Black swan

He conquered the New York stage, married a Hollywood star and directed a daring new film version of "Carmen." But Benjamin Millepied says he had to give up the American dream to return to France.

Millepied is best-known to tabloid gossip fans as the husband of actress Natalie Portman, whom he met while working as choreographer on the Oscar-winning film "Black Swan."

Timothee Chalamet as a love-sick cannibal, Harry Styles in his first leading role, Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe - a new generation of stars steps into the spotlight when the Venice Film Festival kicks off Wednesday.

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world," Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said.

Based on that one might posit the syllogism that our understanding of our world is directly linked to the words we use to describe things.

A nature photographer has recorded two black swans in Turkey’s Karacabey flood plain in the northwestern province of Bursa.