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Hype surrounding the eagerly anticipated "Star Wars" reboot made the jump to light speed on April 16 as the movie's makers unveiled a new trailer that delighted fans with a glimpse of iconic characters Han Solo and Chewbacca.
      

Turkish Airlines has inaugurated flights to San Francisco, the national flag carrier said in a statement.

It is the airline's second Californian destination, and its 11th in the Americas. The airline already has services to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Toronto, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Boston and Montreal.

NIS - The youth philharmonic Naisus has received an invitation to partake in the International Music Festival in Los Angeles from June 14-18, the philharmonic's management released in a statement.

Last year, the young musicians won a gold medal at a competition in Bratislava.

BELGRADE - The Croatian cello duo 2Cellos, consisting of Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, will perform before the Belgrade audience at Sava Center on June 19.

"The Chosen One," a film directed and produced by Cristian Comeaga has been included in the official selections of the North Hollywood Cinefest 2015 festival to be held at the Carl Laemmle Theater of Los Angeles, April 10-16.

Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The Anahit Var??-Hermon Var?? Theater Company, which has been maintaining traditional Armenian theater for 42 years with the support of private benefactors and an allowance from the Culture and Tourism Ministry, brings a new play to the stage every year, although it does not have a permanent home.

Hollywood star Julianne Moore may have won the 2015 Best Actress Oscar, but Turkish officials have rejected a bid to make her Turkey?s tourism face by citing her ?poor acting.?

LOS ANGELES - Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons will act in the action film 'The Lake' produced by Luc Besson, the plot of which will be situated in Serbia

The film tells the account of a group of navy seals trying to solve a several years' long mystery of treasure that sunk in a lake in the war-afflicted Serbia, and it will be directed by Steven Quayle, Hollywood media reported

An Italian man was caught trying to send a giant prehistoric egg worth more than 90,000 euros ($97,000) to the United States, Italian customs officials said March 19.
      
Authorities at Bergamo Airport in the country's northeast discovered the egg -- which measured 50 centimetres (20 inches) in length and 75 centimetre in diameter -- in a  parcel destined for Los Angeles.

The 'Power and Pathos' exhibition displayed at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence on March 14 is an apotheosis of ancient Greek sculpture. Most of the ancient works show the body beautiful in the ancient Greek world.