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More red carpet looks from the fashionable fortnight of Cannes

Unlike the Oscars or Golden Globes where most of the action happens in one night, the Cannes Film Festival is a marathon of events — and a buffet of fashion. 
Anya Taylor-Joy, Michelle Yeoh, Selene Gomez and Rawdah Mohamed

'It's just the most insane arena': Aussie surfing stars full of praise for spectacular Olympic surfing venue

Molly Picklum and Jack Robinson are confident they can claim medals at the Paris Olympics, as they take on the spectacular Teahupo'o in Tahiti.
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A surfer with blonde shoulder length hair smiles while holding her surfboard.

Scarlett Johansson 'shocked' by ChatGPT voice 'eerily similar' to her own

OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of a ChatGPT voice that resembles Johansson, who famously voiced a fictional, and at the time futuristic, AI assistant in the 2013 film Her.
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Scarlett Johansson at Avengers premiere.

'He has so many enemies': Why the fiery death of the 'Butcher of Tehran' could spark chaos in Iran

Ebrahim Raisi meticulously planned his rise to power in a brutal regime. But a freak accident brought him down at a critical moment in the Middle East. 
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A close up of Ebrahim Raisi wearing a black turban and looking over his shoulder while wearing glasses.

'Bullet climbing', rubbish and hundreds of thousands of tourists prompt new rules for Mount Fuji

The new measures come into force after hundreds of thousands of people climbed the peak last year.
A conical mountain capped with snow rises from clouds.

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