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The annual Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF) takes place in Athens from February 2 to 8, showcasing more than 150 movies from over 30 countries, including 60 premieres. The festival, now in its sixth year, brings together short and feature-length fiction films, video art, video dance, experimental film, animation, and short and feature-length documentaries.

An enormous sequoia tree in California’s Calaveras Big Trees State Park was toppled by a storm on January 8.

The iconic hillside sign overlooking Southern California's film-and-television hub was defaced overnight in honor of marijuana. 

Residents awoke on Jan. 1 to find "Hollyweed" staring down at them in four-story, white letters from Los Angeles' Mount Lee, where a version of the picture-ready "Hollywood" sign was first erected in 1923. 

The new baby granddaughter of Tom Hanks has been seen out in public for the first time.
The as-yet-unnamed new baby was being carried by her proud mother Tiffany Miles.
Tom’s son Chet Hanks, 26, was not with mom and daughter as they ran errands on December 13 close to Tiffany’s home in Indio, California.

photos: Coleman-Rayner 

BELGRADE - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the California on Thursday afternoon was registered near the massive geological formation known as the San Andreas Fault, considered to be one of the most seismically-active regions in the world.

Turkish actress Tuba Büyüküstün, who has many fans around the world thanks to her appearance in various TV series, especially in the Middle East, drew great interest at the recent 13th Dubai International Film Festival. 

A “very specific” threat has been called in from a foreign country against Los Angeles’ Red Line commuter rail system, US police say.
Law enforcement officials alerted the public to the threat at the news conference, saying it had been passed on to the FBI by authorities in another country, where the threat had originated.

They are famous role models for many of their fans and really intelligent. In the USA, the average IQ is 98. Albert Enstein had an IQ of 160 and Galileus of 182. Here is the list of the 10 highest IQ ranking celebrities:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 135

Gwyneth Paltrow is the most glamorous grocery shopper of all time in the recent photo spread for Harper’s Bazaar’s November issue. The 44-year-old mother of two puts on a leggy display as she poses in a teeny black bikini, matching high heels, a sexy monokini and a curve-hugging black dress, all the while roaming the aisles of a cereal-filled supermarket.

NEW YORK - The documentary "Notes from cell No. 12", co-produced by the Belgrade District Prison and the Center for rehabilitation through imagination NGO, has been screened in New York as part of the "Performing the world" international conference.

The project started in 2014 and the participants were convicts serving their sentences in the Belgrade prison.