasis rockers Noel and Liam Gallagher heated up Friday after singer Liam issued a libel writ against his brother over claims a show was cancelled due to his drinking.

Liam, 38, called his older brother a "liar" and said accusations that the band pulled out of an appearance at 2009's V Festival due to his hangover were a slur on his professionalism.

Acclaimed actor Geoffrey Rush has been appointed founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, a new Oscars-inspired honors system for Australian film.

The announcement was made by director George Miller -- best known for the Mad Max series -- on Thursday evening with the new academy created to improve national and international recognition of Australia's movie industry.

Abercrombie & Fitch has offered to pay Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, a character in hit reality show "Jersey Shore," to stop wearing its clothes, fearing its image is being tarnished.

The offer includes other members of the MTV show's brash, foul-mouthed, spray-tanned Italian-American cast, and A&F is "urgently awaiting a response," the U.S. fashion retailer said in a statement.

France's best-known film star Gerard Depardieu insisted Wednesday he had been trying to urinate discreetly into a bottle when he splashed a plane's carpet and caused a flight delay, friends said.

Earlier, Air France-KLM subsidiary CityJet said the actor had been escorted off a Paris to Dublin service on Tuesday after he relieved himself on the floor of the cabin as it was taxiing towards the runway for take-off.

Tucked away in a nondescript office park in northern Kentucky, Noah's followers are rebuilding his ark.

The biblical wooden ship built to weather a worldwide flood was 500 feet long and about 80 feet high, according to Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry devoted to a literal telling of the Old Testament.

Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a Nazi spy?

A new book by a Paris-based American historian suggests Chanel not only had a wartime affair with a German aristocrat and spy, but that she herself was also an agent of Germany's Abwehr military intelligence organization and a rabid anti-Semite.