Our Ice Age ancestors in Europe, 15,000 years ago, may have used words we would recognize today, according to a new study out this week in a US journal. Words that sound alike in related languages are generally assumed to have come from a common root, like "father" in English and "pater" in Latin. Lead author Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in Britain, and his team were able to take the analysis a step further by showing that certain very commonly used words, like pronouns, are more likely to stay the same over the millennia.

New York's Parsons School of Design has canceled a workshop that disgraced fashion designer John Galliano was set to give in a step toward his rehabilitation after being sacked by Christian Dior for an anti-Semitic outburst. The four-day master class at the prestigious school had come under a bombardment of complaints and an online protest. "An important element of the planned workshop with John Galliano was a candid conversation about the connection between his professional work and his actions in the world at large," Parsons said in a statement issued late Tuesday.

"Once Upon a Time" celebrates the founding of the famous Parisian luxury label's first store exactly a century ago.  Starring recently married Chanel favorite Keira Knightley, the 18-minute long film was directed by the brand's creative director Karl Lagerfeld, and was unveiled as the brand showed the latest Cruise collection in Singapore on May 9. 

Audrey Tautou, this year's Cannes Film Festival mistress of ceremonies, won hearts around the world -- if not those of critics back home -- as the pixie-faced heroine of "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain". Still wrestling with the burden of that success and famously ill at ease with the limelight, Tautou will be put to a radical test as the frontwoman for the world's most prestigious movie festival. Raised in a quiet corner of rural France, Tautou has largely shunned Hollywood and says she does not see herself as a movie star.