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The French filmmaker Jean-Paul Rappeneau died on Wednesday at age 94, his son announced. His 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gérard Depardieu, won 10 César awards including best film.

A Las Vegas jury found Duane Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, closing a decades-old cold case. Davis, a former Los Angeles gang member, faces a possible life sentence.

After decades without resolution, a Las Vegas jury has found Davis guilty of orchestrating the rap icon's murder. The 63-year-old faces a potential life sentence following the jury's swift deliberation in a case that captivated hip-hop fans worldwide.

A Las Vegas jury found the former gang leader guilty of murdering Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting. Davis is the first and only person to face trial in the three-decade-old case.

A 12-person jury unanimously convicted Duane Davis of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the drive-by killing of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur, resolving a decades-old cold case. Davis, 63, was accused of leading the attack in retaliation for the beating of his nephew. Police had long suspected Davis but charged him only after he disclosed his account in media appearances and a memoir.

A Las Vegas jury found Duane 'Keffe D' Davis guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon in rapper Tupac Shakur's killing. After nine days of testimony, jurors took three hours to reach their verdict, closing a case unsolved for nearly three decades until Davis's 2023 arrest.

Jurors have begun weighing evidence against Duane "Keffe D" Davis in connection with the 1996 drive-by killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. The case marks a major development in a homicide that remained unsolved for nearly three decades.

A French administrative court suspended the municipality of Deauville's decision to remove a photograph from public display. The image, showing a football match amid ruins in Gaza, had been part of the Deauville Sport Images Festival and was taken down in mid-August, with the municipality citing public order concerns.

Duane Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder in the 1994 drive-by death of the rapper in Las Vegas. Davis has pleaded not guilty to the charge of orchestrating the killing, which prosecutors say was carried out in retaliation for the beating of his nephew.

Francesc Garrido, a Catalan actor known for films including Mar adentro and Te doy mis ojos and television series such as Sé quién eres, has died at age 56 from a heart attack. Born in Barcelona in 1969, Garrido had more than three decades of work across theatre, cinema and television.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art cancelled an exhibition of designer John Galliano's work scheduled for the 2027 Met Gala. Galliano was convicted by a French court in 2011 of antisemitic conduct after making antisemitic and racist remarks in 2010 and 2011. Galliano said in a statement he decided the exhibition should not take place at this time and acknowledged the pain caused by his past words.

Jean-François Leroy, the founder and longtime director of the Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, died Monday morning at age 69. He spent nearly four decades championing photojournalists and their work through the international festival. He died of cancer.