With 20 000 fans of ‘dark’ rock music arriving for an annual convention, the German city of Leipzig adorned itself Friday with black colours and horror-film figures.

A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.

Justin Bieber has just hours to reclaim his pet monkey from the animal shelter where it has been since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday, but he will have to pay thousands for the two-month stay even if he doesn't take the animal back.

A play entitled ‘God is a Gangster’ will be performed under police protection in Romania after the theatre hosting it received threats, police said Friday.

An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of a 40 kg rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, Nasa scientists said.

In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.

The Pretoria zoo is going to start a breeding programme with 10 critically endangered Pickersgill's Reed Frogs to help save them from extinction.