Film

Australians and New Zealanders who come to Gallipoli to mark Anzac Day may soon have to remove wine and beer from their morning menu when commemorating their forefathers who died fighting the Ottomans during World War I, if a new bill in the Turkish Parliament passes.

Actor Brad Pitt was punched in the face Wednesday night while signing autographs at the Hollywood premiere of "Maleficent" starring his partner Angelina Jolie, news reports said.
      
A man jumped over a barrier outside the El Capitan Theater and attacked the actor at the debut of the film, Los Angeles police sergeant Leonard Calderon said, according to CNN.
      

Brazilian police fired tear gas Tuesday to break up a protest by bow-and-arrow wielding indigenous chiefs who joined forces with anti-World Cup demonstrators to condemn the money spent on the tournament.
      

The Technopolis cultural complex in the central Athenian neighborhood of Gazi will be hosting a rich program of live music this summer.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has made a USD 50,000 donation to the Red Cross flood relief efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

The floods in the Western Balkans have claimed dozens of lives and damaged thousands of homes over the past week. The damages are yet to be calculated.

The Sofia City Court has sentenced Salahedin bin Aladdin to 11 years in jail for attempting to murder a man in Bulgaria's capital last May.

This is the second sentence bin Aladdin receives, after being handed 12 years in prison for stabbing a 20-year-old store clerk Viktoria Hristova last November. Both incidents happened around the central Pirotska Street.

The Hollywood stars Juliette Binoche and Gabriel Byrne will arrive in Bulgaria for a new movie shoot in May-June.

Byrne who is known for films such as The Usual Suspects, Stigmata, and Oscar Award Winner Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient) will star in a new movie called Nobody Wants the Night (Nadie quiere la noche) directed by Isabel Coixet.

Officers of the the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) confiscated more than 9 million cigarettes at the western port of Patra on Thursday following a raid on containers that are believed to have been smuggled into the country from Indonesia.

A fourth member of the so-called Pink Panther gang of international jewel thieves was arrested late on Friday.

Police said that the 26-year-old was arrested in the Athens neighborhood of Kypseli.

Like the other three suspects arrested earlier on Friday, he is also a Serbian national.

A police raid on a business claiming to be into recycling in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, revealed evidence of large-scale racketeering.

The firm’s owner, a man aged 62, and his 33-year-old daughter handed themselves into authorities on Friday following Tuesday’s raid and face a string of serious criminal charges.