WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Jean-Michel Poirier- The autobiography of "Little House on the Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder has become a surprise publishing hit in America, with buyers rushing to...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Five paintings by French impressionist Claude Monet, including his famous 1908 "Le Grand Canal" view of Venice, sold for a total of $84 million (73 million euros) in a London...
LONDON, UK, Katherine Haddon- The only two surviving bronzes by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo are thought to have been identified with the help of a tiny clue in a 500-year-old sketch,...
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Record-breaking drama "American Sniper" remained firmly on top of the North American box office this weekend, shrugging off rumbling controversies to cement its status as...
LOS ANGELES, US- The daughter of late singer Whitney Houston was pulled unconscious from her bathtub Saturday at her Georgia home, in an eerie echo of her mother's tragic death three years ago. Bobbi...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA- A fire that ripped through one of Russia's largest university libraries is believed to have damaged over one million historic documents, with some describing the fire as a cultural...
WASHINGTON, US- US First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday defended Clint Eastwood's hit film "American Sniper," which has been accused of whitewashing the story of the Iraq war. "While I know there have...
BEIJING, CHINA- A statue of French president Charles de Gaulle was unveiled in Beijing on Friday to be permanently displayed in the National Museum on Tiananmen Square in an exceptional honour for a...
LOS ANGELES, US- Placido Domingo will star in a return to Los Angeles of Woody Allen's first opera production, Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," the opera house said Tuesday. Allen first staged "Gianni...
WASHINGTON, US- The Smithsonian network of world-famous museums in Washington is looking to set up a exhibition space in London, on the site of the 2012 Olympics, it announced Wednesday. It would...