Police in Bosnia have arrested a couple who were accused of keeping a teenage German girl as a slave. It's alleged that Milenko Marinkovic and his wife Slavojka
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the girl to inhuman treatment for eight years. Neighbors told local television the pair had forced the girl to eat pig feed and pull them along in a horse cart. The 19-year-old has been placed in a safe house.
The left-wing Colombian rebel group Farc says it will release on Wednesday a French journalist it's been holding for a month. The group said it would hand over Romeo Langlois to a committee that's been negotiating for his release. Mr Langlois works for international broadcaster France 24. He was captured by rebels during an army anti-drugs operation.
The top prize of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France, the Palme d'Or, has been awarded to the film Amour by the Austrian director Michael Haneke. More from Vincent Dowd.
Michael Haneke's Love, or Amour, takes place in the apartment of an old couple as their lives reach their ends. Despite the gloomy-sounding theme, it was very well received by critics in Cannes. The 81-year-old Male Lead is Jean-Louis Trintignant, a feature of French cinema for half a century. Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or with The White Ribbon in 2009, and now joins the likes of Francis Ford Coppola as a two-time winner of the top prize.
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