A Kenyan acrobat fell through a safety net during a show at a Moscow circus on and was rushed to a hospital with severe injuries including a fractured vertebra.

An amateur video aired on Russian television showed 22-year-old Karo Christopher Kazungu falling through the safety net and onto the arena floor during the Wednesday evening show.

The indie music portion of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival shifted into gear Wednesday with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds setting the tone for five days of cutting edge sounds.

Cave and colleagues took the al fresco stage behind Austin's iconic Stubb's BBQ saloon for a visceral 10-song set -- one of the most anticipated at SXSW -- including numbers from the Bad Seeds' just-released album "Push the Sky Away."

Eva Longoria hasn't slowed down since "Desperate Housewives" signed off after eight seasons last year. In fact, the actress says the word "lazy" isn't in her vocabulary.

"There are days when I relax but it won't be a full day. It usually means I'm gonna clean out my closet. That's relaxing for me. Or I'm gonna cook a full meal for my family and friends," Longoria, who will be 38 on Friday, said in a recent interview.

Anna Wintour, the celebrity editor at Vogue magazine who has been talked about as a possible ambassador to France or Britain, was named artistic director Wednesday at the magazine's parent company Conde Nast.

Charles Townsend, Conde Nast chief executive, said the appointment expands Wintour's responsibilities.

By day, Janet Stephens cuts and colors at a hair salon. By night, she is an amateur archaeologist, meticulously recreating hairstyles dating back to the times of Roman antiquity.

Stephens, 54, who has worked as a hairdresser for more than two decades, recreates updos from the Roman era at her home in Baltimore, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Washington, DC.

"Short Term 12," a drama set in a center for troubled teenagers, took top honors for narrative feature film Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and based on an eponymous short he made in 2008 that won a Sundance jury prize, the film stars Brie Larson as a twenty-something foster home supervisor with a difficult past of her own.

U.S. authorities were investigating Tuesday after hackers leaked personal financial data apparently belonging to first lady Michelle Obama, the head of the FBI and several A-list celebrities.

Hackers using a Russian web address published what they said were the credit reports of Obama, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and Los Angeles Police Chief Charles Beck.

Iranian media say authorities are planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country.

Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said on Tuesday that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. Coutant-Peyre is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.

The One World international human rights documentary film festival which opens in Bucharest on Tuesday will give special focus to the Holocaust to highlight the devastating consequences of hatred and intolerance.

"The 6th edition of the (One World Romania) festival aims to be an antidote to hatred", organizers said.

The Cannes Film Festival has an American flavor this year, with a Hollywood icon heading the jury and a quintessential U.S. literary figure opening the event: The Great Gatsby.

Organizers said Tuesday that the film "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will open this year's Cannes festival — in 3D, no less.