A total of 17 people aboard two vessels were taken to shore ‘safe and sound but shocked’.

British man dies after Cannes yacht crash

The screening of Okja was halted after the film, which has courted controversy at Cannes, was booed in its first few minutes.

Heckling halts Cannes screening of Netflix film Okja

A-list stars including Jessica Chastain and Eva Herzigova led the glamorous proceedings as the 70th annual festival opened. 

A 76-year-old millionaire businesswoman has been taken from her car and kidnapped by an "organised gang".

Cannes announced that the beachwear popular with Muslim women is to be banned as it "could create risks of trouble to public order".

Critics are ambivalent to this year's slate of winners, who were picked in part by American directors Joel and Ethan Coen.

Brad Pitt's role as a brutal mob enforcer is not just a gangster story but a commentary on modern living, he said today at Cannes.