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Hollywood star Carrie Fisher - best known for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the wildly popular "Star Wars" films -- died on Dec.27, days after suffering a heart attack on a transatlantic flight.

The 60-year-old actress had been in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital after collapsing on the jetliner from London on Friday.

Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars‘ Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack. She was 60.

BELGRADE - Actress Carrie Fisher has died after a heart attack on board a flight from London to Los Angeles.

"It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning," Simon Halls, spokesman for Fisher's daughter said on Tuesday in a statement reported by People magazine.

Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack onboard a flight from Los Angeles to London, where she was about to start filming the third season of the TV series “Catastrophe”.

Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry has finally made an official statement about why it shelved a short film with Hollywood actress Julianne Moore to promote tourism in Turkey, two years after it nixed the project.

Greece's Finance Ministry took a page out of Charles Dickens's classic "A Christmas Carol" to have a dig on Friday at the international lenders who have imposed unpopular austerity on the country.

Australian star Nicole Kidman says her experience as the mother of adopted children meant she closely related to her character in the movie "Lion," tipped as an Oscar favorite.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, fans had to wait years between "Star Wars" movies but the space saga is back with the most hotly-anticipated spin-off in cinema history.

Just 12 months after "The Force Awakens" shattered numerous box office records, Lucasfilm is unleashing "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" as an early Christmas gift for its millions of devotees.

"The Lobster" has nabbed Best Screenplay for Greek writers Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2016 awards.

Starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, "The Lobster" is also directed by Lanthimos ("Dogtooth," "Alps"), hailed as a leading proponent of the so-called Weird Wave of cinema.

"This is a guy who has worked across both sides of the divide, in places where there is intense conflict, in South Africa, in Northern Ireland, and in Iraq," Charles Sennot, the Boston Globe's former Middle East Bureau Chief, says of Padraig O'Malley, the titular character in James Demo's documentary "The Peacemaker."