Olga Kurylenko

With Javier Bardem giving James Bond trouble as the baddie Silva in "Skyfall," could producers be keeping it in the family for the Bond girl for "Bond 24"? If rumors coming out of the UK are accurate that could be the case, but we'll see how it plays out. Anyway, according to Yahoo UK, Cruz is lining up be the next Bond girl which make her the oldest actress ever (at 40 years old) to slink around and seduce 007. "The producers have tried to get Penelope before, but she has never been available because of other commitments. The discussions have been going on for some time and they are working out the contract details now," a source told the site, but we'll see how accurate this is. While there has been no hard and fast rules when it comes to Bond girls, the Daniel Craig-era has tended to favor smaller/lesser known names (Eva Green, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, Berenice Marlohe) over, well, Oscar winners. And while the role might be a curious one for Cruz to take, especially...

By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan imposed a state of emergency on a northern district on Friday to protect Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine from protesters, but more unrest against the Canadian investor flared up in the country's south. Toronto-listed Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine, nestling in the Tien Shan mountains, is Kyrgyzstan's largest gold deposit and helps keep the Central Asian state's shaky economy afloat. But Centerra has come under immense local pressure. ...