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Hollywood star Tom Cruise abseiled from the roof of the Stade de France as Paris said farewell on Sunday to an Olympics hailed as one of the most successful in history.

Cruise descended on a wire in front of 71,500 spectators, grabbed the Olympic flag and jumped on a motorbike, to the delight of athletes and fans.

Tom Cruise participated spectacularly in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The Hollywood star symbolically “passed the baton” for the 2028 Olympic Games to the next host city, Los Angeles, offering the audience a one-of-a-kind show.

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in less than three weeks.

The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was not formally notified but became aware on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas, to L.A. Union Station, Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl said in a statement.

Actor Anne Heche was in the hospital on Aug. 6 following an accident in which her car smashed into a house and flames erupted, a spokeswoman said.

"Anne is currently in stable condition. Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time," Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche's friend and podcast partner, said in a statement.

Next month's Oscars will include a new "fan favorite" prize for the year's most popular film as voted for by Twitter users, organizers said on Feb. 14 seeking to lure viewers back to a ceremony that has seen audiences plummet.

The ceremony is set to air live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC Sunday, March 27

New York's celebrated Broadway theaters have been shuttered since March 12 and may well not reopen before September. The very real fear is that with no public funding to help them weather the crisis, some shows may never reopen.     

Nestled in the mountains above Los Angeles, the Getty Center is located in an area prone to wildfires but museum officials say its priceless collection is safe within the walls of a fireproof "beautiful fortress."

A missing Turkish woman in Los Angeles found safe and well, her brother in Istanbul confirms

Istanbul is Europe's second most congested city with drivers in Turkey's largest city spending an average of 53 percent extra travel time stuck in traffic, according to TomTom Traffic Index, a report detailing the traffic situation in 403 cities in 56 countries around the world in 2018.