Science-fiction thriller "Elysium" took top spot in the North American box-office this weekend, beating out competition from raunchy Jennifer Aniston comedy "We're The Millers," estimates showed Sunday.

Starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, "Elysium" is set in a dystopian future where the poor have been left to inhabit a ruined Earth while the rich live on a luxurious space station.

A rare ABBA recording was sold Sunday for nearly 5,000 euros, in an online auction of a vast collection of the Swedish pop group's memorabilia.

Thomas Nordin, a collector of all things related to the group famous for hits including "Dancing Queen", "Fernando" and "Mamma Mia", had put up some 25,000 items for sale.

After revolution, war, ethnic conflict and economic crisis, Georgian director Rusudan Chkonia saw her new film "Keep Smiling" as a chance to explore a society in flux.

Inspired by the story of a beautiful but homeless mother-of-seven who entered a beauty contest in the hope of winning a cash prize, Chkonia's film paints a disturbing portrait of poverty, desperation and sexism in modern-day Georgia.

A U.S. court has declined to hear Curb Records' lawsuit against Tim McGraw and Big Machine Records, another setback in the label's legal fight with the country star.

A judge in Nashville, Tennessee, signed an order administratively closing the case until a decision over copyright of music McGraw recorded is made in a lawsuit filed in state court.

A jury heard videotaped testimony Friday from Randy Jackson, who described more than half a dozen interventions his family attempted to try to get Michael Jackson to stop taking prescription medications.

Randy Jackson, the pop superstar's younger brother, said several of his siblings were involved in the efforts, and they occasionally brought interventionist doctors to try to convince their brother to go into rehab. The superstar always refused and kept his family at a distance in the final years of his life, Randy Jackson said.

A judge in Atlanta dismissed an emergency request by R&B singer Usher's ex-wife seeking temporary custody of their two children.

Tameka Foster Raymond requested the hearing Friday, a day after the former couple's 5-year-old son got caught in a pool drain while in the care of the Grammy winner's aunt. After a hearing in which both Usher and Raymond took the stand, Superior Court Judge John Goger dismissed her request for temporary primary custody and decision-making authority.

Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has cancelled performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden in London because she is expecting her second child, she said on her website.

Garanca, who is 36, was to sing "Carmen" at the Royal Opera House in November and take on the role of Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier" at the Met the following month.

Written by Anthony Sargon

Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" is hands down one of the greatest science fiction movies I have ever watched. It came out of nowhere and punched everyone in the face, hard, and introduced us to a great new director (Blomkap) and a fantastic new actor, Sharlto Copley. Blomkap's follow-up, "Elysium", has a lot to live up to, and while it doesn't reach the same heights as "District 9", it's still a great sci-fi movie in its own right, and solidifies Neill Blomkamp as an incredibly creative writer/director who isn't afraid to create something original, and most importantly, relevant.

Oprah Winfrey says she had a racist encounter while shopping in Switzerland — and the national tourist office and the shop owner have apologized.

The billionaire media mogul told the U.S. program "Entertainment Tonight" that a shop assistant in Zurich refused to show her a black handbag priced at $38,000 because "you will not be able to afford that."

A long-lost silent film directed by Orson Welles in 1938 has been recovered from a warehouse in northeastern Italy, where it will be screened in public for the first time in October.

"Too Much Johnson" was originally intended to be shown as a prologue to a slapstick comedy at the Mercury repertory theater in New York, but it was never finished.