The Coachella music festival is famous for its surprises, and the latest edition included one of the more uncommon -- an appearance, although remotely, of a presidential candidate.

Senator Bernie Sanders showed up late Saturday on the screen of the main stage in the California desert of the leading U.S. music festival, bringing cheers to the mostly young crowd -- the left-wing candidate's main support base.

Movie mogul Avi Lerner branded U.S. President Barack Obama "a coward" on Saturday, berating him for not taking on Google over piracy.

The 68-year-old American-Israeli producer told AFP that the White House's failure to force the search engine giant to improve its anti-piracy measures was costing Hollywood millions of dollars a year.

Axl Rose fired up a reunited Guns N' Roses at the Coachella festival on Saturday as he was announced as the new frontman of an even more veteran hard rock group -- AC/DC.

In one of rock's most long discussed reunions, Rose performed on the festival stage in the California desert with guitarist Slash, who until this month had not joined his former bandmate and on-off nemesis for more than two decades.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday laughed off a question about Russia's next first lady during his annual phone-in with the nation, but hinted that "maybe" he will remarry one day.

In 2013, the Russian strongman and his wife Lyudmila, his partner of nearly 30 years with whom he has two daughters, stunned Russia by announcing their divorce on television after attending a ballet performance at the Kremlin.

The organizers of the Cannes film festival unveiled Thursday the list of the 20 movies which will be shown in competition for the Palme d'Or next month.

Here are the films showing in and out of competition.

One of the world's top television series festivals -- Series Mania -- opens in Paris Friday with "The Sopranos" creator David Chase chairing a jury that will choose the best of the new small-screen epics from across the globe.

The official competition, the first of its type for a festival aimed at the public as well as the TV industry, has eight new series including U.S. crime writer Harlan Coben's "The Five" competing for the Grand Prix.

Imagine moving along the cogs within giant machinery like Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times", or tumbling inside a cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff as he did in "Gold Rush".

That will be possible when an ambitious, immersive museum showcasing the life and works of the groundbreaking filmmaker opens in Switzerland on Sunday.

Before The Ramones became international icons, the band's first press release in 1975 introduced the punk rockers to the world as working-class men from Queens.

Youngsters from the New York borough's neighborhood of Forest Hills "either become musicians, degenerates or dentists. The Ramones are a little of each," it informed.

A judge on Wednesday voided the sale of a former Catholic convent to a Los Angeles businesswoman, clearing the way for Katy Perry to purchase the hilltop property.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick ruled that attempts to sell the property to the businesswoman by members of an order of elderly nuns were improper.

The team running the Paris concert hall where 90 people were killed in last year's jihadist attacks announced Wednesday a series of concerts would be held at the venue in November.

British singer Pete Doherty and the Senegalese star Youssou N'Dour and his Super Etoile de Dakar band will play the Bataclan on November 16 and 18 respectively, the managers said in a statement.