AKB48, an all-girls J-Pop band named after Tokyo's geek culture neighbourhood Akihabara who dance in school uniforms, will perform two free concerts on March 27 and also visit a local school, the...

PARIS, Dominique Simon- South Korean troops may be conducting live fire exercises near the North Korean frontier, and Pyongyang may be ramping up its anti-southern rhetoric, but there may be more...

His hometown declared a day of mourning for the funeral, which coincides with Dalla's birthday, and people travelled from across Italy for the event saying that the singer-songwriter's music had...

KABUL, Claire Truscott- Sayed Elham sits at the piano lost in Chopin as he dreams of becoming Afghanistan's first famous concert pianist and one of the original graduates of the country's only...

"I'm immensely proud to have been asked to perform at this year's Grammy Awards," said Adele, whose hits include "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep," in a statement issued by Grammys...

Chen, though, realized the little instrument's outsize potential and before long she was joining the thin, but growing ranks of a toy piano subculture. Her first encounter with this odd instrument...

PESHAWAR, Sajjad Tarakzai- He sings about peace and hope, but Gulzar Alam lives in fear. He has survived three attempts on his life and moves regularly to keep one step ahead of the Taliban. Once...

KATHMANDU, Deepak Adhikari- Wrapped in a maroon robe, her head shaven, Ani Choying Dolma treads gingerly into a Kathmandu hotel, exuding the composure and serenity one might expect from a Buddhist...

KABUL, Katherine Haddon- Dubbed the Afghan Elvis, Farhad Darya may be the only man in the most conservative country on earth who can reduce an audience of women in headscarves to a screaming, waving,...