MONTREAL - One of Quebec's greatest filmmakers whose celebrated works won international praise, died early Saturday. Gilles Carle was 80.

VENTURA, Calif. - Authorities say "Pulp Fiction" co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been removed from a prison work furlough program and locked up.

GENEVA - Roman Polanski will remain in a jail outside Zurich for at least three more days until he meets the security conditions of his bail, a Swiss official said Friday.

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WASHINGTON - The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White House grounds, a spokeswoman for the program's network said Thursday.

LONDON - Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington said.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil - Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative.

HAVANA, Cuba - Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.