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Emma Watson to travel to Turkey to attend women’s film festival

British actress Emma Watson will be the guest of the next year's edition of the Flying Broom Women’s Festival, the organization has announced.

Watson was recently appointed as the U.N. goodwill ambassador on gender equality and became the spokesperson of a new campaign, “HeForShe,” which calls on men to stand up for women’s rights.

Two found guilty of attacking Nobelist at Patra University in 2011

Two men who disrupted a lecture by Nobelist James Watson at the University of Patra in April 2011 were convicted on Wednesday.

One was handed a 13-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of using an illegal weapon and causing bodily harm. The other received a three-month term, also suspended for three years, for illegal use of violence.