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AUDIO: Wes Anderson on his young romance
Thu, 17 May 2012 08:24:04 GMT
Wes Anderson has opened this year's Cannes Film Festival with his new movie Moonrise Kingdom - a tale of childhood romance set against the backdrop of a scouting camp.
VIDEO: Mexico mourns Carlos Fuentes
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:36:06 GMT
Mexicans pay tribute to one of Latin America's greatest authors, Carlos Fuentes, who died on 15 May in Mexico City.
VIDEO: Moonrise Kingdom opens Cannes
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:56:43 GMT
Bruce Willis and Bill Murray were amongst the stars on the red carpet for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.
VIDEO: Rare Van Gogh painting on display
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:47:19 GMT
A rarely seen early Van Gogh water-colour is on display at the Amsterdam Van Gogh museum - and other stories from the world of arts this week.
VIDEO: Moyles joins musical and more news
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:41:27 GMT
Radio 1's Chris Moyles will star in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar and Lord Sugar fires another Apprentice hopeful plus the rest of the day's entertainment headlines.
VIDEO: Gaga refused permit for Jakarta gig
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:57:29 GMT
Indonesian police have refused to issue a permit for a Lady Gaga concert scheduled to take place in Jakarta next month.
VIDEO: 'I was on the Sex Pistols' jubilee boat trip'
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:45:39 GMT
Music journalist and Editor of Uncut, Allan Jones, shares his memories of the Sex Pistols Silver Jubilee boat trip.
VIDEO: Indian prisoners do Shakespeare
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:14:22 GMT
Felicity Kendal visits Indian prisoners who perform Shakespeare, and discovers the impact the playwright has had on Indian culture.
VIDEO: Smith talks to Obama about aliens
Wed, 16 May 2012 12:14:14 GMT
The star of Men In Black III says the President spoke to his son about extra terrestrials when the Smith family had a tour of the White House.
VIDEO: Guy Ritchie on loving the capital
Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:40 GMT
Director Guy Ritchie says leaving London for Los Angeles made him realise how much he loves his home city.
AUDIO: Jessye Norman's American songbook
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:31:20 GMT
Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been to meet opera singer Jessye Norman, who, for the first time in almost a decade, will be performing in Britain.
VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow
Tue, 15 May 2012 12:11:09 GMT
The creative brains studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York are showcasing their ideas for a smarter tomorrow.
VIDEO: Spears 'excited' to join X Factor
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:37 GMT
After weeks of speculation Britney Spears and Demi Lovato have been confirmed as the new judges for the US version of the X Factor.
VIDEO: India rocks to new protest bands
Tue, 15 May 2012 01:03:49 GMT
A new breed of musicians playing rock and reggae with highly topical lyrics are doing their best to keep social and political issues in the spotlight in India.
VIDEO: Burton: Every film is a struggle
Tue, 15 May 2012 06:57:55 GMT
Tim Burton talks about his style of directing and about working with partner Helena Bonham Carter.
VIDEO: How to shrink an actor
Mon, 14 May 2012 05:21:21 GMT
David Sillito meets the cast of Snow White and the Huntsman and learned how they were shrunk to fit the part.
VIDEO: Gary Numan rejects '80s nostalgia
Tue, 15 May 2012 11:49:39 GMT
Gary Numan says it is "self-defeating" to continue to play his old songs but he admits he will be performing some old tracks on his latest tour.
VIDEO: Facelift for Sydney contemporary art
Mon, 14 May 2012 11:22:57 GMT
Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art has re-opened its doors to the public after a year-long multi-million dollar facelift.
AUDIO: Chris Rock on his favourite role
Fri, 11 May 2012 14:41:58 GMT
Chris Rock told BBC Radio 5 live that his role as Mingus in Julie Delpy's film 2 Days in New York is his favourite
VIDEO: Five Minutes With: Usher
Fri, 11 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT
R&B singer Usher talks to Matthew Stadlen about how a TV talent show helped him get started, the suggestive lyrics in some of his songs, why Michael Jackson was such a big influence on his career and preparing to play Sugar Ray Leonard in an upcoming film.
VIDEO: US Iranian TV show causing a stir
Fri, 11 May 2012 05:44:34 GMT
Los Angeles is home to the largest number of Iranians or Persians, outside Iran, and a new reality TV show follows the lives of a wealthy group.
VIDEO: Clooney hosts Obama fundraiser
Fri, 11 May 2012 07:03:45 GMT
Hollywood star George Clooney has hosted a record-breaking fundraising dinner for Barack Obama at his Los Angeles mansion.
VIDEO: Horse makes opera debut in Falstaff
Mon, 14 May 2012 23:16:45 GMT
Rupert the horse is appearing in the Royal Opera's production of Falstaff.
VIDEO: Morten Harket: Fame hit me like a train
Fri, 11 May 2012 11:51:05 GMT
Former A-ha frontman Morten Harket says he was "ousted from society" once he found fame with the band.
VIDEO: Baron Cohen's The Dictator opens
Thu, 10 May 2012 21:51:53 GMT
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film The Dictator has premiered in London's Southbank.
AUDIO: Jessye Norman on meeting Obama
Fri, 11 May 2012 10:52:04 GMT
Opera singer Jessye Norman speaks to Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's In Tune about meeting US President Obama and raising money for children.
VIDEO: Izzard to run in honour of Mandela
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:32:34 GMT
Comedian Eddie Izzard says he will run 27 marathons in 27 days in honour of Nelson Mandela's 27 years in prison.
AUDIO: Tweeting to a planet near you
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:20:41 GMT
Why is an artist about to sent tweets into space? Nathaniel Stern, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Anu Ojha, Director of the National Space Academy in Leicester, explain.
VIDEO: Art installation unveiled in Grand Palais
Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:05 GMT
A massive art installation by French artist Daniel Buren is unveiled in Paris's Grand Palais.
VIDEO: Ai Weiwei seeds sell for $782,000
Thu, 10 May 2012 07:20:52 GMT
Porcelain sunflower seeds created by the artist Ai Weiwei have been sold at Sotheby's in New York.
VIDEO: Cannes film festival set to open
Wed, 09 May 2012 23:13:04 GMT
The UK has only one entry competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Ken Loach's The Angels' Share.
VIDEO: Lawnmower madness - it's Odd Box
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:39:22 GMT
An upside-down house, lawnmower madness and dancing soldiers - it's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
VIDEO: Meet The Author: Hilary Mantel
Thu, 10 May 2012 16:54:19 GMT
Hilary Mantel talks to the BBC's Nick Higham about her new novel, Bring up the Bodies - a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize winning novel, Wolf Hall.
VIDEO: Lichtenstein sale breaks record
Thu, 10 May 2012 11:08:01 GMT
A work by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for nearly $45m, a new record for the US Pop Art icon.
VIDEO: Africa Beats: Atemi Oyungu
Thu, 10 May 2012 23:01:19 GMT
As part of a series showcasing Africa's musical talent, Kenyan soul singer Atemi Oyungu performs her Nairobi - a love song to her place of birth.
VIDEO: 'Lost' Shakespeare play performed for first time
Wed, 09 May 2012 21:55:09 GMT
The History of Cardenio, a lost Shakespeare play, has been painstakingly restored by American Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor. It was recently performed for the first time.
VIDEO: War veteran swaps gun for paintbrush
Wed, 09 May 2012 22:42:55 GMT
A US war veteran becomes an artist after 20 years of service, and other stories from the world of arts this week.
VIDEO: Eurovision host under scrutiny
Tue, 08 May 2012 21:56:52 GMT
Human rights groups are calling on the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest to put pressure on this year's host country, Azerbaijan, over its treatment of political dissenters.
VIDEO: Depp takes on vampire genre
Wed, 09 May 2012 18:26:02 GMT
Johnny Depp talks to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba at the premiere of his new film, Dark Shadows.

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:

maffick • \MAF-ik\  • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior

Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.

"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011

Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.

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