US ACTOR-DIRECTOR Sean Penn, who this year is head of the Cannes festival jury, comes to the film extravaganza bringing his own romantic plot.

Jude Law travelled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan to help promote the United Nation’s annual day of worldwide cease-fire and non-violence.

Annie Lennox, Corinne Bailey Rae and James Morrison are to headline a London concert calling for global peace.