PARIS — A 1960 Gibson electric guitar used by Oasis star Noel Gallagher before it was smashed up by his brother and former band mate Liam Gallagher during a row on the night the band split sold at auction in Paris for €300,000 ($315,900) on Tuesday.

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival opened up Tuesday with crowded red carpet arrivals, a star-studded ceremony, and a call from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for the world of cinema to speak out against the war.

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp’s attorney grilled the actor’s ex-wife Amber Heard on Tuesday, producing affectionate notes she wrote during their short-lived marriage to challenge her accounts of frequent violence and bolster the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s case for defamation.

SHERATON Manila Bay has unveiled the first &More by Sheraton outlet in the Philippines at the hotel’s newly renovated main lobby.

ONE might think that as long as everybody gets home without crashing their car, everybody can pat themselves on the back for drinking moderately and responsibly. But this is not so.

RUSSIANS lined up in a Moscow train station on Tuesday for what may be their last Big Mac from one of the few McDonald’s restaurants still open in the country.

THE SILVER box of Chivas Regal 12, a familiar sight on liquor cabinets, is no more. Long live the new red box.

WHEN it comes to wines, no other wine region has more pedigree and reach than Bordeaux. But like everything else, not all Bordeaux are created equal. In fact, to me there are as many ordinary to bad Bordeaux as there are good ones.

FOR the third straight year, Okada Manila was awarded the Five-Star Award by the Forbes Travel Guide (FTG).

Resorts World Manila (RWM) launched on May 19 an umbrella program that unifies its sustainability campaigns.

UKRAINE President Volodymyr Zelensky’s life story —  from comedian to war-time leader — has been given the graphic novel treatment in TidalWave Comics’ latest biography, Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky.

PARIS — An ink drawing of a nude man by Michelangelo sold for more than €23 million ($24.17 million) at auction in Paris on Wednesday, auction house Christie’s said.