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Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of a French company that used substandard silicone in thousands of breast implants, was placed under formal investigation, his lawyer said Friday.

This is a new world, one in which social media and nongovernmental organizations seem more trusted than more traditional actors in business or government.

Long after her departure from public life, Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who is the subject of a new film, still divides the British, even in her hometown.

A new analysis suggests the nation’s economic condition is worsening, throwing a wrench into talks meant to pave the way for more financial support.

The government on Friday released the names of 277 people who rejected the rarefied opportunity to become knights, dames and the like between 1951 and 1999.

François Hollande, the Socialist candidate leading in the polls, offered a mix of increased spending for social programs and jobs and tax increases for corporations, banks and the wealthy.

A Vatican administrator wrote to Pope Benedict XVI revealing mismanagement and asking to continue cleaning up financial affairs. Instead, he was made ambassador to the United States.

Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of a French company that made hundreds of thousands of breast implants from industrial-grade silicon, was detained early on Thursday.

President Obama seems sure of himself, but where’s the big agenda? It wasn’t in the State of the Union address.

Navy Seals, drawn from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, rescued two hostages, including an American woman, who had been held for months.

Royal Bank of Scotland has sought to defuse mounting political and public pressure in awarding chief executive Stephen Hester a bonus of just under £1m, less than half the amount he received for 2010.

Six months to the day before Opening Ceremonies, builders have handed the Olympic Village over to the London 2012 organizers.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.

Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond says he expects levels of compensation across the banking sector to be down this year, but has defended large bonuses as “pay for performance.”

The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was arrested, the French national police said.

World No. 2 Rafael Nadal battled from behind to win another epic clash with his great rival Roger Federer on Thursday and earn a place in the Australian Open final.

In terms of age, just two years separate Australian Open finalists Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka. But in terms of what the two young women have achieved in their tennis careers so far, they are poles apart.

Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of a French company that made hundreds of thousands of breast implants from industrial-grade silicon, was detained early on Thursday.

The controversy surrounding the attempted publication of “Mein Kampf” is the latest round in an ideological clash over whether modern Germany can cope with the work that sowed the seeds for the Holocaust.

Scottish authorities set out on Wednesday to prepare the ground for a potentially divisive referendum on their land’s independence after three centuries of union with England.

At the World Economic Forum, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said Europe had made more progress on the sovereign debt crisis than foreign investors acknowledged.

Navy Seals, drawn from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, rescued two hostages, including an American woman, who had been held for months.

At least 25 countries have joined to try to unseat Syria from two sensitive committees of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that deal with issues of human rights.

Political vendettas have put a heroic Spanish jurist, Baltasar Garzón, on trial.

Proven educational strategies to increase high school completion provide returns to the taxpayer that are two to four times their cost.

World leaders at Davos now operate in a new atmosphere of popular discontent and economic turmoil in which even democracies have been shaken and disillusioned.

Despite nearly two weeks of antigovernment protests, President Traian Basescu said he would not abandon the country “in the middle of a crisis.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that the “great European project” needs reform to resolve the crisis that brought the euro to the brink of collapse.

In his answers to prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge, the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia admitted he made a “mistake” in colliding with rocks off the Italian island of Giglio.

On the day film lovers around the globe tuned in to find out this year’s Oscar contenders, the world of cinema mourned the loss of one of its most respected figures.

A golden cape woven from the silk of 1.2 million Golden Orb spiders has gone on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

American commandos staged a daring raid in Somalia on Wednesday morning, rescuing two hostages, including an American woman, who had been kidnapped by pirates and held for months.

Scottish authorities set out on Wednesday to prepare the ground for a potentially divisive referendum on their land’s independence after three centuries of union with England.

For better or worse, the taboo against Prussian militarism has lost enough of its sting for Germany to permit itself a yearlong, all-out celebration of Frederick the Great.

The case, one of three in which Baltasar Garzón is entangled, focuses on his efforts to investigate atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War.

Despite progress, there is still a stubborn dearth of female power brokers, perhaps because women believe they can have it all, and men just want a stellar career.

The government says that it is targeting the remnants of Communism, but the Constitutional Court will rule on whether it can continue amid accusations the process is being used as a political bludgeon.

Salvage and rescue workers reported the first possible sign of a contaminant slick beginning to ooze from the partly submerged Costa Concordia.

The federal government should offer a down-payment protection program to restore the confidence of potential homebuyers and lenders.

France’s troops will not be hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Alain Juppé, left, told Parliament on Tuesday.

The Russian Jewish Congress said that it had sent a letter of protest over the decision to replace a memorial plaque to Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The movie, nominated Tuesday for an Oscar for best picture, used almost 300 horses for one battle scene. The best acting was by Finders Key, who also appeared in “Seabiscuit.”

The documentary “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?” is an admiring look at the British architect Norman Foster.

Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew Christopher Neil takes his film about a family of outsized personalities to Sundance.

Bret McKenzie, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara share their reactions to being nominated.

The Academy overlooked Patton Oswalt and Albert Brooks, and they didn’t overlook the slight, taking to Twitter to joke and vent.

A chaotic Oscar season found a bit order on Tuesday, as “The Artist” and “Hugo” joined “The Descendants” and “Midnight in Paris” in scoring an array of major nominations, including those for best picture and best director.

The film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, up for her fourth Oscar, talks about her longtime collaboration with Martin Scorsese and the challenges posed by the 3D, digital “Hugo.”

A Canadian writer-director knows his film, “Monsieur Lazhar,” faces long odds, but then again, it already had to overcome the challenges of difficult subject matter (suicide) and a cast that include children who had never acted before.

After 15 years in Hollywood, Melanie Lynskey found a true starring role in a Sundance indie film, “Hello I Must Be Going.”

Demian Bichir but not Leonardo DiCaprio, Rooney Mara but not Tilda Swinton and other interesting twists in the race.

A German national accused of setting one of the worst arson sprees in the history of Los Angeles entered a plea of not guilty during an arraignment hearing.

After pressure from shareholders, Scottish oil firm Cairn Energy has withdrawn a multimillion-dollar bonus for its former CEO.

Spain’s best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, went on trial Tuesday in Madrid for the second time in two weeks, accused of abusing his judicial authority during his investigation of human rights abuses under the former dictatorship of Spain’s Francisco…

The largest solar storm for seven years is expected to send a shower of radioactive solar particles racing towards Earth at almost 1,400 miles a second this week, according to NASA.

Turkey reacts angrily to the French Senate’s approval of a law criminalizing the denial of genocide, including that of the Armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Undersea salvage experts will not start siphoning fuel off the partially sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia before Saturday, according to the man in charge of the operation, Franco Gabrielli.

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New documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits captures LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden. PARK CITY, Utah — “But you’re popular, man!” said Stephen Colbert to LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy on The Colbert…

New documentary Me @the Zoo chronicles web celeb Chris Crocker’s rise to fame, both before and after his “Leave Britney Alone!” viral video. Image courtesy HBO Documentary Films PARK CITY, Utah — We are witnessing the coming of age…

Robert De Niro stars as a mysterious blind psychic in Red Lights. Photo: Gustavo-Lopez-Mañas PARK CITY, Utah — How did you do that? That’s the question always asked of magicians and Hollywood visual effects gurus, and it easily could be put…

Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones play high-school sweethearts headed for divorce in Celeste and Jesse Forever. Photo: David Lanzenberg SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Celeste and Jesse Forever is a modern movie about letting go that can be funny, cute and…

Producer Scott Rudin and HBO have optioned the documentary Indie Game: The Movie for development into a TV series. PARK CITY, Utah — The success of Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary optioned by HBO for development into a TV series after its Sundance…

Let’s take videogame journalism to the next logical level. Photo: Bruno Cordioli/Flickr Kotaku recently launched Kotaku Core, a sort of newsfeed subsite that strips out all the stories about pointless topics like videogame politics, videogame culture,…

Robot and Frank makes friendship between a robot and an older man seem totally normal. PARK CITY, Utah — Not every robot helper ultimately turns into a vengeful Cylon. That’s the message of Robot and Frank, a touching and futuristic film from…

We Are Legion traces hacktivist group Anonymous from its early days to the Occupy protests.Photo courtesy Luminant Media PARK CITY, Utah — New documentary We Are Legion puts an actual human face on Anonymous, the hacktivist group whose members usually…

A British woman, Felicity Aston, 34, became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica on Monday, after persevering for 59 days in near-total solitude.

Divers discovered the bodies of two women on Monday as salvage crews were authorized to start extracting the the Costa Concordia’s fuel.

Prime Minister Emil Boc fired Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Monday for calling antigovernment protesters “inept and violent slum-dwellers.”

Baltasar Garzón was himself on trial on Tuesday over accusations he abused his powers to investigate atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War.

A proposed law in Europe would compel Web sites to obtain consent when collecting personal data and to delete that data forever at the consumer’s request.

The bill criminalizes the denial of officially recognized genocides, including the Armenian genocide begun in 1915 — an event whose public affirmation in Turkey is treated as a crime.

Ambassador Michael A. McFaul has arrived as the Kremlin tries to portray antigovernment protests as being driven by the United States, but he has no intention of keeping a low profile.

Despite progress, there is still a stubborn dearth of female power brokers, perhaps because women believe they can have it all, and men just want a stellar career.

Officials dealing with budget cuts plan to make monuments and archaeological sites more attractive to foreign film crews, advertising firms and publishing houses by reducing the cost of permits.

Four prominent Kenyans were ordered Monday to stand trial in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity in the bloodshed and waves of violence following the disputed 2007 elections.