LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES, Veronique Dupont- Get ready for your last dose of sex, booze, lies and advertising. "Mad Men," the award-winning hit series about morally compromised New York advertising...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- Scheherazade, the story-telling Arabian queen from "One Thousand and One Nights," has captured the Western artistic imagination for centuries. In her latest...

NEW DELHI, INDIA- Diplomat Vikas Swarup, whose bestselling debut novel was turned into the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire", has been appointed India's new foreign ministry spokesman,...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- French actress Marion Cotillard will play Joan of Arc with the New York Philharmonic in a production of Arthur Honegger's oratorio, the orchestra announced Thursday....

BARCELONA, SPAIN- Two star opera singers, one of them accompanied by her baby, were among 150 people killed in the German airliner that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday, theatre officials said....

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A major exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art is to open at the British Museum from Thursday, exploring notions of ideal beauty as rendered in marble, terracotta...

PARIS, FRANCE, Gerard Martinez- Chose a PDF file on the screen and five minutes later a book, printed and bound with a proper cover, spits out. It used to be science fiction, but machines that do...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- It will be music to the ears of many -- buskers who know only three tunes will be politely urged to move on after finishing their repertoire under a new code of conduct...

BARCELONA, SPAIN- A controversial sculpture of former king Juan Carlos of Spain being sodomised has finally gone on display in Barcelona. The decision to show the "very sensitive" papier mache...