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Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry in a brazen late-night burglary.

Techno beats, over-the-top stage antics and pop stars of the past return to the spotlight in Stockholm this weekend as the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest ramps up to its showy finale.

Quebec director Chloé Robichaud is at the Cannes Film Festival with her debut feature, Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course), which has been chosen for Un Certain Regard, a program that runs alongside the main competition.

Vancouver's Stan Douglas has won the Scotiabank Photography Award, the $50,000 prize given annually to a Canadian contemporary photographer.

Of A Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical, staged by Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Ecce Homo Theatre, explores the myth and mystique surrounding pop star Lady Gaga.

A large Jean-Paul Riopelle abstract painting and an Emily Carr canvas she once donated to raise funds for Second World War efforts were among highlights of a strong sale of historic and contemporary Canadian art in Vancouver Wednesday night.

J.J. Abrams beams back into Star Trek with the sequel Into Darkness, a new journey offering a mix of fun and familiar, anchored by the relationships of the classic characters.

Research suggests that music may help those born way too soon adapt to life outside the womb.

Google Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a streaming music service that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a monthly fee of $9.99 US. It made the announcement the same day that its stock surpassed $900 US for the first time and its market value rose above $300 billion.

Fresh off their Juno win, David Myles and Classified talked to CBC Music in Halifax and perform in a series of exclusive videos.

A massive Gerhard Richter painting depicting an Italian city square has set a new auction record, fetching $37.1 million US in New York.

The lavish Cannes Film Festival gets underway today with a suitably extravagant opening night film: Baz Luhrmann's big-budget adaptation of The Great Gatsby.