With two new films presented and a lifetime achievement award on its way, Australian actress Cate Blanchett has taken center stage at a London Film Festival featuring several strong female leads.

Blanchett's latest film "Truth" -- a story about investigative journalism and politics -- had its European premiere on Thursday, a day after the star walked the red carpet at the festival to promote the much-praised "Carol", in wich she plays a married woman embarking on a lesbian romance in 1950s New York.

The ex-girlfriend of French President Francois Hollande, Valerie Trierweiler, said on Twitter Wednesday that she has stopped her tell-all book about their time together being made into a movie.

"I stopped the project in January after the attacks (by Muslim extremist gunmen on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo) and refused to sign the contract," Trierweiler tweeted.

When Marty McFly and "Doc" Brown burst into 2015 in a time machine, straight from the year 1985, they encounter a brave new world of garbage-fueled flying cars, self-tying shoes and robot waiters.

For audiences in 1989, when CDs were the height of hi-tech, science fiction comedy "Back to the Future II" portrayed an exciting world 30 years down the line in which people would flit around on gravity-defying hoverboards, sporting self-drying, auto-adjusting clothes, and dogs are walked by drones.

U.S. actress Hayden Panettiere has checked into a treatment center for postpartum depression, her rep said on Tuesday.

Celebrity magazines Us Weekly and People quoted a statement that said Panettiere, who had a girl in December 2014 with her fiance, professional Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, was voluntarily seeking professional help.

A U.S. magazine trade group said Tuesday it would offer a performance guarantee for print advertising as a way of countering the growth of digital media.

The Association of Magazine Media said it would offer marketers a "money- or space-back guarantee" to show print magazines' ability to connect with consumers.

Over four decades, Elvis Costello has been a pop music icon famed for his literary wordplay, but he owes his career in part to a base stunt.

Frustrated that his music had not found a label in the United States, the British artist in 1977 took an electric guitar and battery-powered amplifier to the London hotel where CBS Records executives were holding a convention.

Playboy said Tuesday it will stop publishing nude photos in its iconic magazine for men, throwing in the towel in the face of rampant online pornography.

Playboy, which broke lifestyle taboos in the 1950s with bare-breasted pictures in a magazine for the mass market, said the publication will see "a top-to-bottom redesign" that will be unveiled with its March 2016 edition.

On the outskirts of China's financial capital, members of the "Shanghai Dream" acrobatic troupe practice for up to 10 hours a day to perfect their craft.

The 30 or so members juggle balls and twirl ceramic plates as well as perform gravity-defying headstands, flips and leaps through rings.

Tokyo fashion week opened Monday with a show by a US designer, an arrangement observers say underlines the absence of local labels on the world stage despite Japan's reputation for the edgiest streetwear.

More than fifty fashion houses will exhibit their collections over the next six days, casting a spotlight on designers working with materials ranging from denim to handwoven silk.

Malala was the name on everyone's lips this week at the London Film Festival where a documentary about the youngest-ever Nobel Peace laureate had its European premiere.

"He named me Malala" is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the passionate Pakistani advocate of girls' education who survived a brutal Taliban gun attack in 2012.