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The Star, CANNES, FRANCE—Plucky rebels are taking on threatening marauders at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and I'm not just referring to Solo: A Star Wars Story, which has its world premiere here next week.

Monkeys lack standing to sue for copyright protection and an animal rights group cannot act as legal guardian in such matters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on April 24, in a battle over ownership of a smiling "selfie" taken by an endangered macaque.

It's a busy afternoon at Istanbul Modern, Turkey's premier modern art museum, and the gallery is packed with visitors taking selfies or discussing the artworks in hushed tones.

Nikola Spasov became the Balkans representative for Cambridge Analytica in January 2017. He told BIRN that since then the firm has worked on two election campaigns in the region.

 "Cambridge Analytica has not worked in Macedonia so far, either in political campaigns or for commercial clients. It worked on two campaigns in the region, in which I was personally engaged," he says.

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt snaps a selfie at the Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki on Wednesday on the occasion of Museum Selfie Day. Museum selfies are being increasingly embraced by museums across the world. For the third year Greece's Benaki Museum is actively promoting the trend.

If your social media account is full of selfies, you might be painting a picture of someone with a mental disorder rather than a really cool and exciting life - at least according to some psychologists, who believe there is such a thing as "selfitis," or obsessive selfie-taking.

A 40-year-old woman fell and died from the bridge ''Vitinia''.

The incident happened on the 35th kilometer of the Hemus motorway in the direction of Varna, NOVA reported. 

The woman was trying to make selfie, says the Ministry of Interior.

An ambulance is already traveling to the place.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced his release from jail Sunday by posting a selfie on Instagram and offering an upbeat account of his time behind bars.

Navalny uploaded a picture of himself leaving the detention center after 20 days in jail, saying he had read 20 books, learned several words in the Kyrgyz language and drunk 80 liters of tea.

Bad news everyone. You know how statistics and the internet do an amazing job at capturing reality? Well, the two recently combined their powers of assessment and aimed them unforgivingly at your face. Internet dating, perhaps the highest authority on beauty, has just released an exclusive, damning report on how ugly you are.

Photographer Roula Revi makes a living taking photos of others. She is looking into her viewfinder always ready to snap that perfect portrait. But the 43-year old mom also shares screenshots of her everyday life with her Instagram followers. Until recently, Roula had not uploaded any revealing or sensual photos of herself, but that changed after she decided do a quick selfie in her bare skin.