VENICE, Italy — Director James Franco says his star in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's `'Child of God" lived in isolation and slept in caves to prepare for the role.
Scott Haze plays Lester Ballard, a man who is successively deprived of his parents and homes, living in caves and descending into crime and degradation.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- An 18-year-old has been charged with shooting and wounding a fellow student at a North Carolina high school.
Police say Christopher Lamont Richardson Jr. was arrested Friday and charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of firearm on school property, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and discharging a firearm within city limits.
Every week, we bring you some of the most fascinating photos from around the world.
This week, we've got a happy couple at the Tomatina Festival, a lively dancer at the Notting Hill Carnival, and a little girl spinning some pinwheels.
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CAIRO — Egypt's Interior Ministry says gunmen have killed a police officer in the country's restive Sinai peninsula.
In a statement Saturday, the ministry said the riot police officer was shot in the chest Friday while on patrol in the city of El-Arish.
Halle Berry looks positively glowing.
The expecting mother was spotted in Beverly Hills, Calif., last Thursday with her 5-year-old daughter Nahla. Berry dressed up her blossoming bump in a blue and white maxi dress and looked absolutely gorgeous while running errands.
The Oscar-winning actress and her husband, Olivier Martinez, are expecting a baby boy together this fall.
-- A nascent campaign against employers' use of unpaid interns is taking aim at what critics call some of the longstanding practice's biggest enablers: colleges that steer students into such programs in exchange for academic credit.
Organizers hope to have mobilizers raise the issue on campuses as students return to school this fall, with a particular emphasis on schools in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. They also want to join up with organized labor as part of a broader coalition focused on workplace issues.
PARIS, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Most French people do not want France to take part in military action on Syria and most do not trust French President Francois Hollande to do so, a poll showed on Saturday.
The United States said on Friday it would punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government for a chemical attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus last week, and Hollande said Britain's parliamentary vote against military strikes would not affect France's own actions.
The BVA poll released by Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France, showed 64 percent of respondents opposed military action, 58 percent did not trust Hollande to conduct it, and 35 percent feared it could "set the entire region (Middle East) ablaze".
Two other opinion polls published this week, and carried out after the gas attack, indicated lukewarm support among French voters for military intervention in Syria.
Hollande, whose popularity has been hurt by economic gloom, showed unexpected military mettle when he dispatched troops to help Mali's government fend off Islamist rebels earlier this year, an intervention backed by two-thirds of the public. (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Tebow Time may be over in New England.
The polarizing quarterback has been released by the New England Patriots, as first reported by Adam Schefter of ESPN. The cut came after a lackluster preseason for Tebow, who could not unseat Ryan Mallett as Tom Brady's backup.
Patriots released Tim Tebow.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 31, 2013
A strong line of summer storms rocked the Chicago area Friday, leaving a trail of injuries, damage and transit delays.
At least two people were critically injured during Friday's storms, including an East Village woman whose roof collapsed on her.
According to WGN, the building next door to the woman's home in the 1100 block of North Ashland was under construction and the storm caused several cinder blocks to fall onto the woman's roof. She was taken to an area hospital and listed in critical condition.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) weighed in on the situation in Syria, attacking President Barack Obama and saying he should "let Allah sort it out."
Palin said it's "bull" to compare Obama to President George W. Bush
"Our Nobel Peace Prize winning President needs to seek Congressional approval before taking us to war. It’s nonsense to argue that, 'Well, Bush did it.' Bull," Palin said in a Facebook post Friday night. "President Bush received support from both Congress and a coalition of our allies for 'his wars,' ironically the same wars Obama says he vehemently opposed because of lack of proof of America’s vital interests being at stake."
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has shipped its first load of blue agave tequila to China in hopes of turning the Asian nation into the biggest market for the alcoholic beverage after the U.S.
The shipment of more than 70,000 bottles contains nearly 14,000 gallons of 100 percent blue agave tequila, considered the best quality.
From Mother Nature Network's Russell McLendon:
Greenland is famously misnamed. Not only do its few native trees rarely form forests, but most of the island is covered by the only modern ice sheet outside Antarctica. According to Viking legend, Erik the Red dubbed it "Greenland" more than 1,000 years ago, hoping the pleasant name would lure settlers to join him there after he was exiled from Iceland.
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