U.S. President Barack Obama took a break from the affairs of state to rub shoulders with Hollywood royalty Wednesday, meeting Angelina Jolie and her beau Brad Pitt at the White House.

Jolie was in Washington for the launch of her new movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and the couple were seen through the paneled windows of the Oval Office by reporters and photographers.

Top Italian brands including Gucci, Versace and Prada take to the catwalks in Milan from Saturday to show off their collections in one of the world's most prestigious events for men's fashion.

There will be a total of 39 shows of the spring-summer 2012-2013 pret-a-porter collections including also Dolce&Gabbana and Giorgio Armani and organizers are expecting 10,000 visitors from around the world.

Eva Longoria knows marriage can be tough, but she was startled to hear what a "Desperate Housewives" co-star had to say on the subject.

Longoria, who split in 2010 from athlete-husband Tony Parker, was promoting her ABC television show Tuesday with other cast members at a Television Critics Association meeting.

The latest installment of the Jason Bourne Hollywood spy franchise began filming in the chaotic Philippine capital Tuesday amid heavy security with the city on alert over a feared terrorist attack.

Police officers with bomb sniffing dogs scoured a warren of Manila alleyways where British actress Rachel Weisz and her co-star, Jeremy Renner, shot scenes for the much anticipated "Bourne Legacy" movie.

New York was abuzz Tuesday over the birth of baby girl Blue Ivy to one of the Big Apple's most glamorous couples, rapper Jay-Z and R&B singer Beyonce.

Curious onlookers and TV satellite vans staked out Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, waiting for a glimpse of Blue Ivy Carter, born Saturday, and her proud parents.

The first 36,840 tickets for the Carnival parades in Rio's famed Sambadrome sold out in half an hour Tuesday, organizers said.

The coveted tickets, for grandstand seats and individual chairs for the parades scheduled for February 19 and 20, were sold only to Rio residents by telephone at a cost ranging from 67 to 222 dollars, the Independent League of Samba Schools (Liesa) said.

Steven Spielberg caught the filmmaking bug as a 12-year-old boy, and half a century on still goes "crazy" when he doesn't have a story to tell, he admitted to fans packing a master class in Paris Monday night.

Greeted with a standing ovation, the U.S. director -- whose works from "E.T" to "Indiana Jones" are the focus of a retrospective at Paris' Cinematheque film center -- told the room in French, hand on his heart: "Je t'aime!"

Rapper Snoop Dogg is facing a minor drug charge in Texas after border agents say they found several joints on his tour bus.

Hudspeth County sheriff's office said in a statement that Snoop Dogg, whose name is Calvin Broadus, was arrested Saturday at the Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint and cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor typical in cases involving small amounts of marijuana.

All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard once said. It's also the formula for a best-selling book of portraits of American women and the guns in their lives.

Saucily titled but seriously presented, "Chicks with Guns" is going into its third printing, after selling about 12,000 copies since its October 1 release -- and no-one is more surprised than the photographer herself.

Angelina Jolie's directorial debut about the Bosnian war and a drama made by and starring her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton will feature at the Berlin film festival next month, organizers said Monday.

Jolie will present her harrowing drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey" out of competition after winning praise in Bosnia for its unflinching take on the brutal 1992-1995 conflict, filmed in local languages with a home-grown cast.