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This year's 2012 Cannes Film Festival will showcase films from Twilight power couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Both On the Road and Cosmopolis will premiere at the prestigious event, allowing the actors to distance themselves from their vampire alter-egos. Both Stewart and Pattinson (aka Robsten) are starring in a number of intriguing new projects from big budget blockbusters to offbeat indies.

Shares of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine rose slightly after dissident investor Third Point Capital demanded access to confidential data.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said Monday from his hospital bed in Beijing that he is confident he will be allowed to travel to the U.S. with his family, despite being denied visits from American officials for several days.

Washington visits New York for Game 5 on Monday night.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents the top U.S. chipmakers, lauded bipartisan approval in the U.S. Congress to boost funding for both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Alexis Bledel made a cameo appearance on Mad Men as Beth Dawes, the neglected wife of insurance salesman Howard who shares a night of passion with Pete Campbell. Is this role the perfect segue into the role of Anastastia Steele for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie?

Jeremy Lin will likely play in Game 5 against Miami.

Although many users don't care to think about it, in order to execute the above tasks, Facebook, as well as other social networks, are collecting huge amounts of personal information and distributing it faster than ever before. But what happens with all of that information that makes it possible for you to find old classmates or see ads for things you actually want to buy?

About one-fourth of the 3,400 French troops stationed in Afghanistan are scheduled to depart the country by year-end.

Patricia Krentcil, the mother who been notoriously nicknamed the tanning bed mom after being accused of taking her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon, was the subject of a parody skin on SNL over the weekend, but the tanorexic mom is laughing at the gag on Saturday Night Live.

The PlanetSolar catamaran became the first vehicle to circumnavigate the globe using solar energy on Friday when it pulled into Monaco after 19 months at sea.

The U.S. Treasury Department will sell $5 billion in shares of American International Group Incorporated (NYSE: AIG) as it continues to divest its balance sheets of the bailed-out insurance company, which has agreed to purchase $2 billion of its own shares as part of the stock offering, the company announced Monday.

The Knicks won't beat the Heat without Jeremy Lin.

Dania Suarez, the woman who has identified herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of the U.S. Secret Service scandal, has claimed the agents were very direct about asking for sex

Fashion's all-stars, and their muses, gather together for one night to celebrate not only the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fashion exhibit at the Costume Institute, but also to raise their champagne flutes to the style-setters of the year. The 2012 Met Gala, otherwise known as the Met Ball or the Oscars of the East Coast, is an annual fete that features the world's best red carpet.

Shares of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine rose after the company said it was reviewing challenged backgrounds of top executives.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday as elections in France and Greece stirred up new uncertainties about how the region will tackle its ongoing debt crisis.

Oil prices fell Monday to add to the sharp decline in the previous session as French and Greek election results raised doubts about those countries' commitment to the austerity measures to sort out Eurozone debt crisis.

The New York Knicks, led by Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire, avoided a sweep at the hands of the Miami Heat and ended an 11-year playoff victory drought with an 89-87 win at their home Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Ballots continue to be counted in France and Greece -- where the architects of the austerity solution to Europe's sovereign-debt problem have been advised to turn over their drafting supplies -- but investors are still voting, with their feet, as they appear to be moving out of higher-risk asset classes into lower-risk ones.

Saturday Night Live capitalized on some of the most popular and funniest topics in the news on Saturday night, running the gamut from tanning mom Patricia Krentcil to Fifty Shades of Grey on Mother's Day.